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Now you’re just making up rules. What law is there that stipulates that if you contact your girlfriend to indicate cutting a trip short … by the way that’s only 2nd-hand info and for all we know he may have indicated to her that he made other plans or met another girl, or didn’t want a fuss made over his upcoming birthday, who knows? … that you are obligated to follow-up. It may have been a voice call, it could have been a brief text. He may be actually the sane one while others freaked out when the AirTag they surgically implanted in him went dark. He may be going “WTAF?!” and returning to his hot new leggy blonde squeeze to snuggle. And the sister says he was OK when he made an actual phone call but didn’t give his location or indicate his upcoming plans. WTAF? She indicated relief without an iota of frustration. Not even country of location. I travel for months at a time without family contact and vice versa. We share itineraries with a designated member but do not routinely notify of whereabouts, etc. Remember that for centuries folks just used the letter post, weeks to get a “ping”. People need to temper their expectations. Why just yesterday I ran up against a confounded spa employee when I bought a long-term package for the hot pool and stream&sauna features and she indicated that I would be required to take out my phone, receive the contract, and sign it electronically. WTAF?! I don’t take my cell phone on local outings and some friends and associates refuse to possess one. Last week the bank teller indicated he sent a code to my phone to proceed, after I provided my passport. Similarly, had left it at home. He had the temerity to ask what’s the point of a cellular plan if you don’t use it. (I don’t actually; it’s for back-up when travelling) I responded that I had survived and functioned just fine over several decades without a computer sutured to my umbilical scar. WTAF?! One of my siblings lives in a cabin in forest fire territory and is frequently off grid for long periods. The money I send him bi-annually is used at his discretion for basic survival needs. Another has no interest in any social media platform registration. What occurred may be a consequence of the absurd downsides of tech. Premature to point a finger at the Brit chap. If “thou shalt be tarred and feathered and publicly displayed as a selfish tw*t” is your preference you do you. A ‘schizophrenogenic’ family has often illuminated the basis of a patient’s symptoms.

I wonder if he was, cirrhosis-ly, on one of frequent benders.

Oh, snap Gert, this made my morning java.🤣 You make it too easy. As there is a scheming Rosencrantz & Guildenstern and Co. Claudius types obvi don’t like to be called out for gaslighting. You might be better off consulting Huckleberry for your practice runs as a Hamlet seems to elude you. On the thread financial topic, jointly put by the non-gullible: “Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will … you cannot play upon me.” Stick to the pipes you know and try not to play within a play within a play within a play. Get a room you two and sort out your tangle of dispatched posts to avoid own goals while I’m to be.

That wasn’t my point and the Papini comparison does not seem to apply. I was indicating that if he had been charged for some offence, say drunk and disorderly conduct, that could breach the privacy firewall and might be appended to the news release of having been located. No assertion by him or family that he was victimized. The more likely scenario is his abject irresponsibility and disregard for stimulating worry after having phoned to say he was leaving Bangkok early to return home, or having some type of mental illness with symptoms of disorganized thinking, perhaps even having been admitted to a psych unit. The sister comes across as coy or short a few deck cards but one only sees the tip of the iceberg in social media posts. She is a grandmother and has adult children older than him, their mother (father’s 2nd wife so a stepmother to one or both) likely offed herself, and the father died soon after. This lad may be infantilized and given a long leash to tug on. He is prone to solo travel but that does not clarify whether he’s a wanderer or has a structured life reflecting self-efficacy, recent events perhaps uncharacteristic.

That’s the way the cookie crumbles and we live in an age where systematic privacy backs family preferences. I think that the exception would be some type of criminal charge. I am sure a lot of folks are curious as hell and I had occasion to see the immense social networking that surrounded this call for assistance. Of note, very few (1%?) have requested an accounting or a rating of how much ado was about something, instead solely pouring out expressions of relief. The only reason I would prefer more detail is that I had constructed a narrative from disparate pieces of information. More interesting that Sudoku. I already know that some of my synthesis is correct but a few Venn diagram components remain ambiguous and I wouldn’t mind some feedback on my analysis. I can’t make a case with them to be granted info, based on my knowledge of their style to date, but feel free to submit an invoice on behalf of Interpol and other entities to cover the possible public payer cost surrounding this. I wonder if his Finnish connection may lead to a Midwestern winter.

