retarius

Biden is a demented idiot who needs to be impeached for his total corruption. He should be in jail.

Medicare Part D was the biggest con trick. Pharma (Big Pharma's lobbying group) spent just 10 million dollars to buy a few blue dog senators to block the legislation unless it included a clause stating that the government (the only payer) was not allowed to negotiate prices with the manufacturers. Note that all other government purchased drug prices are at 'best price' meaning the lowest price at which the manufacture sells the product in the US. Some Medicaid (poor people) can get drugs very cheap but pensioners on Medicare cannot. It's outrageous in my opinion. And please don't bring up the old canard about the industry spending lots on research. They spend much more on marketing than they do on research.

My brother ran a bar/restaurant here. It was mainly for farangs but Thais came in to watch football etc. He allowed Thai customers to bring their own whiskey in and for Thai girlfriends to go to the local market, but food and bring it in. I was new here and was shocked. He said no big deal. "If I sell a bottle of Black Label I can make about 50 baht, but these guys drink tons of mixers at which he made a handsome profit as much as he made off beer....30 baht for a mixer bought at 7 baht". On the subject of food, he argued that it was expensive to keep all the ingredients for a Thai menu and that it wasn't worth the cooking because he couldn't make it for twice the price it sold for on the market next door and he made decent money off the soft drink the girls bought. I guess it is how you look at your business, whether you are in it to put rules up on the wall, or to make a profit.

Except the owners of the coffee shop did not complain and the Chinese bought 15 cups of coffee and water (that's in a different post to the OP's complaint.

Go somewhere else and tell them you are going to use a credit card and ask if there is a fee. If they say yes, either don't use the card and pay cash, or go somewhere else again.

I wouldn't buy a toothbrush from Lazada, much less a computer.

I think you are overly obsessed with rules. You probably complain that Thai drivers don't follow the Highway Code. Some people break silly rules and it does no harm, and these tourists did no harm.

You would like to be her slave, to serve her and to be whipped hard every day? High maintenance. Put it in your profile and see if it attracts the right sort of girl.

Hitler still causing trouble after 80 years!

Why would a genius Thai girl want to date a total loser like you? No wonder you don't have a gf.

He should be enjoying his retirement from the comfort of a prison cell in Bangkok Central for his role in the coup and for the travesty of government he has put the Thai people through in the past 9 years.

'Hope is not a strategy' as is widely quoted. TAT, TCT and THA are filled with hopers, not strategists. In business one should always anticipate bad things and plan so that it does not kill off your business, because bad things do happen from time to time. Demand is clearly not what it was for Thai tourism. The causes for this need to be researched and understood, not simply pulled out your <deleted> or imagined by the elite. Saying I want more Indians to come, or like Thaksin (everybody's favourite politician) used to say, he wants wealthy tourists. You have to do more than 'want' something to happen. You have to make it happen. Now I'm no expert at all in tourism, but I have been to many tourist hot spots and wouldn't dream of going back because of reasons we are all familiar with, like getting ripped off, dirty hotel rooms, poor local transport, dirty sea water, hawkers on the beach etc etc. but do some research and see if staff training, for example, could improve the tourists' experience of Thailand for is it really 'they would love to come but don't have the money'?

New technology and Thailand don't usually mix very well. I wonder what the rake off is? 20% 30%. Nice little earner on the procurement.

Seems like they have put a blithering idiot in charge of defence.

Fatigue and stress? I thought he had a hypertensive crisis? Everybody has fatigue and stress and is no reason to be in hospital imho. He needs to go back to jail, stress is normal in new inmates. I do hope he isn't trying to con his public that he is sick to get sympathy.

Soren Kierkegaard is very good on this sort of stuff and worth a read. It's sane stuff not mumbo jumbo. It explained clearly the difference between knowledge and belief, and how some people confuse the two and think that their belief is actual knowledge when it is only an unfounded belief.

Hogwash yourself.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, my mum used to send me to the shops sometimes in an evening to buy 'a quarter of boiled ham'. I got on my bike and would pedal like fury downhill to the shops to escape the packs of dogs roaming free on the streets. In this days people used to kick their dogs out in the morning like they do with cats. Anyway, having bought the ham, and I swear those dogs could smell the ham, it was uphill and I couldn't ride as fast and I would get chased home to our driveway with about 20 dogs chasing me. I was bitten a few times, but they didn't make a huge deal about it in those days and there was no rabies in the UK anyway. Great times, what a compassionate mum.

I'm quite sure, but I'm guessing and could, of course be wrong. I live my life as though there is no god, no last judgement, no heaven or hell and no soul. But to our knowledge there is absolutely no evidence for any such things a s soul. It is merely an act of misguided faith, and I have no problem with people's belief, but the problem I have is that the most activist of belief espousers do not act out their beliefs.

Not an issue, you can keep the heart, lungs and other functions alive by mechanical means. You cannot keep the brain alive by mechanical means after it is dead....when your brain is dead everything else stops unless there is mechanical support. There is no such thing a soul.

No I don't, and stop trying to put words in my mouth that I have never uttered in my life. I do think that 5 or so decades of losing with actually the problem worsening, an adequate time to evaluate that the strategy isn't working. People want to get high. Besides that, drugs harm the user, thieving rape and murder harm the victim.

I don't think the tourism numbers being down has much to do with Thai owned airlines. Cost of flights, crappy immigration rules, scams all over the place even by the government with dual pricing for everything from hospital costs to price of admissions to parks. I don't think there are too many returnees from the West. Maybe should focus on Korea and Japan instead of India and the muslim world. At leats these folk have money.

Exactly, how long has the war on drugs been losing....maybe 5 decades. As Einstein supposedly said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It is high to to try a different strategy. It is not irrevocable if it doesn't work. But instead of locking millions of people up world wide and having criminals make massive fortunes, why not try legalisation.

Sorry, anything you read in the Washington Post, like all things that come out of the US ir a biased, slanted, or an outright lie.

I'm totally porsche and speak Etonian.