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9 hours ago, yellowboat said:

The common Thai does not have that much to loose.  As you climb latter, you find the odds are not in your favor. 

 

Generally, the average Thai is a fun person.  Happy is another issue.  Again, as you climb the latter, you will find less fun. 

Maybe you would have more fun by riding the former instead of climbing the latter.

9 hours ago, alant said:

speak for yourself, I rather enjoy life

I was thinking the same thing. I have had a very enjoyable life; I doubt it if I could stand much more of a good time. 

39 minutes ago, F4UCorsair said:

 

It's clear that the Florida Health Department is way out of step with the accepted standards on temperatures required to wash bacteria off hands.   It's as effective at 4 degrees centigrade as it is at 40, and the real removal occurs with the physical scrubbing using soap, and subsequent rinsing.  One wonders, with that knowledge, how a test could be failed and on what criteria???!!!

 

At a temperature required to remove bacteria because of temperature alone, it would result in severe burns to human skin.

 

'Pitiful post' constitutes trolling and flaming, and should be reported.

 

Nothing more needs to be said, although I'm sure you'll find something, however irrelevant.

 

Incidentally, you do yourself no credit with infantile name calling.....trumpet??

So, now you are advocating not following the law because in your opinion it is out of step with accepted standards; except they are the accepted standards of Florida.  

I believe suggesting illegal activities is against forum rules; is it not?.

22 minutes ago, F4UCorsair said:

 

Another nice try at diversion, however, as previously stated, the title of this thread is

 

Improperly stored raw meat among violations found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago

 

If you want to start another thread on business ethics, or whatever it is you're trying to get at, please do so.  In the meantime, if you have anything of value to add to the topic, and above posts, particularly # 34, I'm sure others would welcome it.

Diversion?  Do you even remember your pitiful post to which I responded--#49. I directly addressed your post where you tried to pull a Spicer. Ineffectively, of course.  

Now you are trying to claim that the Florida Division of Hotels and Restaurants and the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, are now picking on Trump; because their health regulations may have contrary opinions from outside sources.  

The point is these Florida Health departments make the rules for Florida and Trump's Mar-a-Lago  was so poorly managed it failed the Florida inspection.

So, now you expect us to believe that all Florida--or is it all other States too-- government agencies, and all media, and all the establishment, and all Democrats, as well as many Republicans--including the Bush clan--are all out to get the Trumpet?   

Not even close to a nice try.  

6 hours ago, F4UCorsair said:

 

With a business empire the size of Trump's, he can't oversee everything.   That's why businesses have managers.

 

This is just another beat up by the left, and as said previously, wouldn't even make a local paper if it hadn't been owned by the President, who happens to be on the right of politics.

Poor little rich kid, he just can't stand criticism so he lables it fake news or getting beat-up by the left instead of labeling it what it is; poor decisions.

However, you may have hit the nail on the head with your attempt at rebuttal. The US is a much larger business than anything Trump has ever been responsible and his selection of managers is suspect at best. He does not quite understand he cannot just say, "your fired" to everyone who disagrees or simply go bankrupt and back-out of every agreement or department which does not go his way. 

5 hours ago, tomwct said:

Good Idea! The left wing media wants to destroy this president, so don't give them any possible ammunition. Keep up the good work President Trump.

What?  So, this is fake news and just the product of the left-wing media to destroy Trump?

Transparency in government is the hallmark of a true representative government. Note how repressive totalitarian regimes conduct business in secret and try to control the media--sound like someone you know who is supposed to be the leader of the free world? 

32 minutes ago, F4UCorsair said:

The President doesn't make decisions In Isolation.  He  captains no aircraft, Or ships, nor fires missiles, and no doubt before the last couple of moves, there was wide consultation  within the US military before a decision was made.

I know, Congress wasn't consulted, but did It need to be...even the Democrats widely approved after the event.

But.....this Is off topic.

I  think this thtead has run out of legs, nothing serious happened, and It would never have rated a mention If the property had been owned by anybody other than the President.

Apparently Trump does think he can make decisions in isolation--remember his attempts at immigration bans; even worse his selection of questionable advisers.  However, all the reversals he has done lately may be a sign he is learning.

And I do agree, this was newsworthy just because it is the President--another example of his inadequate oversight; let 'em sue, then settle and call it fake news. 

22 hours ago, Basil B said:

In the last few days...

 

• He has bombed Syria
• He has sent the Navy to threaten the North Koreans
• He has dropped the Mother Of All Bombs in Afghanistan
• And now it seems he tried to poison the Chinese President...

Well; that seems another promise he failed to keep--remember, he was going to give Xi a big-mac

8 hours ago, elgordo38 said:

I think Moab has passed on According to the biblical account, Moab and Ammon were born to Lot and Lot's elder and younger daughters

That quote is not from my posts--see post #15--another issue from the recent mods to TV

1 hour ago, F4UCorsair said:

But if this was the Hilton, or Hyatt in Beverley Hills, it wouldn't be reported, and certainly none of the above posters would be commenting on it if it was!!!

 

I suppose he was wrong to launch an attack on ISIS with the MOAB also??

Don't worry about it; I am sure it was fake news.

