... or maybe I never noticed it before.

 

Hovering the cursor over the member's name tells you their post count, reputation count, and (new) "badges".

 

What are these badges? Does anyone have one? They must be very hard to earn as not even @Jingthing or @GammaGlobulin have any.

 

Not sure about badges.

 

My grandfather was awarded this badge, during WW One, for saving lives as a medic in the trenches in France.

 

OVERSIZED IMAGE REMOVED.

 

Rather a harrowing experience.

He never recovered, not even by the age of 95 when he finally died.

 

I mean, what he saw in the trenches stayed with him, and haunted him, throughout his life.

 

Going over the top without a rifle, just to carry another back to safety, on one's back, must be worth a badge, or two.

 

I once thought, when i was in my early teens, that Erich Maria Remarque was a woman.

 

So, anyway, no matter what prizes we might accumulate on TV, let us also wish and hope that 2022 will bring more Peace on Earth, rather than more war.

 

Best to everyone here.

 

Glob

 

Note:  I think I will read Maria's book, "All Quiet on the Western Front", one more time, probably this week.

 

Take care my friends.

 

 

 

6 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Not sure about badges.

 

My grandfather was awarded this badge, during WW One, for saving lives as a medic in the trenches in France.

 

 

 

Rather a harrowing experience.

He never recovered, not even by the age of 95 when he finally died.

 

I mean, what he saw in the trenches stayed with him, and haunted him, throughout his life.

 

Going over the top without a rifle, just to carry another back to safety, on one's back, must be worth a badge, or two.

 

I once thought, when i was in my early teens, that Erich Maria Remarque was a woman.

 

So, anyway, no matter what prizes we might accumulate on TV, let us also wish and hope that 2022 will bring more Peace on Earth, rather than more war.

 

Best to everyone here.

 

Glob

 

Note:  I think I will read Maria's book, "All Quiet on the Western Front", one more time, probably this week.

 

Take care my friends.

 

 

We should all be grateful that there were people like your grandad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1914–1918_(France)

If JT and GG have not earned any "badges", it's probably meaningless. Unless the number of posts, plus the amount of "likes", minus the amount of "dislikes" divided by the age of your grandmother results in a mathematical factor higher than  1.7639.

Welcome to 2022. Welcome to an accerelated world of "Algorisms".

17 minutes ago, swissie said:

If JT and GG have not earned any "badges", it's probably meaningless. Unless the number of posts, plus the amount of "likes", minus the amount of "dislikes" divided by the age of your grandmother results in a mathematical factor higher than  1.7639.

Welcome to 2022. Welcome to an accerelated world of "Algorisms".

Well, your spelling aside, for now.....which is obviously intentional,....

 

Can you recite the value of π beyond the decimal point to 9 digits?

 

For doing this, I would give you a badge, for sure....a mathematical badge.

If there's a 'multiple suspended from posting' badge I should get that one

8 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

If there's a 'multiple suspended from posting' badge I should get that one

You beat me to it

1 hour ago, chickenslegs said:

We should all be grateful that there were people like your grandad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croix_de_guerre_1914–1918_(France)

Thinking carefully about your comment......

And, also thinking about so many men and women today, who have been exposed to war.....

 

Even though my grandfather progressed from being a medic in the trenches in France to becoming a successful orthopedic surgeon, and had of orthopedic surgery at a major hospital, .......

 

Yet, in some ways, his exposure to his war experience and the trenches in France left a lasting impact which colored his life, for the rest of his life.

 

These days, the term PTSD is so familiar.

And, my grandfather was affected throughout his life until the day he died, when the term PTSD had not yet become widely recognized.

 

Will we ever by free of war?

Young college students always ask this same question in their naivete.

 

War always saps the strength of our youth, most of all.

There is nothing beneficial about it.

 

2022, hopefully, will be a far better year, concerning finally freeing ourselves from the virus of ill repute.

 

Maybe someday, by the year 3022, we will put an end to war, finally.

And then, our young college students will find a more useful topic for discussion.

 

Humanity progresses in its humanity year by year, there is no doubt.

 

Maybe we just must remain patient.

 

Someday, we will overcome our own humanity, perhaps.

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

If there's a 'multiple suspended from posting' badge I should get that one

I was suspended for my very first post....lol beat that!

