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3 hours ago, smedly said:

he pretty much hung himself with what amounts to a shoelace apparently

 

personally I don't believe this ##

File under E for Epstein

Helpful picture. I had no idea what a box looked like.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Fortunately, no illicit substances were discovered, and nobody was found to be overstaying their visas or entering the country unlawfully.

...

 

The successful outcome of this operation......

So the plan was to not find any overstayers?

Perhaps this is what 'moved to an inactive post' actually means....

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

Apart from 7/11s which are franchise from CP I think, plus the gas stations which are also owned by big business, most of rural Thailand depend on the mom and pop shops and the food cars.

 

So the money will go to the smaller people, which is where it should go.

Indeed.

Often political parties promise tax cuts - which are basically of huge benefit to the rich and of little value to the not so rich. These are usually funded by some imagined future growth but are essentially a hand out of money - lots to the rich, a little to the poor.

This is really not much different, except it is of benefit mainly to the poor. A rich person with billions in the bank is hardly bothered about 10000bt whereas most of the population of Thailand would benefit greatly. Keeping it as a fixed amount also considerably reduces the cost of administering the idea. 

Of course, those with money (who stand to gain only a little), will complain bitterly about 'them' getting more than 'ME' and will use as much propaganda as possible to squash the idea.

Have they considered using a jumbo jet?

Since when has 400-700 a day been 'thousands'.

It looks a lot more like 'a few hundred' to me.

16 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Did you know him well?

Not seen him since he took that holiday in Isaan...

3 hours ago, VBF said:

Not sure which one is the bigger waste of my tax £££ ????

Neither compare to the £37bn wasted on the faulty Track and trace system

or the £30bn hit to the economy for the scrapped Kwartang budget,

or the £10bn covid loan fraud loss
or the £100bn hit to the economy caused by brexit.

Sometimes £100m doesn't seem so much...

Alas poor Yorick....

When a politician tells you to 'remain calm', its usually time to start worrying.

Its called a shataf and was invented in the Middle East, not Japan. The earliest recorded use of a device similar to a shattaf was in 1386.

An article that answers the question 'Is there an election coming up?"

1 hour ago, PeeJayEm said:

I compared my UK and Thailand domestic electricity kWh prices for Dec22 to Feb23.  The UK rate was about 500% (yes 5 times) the Thailand rate.  50p vs 10p.

Thailand as a net importer of oil, gas and coal is subject to the same basic global market pricing.

So it seems that either the UK has some highly inefficient structures in its  energy delivery model or Thailand has a huge price bomb overdue to explode.

 

Or it could be that the UK has allowed the generators to maintain and even increase substantially their dividends by setting a very high price cap and making the public suck it up. Thailand has chosen to cap at a much lower rate.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

One has to wonder at the electrical supply to the recharging area.

Over-loaded or just poor maintenance.

A similar fire occurred to 18 racing electric motorbikes a few years ago in Spain. That was put down to a short circuit.

https://www.motorsport.com/motoe/news/motoe-cause-of-fire-disaster/4353463/

Oh my goodness, they may infringe a patent.

And what does the US intend to do if they DO touch the technology? Send them to bed without supper? Write a stern note to someone in charge?

I've noticed that politely worded requests have very little effect on Russia.

MDMA is crystalline.

And its not new. It was initially invented in 1912, 111 years ago.

It was described by the UK's 'drug czar' as being no more dangerous than horse riding.

And it doesn't put you to sleep or deaden your senses so it cannot be described as a 'narcotic'

However, while the substance itself is basically harmless, the crude method of production and general carelessness means that a badly prepared batch can be harmful because of impurities (MDME), similarly if it is mixed with a more dangerous substance (which is very much a Thai way).

I would suggest that Ecstasy is rather sophisticated and too 'low key' for the enthusiastic locals but an ideal thing for a politician to start trying to spook uninformed people with.

They sell ecstasy tablets and disguise them as coffee?

That requires some monumentally stupid customers...

So the great 'I reckon' index has risen a liitle.

Whoopee-doo... ????