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I wish they would just come out with it and tell us what they want; tax returns are due in a couple weeks aren’t they? 😳

Because he catastrophizes, as he does. Seems to be a thing with a certain side of the political spectrum. All very predictable and dull. They should just get over it. People in general are pissed with Russia/Russians, yes because of the war, but also in the aggressive way they carry themselves and that they typically have no regard for other cultures. Trump’s shenanigans will have little effect on others’ views of Americans overall methinks. Decent folk for the most part, if a little big headed, but they are not invading sovereign states or going bat<deleted> crazy. But leaving the country etc (not that op is even there) is just leftie twaddle. We had all that last time. 😴 Some family members would not travel to the US during his last tenure, which I just found odd. Learned people with a childlike fixation it seems. Anyway, why reply?

Stunning hotel on Kata Noi Beach. Was there in the noughties; shudder to think what the price is now. Just don't bother with the big tourist destinations now in this country. They take the P on everything from hotels to beer, taxis, attractions, whatever. No good comparing western destinations... it don't work like that. Always cringe when I read headers like this one... it means proper gouging incoming.

Excellent. Please take all the Russians with you. Guessing, however, these are higher end tourists. No issue with them. It’s the aggressive groups that shout, push n shove and gob everywhere.

Yep, high time it was abolished. It achieves nothing but make the powers that be appear puerile and idiotic when unsuspecting tourists cannot have a nip. Personally doesn’t impact me and while few restaurants or bars play ball, not being able to buy a beer or wine at 7 or while grocery shopping during this narrow window is just bizarre. Shades of the old dopey UK licensing hours.

Hmm, tobacco industry protecting itself? How’s about protecting kids from cigs? Oh yes, they are taxable.

^^^ Well, this is a Thai forum after all. Hardly relative. Thais probably care as much about what happens in Cajun country as the latter do Thais. Not a biggie, many places have tiny nominal capitals... just shift government house and irrelevant politicians (all of them), albeit Bkk will still need saving. It was always a lost cause when what's his name relocated to a river delta from Ayuthaya in the 1700s. Guess they never envisaged such expansion.

Snooker lol

The current factory of the world shouldn’t be ignored, yes, but it does not make them any sort of powerhouse. They are where they are at through machinations of the west. No balls paper tigers. Folk have little inkling just how powerful the US really is, and along with the above—which you have flippantly quoted—are the reason the world is in any sort of advancement.

Tat. Money (from the exploited) can’t fight your way out of a bean bag. Zero creativity.

That, or wow Thaksin has taken good care of himself, he looks younger and fitter than ever.

… barman: anyone for pot black? ?

Could be worse. How about a Dr. Richard Shufflebottom?

Great place, esp Pub (and adjacent) Street though not sure could live there, if anywhere in Cam. Seemed a bit rough n ready. Op seems UK orientated; pretty sure yanks don’t/didn’t have O levels. Unless perhaps some geezer from Stoke-on-Trent fetched up in Tupelo of all places.

Got to be a joke on their part, surely... a farang working in public risking arrest for couple hundred baht an hour? Next you'll see a farang with a pair of shorts with the Thai flag on. Guaranteed to get the natives' backs up. He'd be deported too, of course. Absolutely cannot have that. However, a Thai could wear a foreign flag on their shorts no prompem. 🙃

You guys really know how to endear yourselves to others. The most baffling thing for non-americas is that they consistently have just a few poor candidates to choose from to run their country, and then continually whine. Op really needs to move on with their life, or perhaps run for office themselves. Couldn't do a worse job than the last wishy-washy warmongering muppets.

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He’s a donkey but this move to protect women is healthy. Also keep men out of women’s toilets and prisons. Someone can be whatever they want, who cares, but a bloke in a dress going into a female toilet to look at a girl is just wrong!

That won't help, Donald. They hate one another and essentially want the other off the map. Perhaps offer to rehouse all the Palestinians in Florida and all the Israelis in New York... a bit of separation. Maybe then that region of the ME can find some sort of peace after our various countries have stuck their nose in and made this mess.

They want ever more people to visit and right on cue make entry more awkward. Gotta loves the Thais and their ‘right’ way of doing things. 😂

CCP absolutely hates anyone shedding light on their inhumane regime. Deny deny deny, misdirect etc. Our countries have done bad things in history, everyone has, but we have mostly moved on. China and the other undesirables are firmly rooted in the past and are utterly ruled by ego.

Or drivel even 😋 Dunno about that. Some of the coolest women I have met / had 'relations' with while on my travels, both in the US and overseas, were American. Western women, in general, have become emboldened because meek, browbeaten men have made them that way through the modern, guilt-ridden system. This will affect some delicate flowers, but women must be controlled lest you foster a monster. The guy (that's the one with the dick) is the boss, end of story. Let them wear the pants and somewhere along the line you will get a right old savaging. The silverback does not concern himself with the whims of the lady gorilla. Be a silverback, don't be a poodle!

^^^ Don’t particularly like him, but he’s certainly not stupid and Thailand would do well to move in this direction.

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Perhaps move there, you’d be in hog’s heaven. Never really got why they want to travel here en masse to celebrate their new year. Please stay home, Thailand is already way too busy.