The winner of Asean Now will receive a one way ticket to the moon, visa included

2 hours ago, BE88 said:

The winner of Asean Now will receive a one way ticket to the moon, visa included

TM30 ?

7 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Thinking carefully about your comment......

And, also thinking about so many men and women today, who have been exposed to war.....

 

Even though my grandfather progressed from being a medic in the trenches in France to becoming a successful orthopedic surgeon, and had of orthopedic surgery at a major hospital, .......

 

Yet, in some ways, his exposure to his war experience and the trenches in France left a lasting impact which colored his life, for the rest of his life.

 

These days, the term PTSD is so familiar.

And, my grandfather was affected throughout his life until the day he died, when the term PTSD had not yet become widely recognized.

 

Will we ever by free of war?

Young college students always ask this same question in their naivete.

 

War always saps the strength of our youth, most of all.

There is nothing beneficial about it.

 

2022, hopefully, will be a far better year, concerning finally freeing ourselves from the virus of ill repute.

 

Maybe someday, by the year 3022, we will put an end to war, finally.

And then, our young college students will find a more useful topic for discussion.

 

Humanity progresses in its humanity year by year, there is no doubt.

 

Maybe we just must remain patient.

 

Someday, we will overcome our own humanity, perhaps.

 

 

 

 

There are benefits to war, science usually advances a lot during a war. Military science that later gets applied to civilians. Like GPS for instance. I doubt though that its worth all the deaths. 

43 minutes ago, chuang said:

TM30 ?

Of course, because the destination is the Thai lunar base, the launch is scheduled for next year or so, information will be released shortly by TAT

 

5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Well, your spelling aside, for now.....which is obviously intentional,....

 

Can you recite the value of π beyond the decimal point to 9 digits?

 

For doing this, I would give you a badge, for sure....a mathematical badge.

It's probably the army of Farangs that don't know what do do once they have erected a Mansion in the middle of nowhere for the benefit of a Thai-Family that can't even trace their ancestrty (land rights) for more than 2 generations.

Off topic, for sure. But the root of any problems down the road for any "Foreighn-Inverstors", especially when even "Thai-Authorities" don't know where community/regional/state borders converge.

This is not a joke, By the next "local-elections", Borders may be redrawn. Overnight. Eventual protests by a Farang will strictly be ignored, especially when Thai Families don't know where *Land-Borders" have been established some 200 years ago.

Off topic? Not really, Because in the end "wealth" in Thailand was always measured in form of "how much Land a Family owns" or how much Gold circulates among "the Family". It has been like this before any GI set foot on Pattaya soil.

 

Far off topic? Not really, because in the far corners of the Isaan, nothing has changed over the last 20 years. Male Youngsters (the hope of the family) are still engaged by Motorbike-Races, in order to establish some kind of useless "pecking-order", while the daughters are still responsible to replace a refrigerator, once the 15 year old "Siemens" can do no more. NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN RURAL THAILAND OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS.

 

I remain: The Thai-Females are the Backbone of Thai Society. If they work in a bar or on a rice field or in a bank, it remains the same.

 

The problem arises, when the "modest" Thai-Female realises how "rich" the Farang is. Including the extended Thai Family.

 

- But that is another story. It should be discussed with more intensity here, as it is such a rare occurance.

8 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

 

I think you'll find this originally came from The Treasure of Sierra Madre, obviously a favorite line for Mel Brooks to use. (And that's Hedley Lamarr.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OcM23Hbs5U

 

 

7 hours ago, RandiRona said:

I was suspended for my very first post....lol beat that!

Although we can't beat it,

Most of us would not wish to emulate it.

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Although we can't beat it,

Most of us would not wish to emulate it.

Feeling is mutual. I wont wish to emulate your way to life.

If you hover over my "rocket", I am a 4/8. That's good, right guys??? LOl, my goal is 0/8. Please help me!!!!!

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

11 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

If there's a 'multiple suspended from posting' badge I should get that one

Of you should get one …Trans should get a multitude …. 555

4 hours ago, swissie said:

NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN RURAL THAILAND OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS.

Hogwash

On 1/2/2022 at 6:00 AM, wannascuba said:

If you hover over my "rocket"...

Reading this forum on my phone with the opera browser at the moment, I have the good fortune of seeing no rocket on any avatar and no reference to badges, also not in in members' profiles. Hopefully, this will last.