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Gentlemen, a reporter spoke to two elderly American citizens asking them how they felt about the current President of the United States and they confirmed: He is a man of God. Should that be true, I am also a man of God actually more than this asshole. A German TV station went into researching what the Trump family is doing to increase their wealth; watching the results any reasonable person should start spitting, vomiting and finally end up pooping uncontrollably. Here comes just one sample: Donald decided Vietnam goods sold into the US should suffer from a 47% tariff. Two weeks later Donald junior, another swine, visited Vietnam and signed something that allows the Trump organisation to invest 1,5 billion USD into a giant property project somewhere. Another two weeks later the Vietnam tariffs fell to 20 %. Some folks from the Gulf bought shares in Donald´s krypto-scam for 500 million USD plus and this story goes on and on. Trump´s press people keep on saying all is legal, nothing is hidden and Donald has nothing to do with it anyway. Why, dear fellow boardsmen, does this crap not lead into a national uproar? Talking about corruption it almost cannot get worse. I am clueless.

Well the UK sent the son of a Prince, now the King, to Afghanistan, or the Queens son in the Falklands As mush as I dislike Harry and his uncle Andrew at lest they both fought in Afghanistan and the Falklands respectively

Met up with KS and Stickman once or twice at the Aussie place in Suk 11, a few others too but too long to remember. Mainly the Stickman contributors, of whom I was one at the time. Now retired and PR in Bangkok for almost 38 years.. Different nom de plume than this one, though..

Sir, we would have to look at the corporate law here. The well paid executive officers have to consider the shareholders and always do best for them. If there is the opportunity to claim huge payments from the US authorities they would have to follow this up otherwise they might be personally accountable. I may repeat that after only 13 months in charge the most intelligent President of all times wordwide keeps on steering the US into a pile of garbage that will be difficult to remove by whomever one day.

I check in occasionally every year when I return to Thailand, but the focus on the board has shifted away from being Thai-centric, so very little of what is posted has to do with my visit, and topics regarding night life don’t get the attention that they once did….understood as natural evolution and attrition is to be expected and the remaining regular participants have different interests which may no longer reflect the original intent of the old Nanaplaza.com board. This year is the first when I haven’t met up with at least one of my old friends, either through their passing or competing interests elsewhere. Each year I think this will be my last visit but I end up staying longer when I do return, and enjoy it in a different way each time. Although I’ve never lived in Thailand I must have spent at least 3 years of my life here in total over the last 35+, so I’ll keep returning as long as I am able.

This makes Watergate look like a Boy Scout prank

Trump to declare State of Emergency due to threats from Iran in order to postpone mid-terms.

So creepy 😳

I yearn for the days when the most embarassing thing we had to offer the world was GHW Bush…

Because Amerikans (excluding OH) are the dumbest race on the planet. They make the locals of the Kalahari Desert appear like Einstein. I am assuming you've seen The Gods Must Be Crazy

Lead the way then Anutin Charnvirakul ny giving up your chauffeured car and using the BTS. I still hate the cunt for blaming COVID on Dirty Western Tourists when he was health minister

Even Fox acknowledged how inappropriate it was and used footage of a previous event to hide the fact.

A doesn[‘t even have shit for brains, piece of human garbage, pedo, rapist maybe murdering, trying to sell hats on his web site asshole? I realize I’m being too kind, but the English language has yet to developed words to describe the dump…maybe that is it? The new term would be “a trump?” “…that guy is lower than scum, he is a real trump…” or be careful you don’t step in that pile of trump the dog left…”

I sought this out and watched it, very prescient, like the Donald has its transcript in his playbook...

