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Recently watched 'Baby Driver' while confined to United's 12-hour slog in economy from Narita to Houston (at least it wasn't the overhead bin). It was much different than I assumed from the title and one of the best movies I have seen recently.

In Texas, a patty melt is sort of an embellishment of a cheeseburger and is served on toast rather than a bun, more like how hamburgers were in the US Southern states back in the days when complimenting a woman on her outfit wasn't a sexual assault.

I'm not in the know either but I have worked on similar sewage/drainage projects world-wide and it would be unusual to undertake a large infrastructure project like that just to move untreated raw sewage a little differently. Just my experience, but it is more likely the pipe part you are referring to which a well-connected know-it-all has surmised is to do just that is rather an initial part of a project that will take the feed to a treatment facility or new aggregation point to then head to treatment and that the treatment facilities are 'further down the road.'

The rumours are nonsense. Sewage is treated in Pattaya city but the plants can be overwhelmed with flood waters just like anywhere else. The drainage in Pattaya is so poor the treatment plants get overwhelmed often. The drainage runoff is likely more toxic because folks/businesses often just dump crap in the streets/ditches, many/most which are not connected to treatment plants. Take your hints from locals, just like anywhere else. Most Thais avoid swimming in Pattaya beaches ... chinese not so much.

I was upgraded one time on BA ... it was pleasant sitting inside the plane.

I drive a 2012 Wildtrac in Thailand that has the 2.2L Diesel. It has 203,000 Kms and the only thing we've replaced other than normal wear/tear at the regular 15,000 kms checkups has been an O2 sensor that Ford replaced under warranty. I've had similar experience in Texas with a 2005 F-350 Diesel which has 200,000 miles on it. I'm hoping Ford offers a Diesel option in the upcoming Bronco. I'm guessing Ford will offer a Diesel in the new US Ranger if only to match Chevy and Dodge/Ram.

Could have been worse, i.e., Kloster or Amstel.

One of the best stock investments I have made in the past few years. Bought for about $5/share in 2009, now above $25/share. WAC wouldn't like it ... BBBBUUUUUST and evil Banksters and all of that.

You can't take it with you ... oops ...

When I got my first KSA driver's license in the early 80s part of the process was to donate a pint of blood ... for the accidents you would be causing. There was no formal Driver's education requirements but the company who I worked for required we sit for 30 minutes lecture after blood letting and listen to a local talk about driving conditions in KSA. He told us the painted lanes were for ... general guidance.

555, here's where I'm headed ... Arthur is 90 years old. He's played golf for 70 years and every day since his retirement 25 years ago. One day he arrives home looking downcast. "That's it," he tells his wife. "I'm giving up golf. My eyesight has gotten so bad that once I've hit the ball I can't see where it went." His wife sympathizes and makes him a cup of tea. As they sit down she says, "Why don't you take my brother, Henry, with you and give it one more try..." "That's no good,” sighs Arthur, your brother's a hundred and three. He can't help." "He may be a hundr

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Seriously Dude are you for real 555, at least google the proper spelling.

I'm 64, played air guitar to Ted Nugent like most in my crowd. I did serve in Vietnam but after LOLDusa and Yuri/Andropov. We never called a bud colitas before Hotel California, especially in Vietnam. I do believe you think you did, and know you can google about it to convince yourself you did; not dis-similar to there's a couple of BMs here that think there was an image of satan in the smoke arising from the twin towers at 9/11. Then again, they also think 9/11 was an inside job.

colitus, at least you didn't go with colitis ... 555 There are a lot of myths about what Hotel California means, ranging from Satanism to it is based on some Hotel, both in Mexico and California with coincidentally the same name. I believe the song is based strictly about loss of innocence. As far as urban legends go, a lot of what is believed today is BS. Media, especially social media which is omnipresent these days has a lot to answer for. Much of what is believed today ranging from myths about drug culture to fake news is based on what we called in US Military 'circular reporti

Believe as you will, I have met all of that above except Yuri and Henry. It is possible Henly told a porkie like LOLDusa, but I doubt it. He had nothing to gain by it as he had already impressed me with his knowledge of cattle feed, more so than LOLDusa and his knowledge of cheese steaks and cruises..

Yeah, I've read that and several other explanations. I once also read on the internet about a dinner in Saigon with Andropov and a legendary BM here. I'm still going with what Henly told me.

Reminds me of a Don Henly conversation. As you likely know Henly is from Texas not California. Considered the quintessential California band by many Timothy Schmidt is actuzlly the only Eagles band member past or present that is from California. Any way I am trustee of a family ranch in East Texas and one Saturday morning, Henly who is from nearby Linden, Texas came into the feedstore I was in. I think other than me, only the store clerk recognized him. Henly was browsing through some cattle feed options and noticed I was picking certain varieties and he asked me why I picked the choices I

A man is only as old as the woman he feels ... ................. Groucho Marx

It was so cold today my lawyer had his hands in his own pockets.

Yes, any release adds to the total water in the area. And no one deserves to be flooded. But Addicks and Barker are not dams. They are designed to retain water temporarily to control flooding through Buffalo Bayou which flows through downtown Houston on its way to the Ship Channel. Without releases the water backs up into even more dense housing and flows around the end of the retention walls other than over the front, again, because they are not dams which normally have spillways. No housing should have been built next to the reservoirs but land developers got greedy and converted sugar cane

555, you found a post on a Pattaya website that quotes a source making an apples v. oranges comparison about rainfall and draw conclusions. In some areas of Houston it has rained much more than the factoid quoted and in some areas less. If there is any difference in this storm it's that the rain has fallen longer and over a wider spread area. Visionary you are not. MLC comment about dams dumping water is about Barker and Addicks 'reservoirs' that are releasing water in controlled amounts, i.e., normal in flood conditions which occur annually in Houston ... even in years of solar eclips

No news Wac. I am in Houston.

Hell is less humid.