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There definitely is a massive one. But I don't recall where. I recall a name pinning on Batman... 'Batstore' or something... I hope I give you hope with this.

If they're up that high, look for a local breeding source, i.e., a pool of water: a bucket on an unused balcony, or suchlike on the same or a nearby floor. Doesn't take much stagnant water to create a mosquito factory...

And then what? I can see an ideal mosquito factory from my balcony....

Colonel, fairly big gym on Pra Nok Road and another small one.... Have you tried them?

Paragon open today. Go figure.

That beautifully intensifies the tragi-comic narrative. They'll be a made-for-TV movie about it one day. Thai visa TV, that is, with Blether starring as the fallen hero. Never forget, you'll be able to dine off this bankruptcy for years to come. You'll make your membership budget back without even pursuing Levine to the Congo.

Since there is almost no limits to the excitement this thread has generated I thought I better provide a breaking news update.

Fuji on soi 33/1 is open again.

As way of alternative, there is the supermarket in Isetan.

Wagashi is way cheaper here than the UK but much more than Japan.

You prompted me to find out who is behind these fantastic new versions of classic works. Turns out it is an ex oxford philosophy prof.

I wonder if he takes requests...

CalWow RIP

And now let the games begin. "Dr" Levine, "where are you? I can't see yo----u... Are you hiding .....? Naughty boy."

Despite my age I am quite old fashioned. I prefer paper.

Some works are here as new versions that are very readable: http://www.earlymoderntexts.com.html

I recommend Hume's Enquiry.

I simply get them printed out as books at 30 satang a page.... Meaning when I want to read them they are not quite free.

I get the other books from the university libraries (e.g. Clausewitz) and the libraries will photocopy as complete books within the library. I never borrow as I want to scribble my thoughts on them. Costs around 75 satang a page (including cost of book binding). This is all legal.

Next intended read is Nietzsche's Dawn.

That's interesting, but my point is practical. Who reads the e mail if I send it? This is critical. Since the point is not to discuss moderation policy but to jump over the moderators to reach the top.

Weber spends a great deal of his book on the Indian religions on the political economy of alms-giving. There were scores of similar religions at the time. And the various adaptations for all of them were the tactical responses to the point made above: how do you get other people to pay fire you to get enlightened.

From this thread you would think the Buddhist tactical assemblage was fixed from time immemorial. Au contraire, it shifted its position offering rewards of merit to the as-then-regarded irrelevant non-monks.

Weber reminds us of the importance of money in the generation of Buddhism.

Just finished Machiavelli's The Prince. Quite a let down. I expected stunning insight, instead I got discussions of forts and mercenaries.

By way of contrast, Clausewitz's On War was superb. He is more quoted than read. And those who quote him just don't get it.

I'm now reading De Tocqueville.

I am not sure I've had such a cheap run of books before. All free.

Who guards the guards?

Several times the moderators have apparently lost their moderation privileges from unfortunate behaviour.

In the event of a complaint on this, is it possible to bypass moderators and go straight to the top (George)?

What threat do moderators pose? Can they see my real name etc.?

Thank you.

OP,

You've done about 70 hours studying by my reckoning. You probably need to do about 3,000 hours. When you've done that, come back and tell me how you're doing.

Concentrate on the reading and listening.

Thanks. Position hopeless.

Are they open on the Thursday and Friday this week, despite them being a holiday...?

I blanked on getting my re-entry permit.... (And I am not leaving via the airport)

Thanks in advance.

In general. I tend to find the same ten or so do all the work. I am contrasting them with the dreadful quality of English voice actors. Fortunately, nowadays cartoons etc tend to be voiced by regular actors, so voice actors are kept to the 'anime channel'.

You seek a man with true grit:

" -The meanest one is Rooster Cogburn,

double-tough, knows no fear.

L T Quinn is the straightest.

He brings them in alive."

- "Where would I find this Rooster?"

- "At the Federal Court this afternoon"

SBK mentions the pay equality trope. No matter how many times this is pointed out to be nonsense it will not die. It should be called the 'phoenix defence'.

The figure given is normally a 17% pay differential, based on a strict comparison of pay levels for each sex. But if it is adjusted for full time workers on equal experience the 'discrimination' disappears.

Young women, who have not moved their priorities to child rearing, earn more than their male cohorts. In both male-dominated and female- dominated occupations, applications made by women are enormously favoured.

This is privileging through the language of 'rights' and 'equality'. The disconnect between the academic position and the female-centric press is beginning to be untenable.

As SBK rightly observes, we should read more on these issues to find the brute truths. I really hope she takes her own advice.

Well they managed to get soi 23 reopened... It was open yesterday, and busy.

....but why did they say they needed to go to the bank to do this...? I thought the problem was the landlord's cutting the power... I thought they had already agreed a new businesses strategy with the banks about a month ago. Something very fishy. And it's not the Tom yam gon...

Well I am. The policy is a government response to the hysterical nationalism of Thai equivalents of the knowledge incapacitation nexus of daily mail/daily express readers.

For somebody like me, rich but 20 years from a retirement visa I must do something to stay here. As it happens, I work and so have a work visa, but that only accounts for 11,000 Brits... What are the others doing? It is not immoral to find loopholes in a system designed on bigotism and prejudice.

I don't.

I watch dubbed Japanese anime in Thai. I recommend the Conan the Detective movie series (about 20 now). You can also read the same stories as 20 baht manga at your local comic stores.

Thai voice actors are very high quality.

Well, one academic argues the genealogy for this trope is from a smiling air hostess picture of Thai airways from decades ago.... But a Thammasat prof specifically refutes this, claiming it goes far back.

But the Thai was only fabricated a couple of centuries back and there must necessarily be benign western contact to get that image so it can't be too old....

Well, the alternative is the Grand Theft Auto-like Thai roads, not the sleepy B roads around Bournemouth....

We should look at the stats before saying it is not worth the risk.... Otherwise, it is blind hysteria that is guiding you.

That is jolly good news.... I love the canals and would love a way to zip past the traffic.

The link in English doesn't seem to give any info. Do you know if there will be a counter-direction flow in rushhour, I.e. east to west?

I do not know. But surely you can just download a new one as an app. My Android has 5 keyboards...