Everything posted by bradiston
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Supernatural near-drowning ordeal: Ghost tells Thai woman to commit suicide
She's wearing a mask while drowning? Too weird.
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Pattaya’s sunny side: Hotel industry shines amid European gloom
Advertorial. Worthless as news.
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Again! Tourist’s Shoe Gets Stuck At Airport Moving Walkway
Can someone, preferably the journalist from the TNR who wrote this piece, explain exactly how this flat soled lightweight shoe has become "jammed" in the escalator? The pictures reveal nothing except a woman, maybe a mime artist, tugging at a shoe which really does not appear to be stuck in any way.
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Mukbang. What would yours be?
Bang goes South Asian cuisine
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Farmers’ ally: Captain Thamanat vows to sow out smuggling of agricultural goods
Does he mean weed out? Obviously clueless about agriculture.
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Internet banking change.
Tried over and over. They say not ready yet.
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Mukbang. What would yours be?
I watched a few reels of the pros at it. Made me think what I'd choose, just one dish mind you. I figure I could put away a bucketful of geng paneng sapparot Kung, prawn and pineapple paneng curry, with rice.
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Early morning opening
I think Soi Excite is Soi Chalermprakiat 23. Pothole is Chalermprakiat 25. Yes, I used to eat there occasionally too when I was staying at P Plus long ago before it closed and reopened post COVID. Has a gym and pool. Rooms were cheap back then!
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Early morning opening
The Continental on Thappraya opens at 0530 every day. Huge selection of breakfasts, lunches and dinners. It's just past the Thepprasit junction on the left, heading towards Jomtien. Old style Swiss, I think. But almost any European style. I've not come across anywhere else serving a thoroughly decent breakfast at that time in the morning. Beats the 7s into a cocked hat, kippers and all. Bakery and home made yoghurt.
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Why is walking so good for you? Here's what studies show.
I've decided exercise is extremely bad for me. I'm quite happy sitting around doing nothing most of the time. I go to the sauna every day, sweat like crazy, cold pool, hot pool, float in the swimming pool. I'm surrounded by gyms, and consequently he man heaven. But why do they do it? Load up on carbs, load up on weights, the never ending story! No or very lo carb diet will keep your weight in check without all that. The fitness industry. It'll kill you!
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Mini bus from Pattaya to Siem Reap
Can't he learn how to pronounce Pattaya properly?
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Suriya Puts Off Capping Bangkok Train Fares At 20 Baht Per Trip
Sure, and reforming the military, increasing minimum wage, guaranteeing graduates 25k pm. Lowering energy costs might go through as a populist measure I guess.
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Short term loan
Funny, I thought everybody was
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Short term loan
I need a 3 month hassle free bridging loan of 300,000 THB. Where would I start? Retired, non imm O, pension. No other income. Investment maturity in December.
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Suriya Puts Off Capping Bangkok Train Fares At 20 Baht Per Trip
Another day, another vote buyer bites the dust.
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IPTV box.
I'm paying 1800 a quarter. I've discovered I very rarely use it. The movies are quite obviously downloaded from eg pirate bay. Foreign ones often don't have subs. The audio and video on many need a lot of adjustments as they're way out of sync. Some series just conk half way through. As for sport. Well I get a much better Eurosport feed from my cable providers. No ads. There's no Premier channel 3 for rugby. I'll be looking to switch providers.
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Intus. Any experiences with them?
They're an Estonian Savings and Loan Association offering "attractive" rates. 7.5% and up. But, can you get your money back?
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Xi Jinping invites Srettha to Beijing for economic talks as he finalises his new cabinet lineup
Yes indeed, a very interesting topic. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanxi And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_network Sretha is 3rd generation Chinese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srettha_Thavisin I think "most favoured son" might be an apt description of his relationship with Xi.
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Each Time House Meeting Collapses Through Lack Of Quorum ‘8.2m Baht Is Wasted’
They did attend. They were almost all present. But they didn't "log in" so to speak. A form of protest. They showed up, unlike their counterparts in government, but refused to make up the quorum while most of the government MPs couldn't be bothered. Serves the stupid lazy smug coalition MPs right. KK made their point effectively and precisely.
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Thai Prime Minister pledges to tackle fisheries industry woes
Bloomberg reports Sretha to take financial ministry himself
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Each Time House Meeting Collapses Through Lack Of Quorum ‘8.2m Baht Is Wasted’
A brief summary of his calculation follows below: – Salaries of the House Speaker, Deputy House Speakers divided by 31 days, averages 10,968 baht a day; – Salaries of MPs, senators and their teams divided by 31 days totals 5,921,129 baht a day; – Travel expense (real cost refundable); – Electricity and water expense based on data from 2020 totals 1,609,848 baht; – Location expenses calculated on the cost of running a large dining hall for 500 people, parking for 900 vehicles, 12 other rooms, Internet fees and salaries of cleaning staff, car park attendants and security guards. All this adds up to a loss of 8,291,945 baht each time the House meeting collapses, Sasinan wrote but signed as “The People”, These look like standing costs, incurred whether or not the MPs turn up. 1.6m a day for water and electricity? 6m a day for salaries? Nothing to do with lack of quorum.
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Xi Jinping invites Srettha to Beijing for economic talks as he finalises his new cabinet lineup
Welcome to Chailand
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Gen. Prawit to Resign as MP
There are other forces at work now.
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Gen. Prawit to Resign as MP
I wonder if the NACC has tipped him off that they can't cover for him any longer so he'd better make himself scarce. Dubai maybe?
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“Utility Tokens” to be used for “digital wallet” scheme
Cue the scrapping of the whole scheme along the lines of the 300 THB landing fee at Thai airports, for want of thinking the whole thing through and not just dangling it there as a vote buyer. PT should be mauled and hauled up in front of the EC for vote buying. It was never anything more than that and now they're left with egg all over their faces when it comes to the deadline for coughing up. They don't have the funds and they wouldn't know how to deliver it in any case. I give this ship of fools (stultifera navis) 3 months.