Everything posted by jacko45k
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WiFi 6E Routers - Where to buy?
Most people are speed mad.... and yet connect via Wi-Fi, the ISP speeds can only be attained using a class 6 Ethernet hard wire.
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Buying US $ in the Pattaya area
Pretty sure there isn't one, nor has there been for a long time. OP... go to a TT Exchange, they change both ways..... https://ttexchange.com/exchange-rate
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Stream of despair: US livestreamer threatens to kill himself if jailed in Thailand for distributing obscene content
Are we shut of him yet?
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Biting back: Thailand’s dengue battle claims 33 lives, Public Health Office reveals
Scare mongering.....
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Pita’s chance of becoming next prime minister shrinks on eve of Parliamentary vote
They set it up in 2017....and it was allowed to happen, maybe even voted for.
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Every scenario is nightmarish
Yes it sounds that way, but you are making a strawman to detract from the comment made. I found average USA people to be lacking in that respect too. One asked me 'Is it Winter in England too now?'....
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Ex-farm chicken eggs to go up to 4 baht each from Friday
My Mrs kept chicks for a spell... it isn't as straightforward or easy as one might expect. They have a limited productive (laying) life and the wild dogs get them twice a year!
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Tourism sector anxious over possible protests in wake of failed PM vote
Like insurance, one buys and chases the cheapest at time of purchase, to regret later if things go awry.
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Fitch affirms Thailand’s BBB+ rating, forecasts GDP and tourism growth
I kind of believe they work in cahoots, very much so.......
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Heavy Rain Warning Issued for July 16-20
Yep, keep dragging my hose pipe out to top up my little pool..... not annoying the neighbours by pumping excess down the street.
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High-end watch demand increases among younger Thai generation
Or for those who don't want to go fumbling in their pockets for their phone... and maybe, just maybe, for those who do not carry a mobile.
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House speaker accepts draft charter amendment bill to clip senators’ wings
One has to form a government first and that has to be done under the existing rules. A right stitch up!
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Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Postpones His Return to Thailand Indefinitely
When he was in power, I recall seeing great optimism in the average Thai people....not only in rural areas, but those in Pattaya.
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House speaker accepts draft charter amendment bill to clip senators’ wings
Not sure that applies in the strange culture of Thailand..... an abstention is probably close to a no vote... but loses less face for the person making the vote, and the recipient, than a NO vote. In a culture avoiding the confrontation, it fits. Sadly it being counted as against appears wrong.... That constitutional amendment a few years back, was a clever stitch up,
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The draft beer situation in Pattaya
RU saying this is what happens in the UK these days or elsewhere? Certainly used to be the landlord's job in the past.
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Thailand detects new coronavirus subvariant EG.5.1
Don't you get a little embarrassed wheeling out that little bit of irrelevant nonsense over and over. People were made to look foolish saying that 3 or so years ago.
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Move Forward Party’s Thai PM Candidate Pita Fails First Round of Voting
Doesn't appear you can even write it comprehensibly yourself!
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Thailand detects new coronavirus subvariant EG.5.1
True enough,,,, the dead have no voice, they just leave behind people who forget them.
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Thailand detects new coronavirus subvariant EG.5.1
Yep, tell that to the nearly 7million it killed!
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Thailand detects new coronavirus subvariant EG.5.1
Although the UK makes trivial stuff like tittle tattle into the main headline rather too often....
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Thai Airways scandal sees corruption charges dropped against ex-PM Thaksin
Heck no..... other charges and convictions stand. He got 5 for holding phone shares (Shin Corp).
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Thailand Pursues FTA with East African Community
Picking up those colonial ideas eh?
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General Prawit may emerge next week to clinch Prime Minister’s job due to a polarised parliament
Barely....
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Cops expose fake licence plate scam across Thailand: Government officer arrested
Get with the times sir........
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Thai private sector braced for impact amid political unrest and government delays
Then you did rather poorly....perhaps using a UK foreign bank /ATM card, because my records show the exchange rate for June (SCB TT Rate) varied between 42 and 44+ for June 2023...lowest I saw was 42.71 on 1st June... Source