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15 hours ago, rabas said:It may indicate Putin is getting more worried about something. Hope so.
Extreme propaganda, absurd lying, assassinating most anyone, and doomsday weapons can only get you so far. Soon all the damage being done to Russian ships, factories, refineries, military stocks, the economy (what economy?), not to mention nearly half a million dead Russians, many who have families, may catch up to him.
Julia Ioffe, the Russian expert, explains that Putin's worst nightmare is going out like Muammar Gaddafi, hunted down by his own people, in a drain pipe, pulled out and beaten to death. Putin apparently watched the video of Gaddafi's death obsessively for days. Fun fact. It was the 2011 NATO led intervention in Libya that lead to Gaddafi's death.
Here The Atlantic discuses possible parallels with Ukraine. Like I said, hope so.
Fun fact: Gaddafi's death came after he declared that he was no longer trying to acquire nuclear weapons.
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1 minute ago, charleskerins said:
airlines would lose a lot of american business
...many of my British compatriots would also be grounded!☺️
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2 minutes ago, Frankie baby said:
He will get what's due in the UK, they normally crack down on sh-t heads like this?
Very true, it happens quite often on flights to The Med. (Almost always booze-related).
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1 hour ago, Stocky said:
Ganja
Nah, I reckon he had been out on the p-ss for several hours before boarding the flight.
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2 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:
A lot of tourists don't want to pay bar prices, which is fair enough. They also like to buy cheap "travellers" from the Seven and then wander around the streets with the bottle in their hand like lo-sos 😉
PS. I used to do that when I was a backpacker. I was quite partial to the small cans of "Singha Draft". Of course, now that I'm older I frown upon such behaviour. Tsk tsk 😅
Are you nowadays wandering the streets with a can of Erdinger instead...😁!?
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People in the UK are outraged that local people don't want to do this kind of work. So much so, that last year a BBC journalist investigated. He visited a fruit farm that was quite close to where he lived. The farmer told him that a condition of the job was that he must live on-site, and money would be deducted for rent, probably to live in a shack or tent (even though he lived close by). When he questioned this he was told that he was "not suitable" for the job.
An old friend's Thai family had a pineapple farm in the north of Thailand, their labour was pretty much all imported from Laos.-
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A possible solution: Use the debit/credit cards from your overseas accounts to pay living expenses? Don't transfer funds into a Thai account from overseas?
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6 hours ago, ikke1959 said:
Thailand want to country to be for retirees... but with all visa requirements as 65k a month per person or 800.000 per person on a bank account and now extra tax payment, combined with all kind of other general laws as alcohol sales ban, double pricing also in hospitals, scam by taxis. Thailand will never be a country to be the country to retire as they want. And worst of all is that most Thais don't even have to fill in a tax form, while some as we have seen last months ear a lot of money without any taxpaying, again double standards for the foreigners
Many working class Thais don't earn enough to be paying income tax.
An old expat retiree friend lives in lower Sukhumvit (an expensive area). He pays around 400k Baht per year in rent, so 800k is a reasonable amount to expect him to have. If you live up in the boonies I expect you could get-by on half that. -
5 hours ago, ChipButty said:
It's the Iranians printing fake notes,
Used to be North Korea doing that.
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5 hours ago, Pouatchee said:
Really Einstein?
"No s--t Sherlock!"😁
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Did Thai facilitate onward travel to Melbourne?
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18 hours ago, Dave0206 said:
Obviously the cost of living in uk has gone up a lot I assume since you are 50+ with expired safety certificates ect offshore no more? Have you been able to earn enough to survive and put a little aside or is UK 🇬🇧 now more difficult than before?
Yes, I am managing ok on about 1500 a month, but I'm having to live in a shared place to achieve that, managing to save some money. As I mentioned the main thing was that I had a good sum of money behind me when I returned. I could buy decent cars for cash etc. Pay thousands in rent/deposits. I still have zero debt, and plenty of savings.
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11 hours ago, spidermike007 said:
And there arises the grand old question, is it better to be with somebody who is terrible, or you don't get along with, and you don't enjoy being with, or is it better to be alone seeking out somebody who is worthy?
And there arises the grand old question, is it better to get divorced and end up living in a sh*tty place and struggling for money, and pretty much never seeing your kids?!
What awaits after getting a 'clean-break' from your unhappy/dysfuntional marriage could be even worse? Another thing, and something I've read about in agony-aunt kind of things, is that once someone becomes single/divorces, all of their social circle and friends disappear, their 'support-network'.-
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16 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:
The most shocking aspect of something like this is the realization that people allow themselves to stay in unsuccessful, toxic and co-dependent relationships like this one. Why not just admit that things have failed? Why not admit that you guys just don't belong together? Why not admit that it's just time to move on, and man up and do the right thing?
