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When I attended the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), the training included martial arts. The martial arts training at FLETC was pathetic. I had better training in a Jiu Jitsu as a teenager and that wasn't enough. My hand to hand combat training in the Army Basic Training in 1969 was better than the FLETC martial arts training.

But not as much fun as having a real potato to stick those plastic parts into. Which what I remember Mr Potato head thing was when I was 5 years old.

In all the times I have been to Thailand, I was only asked for my passport one time. I was on a bus from Mukdahan to Udon Thani. At the bottom of a hill was a police roadblock. Police boarded the bus and asked everyone for their ID. They asked everyone several questions before giving their ID's back. Police officer got to me, asked for my passport, opened it up to the picture page I guess, looked at it, looked at me, then gave my passport back. Didn't ask or say anything other than, "Passport". I was the only white face on the bus. The police took several people into custody before letting the bus go on. I remember it being a long ride to Udon Thani. There was no air service at the time.

Thank you.

What app is that?

OK, now I understand. And here I was thinking it was only ping pong ball shows. I had to ask a friend what that was about. 🤨

OK, I am clueless about what this elephant drawing is about. Any one with an answer?

Not all bikes are bad. You should know that. Just the bad bike riders are bad. You should know that. P.S. I have found the moderators don't seem to mind off topic posts, if they are labeled as off topic posts. Otherwise, off topic posts seem to disappear into internet space, never to be read again. Just in case you didn't know that.

We had to put it into a bag. Bank didn't have an envelope that would fit. That wasn't a problem. But I did not feel comfortable carrying it. I wouldn't feel comfortable carrying it in the U.S. of A. either.

I agree. My wife had about that much in 1000 baht bills one time. I carried them in a backpack. There was no "envelope" that they would fit in.

Off the topic of the bike rider in Thailand, in response to the above. There is a bike, jogging path beside the main street near my house, in Pennsylvania, U.S. of A.. It has stop signs for bikes at the streets that branch off the main street. The stop signs have the word, "BIKE" printed on the bottom of them, further clarifying the fact that bike riders are supposed to stop at the intersection, per Pennsylvania law. Yet, bike riders ignore it and ride into the street without looking. Then the bike riders are angry with the drivers of vehicles, when they are nearly hit by vehicles that are slowing to stop at the intersection, obeying the stop signs for vehicles.

Perhaps just a warped sense of humor. Been like that since I was in a war for 20 months (or was it 24 months? I forget). I developed a warped or morbid sense of humor as way to survive without going completely insane!

Perhaps it shouldn't be, but that is funny.

Who is Chairman Orange? Never heard of him.

I have a Vietnam Veterans baseball cap. Ironically, Made in Vietnam!

AI generated pic Or, they are receiving the same democrat propaganda emails they send me. And worse, they believe the propaganda!

Or, they are receiving the same democrat propaganda emails they send me. And worse, they believe the propaganda!

"That conversation recently becoming more pronounced in the MuslimMatters.org community, with the April 25, 2011 publication of an article entitled, “Sex & the Ummah | Sexual Harassment: A Muslim Problem?” The author, Hena Zuberi, shares her personal encounters with unwanted touch – each one is chilling and some are echoed in the experiences of other commentators of her blog. “A touch, a feel, a whisper. It doesn’t take much to make a young girl feel dirty, stripped of her dignity. Walking in the streets of this Muslim country was treacherous,” she writes. And then in thoughtful language that spares neither civility nor responsibility, she ascertains those features of her beloved country and religion (or interpretations thereof) that allow for the continued subjugation of women. Her conclusion: Women and men must speak loudly about the problem, and no longer hide in shame when someone harasses them for simply being a woman in the wrong place at the right time from the perspective of the aggressor. Sexual Harassment is at epidemic proportions in some countries in the region. Consider these statistics, taken from Zuberi’s article: “In 2008, Abul Komsan, the woman’s rights activist, polled 1,000 women from all parts of the country. What she found shocked her. 98 percent of foreign women polled said they had been sexually harassed. And about eight out of 10 Egyptian-born women said the same thing. She also surveyed Egyptian men, and almost two-thirds of men polled actually admitted that they harassed women.” Religious and non-religious women, Muslim and not, dressed conservatively and otherwise, have been reporting extraordinary high numbers of untoward advances that include groping, inappropriate language, to outright assault."

I am old. I wish someone would tell my wife I am cool and interesting.

Only 19,000 baht? That is cheap price to pay.

My leg was pierced one time. But I could see the end of the shrapnel, so I pulled it out.

I retired from my government job in 2013. For a year I did as I had done for over 20 years, shaved every morning. Then one day, as I looked in the mirror, I thought, why am I shaving every day? Since then I usually shave when it reaches the point that the beard irritates me. Then not again for a few days. Been like that since 2014.

Maybe not. If like me, who at the age of 20, could go three days without shaving, in Army Basic Training, without being told by a drill sargent to shave dry out in the field! In advanced training back then, I could go four days without shaving, the inspections being less intense. Even today, it would take me four days to grow hair on my face, the same length as some do in one day. In Basic Training, there was one guy that was made to dry shave his face every morning between 10 and 11 am, with what looked like a 1 or 2 day old beard, sometimes having to shave in the afternoon too, even though he claimed he shaved that morning. After a week of this, his drill sargent showed up in the shower room to watch him shave and then checked him out at 10 am. Afterwards he was still required to shave in the morning and afternoon, but was allowed to use water when shaving!

I have been expecting this for more than 20 years.