Wag the Dog 1997 After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass media You couldn’t make it up

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/thai-woman-marries-2-austrian-men-in-buriram?utm_source=Thaiger+Daily+EN&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2026-03-03

Gentlemen, may I please comment again as Europe´s leading war commentator. Field Marshal Donald accompanied by the most able Field Marshal Hegseth from FOX war Enterprise Inc. are currently heading for the same fiasco as already have been sampled in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Libya. Throwing enormous war power on minor enemies should solve any problem the US used to think, but it did not work. The Iran sending slow moving and low flying drones start making problems for the Gulf air defense, mass production that currently is being used in the Ucraine war. Maybe President Donald should ring colleague President Wlodymyr in Kiew for help, he should know what it means. Some hardcore Putin friends start being worried because close friend Donald eliminated two beloved Russia allies Venezuela and Iran, now heading for Cuba. They no like. Xi from China also him no like because friends samesame. Same me no like because had to pay 96,60 € for a portion of gasoline. So we are three already, bad news for Donnie Duck.

Gentlemen, now I am reading in the morning newspaper the CIA is planning to arm the local Kurds to push the revolutionary forces forward against the Ajatollahs forces. Man oh man, didn´t we see this before transferring the Irak, Libya and Syria into blooming democracies full of different ethnicities truely loving each other? Donald has no idea what he has started.

Rumor circulating that Anonymous are about to release some incriminating videos of #1 Pedo

Mardi Gras weekend in Sydney and we're lucky to have in town direct from Fire Island one of OH's favorite acts

Gentlemen, I watched a number of videos where the greatest President ever seen on earth promoted his unbelievable string of successful activities to establish the Golden Age of America (North without Canada so far). Nothing new here. His Republican friends in the building behaved like pre-school kids on a childrens bithday, I missed Lutnick preparing for a public dicksucking. A bunch of federal judges sitting there with icy faces, I bet my car the only thing they were thinking was : Shut up you arsehole. According to polls which I read Donald´s show did not change anything of his popularity which is certainly close to 100 % and cannot fall by 400 % like his prices for pharmaceuticals. Sadness befalls me once more. Donald, by the way, threatened the Iran with terrible things that would happen. Now that the Iran shows no cooperation, so will President Donald pull the trigger and bodybags start arriving back in the US? Would Donald say Biden, crooked Hillary or the radical left kind of killed them? Will Donald put 3000 % tariffs on Iranian goods? Donald will let us know, maybe at 03:00 in the morning in the biggest letters mankind has ever seen.

Just did the PSA screening, all good…what I didn’t know was they didn’t want me to “release” for at least 2 days before the blood draw, so it was a bit higher than last time, but still good…the blood screen is now the first step and is of course preferred over the “hands on or in” exam. Heart and blood and colon all good…just the knees and sciatica that are the problem…new replacements doing ok and hopefully the sciatica will settle down…

My only brush with the "Big C" apart from visits to the one in Ratchadamri was a Melanoma I had removed. Haven't had a follow up for years but do get all my bloods done annually. Prostate and bowel are big players at males on the wrong side of 50

