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Not true, many are chopped up in Yokohama then shipped here as parts, and reassembled. But most go to Nigeria or other places in Africa.

Look of there is one thing Thai people need to learn it is accountability. Borrowing money without having the slightest clue how to pay it back to buy something you can't afford is stupidity. If these are bank loans then I totally disagree with debt forgiveness. If they are from the shadow banking usurers, then I think there should be total forgiveness of the loan and the usurers should spent a long time in jail pondering their morals. When I first came here a local farang asked if I wanted to put some money up with a lawyer who would lend it out with collateral. I would receive 4% per month. I said no thanks.

His speech didn't trouble me. If my land had been stolen off me in acts of terrorism I'd be mad as hell.

There is a 15% withholding tax on interests on all bank deposits. You can claim it back if you are under the threshold. I have been told repeatedly when I arrived and discussed this with the I/O and also by Ubon Joe (RIP) who was the authority on this forum, that it has to be an ordinary savings (passbook) account which pays next to nothing. Anyway I have always had my money in there out of habit. But I haven't checked recently and your question made me realise that things might have changed. They did change the rules a couple or more years back when they demanded you kept your money in for longer than the 3 months seasoning. maybe this changed at the same time Another reason may be that it is something the local office decides, in which case you may be okay, but I might still not be able to do it as my office is kind of strict.

Buy an Alphard. Can never go wrong with Toyota.

It won't be appealed. Doctors have always been able to prescribe whatever they wish and the FDA, CDC or NIH have no mandate to tell doctors what to prescribe.

The good news keeps on getting better and better. What a quality bunch we have in? Not so much of an improvement over the last decade of cabinets. Corrupt hustlers, scammers and hi-sos.

Sorry there are no red light districts around Bangkok at all. A policeman told me.

What do you do when the majority of Thai teachers (not all) are useless. Will giving them a pay rise make them better teachers? Research says that when you get a pay rise, you are motivated for a day or so.

I was reading somewhere the other day, that one school system in Scandinavia somewhere has ditched tablets entirely for younger grades insisting that they learn to read, write, spell, do sums etc before using tablets. Scandinavian countries usually rank as the top performers for educational achievement in Europe (not in the world as Singapore tends to dominate). I gather they got the idea from looking at attainment levels in countries that had extensive lockdowns and used e-learning instead of face to face. I tend to think many if not most kids get enough play time on electronic toys, either laptops, phones or tablets at home.

Summing up, a loser is the guy that spends all his day on Asean Now, typing for all his worth.

I haven't been back to Britain for a while. What I used to notice when I went was the almost total lack of birdsong at my mother's home. All the songbirds seem to have disappeared and been replaced by pairs of magpies, which seem to be the only birds in the sky. On the upside, there seems to have been a rise in urban foxes, and indeed my mother had one that lived under her shed and sunned itself on the shed roof. No other wildlife to be seen in that suburban environment anyway. Hedgehogs all gone, no frogs or fish in the ponds (indeed the most common things in the ponds are shopping trolleys), even the dogs that filled the streets when I was a kid have vanished and aren't kicked out in the mornings to fend for themselves. I suppose you see the odd cat now and again, and snail, lots oil garden snails.

You are still comparing apples and oranges. Tell me the % of ICE cars less than 3 years old that burst into flames and compared that to the % of EV cars under 3 years old that burst into flames.

You know what, I don't smoke and I don't vape, and I rarely drink, and never get drunk. I am sick to death of things being banned. I want there freedom to do what I want as long as it doesn't harm others, not have a bunch of bigots telling make what I can and can't do.

I'm thinking more and more that bail should be set at a % of a person's wealth.....for murder say 90% of the person's wealth; out on appeal after a guilty conviction again 90%; for smaller crimes like drugs or theft or scamming maybe 50%.

Well I wouldn't mind being groped by her.

Citation needed. You are comparing two different situations. ICE cars that are not running do not nurse into flames. EVs do and can cause massive damage when they are parked underneath buildings. They also are known to catch fire with people inside them who can't open the doors.

It is get more passengers to fill the planes and get increased revenue. It can work, but other airlines soon cut their prices and you can end up worse off.

Apple has lost its way, imho. I'll never buy anything from them again, they have no scruples.

If they really intend justice, then they better start building a lot of new prisons.

There are many fabulous, low milage, nearly new cars in Japan traded in for cents on the dollar. I have never understood why Thailand doesn't import these.

I have to say, I was hoping that the stalemate in the government would blow up the exchange rate for the baht. I need a break.

Odd place to put a camera, or does the photographer have fetishes he isn't revealing.

I do hope this blows the lid off the corruption in RTP.

Surely not a beauty like her being corrupt? Money surely is the root of all evil.