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Not a simple situation.  Easy to sit on sidelines and criticize Biden and no matter what he does armchair quarterbacks will blame it on him.  He is not the first and won't likely be the last POTUS that has been unable to bring any lasting peace to people who have hated each other for centuries.  

Republicans blocked aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taipei for months all for political reasons so spare me the outrage.  Just as they have blocked the bipartisan legislation that was written and approved by repubs and dems after months of negotiations in an  attempt to fix the immigration problems.  But nowthey  go on camera every chance to criticize doing nothing even though it was all set to go until dear leader instructed his maga morons to vote against it as if the border improved it would be a win for biden.

I have no idea how to unravel the entire middle east mess and i am not alone.  If it were easy it would have been done decades ago as many have tried and it is still a giant mess.

Thailand has a great expression regarding this topic as well as many other similar you should do it my way types..

UP TO YOU

or as in USA....different strokes for different folks.

maybe the "elderly?" guy lives right next door to the ekamai bus station...maybe he is on a very tight budget...maybe he has had bad experiences with taxis.....who the F knows...i have done both bus and cars and each has plus and minus...once on bus sat beside a real thai beauty and later got together with her...once had a taxi scare the crap out of me get lost and tried to overcharge...once had a crappy bus that the A/C dripped on me entire way....

war on drugs??? 

maybe start with arresting mr red bull who was hopped up on coke and killed a cop ...oh yeah nevermind he has a very rich daddy so snorting coke no problem...go arrest some thai farmer for selling pot...but remember his envelopes won't be nearly as big as the red bulls of the world...

2 hours ago, shdmn said:

I like the freedom that having a motorbike gives me. Sure, you can always take a grab point to point or take a baht bus along certain routes, but you are still somewhat limited doing that and still end up living in a local walkable bubble a lot of the time.  It changes how you live day to day and I prefer to just go wherever I want however far and out of the way it is, whenever I feel like it.  Also, it's often easier to ride a bike somewhere than to walk a short distance, because of how some sidewalks are such a pain in the ass to walk on.  Either because of obstacles or because they are narrow and you have to constantly dodge groups of east Indians or Russians with their baby stroller or whatever

motorbikes no doubt provide a lot of freedom and allow you to easily visit places off the beaten path....i do miss them but one accident with a broken collarbone and very lucky not worse was enough for me to give up that freedom...but i do sometimes miss it.

Get the IHG credit card and get 150 k points to use at holiday inn express and other of their brands.  In lots of places u can get a room for 10-15 k points per nght  sometimes even less 

Check out other credit card offers from the lower level hotels like choice....

have to have good credit of course and usually spend 3000 in 90 days and also pay a one time $95 fee.....

i often buy costco or sams club/walmart gift cards to fulfil the spend as they never expire and easy to use

u can likely get enough points for at least two weeks of rooms assuming you are not looking for hotels in major tourist cities during peak dates....

18 hours ago, Oink said:

I agree with James. Just assume that everone else on the road is out to kill you and drive accordingly and you should be a lot safer.

I rode for years and was always paranoid that i would get hit on a busy road by some idiot driver...in reality i had my accident on a dirt road near chiang rai  with not another bike car within miles...slipped on muddy road going very very (probably too) slow and thrown over handle bars in seconds....broke collarbone but fortunately had on a good helmet as landed pretty much on my head...if no helmet probably dead or in coma.

It is not always apparent where danger may lie but overall a motorbike is a dangerous vehicle as you have little to no protection.   Never rode again...i of course miss the freedom a bike gives you but also prefer not to roll the dice again.

11 minutes ago, mogandave said:

And your point is that  women are too stupid to be responsible for themselves, correct? 

 

To clear, I’m all for holding men  responsible for their children.

no the point is it takes two to tango so maybe old men should not pass laws that have an impact only on the woman

15 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I never needed to stoop to those low tactics, and honesty with like mined horny people always worked for me.  No need for all that silliness, as there's always some wanting to share smiles with me.

that is why i said most guys as yes there are some guys who never tried to take advantage of  a gal to get laid....BUT my experince is that for evey guy like that there are 99 guys who would and did think of nothing but how can i get laid from about 15 y,o well into their 60's and beyond....take a look and a listen to guys in bars and online constantly talking about gals and how to get into their pants as well as bragging about no condoms etc etc...as for me there were decades when my almost  every waking minute was filled with looking at girls, thinking about them, trying to pick them  up, and yes trying to get laid...the old 3 F rule of find em fxxk em and forget em  is still very much in play but fortunately i am now too old to do much but i do still enjoy the looking part...

