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Growth in the west is sub par as well, If the central banks don't cut rates soon I think we are heading for a world wide economic crisis, Thailand seems to be doing relatively well from my perspective, slow but steady.

Precisely, calculating.

Naive or calculating? What 16 year old girl goes on a dating app to meet up with men old enough to be her father.

In Surin Province it's a British springtime in the morning and then back to hot in the afternoon, very unusual, I can sit outside in just a pair of shorts at 5 in the morning.

No, Caucasians and Indians don't have this gene variant, Thais and Japanese people do.

The best thing about getting old is realizing that nothing really matters.

I believe that there is a genetic trait in some Asians that prevents the breakdown of alcohol, a gene variant which generates a non functional enzyme. I stay away from Thais once they start drinking, even if they are good neighbours, as far as I know nothing has happened due to alcohol in my village but why take the risk.

Buying online and using apps opens you up to this sort of thing, the iPhone is a blessing for scammers.

Quick! put the IV's back in and give him some pale make up.

I was reading recently that the scores in the UK weren't brilliant either, Germany also had less than stellar scores.

Cutting supply when there is less demand is like coal miners going on strike in the summer, whatever it isn't working out for them, the price is still low. Only when the money supply is allowed to increase and industry starts to rebound then an energy supply cut will cause oil prices to rise. Energy supply countries are also heavily invested in western industries so it is in their own interest not to damage these too much. Eventually this Ukraine/Russian fiasco will end and cheap Russian oil will start rolling westwards again, the infrastructure is still there and the west is pragmatic regarding profit.

Because I think in 'the land of the free' you get the living $hit beaten out of you if you disagree with him, his intellectually challenged supporters have decided he is a god sent champion of the poor.

Heresy, do I detect a viper in our midst? The purity of Thai rice is akin to the holy Thai blood strain apparently.

Perhaps your purchases get checked and if it's not enough you get threatened with a good beating and sent back in again.

Like this will be loved by all the private health insurers, one reason this wont happen

I think it already is international news, good publicity for the tourist industry, not.

I disagree, the price depends on supply and demand, as demand fell in the US and elsewhere causing prices to fall OPEC decided to cut supply in the expectation this would raise prices but prices still fell because demand (chiefly from car owners) wasn't there, it wasn't there because the public lacks cash to buy. What the supply cuts have done is reduce energy for industry. The reason Germany has entered recession is due to the lack of cheap plentiful supply of energy from Russia. As the major world economies enter recession industry cuts back on production as demand for products falls which causes unemployment which further reduces demand, a vicious cycle that OPEC has only made worse.

At those prices neither would I

Supertramp comes to mind, 'Take the long way home'

Charming I'm sure.

Pretty disgusting behaviour but there are opposite examples. About 15 years ago I went to Ram 1 in Chiang mai for some blood tests, I sat outside the lab, next to me a Thai man. A doctor came and spoke to the Thai man telling him that he needed treatment for cancer (not very private but they probably assumed I couldn't speak Thai). The patient who had been waiting for the results of his tests was devastated when the doc told him the approximate cost would be 400K, he said he couldn't pay that much. The doc said he wasn't to worry they would treat him any way and he could pay in affordable monthly installments.

I'm impressed, speed, agility and good planning.

So what's new in LOS today.

For me it seems to be an island of stability at the moment compared to faranglands problems and I am getting 38.50 Baht to the Euro instead of 34 which it was a few years ago.

According to finance experts one can only be certain of a recession when it's over. Energy prices declining despite the fact that the oil cartel is cutting production is a bad sign, it should be rising, it shows that the consumers lack discretionary spending money because the banks are curtailing money supply through the tightening of credit. Another sign is that despite the coming holiday season retailers are already complaining that spending is down, eg. the sale of toys has dropped 15%, happy Christmas. This will cause a rise in unemployment further down the line. Another worry is that China is exporting deflation due to falling prices at the factory gates and this is more dangerous than high inflation.