spidermike007

Huh?

When it comes to any woman anywhere the question is - how long did you take to get to know her, before you married her? I always advocate really taking your time here. Time is ALWAYS our ally, and never theirs. So take you time, get to know who they really are, and how they act under duress. The vast majority of Thai people are way immature for their age. And many women and men are emotionally undeveloped, and really just 13 year olds, who look like adults. There is something about this society that does not allow most people to grow up with an understanding of themselves. I think face has something to do with it. The utter refusal to take responsibility for one's actions and the unwillingness to "own" a situation, and man up when you screw up. That and the inability to question people, and situations. And the subsequent lack of curiosity. It is all a perfect storm, when it comes to preventing alot of people from becoming well developed human beings, with communication skills, and the tools needed to conduct meaningful relationships, beyond the surface. Time is your ally. Use it. If it is good it will only get better. If there are significant issues, they will reveal themselves over time. Take two, thee or five years, if you can. You have NO idea what she's made of, you have no idea how good a job her family did raising her, you have no idea what her underlying neurosis or baggage is, until at least 12 months into the relationship. The longer, the better. If she walks, let her walk. A Thai woman can be an amazing partner. Find a good one. Fine one who is worthy of your devotion. Alot of us who have engaged in relationships with lovely, kind, supportive, humorous, and sexy women here, are no longer lonely. We have very good lives. Fulfilling lives. Lives we could never dream of having back in the US, Oz, NZ, UK, Canada, or Scandinavia, where many of the women are so devoid of femininity and the very qualities that make them appealing to us. Not here. Thai women are very comfortable in their own skin and with their roles as woman. It gives them alot of power. And they are too savvy to walk away from that, as many Western women have.

Hopefully she will disappear into irrelevance. She was an awful candidate. Choosing her for 2028 would be another disaster and she does not have the acumen to be governor of California, a state in dramatic decline. As a Centrist dem, I don't take her seriously, and have never liked her.

Yes. Adults still use the phone to connect with friends and family. Nothing like hearing someone's voice. Messages are just not the same.

People get so sensitive about soi dogs, yet they do not hesitate to encourage the killing of pigs, cows and other animals for their own enjoyment and consumption. Isn't there a bit of hypocrisy there? If you eat animals, you are responsible for their slaughter. Now if you're a hunter and you slaughter and dress the animal yourself that is an action that has a bit more integrity. At least one can make an argument that the animals they eat serve a function. That argument cannot be made about the mangy, diseased, pestilent, sad, forlorn, abandoned soi dogs. They lead lives of desperation. If you love them show some commitment and adopt a few. Otherwise, let's get rid of them. Rabies is an epidemic here. And a series of rabies shots at a private hospital costs a small fortune. They shut down the economy for covid. They don't shut down the highways due to traffic deaths, and they don't do anything about the soi dog tragedy and dangers.

My guess is that there are tens of thousands of stray soi dogs running around Thailand with rabies. It is not uncommon at all and it's the reason why the first thing that doctors suggest once you get a bite is to get a series of rabies shots. This seems like an extreme overreaction to the situation, so what people are supposed to be extra alert with soi dogs, as if they aren't already? And a very Thai govt. style solution. Someone got bit, the dog that they got bit by had rabies. Oh, let's warn everyone about rabies, why would we want to do anything about the actual problem, and the rabid dogs? The solution is to begin culling hundreds of thousands of these mangy, sorry creatures. Nobody needs them, nobody wants them. They live miserable lives of utter desperation.

This strikes me as a dramatic overreaction on everybody's part. I have passed out from smoking too much ganja back in the days when I used to smoke. I have a friend who just two weeks ago passed out from eating a brownie that was infused with very powerful ganja. She woke up and felt fine. And she did not enjoy the experience so I don't think she'll be doing it again anytime soon. It's a natural mechanism of the body when it can't cope with too much of a substance to just pass out. I don't know if there's ever been a single instance of anybody dying or suffering long-term harm after passing out from ingesting or smoking too much ganja. This is pure ridiculousness bordering on Reefer Madness.

I was not a follower nor a believer in the covid narrative, on so many levels, some lock downs were Justified, many were not, some should have been stronger, some should not have taken place. And the vaccines were obviously of limited efficacy, especially in regard to the subsequent variants. There were so many aspects of the narrative that were questionable. So are the dictates of the CDC, the WHO and the FDA. And Fauci.

Anyone who asks such a question has not been paying attention, does not know the man's history, and has not been following his career.

Please show me the quote where I said that. I never said that, I never even insinuated that they were not compelled to respond. You're just simply (desperately) resorting to making things up and creating fiction out of thin air. At least try to remain credible, try to stick with the facts. I've spent a lifetime opposed to a lot of extreme Israeli government policy and it hasn't been easy as a centrist and moderate American Jew. I'm constantly accused of being anti-Semitic, a Jew hater, anti-American, and the traitor, which is all nonsense. Criticism is the very foundation of democracy, however that's not a concept that Israel agrees with. They are very think skinned and so are alot of American Jews and Trump supporters, and both are very intolerant of criticism.

I find the opposite to be true. His lifetime of crime is out there for anyone to see. It is both lazy and revisionist to deny it. Support the guy all you want, but don't try to make him into a fake saint. You can support his policies, yet admit he is a deeply flawed man.