1 minute ago, wump said:

I've been bitten badly and threatened with knives, so yes, sometimes they lose it, especially if on yaba or when needing money for yaba or when just losing face for whatever silly reason. That said, pushing someone over the balcony is really intent to murder and I would think this might be quite rare if there was no large financial gain from doing so (like murdering your husband and taking his assets etc.... nobody is going to stay with the wifey in Walking Street).

You're stretching it a bit; if high on drugs, it may simply be intent to retaliate; or just plain stupid and not thinking it through--however, my comment was not intended to solve the crime, simply to debunk the comment to which I responded.

3 hours ago, spermwhale said:

Bar girls aren't in the business of pushing people off of balconeys. 

Try not paying one and see.

6 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

 

Well, this story is more plausible than so many others--in fact, many bars have signs reading rooms for rent, day, week, or month; they fail to state, by the  hour. 

Of course, a short-time during Songkran doesn't explain why no money was found, even if cell phone or camera may have been left in real hotel room--no clothes were mentioned either.  

1 hour ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Their competition Thai Smiles just made the Top 10 Best Airlines in the world...

 

Good strategy to up their game. ?

Thai Smile is a wholly owned subsidiary of Thai Airways; thus, not a competitor.

1 hour ago, TumblinDice said:

He was & never will be funny. Such a <deleted>! 

Gee, maybe you ought to tell his producers, sponsors and fans. 

6 hours ago, edwardflory said:

The US Congress ran the war in Nam, with so many "" restrictions "" the war was lost.

 

Let the Generals run a war, not a bunch of politically connected idiots ( Congress ), with ( in the case of the US ) the President having the last word - sorry to say that Mr Obama empowered ISIS - et al, with his running the military the way he and his advisors telling the military what to do, and, almost destroyed the US military with the monetary cuts.

 

War is mans greatest crime, except when used against evil

I spent four years Vietnam. I am well aware of the 'restrictions'; both those placed on us and those inherent within the Vietnamese forces. Certainly, it is difficult to drive a man out of his home, but I think the tenacity of the Vietnamese soldier had a great deal to do with our, shall we say, withdrawal.  Look at the overkill we had in ordnance, equipment, funding, and support for our soldiers and the lack of those same essentials for the Vietnamese soldiers.    

6 hours ago, JoePai said:

Yes, like the idiots did in the Vietnam war and failed miserably  

Well, to be fair; that was against people who were much more capable. 

Well, Trump is simply following the archetype political ruse--if your popularity numbers are down, create a situation which identifies someone to blame; then, take an action against that someone your constituents will support. 

9 hours ago, Scott said:

Your getting mixed up, it's not being investigated by the Thai police.  

 

Probably for the same reason that people speculate on which horse will win a race, which football team will win a match.   

 

It's the way people are.  

Mine was a facetious response to one of our keyboard sleuths who said it was not a suicide.  

One of the problems with the recent TV format change is not appending the post to which the response was made--it confuses so many people, many of whom need no help getting confused.  

3 minutes ago, losername said:

I'm finished here.  Good night everyone. 

Well, at least you know when to fold 'em 

1 minute ago, losername said:

My point is "I think you are making his point for him".

Re-read post #9--the post to which I replied.

He said,

" . . .  it is for the children, teenagers, low class and low educated adult thais and various foreign idiots.

educated, middle/upper class thais dislike and avoid what songkran has become as much as the rest of us normal people"

What part of what I said is proving that point--we were all older educated middle/upper class enjoying Songkran--the way it is. 

31 minutes ago, losername said:

No.  I'm not sure of the boundaries of the thread either.  Previous contributors have alleged that I am trying to tell Thais and their visitors how to celebrate their festival.  I am not, but I do think that there is mileage in exercising an element of discretion.  Various agencies have designated times, places and styles of the celebration.  I support all of that and would happily shut up if there was a return to traditional styles of celebration that would allow me, simply, to join in or not as I choose.

Then I suggest you find Mr. Peabody's Way-Back Machine, or Dr. Brown's copy-cat DeLorean; times have changed, the tradition has moved on. 

45 minutes ago, losername said:

To be honest, I think you are making his point for him.  It does not sound as though you and your friends were sitting at your table with water guns loaded, buckets full of iced water etc.  It sounds like you were having a thoroughly civilised evening out.  That is what I enjoy as well.  Generalisations are seldom very accurate but they can sometimes  be used to make a point.

no, we limited ours to ice buckets of cold water; so I fail to see your point as well

34 minutes ago, losername said:

That is a well made point but I had thought of this thread as being about Songkran starting early rather than the bigger issue of where we choose to live.

Not sure of the exact boundaries of this thread, but by the second post it was complaining about the Songkran revelers. Your post, the one to which I responded, was complaining about the Songkran revelers.

You seem to have a struggle finding a correlation between what happens to you and where you are.  

2 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

it is for the children, teenagers, low class and low educated adult thais and various foreign idiots.

 

educated, middle/upper class thais dislike and avoid what songkran has become as much as the rest of us normal people

I sat last night in an open-air restaurant enjoying Songkran with four friends.  Three of them are Thai: a property owner and cell service provider--education level unknown; a Harley Sales and Service shop owner--education level unknown; and a Thai Rubber Industry lawyer (LLB). The fourth friend is a retired electrical engineer (MS) from Canada; and me, a retired consultant (DBA) from the US. 

None of us is under 50. I believe you could say we were all educated, middle/upper class people; although, I have been called a foreign idiot. 

Your generalizations; like all others, is full of  . . . . holes.