On 5/4/2024 at 1:01 AM, stoner said:

 

ok mr double standard. 

On 5/4/2024 at 1:01 AM, stoner said:

 

ok mr double standard. 

On 5/3/2024 at 8:03 PM, KhunLA said:

I'm finding that hard to believe.  As when my daughter had an acne problem, that the skin clinics couldn't or wouldn't clear up, actually getting worse, in a year.   I put her on birth control, a couple skin ointments, and an antibody for about 6 weeks, and cleared it all up.

 

The birth control did the complete opposite of what you are implying, and balanced her hormones.  Probably the largest factor causing the acne.

 

Do agree, some woman can't take the pill, or possible didn't try different ones.  Or other non pill options.   If your sex habits are high risk of pregnancy, maybe you should adapt, and ease up on the intercourse.  Your body, your choice ... your choice to be responsible, or deal with the consequences.

Agree if your sex habits are high risk like guys who don't or won't wear condoms you should ease up on the intercourse....far as i know there has never been a gal that got pregnant...other than IVF.....without a guy being involved.....the problem as most guys have known all their lives is we are generally going to do all sorts of things to get laid...like get the gal drunk , make all kinds of "promises" etc.....but if the gal gets pregnant it's not my problem and the gal should be forced to have a baby that neither the guy or gal ever wanted?

How about if all the old men who make the laws let the girl and guy and their families and doctors decide the issue and not shove their beliefs down everyones throat?

10 hours ago, thaipo7 said:

Jerrymahoney - Actually what Bragg has done was take a misdemeanor offenses and changed the charge so it would now be a felony.  He won't drop it back down.  Non-disclosure agreement is a misdemeanor, so he comes up with "Hush money" and makes it a felony. 

and of course donnie did not falsify the records to cover up a payoff to women ....he was just being charitable and the $$ was a gift and had nothing to do with his desire to prevent the story from coming out two weeks before the election to make sure voters did not have this info before voting....lets blame bragg for yet another witch hunt....

54 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

I think lie-detectors work only on people who are aware that they lie and/or have a bad conscience.

I would be surprised if such test would work with Trump. Lots of BS comes out of his mouth. And much of it was probably never examined by even one of his brain cells.

 

yep u are probably right...trump has had so much practice with lying that his "mind" and body can't tell the difference between a lie and the truth.

...but it could be a win win for trump...if he passed the test he could crow about how it was all a witch hunt and raise money off it....if he failed he could whine and complain about how it was all rigged and raise money off of it....either way the MAGA's would find a way to fit it to their beliefs....funny but if trump took the stand and admitted under oath to every charge in every case the magas would not believe him as they are so accustomed to being lied to by dear leader...

On 5/2/2024 at 2:42 PM, KhunLA said:

Just think if they invested just a little thought into contraceptives before have sex ... thoughts about killing the baby could be avoided completely.

So if a guy has sex with a girl and does not wear a condom and gets a girl pregnant why don't we chop his nuts off and thoughts about him getting gals pregnant coud be avoided.

How many of us have not heard guys bragging about banging gals with no condoms?  

I would venture to say that the average girl knows a hell of a lot more about what is going on inside her body than some horny old man who would screw anything with two legs and a heartbeat.

On 5/2/2024 at 1:33 AM, stoner said:

waiting for the rape and incest talking points to be trotted out.

how about the " old men get your nose out of women's vaginas" talking point?

how about if the man who gets the girl pregnant gets his gonads chopped off ....seems to me the old men want to act as if the woman got pregnant all by herself...

that and a bunch of bible beaters who are all against abortion until  their little darling 16 y.o. daughter or grand daughter got knocked up by a gang banger in which case she would quickly be sent off to a civilized state to secretly deal with it....