[I grew up in a 99% Jewish neighborhood! Did you?]

5 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Another one that knows nothing about Jews.

Yes. Why should I know details of Jewish beliefs? 

 

That is why I was asking you so you could tell me. 

 

So why so you say you are Jewish if you are an athiest? 

 

I can only guess it's because you believe you are from Jewish race of people. But I don't think genetically there is a Jewish race...like there is African, Asian, etc. 

 

 

 

 

[I grew up in a 99% Jewish neighborhood! Did you?]

45 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I'm atheist. 

 

The chosen thing has no resonance to me.

 

Jew haters obsess on it though and grossly distort its meaning to inflame bigotry.

 

Next

....

So you are not Jewish if you are an atheist. 

 

I had Christian parents, but I'm an atheist too. 

 

So, I am not Christian. 

 

I don't tell people I am a Christian. 

 

 

 

 

[I grew up in a 99% Jewish neighborhood! Did you?]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Unfortunately predictably this good intentioned topic has attracted an open spigot of hate speech. 

Are u a religious person Jimgthing? 

 

Do you identify as Jewish because you believe in that God and that religion, or becauss of your genetics / race? 

 

If so, do you believe you are part of the Jewish God chosen race? 

 

This is my problem with all religions. Each one believes they are the true on and anyone else not worshipping their God or Gods are wrong and will go to hell.  

 

I think that of Christians and Muslims, not just Jews.  How can anyone give respect to others who tell them they are sinners and will go to hell?  

 

 

[Princess of Wales has cancer .]

9 hours ago, john donson said:

everybody has cancer, all the time... your immune kills those cells, unless it does not work anymore correctly by some event like radiation, toxins, pesticides, chemicals and take years to be noticeable

I am guessing you are not a doctor 😂

[Princess of Wales has cancer .]

4 hours ago, Pla Simon said:

 

Will you be using anything other than ignominious, gutter rhetoric ?

What? 

 

You seem triggered. 

[Princess of Wales has cancer .]

Will she be using the NHS? 

 

 

 

 

[Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years]

5 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:

Legal migrants pay IHS for NHS. Currently £1035 per year. They must pay it even if they are working, paying tax and NI, which most of them do in order to get a visa in the first place and to renew.

 

I don't understand this idea that they put a strain on housing. All of the immigrants I work with privately rent their homes. Places that were empty prior to the renting. How can people renting empty properties be a strain?

 

With regards to police, are you suggesting legal migrants are less law abiding than others?

 

Schooling? Not where I live but I guess that could be different by region.

And the government under Thatcher sold off all our council housing and did not build any more. 

[Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years]

5 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:

How? There are only about 600 MPs in the whole of the commons.

They are the ones allowing the extortionate prices of the utilities...so people can't afford to heat their homes!  

 

The high prices are more to do with high taxation in fuel and record massive profits for the gas and water companies...which are foreign owned...

[Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years]

15 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

Huge generalization. Some do, some don't. In my opinion legal immigrants tend to do well, illegal immigrants are a scourge. 

 

What it does do is put huge strain on housing, schooling, the NHS, the police etc. 

A bigger huge strain on the NHS, schooling, housing and the police is the current government 

 

[Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years]

15 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  To solve that problem, I used to wear warm clothes in my UK house and no need for heating at all 

So you didn't shower, and didn't wash your clothes? 

 

How did you heat your water with no heating?  

 

How did you prevent your water pipes freezing and bursting? 

 

How did you prevent condensation and mold? 

 

You expect babies, young children and frail elderly people to live with no heating in a UK winter in this day and age? 

 

Your idea it to go back to good old Dickensian times when poor people died from cold?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Familiarity breeds contempt?]

10 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:

I have a question to all these 'members'  who always reply to any of Bob's posts in the negative. 

 

What is your problem? 

 

Everyone that is registered on asean now is entitled to their own opinion and can post virtually anything within the bounds of the rules. 

