thaibeachlovers

We're just waiting till it ends like all the previous attempts to eliminate the Donald from politics.

I do have some positive qualities, but just as the "news" as reported is overwhelmingly negative, I tend to the opinion that the negative is more interesting than posting about butterflies and hummingbirds. Does anyone want to hear about the guy that has a Chinese/Thai millionaire girlfriend that waits on him hand and foot? Anyone that claims such gets rightly rubbished. I also think that I should warn the unwary noobies of the many pitfalls of life in LOS, given that I had to find them out the hard way myself.

Given that apparently a large segment of humanity can't get through the day without chemical mind altering assistance ( alcohol, mj, valium, illegal drugs etc ) I'd say a larger segment of population is affected by depression, anxiety etc than 38%.

I can, but they all depend on tradition. There is always someone that gets left out. It's a cruel world, and nature isn't fair. Few of us get the hot girl for a GF at school, and some of us never had a hot girl in our bed.

LOL. The problem with thinking one knows about someone that one doesn't know is that one usually gets it wrong. Before I got married I visited as many places in LOS as I could, and after I got married I lived in Pattaya for a year and Lamphun for 4 years. After I got divorced I lived in Chiang Mai a year before leaving Thailand to live in home country. where I have lived in the same place since. Is that moving too often for you?

One had to use one's brain to use a slide rule, but to use a calculator requires no brain input at all, other than knowing what button to push, and how to read the answer. It's not surprising then that staff in 7 11 were unable to work out the change for 100 baht when I bought something worth 50 baht, in their head, and had to use a machine.

Soooo, let's give up all holidays that are traditional- no gifts at Christmas or Christmas dinner, no Easter eggs; no parades of any sort; no graduation ceremonies at school/uni; etc etc etc. What a sad world it would be.

Would those attacks not have occurred before Putin threatened the nuclear option? Game has changed, and for all we know, Putin is looking for an excuse to use nukes.

I'm glad you included "If I was to make a guess" in that.

You miss the ( IMO ) weak point in that argument, which is if Ukraine attacks Russia directly, it's likely to receive more than low yield nukes in return.

Seems to me the latter is winning for a few decades. Has there ever been a year without war somewhere on the planet since the 60's?

That's just one area, not the whole city, and because ( as in the OP ) a large number of wheelchair users live and work there.

The soi that I lived next to off Buakhao was lower than Buakhao, so every time it rained there was a flood up to m'bike axles. It was quite entertaining watching the guys on m'bikes that thought they could get through by going really fast into the flood ( they couldn't ). I doubt they fixed that yet.

I don't think stupidity is increasing per capita, but as the population grows there will be more of them.

Tradition is the bedrock of society. Without tradition we are just a collection of individuals going along our own path. IMO the loss of respect for tradition is why modern society is failing. PS I'm not referring to evil traditions such as human sacrifice or slavery.

You didn't mention Fantasea. According to google it's still open. I stayed one night to visit it, but I had no desire to live there. Prefer either busy like Pattaya, or really quiet like Than Sadet. Kamala was neither one nor the other.

I can usually work out if I want to live somewhere within a day of staying staying there. I don't need to live there to know. I didn't even need to get off the baht bus in Pattaya the day I arrived for the first time to know that I was going to like living there.

So why did you tell us to go there?

Actually that's not hard if one is allowed to work. I stayed at a hostel till I found a rental, joined an agency within a week, and started work immediately.

First class cuisine, West End shows, first class tourist attractions, awesome night life. All of which is very expensive. You apparently assume HE can afford that lifestyle for HER. I had to choose between west end shows, first class tourist attractions and holidays in Thailand. LOS won.

I'm not surprised she left if that's how you think. I doubt there is any legal action you can take other than divorce.

Sadly I did give in, but at the time the government was making it just too hard to live without surrendering, but at least I waited till an alternative to the "newtech" pfizer was available, and I didn't take the "booster" soon as they gave in and cancelled the overly authoritarian dictat. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/new-zealand-links-26-year-old-mans-death-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-2021-12-20/ New Zealand authorities on Monday said they had linked a 26-year-old man's death to Pfizer Inc's (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine after the person suffered myocarditis, a rare inflammation of the heart muscle, after taking his first dose. The death is New Zealand's second linked to a known but rare side effect from the vaccine after health authorities in August reported a woman had died after taking her doses.

Sadly not everywhere else. Some of us have governments that are loath to give it up, and had to be dragged into reality. I believe China is still trying to "eliminate" it, which IMO is not possible. That horse bolted long ago.

Ah, the lightbulb moment has arrived. Up to me such provisions would never have been instituted anywhere, and we'd likely have been back to "normal" over a year ago.

Russia hasn't, far as I know, been in a major conflict since they pulled out of Afghanistan. Any military degrades if not used as I can say from experience after western involvement in Vietnam war ended. The US on the other hand has been involved in almost continuous conflict since they went into Afghanistan. You reckon they are not maintaining their nuclear capability?