You’re not pissing anybody off. That’s another fallacy, a myth constructed by control freaks. Their freaking out is on them. But I appreciate the possibility of annoying a whiner. That said, there would be no reason for a punter local to be privy to your expenditures unless he put his nose where it doesn’t belong. They are welcome to join here and meet their match; you obviously qualify to set things straight. Yeah that’s pretty much the flimsy gaslighting response I expect from somebody that’s got nothing, Twittergradeguy. I implied I expect to be shown the money and your pants pockets remain turned inside out. I thought I made it clear that I was specifically addressing the challenge of an academic individual I already know to be intelligent. If you don’t want your recommendations to be called out, disagreed with, don’t load them with cynical offensive stereotypes and do expect that they are going to be read through the lens of critical appraisal. My stats prof summarized inadequate assessments best. Convoluted Reasoning & Antiscientific Pomposity. Maybe you know him seeing as you parrot a term that endears me to him. The one thing I know is that your perspective is wrong and a disservice to any newcomer that gullibly buys into it. Fortunately, we can see other examples of sensible ‘with it’ punters here that don’t take poor direction geared to opportunistic lowballing. This is a polarized topic so expect polarizing. Thanks for the good times. This is far more interesting and amusing than today’s crossword puzzle.

With parents and Hope in AuGust company by 2006. He is apparently somewhat ‘special needs’ in the modern context way, adolescent anxiety and whatnot. The trolls can target him at their peril. There isn’t much that is more relatable to average families. I think the Walzes are rolling this out sensitively, transparently, and supportively, mindful of the importance of gradual inoculation with respect to the challenges of being in the scrutinizing public eye.

Bear in mind, @Ale4co, that many punters here hire at high volume levels representing substantial proportions of their income. They eschew hiring at home (“western world” settings) and utterly panic at the prospect of paying greater than 10% of home base rates. 🤣You probably wouldn’t give a passing glance to most of their targets. Been there, seen that. If your orgasms are more financial than sexual that’s OK too.

Tim and Gwen were also trying to conceive again around that time, ostensibly with Mayo Clinic assistance second time around. It’s usually easier when difficult if both parties are on the same continent.

Thinks for the kenan question. If I had thought of it before I would have specified only that I have standards for evaluating claims. I thought it was implicit. No, there is no inferential statistical application utilized, though I could design same. I will put this according to my view that you are bright … What my take does is merely contribute to an overall grade of reliability of information. The standard of endorsement of a singular point of view, the predominant one having no basis other than that monetary anxiety and cynicism seem to underpin it, is consistency of impressions among a group of reasonable size and based on a decent amount of actual transactions. You are neither naïve nor in the dark, but an inexperienced punter lobbing multiple questions here deserves to read a range of impressions about trade trends and be faced with the task of synthesizing information and doing what he seems best according to his particular context. It’s more incumbent upon those asserting the unsubstantiated relation between pricepoint and manipulation to provide concrete evidence because all that somebody that opines no relation having occurred following a solid duration of time can do is raise eyebrows and roll eyes regarding the untested claim. I live according to observing experiences that deviate from the null hypothesis. I tend not to record a nothing. I’m saying that my collective recollection anchors the null hypothesis. In contrast, posters here tend to highlight that the null hypothesis is rejectable and they say it is so because they have said it and, well, implying “everybody knows it”. Truth Social much? Arbitrarily bypassing a hot more expensive provider simply diminishes the range of data capture that more objectively and scientifically contributes to the hypothesis’ validity because there is no contributory information other than the assumption underlying the decision. That’s nuts, or blatantly stupid. I for one won’t have reality skewed in this way. I should add that there is nothing verifiable about my skill or demeanour that has exempted me from manipulation, that would predispose GdePs to steer clear of shenanigans. What I am saying is that I have not observed the anticipatory expectation that others describe and that could have evolved for them from episodic outlier encounters. That is no more or less scientific but I have experienced an expansive range of cost, having been very often situated in the low end of the bell curve but not nearly wedged into it. What I have often witnessed first hand onsite, consistent with patterns here, is gringos obsessing about product and cost. A pleasant 1:1 social conversation, when joined by additional punter parties, usually evolves to the topic. It’s not unlike dinner with a group of flight attendants. You can try to steer the convo to other subjects such as movies, etc, but it springs back to work scheds of the month. It’s a natural common denominator. Flight attendant friends on 1:1 are extremely smart and possess diverse interests. I have insufficient data to support my flight attendant example and I now avoid gringo interaction that may disabuse me of assumptions about what will transpire.

