KamalaDreamer

HIV patients or road traffic accidents? Uneducated and unneccesary death. Promote safe sex. Leave the rta victim lying at the side of the road in a pool of blood. Thai government money is limited. Same everywhere. Let's not get too sentimental about HIV.

In other words the lives of Thais are cheap and not worth protecting?

Sure the government could save a lot of lives by implementing proper driver training, testing and enforcement, and improving EMT practices. And they should do so.

As well as doing its best to provide quality sex education to prevent the spread of HIV and reduce single teen pregnancies.

Maybe if politicians didn't divert so much money into their own pockets there would be more for effective government. Then maybe people wouldn't mind broadening the tax base and cracking down on the rich avoiding taxes.

Point taken BJBKK.

Standard Bank

Focus: Futures market cautious on gold, bearish on silver

Ending three weeks of strong declines, net speculative length for COMEX gold pushed higher, adding 70.4 tonnes over the past week. The change in the net position was largely the result of speculative longs being added (49.9 tonnes). The

20.5 tonnes unwound from shorts also contributed significantly to the overall improvement. Total short positions have now once again slipped below last year’s average—a more comfortable level. However, while the improvement is encouraging, net speculative length is still relatively weak—currently at 514.6, below the 2012 average of 671.3 tonnes. We are hesitant to call the futures market as bullish on gold yet.

ETF enthusiasm has resurfaced, although only modestly. A mild 7.1 tonnes were added to ETF holdings of gold over the past week. Once again, while enthusiasm appears to be returning, it remains cautious.

For silver, the story is even less encouraging. Net speculative length for COMEX silver fell off dramatically, with 529.4 tonnes shed. A 350.1 tonne unwinding of long positions, with a simultaneous 179.2 tonne increase in shorts (the largest increase of the year thus far) caused the overall deterioration. Futures market participants are definitely sceptical about the prospects for silver.

ETFs were net buyers of silver, adding 22.6 tonnes to their holdings. However, the timid nature of this buying does not inspire much confidence.

The one positive for silver in the CFTC data is that the drop off in net speculative length has seen it also fall as a percentage of open interest. Currently, the figure is at 14.9%, now below last year’s average of 15.7%—a sign that the market is less stretched than it has been for the last seven weeks.

Our fundamental analysis combined with the apparent return of investor scepticism leads us to maintain our view that rallies should be sold into. We wait patiently for the metal to drop closer to $30/oz. Around this level, we see good value with the potential to reach $40/oz in Q3:12.

Up to you

The bewitching hour has arrived in Thailand, noon or thereabout in New York, and it is now time to reveal that the original post in this topic is an April Fool joke. Apologies to the many members whose posts recognising the prank have been deleted, but we wanted the fun to last a little longer. Credit goes to NewlyMintedThai for being the first, 16 minutes into the topic, with many others following not much later.

Feeling lucky punk?

The bewitching hour has arrived in Thailand, noon or thereabout in New York, and it is now time to reveal that the original post in this topic is an April Fool joke. Apologies to the many members whose posts recognising the prank have been deleted, but we wanted the fun to last a little longer. Credit goes to NewlyMintedThai for being the first, 16 minutes into the topic, with many others following not much later.

April 1 is a western thing. Loy Krathong and Songkran are Thai.

Good luck tomorrow and the rest of April.

April 2nd joke from London.

RIH

The bewitching hour has arrived in Thailand, noon or thereabout in New York, and it is now time to reveal that the original post in this topic is an April Fool joke. Apologies to the many members whose posts recognising the prank have been deleted, but we wanted the fun to last a little longer. Credit goes to NewlyMintedThai for being the first, 16 minutes into the topic, with many others following not much later.

April 1 is a western thing. Loy Krathong and Songkran are Thai.

Good luck tomorrow and the rest of April.

That it is a "her" is enough. No details needed. I was just wondering. Might have been the name of a beach on an island in the South of Thailand, for all I know, but I think I am mixing that up with Kata, on Samui or in Phuket or wherever.

I have a big investment in a hotel in Phuket. Kamala Dreams.

Dutch owner lacked imagination too.

TMI

You're off topic again. Make an effort to add in at least two words that would make your post on topic

At what price do Viagra and Elonza sell in Thailand? They're all asleep in Thailand now, I should think, but perhaps you know, KamalaDreamer.

(Is Kamala the name of a woman you dream about, or is it a brand of beer?)

How much information do you want?

Check out my posts that have been deleted by TV.

Thailand sleeps. I'm in London and I miss her.

Well, I haven't met and conversed with the good doctor and therefore cannot judge his imagination. As for myself, I am ready for the next pint.

Don't leave your wallet on the table.

