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I'm looking forward to the first athletic (and hopefully attractive) Ladyboy to win the Olympic Women's 400M hurdles by a 50 meter margin. And then next week wins the Miss Universe contest.

I don't think the world will wake up to what's happening in women's sports until a drop-dead 6 foot tall Thai Ladyboy is on the winners podium of either.

Thailand and similar cheap labor economies are somewhat insulated from the immediate and compounding effects of international inflation on imported commodities, less so from the inflated cost of international logistics.

Locally produced products suffer a lag in price increases until the full effect of international inflation is felt in the cost of imported inputs of raw materials and capital items.

The tin of imported baked beans landed today is inflated by the rising cost of wages in the West plus the increased price of shipping.  But when landed, the only real inflated cost is that of internal transport - and even that is government controlled. 

The other internal inputs such as labour and fixed overheads have not yet felt the international inflationary pressure - but it will come eventually.  Therefore your tin of imported beans is inflated by the Western input costs plus international logistics, and not too much from Thailand inflationary pressures.

Coupled with a comparatively strong Baht that is also minimizing imported inflation to a large extent.

We will see some huge increases in both domestic and imported goods when/if the Teflon coated Baht loses its strength and this flows through to dramatically increased domestic input costs when they eventually arrive.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I'm not depressed, I'm PO.

I'm retired and not physically capable of doing a proper job 8 hours a day. Old age is a <deleted>! Takes me twice as long to do anything as it did 10 years ago.

My environment is probably no worse than anywhere else in this country.

I'd love to go back and live in Lek Hotel in Pattaya, eat those breakfast buffets, watch pretty girls, live the dream, but Government won't give me pension in LOS, and I don't have enough savings to live in LOS till I go up the chimney. Had I been able to get pension in LOS I'd never have left in the first place.

Like you say, money is the key, but I still have enough while living in NZ ( they do give me pension in NZ ) so not going to get off just yet.

$15M on the Chrissy Lotto draw tomorrow.  

54 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

You did miss it. I'm in NZ and I was denied pension overseas due to a bureaucratic regulation that isn't published on the pension website and which I never knew existed till I attempted to get pension in LOS. No wonder I'm PO at the world. The only thing between me and living in LOS is a stupid bureaucratic regulation that applies to very few people.

Douglas Adams ( Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ) had the best idea of what to do with bureaucrats.

Mate, the NZ government are among the most progressive (read regressive) in the world.  It's a toss up between NZ and Oz. The basic trouble is that both NZ and Aussie governments have historically been extremely functional and effective, and we've trusted them too  much because of that.  

One of my favorite novels is Nevil Shute's "In the Wet".  Shute was no fan of socialism and in this book written in 1953, he forecasts a Commonwealth voting system in the future 80's that recognized the danger of the rule of the oppressive and self-centred mob. 

The Commonwealth countries had modernized their democracies beyond the one man one vote system to a multiple vote (a potential but unattainable seven), where votes are earned based upon life achievements. This on the assumption that those who had put more into the development of themselves and society should have a greater say in the running of that society - both as voters and as politicians.

The potential seven votes are earned by such things as education, raising a family, serving the country, creating wealth and employment etc., so that someone such as a small business owner who had stayed married for 15 years and raised two kids would have three votes.  The alcoholic divorced dockyard worker on the dole only had one vote.

My rough description above sounds like elitism, but in the context that Shute wrote the novel, the concept has a great deal of merit.  Well worth a read for any citizen of the Commonwealth.

Only a matter of time until some government genius suggests for the sake of our health we reduce our respiratory rate by 30.4567%. 

Perhaps they'll even ration the atmosphere and prevent anybody who inhales more than twelve times per minute from entering public buildings. Or maybe there will be random testing of breathing rates and a QR code and a passport to show we qualify.

I mean, it's all about saving lives isn't it?

Nuh, surely nothing like this could ever happen.  

Just now, lanng khao said:

Most of them dance like the hairs on there <deleted> are tied together..

Dicky-di-doh?

Thais love to dance, young and old. They have some culture specific moves intertwined with modern dancing that are quite unique.

Throw a bawdy Issan popular song on the TV and you'll have trouble stopping them from dancing.

You can make lots of anagrams using Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

One of them is youareafarkincorruptidiotanddeservetobehungforyourcrimesagainsthumanity.

Side note: it's devilishly difficult to type a string of words and not use the space bar.  Whowouldathunkthat.

10 minutes ago, AwwYesNice1 said:

No wonder the kids here struggle to think once adults.

That's a gross misapplication of the word "struggle".

Is suggesting somebody is suffering from Delirium Tremens now considered politically incorrect?

Asking for a friend.

His Mother was Canadian and his Father was South African. He's therefore a Canfrican or maybe a Canuckfrican.

Not that it matters anyway.  What does matter is that he's about the only billionaire who's sticking one up the socialists' backside.

I hope they eventually have a Nuremberg style trial for the political muppets around the world that continue to inflict such massive harm on society.

I'm not a fan of being on a list, but if they ask for volunteers for the firing squad, I'll willingly sign on and happy to provide my own ammunition.