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The purchase of variety of Russian helicopters will bring significant benefits. These benefits will far outweigh the benefits which can be gained from spending the money on fixing the existing (largely broken) fleet of American and European made helicopters. The benefits from doing that are just not competitive.

A worthy honour for one of the nation's leading lean, mean, steely eyed dealers of death.

Road safety in operation! Aha, so that is why Ban Na Dai Police Box was holding a muster parade yesterday afternoon! A couple of dozen coppers drawn up up in three ranks (dressing was a bit iffy but never mind) in the turn left lane at the junction, whilst the OC stood in front of them, on the edge of the go ahead lane. No warning signs or anything. One speeding pick up with a texting driver and it would have looked like someone had dropped a box of airfix soldiers!

6 hours ago, farcanell said:

Q E 1, perhaps?

I don't think so, wasn't the first Queen Elizabeth Raleigh( Sir Walter Raleigh, not the bicycle maker), Francis Drake duffing up assorted Spaniards and Blackadder?

9 minutes ago, baboon said:

Let's bear in mind that nobody has as yet been convicted in a court of law. Shouldn't we put down our pitchforks and burning torches until then?

You are being a bit of a "Grinch"!

1 hour ago, Tippaporn said:

 

Trump demands border wall funding or he will not sign the bill.  He states he'd be proud to shut the government down over the issue.  Dems refuse to provide funding knowing that if they don't Trump won't sign the bill.  So Trump rightly lays the blame for a government shut down at their feet.

 

Is it that difficult to follow the logic?  The guy who wrote the news article obviously couldn't figure it out and sees it as Trump making a contradiction . . . hence the "despite."  There's no contradiction.

 

Trump is delivering one of his campaign promises.  Good on any politician who actually delivers on promises made before becoming elected.

Goodness me, you spun that one so much that I got dizzy just reading it!

8 hours ago, Jingthing said:

I wouldn't use the word rigged but the results were not legitimate due to Russian interference which we know for certain was widespread and massive and all about electing the compromised one -- Individual-1. So now we have a real crisis that is headed to even more dangerous uncharted territority. A compromised by hostile powers illegitimate president who has gone deeply ROGUE. It's not funny anymore if it ever was. This situation makes Nixon/Watergate look like a garden party.

I would suggest that what taints the legitimacy of Mr Trump's presidency is not the Russian meddling in the election campaigns, whilst there is no doubt it happened, and Mr Trump and senior members of his team must have been aware of it, if not (perhaps they were) actively involved in it. The effect of such meddling is hard to establish. What, to my mind, very clearly colours his legitimacy is that the electoral college which put him in office ignored the simple fact that more (quite a lot more) people voted for the other candidate than voted for him. How can he be the legimate choice of the American people?

All these members of his executive staff, whose resignations we are now witnessing, must have been aware of that particular heffalump in the corner of The Oval Office watching when they were sworn in!

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Corned beef in a can probably contains more “ corn “ ( salt ) than in your photo to extend its shelf life, usually about 3 years although it is rumoured that corned beef in a can will indeed last for many years. This is a good indication of what else goes into it to aid its preservation.

I have eaten many a Reuben sandwich in the US and can tell you the taste is not the same, you might be disappointed in the canned version.

I personally prefer the canned version but this is mainly because it is something I grew up with ( I’m a Brit ).

I recommend you to buy a can of you see one but be prepared for a different taste to what you are used to.

Brilliantly defused!

I thought that the gurt big flagpole was already built/being built, or is this another one.

And yes, without a doubt a casino will be in the mix somewhere.....

I live in Chiang Rai - about as far from the point of import as you can get. We have Big C, Tops, and Makro, with a big Tescos 20 km up the road. I have to say, with a bit of careful poking around, I have always been able to find most things, or passable substitutes. Cheese is the one I miss, although Tops is starting to stock a more diverse range of "Waitrose "branded cheeses.

3 minutes ago, johng said:

I'm hoarding Waitrose brown sauce ,Tesco shortcake biscuits ,Tesco finest English breakfast teabags and Bisto gravy powder.

The "Heladiv" Ceylonese teabags, sold in Big C are quite good, certainly better (and cheaper) than that Liptons rubbish they import from Indonesia. Two varieties, "Pride of Ceylon" (yellow box) or "English Breakfast (in a box covered in pictures of the Union Flag).

2 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

 

What I would give for a jar of Robertsons Shredless Marmalade, you just cannot buy it here.

Mmh - for me cheese, especially Wensleydale, Caerphilly and Lancashire... if anyone knows?

9 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Quite astonishing what you can train a black panther to do isn't it?

Children, of course.

Mind you, when you have a 13 years old daughter who is going through a "bolshie not talking to daddy 'cos he won't buy her an iPhone phase" then the uncomplicated affection and loyalty of the dogs...

Well, I suppose you could say that if the money was raised by subscription to a banquet, then at least it wasn't taken from "state coffers".

Posted using my new "naive-pad"...

21 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Wot !!!! No Thai somtam, green curry, Larb, and fried rice !

 

Uh, wrong end of the social scale don't you think?

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

You can express technical concepts very well in Thai, if you are a poet.

For example: Train - Rot (vehicle) Fai (light) Fah (blue), with Fai Fah (blue light) also meaning Electricity

Thus, Rot Fai Fah, the train, is "electric vehicle"

nevermind that the same term is also used for diesel trains... 

If I may put my pedantic train spotting head on for a minute: the vast majority of diesel locomotives use a diesel motor to drive a generator to supply electricity to traction motors which power the driving wheels. So they are technically electric trains...

Now, did anyone get the number of the loco hauling the 1345 from Bang Su Junction?

????

2 hours ago, tifino said:

no weapons needed really...

 

use military equipment, yes! 

 

 -  helicopters an outrun/overhaul the devices, and simply bring them down via the downwash from their blades!

 

and, even their old Vulcan era technology can isolate and overpower/disrupt whatever detected frequency(s) the drones operate with...

https://goo.gl/images/74FLeJ

Good old "Vulcan"!