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kingstonkid

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  1. The challenge is that people look at the 2 candidates. 1 A dotting old man who drove an 18-wheel rig marched with Mandella; his uncle was eaten by cannibals. can't remember the names of world leaders, has a hard time walking, and does not want to talk to the press without a seeing-eye guide or the easter bunny to protect him. OR TRUMP, who is all over the country, never shies away from the cameras and looks and sounds like he means business. He is saying the right things he is standing up for the border to stop the mass migration of people from all over the world. The other catch is that unlike Biden who has done nothing but be a politician sucking on the trough TRUMP not only built a huge business but has made himself a brand not just in real estate but also on TV and golf. The funny thing about all this is that the DNC is actually pushing people to vote for him. They are seeing the underside of all these court cases. They are seeing the fallout from them and people are so afraid it seems of him tht they will try to nullify him in court rather than face him on the campaign trail. Middle America is looking at him rightly or wrongly and thinking, if they can do this to him, what can they do to me? DA's are going nuts using up all their resources to try TRUMP, but meanwhile, when you look at NYC, Bragg is letting everything go to hell, officers are getting beat up. Stores getting looted. People are going to get fed up, and I can definitely see the same thing happening to Joe that happened to Hillary. IS HE THE BEST THE COUNTRY HAS WHO KOWS BUT HE IS DEFINITELY BETTER THAN WHAT THEY HAVE? Consider that while TRUMP was president, there were no new wars . Afghanistan was slowly starting to come to an end. NK and Russia were not trying to take over anything, and the Middle East was a quiet area where countries were starting to form trade alliances.
  2. That's another point. Who would book 2 months without knowing the area or the hotel? With a Cabaret around the corner, this is not a quiet area. An interesting pooint though is tht they are nly registered with booking.com. It seems they do not qualify for Agoda
  3. Consider that this is Brit that is supposedly ripped off. How many newspapers are usually trumpetting these things? Only hearing crickets. Also consider that looking at reviews there are a few that are recent and good. If you google you can see what the hotel looks like. The bottom line is that there is not alot of noise being made anywhere but ASEAN now. There are no dates. You can not tell me that there were not hotels int eh area cheaper than The next point is that "I got off the plane in Thailand and followed the map to where the hotel should be and it was just a small market stall - it just didn't exist. I told Booking.com that it didn't exist." It does exist and that is definitely not a market stall Possibility is that the taxi did a runner on him the first night but still someone should have done some checking. Also Booking . com, I am sure, had hotels that were a lot cheaper than he could have gotten into to get settled. Sorry, but the more I read, the more I think this is B.S. I am wondering how long at Le Lek reads this they will be hiring a lawyer and going after Booking. com.
  4. I hope you are right, but even if they do, there are going to be few of them, and I suspect fewer military people, although there may be a huge group of Thaksin fans.
  5. Thaksin's plan is to have allthese things int eh news that are big dreams. Taylor Swift is coming back. We are going to outbid Singapore and S Korea for major rock concerts. Bring in Formula 1 with no idea how to work and what it will require to fix the roads or the infrastructure World Cup is coming to Thailand. BUT THESE THINGS LOOK GOOD AND keep all the real issues off the front of the newspapers. There are no openings for extra races in the F1 Schedule. ALL tracks are doing well, and there is a long list of viable cities that can attract a local audience to the races. Thaksin is trying to get people not to look at his left-hand withe the return of his sister and the failure of the 10K plan
  6. It will be interesting to see who is put in the Senate. Once that is decided then it will be a case of who can win. You could see MFP get a huge majority so that the Senate has little effect. Remember this is going to be a smaler senate than they have now
  7. hey I thought they were taling about @bob smith until i saw that he was a skinny guy.
  8. follow up please was he charged or caught What did term 21 do
  9. https://www.landmarkbangkok.com/
  10. You can't fault Thai immigration, considering that when you get the visa, all you need is a valid passport and picture. I was just wondering at that time if they had the pages laminated. Changing the pick would have been a possible issue. Again the only issue saving him seems to be that the real Peter Smith never travelled.
