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9 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Ridiculous. How can someone run away from a conviction, returning after 15 years as a wanted criminal to supposed imprisonment, step straight back into the top job in town?

MAFIA  !
You're either IN the know or don't NEED to know  !

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Ask the Thai government not to allow Filipino ladyboys to enter our country

They can't  !

They need at least one, the Winner of the Filipino LadyboyQ contest to appear in the 2025 LadyboyQ contest, which Thailand just recently won  !

{If it's held in Thailand, that is}

10 hours ago, Stocky said:

By the sound of it quite possibly considerable

 

Quote :

The subcommittee, tasked with scrutinising the fiscal budget for 2024, had previously denied the ministry’s request for 950 million baht for this procurement.

At the current exchange rate,  {1 ThB = 2.56 Rouble}, 950M ThB = 2432,000,000 Rouble  

That's 2.4 Billion Roubles  ! ! ! ! !  { Seems expensive to me  ! }

Does this include Secondary Sanctions  ?

What about Maintenance  ?  Can the Russians get the Spare parts needed ? {like computer chips, which they cant get for any other Aircraft ?}

I think that "the parliamentary subcommittee’s refusal to approve funding for a new Russian-made helicopter."

is justified  !

8 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I personally think that the Thai Government can't subsidy everything. They should invest in modern transportation and if things are too costly replace them. It seems that the Thai Government is responsible for all extra costs.. subsidy for farmers, petrol, hospitals, transportation etc etc .. but the most Thai people are not paying taxes so how on earth can everything being paid than?

They should follow the Hong Kong method  !  The ONLY MTR system that ever Broke even,  {before the 1997 Chinese takeover that is  !}
Allow the concessionaires to build Retail areas to subsidise their Rail travel

Similarly,  Singapore's CBD  {Marina Bay}, has vast retail areas underground   !

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

'significant part of the population' surly you're not serious here, how many of the 72 millions 

Thai citizens are  of the LGBTQ persuasion that you're calling them 'significant part"?

 

For all we know maybe he's or others close to him are somehow connected to the LGBTQ comunity that

he's pushing so hard to legalise now...

13 minutes ago, CanadaSam said:

Every space-capable nation has the "ability" to deploy an anti-satellite weapon, it is simply a small gun with laser or other range-finding/locking systems, very simple to do.

 

They don't do it, because of a treaty signed way back when, including by Russia.

 

If Russia does deploy it, they are breaking the treaty, which then brings the world a minute or seconds closer to MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) on the famous Doomsday Clock.

Russia, {or should I define the perpetrator as Putin, or his mouth-piece Peskov}, says this regularly in their Propaganda, outbursts on their nightly outbursts, just to get the uninformed western media, to make some cowardly statements about giving Putin everything he asks for  !
You can't placate him that way  !  A good slap is what is called for  !  Take his pocket money away, and his toys  !

On 2/14/2024 at 7:32 AM, itsari said:

One of the reasons 

Didn't manage to make it to the Weigh-bridge  !

10 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Severe? Fierce?

Such dramatic words.

Today at noon I gave up and switched on AC in the car.

Misc weather forecasts for our area show a chilly 16 C (60 F) for tomorrow morning, cool 29 C ( 84 F) at noon and unbelievable wind speeds of 7 kph.

Today some leafs have fallen from the trees. Believe or not

Mine too  !

11 hours ago, mark131v said:

 

I think asking him to name his price is more likely!

Isn't that what """Fair Treatment"" {not too much, please}, means  !

On 1/23/2024 at 12:41 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

The obvious part for our politicians is obviously that it is a multi-billion-dollar project.

Any such project will find lots of politicians who want it, all those hundreds of millions on "commissions".

It seems 30% "commission" is usual in Thailand. Which politicians doesn't want to be rich.

 

And obviously there are always some reasons why something is a good idea.

I didn't follow this project, but I wonder if there are any people or companies who support this idea who will not financially profit from it?

I.e. are there international shipping companies lobbying for this?

Or are there lots of people who don't want it because they don't see that it makes sense, and they won't profit from it?

The Chinese want it  !  When Thailand can't pay them for it, the Chinese will get TWO Ports and a Military base out of it  !
Ask Sri Lanca  !

9 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

When push comes to shove....The government ALWAYS wins.

Trouble is "Pushing" a Brown envelope away, is like trying to brush water UPHILL  !

11 hours ago, retarius said:

Yes it's wise but is it fair?

A court in Texas 'more or less absolved' a 16 year old of various charges after he stole his father's car, got blind drunk, drove the car the wrong way on a highway and killed 4 people. He got a suspended sentence after his lawyer pleaded that he had 'affluenza', and that his affluent parents had never made him responsible for anything.

