theblether

You appear to be irritated that we foreigners have an opinion on the next "leader of the free world" and their VP. We'll continue to have an opinion as long as Our Boys are lying in the graves marked "yet another American war."

Pegged - I see what you did there. Very good.

There'd be no politicians left. And you'd need to be deluded to believe that wouldn't include Democrat politicians.

I'm not playing this worthless game. I'm utterly sick of people excusing the unacceptable due to political bias. This was not a single "mispeak." We've all done that - but the man continued the lie for decades to the point where he was fact-checked by his local media and found to be a liar. Shocking.

Not a rant, a factually accurate post. And you are trying to defend this guy.

I'll say it once again but clearer now for the dim of thinking. No sane man lies about: Witnessing the murder of 10,000 students. Witnessing the rape of hundreds of women. Witnessing thousands of bodies reduced to mulch by tanks. Witnessing the remains being soaked in gasoline and set alight. Witnessing the remains being power-washed into the sewers. This is a filthy lie repeated for decades. An utterly horrendous lie. Just give it a rest;

Never complain, never explain. Work it out for yourself.

A minimum of 10,000 dead at Tianamen Square and you are excusing this clown for a "gaffe". Shameful.

Drivel. It's been a continuous lie by Walz. And as I said, Hong Kong was not China in 1989, he wasn't at Tianamen, no one who knows what happened at Tianamen would dare claim to have been there as what really happened was appalling beyond belief. Would you like an example? From a Chinese politburo source. "A brigade of semi-literate soldiers jumped a fence, and went on a mass orgy of rape. Female students were beaten to death and left with legs lying akimbo. Tanks were then called to run them over and pulverise them to mush. Gasoline was poured over the liquidised bodies and they were set alight. The soldiers then took great glee in power washing the remains into the sewers." This information is contained within British and AMERICAN official archives. And Walz lied about being there. Appalling. https://www.france24.com/en/20171223-10000-killed-chinas-1989-tiananmen-crackdown-british-archive

Look who just showed up. As I was saying about............

If I were a Democrat I'd just take the L and move on. Tim Walz was an utter embarrassment. As Frank Luntz said : "His line about making friends with school shooters is the worst line ever heard in a VP debate." My personal favourite - "why did you lie about being in Tianamen Square." "Well, I was a cyclist when I was a kid blah bah ( a few moments later )." "uhuhu, but the question was - why did you lie about being in Tianamen Square?" "Aye, eh - I mispoke." Idiot - and that goes for anyone trying to defend him. ps - for the less bright among you, in 1989 Hong Kong was British colony. It wasn't part of China or under Chinese communist party rule. #justsayin'

Aye, very good. 27% of British pensioners are millionaires. At least the same again are worth £500K plus. And this forum is full of people moaning they didn't get an extra tenner a week increase this year. Ya'll had fifty years to invest in property and private pensions and managed to contrive a situation you entered your later years skint. Just be quiet, Just give it a rest.

The best I can work out is it's a language proficiency issue. Former commonwealth countries and American language locations, such as P.I. are preferred. I think it's a bad mistake.

Once again - and let me be brutal about this. I've said for more than a decade that the best lifestyle is to live in the UK half the year and access all rights and services as a Brit. Do this, and your pension will be protected forever. No one says you need to do 180 days straight - 90 days on, 90 days off. But here's the true bottom line. Far too many of you chose to entrap yourselves in Thailand. Trapped, and skint, you didn't have the wits to know that exchange rates and inflation would wipe you out. Just make your way to the airport and come home.

Are you new here? You're taking a hell of a risk calling me "deranged and lacking in knowledge." Let me tell you something - I know precisely ZERO economically inactive illegal immigrants. You can't move for food delivery/barber/vaping shop types. McDonalds are literally remodelling their shops to accommodate DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THEIR RESTAURANTS TO SERVE THESE PEOPLE. They are using ID's of landed immigrants, and sharing revenue bases. I see it every single day in life. So do me a favour, the next time you decide to address me remember one thing. I'm an experienced British businessman who deals with the immigrant community every single day in life. I will not take lessons from online halfwits, the Daily Mail pant-p*ssing brigade.

I've continuously pointed out to the NHS that there is a large well of nurses and doctors available in Thailand. It's not one of their preferred hiring locations and that's a mistake.

It's long been my opinion this is the preferable way of life for British pensioners. Summer in the UK, winter in Thailand. Maintain your pension rights, access the NHS, etc Get the best of all worlds. Why not?

You are living the future already. The rich will gather all resources unto themselves. To hell with the poor. And even then we'll expats on 80,000 baht a month income lining up for treatment at government hospitals - knocking poor Thais even further back. I think in that article a guy says " things are tight on 80,000 baht a month." Dear me - tell that to your average Thai. Terrible.

Give it a couple of days and panic buying will set in. That, on top of the hurricanes, will be a major election season catastrophe.

Also, I'm not saying lengthy waits don't exist. The one thing that has already kicked in for the UK, and Thailand will be worse, is that there just aren't enough youngsters available. The birth rate has more than halved in Thailand. Crisis stages soon worldwide.

My sister is a senior NHS HR manager. Here's the problem. Overseas private hospitals are offering funny money. I know a 35 yo cardiac surgeon who has taken a job at USD650,000 basic in California. One well known former member of this forum has just been hired to an overseas contract paying 450% more than the NHS rate - How do we stop these specialists from being headhunted?

I've always thought the Australian rule that you need to live their for the final two years before pension age was brutal. But don't tell my Brit OAP's. They live feeling hard done by, don't burst their bubble.

Me? 🤪 thats a cracker.