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IMO the best way to have a hassle-free life in Thailand is to ensure one is worth more alive than dead. I regard marriage to my long-term GF as an unnecessary complication.

If one was to replace every ICE in Australia with an EV, it would reduce CO2 emissions by a mere 9%. EV's are good for city environments, by reducing air pollution. The simple fact is we are still reliant on fossil fuels for two-thirds of our electricity generation, EV's are a drop in the bucket in comparison.

How much do you think people pay for a wife?

I had a partial denture done at Ram Hospital dental clinic in Chiang Mai many years ago. Still fits perfectly. An Australian dentist commented the denture was very good quality. Not cheap, IIRC 110,000 baht.

When I was in the bar scene years ago, 150 baht for a lady drink was about average. Usually the girl got 50 baht of that. Many lady drinks do not contain alcohol. Some girls don't want to be drunk all the time. Some girls also don't want to do P4P, they are content to make their money off the commissions. It's a transaction, they are giving you their time in exchange for your money. I never asked a girl to go with me. I waited for them to initiate discussion.

My mistake - I have always thought the lyric was "the last train out of Sydney's almost gone".

Lots of Russians don't want to die in a meat grinder either, about 1 million have left Russia to avoid being drafted. I guess Putin's propaganda arm is not convincing them.

Normal people on this forum will be wondering whether your halo is strangling you.

Reading a manual makes me a nerd? I would have thought acquiring self-control, and behaving like a mature adult, are the attributes of a man. I'd love to watch you play golf.

My GF tells me Chiang Rai had good rain last night.

Yanks are sometimes so up themselves we can't resist the temptation to extract the urine. We can still sell stories of drop bears and hoop snakes to the more credulous.

I read the operator's manual of everything I buy, so I can understand how to operate it, and what its limitations are. I'm guessing the OP threw all of his toys out of the pram as a baby.

I once played golf with an American guest who made the mistake of wearing a white polo shirt in summer, his back was covered with flies. Portsea Golf Club is one of my favorite courses.

We do say don't come the raw prawn with me.

Yes.

Before you get too conceited on geography, please note most Americans think Australian cities have kangaroos hopping up and down our thoroughfares.

IIRC Europe certainly needed Uncle Sam in the aftermath of WWII, hence the Berlin Airlift and the Marshall Plan. Why did you choose a nom-de-plume whose namesake headed up the NKVD during Stalin's purge of 1934 - 1936, only to be executed in 1938?

Putin could conceivably win against NATO if it is neutered by Trump. Ukrainians have to kill 8 Russians for every casualty on their side to even achieve parity.

AFAIK the US is doing very well for itself in that field, whereas those nations who bought Russian armaments are having considerable buyer's remorse.

Your argument is Putin will stop after he wins in Ukraine. Where are your facts and evidence to support that?

As Stalin once said, quantity is its own quality. Those who forget the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them.

Ukraine is of interest to anyone who remembers what the Iron Curtain was like, with half of Europe stagnating under the Soviet banner. Putin has repeatedly said he wants the Soviet Union restored to its former glory. He won't stop at Ukraine if he wins there. You are simply too young to remember those times.

AFAIK in Vietnam, neither side was trying to commit genocide, or forcibly relocate children. OTOH, Putin definitely wants to finish what Stalin started in Ukraine in 1932. Fifty years before you were born. Try reading some history before making egregiously ignorant posts.

In a country where 50% of the population still believes in angels, laws can't be expected to be rational.

Hybrids are usually superior.