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The Cheque is in the post.

Only the wimps. Some people like Christmas others don't, each to his own. Christmas is more a cultural thing that needs the right atmosphere than a religious festival, there certainly isn't the right atmosphere in the tropics and snow globes are the kitsch equivalent of garden gnomes.

So this family wont be going to the anti=corruption event, never mind, I'm sure they will be amply represented by giggling officials who all have their ducks in a row.

I suppose they can't fine her for being Chinese.

Going uphill, nose to ar$h, so really slow, call that an accident? Show me something else.

I haven't laughed so much since my wife passed her driving test.

Quite, it's only a rumour, that opposition MP should be facing deformation of reputation charges.

Serious legal action......as opposed to what? Amusing legal action?

Christmas shopping in Thailand?.....Snow globes, good Lord...whatever rocks your boat I suppose.

He should try to see the funny side of it....he got to see the 'Land of Smiles' from a new perspective and got to meet new people.

What! is it Christmas again? I must have missed Easter again then.

A bored nosy concerned trouble making citizen who hates foreigners.......

Look on the bright side, big savings on presents.

Ruam peyt Surin. I should add to that, two days before the OP the surgeon rang me up and asked me what gauze I wanted to have inserted, there were three types, the most expensive was gold which was supposed to give me the least trouble later in life, it cost 10,000 Baht, I chose this and transferred the money to the hospital before the OP. It was quite an experience. The hernia was very low down to one side of the genitalia, the surgeon told me that he had only operated on this type once before and he wanted to do the OP at night when it would be quieter and there would be less interruption. The OP room surprised me (it is an old building) it appeared sterile, clean, white tiled and bright lights but against one wall were wooden cupboards full of hospital gowns. 4 people greeted me, very friendly and introduced themselves and told me what they would be doing. The anesthetist was a woman who said she would give me injections in my back and I wouldn't be able to lift my legs or feel anything, so with that done I lay on the table and told her when I couldn't lift my legs. We all waited for the surgeon (a 40 year old man) who entered the room barefoot and whistling, he sat down at a table in the corner and seemed to be writing medical reports in the 5 or 6 files he brought in with him. After 10 minuets he got up, "Right, let's get on with it shall we, feeling OK"? A green screen was put up between me and the part of the body to be operated on and he started. it took about 30 minutes and I was wheeled back upstairs, this was about 5 years ago and to this day I can't see a scar, I've had no trouble since.

I had an operation for a hernia at a private hospital, 1 night stay, 28K Baht, I thought that was reasonable.

Actually I'm one of natures devote cowards but if I heard sounds of someone being attacked and I was armed and it was my duty even I would intervene before waiting for backup, the 10 minutes of waiting could make the difference between life and death, obviously backup would be needed afterwards.

Layoffs will be happening world wide in 2024, all part of the hard landing, the recession that the FED said wouldn't happen.

What about the bio metrics on the Italiens passport? I thought this sort of thing was impossible these days

I suspect director-general Sahakarn will be getting a Rolls Royce for Christmas.

El Nina was supposed to bring drought, hot weather.

Don't be such a sissy, all that was hurt was his pride

Why is he complaining, he still has his gold chain.

Isn't that his Job? why the back up, unless a vehicle was needed to transport him, the man was drunk and the cop is armed

"receiving only a fraction of the payment" would appear to be their biggest complaint.

All conflicts have different qualities of gains and losses, ever since Lawrence of Arabia it was clear that the middle East is a riddle trapped in an enigma. Palestine was only trouble for the British with no promise of gain. Kenya had the Mau Mau uprising which didn't have popular support and was brutally put down by British troops who also resorted to torture and murder, there was gain to be had there, conflicts have their own logic. The Arabs are only united in their religion which has caused them to remain static in their development, once a beacon of advanced knowledge in mathematics, science and medicine, they have made backward steps united only in there hatred of the west on whose progress they now rely on. The state of Israel with its European educated populace is an island of progress in between backward looking states who, instead of seeking to benefit from the progress of their neighbour seek to eradicate it, the ferocity of the conflict should be understood from this angle.