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How does a 20 year old just lose consciousness? been eating some funny sweeties maybe....

So no bikini girls bathing them.....how boring, what pervert gets off watching elephants.

Where would the American consumer be without this 'cheap crap', they'd have nothing to buy on credit.

He doesn't like honesty either.

Whose a clever boy.....that went well didn't it?

Using debt to put food on the table isn't viable. China is buying up farmland around the globe and changing its northern deserts into farmland. China plays the long game, the US needs instant gratification and to hell with the future.

All politicians are greedy sociopaths but some produce good results for the general population that they despise, if only to enhance their own position. These days there is a dearth of good, far thinking, charismatic politicians, one must be thankful for the few that we have. Politicians such as Trump or Starmer are not only inept they are dangerous in their stupidity.

So is the US but at least China actually produces stuff (much of which is bought by American consumers)

It all depends what the debt is used for. If debt is used for improving infrastructure, for R&D and other complementing schemes for improving competitiveness then it is a good thing, it would allow the debt to be repaid or its percentage of GDP to be minimized. If however it is used, as is the case in the USA, to pay interest on the preceding debt, causing ever new debt to be raised it is obviously detrimental. I cant see that Thailand has a problem at the present time however looking to the future it could become a problem if, for instance, there was a collapse in tourism due to worldwide financial instability (which looks ever more likely) or if weather patterns changed so as to make farming ever more nonviable then yes it would make sense to considerably reduce debt now while they can. Despite Thaksin's poor personal reputation I consider him to be a far thinking politician with a keen political instinct.

It isn't just Europe that faces headwinds, I saw an interesting program on YouTube explaining the FED's economic Ponzi scheme of money printing causing ever more debt for minimal returns, it will cause the inevitable collapse of the FIAT monetary system worldwide starting with the demise of the dollar as a reserve currency. All currencies use the dollar as a benchmark for their own value but there is nothing backing up the dollar except for trust and this is fading rapidly. All it needs is a calamity, perhaps insignificant at first, that will cause the leaking dam to burst open fully. We live in interesting times.

Yes but some people can't read, I have a finely tuned instinct for dangerous situations in the making, even before anything starts to happen I remove myself quietly, it's stood me in good stead in my younger days when such situations could occur, now usually nothing happens to old farts.

Making a stand is all very well until they realize a year later that it is inevitable and file a tax return for 2025......then comes the question, "we can't find your tax return for 2024 in our system, did you make one? If not we will assess you on your 2025 return with a fine". Fighting the tax office is an expensive and pointless exercise.

Different cultures have different humour, Thais, like the Americans don't get subtle humour it has to be in your face but Thais are easy to take offence at anything to do with their or the country's dignity.

Aaaaaaaaah!

Religious and cultural differences define the true boarders, not lines on a map, even in European countries where hundreds of years of unity within political boarders there are murmurings and occasional unrest.

SHOULD is a word signifying good intentions only, what happens behind closed doors is another matter, politics is all about money in the end.

Until you pi$$ them off by looking down your nose at them, the working class Joes are your bread and butter and they are financially in a bad place these days, there may come a time when you start scrambling for the much maligned backpackers who were once the majority of your tourists in times gone by.

I don't think the state should have the right to kill anyone, apart from the fact that mistakes have been made and innocent people have been executed, true life imprisonment where the convict has to pay for his keep by working seems a far greater punishment, it is experienced every day. One also should be aware of punishment creep, death for murder today, death for opposing the government tomorrow. If left unchecked governments like to increase their power, look at what's happening in the UK, being part of a demonstration or an unwise 'tweet' can now land you in prison. The world has become fragile for democracies these days, financial collapses on the stock market with rising unemployment, homelessness, hunger, energy poverty and inequality can and will lead to riots with a possible collapse of society as we know it, the governments could then open their dystopian tool boxes. We have some very strange leaders of late.

A stroke is a little different from a heart attack. At night sleeping, you can't complain that there was nobody around.....but you are of course.

The new year started well for her then.

Working a lot of overtime at Tesco's

I've worked out my own tax and I tick all the deduction boxes they come to 640k Baht, I should end up paying 20k Baht tax this year, a bit more next year when I have to declare all of my pension. We shall see, it has to go through parliament first and I can imagine there are many there with large incomes sitting abroad earning them foreign income that they don't intend to bring to Thailand.

The new year got him.

Yes, quitting is cheaper, New Years Eve, I drank one bottle of beer, watched Robot-Wars on YouTube and was in bed by 9 pm. In the morning of the 1st I noticed it was just the same as the 31st. I knew it would be but I was alive and well and many others weren't.

On Koh Samui I looked after 3 year old Swedish girl who I saw continually running into the sea without supervision, her whole family were lying on the beach dead drunk, when I woke who I considered to be the father I was told to vuck off. I played with the little girl for two or three hours to keep her from running into the waves until her grandparents arrived and wanted to know why their grandchild was sitting with me, they thanked me and then blew up at the parents, I walked away but I could hear the grandparents shouting from 50 meters away.