radiochaser

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

 

Or Jews. Or was that another positive?

 

If you were are are a real nazi, then yes.   
Which brings up the question, why is it that so many on the left, use nazi tactics to further their cause?

On 12/13/2023 at 9:43 AM, Bday Prang said:

          Spot on , the phrase "far right" is completely misunderstood by  the modern day wokies , its use as an insult is actually quite disrespectful to those who genuinely have suffered at the hands of real fascists.

          It is used not only as a pathetic well worn  insult aimed at anybody they disagree with, but also as a kind of "stopping " word intended to end any meaningful discussion of a subject they feel uncomfortable with. Same as "denier " or words ending in "phobe" by attempting to discredit the person who's views they are attacking

          There is a simple reason why we don't hear words like "far left"  very much , and one only has to realise the political leanings of the luvvies working in mainstream media to know why

           I used to be fearful for the future, but I am becoming  cautiously optimistic, as the silent majority is slowly waking up, and  there are more and more signs of a backlash

 

Sort of like, you are a racist!   When you disagree with the leftist ideology that was taught to them in college or don't do whatever they command you to do, then you are also called a racist! 

On 12/9/2023 at 9:20 PM, radiochaser said:

50 Years of Failed Doomsday, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions; the So-called ‘experts’ Are 0-50

 

 

1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
36. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees!

Off the topic of apocalyptical ecological disasters. 

There was also the dire prediction I heard spouted back when HIV/AIDS was running rampant in the gay U.S. of A. population back in the 1980's.   I forget the time frame that this prediction was supposed to take place in. 

10 million people a year, in the U.S. of A.,  will die from AIDS!  I think that prediction was for the heterosexual population. 

Yet wikipedia (not a source I am accustomed to using) has this ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_the_United_States#:~:text=12 External links-,Mortality and morbidity,United States die each year.

On 12/8/2023 at 9:24 AM, bignok said:

I thought the world was stuffed by 2020

That's what Gore said

50 Years of Failed Doomsday, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions; the So-called ‘experts’ Are 0-50

1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
36. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees!

16 hours ago, rwill said:

There are a lot of Filipino english teachers in public schools here.  They can have quite an accent.  So that may be some of the reason for it.

 

I sometimes feel Thai's purposefully don't understand me when I am speaking Thai.  I know my Thai is not the greatest and I mess up tones.  But I think sometimes it is because when I speak thai they are listening for english and just hear gibberish.

My Thai language is limited, but enough to live in Thailand, if I were to do so.   Several comments made by Thai's when I speak Thai, some more than once, your Thai is very good, you are the first falang speaking Thai that I can understand, you speak Thai very well.   

As to Thai's speaking English.   A family friend who used to be a senior official in the Thai government who had to travel to other countries, needed to speak English with people who did not have English as a first language..   He does, sort of.   He attended an English language class where, I think, if I recall correctly, he only needed to listen to English spoken, but was not required speak it back.   His English is very difficult to understand, not only because of poor pronunciation, but very poor grammar as well. 

On the opposite end of the scale of a Thai speaking English, was a young woman I spoke with briefly at Chulalongkorn University, when I was taking a Thai language refresher course.  After speaking with her for 5 minutes, I asked her, which of the southern states did you live in America, as she spoke with a slight southern accent I could not place, and I thought she was an American citizen.   She told me she was Thai, grew up in Thailand and had never been outside of Thailand.   But, you speak with a southern accent I responded.  She tells me, oh, my English teacher is from Arkansas (a U.S. of A. state).   He teaches English here at Chula.   

I used to work in a government call center here in the U.S. of A..   With my exposure to so many people around the world, I can understand a lot of people who speak English, no matter what countries accent they have.   So, I had many calls to the call center transferred to me, because the employee could not understand the accent of the person speaking English with them. 

How ever, there was that one guy that was transferred to me.   His call was transferred to me and the employee told me, I don't know what language this guy is speaking!   It took me a few seconds before I realized, he was speaking English.   He had a very strong Appalachian Mountain resident accent.   I managed to make it through the call and the man was satisfied with my help, but I had difficulty understanding what he was saying.

I suspect that he lived in an area of the Appalachian Mountains that were once only accessible by horse, or foot, with no roads for anything else. 

I, during my young childhood days, used many of the same words that are in the video and text of the link below.   

" In fact, some say that the speech of the southern mountaineers is “pure Elizabethan English” just as Shakespeare would have spoken it. "

https://daily.jstor.org/the-legendary-language-of-the-appalachian-holler/

17 hours ago, pub2022 said:

How come english native speakers do not know how to properly use it's/its and there/their?

Don't forget "they're"!  

Where's my hat?   I'll leave now. 

22 hours ago, Pattaya57 said:

This happened over 18 months ago and you're still ranting like a crazy person? You may need to move before you push your "innocent until proven guilty" neighbour down the stairs....

 

...and Duracell batteries are everywhere?

 

I will have to look again when I am back in Thailand.   Usually, the only alkaline batteries I see just about any place selling batteries, are the Panasonic brand.   

If it makes any difference, I own a Royal Thai Police baseball cap.  I bought it from someone selling police equipment to RTP at Vipawadee Police station (the one at the police apartments) parking lot.   

 

1 minute ago, Morch said:

 

Of course not....he complains about 'the Zionists in Israel' (or other versions of the same nonsense).

I sit, or rather lounge here, corrected.   From some of the wordings of internet comments one could think that Zion/Zionists, are different people  from the Israeli people, and in other internet comments, Zionists and Israelis are the same people.   

