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Post by Laan Yaa Mo » April 5, 2022, 10:43 pm

Shado wrote:
April 5, 2022, 5:56 pm
If it hadn't been for the slapping incident and subsequent monotonous press coverage I wouldn't have known there was an Oscar ceremony. I still don't know who won what.
Apparently, the Grammy Awards show was even more boring and irrelevant to anything meaningful.


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Post by Shado » April 6, 2022, 10:05 am

Apparently, the myriad of award presentations in the fields of art, sports and entertainment are of importance to a large segment of world's population, especially Americans. Inevitably, gender, politics. race or religion creep into these venues and they become springboards for special intrests and personal agendas. I simply have no time nor inclination for these superfluous, self-congratulatory extravaganzas. I'd rather work a crossword puzzle.

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Post by tamada » April 7, 2022, 7:53 am

What does this mean?

Big Oil Donated $383,000 To The Lawmakers Grilling Its Executives About Gas Prices. Almost All The Contributions Went To Republicans

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverso ... publicans/
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Post by pepesgrill » April 7, 2022, 8:57 am

we can put a little union jack in the corner of our

flag if it will ease tensions :-s everyone else is
throwing off the yoke of brit tyranny. is a sad time

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Post by Laan Yaa Mo » April 7, 2022, 9:22 am

pepesgrill wrote:
April 7, 2022, 8:57 am
we can put a little union jack in the corner of our

flag if it will ease tensions :-s everyone else is
throwing off the yoke of brit tyranny. is a sad time
Check the state flag of Hawaii
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Post by Kenr6583 » April 7, 2022, 9:44 am

And in the meantime, Exxon posted a profit of $9.3 billion for Quarter 1 this year. I think it's about time these price gauging assholes get their billions of dollars in subsidies they get every year taken away.

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Post by Doodoo » April 7, 2022, 10:16 am

The States is a place that breads GREED
Years back the CEO of Exxon retired He had brought Mobil and meshed it with Exxon. To show their gratitude he received a Retirement Package of $400 Million dollars/ At that time I was on an Exxon project and I asked some of the employees what they thought of this. The response was typical "Oh, yes he deserves it" I then asked who paid for it and of course they didnt know that the Public paid for it at the pump
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Post by pepesgrill » April 7, 2022, 10:16 am

Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
April 7, 2022, 9:22 am
Check the state flag of Hawaii
well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong

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Post by tamada » April 7, 2022, 10:24 am

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And in the meantime, Exxon posted a profit of $9.3 billion for Quarter 1 this year. I think it's about time these price gauging assholes get their billions of dollars in subsidies they get every year taken away.
The UK's governing party of the rich and favored has dismissed similar calls from the public and opposition parties for a windfall tax on fossil fuel producers.

They have chosen to raise funds by raising taxes to a level not seen since WWII. They are on the cusp of including the war in Ukraine as an excuse for inflicting more hardship on the lower classes while they cherry-pick their Russian sanctions while allowing their cronies to make like gangbusters. Right now, they are milking the Covid and global inflation rates excuses for what they're worth. Sound familiar?
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Post by tamada » April 7, 2022, 10:37 am

pepesgrill wrote:
April 7, 2022, 8:57 am
we can put a little union jack in the corner of our

flag if it will ease tensions :-s everyone else is
throwing off the yoke of brit tyranny. is a sad time
The Brits seem to be struggling throwing off the yoke of their own government's tyranny. Sad but true.
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Post by tamada » April 7, 2022, 10:40 am

pepesgrill wrote:
April 7, 2022, 10:16 am
Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
April 7, 2022, 9:22 am
Check the state flag of Hawaii
well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong
That's Obamaland's flag, no? How could Donald have possibly overlooked that big red herring? Yuge even.
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Post by Khun Paul » April 7, 2022, 11:12 am

tamada wrote:
April 7, 2022, 10:40 am
pepesgrill wrote:
April 7, 2022, 10:16 am
Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
April 7, 2022, 9:22 am
Check the state flag of Hawaii
well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong
That's Obamaland's flag, no? How could Donald have possibly overlooked that big red herring? Yuge even.
I had in my youth when at home a neighbour who was an Idian Diplomat, he stated to me that in fact although the UK took over a couple of centuries a lot of wealth India was run far better under British Colonial Rule than now . Everyone had to follow the same law. even the trains ran on time ...lol Not saying it was right just a window into the real world .

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Post by panorama » April 10, 2022, 4:51 pm

I used to work with a Burmese refugee many years ago here in Udon. He was lawyer in Burma and he often told me he was thankful for British common law.

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Post by stattointhailand » April 10, 2022, 5:54 pm

Khun Paul wrote:
April 7, 2022, 11:12 am
tamada wrote:
April 7, 2022, 10:40 am
pepesgrill wrote:
April 7, 2022, 10:16 am
Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
April 7, 2022, 9:22 am
Check the state flag of Hawaii
well, there you go . i was thinking of a much smaller corner mind you. seeing it in stark relief. its wrong
That's Obamaland's flag, no? How could Donald have possibly overlooked that big red herring? Yuge even.
I had in my youth when at home a neighbour who was an Idian Diplomat, he stated to me that in fact although the UK took over a couple of centuries a lot of wealth India was run far better under British Colonial Rule than now . Everyone had to follow the same law. even the trains ran on time ...lol Not saying it was right just a window into the real world .
Not too difficult to run the trains on time when the timetable is Dep X Tuesday arr Y Friday :lol:

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Post by pepesgrill » April 10, 2022, 6:35 pm

Huuuuuge when did brits leave
burma ? another union jack in corner flag scuttled

although they've certainly had strife last 70 yrs :-s
might have been better had brits stayed
laan ya mo can give us a summary on fall of raj

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Post by Earnest » April 11, 2022, 3:04 am

Aha, read Burmese Days by George Orwell, Cali. Read Eric Blair's biography too, us Blitish were about as popular as an Orange march at Drumcree.
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Post by pepesgrill » April 11, 2022, 3:59 am

i don't dispute there were many instances where

aahh exercising control over the dominion might
have helped . some lost colonies in africa good ex.

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Post by tamada » April 11, 2022, 12:37 pm

When the British Empire surreptitiously rebranded itself as the Commonwealth of Nations, that sorted the men from the boys. The colonies of other European empires all crumbled, some quite horrifically. The colonial boat has already sailed for those that chose to get all empirical in the last hundred years or so.
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Post by tamada » May 4, 2022, 11:59 am

It appears the Trump endorsement hasn't done Vance any harm in his tilt for the Senate.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-up ... 2#84483695
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Post by GT93 » May 13, 2022, 4:00 am

Roll forward to 2025 and Vance might be in these kinds of pics. I'm guessing there's room for an arse kissing senator or two. I don't know if he'll be supporting Trump ordering the US military to shoot US civilians in the legs:

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