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Cholera tainted water was said to taste good.

Yes watch out for ants nesting in the electronic switches, for some reason they are atracted to electronic/magnetic fields causing havoc to many appliances...I've found the naptha balls sold in small packets at Mr D.I.Y and some 20 baht shops strategically placed deters the little buggers for a while but needs topping up as they evaporate over time. You can getan RO machine with 3 stage pre filter and filtered water holding tank for a few thousand baht on lazada...on first use you need to discard the first 5 or more tanks of water due to carbon filter leaching and a plastic/rubber taste from the holding tank.

The biggest influence on the world's stage that needs countering is that of the US military complex/CIA medling and interfering at every opportunity, close to 800 military bases around the world but no money to secure the southern border , end homelessness and poverty or provide everyone with healthcare.

How is a US congressman supporting Ukraine patriotic ? surely a US citizen supporting the US is patriotic....what would he be if he supported Russia ?

I'm astounded that you think it's awesome that Google has been tracking your every move..you know they also tracked what you searched for on the WWW, watched on youtube emails sent and received @ gmail what apps you installed along with usage stats...your phones contact numbers etc etc etc.

Not needed now for NSA CIA FBI FISA act just renewed for anther 2 years allows total surveillance without warrants. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/fisa-surveillance-act-reauthorized

Because everyone has something to hide. “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”

I think we are witnessing a similar thing to the McCarthyism witch hunt but this time it's "Orange man bad"...worse than Hitler,Stalin and Pol Pot combined !!

Well some seem perfectly happy that Trump is receiving this treatment so why not be okay with it when the shoe is on the other foot ?

I bought a beer instead 😋

Agreed the extremely loud and bassy musak is impossible to escape 🤮

Yes starting to look like a "wind up"

The one time I was breathalysed was the exact day that I had not had a drink..which was kind of a relief ( lucky ??? 5555)

That would be the much easier route to take leave out the (unwanted dirty ) foreigner just let the Thai person handle all the hassles of which I'm sure there will still be many..best of luck to you.

One and the same, whatever Google,facebook,Meta,tictok etc etc know about you so do the CIA,FBI,NSA,MI5,MI6 etc etc all the 5 eyes countries and most probably more share the info...but its all for your safety nothing to worry about if you have nothing to hide !!!!

These so called "authorities" are the exact same who want to wield the total power that an AI "policeman" can give them..they are the ones pushing ,promoting, and legislating for this AI takeover...it's kind of ironic to realise that in the end even they (along with everyone else) will be consumed by it.

Now that no-one except a tall Bangkokiain is scared of Covid they need a new boggyman.

Those 3 years where the height of Covidicy whilst there was (thankfully) no water throwing they where hardly happy times IMHO

You answer that question below AI (could) will do it and do it at an unprecedented level and speed implementing the new so called online "hate speech" laws call a tranie a tranny,dead name or misgender someone saying that oil is useful disagreeing with climate change extremists we already saw what happened to those disagreeing with the Covid narrative the censorship,deplatforming,debanking,shadow banning,shaming and ridiculing of those people by governments in collusion with legacy media and big tech. Those who think they have nothing to hide had better think again.

Eventually it will be a problem for everyone even those who think they have "nothing to hide" !!

A couple of photos from 2003 Songkran Wun Lai (19th) on Second road near the Tony gym intersection. My car in the foreground broke down so we bought a bottle of vodka and got soaked and smashed.

@Issanman great photos the couple of foreigners in the first one don't look too happy.... got any more to share ?

My definition of woke would be political correctness gone mad on gender bending drugs combined with anti "white" racism and a huge splash of hypocrisy. Definitions can change, remember gay used to mean happy.

Another step along the path to a total surveillance totalitarian state... "for your safety" of course.

This is the number one issue for me and what stops me updating as I have my few addons TVheadend,backend and IPTV simple setup just right and working nicely for a couple of years..only problems being with sdcard corruption on the Raspberry Pi that runs Kodi ( I still prefer calling it XBMC)