Sealbash

I must be an incredibly lucky, proficient & highly skilled individual [emoji846] 
31 years in Thailand, always paid cash, never had any money stolen - further - never lost my wallet! - Impressive eh! I really don't understand what the big deal is against using cash - its easy, off course "government" & CC companies will/do push for a cashless society, more data for them to add into their algorithms, but hey we know they can be trusted [emoji23]

Smart phones are unbelievably un-secure devices.  They were designed to harvest personal information.  You couldn't pay me to use a smartphone to conduct financial transactions.  "But they are convenient."  Right.  They are dandy if you don't mind being hacked.  And when the grid goes down.  Good luck.

The reason is that you can say what you want to who you want on the internet is because it's basically anonymous. If you said the same things in a public place like a bar you would probably be finding out what the inside of an ambulance looks like. 

At the end of the day your passport is the number one form of id.

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Is any body surprised?

Barring the hard core Trump supporters who see him, complete with all his troubles and idiosyncratic faults, through rose tinted glasses, I don't think too many people expected anything much to come from this second meeting.

 

Trump has met his match, twice now in a month. Outsmarted by a match on home turf and outsmarted in Asia. And in both cases, "the-art-of-the-deal-man" lost.

 

The OP report contains many fine and telling phrases but I think this one speaks volumes.

"The collapse of the talks raised questions about the Trump administration's preparations and about what some critics see as his cavalier style of personal diplomacy."

 

"Cavalier style of personal diplomacy .... ". This bares repeating.

 

 

 

Lets see actual results first before getting overly excited. Sure testing has stopped but word is they didn't really need to do much more testing. I still think it's obvious Kim is never going to denuke and 45 is certainly not going to force him. What 45 obviously wants is the optics that he solved the problem that he somewhat amplified with his earlier insane rhetoric. Then Nobel prize, no impeachment, reelection, and no prison. Or so he hopes.  
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Another horror story likely due to lack of maintenance or cost cutting. 

Preferably buy one owned by a farang, as they will (mostly) be more conscientious about servicing.
 

I was informed that pools with diving boards are required to have a lifeguard on duty while the pool is in use. This could be confirmed by a reputable pool construction company


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12 am does not and can not exist as 12 is neither post nor ante meridian. It IS the meridian.

The hands on my clock point to 12 twice a day

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Dont rely too much on Trump, he has been known to BS a little. Of course only 17.4 times, on the last count, but then who is counting! Those big trade deals will vanish, when it comes to America first. 

All I know for Holland is that the prices are always the same and people without insurance / homeless / foreigners will always get treatment right away as that is a human right in International law (for what International law is worth knowing what happens elsewhere). 

another believer,  (TAT) need believers that's why they keep proving/posting fake numbers

Where did you get that incorrect information from? So these mosquitoes of yours can see in the dark!
Or did you change it to make some point?

"Advised them to wear long-sleeved shirts."
 
Maybe these officers should practice what they preach?

Wow .. Big spenders indeed .. I did more than that in an hour down Soi/6 .. 

You sub-let your property in 2018 for a total period of 7 years with 2 signed contracts. Now you wish to break those contracts after repairs have been made to the property by another entity at no cost to you? Have I understood correctly?


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Why?
 
They don't normally breathalyze their own here so why should a foreigner not get the same benefit of the doubt?

Taiwan, which has a substantial threat, end conscription late last year.  They will have only volunteer troops.  Why can Taiwan survive while Thailand can't?  Thought the military party was way ahead anyway. 
 
Money taken from the military black hole to be used to help the economy.  The people over the military?  Chaos will ensue.  Financial independence will lead to better education and a desire for competition.  How will the military rule ?

 

 
It is through the reduction of breeding sites that some countries have managed to reduce their malaria rate by 25% despite seeing their populations increase over the same period, so I have no idea where you plucked your 3% to 5% nonsense figure from.

Meanwhile today in Chiang Mai, today 27 foreigners have lost their life savings to scamming wives/girlfriends..kinda puts somchais gesture into perspective 

Factor in the rip off theivery, con artistry, conniving Island mafia and under cover gangsters, corrupt BiB/officialdom, not to mention many of the opposite gender waiting to prey on naive farang men mis-judging the “come on” smiles as welcoming friendliness, get feet under table and pay heavy price, with all of these somewhat intangibles, Thailand is not as rosy as some of the other countries in the survey.
 
Sorry to be negative to those obviously happy in the LoS, not intended to take away from your good luck, but there are costable dangers that need factoring when doing the DD on this subject.