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2 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

I saw the same... on January 6th. Only then police were killed by the mob seeking to take over the United States.

Live ammo time? So you are suggesting that Americans shoot other Americans? 

Hey, that's not the America I grew up in.

That's North Korea. That's Russia. That's any dictatorship. That's NOT America... at least, it wasn't America.

It's his (wet) dream of America!

"Armed citizens", live ammunition and dead (brown) bodies.

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Im watching arson and masked terrorists wielding weapons on TV. Its live ammo time.

Yes, that is absolutely what you want to see isn't it!

21 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

You left out the peacefully and patriotically part. But that's okay, you're a leftist, so you can lie however you see fit, yes? 

 

Your press tells you the lie, and you regurgitate the lie, it as a good party member should. 

Oh gracious me, here we go again, the inevitable accusations of lying because I say or point out something you dont like!

When my daughter was 6 she used to shout liar whenever she was told no; she grew out of it after a year or so. Some people obviously never do!

20 minutes ago, JackGats said:

I don't think tourism in TH is finished. All that is needed is international flights and hotels. To the new world middle-class any destination is ok, for example Pattaya as a family beach destination. 

 

It's a pity some country doesn't run following live experiment:

 

1) Set up a huge landfill as destination.

2) Build ramschackle woodplank hotels around the landfill.

3) Build an airstrip nearby with a few charter flights from the Indian Subcontinent.

4) Count the families who come for a holiday on and around the landfill.

Pattaya:

Huge Landfill (effectively) - check.

Ramshackle hotels - check.

Airstrip nearbye with charter flights from the Indian Subcontinent - check.

We're in business!

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

This time it's different.

 

When was the last time you ventured out on to the streets in a tourist ghetto?

Just look at the numbers for this quarter....

 

The attitude of the locals stinks, the way they try and fleece the foreigner is atrocious and I for one hope they never return.

 

Mark.

I dont want to appear pedantic but I think the locals are hear to stay!

Anyway there will always be tourists, one smile from a 7/11 girl and they (you?) will be rampaging around Pattaya, waving their trousers in the air and shouting " bring on the ladyboys!"

1 hour ago, Cuchulainn said:

Ok, many thanks. I s'pose a taxi is the only way?

They have Taxis, and of course the Airport Limo's. As ever at all airports (something to do with the jet fuel in the air?) the meters are broken!

As far as I know it has stopped running. It stopped during Covid. They did try to resurrect it but it didnt last long.

13 hours ago, zmisha said:

3 years ago in Laos I met a guy who overstayed for many years. Professional sound engineer. He said that he paid about 70k for a visa agency to solve the problem. And got a passport full of stamps without any overstay history.

Thai Baht (not bad), Laotian Kip (dirt cheap), US$ (pricey) or UK£ (very pricey?

18 hours ago, riclag said:

Article from Nov 2023:
“They’re the result of a coalition of radicals united by their hatred of America and the West — a coalition that reduces everything to a conflict between oppressors and the oppressed and which is willing to condone the most horrific violence to advance the revolution”.

 

“They are supported by groups with wealth, prestige and political clout — all resolutely leftist, if not openly Marxist”.

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/10/americas-pro-hamas-movement-is-red-green-alliance/

 

 

The story is based on a opinion piece 

from the Washington Times & a foxnews expert on Islam.

 

Do you have a better understanding of  whats going on in the world?

The real Nazi’s & Communist are the ones we see protesting against the establishment .Leftist NGO’s to  the Democratic National Socialist party , Some Soros backed Organizations, 

Some Islamic groups a mixed bag

of Terrorist supporters from around the Globe! Media , Politicians Gangbangers, Illegal border crossers , Judges , Universities all intent on protecting their cause of destroying Western Civilization.

The Red Green Alliance is real and destructive.

 

In my younger days it was so much simpler: in Europe "Reds under the bed", on posting to Hong Kong, "the yellow peril"!

I believe that the high spot of any visit will be the formal opening of a Taco Bell franchise in Tianaman Square!

Sending the Navy to Ubon?

