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    Its too expensive I may leave

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    16 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

    Shocked tonight to cash my Australian dollars to get a lousy 21.73 , 2173 baht  $100

    Can someone please calculate maybe a mathematical expert how much is 100 baht in AUD please !

     

    Now I have been advised by another visitor in my hotel to go to Vietnam that's where he is moving to 

     

    Please how do you Australian expats survive on old age pension here when prices here in Thailand are comparable to Australian prices after the exchange 

    I paid nearly $6 for a 6 inch subway ,same price in Australia 

     

    Gone are the days of buying cheap shoes and clothing here in Thailand 

     

    Nearly $5 for a pair of thongs and I don't mean underwear! Please !

    The thongs that go on your feet 

     

    Is Vietnam cheaper,I still have 3 weeks to go on my work leave , I feel like I should go back to Australia where it's cheaper .what an expensive place 

    How do you afford to retire you guys who only have a small Government pension ??

    Why don't you look up the exchange rate on the internet....spot rates are there for almost all currencies. 

    You are right Thailand has become very expensive indeed....only labour is cheap and accommodation which was very cheap has crept up. I spend less than 179 days a year in Thailand and the rest in my second home where better quality goods and food cost much less than Thailand. 

    I am shocked that you are still working....by your posts I imagined you were about 80 years old.

     

     

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    Trump’s top general calls ex-president ‘fascist to the core’

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    18 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

    Ah the old 'disgruntled ex-employees', Well there certainly seems to be an awful lot of them.
     

    1. His vice president, Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”

    2. His second attorney general, Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”

    3. His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”

    4. His first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson: “(Trump’s) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”

    5. His first ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley: “He used to be good on foreign policy and now he has started to walk it back and get weak in the knees when it comes to Ukraine. A terrible thing happened on January 6 and he called it a beautiful day.”

    6.. His presidential transition vice-chairman, Chris Christie: “Someone who I would argue now is just out for himself.”

    7. His second national security adviser, HR McMaster: “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”

    8. His third national security adviser, John Bolton: “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”

    9. His second chief of staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”

    10. His former acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who resigned as US special envoy to Ireland after January 6, 2021: “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”

    11. One of his many former communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”

    12. Another former communications director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”

    13. His secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, who resigned after January 6: “When I saw what was happening on January 6 and didn’t see the president step in and do what he could have done to turn it back or slow it down or really address the situation, it was just obvious to me that I couldn’t continue.”

    15. His secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, who resigned after January 6: “At a particular point the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue, given my personal values and my philosophy.

    16. His first secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer: “…the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”

    17. His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert: “The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”

    18. His former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen: “Donald’s an idiot.”

    19. His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true.”

    20. A former director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is now a CNN political commentator: “We can stand by the policies, but at this point we cannot stand by the man.”

    21. A top aide in charge of his outreach to African Americans, Omarosa Manigault Newman: “Donald Trump, who would attack civil rights icons and professional athletes, who would go after grieving black widows, who would say there were good people on both sides, who endorsed an accused child molester; Donald Trump, and his decisions and his behavior, was harming the country. I could no longer be a part of this madness.”

    22. A former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, who resigned after January 6: “I thought that he did do a lot of good during his four years. I think that his actions on January 6 and the lead-up to it, the way that he’s acted in the aftermath, and his continuation of pushing this lie that the election is stolen has made him wholly unfit to hold office every again.”

    23. His final chief of staff’s aide, Cassidy Hutchinson: “I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”

    And yet the country thrived under Trump's leadership.

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    US Charges Leaders of White Supremacist Group for Plotting Global Attacks via Telegram

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    Getting more like Assange. I suppose they will get some stooges from Sweden to say they were raped by him. I bet the US will want to get their hands on Durov and force him put a back door in so the FBI and CIA can pry. I think I read that Durov has French nationality, but cannot remember where I read it. France does not extradite its citizens, if we remember the famous Polish film producer that seduced a 13 year old girl in the 1970s (forgotten his name). The US has been after him 40 years or so but France (and Switzerland) have refused to extradite him.

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    Sri Lankan Man Arrested in Wichit for Illegally Constructing House

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    5 hours ago, stevenl said:

    For me it seems clear.
     

     

    They should go after the employers who hire these people. In the US some maybe 20 years ago, after complaints of people hiring illegals, they passed a law targeting the employers. I don't know what has happened to that late under Biden but if you look at illegal immigration they had not too much in the first year but it has risen from 300,000 a year under Trump to 3 million a year in the last three years of Biden. I am sick of it and I don't even live there.

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