I agree Israel has over played their hand, and is engaged in genocide. The long term blowback will likely be horrendous, for Israel. But, protests have to remain peaceful, or they become a criminal act.

Your obligation is to the landlord, not the broker. Keep the landlord happy, that is all that matters.

I hope he is convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to at least two or three years in a Thai prison, where he will learn the true meaning of intimacy, one can almost guarantee he will never again be the same man.

I certainly understand the concept and I've said that myself, however when you're 17, 18, or 19 years old, and you're abroad for the first time, and someone offers you a cocktail or someone serves you from a punch bowl or something like that, it's very common just to drink it. We've all done that before, this was just a very freakish accident and somebody either accidentally or deliberately caused a lot of pain and a lot of mayhem. I seriously doubt that it will be possible to track them down. But if they do, let us hope they are severely punished. This was such a bizarre waste of promising young lives.

I vividly remember those triples in Phnom Penh. $30 plus $3 for the room. Those were the days.

All right do agree with you about maintaining some perspective on time. I'm counting my remaining days in months not years, as I find that 240 months sounds more urgent than 20 years, but I get what you're saying and I really enjoyed your post, thanks for that.

Great one. Keep it up. This forum needs more wise old farts like you on it.

Some of my favorites quotes about getting older. Older people are perceived as cynics and misanthropes. But, they are simply people who have at last heard the still, sad music of humanity, played by a mediocre rock band howling for fame. Do not go gently into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Dylan Thomas 30s is too soon. Dying in your 30's is tragic. As is the 40s Sympathy dissapates from there. 50s is such a shame 60s is too soon 70s a good run 80s a life well lived 90s - a fricking hell of a ride Ya' know what though, I don't mind. I mean if my muscles ache, it's because I've used 'em. It's hard for me to walk up them steps now, its 'cuz I walked up 'em every night to lay next to a man who loved me. I got a few wrinkles here and there, but I've layed under thousands of skies with sunny days. I look and feel this way, well cuz I drank and I smoked. I lived and I loved, danced, sang, sweat and screwed my way thorough a pretty damn good life if you ask me. Getting old ain't bad Ben. Getting old, that's earned.

That's not the case with me, I happen to like the Thai people and I would love to have some close Thai male friends, but it's nearly impossible. I'm not sure why you devoted so much effort to this argument, when it turns out you've never made an effort so you have no knowledge of this. You're speaking from standpoint of pure speculation which is the opposite of knowledge, experience and wisdom.

Okay so from a standpoint of pure objectivity assuming you're not fluent in Thai, how many close male friends do you have who are Thais?

I just provided two links it might be helpful to do a web search asking the correct questions such as "Donald Trump's history of defrauding contractors". Or "how much profit did Donald Trump make from Trump University without giving anything in return?

That might be the little surprise but the big surprise is that the man that they think they elected is not that man at all. Remember? He promised to cut the deficit. He added $8T. He promised to build a wall. He only did 458 miles out of 2,000. Most of it was repair or replacement, not new. He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn't. We did. He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist. He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it. He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million. He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did. He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one. He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did. He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not helped them, and it may have started a massive inflationary trend that led to years of inflation recently. He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks. He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency. I could go on and on all day long about the failures of his presidency.

People easily forget. He promised to cut the deficit. He added $8T. He promised to build a wall. He only did 458 miles out of 2,000. Most of it was repair or replacement, not new. He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn't. We did. He promised to unveil a new healthcare plan. It didn't exist. He promised a middle-class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it. He said he wouldn't play golf as President. He made 250 visits (way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million. He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%. Nope. Biden did. He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one. He promised to hire "the best people." He fired 3/4 of them and then said they were the worst ever, and they said HE was in fact the worst ever. He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn't: Biden did. He promised a Hillary lock-up. Nope. Promised we'd win the trade war with China. Nope, It cost about 250,000 jobs and hurt Americans, not help them. He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit Workers, and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn't, they used that money to buy back stocks. He promised to revive the coal industry. Never happened: more coal jobs were lost during his presidency.

The information is out there for anyone interested in finding out who the real Donald Trump is. Using rape-and-pillage corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Donald Trump made himself billions while swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses. The terrible tale of Trump casinos in Atlantic City illustrates his relationship with money, workers and small business. His casino companies went to bankruptcy court four times. Tradesmen, small businesses and creditors weren’t paid. But Trump made out like a bandit. And he’s mighty proud of it. https://m.usw.org/blog/2016/billionaire-trump-fleeces-workers-small-businesses Of all the troubling accusations that have followed Trump into the White House, there is little talk these days of the trail of unpaid bills he left behind from his days as an Atlantic City casino mogul. But for the carpenters, electricians, plumbers, window installers and other contractors who built Trump’s Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City three decades ago, the wounds from not being paid still fester. “It’s terrible,” said Jenkins, who runs Triad Building Specialties. “I can’t stand Trump. I think he’s nothing but a snake oil salesman.” I do too. Always have, always will. As I said before you can dress up a creep and a criminal in royal garments, but he is still a creep and a criminal. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2020/01/24/donald-trump-still-owes-money-to-contractors-who-built-taj-mahal-atlantic-city/4547037002/ I could go on and on all day, it's all out there for anyone who cares to look and embrace a little bit of objectivity in their life. Historical revisionism has no effect on reality nor history. In fact it's rather dangerous.