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Give us another 15 years or so, we'll nearly win again

Ahh yes, you need some small victories, for Aus to beat a NZ Cricket team, well it's not hard is it, bit like beating the Easter Island Cricket team. :beer:

Who is Lauren?

Ahh I see, secondly, see my post in the Sportsalooza

See my Cricket post in Sportsarama

Sledging a batsman as he leaves the field. If Cricket were Cricket, then I'd probably be a fan.

Me, I care deeply

As one who has never followed Cricket, except when the Fa'afafine play in the various Polynesian festivals in Auckland, I feel bound to comment on NZ's recent involvement in the Cricket World Cup. I've always thought that NZ cricket was for the effete, and back in the day, when Marketing Geniuses decided to give everyone in the NZ cricket team a wanky nickname, my suspicions became more grounded. For those that do not understand cricket, simply put, there are many things that can affect the outcome of the game that have no bearing on the skill of the players involved. Weather, can shorten the game. One captain can decide to stop playing, allowing the other team to win. And so on. But this Cricket World Cup was a one day match affair, in which opposing teams had 50 (I think) overs (6 balls bowled to a batsman) each to get as many runs as possible to garner a win. Now NZ has traditionally not won much, occasionally having a good day, wherein the local media perk up a bit, before the next loss. So when NZ started winning in this Cricket World Cup, the media not only woke up, but started paying attention, and when NZ wound up facing Australia in the final, the press in NZ were ecstatic. The prematch coverage by the NZ media was heightened to such an effusive level, you could be forgiven for thinking that the journalists (I use this term mockingly) had been given lifetime, free memberships, to the local, beer and happy ending, massage parlour. Needless to say, NZ lost. And to confirm my understanding of the effete nature of this 'Cricket' undertaking, herein some observations. 1/. When South Africa were beaten, the hirsute, masculine, athletic South African team, to a man, dropped to the ground, collapsing like 12 year old girls, most were in tears. An emotional moment for sure, but men? 2/. Cricket is supposed to have a behaviour code that allows participants to be viewed as Gentlemen, herein the phrase of something 'not being Cricket'. Most teams, but evidenced by the Aussies and South Africans as exemplars of the 'Sledge' which is a code word for verbal abuse. Really vile abuse on the field, completely infantile and contrary to the 'Gentlemanly' aura the sport cultivates. Even in winning, as the players walked off the field, Aussie players were seen to be delivering abuse to the losers, one abuser being restrained by his team mates. There you go, rant over, I'll be quiet now until NZ nearly win in a decade or two...

As one who doesn't read or supeak Thai to any level that's useful: 1/. where is this? it'll be open again by now... 2/. I find it interesting that the service providers are more Tatooed than the Punters, the reverse of what it was in the past. 3/. Lots of died hair, why?

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Well, for me, as a simple user who decries Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the other myriad of 'services' that sell your email address to anyone with a dollar, I find that Gmail does the best job of auto deleting junk mail, I've only ever found one email in the junk that shouldn't be there. So I just let Gmail do it's thing. As to how long can this go on? Infinity at present, though more accurately, unless Gmail changes their policy, until you die and your account becomes inactive.

It's code for a little known quantum physics theory, that there is a 'Mabel' boson, the female equivalent of the woman behind the 'Higgs' boson, which itself is still on shaky ground, existentially, so to speak...

Maybe it's on the top of the fence?

I think she is referring to the lighter pixels where there should be none at the border of the arm against the background. Whilst she could be right, these artefacts are common, when a clear cut image is pasted on to another, they are also commonly found, when the sharpening filters in photoshop are used 'too much', specifically the 'sharpen edges' filter, but also others. Another cause of these kind of artefacts is when a photo of low resolution is heavily compressed into a jpeg (joint photographics expert group), the compression software starts averaging the values of the pixels based on too little information (the low resolution) and fudges the output, often with clumps of similar coloured pixels where there were none before. Me, I reckon the backpacking tourists with mini-backpacker, had walked along the motorway (freeway) in a misguided attempt to get somewhere without having to pay anything. Why they would do this is unknown to me, because I have no understanding of backpacking.

"The Japanese ban covers any “change of aviation services,†the Thai civil aviation department said, and also bars airlines from changing the type of aircraft normally used on scheduled routes." I seem to remember the Lao Authorities banning a flight or flights from Thai Airlines because they were swapping types of planes around on a whim.

A different gentleman from Australia and I have eaten the Pork Chop offering there, to satisfying gain. Good it was.

Hahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahaha hahahahahaha (catches breath) Hahahahahahaa hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha!!! http://amusingthailand.com/page/2/ Dear Cambodians, your black magic is useless now. We have fighter jets from the Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. Your move.

BANGKOK – The ASEAN Economic Community, including the Heads of State/Government of Brunei Darussalam, the Kingdom of Cambodia, the Republic of Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, the Union of Myanmar, the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Singapore, the Kingdom of Thailand and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Member Countries of ASEAN, on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of ASEAN and the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore; recalling our earlier decision to establish by 2020 the ASEAN Community, including the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), made in the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II in Bali, Indonesia, on 7 October 2003; determined to achieve higher levels of economic dynamism, sustained prosperity, inclusive growth and integrated development of ASEAN; conscious of the increasing interdependence of the ASEAN economies within the region as well as with the rest of the world and stressing the importance of narrowing the development gap for accelerating the ASEAN Economic Community by 2015; recognizing that different levels of development within ASEAN require some flexibility as ASEAN moves towards a more integrated and interdependent future; reaffirming our collective commitment, made at the 12th ASEAN Summit in Cebu, the Philippines, on 13 January 2007, to accelerate the establishment of the ASEAN Community, including its AEC pillar, to 2015; cognizant of the need to have a strengthened institutional framework and a unified legal identity as set forth in the ASEAN Charter by putting in place rules-based systems to realise the establishment of the AEC by 2015; espressing satisfaction at the overall progress made and commitment shown by ASEAN in developing the AEC Blueprint and to ensure its timely implementation; REAFFIRMING the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) as the coordinator of all ASEAN economic integration and cooperation issues; have successfully adopted the AEC Blueprint which each ASEAN Member Country shall abide by and implement the AEC by 2015. Under the leadership of Thailand under the guidance of His Majesty the King, the AEC has transformed ASEAN into a single market and production base, a highly competitive economic region, a region of equitable economic development, and a region fully integrated into the global economy. Thank you. Sustaining co-operation jointly through synergistic unity of harmonic friendship jointly co-operative sustenance. Source

I know that Som Tam (Tam Mahk Houng) destroys the lining of MLG's colon, if that's any help.

A foil, to the likes of me, who constantly post negatively, about Thais?

Not yet darling, not yet...

Well it used to be the Roosevelts, the Rockefellas and the Rothschilds, I'd be interested to see if there's an updated list of people who actually run the world...

The three or four times I've been there, I've visited on the way to somewhere else and haven't partaken. The ladies are however, a useful collective visual barometer, with which to base one's evening, on.

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