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10 hours ago, jadee said:

legalize gambling and make it a true Vegas-style sin-fest.

Not stupid but too simple  

Bridge 

I believe that nobody or very few people understood that the world after Covid-19 will be, as regards individual freedoms, completely different from that before Covid-19

The huge problem is that we go straight into the wall if we continue to live like this;
the internet is doomed to transform quickly if not it will suffocate;
the cloud and huge warehouses that contain thousands of super processors consume a lot of current; sooner or later the Islamists or other bombers will find it much more interesting to blow up these buildings rather than sending crazy people to kill two or three passers-by with a knife, shouting allah akbar ...

38 minutes ago, nausea said:

More info. on Surat and his clinic: 

http://travel.cnn.com/bangkok/life/clinic-bangkoks-backpackers-included-087551/

it dates from February 2011; I don't know if this clinic is still open.

It's strange, I don't see Thai Airways in this list;
there is Thai Smile which belongs to it but not the parent company which is over-indebted ;

in fact if thai airways were on the list it would take many more billions just to reset the accounts.

About an old western movie there is a new one about Bass Reeves 

" Bass Reeves (July 1838 – January 12, 1910) was an American law enforcement officer. He was the first black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi River. He worked mostly in Arkansas and the Oklahoma Territory. During his long career, he was credited with arresting more than 3,000 felons. He shot and killed 14 people in self-defense. "

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana said after a meeting with the committee on Thursday (April 16) that in a move to ensure the country is financially strong to handle the crisis, the public debt to GDP ratio has to be maintained at 60 per cent, despite the issuing of a Royal Decree authorising the Finance Ministry to get a Bt1 trillion credit limit.

It is simply impossible.
Either you keep your ration at 60% and you put 35 million Thai people on the street,
either you do like western economies, you operate the printer fully and you no longer take care of the ratio.
All the countries of Europe, including the virtuous Germany are in the process of operating the money printing press and will end up with dizzying deficits and ratios exceeding most of the time 100% for the wisest and reaching 200% for some: Italy and Spain for example;
These countries will still be very far from the first in the class (if I dare say !): Japan, which has an astounding ratio of 240% and which continues to go into debt in all zenitude ...

https://www.businessleader.co.uk/japans-national-debt-to-gdp-ratio-five-times-higher-than-chinas/82943/

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Lazada extends help to small businesses with new package

This company like Amazon or Alibaba is doing a huge damage to trade called "proximity";
if people continue to buy massively on the internet they will in fact create millions of additional unemployed people in order to want to make "candle-in" savings;
especially that we do not know, in fact, what we buy ..
I am one of the people who likes to touch, weigh, take charge in order to know if it will suit me;
even if it means paying a little more and also making sure that the store next to my house does not close because it has no more buyers.
and then buy Chinese from a Chinese seller; there are some who like to get their ass kicked and who want more!

Who is he ?

Bruce Lee ? Chuck Norris ? JCVD ? or maybe IP Man ? 

51 minutes ago, rbkk said:

Eleven dams so far in China

Many more 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropower_in_the_Mekong_River_Basin

https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/topics/hydropower/

1 hour ago, CGW said:

Not going to argue that, but the dams are in Laos, its the dry season, so why is this an issue now, the Mekong is always dry this time of year!

It's true, but I never saw it looking like a small river.
This photo is from the New York Times;
it was taken at the height of Sangkhom in the province of Nong Khai;

Thailand is on the left side of the photo

3 minutes ago, GlassWayOverHalfFull said:

Usual negative nonsense .. are you saying 100 Chinese a year will have some effect?

I dont know and I don't care ;

I'm not chinese.

18 minutes ago, renz said:

anyone here having a PR ? what is the cost of applying for one ? as a PR still need to apply for work permit for work and business ? what is the real benefits ? disadvantages of having a PR ?

It is written in English and Thai in all Immigration offices.
It costs 7800 baht of non-refundable registration fees if your application is refused.
Those who are married to a Thai national pay half as much as those who make an individual request which costs around 170,000 baht.
The main advantage (there are others) is that when you are PR, you no longer do the annual visa extension file every year; so you do not need to have 800,000 baht in a Thai bank account or 400,000 if you are married to a Thai.
On the other hand if you want to leave Thailand you must always fill in an exit permit and pay 1,000 baht for it otherwise you lose this precious PR.

It is certain that for a retirement it is not profitable, provided that your file accepts:
170,000 divided by 1900 = 89 years of extensions!
and even for someone married to a thai 89 divided by two = 44.5 years;
on the other hand the fact of no longer having the conditions mentioned above can be considered as a great advantage.

17 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

I play Jesus Christ on this forum everyday. 

In France we have a pun on it (Jesus, not Paris Jackson):

"Jesus cries out and the caravan passes"
to counter this other proverb:
the dogs bark and the caravan passes

I don't know if it can be translated into English?

10 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

Some buggar stole it while they were asleep.

I found it at the Kanchanaburi station ..
What is it doing there?

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I saw that recently, enjoy!

 

We would like it not to stop at only 11 minutes ...
This is called a " boeuf " in France; a jam session;
the harmonica player is fantastic

I never met the beatles;
on the other hand had a nice discussion on a highway area with the Rolling Stones who were going down to the Cote d'Azur where they lived long enough;
they were on board several pink Rolls which initially overtook me at a fairly high speed while I was driving myself at the wheel of my Volvo F89 very above the speed authorized in France for this type of vehicle.

discussion in French, Mick Jeager speaking this language very well.

3 minutes ago, johng said:

And the 200+ billion USD  foreign currency reserve  ????

I talk about it in another post; it would lower the price of the baht ...