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Me too, especially as I have a small iPhone SE which has about a 4.7 inch screen and even without the banking app on it I'm constantly pressing the wrong keys with my fat fingers! I do all of my banking here and in New Zealand using my computer with its lovely 24 inch screen and I really don't want that to change. As I'm not likely to buy a new iPhone because I only use my phone for phone calls and SMS messages, it looks like I might have to try that Bluestack Android Emulator that someone mentioned if Bangkok Bank decides to do away with its Internet banking (hopefully not).

Just to add to my post above...... Global study debunks ‘lab leak’ theory, finds Covid-19 virus didn’t originate in Wuhan Genetic analysis traces origins of coronavirus to bat populations in Laos and southwest China years before pandemic emerged A landmark international study has offered compelling evidence that the coronavirus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic did not originate in Wuhan, China, challenging US President Donald Trump’s laboratory leak theory. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell on May 7, was led by the University of Edinburgh and involved researchers from 20 institutions across the US, Europe, and Asia, including China. The team analysed 167 bat coronavirus genomes and traced the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19 to bat populations in northern Laos and southwest China’s Yunnan province, where its most recent ancestor circulated five to seven years before the pandemic emerged.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of this series, so I will get onto it, and on the subject of Tom Hardy, another one of his which was a bit of a slow burner, until it wasn't, is called, "The Drop" and also stars James Gandolfini (in his last movie).

Well that's the sort of thing this dumbo would say and saying that brought about a delay in treatment. There was a very good article on the origins of the Covid virus which I posted some while ago, and the virus had been traced back to bats in China and in countries such as Laos, however here is the latest I can find....... The latest presentation revealed that an analysis of the genomes of more than 50 new coronaviruses collected between 2004 and 2021 showed nothing implicated the lab. And samples from the Wuhan market showed an intermingling of SARS-CoV-2, raccoon dog and human DNAs which points to an animal source for the infection. As more evidence is found, we’ll know what happened. Future pandemic prevention and responses may depend on it. https://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com/podcast/episode/covid-origins

Moving right along....I was persuaded to come here for a 10 day break in 2004 from my hugely stressful corporate job, by a friend of mine, and I'm so pleased I did. A year later when my health issue became serious, I decided to give up the corporate life, leave my job as a Chief Manager of investments for a major bank, and move to Thailand (Patong actually) and I've never regretted it, although I have travelled back to NZ and the UK on a few occasions to catch up with old friends and to see an old footballing friend before he passed away. I've been full-time in Patong since 2007 and have travelled around Thailand a bit and did like some places, but not others (only natural I suppose). Although Patong has become quite different to the place in which I first settled, I have adapted with it, and along the way have unofficially adopted the daughter of my long term girlfriend (her mother is now married and in France) and enjoy taking care of her and guiding her through university and she has done extremely well getting a science degree, with honours. When I first came here the nightlife was the drawcard and I made many friends amongst bar owners, both Thai and farang, and also used to sing along with a couple of groups here which I enjoyed, and so did the audience by all accounts. As I've gotten older I have stayed away from the bars and only visit one or two now on the odd occasion, and I've stayed friends with some of the owners (both Thai and farang) as I have with the restaurateurs here because I used to dine out quite often, although not so much now. Everything I need is right here on my doorstep so I can't complain and I'm often to be found wandering around Big C or TOPS, if not Central in Phuket town when going to have lunch with my daughter who now works there as a teacher. The only problem here at the moment is with the hooligans, crooks and cheats, many of whom seem to come from countries mentioned frequently on AN. I've often thought of going back to NZ and although it is a beautiful country, for a single man on his own it doesn't hold a lot of promise, so I'd rather stay here amongst the friendly Thais and other people I know and in familiar surroundings, all of course made even better by my daughter being close by. And finally, I don't need a wife/woman in my life at the age of 77 and although I am friends with a few women, I prefer it to stay that way as I like living on my own, and I'm financially secure for the rest of my life so my daughter will inherit a substantial amount upon my passing, which should secure her future for generations to come – – so I'm a happy camper

Good post, but then again posting facts to people like @ThreeCardMonte and others of his ilk, is a bit like "casting pearls to swine".........and you can never change or educate them as they are happy in their narrow and right wing view of the US. Typical of "Trump's favourite people".

