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Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke....he and his missis deserve each other. Good job he doesn't live in Manhattan.....

Amusing to see that the great Brain GPT was unable to spell "vassal". I guess whoever fed the software with the idea that Cambodia is a vassal of the Chinese Communist Party (and why single out only Cambodia for that honour? why not include the USA?) was him or herself unable to spell the word "vassal". There is hope for us all yet....

Must take a lot of Sidegra to keep the boner stiff while bonking some fat hag while her hubby gets off on the performance.

No, they're not top of the heap, cos that position is occupied by the abominable wokists, virtue signallers and soviet-style ideologues who don't know what the word "woman" means and who will "cancel" you at the drop of a wrong pronoun. In the Soviet Union they used to cancel politicians by simply air-brushing them from photos! Today it is enough if you express an opinion that is contrary to the prevailing narrative. Welcome to Stalinka....

Love loves to love love.

Imagine: somewhere in Nakhon Nowhere a policeman is told to visit a local farm where burning is taking place. Go to Farmer Somchai's sugar cane field is the order. Policeman nods and then wonders whether that would be a wise decision. Farmer Somchai's wife's brother has an uncle who is a good friend of the police chief. Leave it till next week.....

"his field"???? Would that be the chief's field (as your sentence says)??

Or as Basil Fawlty said when someone suggested that he "ask the waiter [Manuel]": "Might as well ask the cat...."

That's the one! A poundstore intellectual, alas.

I believe the Phukhet authorities will be appointing a falang experienced in the issuance of red and yellow cards to be the regulator of this system, at quite a substantial remuneration. My sources have informed me that there is a short-list of 3, whose names apparently are: Mr H. Webb Mr M Dean and Mr M Clattenburg.

Good name for a new beer ....."Who You Know".

Macha Bucha was an English guy who never left the Malayan jungle in 1945 after helping the war effort by driving out the Japanese so that the rightful owners could take over again. He had been a butcher in civilian life in Great Britain before the war, and now, once he had crossed the border into Thailand (before the days of visas), he set up a butcher's shop in Hat Yai and called himself a Master Butcher. The rest is history....

This is of course all hogwash. London's only claim to fame is the fact that Arsenal F.C. resides there (for the time being). Paris's only claim is to excellent wine at (relatively) cheap prices. New York's only claim is that one can be granted bail seconds after one has committed a crime.

Doesn't leave an awful lot in the enjoyable city department, does it?

Hua Hin, coming into air-quality problems: https://www.iqair.com/thailand/prachuap-khiri-khan/hua-hin

don't forget Gender Studies....

Molly Bloom recalls confessing to the priest how in her teenage years she committed sins with Leopold ( as in sex before marriage). Priest: And where did he touch you, my child? Molly: On the canal bank, Father.

I was conducting Beethoven's 5th at the age of 13 , with my mother's knitting needle as my baton, so please don't patronise me like that. Clearly you don't read the concert programmes for the year ahead in some city orchestras around North America. If you did, instead of relying on YouTube, you would then see what I mean by "dumbing down."

While I agree with your sentiments, I find, as a lover of classical music, that while it is "timeless" (and lasts centuries longer than your average rock <deleted>) the fact is many symphony orchestras all over North America (less so in Europe) are dumbing down their concerts so as to make them more "accessible" to the modern breed of illiterates that our schools and universities are now producing. They have to be "tempted" into the symphony concert with some kind of assurance that it is a safe space, even though it is produced in the main by (gosh) white middle class people who have actually reached their position as musicians through lots of hard work and by MERIT. If posters here want a definition of woke, one aspect of it can be found in the numerous examples in modern life of people being promoted, not on merit, but on factors covered by the hateful term "diversity."

Tipping: in Hua Hin, in the restaurant I frequent quite frequently, I note (it's easy to do) how much different people leave for a tip. (Btw, as far as I can see, it is only higher-end restaurants that include a 10% tip - or "service charge" - in their bills.) I note that North Americans are likely to leave a 100 baht tip, no matter what the actual bill. I note that North Europeans (especially Swedes, Norwegians, Dutch and Germans )are total cheapskates and tend to leave 20 baht or NOTHING!!!!! Do these people think that leaving 20 baht is a serious way of acknowledging service? Have they ever stopped to think how much 20 baht buys????? Makes my skin crawl to see Europeans with far superior salaries to anything available to your average nong in a restaurant here being so cheap.

I wonder if Mrs Vardy's legal debts will be folded into that write-off?

"We"??????

Weird, truly weird......

Arab Israelis have the vote. What does "if they gave Palestinians a vote" actually mean? You can of course imagine how wonderful would be the "democracy" formed by the Palestinians whose first aim in life is to sweep the Israelis into the sea.....

Amnesty International's reputation for political neutrality has plummeted in recent decades (imo). Your quotation (from Wiki, a useful source when dealing with actual facts, but hopelessly biased when offering opinion) could apply to scores of modern states (including the United States and its historical dealings with indigenous people!) The fact remains that Israel is the ONLY country in the whole of the Middle East that has free and fair elections. You may not like the results, but their brand of democracy has guaranteed a vitality to all sectors of society. It is an insult to our intelligence to equate Israel with the former S Africa, where Israeli-type democracy was only a distant dream for 90% of the population.