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Wow, positive news about a falang.

I had the same problem with this card when trying to pay online for an antivirus program, payment (2,200 Baht) was refused twice. I'm wondering if it's the 'mastercard', my German bank has stopped issuing mastercard debit cards and has changed to Visa saying Visa is more acceptable abroad.

Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and philosopher once said "One should only concern oneself with the things one can alter, all else must be accepted." We all moan about things but in the end it's the sound of fury signifying nothing as the great bard said, at 76 I don't even really care about the things I can alter, I've found that with age things get altered by themselves. As a young man my life had been full of catastrophes that never happened.

No of course it isn't, it's lack of money, all the more reason not to waste resources on 'wokery'

Only because the majority are cowards, if a politician is against all this 'woke' nonsense he should say so, the silent majority would support him where it matters, at the polling booth.

Well said but you would need a brave consultant to dare treading on a lot of toes.

You could see that working could you? Creating a social security system from scratch is difficult and expensive, especially with the poor demographic structure and longevity of today. When the UK started it was something like a shilling a week for 70 year old's when hardly any worker reached that age but it was a start and grew gradually over decades to its present system, Thailand doesn't have decades. There is already a government lottery in place, I don't see hoards of gambling addicts around. If people want to gamble there are already ample opportunities.

Yes, a popular legal lottery

Lotteries are already legal and very popular.

What would be your idea to a disastrous demographic problem? Just pi$$ing on ideas that could provide a solution isn't helpful.

It's a good idea as a stop gab to a funded pension fund and way beyond. Thailand is having the same problems as the west, demographics! Not enough young workers and lots of old people, the problem has to be solved with 'outside the box' thinking. In Europe there are ideas to tax robots and eventually AI systems to prop up the pension funds including immigration of young qualified people. (I worked at Fords Dagenham in the past and met a toolmaker who was a native from the Amazon rain forest, he married a British missionary and was trained by Fords)

I use the old computer every day, works just fine, my son has a good laptop set up with a microphone which he uses to chat with international friends half the night, we never get to see him. A new PC would be 'nice to have' and my missus has her eyes on his laptop, it just isn't necessary.

You have to ignore a Thai wife more than she ignores you. My one pisses me off because she treats our 16 year old son like a prince. Now his laptop isn't good enough for his majesty, she wants me to buy him a 35,000 Baht PC while I use a 19 year old computer running on windows 7. I said sure buy it, just earn the money yourself, now they are both pissed off with me.

The last of the 'by Jingo' crowd, wrapping up his Hovis and Marmite sandwiches in the union flag standing guard at Dover against the hoards who would steal our 'British way of life'

Me, nobody needs to see my scrawny legs. You rarely see a Thai man in shorts.

It could be seen as public entertainment to alleviate boredom during long waiting times in the queue.

My 16 year old son who is fluent in speaking, reading and writing English came to me with a form to fill out in Thai, he asked me to help with the spelling (I can read Thai fluently). I was shocked, he is a class A student at a good school. "You're Thai", I said, "and you can't spell your own language". "I can" he said defensively,"but Thai is difficult to spell some words", "like what" I asked, "อังกฤษ'' (English) he said embarrassed.

Actually I have had only good relationships with the police in Isaan (a small country town) where things are a bit laid back. The police get to recognize you from the bank, post office, road blocks etc. They can be quite amusing, once on my birthday I was stopped for not wearing a seat belt, I had to go to the roadside desk where two officers were sitting. One started writing out a ticket and I, thinking to play the sympathy card, asked can't you let me off, it's my birthday. Grinning he handed me the ticket, shook my hand and said happy birthday. Another time I was falsely parked, loading stuff from the market with my ML into my car, a policeman motioned us to go to the desk situated on the pavement, I and my ML said simultaneously, we haven't any money left. The two officers both of whom recognized the two of us started laughing and said well go home then and stop wasting our time.

5555555, reminds me of an instance in Germany many years ago. It was the October festival time when in the early morning the police received a report that a shivering naked man was hiding around a block of flats. The police found the man and got him into their car, he was still inebriated from the night before. He told the police that he had been completely drunk out of his mind and had accompanied a woman to her flat, after doing the deed he fell asleep with her but awoke 5 hours later, she was 30 years his senior and ugly, in panic and disgust he ran out of the flat as he was, leaving everything behind. The police offered to go to the flat and retrieve his clothes and wallet with him covered in a blanket but he refused and asked them to go alone, he couldn't bear the sight of looking at her again. It was in the local newspaper so it couldn't have done much for her ego.

Nothing.

I had it 7 years ago, my symptoms weren't as serious as that, I had a rash, completely lost my appetite (didn't eat anything for three days) and had dizzy spells. A doctor told me the symptoms were due to my age (69 at the time). I decided to get checked at the hospital where they took urine and blood samples. when I took the lab report to the doctor he emitted a tut tut, shook his head and said immediate emission, your body is going into shock. I was a bed patient for 4 days where I slept 24 hours a day and was woken up every 2 hours for pills and oxygen. After recovery I was weak for three months afterwards. I was told if I got it again it would be worse but you can't walk around being scared of your own shadow.

Pensions are a benefit, not a right in the UK. Your contributions pay for the old folk they are not contributions for your own old age, your pension is paid by the contributions of the dwindling number of young workers (demographics suck). Without immigration of young workers there will be no pensions in the future. She will get no help in the UK, she's been away too long, she will have to wait around 2 years to get benefits although her pension will jump up but where would she stay?

Oh dear, no need to overly copy the West, you are inviting in the woke rubbish.

Trump supporters are basically protesters of the system with no interest in facts and most, it would seem, have missed out when IQ was being distributed, since Trump himself isn't very intelligent they can identify with him. It isn't helpful that the GOP is full of sycophants who see in him a good figurehead to win the election. The Democrat party would be well advised to change horses before the election with someone younger, dynamic and with charisma.

Yes indeed but the problems aren't just in the UK, the same problems are present throughout Europe. It has to be recognized that the disastrous demographics in Europe have left us with a dwindling workforce and a growing number of pensioners, if we can't produce enough children then there is no alternative to immigration. Unfortunately we aren't being very intelligent about our choices, the boat people shouldn't be a problem with a rigorous administration despite us being a signatory to the UN charter (the main stumbling block). Why don't they stay in France? Because the French are harsher with handouts and housing, the UK could set up barrack camps to house them while they are being processed, less handouts and detention if refused stay followed by forced return.