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I'm no fan of Cameron's, but in this instance he made the right decision, it was always the case of either we go and wipe out the evil of this sick religeon, or as they have promised they will wipe us out.

No time for pussyfooting, pacifists ,or the PC, brigade and apologists.sadly the Labour Party now falls under the heading of Weak, Leaderless,Ineffectual, directionless.a great party destined to being out of power for the next ten years! which is very sad considering the alternative asset strippers who will not bat an eyelid at leaving the British people broke! and owning nothing in their own country!

Well this is not the first time we have heard a similar story of Thai honesty, if I recall correctly the last reports,was about two separate stories of Taxi Drivers who found cash in their cabs and returned it to the rightful owner! and congratulations to them for extreme honesty.

What are they afraid of?

Enlightenment ?

Fort so. Strangely, I'll be at Steve's a couple of days after Chrimbo!

What is "Fort so" I will be gone long by then I hope! please don't bother to reply, i'm on the verge of blocking you permanently!

For a second i thought sanity had prevailed. Nothing is stopping us from going back( to being a proud and harmonious European nation filled with real French people, speaking French and dressed in breton shirts with strings of shallots drooped over a shoulder, smoking gitanes, like i remember from the 70s). Alas, bono is delivering the message so it could only be self centered leftism.

Bono doesn't know his *** from his elbow,ask him is he a European or Irish and guess what he will say?

The "T BAR" Udonthani is usually a good venue for a traditional Christmas dinner in good Farang company! Hosted by "Steve"

Let's all drive to Udon from Chiang Mai for Christmas lunch!

Bloomin' geeneous...

Posted in error,corrected before I read your genius post!

The Romans grew grapes and produced wine in Eastern England. Try doing that now. So global warming is not new!

Romans??

They are doing it now. There are British wines that are even better than the French ones

Try these,French wine is over rated!

http://www.englishwineproducers.co.uk/

Merkel has already moved on. After saving the refugees of the world, she is now in Paris saving the world from climate change. Merkelworld, now and forever.

Even though she is a Self gratifying Politician,who looks after Number 1, Have faith! although it's too late for us mere mortals to save our countries from Merkelism and her Nobel Prize Seeker ambition,the Check bin has already been made out to Merkel by the German people,and will be delivered to her personally at the next Election,far from being hailed as the saviour of Europe with her Nobel Prize, IMO she will go down in history as the worst Chancellor ever,whose personal ambitions wrecked the EU,and whose decisions on the Migrants influx,was blatantly against the German peoples wishes. Emergancy legislation could have changed the quantity of Migrants into a more reasonable amount.

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David Cameron and Nigel Farage have a very good chance of pulling the UK out of the EU, let us pray that Farage can do what Cameron has neither the nerve or the inclination to carry through! No Country in the EU is going to give too much backing to Cameron, least of all Merkel.

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I am Turkish, and I see this decision as a scandalous one. Most of the non-AKP people here in Turkey are very upset at this deal. By the way, did you know that there had been NO discussion of this crucial deal in the Turkish parliament beforehand ??! Sadly, Turkey is increasingly becoming (well, we can actually say 'has become', I guess) a place where one person makes all the important decisions.

This deal is going to cost Turkey a lot, in terms of security and economic/employment aspects. I am not against refugees but there is something called 'reasonable limit'. Even conservative estimates put the no. of Syrian refugees in Turkey now to around one and a half million people. And, this figure is bound to increase a lot, with this deal and with the continuing of the Syria war. Turkey isn't a country with a lot of resources and an efficient social benefits system.

And, for anyone who says 'Come on, your country is getting 3 billion euros', I will say that this is actually not a lot, when you think of the long-term costs of the refugees. There is also the important doubt about where the money (at least some of it) will go. I will hardly be surprised if a lot of the money ends up in the pockets of the AKP cronies.

Bad deal.

Of course 3 Billion is not a lot,IMO it is just the down payment, Just like Greece these countries know how to screw the EU,it's not too difficult when you have Merkel and Juncker aiding and abetting the great EU giveaway. If anyone can see a good reason to stay in a Europe in crisis,then they would be hard pushed to find just one!

The idea is you get huge discounts on products. Not a scam unless it suckers you into buying something you don't need just because it's 'on sale' - in which case you just didn't have discipline.

Exactly. Err..does anybody want to buy a matching pair of llamas? Cheap to a good home.

Are they the spitting llamas,or just ordinary?

http://www.bing.com/search?pc=COSP&ptag=D102515-ABB8A6EC868&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3334484&q=spitting+llamass

I've never understood why people complain about 'fake' smiles. In other countries, does a smile automatically indicate a commitment to a lifelong friendship or total honesty? Sometimes people just smile out of politeness, or as a bland greeting, or just because their boss told them to. Why do people expect Thailand to be any different?

Because TAT christined "Thailand the land of smiles" and later "Amazing Thailand" don't tell me that's not true either

So you took an advertising slogan at face value?

And yet people claim the Thais lack critical thinking skills...

And you didn't even see the smiley!

I've never understood why people complain about 'fake' smiles. In other countries, does a smile automatically indicate a commitment to a lifelong friendship or total honesty? Sometimes people just smile out of politeness, or as a bland greeting, or just because their boss told them to. Why do people expect Thailand to be any different?

