Recent content by oslooskar

My son recently set me up with AI, and I’m hoping it can help me improve my Thai, a language I just don’t seem to have a feel for.

Time travel into the past would be extremely dangerous. Your mere presence there could, and would, set off a chain reaction of events that, though seemingly unnoticeable, would change the course of history. After all, history is a web of billions of interactions stacked upon each other like...

I arrived back in the USA on September 7, 1966, after working and traveling overseas for five years. I had spent most of my money on the airfare from Paris to New York but had just enough to take a Greyhound bus to Buffalo. My plan was to hitchhike across Canada from there and re-enter the U.S...

Got this off of Google. "Sardines are generally a much better option than tuna when it comes to mercury. Sardines are small, short-lived fish near the bottom of the food chain, so they don’t accumulate mercury the way large predatory fish like tuna do. Nutrient rich: They’re packed with omega-3...

Well, I learned on my very first day of school that I hated it, and wanted no part of it.

If anyone has a problem with my comments, please direct all complaints to my attorney, gruntlabor. She handles all my forum litigation pro bono. lol

You’re shifting away from my original point (homelessness comparison) into a lecture about standards of living, my personal situation, and whether Rayong is "typical Thailand." It’s a mix of deflection and personalization, with a soft landing at the end ("you’re happy there, that’s great"). My...

You say I compared San Francisco with the entirety of Thailand, but that’s not what I originally did. I compared San Francisco, a city I lived in for decades, with Rayong, a city I’ve lived in for years. That’s apples to apples, not apples to continents. I’m not pretending issues don’t exist...

No apology is due, disagreement is not an insult. You took offense where none was intended. My point is simply this: laws that restrict firearms ownership disarm ordinary citizens far more effectively than they disarm criminals or hostile powers. Farmers with a few rifles, or hobbyists at gun...

You say the latest threat to Australians is from 3D-printed firearms, but here’s the irony, law-abiding citizens remain disarmed while criminals will ignore whatever laws you pass. And with China throwing its weight around in the region, wouldn’t it make more sense to have an armed citizenry...

You went down into the gutter with your "12-year-old" smear, and when I slapped it back, you switched to the old "you’re nasty, I’m leaving" routine to save face. Bottom-line, any objective reader can see who the nasty one is here...........and it’s not me.

Better to have illusions of grandeur than your delusions of relevance.

GOOD GRIEF! I’m really not interested in your fantasies about being my little slave girl. I suggest you share those with a trained professional.

Retaliation happens everywhere, sometimes from governments, sometimes from mobs. The difference is that in the U.S.A. retaliation can’t be codified into law the same way it is in Europe, Canada, or China. A writer in Germany or France can be fined or jailed because the government decides their...

Not a chance! When I croak all my money is going to my son.