daveAustin

There's one nik on here (masquerading as at least 3) arguing with himself repetitively. Why are you not picking it up, Support? This trollish twaddle might bring in visitors but it is dragging the whole site down.

All I can say to this topic is, ThaiVisa used to catch the trolls and instantly ban them... there's a few here with G and H letter names by the looks. Baht is king and all that.

Agree about westerners being idle… it started with the entitled boomer gen. Trump is of that irrelevant group and doesn’t give a monkeys since he is rich and has one foot in the grave already. He just wants to shake it up to satisfy his own fragile pissant ego.

To be fair, while Trump is a complete tit, Thailand deserves to be thrashed on tariffs. Just surprised nobody else has brought them to book before. The protectionist xenophobe stance on alcohol and cars is gross. Don’t do a ‘war room’ thing against the US, though. That will never work. Sort your S out and negotiate.

Too much. Too much to think about. Only thing that ever kept my back and neck tight was loads of stretching and pushups. That means effort.

Ok for cooking and perhaps coffee, but RO is 'dead' water devoid of what the human body needs. Drink this stuff every day and guaranteed you will be dehydrated and misty-headed. Op, do those machines at your peril. Have they changed the filter etc? Also, keep reusing bottles over and over again, you end up getting bacteria(lised). Better off buying bottles from 7, or drinking beer or gin... as they did in the day, even the kids!

World is full of idiots 'Some' of them are on this site.

Trouble is though, bro, you address all that and you end up with boring nanny state western angst. The baht is WAY overpriced though... by about 50%.

If they were angry with them for peeing on the street, imagine they’d have been livid had they been doing #2

A waste of 30k when they demolish it. 😋

Gonna hurt US consumers more than anyone. “plundered and stolen from” lol. He has no clue about economics. The US has benefitted hugely in price and diversity from everyone that sells to them. They can’t make most of what they buy in.

Gawd! 😔 Don’t worry, Helen, as with practically every other franchise and TV in general post-2020, Bond will be so watered down and typical from now on as to be unrecognisable. I expect the next Bond to be non-white, un-masculine, highly effeminate, likely with deep physical and mental flaws, and utterly un-witty so as to not upset the fragile. Another show ruined for the sake of you know who.

Ah, there it is. How can she be sure other buildings are safe and meet appropriate standards? Who told her that?

Oh aye, they dress up to the nines to avoid it. Amusing, eye opening process to anyone that hasn’t attended. Can’t blame them.

It's a bit knee-jerk, but many people just don't get the physics and heed social media tat too much. The thing happened days ago well inland; there will be no tsunamis.

Those that continually run them down typically have bad experiences in the tourists hotspots. Those places are not Thailand or 'real' Thais. I sometimes have a whinge, but Thai people overall are very cool. I have yet to witness such generosity of spirit anywhere else in the world. The amount of times--in similar situations as the op--where I've been helped out when in trouble is uncanny. Some of my best friends are Thai and I'm more comfortable around them than I am my own to be honest.

Why are Trump supporters so unwilling to criticize even some of his policies? Delusion, foolhardiness, fear of the alternative. Tempting to say they are thick but the support goes across the spectrum and there are very clever people that voted for him... or more so the idea. Hard for them to say the guy is out of line. I get it and we also need some tough policies in the UK to counter ott leftism and unrelenting illegal immigration. But not to the extent of hating the rest of the world.

Gawd, what a drab deluded bunch of right wing garbage. Everyone reckons their pissant little patch is 'the best' blah blah. But one thing's for sure, America ain't it and never will be. There is just no deep culture, history or homegrown innovation. Just a nothing ness off others' ideas. While it is of course the richest economy and also one of the most beautiful places on earth, especially up and about the Rockies--and there are some very cool people--it has done this through the influx of (chiefly) European input. Delve into history and there is only one true great after Greece and Rome and that is Britain. It gave an advanced language, law, sports, diverse music and was pretty much unparalleled in the arts and science. Donkeys will naturally poopoo this because they have an axe to grind and there is the envy element, but we'd all still be rolling around in the old poop if it weren't for them. Read your history. Only reason it ever let the Americas go was because of a weak, prat of king who didn't know wtf he was doing and there was more pressing stuff going on elsewhere. But of course the yanks (actually the brits at the time) think they beat the greatest power that had ever been by poking a few redcoats/chucking tea into the sea etc. F-a-doodle-do! Having said all that, despite the total and utter Fwits in charge right now, still reckon America is a force for the good, and of course we could all be destroyed if they so wished. They just need to line their ducks up a bit and clear out the trash. Regards the left destroying America: yes, they are a weird and as equally devoid of logic bunch and will do so through provoking the other side, as we have now. Congratulations.

Well done for lowering the tone of this wonderful story. There’s always one.😔 He received/receives a massive amount of donations; how do you know some of this didn’t come by way of something similar? Scammers aside, there is no difference with folk in ‘trouble’ in the West. It is just a more effective way. A war veteran back home needed help recently and without a similar thing to gofund, I couldn’t have helped.

Who by, Pinocchio? If that is a thing, so what? FO! F'ck the US and everyone else, they do what they want on their own turf. How about a Danish or Greenlander delegation going to Long Island and threatening to take it over? It's just the <deleted>;s ploy with his little henchmen to bring the world 'into line'. He'll then soften his stance and negotiate. Classic new boss 101 bs. Only thing, it won't work with smart people and countries... many of which have fought alongside the US in their made-up wars.

It may be a dopey question, but, as a hypothetical 'IF', it would have to be Canada all the way. Few people would back the US in anything nowadays aside from the axis countries or unless they had an agenda. I don't know what's worse, the US being top dog with the current thugs in power, or commie China. I just wish Britain would grow its balls back and tell Donald & co to FO.

You can't really blame the vendor since she very likely has NO clue who Hitler and Putin are. All she sees is baht.

What a total ass. If ever someone was in more dire need of a punch in the face! Trump is a total knob by default, but what is this little urchin's excuse? When the aforementioned is dead and the rest of his mob administration is in chains, I would pay good money to see the look on this tosspot's face while he's picking the soap up in the shower. Btw, careful with riling up the Danes!

Nope. Everybody may hate them (not the people of course), but they produce a lot and have massive grain output. Their economy will suffer but their current rulers will get their way in the end. Just so long as they know they're on their own in the next 911 or Iraq or Afghanistan etc etc...

Very Poignant, Simon, albeit that is your mind's ego sidekick doing its thing. That he died at 66 is sad, but 100y ago they were dying a lot younger... 500y ago 30 was an old man! It's what we do unfortunately. Just do not worry about the inevitable and live through your senses like the animals do... mind is WAAY down the list, i.e. don't think too mutt. When it comes, as it will, just accept it.