 

But it appears that as soon as Bob posts anything, the troop of 'assassin's appear.  It's quite simple people,  if you don't like/agree with Bob's posts then either don't read them or use the block feature. 

 

I've only been on here a short time and I'm astounded by the amount of attacks on Bob. 

 

I'm sure he is probably a bit eccentric but that doesn't give licence to all these personal attacks. 

 

I could add a lot more but then it may see as a rant.  People please think before posting nasty replies. 

Yes. It's strange that Bob seems to attract negativity from both Thai people he meets in his daily life, AND most of the farang posters on here..... 

 

Maybe it's time Bob asked himself why so many people are so often negative towards him? 

[My girlfriend/wife is 35 years younger.......]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I don't agree with splitting assets when I have done 95% of the earning. And 100% of the houses, cars, and kids education.

 

 

No. Neither do I.  I would not marry someone who did not work or contribute anything to the family apart from in the bedroom. 

 

 

[My girlfriend/wife is 35 years younger.......]

34 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

There's a Thai saying, old cattle prefer young grass.

Contrary to the OP's opinion, it's possible to form a lasting relationship with someone much younger.

There are quite a few men in Australia who are saddled with women their age. The women have aged badly.

They are petrified at the prospect of a split, where the woman will take half the assets quite legally.

No one can tell me such a relationship is healthy.

 

So....the women age badly....but the Aussie men look so fit and handsome? 

 

These days both men and women work...both will have paid for the house, cars, bringing up kids etc...then at say 20 years of marriage, you don't agree with splitting assets half and half if there is a relationship breakdown? 

 

How would u feel if the boot was on the other foot?  Your wife leaving you for a young gold digging Asian man from a poor country, while she spends all your money on him, and leaves you with nothing?  All because you don't look as sexy as you did 30 years ago? 

 

 

 

 

[UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off]

Just now, Dolf said:

In your opinion

Um... Obviously. What was the point of that comment 🤣

[UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off]

21 minutes ago, Dolf said:

"Modern health care relies on petroleum products that have few substitutes. Plastics are used in a wide-range of medical devices and petrochemicals are relied on for pharmaceuticals. Products include hospital equipment, IV bags, aspirin, antihistamines, artificial limbs, dentures, hearing aids, heart valves and many more."

 

https://www.capp.ca/oil/uses-for-oil/

That's the problem. 

 

We need to find alternatives to oil 

 

Anyway they amount tod oil used in these medical things is insignificant compared to the environmental impacts of oil used for fuel, for example.

[UK doctors involved in climate protests face threat of being struck off]

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

IMO parading around in a shirt saying "just stop oil" marks one as an idiot, and if any doctors think that is a sensible thing they are suspect of being too stupid to practice.

 

Imagine if their wish came true and oil stopped tomorrow. By Christmas most of human life would have ended, given that oil is used to grow most of the food we eat, and make the medicine they prescribe.

Please don't grow your food in oil. That's not gonna be healthy to eat. 

[J.K. Rowling Insinuates Nazis Did Not Burn Trans Books]

16 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

A man can desire to live as if he is a woman and visa versa, but s/he can't change their genes, and genes make a man or a woman.

Ergo animals are the gender they were born as, with the exception of hermaphrodites.

Makes no difference to me if a man gets it cut off and wears dresses, but soon as he stops taking the drugs he reverts to a male without a penis.

It's easier for females as they ( I assume ) don't want to grow facial hair, so don't need drugs to play a man.

 

I wonder why we don't have a problem with trans females to males joining men's teams so they can win at something.

No. There are many species of animals that change sex as they mature or at different life stages.  Educate yourself so you don't make yourself look ignorant. 

[US tourists ‘ridicule’ King’s Guard, get berated by UK cop: ‘He’s not having fun’]

3 hours ago, RayC said:

 

Spot on.

 

Why this story is considered newsworthy is beyond me.

Because a percentage of British people have some deluded and perverse pleasure in anything to do with their unelected, outdated and entitled family of Germans who lord it over them....living a super rich lifestyle for doing sweet FA, while they have to struggle even to pay utility bills or feed their own children. 

