SpaceKadet

I think your mind is still in your home country. A dollar an hour is a standard minimum wage here, that can make you survive for a month and feed your family. We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto...

I never tip in restaurants. It's a bad habit instituted by the Americans. Unfortunately they brought it with them when they started traveling to Europe and Asia. I understand that in the America there are TIP APPS that will let you calculate how much you should tip. And anything below 25% is a NO-NO. So what? The restaurants in the States do not pay their staff? I can understand where is comes from, where long time ago, the low level employees in the hotels and restaurants and other service establishments were supposed to live of their tips, but nowadays? In Thailand, nobody in the service industry expects tips. However, my wife still leaves the coins change in the restaurants. Sometimes, it gets really stupid, and where there is only 1 baht coin in the change, I just say "Take it!"

This is nothing new. 20+ years ago I was on a SAS flight from some European hub to Copenhagen. All the Flight attendants were elderly, which I don't really mind, but one was so fat she couldn't walk straight in the isle and had to move sideways. That was just too much for me....

Reading all this <deleted> above, I'm just so happy NOT being and American. I would probably need to remove more that 50% of my neurons to qualify!!!

I'm just mesmerized of how many genius medical professors and doctors we have among our members. Any wanna find the fix for cancer, and get a Nobel price for that?

If I had a water bottle drop in front of me while I was driving, I would definitely stop to pick it up and not try to fumble for it while driving. But then I have been driving in my work a lot in the past, in awkward weather conditions at times, so know that safety is first...

RIP Papa! While I'm an Atheist and don't believe in all this mumbo jumbo Godly BS, the Pope as a religious leader, always commanded respect from his followers, and in some cases was a force of good for many, in the twisted human societies. No matter who sits on the Vatican throne, in my mind, it's always sad when they pass.....

Since the bean counters took over and kicked out the engineers, Boeing is no longer the respected high tech aerospace company it once was. Recent 737 Max crashes and the Starliner fiasco tell a true story. I wouldn't trust any new product from that manufacturer. I'll just repeat what I said in another thread: "If it's Boeing, I ain't going..."

So what you're saying is that American citizens in New Jersey, that didn't vote MAGA, are not really American citizens, and should be deported to some Venezuelan prison?

Yeah, recognize the face now. Might have her in some Moana Pozzi movies. Don't know which ones though as she was not on my Porn idols list. Seems she did quite a few movies for the American producers in the 80's.

You should be aware that the vast majority of the construction companies, and in fact any major company, is owned by Thai Chinese or Chinese from the mainland. Would be difficult to avoid them. Chinese are infamous to use sub-standard materials to maximize their profits. Recent examples, the baby formula containing only chemicals with no nutrition whatsoever (many babies died), melamine laced milk, etc. There are hundreds of examples, too many to mention. The same goes for construction, lowest quality steel rebars, lowest quality concrete.... you name it... Just lucky China is not on a major fault line. I just wonder how many skyscrapers in BKK have cracks, that get silenced with fat brown envelopes.

don't know this one, unless she's using a different stage name. Will look her up. is she from the 80-90's? Are you thinking about Selena maybe?

Thank you for your constructive comments. I am glad you found my post informative.

Is that the AN AI that calls Trump a "former president"? I've seen it in other articles on here too... Perhaps the AN staff should correction read before publishing.

What? Porn or Games? I still miss empornium.com which I was a member of before their demise.