Seems to me that Thai boys are never held to account by indulgent parents...so if they are prosecuted now it might be a case of 'indulgenza'. 

All the more reason to make the Parents   "Criminally Responsible", and make the Fines,   "Bigger",    ""MUCH Bigger"" than the AFFLUENT"S wealth  !

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Going green.... dig up the planet???

 

They're just turning over the soil  !
They'll put it back afterwards, won't they  ?

7 hours ago, mfd101 said:

Well, there's some revolutionary thoughts. The key is to turn them in to revolutionary action over the next 30 years ...

Should be 10 years, but it will take 60 years to clear out all the useless teachers  !

And build ALL the necessary Teacher Training Colleges [with ''Proper Diplomas'' ]

What about the Technician Apprentiship's  -  Oh I forgot, they want paying for learning on the job  !

Ah well it was a nice thought anyway  !

Unless they MAKE IT HAPPEN  !

7 hours ago, proton said:

Many elderly here cannot even read or write!

YES  !  Before they are taught to use a Computer or other Media, there should be a scheme to teach them    Reading and Writing  !

The Villages here in the N.E. all suffer from the past incompetance / irrelevance of the Education system here in the villages.  e.g. Every Thursday is Marching band day, and it echoes around our village  !

11 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Work in progress...

Phuket may revel in the Russian invasion, gleefully taking the revenue now.

But wait until Russians do what Russians do.. take over, businesses, start dictating what goes on and push prices of everything up until the locals are forced out.

But don't forget,  They CAN'T BUY the property under Thai Law, they may only lease it, unless they are VERY VERY RICH,  !
Does the Government allow them to buy 100% of Thai land  ?  ?

Condo's you can buy, IF you're within the 49% of the Rule, Land is the same 51% has to be owned by a Thai  !

4 hours ago, webfact said:

 

TRANSPORT Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit inspected the spot in Nonthaburi where three kilometres of MRT Pink Line’s conductor rail fell on the road before dawn this morning (Dec. 24) and ordered the closure of service on this route for seven days, Naewna newspaper said.

 

Preliminary investigation showed that this accident stemmed from construction not system error, he said, while urging the public to have confidence in the monorail lines.

 

It appears that dirt got stuck in the train wheels and upon running scraped the rail causing it to fall. A crane may be used to pull up sheet piles that cause the dirt to get stuck on these wheels, he explained.

 

Conductor rail is a special power transmission system installed along the track and supplies electric energy to the train.

 

by TNR Staff

 

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One may ask, WHO was responsible for inspecting "3 Kilometres" of Conductor Rail", and WHO passed it as Satisfactory  ?

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Describe 'CH built'

 

Project overseen by engineers from CH ?  Using local labor.  Using material from CH isn't strange, as most of the world's grid uses material from CH.

 

But if same as TH-ITA building overpasses & highways in TH, surely aren't built by workers from IT.

 

CH built anything certainly isn't a bad thing, as they seem to excel in most things infrastructure wise.  Even everyday product wise, if have a choice where something is made, I'll always pick CH over USA, UK/EU or TH.

CH means that EVERYTHING will have been Chinese  !

Imported Chinese labour as well, {apart from the tea boys  !}.
If you want to see the Quality of Chinese Construction, you only have to look at the 3 Gorges Dam, the Evergrande Housing infrastructure, to see what they leave out of the concrete  !

And DON'T forget the Debt Burden of Thailand to the CCP  !

ASEAN Countries are wise-ing up to the "Belt and Road Initiative", especially after Sri Lanka now owes SO much {$} to China that they have had to grant the Sri Lanka Port {which CCP so generously built for them} as a 99 year lease as a Military Base  ! 

14 hours ago, Deserted said:

What does all this mean?

It means, all relevant Extension line colours are grouped together, with the main Operator  !

2 hours ago, positivevibes said:

I am confused. Is this trans a woman or a man, I mean biologically?

It could be both if a true Hermaphrodite !

{ ie. Having both sets of Genitalia }  !

Depends on how they are classified at birth  !

According to world statistics 0.017 % of the world is Hermaphrodite,

ie 68m people in Thailand equates to 11,365 Hermaphrodites !

7 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

That, despite having a skull 1.1 metres long, it's brain was the size of a golf ball. 😀

Well that's bigger than a Politician's  !

20 hours ago, lungbing said:

The last thing the ruling families want is a well educated underclass asking where their share of the national pie is.  That share is reserved for the offspring of the ruling class, usually educated abroad.

Things will HAVE to change  !
Countries like the Baltic countries, seem to top the Education lists, although Singapore is no slouch either !

If Thailand wants to be in the top Echelon, then look no further than ""Down the road"" in Singapore  !