[Survey: Almost a quarter of Gen Z adults identify as LGBTQ+]

So the results just show that mostly more women are saying they are bi sexual than preciously. 

 

It's good that these days people feel able to be more honest about their sexual feelings. 

 

The percentages were probably the same for all the other generations before them, but society made it harder for people to be honest about their true feelings, or they repressed them out of shame or learned morals from religion or society in general. 

[Antisemitism in Ireland ‘Blatant and Obvious’ Says Former Cabinet Minister Alan Shatter]

Yep. It's any Isreal concerning the war on Palistine. It's not about being anti Jewish people who live in Ireland. 

 

 

[Dealing with Dental Anxiety, non sedation Denistry?]

2 hours ago, ChrisKC said:

Yes, from my generation, quite common for little awareness of dental care. I readily accept lack of responsibility since adulthood. 

Funny. Around the world British people are portrayed as having the worst teeth and dental hygiene. Often in cartoons for example British characters or shown with crooked teeth or buck teeth. 

 

The dentistry in the UK is actually very bad. One third of people there have no access at all to dentists. People are resorting to pulling their own rotten teeth out at home.. 

 

It do not think you should be proud of the state of British people's dental care. Lol

[Pit Bull Attacks Woman in Chiang Mai]

12 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Exactly what one of my kids, who works with dogs, said…….she said they won’t even notice, bricks, sticks, batons…..but if you can’t shoot them, a knife is your only option.

And then you probably will get charged with animal cruelty here in LOS..while the netizens are going crazy about some farang killing an elderly ladies pet dog. 

[Dealing with Dental Anxiety, non sedation Denistry?]

On 3/1/2024 at 1:01 PM, ChrisKC said:

I can give you my experience that I am sorry to say won't be much help but may be of some use to somebody. I am now 79.

 

I was never brought up to take care of my teeth so never visited dentists or even cleaned my teeth as a child. My first encounter was at aged 20 when I had serious toothache, about five years later, same again and had a tooth extracted with local anaesthetic. My last visit in 1976 for yet another bout of bad toothache; a similar situation - straight extraction.

 

I didn't visit another dentist for any reason until 2007 in Chiang Mai. By then, my remaining teeth were needing some real attention. At the clinic I was fully assessed, including Xrays and a subsequent appointment was made for the following month. Out of interest, my lack of concern for my teeth was never because of being scared of dentists or anaesthetic.

 

At last, I was doing something positive for my teeth and I was feeling proud of myself for being so "brave".

 

I sat in the chair and even at that point I was feeling absolutely fine. The local anaestheic was applied and a few seconds later I had difficulty breathing. The situation was difficult for the team there and they took me straight to hospital where I underwent oxygen relief. I went home shortly afterwards. So not what I would think of as White Coat syndrome or anxiety but something was going on - in my subconscious?

 

A day later, I was asked to get an allergy test for the anaesthetic with no negative outcome. The Clinic subsequently refused any future treatment for me and no fees from them of any kind!

 

As I write I still haven't managed to sort out my teeth. I haven't had toothache for many years. They don't help for facial appearance but I eat normally and to be fair, I have cleaned them two or three times a day for the last 15 years.

 

Yes, I know, there are justified criticisms of my lack of care in most of my lifetime, but you know, I am otherwise in perfect health.

 

Are u British 😂

[Cat has serious flu...worth saving?]

9 hours ago, Ben Zioner said:

Nonsense, and dogs are a lot worse, they form packs and attack humans in the streets. Cats never do this unless you try yo handle them. They can also behave live jealous wives.

Sorry this is not right. 

 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/extinction-countdown/worst-invasive-predators/

 

[Cat has serious flu...worth saving?]

2 hours ago, DD86 said:

I think you are the ideal person to eutanise that cat.

Haha. I would feed it to my snake. 

 

Seriously though, he need to get it treated if it's living in his house and his pet.. 

 

He also needs to get it fixed so it won't reproduce.