retarius

I never thought of it like that, but maybe it's true. I left the Uk in my mid20s, depressed with Thatcher's Britain. I moved to the US and lasted 20 years there before the accumulated BS under GWB drove me to distraction. Then to Japan for 7 years....I loved the place but lost my job and retired. I'm here in Thailand;and for coming up to 14 years and am getting a bit sick of the place. I was in BKK yesterday, what a filthy place, disgusting....I used to enjoy the anarchy of the place, now I despise it. To be honest, I thought some more about my original post. I don't know any Thai men really. The only ones I deal with are IOs (rude), cops (arrogant), and merchants (thieves mostly). I employ a number of Thais (women and men), almost of whom have been honest, decent, helpful people. So my partial antipathy to the males here maybe to do with the select group that I deal with.

Been there. Never again. Poverty is ok when it is on the TV, but when it is in your nostrils, eyes, ears and on your tongue, it is as vile and evil as it gets.

A block function is needed here. I get tired of people who try to dominate the pages with tens of messages. It would be great to just block them out.

My problem is not Thai people, I have little enough to do with them. The Thai women are lovely, the men are generally arrogant a55holes. But as I have become older, I have become less tolerant of the ignorant, the undereducated, the idiots, the a55holes, and the scammers, conmen and just people I meet. This is generally the expat English speaking whites I meet here. I used to like to go out and have a beer with 'they guys' and speak my native tongue'. Now I loathe those nights out and the bigots who attend them,. Talking about bigots, I have also become much more bigoted and right wing in my political views while I have been here, perhaps a function of ageing, perhaps me showing my true colours, or perhaps picking up right wing diseases from the expats I drink with, or maybe just another misanthropist, grumpy old man, I guess.

If true, and if this becomes a norm not an extraordinary newsworthy anecdote, then the battery life may be a non issue. I saw an ad (I forget for which brand of EV) that offered a warranty of 8 years or 200,000 kms for the battery. Which is an extremely good sign. Being someone who always looks for the scam, I was trying to find out whether the warranty was transferable to another owner, suspecting that owners wealthy enough to buy EVs probably don't keep their cars for 8 years. The other trick maybe, are they still using the same type of battery technology and batteries that they were in 2016 EVs? I have recently changed my car (to a petrol ICE) so it only has 4000 kms on it. My trusty diesel is 5 years old and has 90K. I don't think I will live long enough to be in the market for another car, but if I do, and this report is true and representative, I might have to admit I have been wrong about EVs.

So long as he cuts military and monetary aid to Ukraine and Israel I don't much care who he is, what his political views are, whether he supports Trump or not, or whether he's a right wing extremist. I am not optimistic however. The US Capital is a sewer.

Great idea, but not innovative, sustainable or costly enough. There's any awful lot of snouts in this trough.

No thanks. I had enough of you for 8 years or more.

Most permanent monks seem to be convicts who have come out of prison and are homeless. I'm sure some do well, indeed I know one who has. I'm equally sure some do not so well.

I guess Mr Red Bull is off the hook then. 1000 baht fine or so should cover his offence.

He's been arrested and charged. There is no suggestion he will be found guilty or punished. Indeed I think a small slap on the wrist is brewing as soon as there is a big news story dominating the news to cover the story of this pooyai turd.

No argument from me about this great vision about having a great boost to the economy. My argument is how will this great boost be achieved? ie what is the strategy behind this marvellous and brilliant, innovative and sustainable vision? How will the success of the strategy be measured? How will the huge boost in profits from the growth be distributed? equally or will the 1% trouser 99% of the profits and pay no taxes on them either? Visions are as useful as a chocolate teapot....how you are going to implement the strategies behind the vision to make sure it is achieved that counts. Sadly, Srethha's a 'big vision' guy and there is no strategy behind they vision....none, he simply doesn't have the skills or the brain power. He thinks in 'promotions' like in some mom and pop market stall. buy 2 get one free. And sadly that is about as sophisticated as his thinking gets, and he wants to borrow money to throw at these promotions to claim he has done something.

It is not necessary to have high ratings in the opinion polls. The the Constitution out, I'll bet it doesn't even mention opinion polls as part of the election process or the process of forming a government, Indeed I'm not aware of any country with a constitution that says opinion poll approval ratings are any requirement for office. As for your opinion of Anutin, I agree entirely that he is unsuitable for the office of market stall holder.

Well said Srettha. About time someone took a stand for exploited workers. And about them exploiting Israeli farmers took a hit for this appalling treatment of fellow humans. I am amazed at the ignorance of some of the comments on this board.

My Mrs says he has a financial stake in the company that takes fees off people who use the wallet? Same old, same old.

I guess the only people with money are the wealthy so they have to tax them. Good luck with taxing those greedy bastards.

I wonder who gets to decide who is commendable or not? Would Joe Ferrari have been commended?

Not looking good......how many Thais were in Israel? I was thinking about this the other day. Why are these people taken to pick fruit or work on farms in Israel and not given a decent days pay fo a decent days work? Why do they have to pay their own airfares to go to the jobs and use brokers costing them hundreds of thousands of baht? Should a 'civilised' country like Israel being paying some sort of minimum wage and not leaving these poor people with huge debts?

Funny isn't it, how your perceptions change as you see new cultures and customs.

We have a lady from Laos and a Thai lady. The Laos lady is lovely but it costs 20,000 for her to get a visa to stay here. We obviously have to lay out the money. She has a Thai husband and two Thai kids as in born here. Forget the Myanmar ladies and look for some nice strong farm girls from Issan.

Yawn. Investigation is not the same as guilt whatever your twisted mind says and however much you might hate Thaksin.

So he hasn't been tried yet by the ICC? Being investigated and being found guilty are two different things. Yes I can read....and think better, apparently than you can.

You got evidence and a court room judgement on that? If it is so clear, then why wasn't he prosecuted on this first. This being the far most serious case? No, thought not, usual brain dead comments from the brain dead.

You just killed your own argument with data. There were 500,000 odd sales from Jan to September. There are less than 5,000 chargers of all types....per your data ie less than 1 charger for 1000 vehicles. Not nearly enough. And soon like the UK you will need a separate electric meter for home charging (at higher tariff) with restricted hours. You may have bought two. I will not buy one until the range problem is fixed with a/c cranking continuously here in Thailand, the fires are fixed, the insurance problems to come are fixed, the inevitable parking restrictions due to fires are fixed (multistory garages will become uninsurable the moment one fire breaks out in Thailand and same apples to shipping), and the battery replacement costs and battery life are known and not just postulated by companies desiring to sell these POSs to you. Good luck to you, I hope you never need to charge it on a long trip.

Respectfully I disagree. Thailand should pick a side here and throw its lot in with China, Russia and BRICS+. De-dollarise and become independent. No need to listen to a bunch of biased and paid morons, experts and pundits.