Neeranam

When I retire, this will be 10,000 baht per month, nothing to be sneezed at.

I guess you don't qualify. There are many advantages in becoming Thai. Just a few hours ago, I got 33% discount on a game of golf, for one.

Interesting, have you worked here? Maybe it's because I have worked in Thai institutions that I understand the importance of obeisance in Thai society, and I would not wai police, normally. I've integrated more than most farang and know the hierarchal social structure, as well as understanding how Thais see farang, especially in tourist areas.

Walking into an expensive restaurant in Thailand, I expect a wai - I never got one last night in Hua Hin, and never gave a tip because of it. Last week on the golf course, my caddy never waied me, which is very disrespectful, however, saying the St Francis prayer daily helps me overcome my self-importance. CALL 800-931-9884 Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love. Where there is offence, let me bring pardon. Where there is discord, let me bring union. Where there is error, let me bring truth. Where there is doubt, let me bring faith. Where there is despair, let me bring hope. Where there is darkness, let me bring your light. Where there is sadness, let me bring joy. O Master, let me not seek as much to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that one receives, it is in self-forgetting that one finds, it is in pardoning that one is pardoned, it is in dying that one is raised to eternal life.”

Me too, acceptance is the key to living a happy life here. I choose to be happy than be right. When good things become common place I have to revisit my morning gratitude list.

I like the obeisance shown to me. However, when I don't get the respect I imagine I deserve, I get annoyed.

I would take a packet of dried durian chips and present it to the Immigration Officer, and remember to smile.

Nothing wrong with my daughter.

Indeed, I used to by 1000 x 10mg pills for 500 baht! I also used to get it in Foodland, Pat Pong when it wasn't illegal to sell it here. I would NEVER buy for my children, knowing the dangers of addiction with this drug.

No, that makes no sense. Americans think if you criticize one side, you support the other, sad really. Fox news also has fake news.

I'm not biased, not right wing, nor left. I point out that both the polarized groups of the USA receive fake news.

I'll check it out.

CNN are most certainly biased, and that make their omission of new 'fake'. Look at what they said during the Iraqi war, totally disgraceful, saying that it was a 'just' war, and also what they chose to omit. Look what they are saying about the Russia/Ukraine war, just as bad and totally hypocritical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN_controversies you are brainwashed my man

You sound like an anti-Trump supremacist! read this and then reply to me https://www.allsides.com/blog/cnn-fake-news

Hard to really get to know the people in a tourist area like Hua Hin. God knows what it is like in somewhere like Pattaya! In Isarn, it is easier and the people are great. The farther South I go, the less friendly the people.

Thanks, I guess i'll experiment with different times. Solar sounds good. But last time I enquired it would take me 75 years to break even, but that was without pool, in a smaller house.

Certainly not the women, I miss the European beauties.

My pool has been cloudy recently. I reduced the pump/filter time from 8 hours a day to 3 hours, as I think the electricity bill was too high. I suspect this is the reason but could it be anything else? How long do you leave the filter pump on for?

I thought it was CNN that had all the fake news.

Crowds influence the referees' decisions, as there was no difference with no crowd. What exactly is the Guardian trying to say - Italians don't like black people ? And what are they going to do about it? Do it US style and start a blackplayersmatter campaign? Nonsense, let society evolve in the way it wants.

Zelensky could be dangerous in the future, he has the audacity to expect India, China, Latin America all to help Ukraine! X=Basically, he wants the whole world to fight his country's battle, unbelievable and the woke world trusts him.

I believe neither, actually. better to watch more than one I know though.

In my experience, they don't blame the Russian civilians. Don't believe all you hear on CNN, I have RT, and they say Ukrainians are doing the war crimes.

I understand why some neighbouring countries are helping Ukraine but why is the USA involved?