3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

There you go again. We have about 24 million, against your 330 odd million. It's about quality, not quantity.

People don't buy an i-Phone because it's the size of a house brick. They buy it because it's small, functional and has a lot of desirable features. Just like Australians.

Ask any US military commander what they think about Australian soldiers. They rate them higher than their own troops. Small but effective.

 

Did you ask Douglas MacArthur?

1 minute ago, Nyezhov said:

Thats because you are subjects, not citizens. 

Subject to what, exactly? Seems to me I have just as much freedom of movement as you do.

Being a citizen doesn't look all that attractive to me, if it's in a country where one can be bankrupted by the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

1 minute ago, marcusarelus said:

Did you ask Douglas MacArthur?

I don't know what his opinion was. I don't think it would have been dismissive.

12 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

 

Being a citizen doesn't look all that attractive to me, if it's in a country where one can be bankrupted by the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

As opposed by dying via some creepy crawly or in the gullet of a gator. Give me civilization then.

17 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

There you go again. We have about 24 million, against your 330 odd million. It's about quality, not quantity.

People don't buy an i-Phone because it's the size of a house brick. They buy it because it's small, functional and has a lot of desirable features. Just like Australians.

Ask any US military commander what they think about Australian soldiers. They rate them higher than their own troops. Small but effective.

 

People buy Iphones because they are idiot phones. Designed for 13 year old teenage girls to FaceTime for hours talking about those funny feelings they get when they look at Justin Blieber topless.

 

 

8 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

but send their wife to buy flip flops

rented wife .........

12 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Its my chance to speak english. There are 11 other guys here that are pretty smart too.

 

Once I head back to Blighty, I can haunt the food Topics to give helpful advice such as...Looking for a good steak in Phitsanalok are you? Well I dont know about there, but here I am at Ruth Cris's having a 48oz Ribeye, Medium Rare........have a pic, see......nomnomnom

You're Blitish??

23 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I don't know what his opinion was. I don't think it would have been dismissive.

The book, which is based on first-hand accounts from Allied airmen, sailors and soldiers, as well as drawing on official state material, suggests that by 1945 morale was so poor among Australian conscripts that they were dangerously close to open mutiny.

 

The author, one of Britain's most distinguished war historians and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, suggests that towards the end of the campaign many Australian troops felt sidelined by General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Pacific, and resented doing what they felt were irrelevant mopping-up operations.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1571374/Australian-war-veterans-demand-apology.html

 

Try google, "Why was MacArthur so critical of the Australian troops under his command in 1942-43"

 

Or

Perth lawyer Hal Colebatch has done the nation a service with his groundbreaking book, Australia's Secret War, telling the untold story of union bastardry during World War 2.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I'll have you know Sir Les Patterson is one of our most famous cultural exports.

 

And we Knighted him? Says a lot for our taste in diplomats from the far south.   

11 hours ago, jvs said:

What i see lately is too many posts by (so called)new members

who all have a story that is too far fetched!

What surprises me is that they get a lot of (mostly)serious response.

 

 

 

The problem for me with those new OP’s is that their stories aren’t all that unbelievable... but there’s one every week, ergo, why would they need to pose their conundrum because a cursory read would throw up 1/2 dozen similar tales...

????

36 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

As opposed by dying via some creepy crawly or in the gullet of a gator. Give me civilization then.

Those are only there for American tourists. Aussies are smart enough to avoid them.

They are not gators, they are crocodiles, you ignoramus. Far more dangerous than a gator.

52 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Subject to what, exactly? Seems to me I have just as much freedom of movement as you do.

Being a citizen doesn't look all that attractive to me, if it's in a country where one can be bankrupted by the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Or used as target practice in your classroom ????

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Those are only there for American tourists. Aussies are smart enough to avoid them.

They are not gators, they are crocodiles, you ignoramus. Far more dangerous than a gator.

Gators look like Tarzan but play like Jane, soft as...

Ok give it a break ! Mine's bigger/better than yours etc.

 

Back on topic please.

 

 

I don't understand why the Aussies get a weed up their noses about Yanks as, broadly speaking, as we do on digital entertainment sites, they have quite a bit in common.

 

Rejected pelicans from England who arrived at a far flung continent by boat.  Both beat their indigenous hosts into submission and eventually resisted their royal masters to varying degrees, then became a melting pot of hard working, hard drinking migrants.  We relax by smashing each other in similar versions of rugby and belly laugh at $20m/year Pommie footballers rolling around on the pitch pretending to be injured.  We like extra large vessels of beer and big lumps of protein cooked outdoors on the barbie.  We both enjoy going walkabout on holiday in nearby developing countries with cheap beer, despite the potential for violence and a case of Delhi belly.  The opposite sexes are intrigued with one another for amusing reasons; moreso the Yanks who have a tendency to put Aussies on news, chat shows and in movies just to hear them talk; and giggle knowing the mere sound of it annoys the s**t out of their whinging ex-masters.  Both have a persistent problem with sharks, and the Chinese, and are engaged in a lite military struggle against illegal migrants, and Mediterranean Fruit Flies.   

 

The only thing left to reconcile is Vegemite, firearms, and the lingering colonial curse of driving on the wrong side of the bloody road.  ????

18 hours ago, jvs said:

What i see lately is too many posts by (so called)new members

who all have a story that is too far fetched!

What surprises me is that they get a lot of (mostly)serious response.

I commented somewher that i will not be responding these kind op posts anymore.Maybe not complete trolls but complete something else.!I still read them just to see where it goes and usually it ends in a p*ssing contest.

Anything for a click i guess.

Many of these threads are entertaining.

It's like seeing a car driving over a railway crossing competing against the train. In a way we want to see the driver succeed just before the train arrives. But then we also don't mind to see the big collision if he didn't make it.

And obviously all of us can shine with out long time experience and knowledge about Thailand which is obviously better than that of other members. ???? 

That reminds of that girl I met on Friday in Nana. Maybe I tell the story another day but I can tell you already she is different... 

As a source of information it is defunct. Full of defensive sad old git’s who have got themselves stuck in a situation they cannot escape from, but will continue to deny their position.

A few good blokes still around and the odd banter, but basically p1sh.

7 hours ago, sharktooth said:

As a source of information it is defunct. Full of defensive sad old git’s who have got themselves stuck in a situation they cannot escape from, but will continue to deny their position.

A few good blokes still around and the odd banter, but basically p1sh.

Ok young lad, close the door on your way out.

 

????

7 hours ago, sharktooth said:

As a source of information it is defunct. Full of defensive sad old git’s who have got themselves stuck in a situation they cannot escape from, but will continue to deny their position.

A few good blokes still around and the odd banter, but basically p1sh.

If it is so bad, why are you here?

You are talking rubbish, as a source of information it is damned good.

I have got useful info many times on here, past on useful info, just ask the member who could not open a bank account in Khonkaen.

I posted on here what he should do, who he should speak to, he listened, got his account opened.

Then he was good enough to call me, thank me, took time to visit me, brought me an enjoyable lunch.