Because TAT christined "Thailand the land of smiles" and later "Amazing Thailand" don't tell me that's not true either

It's not surprising that SEA are struggling to fill vacancies for English teachers,considering the the poor salaries...

Poor salaries? In Yangon (3 years ago), I was taking home $2,500 - $3,000 USD a month (tax free), including overtime. I was working for a bilingual, private school, not a 'real' international school.

And the only teaching qualification I had was a TEFL certificate

Good luck to you,it was very fortunate to have landed a salary of that amount!

here we go with the i'm 50/60/70 and still feel young crap. Ask a 20 year old what old is, you will soon find out that your old. Even though your in the best shape of your life, you look much younger than you are, you could run rings around blokes 20 years younger than you blah blah blah... yaaaaawn

"Ask a 20 year old what old is, you will soon find out that your old"

But what do the youngsters know? they don't even know if they will make it to 50!

Post Cancelled.

Good afternoon British Embassy how may we help......you want us to do what! .....ss ..ff.

And so what do you thing the Irish authorities would do ?even answer the phone?.....unlikely?

BANGKOK: Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha reiterated Friday night that his government would remain in the office until July 2017 after which he will hand the baton to a new government.

Good at least this Government can keep the bloodshed at bay,I haven't seen anybody else has been done better! to end the bloodshed!

It's unlikely but I hope your romantic dream becomes reality,instead of what the merchants of death by tobacco have planned for loyal customers,and believe me it's not romantic or indeed pleasant! smoking is only a pleasure until you get the checkbin! be warned!

How about only women,children and the elderly can pass through? I am sick of watching liveleak vids of what is clearly an invading army of young, strong, virulent men storming through Europe, with no vulnerable people in sight. Not quite what the word refugee means. If kids are let in they should be resettled with "real" Europeans like the stolen generation. That is assuming assimilation is the goal.

It was always too many refugees? too soon,and mainly too many economic migrants.

All my Thai neighbors hate me because I yell at them in Thai when having to clean up their dogs' mess after their dogs leave such mess in front of our gate where I have to either clean it up or step in it when opening/closing our gate while they stand there watching me clean it up.

Suits me just fine.

you're a cranky old man JL hahaha :-)

Why ? because he doesn't like cleaning up someone else's crap?

I think he was trying to inject a little humour.

"All my Thai neighbors hate me because I yell at them in Thai when having to clean up their dogs' mess after their dogs leave such mess in front of our gate where I have to either clean it up or step in it when opening/closing our gate while they stand there watching me clean it up"

Suits me just fine.

"Doesn't sound too humorous to me"

All my Thai neighbors hate me because I yell at them in Thai when having to clean up their dogs' mess after their dogs leave such mess in front of our gate where I have to either clean it up or step in it when opening/closing our gate while they stand there watching me clean it up.

Suits me just fine.

you're a cranky old man JL hahaha :-)

Why ? because he doesn't like cleaning up someone else's crap?

It is good to show, that we can work to :-)

But I have one question, every time someone say you help the family or a friend or the whole village,

some one very quick tells you can't work whiteout work permission,

you really need that, if you help without getting paid?

One thing if you work and get paid!

Yes, in thailand you are required to have a work permit even for volunteer work.

I don't know of anyone who has been in trouble for it, and i work for free myself at times.

But that is the law.

Someone may get upset if they think you are doing work a Thai should do and get paid for.

Some times Thais are their own worst enemy,in my wife's village the head Teacher can say Hello in English and the children can say good morning, my wife told me they would like me to teach some English,which was for free,I had no problem with this,but not when there is a problem with Thai Immigration laws! free or not.

Just like the Foreign Tsunami volunteers who got their marching orders,for not having work permits six months after Phuket was brought back to life,that finished me even considering the freebies. As a natural Speaker,i'm sure I could have been a good asset to this backward rural school,.... Mai Pen Rai!

Would not surprise me in the slightest if the jolly old taxman at HMRC were, sooner rather than later, to press for similar measures to be introduced for defaulting UK taxpayers!

Wait and see! if you haven't been cheating the Tax man you have nothing to fear,in fact HMRC always give a refund if you have overpaid!

Same old story the mules get busted , and the Mr.Big loses a Bit of pocket money!

I've never owned any shares ever, but if I were thinking of doing that, then looking at returns (and for me, an eye on safety), I think given the state of the economy I'd have to look to 'unethical shares' (McDonalds, Lockheed, tobacco etc), as they seem to be resilient in market collapse scenarios.

For Facebook specifically, I think the Ad revenue approach will eventually fall off, as people start to look to paid for services to avoid adverts, get more bandwidth and tailored a-la-carte selections. Also there are alternatives to FB appearing that are cleaner and don't sell your behavioural data, wipe your links because 'they' deem it inappropriate and so on. On top of that there are distributed/decentralised ideas springing up like MAIDSAFE and KimDotCom type thinking that could in a number of years make FB look like the AOL/Compuserve model of social networks. This isn't going to happen this week, but a few years down the line then maybe. Just something to keep an eye out for if you choose to jump in.

One last thing: I've never seen an advert on Facebook ever. Perhaps that's because I use ad blocking plug-ins (not sure, and don't want to test it). That's an easy thing to do, and if it became popular could wipe out FB revenues in a heartbeat.

Ive got a Ad Blocker on,but for some reason disappears on occasions,and I have to reinstall the program! maybe because it's a free program?