Read on Tech legend Stewart Brand on Musk, Bezos and his extraordinary life: ‘We don’t need to passively accept our fate’ Steve Rose • 16 min read Feb 26, 2026 Stewart Brand thinks big and long. He thinks on a planetary scale – as suggested by the title of his celebrated Whole Earth Catalog – and on the longest of timeframes, as with his Long Now Foundation, which looks forward to the next 10,000 years of human civilisation. He has had a lifelong fascination with the future, and anything that could get us there faster, from space travel to psychedelic drugs to computing. In fact, he was arguably the bridge between the San Francisco counterculture of the 60s and present-day Silicon Valley: in his commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs eulogised the Whole Earth Catalog and Brand’s philosophy, and echoed its farewell mantra: “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” You could say that Brand has also lived big and long. He is now 87 years old, in the final chapters of an eventful and adventurous life that has crossed paths with some of the most consequential events and figures of his era. He has been a writer, an editor, a publisher, a soldier, a photojournalist, an LSD evangelist, an events organiser, a future-planning consultant, even a government adviser (to the California governor Jerry Brown in the late 70s). “There was a time when people asked me, ‘What do you do?’ I said, ‘I find things and I found things,’” says Brand, as in he is a founder. He is speaking from a library where he likes to work in Petaluma, California, not far from his houseboat in Sausalito. “I’m always searching for good stuff to recommend, and good people.” Brand while he was building ‘the clock of the long now’, designed to keep accurate time for 10,000 years. Photograph: San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers/Getty Images In light of his epic life, Brand’s latest project hinges on what sounds like the most mundane topic imaginable: maintenance. It is “not automatically an exciting concept,” Brand readily admits, but once he started thinking about it, he realised you could view just about everything in terms of it, and a lot could be revealed by doing so: “Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going.” His new book is titled Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One. It is the first of a planned 13 instalments, Brand explains, and it deals with the most literal, material forms of maintenance. Subsequent instalments will investigate everything from buildings to communities, institutions to the human body, plus planetary and environmental maintenance. So perhaps not such a departure after all in terms of long, big thinking. “I fell into it realising it was a tremendously ambitious thing, because I was going to be writing about a range of things I know nothing about,” he jokes. Brand in 1975. Photograph: Janet Fries/Getty Images In this first instalment, Brand’s magpie curiosity roves freely across industrial history, from round-the-world yacht racing to vehicle manufacturing to encyclopedias to the refurbishment of the Statue of Liberty. The military comes up a lot, “because the military is so maintenance-dependent and maintenance-aware”, he says, pointing out that he served in the US army himself for two years in the early 60s. Wars have been won and lost on the strength of maintenance, Brand notes. In the Vietnam war, for example, the US army’s M16 rifle was lighter, more accurate and more precisely machined; the Viet-Cong’s AK-47s were more crudely made but therefore easier to fix and less likely to go wrong. Many American GIs lost their lives as a result of jammed M16s. Similarly, Russia’s attempted full-scale invasion of Ukraine faltered in its first days in part due to poorly maintained tyres on its long-mothballed trucks, which reflected a broader Russian doctrine of “treating equipment and soldiers as expendable”, as opposed to Ukraine’s flexible, Nato-influenced maintenance culture. Surprisingly, perhaps, Brand expresses approval for Elon Musk. “What I find so admirable about Musk is that he keeps pushing the envelope of the possible in manufacturing,” he says. Just as Henry Ford revolutionised car manufacturing in the early 20th century with his Model T (which broke down a lot but was relatively easy to fix), so Musk’s Tesla has been a quantum leap, Brand argues. It catalysed the electric vehicle revolution, which has had an invaluable environmental impact. But Tesla also devised an ingenious way to make the entire underbody of its Model Y cars out of just two pieces of cast aluminium, whereas conventional cars used hundreds of parts that had to be welded, bonded, riveted together. Electric motors also have far fewer parts than internal combustion engines. Fewer parts means less to go wrong, which means less maintenance. This is how technology gets better, he says. With the counterculture group the Merry Pranksters, in Marin County, 1973. Photograph: Ted Streshinsky Photographic Archive/Corbis/Getty Images The flipside is, we now expect things to work all