Says an anti-science skinflint punter so transparently condescending that he uses the denigrating patronizing term “boi” directly in his handle. Fake, subjective, confirmation biased to justify point of view. Conjecture overconfidently stated as fact. Typical 21st century posturing to support a gringo-centric narrative. Over dozens of encounters across 9.5 years of visits I have detected no indication whatsoever that pricepoint contributes meaningfully to variance in terms of the quality of the encounter delivered or manipulative upsell attempts by local men. No correlation, so no point fabricating causation.

His sister reported on her social media that she had been so excited to hear his Simon’s (27-yr old) apologetic voice that when somebody asked his location she responded that she forgot to ask him about his whereabouts, but in an earlier post she wrote cryptically that the police had also notified her that he had been found. In other words (my take), she is happy and grateful but the details are none of anyone’s bizwacks. Takes all kinds to make the village of Skegness. Good that he is alive, though. Nothing about this story suggests he is mentally healthy. Neither people nor bots need inquire further.🤷‍♂️

I would counter that theory and go with the idea that you have excellent taste in terms of your shortlist. I wouldn’t pay anything for the majority of options yet others will. Punters here will insidiously scramble your brain with notions that leave you questioning whether you are worthy of fulfillment on your terms. If you have the luxury of time, you might attempt the long game and play chicken but try not to get too sucked in by financial opinions here. Personally, my most memorable experiences as far as quality over a decade have been either among the least and most expensive, satisfaction decoupled from price. Logic and reason is your friend. As long as you are cutting your nose off to spite your face the absurdist world order is balanced. Others are far more anxious about this world order and their dicks’ mortgages than you would be inclined to obsess after the fact having spent a few extra bucks. And by the way, the “extra” is something a bossypants will arbitrarily define with a gaslamp at hand. You don’t need to report your expenditures. Nobody will actually retain it. Take it from me, this same discussion will live on for the next decade. If you left Gloria without nutting I suggest considering this remedy:

Yes, maybe it was a shuttlecock that told you but

Thank you. There’s a good boy. I knew a course correction was within range. I simply lacked faith. Was that so difficult? It’s late. Go to your beddy now. Lights out in 1, 2, 3.

Receipts? I’m not writing a news column. I am constructing a scenario with concrete contextual information in relation to the explanatory models underpinning the phenomena of persons that go missing. This emanates from a research background in which critical appraisal figures prominently.

So you don’t have a source other than a lame quip. Funny thing is, I’m not American and don’t visit, but because he is so central to your zeitgeist, it happens to be his qualities, right down to the physicality and his absurdity that come to mind when I’m addressing somebody like you. After all, he is relatable to a substantial minority of countrymen so the probability of even a rando being binned in with him isn’t so far fetched. There are those that throw in with him and gaslight with plausible deniability. It’s not as if you exemplify humility. Be my delusional guest regarding truth social.