Get out of that house and away from that witch, ASAP.
Finding another bird might take a very long time (unlike in Thailand)!😁
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28 minutes ago, sidjameson said:20 years! How was the transition back to the UK mate? Mind saying the reasons for leaving?
In 2018 I was 53, living in Thailand, and unable to find a job in Thailand. So, with 14 years left until (state pension) retirement age, I thought I best (still reluctantly) return. I had previously worked in the oil industry, but hadn't worked for 3 years, although I still had around £50k in savings.
Things I didn't know about returning after so long away:
Car insurance cost about double because I had been out of the UK for 5+ years. BMW320i cost £1500 to insure.
Because I hadn't maintained a bank account in the UK, I had no credit-rating.
On 2 occasions I had to pay 7 months rent going-in (the thick end of 4 grand). I had no referee in the UK. Finding a place to live can be a bit like finding a job!😫
I got a new dentist at the first attempt, easy. I had moved to a place that wasn't my home town, so I just sigend up to a surgery in my new town (Worcester), no questions asked. I did actually get Bumrungrad to send some medical records over.
All-up, it's been ok, Also managed to give up smoking 3 years ago, after 44 years a smoker. The biggest motivation? Not wanting to spend £400 a month on fags! Also cut down on drinking by quite a lot.🙂
(If I'm ever lucky enough to win the lottery I would of course return to live in Thailand, I'll always love the place, so many great memories).-
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5 hours ago, 2baht said:In 5000 words or less, tells us why???
5 hours ago, 2baht said:In 5000 words or less, tells us why???
No fraught, unhappy relationships. No chance of having to pay for offspring that you didn't really want in the first place.
I was pretty much celibate in the last 5 years of my 20 years in Thailand. Maybe to do with my sex drive gradually diminishing?
When I regretfully left Thailand in 2018 I still had a fair amount of money with which to start my new life in the UK. If in those later years I had been screwing-around, I wouldn't have had most of that cash.-
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4 hours ago, leverito said:
I think 70-80% of Brits and Aussies living in Thailand are rude and aggressive.
The worst part of the society who choose Thailand as a new home.
I often wondered if places like Pattaya, Patong (that kind of 'scene') etc actually attract more of those kinds of people. Many years ago an Aussie friend commented about how many s---heads there seems to be in Pattaya.
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Just when I don't think that things can get any better/worse, my compatriots 'up-their-game'!😊
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In Thailand table salt tends to have iodine added to it
I have noticed that some savoury things taste sweet in Thailand.As far as 'spicy' food goes, I find that if it's very spicy any flavour that the food has is overwhelmed by hotness.
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3 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:
They will now get exactly what they wanted, to stay in Thailand longer-term.
It proves that some people are so desperate to stay in Thailand that they will do absolutely anything to achieve it.
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3 hours ago, Grumpy one said:
His footwear should be enough to get 10 years in a cage.
White calf length socks and dirty white Crocs, with a white rag on his knee
Throw away the key
From experience, if you wear sandals or flip-flops and do a lot of walking in Bangkok, you end up with black feet.
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3 minutes ago, BritScot said:I've not smoked in 40 years and still disagree with the smoking ban in pubs but then again I do like the smell of the green leaf, and the smell of a 2 stroke motorbike engine.....
I gave up smoking cigarettes 3 years ago (smoked for 44 years), after returning to the UK in 2018 from 20 years living in Thailand. What was my biggest motivation to give up? The cost. I can't afford £400 a month for cigarettes, plain & simple.
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4 hours ago, smedly said:
you wouldn't think so in pattaya with foreigners openly smoking it in bars, I don't mind except for the pungent smell
I've tried it in the past and quite liked it. However, as you say, it's not a nce smell, very 'sour' and 'pungent'.
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8 minutes ago, Presnock said:
Yeah ask the regular Afghanis - those everyday workers, women students etc, if it is better now that the US soldiers left and the Taliban and ISIS
are running things? One of the latest laws - only a female doctor can examine an Afghani woman yet Aghani women are not allowed to go to school even -how can they become a doctor to check on the females?
Iran's similar to Saudi Arabia? The big deal is that Iran is calling for the destruction of Israel, but Saudi isn't. Saddam was an arch-enemy of Israel, so he had to go.
Health ministry’s alcohol curfew talks hit a hiccup
in Thailand News
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When I first moved to Thailand in 1998 there were quite a few more bar-closure days than there are today. The King's birthday was one, maybe Constitution Day & Chakri Day also. Such days have actually been reduced in recent times.