the time. “Most consumer products pretty much don’t require maintenance. You get an electric clock and plug it into the wall or change the batteries from time to time, and it’ll tell perfectly good time. You don’t have to do anything else. So there’s a getting out of the habit of expecting to do maintenance, and then when the thing has a problem, we’re offended: ‘Well, it’s not supposed to do that.’” For this reason Brand is also a huge fan of YouTube, where you can find lessons and instructions on how to fix just about anything. “We have higher expectations of not needing to maintain things, and lots of good ways to find out how to maintain them when we encounter a problem. So that’s basically progress, as far as I’m concerned.” Brand is now thinking about institutions in terms of maintenance, he says, and he has plenty of material. We’re speaking shortly after the Davos economic forum, where Donald Trump’s attempts to “acquire” Greenland came to a head, and the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, declared that there was a “rupture” in the “rules-based international order”. Rather than progress, we seem to be going in reverse here. Like the electronic clock, perhaps we’ve become so accustomed to the global order working (at least for powerful western nations), when it starts breaking we don’t know how to fix it. Brand is relatively relaxed, though. Some institutions might falter, others might prevail, or come back in a different form, he says. Davos is a good example of both: “Carney could say: ‘We’re having a rupture. And here’s a way to rethink ordering for the middle-level nations.’ So that was a great case of acknowledging an institution that’s in trouble – at an institution that was not in trouble: Davos.” The sky’s the limit … Brand in 1995. Photograph: Ed Kashi/Corbis Brand has been trying to foster a similar vein of long-term thinking with the Long Now Foundation. He co-founded it 30 years ago “to get people comfortable with thinking about not just the next 10,000 years, but more importantly, the last 10,000 years: we’ve come a long way, baby. How did that happen?” The idea began with an email conversation with the computer scientist and inventor Danny Hillis in 1994. They were discussing the year 2000, which had long been considered “the future”, but was then just six years away. The plan became to create an artwork “that would help pop through this membrane of the year 2000 for people, and let them take on various degrees and sizes of future, and not just the next decade”. Hillis conceived the Clock of the Long Now – a mechanical timepiece that would chronicle the next 10,000 years (the name came from Brian Eno, another collaborator). He had approached a lot of people with the idea, but, typically, it was Brand who responded and said: “OK. Let’s build the clock.” Improbable as it sounds, the clock is almost finished, buried a few hundred feet into a mountaintop in Texas. The land and the money were donated by the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. It’s really a giant work of land art, Brand explains. “There’s a statue of liberty in New York, and this is kind of a statue of responsibility. It’s beautifully engineered and beautifully constructed and designed as an experience … it’s going to be a day in your life you’ll never forget.” And maybe it will inspire visitors to think as big and long as Brand does. “It would be nice to have an institution of thinkers and explainers that can last as long as the clock does.” The foundation’s other initiatives have included a series of seminars on long-term thinking (hosted by Brand), a library of “books you would want to restart civilisation from scratch”, and a project to preserve all the world’s languages. This benign global scope has always been a hallmark of Brand’s brand, combined, paradoxically, with a sense of entrepreneurship and individualism. The opening words of the first Whole Earth Catalog, for example, were: “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” Born in Illinois, in relative privilege, he came of age in a postwar America that felt it had largely figured out the “operating manual for spaceship Earth”, as the forward-looking designer Richard Buckminster Fuller put it at the time. Atom bombs, computers, vaccines, space travel – anything seemed possible. ‘Maintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going’ … Stewart Brand at his home in Petaluma, California. Photograph: Winni Wintermeyer/The Guardian Brand combined these grand ambitions with a human-scaled ethos of empowerment. The strapline of the Whole Earth Catalog was “access to tools”, and it was meant in the broadest sense. The huge, thick directory, first published in 1968, listed all kinds of literal tools for the budding commune-dweller – from seed drills to footwear, kayaks to macrame kits – but it also championed books on all manner of hippy-era interests: esoteric religions, sociology, architecture, philosophy, science, the occult, how to talk to dolphins, you name it. Ideas are tools too, Brand points out. As such, the Whole Earth Catalog offered access to a multitude of alternative lifestyles. “It opened doors for people in a way that invited them to consider, ‘maybe I could just build a guitar, or live off the grid.’ And so it had the impact of conferring agency,” he says. The Whole Earth Catalog became a huge bestseller in the late 60s and 70s, which made Brand a lot of money – too much for his liking, in fact. In the early 70s he wound the publication down and founded the Point Foundation, which gave grants to worthy causes, though he continued to publish books and periodicals in a Whole Earth spirit until the early 2000s. One of the key schisms of the counterculture was a tension between the technologists and the environmentalists. The former embraced space exploration and computing; the latter condemned industrial civilisation and consumer society as inherently destructive. Brand straddled both camps. He saw how they could complement each other. That Nasa image of the whole Earth, for example, he points out, galvanised conservation movements such as Earth Day and Greenpeace, but it “was a direct result of something that environmentalists hated, which was the space programme”. Asking an all-important question, in 2009, Photograph: c Zeitgeist/Everett/Rex Features Predictably, Brand was in on the ground floor when it came to computers. In 1968 he was a camera operator at what is now known as “the mother of all demos” – a seismic event put on by the Stanford Research Institute showcasing what we would recognise today as the foundations of personal computing: windows, hypertext links, video conferencing, even navigation using a then-unheard-of “mouse”. In a 1972 article for Rolling Stone, Brand declared personal computing to be “good news, maybe the best since psychedelics”. “Actually quite a lot better,” he says today. “Because one of the things that soon became apparent was that psychedelics kind of levelled off”, whereas computers have been “an exponential takeoff”: Moore’s law (the doubling of processing power every two years), the internet, and now artificial intelligence – we’re still on that path. Having lived through the rapid rise and fall of the commune movement, Brand saw the potential of online community early on. In 1984 he organised the Hackers Conference (these were the days when “hacking” simply meant “doing cool stuff with computing”), at which he coined the now-familiar maxim “information wants to be free”. A year later he co-founded the Whole Earth ’Lectronic Link (Well) as a sort of proto social media platform, with discussion forums on various topics. Meanwhile, many of Brand’s Whole Earth crew went on to found Wired magazine in 1993 (Brand features in the first issue, interviewing Camille Paglia). To his critics, Brand paved the way for the neoliberal, libertarian mindset of today’s Silicon Valley. But he was also a community-focused idealist and a lifelong environmentalist. That technology v nature tension persists – hence his apparent affinity with tech figures such as Bezos and Musk. He’s still ambivalent: “Finding anything that is an absolutely unmitigated benefit is pretty rare,” he says. But “I would say the benefits of personal computers and smartphones and the internet vastly reached beyond, in good terms, what we imagined at the time.” Brand discusses the dawn of de-extinction, during a Ted Talk in Long Beach, California, 2013.Photograph: James Duncan Davidson/TED In terms of physical maintenance, Brand has always been a healthy, active, outdoorsy person – he was a keen sailor, he was hiking up mountains with rocks in his backpack in his 60s, and he started going to CrossFit when he was 75 – “that built a pretty strong constitution”. Now, though, he has a respiratory illness, he says, “which is progressive, incurable and fatal”. He’s in a stable condition, and still exercises, but uses supplementary oxygen as well. “I’d be very surprised by making it into my 90s,” he says, seemingly without regret: “Imagine the luck, to get to be 87 – it’s just fantastic!” Brand has always been an optimist, he says, and taking the long view, he still is. “I find optimism in terms of being able to find a way to not only continue but keep getting better.” It might be hard to see a positive way forward right now, but that’s always been the way, he says. Brand brings up yet another of his incarnations, the Global Business Network, a consultancy he was part of in the 90s that mapped out future scenarios to help clients plan ahead. “It’s harder to imagine how something might go well than go badly,” he says. But we do not need to passively accept our fate as if we have no control over it. “If you like some scenarios better than others, you can be aware of the ones you don’t like and look for signs of them, and also look at signs of the ones you want to have come to pass, and lean differentially toward them. That’s how you negotiate your way into a future you were glad of. It’s done incrementally by, among other things, lots of individuals and some institutions, and that’s how we grapple our way, muddle our way forward.” ____ LINK