Because I am citing them. I think I get it. Reader means AI bot but pretending to not get with the 21st century? Family and friends names steer to social media handles. If you cannot name, say, 3 platforms within that overarching meaning then you should recuse yourself. Perhaps I have unfairly attributed your posturing to obnoxiousness where learned helplessness better applies. There is public domain info outside the parameters of a few relatively rinkadink Thai news sources you seem to be umbilically tied to. If you can identify a few social media platforms zero degrees of separation from several persons in the story, start there. If you cannot, I suggest you recuse yourself from the discussion because you are wasting my time other than that I can perhaps reinforce my expectations for reporting standards. I have more than a dozen individual person social media sources within four social media platforms going along with several additional news sources corroborating the narrative I have summarized. I am not listing them all and nobody with any sense will rifle through it all even if posted. Do you think I spend time scrolling through absurdly endless Twitter/X links of somatotype carbon copy trade that members insert? It’s your prerogative to undertake the same triangulated approach to information gathering and refute my views as they stand related to the missing persons story, as they are not incontrovertible. Or take a chill pill, let it all go, until the next occasion you feel impelled to post a low impact low output story of middling interest and toss a grenade into innocent attempts to increase its pertinence. I don’t have your trust? So who’s to stop you? You’re the actual story here and I wonder why that doesn’t make you happy. 😃

Naw, Imma complain, bossy-pants. Weren’t you one of those suckered into posting a redacted travel ticket when accused of fabrication? (Going from memory, admittedly, I wish my brain would filter out the painfully boring.) Who, whether you or anybody, with any degree of self-possession falls for that? Remember what Dan Savage’s definition of Santorum is? 🤣

The fellow’s family and friends must be beside themselves with worry. He and his sister, the same one referenced as reporting his disappearance, each reported on their social media in March 2020 (see his “yarn” above; a term employed by resident troll) that his mother was missing, searching ensued, and then “crickets”. Local news sources reported that her body was retrieved some 18 days later, a few miles south of her parked vehicle, from a 175 metre-wide river in a relatively populated area. Death not deemed suspicious; I believe that the meta-message is often suicide or accident. Likely not swimming weather. No further information on their social media ensued about her death as it was likely deemed a family matter and folks will often retreat from their socials as only those relevant to the deceased are informed. Simply a later reference to 2020 having been an extraordinarily trying year, the father (surviving spouse) having died at the end of 2020. The timing of their mother’s (stepmother to Simon’s considerably older sister, but I assume his bio Mom) after weeks of disappearance is not indicated by family. Sadly, this information had been utilized early on by local trolls privy to the history in an attempt to shape the present narrative online, even as far as accusing the family of crowdsourcing and Simon of irresponsibility. His family and friends express fear that he will be stereotyped and that this will subvert the wide social net cast in the hopes of finding him. They are downplaying the deja vu flavour of the present crisis. He is described as sensitive and caring, and surely has an experiential grasp of the pain of searching for a missing loved one. The family must be racked with complex decision-making and second-guessing about what theories explain his disappearance: foul play, mental health, injury, dissociative fugue, having taken personal space and avoiding what he would face in terms of their anger upon resurfacing, any number of explanations save flying on an Airbus as opposed to Boeing if he indeed flew Finnair. Online critics have challenged the source of the departure verification, an apparent airport government agent doing it “off the record” through messaging on the sister’s socials, and Finnair refuses to release ‘confidential information’ about passengers’ boarding status. Without this courtesy Simon’s people are struggling whether to send a family member to Thailand or Finland, and what Interpol branch to prevail upon. —- This has got me to thinking about tracking my own travel movements with family by sharing itineraries, etc. I already do this. I was wondering if I list an emergency contact for flight bookings, as I do in my airline profiles, would that person be able to break through the firewall of confidentiality with any carrier that applies, or is that a one-way street limited to the airline’s interests?

Stalling ants. Must be the scarier 10m platform after making a springboard splash.

Two daily marathons? 10K to start as well as evening 5K? Impressive. Olympics really can be inspiring.

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I wonder when NBC American announcers will catch on that Africa is a continent with 50+ countries and Botswana a nation unto itself. There can be an area record but athlete placement is national.