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Probably something to do with the fact that the Chinese economy is in the toilet, unemployment and business closures at record highs, declining industrial profits, and an ageing population reducing domestic consumption. I could be wrong.

Multiple entry points, double vision due to alcohol - looks like he divided by two to split the difference and got it wrong. Best advice I can offer is to close one eye before you do the math.

That's the sort of picture that winds up as a Meme.

It's amazing what you can do with a 1/24 Airfix kit. Just needs some Humbrol camo paint to finish it off.

Hottest since 1884 - so who was to blame for that? Probably Nicolaus Otto for his invention of the low voltage ignition system - follow the science. Jesus wept!

You need some legitimate expenses when operating a laundromat or fraud operation. Just ask the big gogo bars. A back of the envelope calculation shows they should be losing millions. But if they can wash out a 30+% return in legitimate money after paying tax and "expenses", they're happy.

This is good news for the Military Industrial Complex. War is very good for business.

And you can buy a rural house in Japan for the price of a cup of coffee. Although eventually Japan will be economically forced to ramp up the virtually non-existent immigration just so they have somebody to clean the toilets. Tokyo will look like London, 33% native inhabitants.

Is John Cleese still allowed in?

Declining school enrolments are the first problems to arise when the birth rate is decimated to below 1.0 Japan and South Korea discovered this years ago. It will only get worse - the obvious answer is to convert abandoned schools into retirement homes, so the current ageing generation with one or no children have somewhere to go in their dotage. The declining world wide birth rate is the biggest existential threat to humanity. We can save the whales and the lesser-spotted Albanian woodpecker, but can't save ourselves.

How do you say "I'm sorry sir, you can't park there" in Thai.

Classic black humour, 'scuse the pun.

I'm with you. I didn't know I was a racist until my government passed legislation to forcefully make me one. We have two national anthems, same as you. But ours are English and Maori. And about five years ago, activists managed to make the "Maori new-year" a national public holiday. I kid you not - nobody ever heard of such a thing as the Maori new year, but liberal white guilt, wokeism, and an organsucking Marxist governmant made it a "thing".

A "truth-telling inquiry" sounds somewhat Orwellian. No doubt the Aussies will eventually go the way of NZ. We've been paying for the alleged sins of our forefathers since 1975 via the Waitangi Tribunal. Billions consequently wasted by the Maori overlords, and a more divisive culture than there ever was before.

Makes you wonder if the myriad of Indian restaurants first order of business is to provide food.

My agent uses Bangkok Bank, but now cannot use a Pattaya branch, so they drive you to Chonburi. About a one hour drive each way, and maybe 30 minutes at the bank. PM me for details.

This story is well out of date. It was reported on 13 June that a suspect had been arrested. The actual incident occurred on 3 June, and he "woke up" on or about 10 June. And the "55 miles from where he was last seen", was Pattaya. Man 'arrested' after Welsh dad left fighting for life in Thailand | Wales Online

What you describe is known as the Thai Social Welfare System. If you're the one left with the baby, then you're the one left with the baby. Next step is to locate the grandparents and dump the grandkids with them.

Where was he headed? Gold smuggling in Asia is quite a common thing to realise arbitrage profits between the price of physical gold in different countries due to regulations and taxes. You can legally buy gold and transport it (probably illegally) across border, sell it, and pocket the difference based on price differentials. Arbitrage on the same day market, as opposed to speculation. They still run the risk of intraday fluctuations. I believe Japan is a popular destination.

Hardly a crypto scam, just your basic armed robbery.

Has there ever been a successful gold shop robbery where the perp got away scot free with a bag of loot, and wasn't tracked by 132 security cameras while riding his scooter to his Grandma's house?

Hardly surprising, they should have gone down the decriminalizing road first. I mean, weed is only partially legal in Jamaica of all places - Bob Marley is rolling in his grave.

The Beeb started their corruption in a facile attempt to ruin Cliff Richard. State funded Marxism is rarely a good idea - just ask Enoch Powell.

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Pajamas, pyjamas. And anyway, Peppa Pig isn't a thing in Thailand.