Golly!

5 hours ago, captain_shane said:

Can anyone give advice on this? There's a super cute girl at my local 7/11 I'd like to ask out, but I'd rather not make it weird if she's not into it since I go to this 7/11 all the time and it's right next to where I live. How would you go about it?

Send me her line, I will contact her and arrange a rendezvous. Then when we are lying together in "the recovery phase" (sometimes known as the "sleep of the just after") I will recommend you to her as a good prospect!

8 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Tennyson ...

https://www.historythroughfiction.com/blog/famous-literary-quotes-four

Yes, it was Tennyson, although in this context Mr Bean would probably be more appropriate!

@Cornish Pasty, if, as you would have us believe, you are new to Thailand, then be aware that, yes the women smile a lot, yes they are flirtatious, but that does not translate into "gagging for it".

If you are, as many have "sussed", just another incarnation of "Bob", then you are quite simply continuing your career as an oxygen thief!

I called into 7/11 this evening and bought a small bar of chocolate and a small bottle of cold pressed coconut oil. I explained in my appalling Thai  to the serving girl, with whom I regularly joke, that the chocolate was for my tummy and the oil was for shaving. She unleashed the typical 1000 megawat Thai smile, gently prodded my tummy and ran her hand across my chin. I didnt ride the 5km home lost in anticipation of congress with a girl some 40 odd years younger than me! Thai girls smile and flirt, it is in their nature. It is one of the things which make living here pleasant! It means nothing.

But, you already knew that Bob!

2 hours ago, BLMFem said:

Imagine walking into a McD (or any other place for that matter) decked out in that, looking like that, and not feeling like a total idiot loser.

Mind-boggling.

They probably imagine that they are lean mean steely eyed killers!

And people accuse you and me and various others of being deranged!

It is not just mind-boggling, it is also a sign of a very strange phenomenon! Apart from anything, even allowing for platitudes about "slinging some nice iron", they wouldnt last two minutes against any trained troops! The only risk they pose is to the floorboards!

I have to say that a lot of horns here, particularly on lorries, seem to emit an undignified squawk like a ruptured duck rather than a motor vehicle warning device. I have always rather put that down to them being worn out by overuse, they seem to use them at every opportunity!

1 hour ago, cdemundo said:

No fool like an old fool?

They could have stayed behind their keyboards and boasted about their potential warrior activities. But this kind of reveals that their warrior nature is a fantasy.

Imagining a bullseye painted on those big round bellies.

Yes! Not so much a case of "targets will fall when hit" as "targets will wibble and will wobble but not fall down when hit"!

1 hour ago, Yagoda said:

Speaking as someone who is trained, you can dangle a bag of Durban Poison and a Pizza in front of me to provide cover for the keffiyeh wearing, masked, screaming skateboard wielder and he is still catching a burst of M193 before I roll up a doobie and whip the Parmesan out of my pocket.

 

ProTip: When the pathologist puts the sticks in the bullet holes, for self defense determinations, its better to see an upward trajectory than a downward one.

 

 

I would have thought that an upward trajectory would have indicated that the firer was in the prone position, which rather indicated to me that thete was a degree of premeditation.

My training on small arms bullet performance is perforce limited (I was an Artilleryman and therefore accustomed to larger calibres and longer ranges) however some observation has indicated that a 5.56 mm round "tumbles" on entering the body, meaning a small entry wound and a convoluted path through the body, with a very large exit wound, often not in line with the point of entry; which would make the sort of forensic analysis you describe rather inconclusive.

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

This "president" is such a corrupt, immoral, and disgusting person that he even makes Elon Musk look almost decent in comparison.

 

 

Quite remarkable!

He must have been on a special course! I mean, no one could be such a "nob head" naturally, now could they!

I must confess that I am surprised. I had thought that their relationship would endure, both had something the other craved, money and power. I have posted that a couple of times.

Perhaps I reckoned without their respective egos? Trump may have found another source of cash - the Middle East perhaps?

Still, jolly entertaining. And probably more entertainment to come when both parties inevitably start talking about principles!