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Crisp and clear as always. Thanks a lot Sheryl, I'll have a word with my doctors, I'm sure they'll oblige.

How sad.

Sheryl, Both my father and paternal grandfather had shingles in their 50s already. I have not had it at all and now late 60s. I saw talk recently of a vaccine but debated if it's worthwhile for me. I also have had herpes simplex on lip and second head since my 20s, though I have not had an outbreak for many years now. The last time it seemed to stir it was gone inside a day, didn't even erupt. Maybe herpes's given me immunity? I also had chicken pox as a kid. What do you think? Should I get it? (The vaccine ????).

My immediate thought as well. He's a mule hole but be glad you can afford it and give YOURSELF a break to laugh about it. Pride comes before a fall remember - and I wouldn't fancy a fight with a Thai taxi driver who may be tooled up.

She really is a sectionable nutter. My god who on earth wants something like that representing them in a parliament? Seriously what kind of lunatic votes for that? She's really unhinged, regardless of party membership.

It sounds like you're talking about a developing world tin pot dictatorship. What on Earth has happened?

One of my favorite films - seen it several times over the decades. Blade Runner standard.

Smoking's a mug's game.

I meant the headline in the header at the top of the ASEAN Newsletter list of contents. It says: ''British tourist and his son attacked by bouncers in Pattaya''. I assume ASEAN has 'condensed' the HL to fit the characters available but twisted things in the process. That's all.

The ASEAN headline is wrong. It should read: ''British tourists attack Pattaya bouncers - get heads kicked in.''

Nothing good ever happens after midnight. Or 10pm on Beach Road ????

I'm not saying it's OK to kick people when they're down and the danger is over, but when you hit a complete stranger you might find you trigger some pretty unpleasant reactions and you have no idea what that person's past or ability is. It's no good complaining afterwards if you walk around hitting people anywhere.

This is the problem of course, that when you unleash violence it has its own dynamic and unless you are a professional you have very little chance of controlling it. The madness spreads quite fast and the outcome is rarely what you intended. Hitting a bouncer outside a Pattaya girly bar must surely take this week's Darwin Award.

Oh I dunno. A stint as VP must be quite an interesting experience as long as you have a bit of spine and can avoid getting pulled into the swamp. There's not much to the job anyway. Bit of a jolly really. I find Pence an extremely distasteful character with bizarre and perverse christianist beliefs. But they are his principles and he lives by them, and consequently he emerges from 4 years as the Trumpf VP pretty much untarnished.

Bit like London or Liverpool, or most UK cities and towns on Friday and Saturday night, where ambulances are often parked in the side streets for rapid response.

I tend to agree with PeterZwart. But in this case I think there is something really tacky in sending kon dancers to prance around in the middle of Moscow whilst Moscow is laying waste to blood transfusion stocks in Ukraine with missile attacks. It's much different to simply stamping in tourists and not taking part in airline boycotts.

What the hell is a 'runaway girlfriend'? And on what basis was he 'searching' for her?

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A wet dream of those still in the closet?

I've said many times I'd rather end my life in a fisher's hut on the Tonle Sap than go back to the UK. I'd have less of a culture clash ????

Course they are.

Oh believe me I appreciate that some of us will feel the squeeze to the pips and maybe even HAVE to leave if Big Hakparn gets his way. I was just putting my position forward. In reality he'd be foolish to drive any of us out as long as we're law abiding and supportive of our Thai communities.

Depends on which company you keep I suppose ????

Oh calm down. He's not a mayor, so at least get your facts right. He's basically an administrator. A Landsrat, not a Bürgermeister. The town actually has a mayor. So he will do what he is told and carry out policy that will be decided for him. It's accepted that the Eastern German states are full of Arkansas type backwaters who were 'left out' after the Wall came down. But they are by no means anywhere capable of getting a majority together.

It will be challenged all the time. But despite the well armed garden gnomes with some surreptitious funding and the people they appeal to, this is sheer hyperbole. Awareness is what is needed, and I think Germany is very aware and quietly (as usual) taking action. Both the German garden gnomes and the Mega gang leader are now arraigned. I don't believe even the Americans are so stupid as to put Trump in a second time. He lost both elections he stood for. He was only SELECTED as President because of an outdated and not fit for purpose electoral system. Similar to what has happened in the UK. And I am far more worried about what's going down in the UK as the UK goes down than I am about deluded 'Reichsbürger'.