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You are correct, having left the UK 50 years ago I don't have any personal experience and can only go by what I read, I'm sure some parts of the country are better than others. A feel good story from a German colleague of mine ;- He went on a canal boating holiday in England with his family when his son (12) broke his arm, he was taken to hospital where it was ascertained that it was complicated and needed metal plates and screws. They told his father to continue his holiday as his son would be in hospital for at least two weeks. Upon his return he was told everything was finished and he could take his son back home. When my colleague produced forms to fill out from the German government health insurance so that the hospital could be paid, the doctor waved him off and said its OK he was a good patient. My colleague was surprised and impressed, even more so when back home his son had an exray, recommended by the British surgeon, and his doctor told him the work done was of the highest order. He still can't understand why they didn't want any money (this was around 45 years ago).

Because they build hospitals and Autobahns and pay for a well functioning police force, things people need.

I don't know but my ML has had cataract surgery on both eyes (government hospital) for free, 3 weeks after her doctors recommendation, with follow up care, I know because every two weeks I have to drive her 15 km and wait 4 hours for her eye inspection.

Indeed, the NHS was a source of national pride. The youtube programs one can watch about hospitals in the UK show competent dedicated staff working under difficult constraints, more money is needed to bring it back to its former glory but nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers are more important.

I would hope there is.

Depends what the op is for but I think a 4 week wait isn't good. 50 years ago when the NHS was still a good service I was given a 2 year wait for a severely broken and off center nose due to a car accident, I was told it was cosmetic surgery to put it right. Before that date was up I was working in Germany and went to the doctors for a bout of flu, he said I could get an op within the week as the nose was interfering with my breathing, he considered a 2 year wait as negligence on behalf of the NHS as it certainly wasn't just cosmetic.

How are you better off in the UK than here regarding treatment? in the UK you can wait 2 to 3 weeks for a doctors appointment and in some cases a year or more for an OP.I went for consultation here and had an OP straight away (not an emergency) Yes I am insured here for a moderate sum, it has served me well twice.

Paying tax in Thailand and living here doesn't seem so bad now does it, imagine feeling hungry and freezing in the dark in merry old England and paying for the privilege, would make one want to meet a caring thug with a knife on a crowded street and have done with it.

I think those 4 years in prison as a child sex offender will feel like 100.

No but since yesterday I can no longer 'save as' documents sent by email, I get a "Your account is temporarily unavailable" but I can get and send emails normally and everything else works fine. I now have to copy a doc and open it with 'word' to save it to my memory stick.

The ghost is keeping quiet about the whole matter.

Dam was jealous because the monk was getting all the good looking ones.

It says in the bible that it's better to give than receive.

The market town 17 km from me, 50 km from Surin seems to be bustling, Tesco is full of Thai shoppers, new cars on the road, lots of shops doing business, lots of new buildings going up, the large government hospital has just had a big extension added and accommodation for staff has also been added. Not a tourist in sight.

That was true years ago but now it would be unusual to find a young person who can't read, in my Isaan village I know only of one young man who can't read, a tear away criminal who has already had a stint in prison. They even have informal classes to teach some old people who can't read. Thai is a difficult language to read, it took me about 5 years to master it and even my British/Thai son (17)says he finds reading English to be easier than Thai.

My experience is just the opposite but I find the thanks embarrassing especially within the family. To have my son and step children with their children on their knees giving me a wai on fathers day for instance where my wife thanks me for the support I give them makes me so uncomfortable that I have forbidden it. I have helped my ML once with 50k, (her husband was responsible for her trouble) but she is a a proud down to earth woman, she didn't offer any exaggerated thanks but I found out later by accident that she had informed the whole village and the pu yai and my status in the village had a meteoric rise, my wife told me that after I had offered physical help at some social event and someone mentioned that I probably won't show up the pu yai retorted, 'don't doubt him,he is honorable, what he says he will do'. I for one, feel appreciated and liked.

It's all of us without exception.

"Out, Out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

In your dreams, he will lose again and he will be a wiser man for it.

It was also probably correct..

The man must be mentally labile to have put up with this situation.

The man behaved foolishly, he shouldn't have pushed his religious beliefs down children's throats. As for pronouns I also wouldn't call a trans person by their preferred pronouns but one can get out of that by simply using their names in place of a pronoun. Don't fight a woke establishment, they are too scared and cowardly to go against the loud minority, one has to bypass them, not identify as a bigot and demand recognition of his status as such, that only works by identifying with an incorrect gender.

No nookie no facebook

It ought to be shoot on sight on the high speed lines, one accident there would cost hundreds of lives as seen by the high speed train accident in Germany some years back.

Stupidity abounds even in the falang communities.