Your fist sentence is true-BUT it should be transparent as much as possible--and they are paid to do the job-don't forget that. With the best of the M.P.in jobs they are totally familiar with. My impartial-bash when needed posts try to point out the failures, and discuss them, for interest as I live here. You seem to sympathize with the coalition giving me the impression they are doing their best===most of them are at feathering their own nests.

Your 3rd sentence is the absolute truth, it's a pity the government do not do the same

Thank you.

I deal in the truth. Politicians can't.

Aye, the ignonimous FDA spokesman Ekkarin Fugmyleksomboon who thinks sexual pleasure is immoral and against government policy. Sorry, that was a distortion, he actually said that for a man to take a pill to get an erection for the purpose of having sexual pleasure is immoral, etc. I wonder what his problem is.

Stick to clocks and shares Maestro.... outside of Thailand.

Thai and Khmer will rip your credit card.

Aye, the ignonimous FDA spokesman Ekkarin Fugmyleksomboon who thinks sexual pleasure is immoral and against government policy. Sorry, that was a distortion, he actually said that for a man to take a pill to get an erection for the purpose of having sexual pleasure is immoral, etc. I wonder what his problem is.

No imagination.

I'll settle for the fake Rolex from the Bangla road and and a Thai woman with a diabetic father.

...We ain't communicating Maestro.

And we're bloomin' off topic again.

Dr. Ekkarin Fugmyleksomboon's topic?

Light year speak with forked tongue too.

Kamaladreamer, Yingluck is a part time P.M. the times she is missing from debates- avoidance-others having to make her decisions for her, trying to look pretty and helping the family cause seems the norm, now I wouldn't mind that kind of job. Limited funds--I wonder why ?? it wouldn't be corruption ?? vast amounts of money's collected by the Bib, and not handed over to the Thai government, big spending on rubbish equipment for school kids, and coming back to topic, all the money's NOT collected from corrupt deals would easily pay for the aids epidemic,cancers, etc---SHAME

Running a country is not easy for anyone.

It is very difficult for all politicians. You can't keep all the people happy all of the time.

King of Thailand provides love and stability for all.

None other. Everybody, go and buy it while it is still available freely in Thailand.

Swiss man speak with forked tongue.

Forked tongue, my foot. Bought the shares in July 2007 at $25.79 and almost five years later I am still down $3.13 per share. Closed last Friday at 22.66. They pay a nice quarterly dividend, though.

Will the Swiss banker take care of the Thai family with few assets?

We ain't communicating Maestro.

I'll settle for the fake Rolex from the Bangla road and and a Thai woman with a diabetic father.

Any money the Pattaya bar girl takes from the Swiss is OK by me.

None other. Everybody, go and buy it while it is still available freely in Thailand.

Swiss man speak with forked tongue.

Back to the topic now, guys. Puschl mentioned something about Pfizer's cash cow, meaning Viagra with its sildenafil. Hasn't the patent on sildenafil already expired? Which wouldn't necessarily mean, of course, that Pfizer wouldn't be able to continue to cash in on its overprized Viagra. It's just that I have been waiting for over two years for the Pfizer shares to go up and I am still in the red.

So your interest in viagra is monetary?

Doctor Manning on Fox News says that having sex is good for your Prostate....

Sexual activity, ie ejaculation, is said to delay or prevent prostatic hypertrophy, ie the enlargement of the prostatic gland.

Best way to keep a V8 going is to put your foot on the accelerator.

Back to the topic requested by Maestro:

Thai woman with a diabetic father doesn't give a monkey's if the insulin comes from Pfizer or a generics factory in BKK.

The real world.

Long way from Switzerland.

I wish I were there to join you, but I am in Switzerland. Reading back through the deleted bamboo posts and am still scratching my head. See you in the virtual pub tomorrow to thrash it out. Got 50 half-liter cans of my favourite beer in the cellar to keep me going.

I drink your health, well l drink my health every day, sooooooooooo, cheers, skol, what ever, any time of your day.

Steady on Transam.

The only movement the Swiss understand is inside a clock.

I wish I were there to join you, but I am in Switzerland. Reading back through the deleted bamboo posts and am still scratching my head. See you in the virtual pub tomorrow to thrash it out. Got 50 half-liter cans of my favourite beer in the cellar to keep me going.

Yeah. And I'm in London 6000 miles away from the baboons arse.

My apologies. I am a bit slow sometimes when it comes to understanding some jokes. Bamboo = penis, is that it? Since the topic is about erectile dysfunction, I guess we have licence to say penis. Or is it bamboo as a substitute for Viagra?

No. Bamboo is a derogatory phrase for girls and women from IndoChina.

Farang men who have thai girlfriends can refer to them as bamboo without penalty.

So bloody subtle the point is lost transam.

Happy to talk over a beer. TV Forum is clearly not the vehicle.