I found the movie, "Ice Cold in Alex" on the BBC iPlayer and although it had a picture in colour, the actual movie was in black and white, and I decided to keep watching, mainly because I was familiar with the territory it was shot in – – i.e. Libya. Two reasons for this, the first being that my father fought with Montgomery in North Africa, especially at the Battle of El Alamein, and the second being that I spent some time in Libya just after the Gadhafi revolution (times were a bit scary then) and then a few years later. I later went from Benghazi and Tripoli down to the middle of the Sahara desert to the oilfields and had a few adventures there, one of which was being arrested by an irate Libyan soldier because I was drinking alcohol along with a few other guys, so he promptly put a loaded pistol to my head and I really thought that was it for me, especially as I and the other guys were marched outside and lined up against the wall by the Libyan soldiers who were carrying rifles; as you can see we weren't killed! The second thing the movie did was to remind me of the oasis near the desert camp, which I visited a couple of times. After that one of the guys found an old exploration map from BP which showed the sight of a World War II battle, so we set off on our trucks to have a look at it. It was quite a few miles north of our camp and had warning signs all around it, but that didn't deter us from going in and having a look around, during which time we found some old army trucks which had obviously been shelled by large bullets (we thought probably from a fighter plane) and another thing which caught my eye in the movie was where John Mills dug up an old tin, which supposedly had contained food (beans?) and I did exactly the same as it would appear that whatever soldiers were there had lit a fire and enjoyed some food out of tins, cut open by sharp knives by the looks of things!!! The movie bought back so many memories of adventure and danger, and I'm glad I watched it all the way through, because initially I was tempted to turn it off as it was in black-and-white, but those memories that came flooding back were irreplaceable.

On that note, have you seen his "little-known" movie, "Locke", which I thought was quite brilliant and is a masterpiece of acting IMO.

No........only in the minds of the Maga goobers, but beacause they and the Clown show would be desperate to pin something/anything on him, it was a precautionary move (don't forget that he openly disagreed with the orange man and that means he would be out for revenge).

Read and learn......if that is possible for a trumpie maga. Sorry that you wet your knickers thinking anything different!! Have a cup of cocoa and go to bed, there's a good boy. Whether the President May Sign a Bill by Directing That His Signature Be Affixed to It The President need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill he approves and decides to sign in order for the bill to become law. Rather, the President may sign a bill within the meaning of Article I, Section 7 by directing a subordinate to affix the President’s signature to such a bill, for example by autopen. July 7, 2005 MEMORANDUM OPINION FOR THE COUNSEL TO THE PRESIDENT https://www.justice.gov/file/494411/dl?inline NB The above 2005 opinion was written by Howard C. Nielson Jr., who is now a Federal District Court judge in Utah, nominated to the position by Mr. Trump during his first term.

I found this excellent article which deals with trumps belief that he can simply bring manufacturing back to the US and the economy will benefit; but not so according to this article, which I believe a lot more than I do the orange buffoon's reasoning/rationale..... American factories are already struggling to fill around 500,000 manufacturing jobs, according to estimates by Wells Fargo economists. They calculate that to get manufacturing as a share of employment back to the 1970s peak that Trump has sometimes called for, new factories would have to open and hire 22 million people. There are currently 7.2 million unemployed people. Trump’s crackdown on immigration has made things worse. Factory jobs moved overseas to countries, like Vietnam, that had growing populations and young people looking for jobs to pull themselves out of poverty. The future that Trump envisions, with millions of factory jobs, would have to include immigrants seeking that same opportunity in the United States. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/trump-wants-america-to-make-things-again-does-it-have-what-it-takes/7NXA3A343FHPDGSUJOZXSPFDRE/ OOPS, Also looks like TACO scored "an own goal". LOL!!

I also watched it and thought that the ending was okay but did not tie up a lot of loose ends, and for me it left me wondering if there was going to be a second series, because there's certainly enough material to be taken further. I enjoyed it all the same.

Well the first order of business must surely be to carry out his promise to end the Ukraine/Russia war in 24 hours????? Followed by the Israel/Gaza conflict, amongst other promises he made which have not been fulfilled. Then he can get onto the JFK assassination in 1963.......but knowing him, he is unable to tell fact from fiction, so I don't expect this to be solved in his lifetime, which hopefully won't be too much longer.

I have watched the Oliver Stone movie/doco, "JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass" a couple of times and still find it intriguing, and something I picked out from the second viewing was the fact that after the first bullet was fired which actually hit JFK, a second bullet was fired from another location (almost front on seemingly) which caused the back of his head/skull to lift off, and Jackie Kennedy was seen to be holding that part of his head. When they eventually got him to the hospital, it was noted that the back of his head was damaged from a bullet which entered his head from the front, so it could not have been from the Dallas depositary building. Furthermore a medic noted that fact, so IMO the full details of the JFK assassination have never been really known. Sorry if a little off topic!!!

Well he's had enough practice over the years, the problem being that even he doesn't know the truth, and his goobers blindly follow because they are in the cult together..........still waiting for him to stop the Ukraine/Russia war in 24 hours (yeah right) and also stop the Israel/Gaza conflict, which of course he hasn't and he also promised to publish the JFK details/report, amongst others which he has promised to do and has failed to deliver on. It becomes extremely obvious that the only thing he is good at is lying and being confused and he is a failure in so many respects.......