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I don't think that the Military will dare to carry out another coup. The public reaction would not be like in the past. The Opposition would be huge, I think.

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Just make sure that your will states where the gold is buried.

His house design is unsuitable for keeping cash and valuables. You see, if you're going to keep lots of cash and expensive watches in your home, when you design your house you should create bends and corners and even a second floor or basement so that you can build a secret room. A staircase leading down under the main sofa to a basement where there is a secret room leading off the main underground room would be one way to do this. The thieves wouldn't be clever enough to realise what the bookcase or mirror was hiding. You have to have bends and corners if you're going to make one on the ground floor. His house design is too simple to do this.

2.38 trillion baht ... "Excellent! We can buy 20 more F-35s, 6 more submarines, and 100 tanks. ... All that lovely commission! We just have to fiddle our way into staying in power."

My Thai wife says that she just needs to get the Death Certificate and Marriage Certificate and to take them to the bank. It's the same for land as well.

Yes, the 800 Baht is still charged. So now everyone will be charged 1,100 Baht extra for coming to Thailand. How much of this money disappears into people's new Mercedes Benzes, I wonder?

It sounds like they came up with this idea after 10 or more drinks each after Friday afternoon golf. Since the land can't be sold or bequeethed to someone who isn't Thai, If the foreigner dies, his foreign wife has to leave the house and land and she has to sell it no doubt for a loss. I think that the only people who'll agree to this will be desperate money launderers. Maybe the Military want Thailand to become the Hub of Money Laundering.

City life and countryside life do seem to be very different regarding food expenses when you can grow your own food, apart from rice, which is probably cheaper where we live than in a city. 3,700 Baht per week for food seems a lot to me. Most of that is processed food and chemical vegetables and fruit, I expect. If you have some land you can be self-sufficient regarding (chemical-free) fruit and vegetables, and water, which you can structure and store in large clay "ongs". We're adding chickens soon and later on a fish pond as we have 19 cats to look after. I couldn't live in a city again.

That's a very good point, Richard! When you get kicked out of the country how will you get your 40 million Baht back when you return as a tourist to try?

It could be worse, I suppose. What if the government demanded that hotels applied the same ratio of rates used in National Parks where the ratio can be as much as 10X higher for foreigners. Maybe that's Stage 2 of the Big Plan to restore tourism. LOL!

This is why this government has overstayed its welcome so to speak.

It's time for this government to be replaced by business people. Hotels make contracts with tour operators from Thailand and abroad. Rates are decided according to various factors, such as previous business levels, promised business, room allocations, etc. People also book with the large online companies, such as Agoda and TripAdvisor, which get special rates, and they couldn't apply the dual pricing system even if they wanted to. Few guests are walk-in guests with no reservation because online room rates are lower. The government hasn't a clue how the business works and its proposal will be ignored, indeed mocked and laughed at, for being so stupid, I think.

No tourism business is going to pay any attention to him because he's showing inestimable ignorance. Besides, being a super-rich politician Anutin doesn't understand how ordinary people live or how tourism works, and so he should stick to Troughdom activities.

I didn't realise that beer drinking is so expensive. My last purchase of any alcohol was before 5th November 1982. If I had continued to drink beer, I wonder if I'd have cancer by now as alcohol is a Grade 1 carcinogen.

I don't think it matters how old she is. Daddy Thaksin will be on Skype every day telling her what to do.

On the bright side, that will save me time.

Nowhere's perfect. LOL! Seriously though, the atmosphere here is very different. The BP Forum is numbing and I didn't notice it soon enough.

I was the only person who tried to stamp out the rudeness. The moderators never did. Often the rudeness became so bad that I withdrew for a while.

Firstly, ASEAN NOW is a far superior Forum than the Bangkok Post's (BP). I realise now that I was wasting my time each day there. To be quite honest, I didn't leave voluntarily. One day, 2 weeks ago or so, the Moderator decided that s/he didn't want me around anymore and banned me without any justifiable reason. I'd been commenting almost daily on the BP Forum for over 15 years. I wrote to the Editor 7X, but he ignored me, as did all the sub-Editors and the "Tell Us What You Think" folks. They write articles about injustice in Thailand, but they are happy to turn a blind eye to it in their company. I suppose I eventually got to know their true colours. Anyway, here I am. I like the zero-tolerance here to rudeness. The BP Forum is like the Wild West with the few posters insulting each other regularly.

Does Prayuth not realise that the submarines need an engine? Maybe he doesn't.

I wouldn't be surprised! I hope that the dog apologised sincerely.

10,000 Baht is probably chicken feed for the man. He should also be made to pay the medical expenses as well for the next few years.

I know how much it hurts when one or more of one's cats dies. It's heartbreaking. My wife and I now have 20 cats and some other cats have died over the years. It's never easy getting over losing a cat. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/millycat-on-twitter-in-2021--734790495457683576/