  11. But where is the CHANG Shirt Suprised that one of the girls working in that are did not do something. The lady that runs the barber shop could definitely handle him.
  12. a few years ago I stayed at vareevara hotel. The rooms were good and the family that run it were awesome. might give them a shout and see if they are still there. vareevara(at)hotmail.com Reception 08 9784 2088
  13. You have answered your own question. Most young and old tourists who travel to other countries leave their brains on the plane. They seem to think me farang and I am in a different country, so the same rules that I have in my country no longer apply.
  14. I wonder if this could be due to the fact that these are the "new" lines that the government runs. Versus the lines that BTS runs and the extensions that have had very few problems. The challenge with the new SRT ines is that the government has their fingers in the pie and is making them build and operate on the cheap.
  15. I think you are right, but I would add that a lot of the women who are mid-age are looking for someone who is stable. I am sure that they could find a Thai man and have no trouble, but then again, in most cases, they would be lowering themselves. In the villages, there may be a stigma but I think that gets resolved when they farang shows that he is a good man and becomes part of the community the same in the city although more and more Thai women are looking for a man that is stable and mature and that eliminates a lot of the young thai men.
  16. After being here for 15 years (wow, where does the time go), I am taking Thai lessons not so much to learn Thai but for something to do. I have been doing it for a month and although it is enjoyable most of what I am learning I have picked up on the street already (albeit not withthe prefect sentences.) I alm looking forward to learning how to write adn read thai so that I understand a lot more of what is going on. While speaking Thai is good, I agree if you live in the city, Thais don't want to speak in Thai to you. They want to practice their English. That being said with all the paperwork and everything it will be nice to be able to ready things that I am signing and not rely on the GF
  17. There are a couple of facets I think we need to look at. I do not believe in the Farang only looking for and dating bar girls crap. I would suggest that most relationships on here that are long lasting are with women that were not part of the scene. As has been discussed on other sites, I think a lot of young non-university Thai men realize that their other half can make more money than them working in places like NANA or Cowboy. Also, they benefit from having GF that know a hell of a lot more about sex than most Thai ladies. Maturity and stability come into it for many Thai women. You rarely see farang who are married with a mia noi. Financially it makes more sense for a Thai girl to marry date a Farang than it does for most thai men Looking at the way that Thai men treat their wives is also an issue. again, there is a difference between most Thai men and farang in this instance. BUT again, in the end, it is the fact that a Thai man who has been living here for a long time must have a work visa or a good retirement plan. Therefore, they have a hell of a lot better income and can buy and support their GF wives to a better lifestyle.
  18. Why do you think he got the VIP treatment? The rich were not going to punish one of their own. He is one of the elites now, so he is relatively screwed when it comes t lower-class people.
  19. going to be interesting to see how Thaksin explailns that while he is part of the rich elite he is still a man or family of the people
  20. Thaksin is going to get hammered along with the PTP if the courts rule that MFP is trying to get rid of the monarchy. The streets will be full of people, and instead of them asking for military rule or PTP it is going to be a sea of ORANGE. Personally, I think the courts were stupid to take it. They could have simply said that they felt the amending of Art 112, while not possible, would not affect the people's love of the King and let it go. Now Pita and all the members of MFP are going to become martyrs. I think Thaksin realizes that this could be a bigger protest than anything the PTP or TRT ever had and is worried.
  21. If PTP is reformist, then consider that it was PTP and Thaksin that went through the BS that they are putting MFP through with the political games and BS of shutting down the party because they don't like it. PTP should be supporting the MFP to stay as a partynot utting them through the same painthat they went through. PTP is no different than the Democrat party, the PPP BJT or NTP. They are all in power to make money and help themselves and keep Thaialnd as it was 30 years ago.
  22. https://www.siam-legal.com/ Have used them for legal stuff and found them good big firm so lots of specialised lawyers
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