SaltSong

Good on them.

Rich assholes need to either play fair, or be removed.

I can see that, but I've always expected tidal waves to be far more destructive. This is, as you say, an astonishing amount of movement, but nothing like I was expecting to see.

Am I missing a joke?

Sure they can write laws making it illegal to claim the king of Thailand is a doddering old fool anywhere in the world. Good for them.

They have no legal right to enforce it on me, though. If I visit their country, of course, I will be subject to their laws. But they can't apply it to me until then.

They can write whatever they like, but in practical terms, they can only enforce their laws inside their borders.

No European law applies outside Europe. That's kind of the nature of laws.

You mean we may have seen this meme a dozen times already?

Provide anything to back your shit up or shut up.

This puts me in mind of the landlord asking for a photo of the water not being hot. What would you expect "proof we were not noisy" to look like?

Except once they seven years when they become the most sexual beings in the trek universe.

Myself, I'd go for an Orion mistress, but not everyone is into the green.

I suspect that the reaction to the edited video spooked them. They were expecting to get away with that, and when it was so easily called pot as a fraud, they had to reconsider.

How is Lord of the rings not on this list?

A run of market sales would drive down the price.

And if you can't afford to rent, then got being able to buy is not a significant difference.