He has a face you just want to punch 👊

President Duck has now successfully done everything to steer the Republicans into a nice dead end road. Inventing another 15 % tariff on everybody and everything meets a US population which strongly dislikes the whole tariff mess anway. Which is now under a 150 days deadline for the congress to decide if they approve or not. Which further fits nicely right into the midterms and the honorable Trump slaves start thinking how to save their ass. This is becoming very nice now. The greatest President since the world exists versus a bunch of people fearing for their jobs.

Mr Mountbatten-Windsor is a completely meaningless person to the rest of the world. Don´t waste your time with this. Should he have broken the law he should suffer from the consequences and that´s it.

In many parts of the USA, guns are sacred, and to be honest, needed at times for varmit control and self protection. The dilemma in the USA is how to keep the dipshit from getting guns without violating their rights?

Bring back the spud gun I say 🔫

Since Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority country it's hard to comprehend how this is a good idea they joined. Covert operation

Heads are rolling all over the world vis the E files. Not in America . Why? 'cause the first head to roll, will spew Trump details.

Yeah, the list keeps getting longer… although I’ve noticed several longtime posters here have suspiciously disappeared from this forum over the years… Of course, some have moved on but others may be gone as in underground? I’d like to think that everyone I’ve ever met in the LOS is doing well these days, but of course, I know some are no longer with us. Sadly, many of the remaining crew may not be far behind... The only ‘bright-side’ to it is that probably all, or at least most, of the girls I have ever met in the LOS are still alive – as they were all so much younger than me (but do any still remember me? I wonder...)!

The Royal Thai Army’s online recruitment for 2026 surpassed expectations with a 105.9% registration rate, showing strong interest and confidence from Thai youth in joining the armed forces. 20,402 recruits have been selected to serve. Lt Col Yada Chotechutrakul, deputy spokesperson for the Royal Thai Army, reported on Friday that the online recruitment for 2026 (for conscripts applying through special request) had successfully concluded on January 25, 2026. The army initially aimed to recruit 28,209 conscripts but saw a total of 29,891 applicants, exceeding the target by 105.9%. This reflects the growing interest and confidence among Thai youth in serving in the military - link

Can’t remember the representative who said “…dump is suing some guy/agency because his tax returns were released, he wants xyz amount…the identities of the victims was rereleased, along with their addresses, phone numbers and other personal information, how much should they be paid for that..?” (Paraphrased)

Yes, iirc his handle was “OG” but had to change because he lost his login or some such problem. So sorry to hear of his passing. I know of a couple more from the old Friday Woodstock meetups in NP who have passed on over… gotta wonder how many of us are still around. Makes you appreciate every day all the more, doesn’t it?

Someone I knew, in his 70s was taken to LOS, by a friend and was introduced to the "scene". He came back and would repeatedly intone, "I never knew, I just didn't know" this after a lifetime of NZ women and their "Karen" tendancies. He ended up going down the Philippina road and was for his last decade, a happy old fella.

I suggest, we all got the T shirt and the tattoo and the depleted finances and in some cases the family/s that go with the aftermath of that first moment.

We wouldn't have you any other way

He used to a long time ago come to the Friday meet ups. I used to meet him also for a book club and some other social gatherings.

Ahhh yes Shrimp! I'd forgotten they knew each other. Shrimp lived up the top of one of the 30's going on very old memories.

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From tourist to expat to back to Europe to part time LOS to months in LOS to now. I'm not dead yet.

I talk with Cent, Father Tom, Lazy Phil and Chocolate Steve regularly, The_Numbers was a regular late night conversation, sadly he passed away at age 42 about 2 years ago or so, shortly before Dan aka Suadam…Silikunt Occassionally…Rusty as well…all are doing well. As I age, I find myself saying “damned kids…” regarding the new wanna be punters and longing nostalgically for the old days…finally got my wife to the USA after waiting 2 years to do it legally, damned illegals sucking up resources and time…the covid “hoax” and general government crap…now waiting a few months for “change of status” and more money paid…we have Thai food and beer at home and that gets us by until we can move to Thailand permanently. Ah the “good old days…” Anyway, if you know any of the old regulars, say hi from me…