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Definite Thai News article trying sway opinion.

My better half, read me some Thai sourced propaganda, obviously aimed at the Thai Locals, the said something like - Rohingya are lazy people who don't want to work, even though they are offered jobs. They just want to eat a lot and drink a lot and sleep and have other people clean their houses for them.... ​I told her that its was stupid writing from a stupid author intended for stupid people.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s Army Chief said today that Rohingya migrants fleeing persecution in Myanmar do not qualify for refugee status in Thailand, and will be treated as illegal migrants. Gen. Udomdet Sitabutr was responding to the suggestion that Thai authorities build refugee camps for the Rohingya, a Muslim group that has fled violence and state-sanctioned discrimination in Myanmar in droves, often by boat. The Rohingya currently lie at the center of a regional migration crisis, with thousands of them stranded at sea while Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia refuse to take them in. At a press conference today, Thailand’s army chief sought to differentiate the Rohingya from other ethnic groups, such as the Karen, who live in nine refugee camps in Thailand along the Thai - Myanmar border. "The people who stay there fled from wars, because there are conflicts in Myanmar with minorities, and they cannot find a solution," Gen. Udomdet said. "But for the Rohingyas, let me explain that it is different issue, because it is about people who entered the country illegally." However, the plight of the stateless Rohingya, who the UN considers one of the world’s "most persecuted" minorities, is well documented. Since 2012, mob violence organized by a local Buddhist population has driven tens of thousands of Rohingya to flee their homes in the Rahkine state. http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.php?newsid=1432103359

So I googled "21 year old Viet Secretary" and

On the other hand, I'm one who has found, the pricing high and attitude of a lot of places in LOS to be substandard compared to the old days. But I have, found bliss, with a singular entity, and now can say, if I'd had this 25 years ago, I might have never ventured into a gogo bar. Not that I'd avoid them now, I've been infected, you see.

The Dark Half 1993 - Quite a good thriller/horror, not zombies, not inane. Well worth a watch. The Judge 2014 - reviewed here earlier I believe - potentially a very good movie - but ultimately worth a watch. The Flowers Of War 2011 - Christian Bale in war-torn China with a bunch of orphans and ladies of the night - good - worth a watch.

Smart phones are also for middle aged or older men, who want to communicate effectively to goofy little Japanese, Korean and Thai girls with arses we kill for.

To get the ball rolling - 10,000-year-old Antarctic ice-shelf 'gone in five years' http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11450770 Antarctica's Larsen B ice-shelf is on course to disintegrate completely within the next five years, according to a study by US space agency Nasa. The 10,000-year-old ice-shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is "quickly weakening" and likely to "disintegrate completely" before the end of the decade, researchers have predicted, after observing warning signs including large developing cracks and faster-flowing tributary glaciers. "These are warning signs that the remnant is disintegrating," said Ala Khazendar of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. etc etc ___ We have to wait 5 years for this one, but I'll still be here to see...

I propose a thread of, then and now predictions. Or let's see if this is going to be true.. Examples may be - Arctic Ice Cap disappears completely predictions, but it hasn't. Or any topic at all, but it should be a prediction and whether or not it turns out to be true, or not.

100 million ? Is that the sense of entitlement we hear about?

I always remember some photos of Mongolian girls, they all seem like Elle Macpherson only Mongolian features and colouring, fascinated I was and still am.

Same same, though I got lucky and landed a 'contract' for a short time, which is like saying "we want your work" but when they learn what is is I can do, they'll let me go...

<<" 'new to me' exists as a concept in Thai? " I believe corrective spelling and grammar software is used to help individuals in many countries with English spelling and grammar and more than half come from India, according to information I can find on spellcheckplus.>> OK I'll try and teach you. When you quote a previous post, and then write something below it, then what you write should have some relation to the quote. What you've done is inform the readers about spell checking etc, whilst quoting a question about a concept. So the average reader could be forgiven for assuming that 'new to me' is indeed, a concept unknown in the Thai vernacular, like 'integrity'. integrity |ɪnˈtɛgrɪti| noun [ mass noun ] 1 the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles: a gentleman of complete integrity.

Thanks for the list, nice to see us near the upper end, surprised at the States being so low, might explain why space rockets explode so regularly.

And I had to keep watching, if only to see how excessively underwhelming the next bunch were. I wonder how this makes them more efficient fighting folk.

'new to me' exists as a concept in Thai?

All four look related to me

Ditto, I would suggest that most of us have family in both nations. At the time of Australia's colonisation, NZ was an outlier, full of whalers and what could euphemistically be called traders and pirates. The Bay of Islands in the north was known as the whorehouse of the South Pacific. Unfortunately, not anymore.

For your edification, the vast number of early Western settlers of Australia, were prisoners of mother England or 'Poms', as Australia was a prison colony for Das Englander. Along with the prison staff and various government types, modern Australia was born. This accounts for Australians' general disregard for concepts such as 'Class Structure' and reverence of authority, two of their more appealing characteristics.

Vientiane had a thriving wet market right in town. The one night the place burned to the ground, what firefighting efforts could be mustered, a couple of donated '70s ex Japanese trucks, could not get near the place for all the vendors trying to rescue stock and their vehicles. The Chinese owner had construction grade exclusion fences up, around the entire perimeter by 7 am the next morning. The vendors had been given notice to move ahead of new construction, but were reticent. The fire arrived some months before the deadline to move. Or it was purely accidental.

Saying this in NZ would get me lynched, by overly strong, emotional and illogical women, who consider the existence of others irrelevant. but you said it first. I guess I'm guilty of misogyny for parroting it.

Difficulty getting citizenship implies that it can be gained. I would think that the Hidden Kingdom just outright bans it.

Not on aeroplanes, not if I can help it

Disclaimer: I am not opposed to any of the groupings of females noted below, doing whatever it is they wish to. I support them. What I am questioning is the logic, the thought processes and perhaps the hypocrisy, that may or may not be present. Reading an article I came across, this - "Fertility Associates treated 300 women using donor sperm last year: 156 were single (compared with 86 in 2012), 88 were in lesbian relationships and 56 were in heterosexual relationships." http://www.listener.co.nz/lifestyle/health/desperately-seeking-sperm/ So, more than half were single and Lesbians outnumbered Hetero. If we assume that the single women were not all physically handicapped or so ugly men wouldn't go near them, then the conclusion to make is that they are choosing to have kids without fathers. Poor kids, what a selfish way to go, the mothers must be suffering from a 'Princess' complex where they are too good for men - what yer think? I still find the thought of Lesbians using sperm to have kids anomalous. They've chosen to, or are fundamentally unable to, take part in heterosexual life and yet they want the fruits, the progeny, what happens to the kids if the are boys? This is mystifying. Have at it

Is there any other kind?