sandrew33

This is a complete misunderstanding of reality. Police in all states in Australia had defined benefit superannuation long before Super Guarantee started. In most states they also had additional superannuation contributions (on top of compulsory) after compulsory started. I’ve got several 55-65 year old Police in my extended family with comfortably more than $1m in super. If they acquired an investment property or bought a near city house near Sydney in the 90’s they could easily have $4m+. I mean my best mate bought his house in Sydney in 2000 for $1.2m and it’s now worth $15m. You are reaching based on a flawed grasp of the system. That he’s now done something that is epically stupid is not in dispute.

This 👍🏻 Much better to be assumed to be some sort of struggling pensioner than a potential mark 🙂

It’s not that much for a family holiday for the founding partner of a decent sized law firm. I mean I’d be shocked if he was making less than $1.2m per annum

News reports are that he was staying with his family

Well yes, and yet as I explained this is vanishingly rare from a massage in my experience and the experience of everyone I know. Hence me finding a drive by on much of the Thai massage sector unnecessary and driven by the need for clicks rather than anything much useful.

I think you’ll find there are several borders through which this chap could likely make a successful exit especially with willing financial backers.

The problem with content creation is that the need for new content is endless. There are many of us with 20+ years in Thailand between ourselves and our networks would have had tens of thousands of all manner of massages up and down Thailand (and in other even sketchier parts of Asia) and we’ve never seen anything like this. That skin irritation/infection can occur is obviously true anywhere but that’s not really the focus here. It’s about a content creator looking for a niche for content. No context, not especially useful but scary images and broad brush tars an entire sector. Because content must be created as those DTV’s aren’t going to fund themselves. Has anyone else noticed that much of the newer content is either just lazy stereotypes or, increasingly just negative nonsense like this?

In an unrelated matter I’m dying for a Red Bull 🙂

Bang Kwang is typically what people are referring to when they say the “Bangkok Hilton“ I’m surprised anyone who has spent any time in Thailand doesn’t know this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Kwang_Central_Prison

Yeah it’s only the Shins that are devisive and certainly not the absolute clown show that always finds a way to replace them right?

Bloodless sure but those who stand up against it and are then destroyed in other ways. And the people bear the cost of a country that never comes close to achieving its potential because of the endless power struggles.

This is frankly the boot licker view of the last election (hiding behind rhetoric). The young educated, the young poor and much of the middle are onboard with the PP notion that the countries method of government needs to be modernised. That’s why they got so much of vote in a fairly gerrymandered process. The LM assertions are just the old guard crushing modernity. Again. And so we ended up with the current sub par govt. Again. Change is long overdue.

They probably buy planes for their subs TBH 😉

This is both accurate and idiotic. If the tax is definitely being charged then not including it in the price is an idiotic approach/system. I do however agree that this is quite common and it’s unhelpful that the US does it, as others tend to follow suit. The approach in countries such as Australia where the price quoted is the actual price payable is by any measure the vastly superior one.

So nothing has changed, they’ve added some LTR visas that are easy to get but require higher income or assets? I mean this is one of the more poorly written articles I’ve ever read.