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Which cooking oil to use?
I don't think a 3 month minor diet change is going to kill me. Especially changing the cooking oil. Not like I'm drinking a half pint every day. I really don't think I needed the statin, and why I stopped taking it after a few months. Interesting to see the difference in 3 different sets of numbers. Another check at the end of the year, and if all the same, then I don't need to start the statin again. Doubt if I would anyway, unless numbers way off. If numbers improved, well, all the better. -
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Large size shoe
Not in my neighborhood. I don't care legally what they call themselves, they still have a big ol' "Tesco" sign on top of the building that can be seen for miles. As well, Tesco.com takes you right to their online shopping. Why bicker about a fine point? If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . . -
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Global YouTuber IShowSpeed Crashes Tuk-Tuk into Temple Wall, During Livestream
The police are working out the compensation package as we speak : aha .... ok, the new tuk tuk will be 480,000 baht and the new Temple will be 870,000 baht .. so Mr Influencer, your compensation bill comes to 1,350,000 baht ... Tuk Tuk : 480,000 Temple : 870,000 --------------- total 1,350,000 baht -
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Frenchman arrested in Krabi for eight-year visa overstay
Not necessarily guilty of debts etc. I remember a very nice gentleman in Phuket, who came and stayed, as many of you did. Then eventually hit a hard spot, run out of money, whatever, lived in a room, etc Don’t know what happened to him, he was well liked . Now in Jomtien,you see many men like that, living from day to day. Cheap rooms, and some have their Thai wives or girlfriends, older ladies. Every evening down on the beach wall for sunset, having a Chang and a chat. im sure that there are many like that in Thailand and every where else. Lovely song from Charles Aznavour, Emmenez moi , « the misery is not so hard in the sun » describes exactly why there are so many poorer expats in Thailand. -
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Thai man condemned for using free cafe WiFi to watch porn - video
Yes, indeed, the laws are incredibly complex. If the laws were clear we would not need lawyers to interpret them. And I do appreciate the difficulty of drafting laws, where you have to anticipate all the things that could happen. It almost seemed to me at times as if the law criminalises as much as possible just in order to control the populace, but it's not that, it's a case of those drafting the laws having to cover all the potential things that could happen. And a lot does and can happen. You can see it in the common assault principle that anticipating threatening behaviour can lead to common assault even without actual touching of the other person, and this is true, in real life people can feel so threatened by looks, words, etc that they lash out to throw a pre-emptive strike as it were. Clearly this defence had to be made available as there were real life instances of this. The sophistication of criminal law is quite high looked at it this way, and once harrassment was brought in you can see this became ever more creative. But these are real things, a look can be highly threatening, even a silverback gorilla will not tolerate it. In a way harrasment laws have made women into silver back gorillas now, albeit with the force of the law, rather than physical force, which is arguably even more terrifying. Psychological harm is of course a real thing, in certain circumstances. For instance a woman who had an intruder in her house often reports for years feeling unsafe, which is understandable. So here psychological harm is a real thing. It clearly does exist. But again, this is a massive greasy slippery slope, as we saw in the repressed memory cases, where psychologists suposedly unlocked psychological harm that was repressed for years. Many were convicted and it took years before this practice was no longer accepted, freeing up repressed memories of psychological harm. In the end, most people who have undergone truly traumatic things tend to process them and function normally afterwards. However, this can take time and true psychological acument to determine, if there was harm. A very dangerous thing when psychological harm gets introduced. But clearly, it can be real. Indeed, harrassment and assault are seperate offences, but the point I was making is that for assault originally it was accepted that threatening behaviour, looks, words etc could be construed as assault. And one can see how this notion is also taken up with the harrasment laws, where staring can be an offence. I wonder if we're getting too precious and too sophisticated when it comes to offences where no harm is caused, but I suppose a woman in a lonely train carriage might disagree. This whole matter of harrasment in trains is no doubt true, and yet women went through this 50 years ago and the world continued revolving. Are we not making more problems for gender relations by overcriminalising things like staring? What safeguards could you put in palce to limit false accounts? I can't think of anything. The Eleanor Williams case shows how devastating false accusations can be, the three men she falsely accused all said they had tried to commit suicide. Another had his business ruined due to the reputational damage Williams caused. So yes, women need to be protected from harrasment, but if laws meant to protect women are used in a fraudulent way leading to men attempting suicide, having their business ruined, there has to be a balance struck between protection from harrasment and false accusations. This is the problem, I don't see what safeguards you can put in place, it is all based on evidence in court. By their nature people like Williams will not care about perjury and will fabricate evidence. In the famous case of Donald Trump, a woman came up with an accusation decades ago, and got some friends to provide witness statements about an event nobody had witnessed. Even the former president was then convicted of sexual asssault on the basis of these witness statement.. -
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Trump Vows to Jail Those Who Engage in "Unscrupulous Behavior" During the 2024 Election
There was no large scale election fraud in 2020. The (small-time) instances of voter fraud that were uncovered were almost exclusively Republican voters trying to vote twice, or voting for a dead relative or something like that. I agree these people should be prosecuted, but when this kind of voter fraud happens maybe 25-50 times on a total of over 150 million votes, it’s not going to make any difference. -
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Udon Thani Police Conduct Dramatic Manhunt to Rescue Kidnapped Woman Held for Ransom
I am not me, I am my sister... excuse -
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Will pepper spray stop dog attacks
Leave it with me...I'll have a search....think it was Lazada....had it a good while now so there's just a chance I bought it on Sukhumvit??? -
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Thailand-China high-speed rail project faces delays
delays = fines to be paid, or is it bribes? -
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Worst Joke Ever 2024
I had a very good friend that had a job running the spotlight at a high-end strip-joint back in the US. This was back when it was supposed to be "art". He said that by the end of the second day he was reading a book. -
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Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where's everyone who questioned Biden's age and fitness?
I sense some sour grapes because after your dement hero was removed from the scene, you are now stuck with a useless piece of word salad -
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Splitting my time between Thailand & my originating country....
And ? Visa 0 is for everyone, married and not married but if don't have money stay definitely on LOS and no pay tax . -
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Trump Vows to Jail Those Who Engage in "Unscrupulous Behavior" During the 2024 Election
And so they should be....... and if proven they should receive appropriate jail sentences. Democracy is very fragile and anyone convicted of an attempt to undermine democracy must be punished. I'd be very surprised to find anyone on here disagreeing.
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