Leopold Bloom

British, eh? I wonder if he's Scottish....

Except that the analogy doesn't work here. As far as I can establish from peering in that direction, she doesn't have much in the tit department. For some strange reason, Trump overlooked or forgave this omission when choosing his cabinet.

But for all her incompetence, she was undoubtedly the best eye candy to walk through the halls of Homeland Security....That surely is worth something?...

This statement is an insult to all toads.

What's the betting that many of these airlines will not be reducing their fares once this unfortunate hiccup in costs has been left behind....

Quite simply, it's an example of the illiteracy that all sufferers from a certain syndrome display when they try to put their "thoughts" together on threads like this.

The timing of this war needs explaining. Trump knows that, if the polls are correct and remain so between now and November, the GOP may well lose control of the House (or even the Senate) in the mid-terms. However, a definite and easily visible "victory" for the US and Israel would lead to possible GOP gains. A risky strategy (if even it is a strategy at all), since it seems 100% likely that no Iranian opposition will emerge in so short a time to assume the government of the country. And who is funding the war??? The American taxpayer is already maxed out....

Old Joe brings back those good ol' days when one could simply walk casually over the US border and disappear into the bowels of the country, no questions asked. Now that's my kind of democratic country....

For sure, that's not a good figure, but if we are concerned about inflation in the countries we aim to take over, let's not abandon Iran (42%) or Venezuela (172%).

Surely, that should be "failed" invasion? Anyway, hands off Cuba....

The whole "process" is a scandal. Migrants should be made as uncomfortable as possible while waiting in abandoned military properties, so that return to their former countries will be a luxury devoutly to be wished.

Note how the article scurries around, going out of its way to avoid using the word "Muslim". Yes, yes, London is a diverse place, but most ethnic minorities seem to avoid the need to express themselves sexually via rape gangs.

One famous line covers everything mentioned here: "There's no such thing as a free lunch."

a verbal stumble on Taiwan!!!!! That horrific exposure of an utterly empty mind was enough to wash away any chance this nincompoop ever had of reaching high office. Her temerity in appearing in Munich for a conference where all participants can be assumed to have a minimal grasp of foreign affairs is staggering.

I'll never forget his brilliant portrait in The Apostle, about an evangelical preacher who had to re-start his pulpit career.....Oscar nominated.

English? Girlfriend? Surely that's a typo? I thought no young English women looked at guys these days....

No wonder they lost two World Wars....

I wonder what happened to that Ukraine prosecutor that Joe Biden used to boast that he (Biden) had demanded be sacked in the next six hours. Laughs all round (of course this was in the day when Joe was still more or less compos mentis).

The BBC are at this very moment negotiating a 6-episode dramatic reconstruction of this daring heist. It'll consist of two seasons because at the end of Season 1 the criminal mind that put it all together makes a daring escape from his high-security prison in an area of the city that used to belong to the German Democratic Republic.....and in Season 2 will be shown to be resurrecting himself in Venezuela.

These people can practice their extremist religious observance only because they know they ultimately have the protection of the IDF and local police.

I remember years ago having a massage in some hotel where my gf and I were staying over, waiting for a flight the next day. I left my gf in the room and went downstairs for a (real) massage (at least that was my intention). The pooying performed a perfunctory massage and then started bargaining (not exactly propositioning) me regarding an "extra" service which of course I had not requested. I refused. But at this distance I am not sure I refused because my gf was upstairs and it would make later congress with my gf quite a bit more difficult or because she was demanding 500 baht (in 2008 baht). I was ...er.....morally outraged that she would demand so much (when the going rate in most of Thailand was about 300 or less). Moral of the story: just say no.

I sure hope the Dems are dumb enough to run this incoherent illiterate in 2028. Well, they pushed Kamala on to an unwilling country, so why not this bell-end?

As in Paris 1789 or Moscow 1917???

About 10 years ago, I woke up to the fact that I was actually very happy indeed in my marriage to Mrs Thailand, and for so many of the reasons that are mentioned in this thread. Happy not for a specific reason (like she's beautiful, speaks good English, has a superb income etc), but mainly because there was absolutely nothing to quarrel about, nothing ever to stew over. I once asked her when we were on FaceTime in different countries, "Why do you love me, tirak?" She immediately replied: You don't shout; You take shower every day; You "lor" (= hansum!!) You nam jai, You smile. (I thought the first two reasons were really a commentary on her ex-husband!) But in the end it all comes down (as many have said, or implied, here): "I take care you; you take care me." 30 years separate us.

Except the hideous harridans (they're usually female for some reason) who scream that tranny males are birthing persons.