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At least, now when they turn off the headlights, they really will be saving juice.

I'll just put the kettle on.

To many of us, the multitude of trials and tribulations such as rabid soi dogs, equally rabid Thai women, ineptly planned and poorly executed road repairs, dogmatic multi-level bureaucracy and ad infinitum are what makes Jomtien and Pattaya what they are? A place where those who abandoned Dorothy's Kansas are happy to roll like the proverbial porcus in theirs, and everybody else's excrement, while smiling. The more mayhem and disorganisation I see about me, the happier I am.

6. Thai women don't understand timeliness. This can be solved in the Pavlovian manner by leaving them stranded with no phone, no money, and no luggage for 18 hours in a place where they don't know anybody, because they didn't arrive at the car at the arranged time (plus 45 minutes). Suddenly timeliness becomes important, and now she's always early. Go figure.

It's 90 days from your last report, or your latest arrival in Thailand, whichever occurred last.

All "news" is propaganda. Always has been since the beginning of time, regardless of the ideology of those espousing the "news". I often go down deep rabbit holes in a quest for the "truth". It never fails to surprise me how evil those in charge of the world (and that means every elected politician, every unelected bureaucrat, and media and corporate bosses) really are, and always have been. Because if there were a few honest ones with humanity's interests really at heart, we wouldn't be living in the current dystopia, with worse to come. Maybe that's why I've become a lapsed atheist.

Confiscation (theft) of Russian USD assets, about to be passed by the US Senate, will be the final straw for the greenback. Many BRICS countries (being a bit less than 50% of world population and GDP) are already gun shy of the dollar after US weaponized it two years ago by sanctioning the Russkies. Probably the biggest foreign policy blunder ever made by the US, and given their track record, that's saying something! This has only accelerated the development of BRICS and member states have been bailing from the dollar into gold ever since. The USD's days as the reserve currency are numbered. One day very soon there will be a T-Bill auction and buyers either won't front up, or bang on a huge tail premium that will drastically increase the debt servicing of 34T+ debt. Printing USD and exporting inflation (as well as producing munitions that get destroyed and then building more munitions to boost the economy) since Bretton Woods is fine when there is foreign demand for the currency. Different story when supply outstrips demand because 50% of the world's economies gave the middle finger to the greenback. We may see the US become the new Venezuela, or worse, the new Un-united Kingdom.

Pickpocketing requires a pocket to be picked, and skill and finesse are required. Slashing a backpack with a box cutter does not. The Pickpocketers Guild should be rightly offended.

My truck has dark tinted windows. I beep the horn with impunity because the muppet in the offending Vios can't see me and assumes I'm a Thai and I probably have a gun, otherwise I wouldn't have beeped at him. It's a circular thing.

Maybe, just maybe, it's because the tourists aren't coming. I can name at least a dozen formerly regular seasonal visitors (some for a fortnight, some for 3 months) that haven't come here since the lockdowns. 50/50 split between finding cheaper alternatives, and inflation ate their discretionary cash.

I don't think soy-boy Luxon realises that Thais are not big on lamb consumption. Although I do believe a lot of Kiwi chicken feet find their way to Thailand.

I suspect you are quite close to the truth. An excellent piece of prose, by the way. 🖕

I did put a 🤪in my TIC observation.

Take a trip to the Hospital on 2nd Road Soi 4. They have a huge glass (maybe perspex) exposed ceiling. They have a water recirculating pump that cools the ceiling. You could do it on the cheap with simple products purchased at Homepro or similar. If I had to guess, you could probably do it for 10k or less with plastic pipe, a water tank, and a pump. Running costs would be a bit of electrickery and whatever water evaporates. Bound to be far more efficient than any insulation methods.

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Ask him who gets the 400k+ baht in the bank accounts of deceased O/OA visa holders, and why did he change the rules for no apparent reason?

"When do we stop trusting everything the institutions say?' I haven't trusted any government since the Iraq war in 2003 (actually, possibly since 2001, but I won't go there). I'm a keen observer of cognitive dissonance. Show multiple undeniable and objective truths, and observe denial and disbelief based purely on emotions and ideology. I call it the razor blade effect. A play on Occam's Razor and Orwell's reference Parsons celebrating the Ministry of Plenty announcing record razor blade production, yet he can't find any razor blades. I often wonder why Orwell used razor blades as an example of cognitive dissonance. I suspect he actually was highlighting Occam's Razor - the most obvious answer is probably the correct one. But maybe I tink too mut.

I'll file this information with their announcement that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had nothing to do with the outbreak, and Fauci's affirmation they were not funding GOF research at that institute, and that Ivermectin is only a horse wormer.

Ever wondered what all the little black dots on the front and rear screens (and sometimes on the side windows) are for?

I've noticed that when it is cloudy, the temperature is cooler. Maybe our weather is a result of solar flare (Milankovitch maximum/minimum) cycles, solar winds, the earth axis wobble, cosmic rays, cloud formation, and circular or elliptical orbit of the planet. Call me a Neanderthal, but I reckon that big orange coloured thing in the sky probably has a lot to do with the climate....anthropogenic influence, not so much. But we should never let the truth get in the way of a good fundraising scheme.

The biggest mitigating factor to the cost of water is how many daughters you have. Usual monthly cost circa 700 baht in a condo. Daughter was away for a month, cost 288 baht. And the electrickery cost reduced by 30% also. Go figure.

The only surprise is that lighting up on a flight is not yet considered a "hate crime". Only a matter of time...

The real winners are the street vendors selling factory "seconds" water guns at 500 Baht a piece. Every gun I ever bought develops prostrate cancer within 3 minutes and can only muster a weak dribble thereafter.

But here's the untold secret - the Chinese language teachers will, (of course) be Thais who learned their Chinese from another Thai, and that Thai learned Chinese from a native Glaswegian, who learned it from a Spaniard , whose great grandfather was once shipwrecked in Macau. Can't see any problems.

I love it when they park like this and don't leave any gaps. Once watched a fat farang in Central push about 10 cars in a row to allow his car to exit. He pushed the last car and didn't have enough room - back to the start and do it all again. Poor mugger probably went home and had a heart attack. I would have offered to help, but he was cursing loudly in German.