On 8/20/2022 at 8:12 AM, Yessongs said:

Wifey and I have both had 4 shots, that is enough for me personally. No more. 

Yeah big news around here is that the " fancy dancy" all in one flu shot/covid variant is coming this fall.

This is the one, my 4th, I'm waiting for. Next week I hope. Then I'm done for a year and will be good to go.

The great Dave Brubeck...

On 7/18/2022 at 7:07 AM, Stillearly said:

yet you keep on posting on the Covid thread ... 

He does and it's a whine fest every time about this and that. Of course it's always easy to pop off when you have no solution to the problem. Whine about masks, whine about vaccines, whine about shitting your pants and whine about pissing them. 

Beating Covid is going to take more than whining if we want to get back to normal. It's going to take some aggressive action.

A. Let's increase wastewater testing. It's cheap and a great predictor of our next surge.

B. Too many people are testing at home now. We need to integrate these numbers with public reporting.

C. Despite all the crazy tin foil hat movement, vaccinations have achieved a reduction of deaths and hospitalizations.

D. Work continues on new vaccines. We need to keep the petal on the metal here.

E. Adequate indoor ventilation systems are a must. This alone may be a deal breaker.

We are the 80's says it all..ugh

When music meant something.

6 hours ago, Krapow said:

Sometimes you just have to admit you were beat by the better man on the day.

Rory didn't do a lot wrong, but Smith was brilliant. Someone needs to take him to the side and tell him to sort his hair out now, looks like an extra outta Swamp People!

Yeah I thought he looked solid. Hard to overcome 5 birds in a row.

Wonder if it's streaming now? Will search for it later.

50 bucks? I wouldn't be complaining. But my position is considerably better than yours, so yeah, I'd be pissed off too.

When I first opened this thread I expected to see a woman on top of a man in an obvious sexual act!

Loved these guys back in the day!

On 4/24/2022 at 4:17 PM, Yesitisdakid said:

I don't really like bloggers or rather their videos but Nick has hit it on the head with this one now i guess a year or so more old but IMO a great one that came up in my youtube.

 

Really captures how grim it was back then.

14 hours ago, Horizondave said:

Nest is open, in fact Alex says the Sunday lunch is excellent. The food is not fine cuisine but always good quality and good prices. 

Got a funny feeling Alex now does breakfast on his menu. He is presently in the P.I.

Who is Alex?

Saw the old GP today. Evidently I have long covid...Yay!!

21 minutes ago, fforest said:

I sure hope they don't raise the price of the I Rovers breakfast.....They already raised the price from 99 baht ro 129 baht.........

We can't take the pressure from any more raises in prices Captain Kirk, the engines are going to blow.... 

That made me laugh! Hang on there Scotty.

11 hours ago, lazarus said:

3.5 gms of good smoke = $30

I need the name of your man!

I pay 40 at my dispensary BEFORE taxes. 

Yikes.

1 hour ago, fforest said:

I am still not happy about what happened with Big C Extras meat department.....I was a longtime faithful customer till they sold the meat department to some Hi-so outfit.....Meat prices went up 60-70% overnight...

I have not spent one baht there ever since..

Now I have to shop other places...

Does TL not have a Food stamp program for skint expats?

It's the whole trial John. This was never about money. 

10 hours ago, john luke said:

Depp-Heard trial: Why Johnny Depp lost in the UK but won in the US

In 2020, Hollywood actor Johnny Depp lost a UK libel lawsuit against the Sun newspaper. But on Wednesday, he won a similar lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard in a US courtroom.

At the start of his recent trial, many legal experts suggested that Mr Depp had a weaker chance of winning than he did in the UK, because the US has very strong free speech protections.

The fact that the jury found that Ms Heard was guilty of defamation with an article in which she claimed she was a victim of domestic abuse means they didn't believe her testimony.

Mark Stephens, an international media lawyer, told the BBC that it's "very rare" that essentially the same case is tried on two sides of the pond and gets different results.

He believes the main factor that influenced Mr Depp's victory in America was the fact that his US trial was before a jury while his UK trial, over an article in the British tabloid that called him a "wife-beater", was before a judge only.

"Amber Heard has comprehensively lost in the court of public opinion, and in front of the jury," he said.

• Three questions from the Depp-Heard trial answered
• Depp wins defamation case against Heard

In both the UK and the US trial, Mr Depp's lawyers argued that Ms Heard was lying - to make their case, they attacked her character and claimed that she was in fact the abusive partner.

This is a common defence tactic in sexual assault and domestic violence trials called "deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender" or "Darvo", said Mr Stephens.

The strategy turns the tables on the alleged victim, shifting the conversation away from "did the accused commit abuse" to "is the alleged victim believable".

"They deny that they did anything, they deny they're the real perpetrator, and they attack the credibility of the individual calling out the abuse, and then reverse the roles of the victim and the offender," Mr Stephens said.

In the UK trial, Mr Stephens said the judge recognised that strategy, and dismissed a lot of the evidence that did not directly address whether Mr Depp committed assault or not.

"Lawyers and judges tend not to fall for it, but it's very, very effective against juries," he said. Men are more likely to believe Darvo arguments, but female jurors are also susceptible.

"People have a paradigm in their mind of how a victim of abuse might be like and how they might behave, and of course we all know that's often false."

Hadley Freeman, a Guardian journalist who covered both cases, told the BBC that another major difference was the fact that the American trial was televised, turning the court case into "almost a sports game".

Each twist and turn of the trial was watched by millions of people - many of whom turned to social media to express support for Mr Depp.

On TikTok, the hashtag #justiceforjohnnydepp got about 19 billion views. The jury was instructed not to read about the case online, but they were not sequestered and they were allowed to keep their phones.

Ms Freeman also thinks that vitriol that the general public lobbed against Ms Heard was a "a bit of #MeToo backlash".

"'Believe women' seems a very long time ago when it comes to Amber Heard," she said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61673676

What a load of shit.

60's and 70's if you want to twist my arm. But plenty of great stuff after that too.

3 hours ago, lazarus said:

A few posters just seem to want to butt in with their broader opinions (damn the rules)

Yes, the anti-soy latte gang can get very, very agitated.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. 

Babe Ruth

Drink less, but my heroin consumption has increased with age.

For me its's the NY Times. Also, Christian Science Monitor, Wall St. Journal and the LA Times.