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Who said so. Maybe there's more to this "agreed price" like additional terms and conditions conveniently not mentioned.

Curiosity got me on this one. I had a look at what the current monthly pay is for police officers. It's not so bad after the first five years but it's never enough to afford a Ferrari that's for sure. https://www.salaryexplorer.com/average-salary-wage-comparison-thailand-police-officer-c215j504 In addition to this there is free health care for a police officers family and also free education for the children. I'm not sure about any other perks

Don't be upset by my terminology. It just so happens I am very familiar with degenerative bone disease having seen many over the years. My comments were aimed at the misdirection in yesterdays and todays posts regarding Thaksin and his future hospital operation to "cure" him. You have my deepest sympathies. I fully understand your predicament.

A committee is involved. That'l whittle away some of the funding.

Well yes they do make a fair few bob out of it but it tends to go into a central fund for later dispersal. Rather like a christmas fund.

Poor old b'ger's got arthritis which is dressed up to look life threatening. Quote from yesterday. "degenerative bone disease" and "waiting for an operation at the police hospital to cure it". Nonsense and use of long words to feed the ignorant masses.

My thoughts too but there appears to be quite a complex web of deceit and it is spreading like ripples in a pond. Then again, it is confirmation of just how widespread corruption is including immigration who "forgot" to give me my 100 baht change the other day.

What on earth are they are talking about Degenerative bone disease is simply a posh name for arthritis for which there is no "cure".

Well one would think so but in fact forest fires are in the realm of carbon being neutral. When a forest is living it's normal life it is consuming CO2 by converting it into carbon and oxygen using photosynthesis. When we burn wood from this forest, we are releasing the CO2 that it has captured. It's not a perfect equation because those trees actually produce a bit of CO2 when living, but on balance, considerably more CO2 is consumed than is produced.

Yes but only if someone tells 'em to. Sugar cane refineries already pay more for the un-burnt raw cane. This Is attractive enough to encourage machine harvesting. The harvesters are owned by the factory who charge the farmers for harvesting. Transport lorries are privately owned and paid for by the farmer. So from this, the farmer has to pay for everything including fertilser and weed killer and, as if that wasn't enough, the farmer also pays for ploughing and planting every third year. Advice from the sugar cane refinery to the farmer is that they should burn the residue left after harvesting to kill off fungus on the fields. Note there would be no fungus if crop rotation was employed, but then the farmer would be out of pocket and the sugar refinery would probably point to a clause in their contract about supplying cane annually. Sugar cane growers can make more money than rice growers but the market is limited to sugar refineries whereas a rice grower can sell his rice to whomever he likes I grow rice and some I sell to a rice mill but most I mill myself and sell locally.

Oh Wow. I didn't know that. Not quite what I expect to see in a Miss world (or whatever) contest

This is how the UK helps it's farmers. Funding for farmers, growers and land managers Apply for grants and other funding to increase productivity, manage your land to benefit the environment and support your agricultural business. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/funding-for-farmers Pity Thailand can't do similar.

I think you need to go to specsavers.

Yes but a farmer needs to borrow money to buy fertiliser or to pay for his land to be ploughed etc. The recommended bank being BAAC which is a government bank offering cheap loans to farmers. Hopefully there will be enough profit to repay the bank loan after harvesting. I say hopefully because the farmer generally gets screwed by the company that buys his crop.

The police don't see it as their job. Until someone tells them to get out there and start arresting landowners whose land is on fire, nothing will happen. In national parks the parks department, or whatever it is called, should be made to take responsibility.

That shirt looks a bit tight on him. Whatever ailments he has have not affected his appetite.

Two months is a rough guide. The immigration requirement is 60 days.

Quite so. And a common source of the infection is from the rectum. Personal hygiene of personal parts is the recommended prevention.

You might well be tempted to ask "where does that leave his accusers?" It was some time ago that Big Joke found a few bullet holes where he didn't want them. I suspect he may be clean but he is upsetting the apple cart for everyone else.

And what a shifty looking character he is too.

Yes, there used to be logic in the numbering system but that was long ago when villages were pretty well just one (large) family with only maybe 10 houses. Each Amphoe would have a number of villages and each village would have a number. An address would be the house number followed by the village number followed by the name of the Amphoe. My Amphoe has 22 villages and I am in village number 9. Having said all that my village also has a name which is on Google Maps but the Amphoe village number is not. There are now over 200 houses in the village with numbers randomly scattered about all over the place. Even the local EMS post lady rarely ventures past the end of her street in case she can't find it at the end of her shift.

I have an XPX bought on Shopee and cost 750 Baht. I will be buying a second one. Same model. Same supplier but price has dropped to 650 Baht. I live in a farming area where dust is an issue so my air purifier is making a noticeable difference. I see them advertised on TV for thousands of Baht. That is really profiteering on a grand scale.

This is a problem in rural villages. When a villager builds a new house, it is given a number which bears no relation to other house numbers nearby. Streets don't have names or numbers. There is no logical way to find an address other than go to the village and start making enquiries of the locals. That is why a 'phone number is so important. Reading a map can only be done if land marks are added like a picture of a bank on a corner. My hand drawn map for immigration, is a copy of google maps with a single line drawing of the route added plus a few identifiable buildings and crossroads. There has never been any problem of rejection by immigration.

Yeah but there aren't too many soi dogs in the west. Or pythons in trees for that matter.

Wow! That's 1.5 Billion Baht per Rai. Here in my part of Buriram we are looking at 300,000 Baht per Rai for agricultural land. Just imagine how much you would have to charge for a kilo of rice grown on one Rai in the center of Bangkok.