I do not refer only to comments on asean now, but also to comments that I read other places on the internet.  

12 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Hamas does not care, Hamas believes the sacrifice of Palestinian people is justified for their goals of wiping out Israel.

 

 

The north vietnamese army  was an active participant in killing non combatants in South Vietnam, some for not helping the NVA, some for psychological warfare against the non combatants of the south.  When he says the NVA sacrificed Vietnamese, what he means is, the NVA  murdered to further their ends.  

The North Vietnamese government was also complicit in the violation of the Rule 97, by locating schools, hospitals, nurseries, old age homes, etc, within the industrial buildings and areas that were used to build military arms, using non combatants as human shields!  Although, without researching this on the internet, I am not sure that the north vietnamese government was a signatory to the Geneva Convention rules.   I think not though. 

3 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Hamas does not care, Hamas believes the sacrifice of Palestinian people is justified for their goals of wiping out Israel.

 

 

Not only that, but I watched a video in which a hamas leader claimed that Israel and the United Nations are responsible for the palestinian people, not hamas,  (and if I recall correctly) that hamas is only responsible for hamas soldiers!

59 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

I say it was wrong, just as I say the actions the Zionists in Israel are taking in Gaza now. IMO, they are BOTH guilty of war crimes and have been for well over 100 years.

Both are wrong, but you only complain about the Israelis?

8 hours ago, ozimoron said:

 

Leaders of both sides need a free ticket to The Hague.

Does your comment mean that the Israelis are using non combatants as human shields?  

5 hours ago, WDSmart said:

The atrocities that "are being committed" by the IDF are the killing of civilians and the destruction of entire blocks of buildings in Gaza. This has been done by rockets and artillery. There have been few IDF soldiers who have invaded Gaza (to my knowledge). The atrocities which "have been committed" by the IDF (Zionists) over the 100+ year period these two peoples have been at war include all the atrocities cited in my original post, which include murder, torture, and rape. 

What do you say about hamas and their violation of, supposedly international law, Rule 97?

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule97#:~:text=of human shields-,Rule 97.,of human shields is prohibited.

On 11/30/2023 at 6:29 PM, ravip said:

No, but yes!

5 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

The average Thai male.

I know several Thai males.   None of them are like that one in the news story!  Even the ones who own firearms don't act like the guy in the news story. 

On 12/3/2023 at 4:27 AM, bignok said:

Ban vegan meat

If it is vegan, is it really meat?

On 11/30/2023 at 6:14 AM, RobU said:

An UPDATED (2014) wokey American definition of rape for the Transexual community so that men who Identify as women can still be called women when they commit rape

So, if the teacher inserted her fingers into the girls vagina, that is not rape?
If not rape, what would a non "wokey" definition of that act be?

On 11/14/2023 at 5:08 AM, kingstonkid said:

Botom ine they should still not be selling anything registered as Cannibas to minors.  It is one step above candy cigarettes

I don't smoke cigarettes or cigars.  But I did eat candy cigarettes as a kid and they, apparently did not lead me to smoking cigarettes.    

Here in the U.S. of A., I do know where to buy candy cigarettes.  I buy them occasionally when I pass by the kiosk selling them.   They taste just as good as they did when I was a kid.  

Now, that dreaded poison ... chocolate ... I am addicted to that stuff.  Got to have some almost every day!!  For some reason, especially when I am driving or traveling somewhere.   Sometimes when I go to Thailand first, my wife will bring me several Mr. Goodbars (peanuts and chocolate) with her to feed my addiction, when she goes to Thailand later!

On 11/11/2023 at 3:40 AM, 4MyEgo said:

 

I don't think the tourist fully understood that the bargirl he was going back to the hotel with was actually a Ladyboy, as far as I understand, bargirls don't set up farangs for robbery once they have paid the bar fine and 4,200 baht bar fine I find to be incorrect, perhaps 1,200 baht and 3,000 baht for the "girl".

 

I have heard many stories were they go back to the room, mobile rings, oh no, sorry, no can do, my sister have motorbike accident in hospital, must go, or period come, etc etc, the farangs are mostly amicable about letting them go.

 

They also forgo the bar fine that they paid, although I do know a guy who went back and collected his bar fine back, but not from the bar owner, but from the girl he bar fined in advance, e.g. he was with her the previous night, (fell in love) went back to the bar and paid the bar owner for the remaining 13 nights he was going to be there.

 

Owner later that night called the girl to come in as she was a no show, told her to give him his money back, which she did from the ATM, he later found out that she ditched him for a younger bloke.....LOL

 

 

NO!  You are wrong!  She didn't ditch me for a younger man, her water buff ... er .. uh... hmmmmmm... never mind..

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

May I suggest Iran?

Nahhhh..   They like to throw gay people (seems like mostly men) off the roofs of tall buildings ... without parachutes.    

8 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

555555
 

Sorry I am a straight male and always have been, just not good at marriages (had to many). I have a few things that I do not like, but hetrophobia only comes into play when protecting my bank balance.

 

Copy of pics to help you.

 

 

OK dude, I am blocking your post!

 

1 hour ago, Georgealbert said:

555555

 

Must of hit a sore point there.

 

Nice try about talking Thai, do you really think your the only expat that speaks Thai?

 

I think the Thai views on issues depends on the type of Thai you are talking with and in what situation, bar, workplace, area of the country, education, background, etc.

 

It good to know that you think you speak for all Thais’. 
 

 

Arachnophobia and acrophobia. 

Then there are the heterophobia people.