spidermike007

Evil teachers must be rooted out, shamed publicly, and punished. A prison term is appropriate for this creep, and then never being allowed within 500 meters of any school again.

I wonder don't you get tired of repeating yourself? After writing the same thing 15 or 20 times doesn't it feel a little tiresome? Do you really think that you're educating me? In your alternate universe am I supposed to hate the lifelong criminal, and convicted sexual predator and felon any less just because he got elected?

So very, very sad. I sure hope he fulfills even a tiny percentage of his promises, so you guys don't end up broken hearted.

Finally after years and years Israel has done something beneficial and constructive. Hallelujah, this is a biblical event.

I am in total agreement with you about that, however if I cared what you thought about me one iota I might be a tiny bit offended, but since I don't, I'm not.

I am very sorry, unfortunately our newly elected leader is a man of spectacular ignorance, and the convicted felon and sexual predator who knows no bounds when it comes to decorum, dignity, diplomacy, or just how to be a decent person.

You're a spring chicken, you have no idea how many of us would make great sacrifices to be your age again, take advantage of it, squeeze it for all it's worth, make the most of it. 51 is very young.

People make light of the difficulties that some folks have with mental health, but it's a very serious thing, and it's very real. Many conditions can be easily treated with the right professional care, and the right medications. My heart goes out to this woman and this man, hopefully he will be found, and hopefully he didn't take his own life. Unfortunately, Thailand is very inadequate when it comes to facilities and treatment of mental health issues. The government here does not take it seriously on any level.

You are correct that he took took on the Democrats, there's no doubt about that, but using dignity and Trump in the same sentence is an unbelievable degree of revisionist history, and an extraordinary level of denial about who the man is, and what he's all about.

I've been trying desperately to find that button for blocking or ignoring someone like you, and unfortunately I don't seem to be able to find it. It doesn't seem to appear anywhere anymore, and that is truly tragic.

It was intended as sarcasm, but even the interpretation of that requires some intellectual power. Did your mother tell you that you were special when you were growing up?

That describes nearly every post @G_Money has ever written.

He could not possibly be more wrong. It rarely serves as a gateway drug. That is a meme that the fake purists use often. Alcohol is infinitely more dangerous and addictive.

That's funny. I called Musk the same thing recently.

This amateur would not know a populist policy if it bit her on the ankle.

Don't forget, us Democrats are responsible for all evils in the world, we are the ones who drink the blood of babies in the basements of pizza parlors, all serial killers are Democrats, most people who are serving life sentences in prison are Democrats. There are very few Republicans in this world that are bad people, all the problems are being caused by us, and don't forget the part about us being communist, anti-American, and traitors.

I often wonder why things like this are relevant in this day and age, why would I care about what the most popular dishes are? Why would I care about what the most frequently ordered dishes, why do I care about which song is number one? Why do I care about the 10 most popular TV shows? I often look at these lists and I just can't relate on any level, what most people think is great I don't necessarily think is interesting at all. These days if something is exceptionally popular I typically run for the hills! Yikes. Super popular? No thanks.

Prior to moving here I read several of the books that had been written about expats, and I must say that many of the stories were very helpful and very healthy warnings, and I likely avoided a lot of the traps that I've seen fellow expats get sucked in by, as a result of having prior knowledge of what she was going to say, and how she was going to say it, etc. etc. My grandmother is ill, the family buffalo is sick, I need to get a lot of dental work done, please help. Of course the list goes on and on. So go ahead and write your book, many of us would love to hear the stories. Fun fun.

Thank you, a very good point. Woke seems to be kind of a catch-all phrase these days. I don't enjoy the work agenda at all, but blaming something entirely unrelated on woke is a completely different thing.

This is a tragically terrible misinterpretation of the facts, this has absolutely nothing to do with woke. I despise woke, I despise PC, this is not what this is about. You know what this is about? This is about the middle class feeling disenfranchised and bitter, this is about people working their entire lives and having very little to show for it. This is about claims being denied that break families financially. This is about banks and lenders and rating agencies making terrible mistakes and guys like Tim Geithner, Blankenship, and Dimon, acting like vampires during a housing crisis. This is about subhuman beings like the Purdue family getting away with killing tens of thousands of people through the opioid crisis. And the Big Pharma mafia. And the predatory insurance industry denying absolutely reasonable claims and putting people in the poor house as a result. Corporations can continue to behave a irresponsibly, and price gouge all they want, but there has to be an understanding that there will eventually be a price to be paid. This is only the beginning, you watch, people are going to get more and more angry and these guys at the top of the totem pole do not have immunity. The average guy feels like a CEO has no right to earn 1,000 or 2,000 times more than he does, and the anger is just going to grow. This has nothing to do with woke, and this has everything to do with anger and resentment. Some people with frightfully conventional minds just cannot wrap their mediocre minds around the fact that there isn't more sympathy for this guy. Just because he's a dad we're supposed to feel bad? Please. What did he do for his community besides suck their blood?

This is an astonishing development, condoms were found in Pattaya, the sky is falling, morality is slipping, and it is possible that people might start thinking bad things about our city. We are a wholesome place, we are a family oriented town, and nothing bad happens here, no foul play, no craziness, no mischief, little crime, nothing illegal, so leave us alone and stop leaving your condoms here please!

I am the young PM. Yes it is broken, yes they are corrupt, and yes they don't have any idea what they're doing, and yes they have been an absolute vacuum on the treasury for decades, and in return we see very very little. But don't change anything, keep everything the same, do not allow progress, do not allow forward movement, we are the backwards people, we aim to make sure that Thailand continues to go in a backwards direction. That's just who I am and what we politicians are.

This is such a complicated formula, first of all the economy in America is not great, the stock market is high, and the real estate prices are high, but in general prices are very high, wages have stagnated, and 70% of the American population is having a very difficult time getting by. So even though my politics align with yours I did not like the Biden economic agenda. The second thing to consider is that even though Trump was a nightmare candidate the alternative was terrible, so the Dems are largely to blame for the loss. Harris was a terrible candidate, and she was a terrible selection, and the message was all wrong. Can Trump fix any of the issues that he's been discussing? I doubt it, he's not a very capable businessman, he's not particularly smart, and his tariff plan is dumber than dirt. We'll see. I'm hoping that I might be pleasantly surprised by something that he gets done, but I'm not expecting much. And I'm hoping that he's not as destructive as I think he might be.

It appears to have been a meaningless gesture, as there are national, provincial and local taxes, in addition to vat and other forms of taxes, they total 360%, so a small reduction is not going to affect the retail price. We've seen the wine prices have not come down at all and it's still virtually impossible to get an excellent bottle of wine here at a decent price. Single Vineyard Sonoma Pinots that I pay $50 to $60 for in the US can't be found here, and if they were available they would be 10,000 baht. Thailand has deliberately sabotaged their wine market with stunning ignorance, and have suppressed what could potentially be a multi-billion dollar industry and an outstanding way to attract the affluent tourists, as always very backward thinking on the part of the government.

Thailand has established an OLOA (open legs, open arms) policy with regard to Russians and as a result they have invited in tlsoke of the lowest quality tourists on the planet, in addition to a percentage of Bratva and criminals. This kind of thing is to be expected, it's also very possible that Putin has cleared out the insane asylums and sent those people to Thailand. It would be very much like him to do something like that.