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Not really cannabis related, but I met several girls in Nana back about 10 years ago, who were adept at putting me out like a light. Trouble is, they never hung around so I could ask them what it was when I woke up. Or reclaim my lost belongings.

I'll take the 5th on that one.

I've got a framed very ornate certificate hanging over my work desk at home thanking me for my ongoing support for the families of immigration officers over the years. I never got one from the bank. A little grease goes a long way.

81? Are you mad?

Writing Thai is a near impossible task for me. With multiple versions of a variety of consonants, you'd have to learn every word. But reading Thai has numerous benefits. It teaches you pronunciation and spelling irregularities in the language, of which there are many. You can practice your tones, and just have fun with anglicisation. And find your way round without needing English translations. And really start to understand the language.

Yeah, but nothing like what they quoted me which is what spurred my comments. Why quote Tuesday when the funds arrived Friday, after a huge amount of complaining from me? That's not a service of any description. And you'll always get a percentage of respondents with "always worked well for me", akin to "nobody else has complained".

Update! The money arrived in my Wise £ account yesterday at 1622. Men. It can be done!

I didn't see structured as an option when I was there, until the very last. Then I noticed classes reading and writing Thai. Without that, all disciplines, just forget it. You'll learn more out and about. Most of the useful phrases I learnt came from every day situations. Like "I'll think about it". "Can't think". "Too much hassle". But I haven't progressed beyond that probably through living in Pattaya.

That's it! Thanks. Recommended from the 3 months or so I went there, prior to COVID closure.

Exactly so. My name is on the building permit for the house I had built. But my daughter owns the land, which of course is a huge blessing. I got a visit from immigration once in 15 years demanding to know why the house owner hadn't filed a TM30. Oh, that'll be me I said. But no, they wanted to speak to my daughter about it. I paid the fine and got rid of them. In reality immovable property on land seems to be assumed to be part of the land. You can argue blue in the face, but I don't think it will make a lot of difference. Unless you have, as I now have, a usufruct on the house and land, in theory you are trespassing every time you cross the land to get to it. Preventing foreigners from owning land is a hidden blessing! It's a minefield.

I went to a school whose name escapes me, on Pattaya Klang, close to Big C Extra, in a sort of lay by next to Bangkok Bank. The teacher was great and the other members of the class, there were only 6 of us, were good. It closed for COVID but I think has reopened. It involved reading, writing and speaking. I went to AUA in Bangkok and hated almost every minute of it. In those days you weren't supposed to use dictionaries nor write anything down. Just listen while sometimes one, sometimes 2, Thais chatted away. I had taught myself to read Thai, and the tone system - yes, there is a system, but you need to learn to read Thai to understand it. AUA steadfastly refused to do either of these things. At least, until I left, frustrated and angry. I told the school principle what I thought of their totally passive teaching method. A complete waste of time for me. But, I will say, some of their teachers were exceptional. Odd, that.

So 20,000 THB leaves my account on Thursday at 7pm. Friday, nothing I can see happens. Sat/Sunday, oh of course, computers don't work at weekends. This is, after all, is simply moving binary digits around from one server to another. No physical entities involved at all. Monday is a holiday in the US, but what's it doing there? Oh, that's our helper bank. Everything goes through it. Then finally on Tuesday the American bank moves it into a UK bank account. None of these exists in the real world. It's just computer code. There is no UK bank account, except as a piece of code. It's all complete nonsense.

I set up a THB transfer from Krungthai to Wise UK on Thursday at 7pm. I'm now told it will arrive Tuesday. After 4pm counts as next day. No transfers at weekend. Holiday in US Monday. What a joke!

Surely restricting the issuance of gun licences will have very little effect as I'd bet most fire arms are unlicensed in any case. Once the public is armed and ready to rumble, there's nothing anybody can do. Thank god in Europe we've somehow kept the need to carry a gun to an absolute minimum.

Easing poverty for a short time is not actually easing poverty at all. Long term poverty is a curse and almost impossible to get out of. This will have next to no effect whatsoever. You might as well buy 10,000 THBs worth of lottery tickets. Maybe whole villages will.

I hope Thaksin realises he will have to spend his in the prison canteen.

Large cache of weapons? A BB gun and some ammo? Oh boy.

People killed in shooting were Chinese and Burmese - police. Just what this madhouse needed.

How does "the itchy side of legal" mean above the age of consent, if that's what you mean? Legal age? You mean the age of majority? A meaningless phrase.

What the heck is the itchy side of legal?

Well, a people moving/processing system is only as good as its busiest milost congested point, ie immigration. So moving 1000s of passengers fast from outlying terminals to one central immigration point is just plain mad. If they can't cope with the volume as it stands, adding another 4 train loads a minute or hour is not going to work. They should build another immigration processing terminal. Just my 300 THB landing fees worth

Can't figure out if this terminal has its own immigration points. If not, surely all the new arrivals will just be shovelled through the existing points. What a total disaster! And will it link to the airport link, or just be stranded out there a mile from anywhere? Coming through at 2345 Saturday night from Manila, whole place deserted. There were more immigration officers than passengers. Note to airlines: try scheduling your flights outside rush hours. Spread the load. Airport authorities also note.

Explain

Seems the best and brightest are doomed to fail in this haven of mediocrity. Pita, Thanathorn and now Pannika. Overseas educated at amongst the top educational establishments in the world., the royalist establishment perceives them as am immediate threat. The non English speaking majority dunces that populate Thai government departments aren't fit for purpose. As usual BS baffles brains in the land of the buffalo.

Gross. Siam Rath hitting a new low in editorial BS. And AN playing along with it. A couple busted for selling fruit without a permit? Everybody cheer when the underdog gets kicked.