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17 hours ago, malagateddy said:

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But they all are globally!!

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It doesn't matter, they hold no power, they are the envelope that holds the letter and it isn't written by the public.

18 hours ago, Benmart said:

Thank for your informative, refreshing and optimistic share. Such a nice departure from the usual negative critics.

It's called reality but as long as you are alive there is hope....hope is expensive so I've heard.

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

I understand your points on this, but why have a consular section, if the buggers are not prepared to help/ offer advice?

As i have said my wife was at wits end not knowing what to do when immigration were threatening my deportation when i was on life support.

Surely any person with any compassion, or a correctly functioning brain would have at least tried to offer some advice as to who my wife should speak to, instead of just saying not our problem.

My wife was not asking about financial help, as insurance covered me,.

I hope you or anybody eles wife/ girlfriend never find themselves in the same position as my wife was.

I was on life support unable to speak/ move or do anything to help.

She could have gone to another embassy which is in the EU, I've been helped by the German embassy several times in the past knowing it was pointless going to the UK embassy.

Just now, Chomper Higgot said:

Agree, and be assured non of this is for the benefit of the ordinary people who voted for Trump or Brexit. 

People are collateral damage, any benefits would be coincidental. Remember that old quote,  "If elections changed anything they would have been forbidden" 

15 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

You make an interesting point.

 

Now who do you think is behind this decision to sow chaos?

Those with real money and power. I can imagine that an all too successful USA, China, EU, would be a hindrance to manipulation, hence Trump, trade wars and Brexit all coming together at more or less the same time, chaos is good for their business.

21 hours ago, Lungstib said:

I am beginning to think that the British Embassy is nothing more than list of phone numbers and one woman employed in an office to 'put you through' to an extension in London. Its a long time ago but I remember when they cared and offered personal advice. Now long gone. They really have become the joke of foreign embassies in Thailand.

I think they give you a free brown paper bag to put the pieces in. Wait and see how bad it gets when 'we get our country back'

I had my cisterns filled by water tankers....shortly before it rained. The water in my well is good to go (Surin province), I can't measure it, it's 28 meters deep and has a pipe going into the ground, very good water pressure now though, the toilette water tank gets a real blast when the toilette is flushed.

3 hours ago, owl sees all said:

Well it should, IMO, have been Corbyn spearheading change. He was always anti a federal Europe, at least he was when I knew him.

 

The Brexit party is a vehicle for change. The people who believe in democracy have no-one else to turn to. Personally, I think UKIP is finished as any force, so Brexit is the new-kid-on-the-block and flavour of the month. We will have to see if their momentum carries on through to Peterborough and beyond.

I personally think that the Brexit party is being swept along by protest voters, both leave and remain. Parties have no power. Look at what is happening between the USA and China, do you think that Trump is President despite losing the popular vote by chance ? Or because the real power in the world decided it wanted the chaos, wanted China curtailed and with it America.

1 hour ago, dick dasterdly said:

Not living in the uk, I have no idea whether this is true or not - but assuming it is true, then it is more than sad that extreme media bias is still allowed to continue in this way ☹️.

 

We've seen it before of course at various times - hence my comment re. "still" being allowed.

The media does what it's told, in some ways Donald is right, he is wrong though if he thinks the deep state is on capitol hill, it doesn't have a country.

3 hours ago, owl sees all said:

That's why the system has to be smashed. Starting with the House of Lords. The voting system needs to change and the BBC must go.

 

Most of the career politicians are in the business to serve themselves; not the wonderful UK people. Brexit is the best thing to have taken place in my lifetime. A chance for the people to have their say. They have spoken once, and the establishment needs to wake up and smell the coffee (or tea).

 

It is time people of the world. Unite! We have the power Do not stand alone, do not fear, do not despair; the enemy is the establishment with their arms, patience and long memories.

The establishment is not in parliament, no power there, but definitely in the civil service, banking world wide, industry world wide, royalty, in the clubs we aren't allowed in, it has no borders, no loyalties except to power and money. I don't think anything bothers them much because in the end they will always get what they want, the government and the plebs are controlled by them, the plebs through the 'free press and median' and the government can always be brought to heel by the world of international finanz, even China and especially America.

On 5/21/2019 at 5:41 PM, evadgib said:

 

The establishment has a very long arm, incredible patience and a long memory.

4 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

 if the bloody godawful soap opera's on TV are anything to go by they'll need more than promoting .. 

boing

to make the comedy complete

he should have been arrested for the hat alone.

52 minutes ago, wayned said:

Even when Nixon was being investigated he managed to pass significant bi-partisn legislation  as did Reagan when he was being President.  He can't just stop doing his job because he feels that the walls ar closing in. They are closing in because of his psychopathic actions.

Trump can, it's what he does. Anyway, apart from disrupting world trade, ignoring global warming and inciting wars all he does is play golf and stuff his face with Macdonalds

2 hours ago, Tug said:

Well another fine example of Donald’s unfitness to lead another example of obstruction (of governance)the dude plainly doesent belong in that position we need to have a way to get rid of a failed president more easily without the drama

He will provide enough rope to hang himself eventually, no need to do anything.

1 hour ago, Puchaiyank said:

This could be the beginning of some relief from the strong Thai baht...a string of bad economic quarter's numbers would definite put pressure on the baht...

 

Currently hovering around 32 baht to 1 USD...if can break through this 32 baht place of resistence...could go considerably higher...  

I doubt that, the only winning currency at the moment is the dollar, the rest is going South, so if the Baht depreciates a little so will the other currencies except the dollar. Asian countries at the moment are trying to stabilize their currencies instead of devaluing. Devaluation would help with exports but would frighten away investors. Bangkok bank shows the dollar exchange (buy notes) at 31.51, a long way to go before the 32 is breached. Having said that it is expected that the Yuan will break through the 7 and eventually get to 8++ to the dollar this may eventually be an incentive for other currencies to follow along but if they do so in tandem there is no advantage for us.

19 hours ago, IssanMichael said:

Ancient Roman water systems.

Those viaducts are for fresh water but they did have running water for indoor toilettes but no waste water treatment either.

10 hours ago, madmen said:

Good timing just did it. tried everything including the free yearly experts supplied by condo juristic and actually buying the industrial strength pesticides but nothing worked. So i switched to Borax and researched it . Just a very light dusting around all the walls and under the sink and it took 4 weeks and finally not a single roach anywhere. They die when the walk over it and then clean themselves ingesting it back in the nest and the other roaches eat them ingesting the poison,,Be patient it does work

 

https://www.lazada.co.th/-i290496340-s481958560.html?urlFlag=true&mp=1

but two weeks later you have another lot, cockroaches are part of Asia, I had a friend who viewed a new flat in Hong Kong, nice fitted kitchen, never been used, he opened a cupboard and out came 3 or 4 cockroaches. I just live with them, there aren't that many and you don't see them during daytime.

Happened to my missus but she is resolute, she considered threatening him with black magic but only as a last resort, instead she went to the pu yai baan of his village and explained what happened, the culprit was called to explain himself, he said he can't pay it back because he was paying off his new motorbike monthly, so the pu yai decided he should give up the bike to my missus until he could repay her, she took the bike home and used it for a month then low and behold he could pay her back after all.

Is that credibility with capital letters or "credibility"