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Most people don't like to be told they are fat (if they are). Ironically if they were told so and acted upon it, it might increase their life and health for a considerable amount of years.

Guilt (from the fact they might get very sick) once drove me to tell someone they were fat (being British and a master of the gross understatement, I phrased it as rather overweight). They of course went into complete denial based on the fact that only I had mentioned it and nobody else had said anything, therefore I must be wrong !

I don't think you would want to eat this (domesticated) sort of pigeon. The pigeons eaten in Europe are Wood Pigeons.

A Wood pigeon is almost twice the size of one of those guys that hang around tapae gate

Pigeons are very much there, I saw them just yesterday. The big sign telling people not to feed them has gone and the bird food sellers are back! At least a couple of hundred pigeons there.

Essentially GRAB is setting itself up / on the way to being a monopolistic controller of non mass transport in Thailand.

History tells us that monopolies are not a good thing and ironically some people are complaining that the red buses are a monopoly! You ain't seen nothing yet!

Their association with Kasikorn banking makes interesting reading. If you can filter out the junk about " Digital Lifestyle Ecosystem " , the interesting parts start to jump out, such as " including KBank loans to help Grab’s drivers access funds ".

Those of us that had frugal families with cash in the bank should know better than to demand sparkling new vehicles at a cheap , cheap price for your local journeys. It is the same as saying , there is nothing wrong with wanting 1GBP T shirt from Primark.

The worldwide monopolies are simply playing off the consumer and the producer. They intend to win.

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everyone around my area received a letter /from jan next year

will have to pay tax on house and land /never said how much /

the old people will feel it/ as now they are struggling to live

This could be another problem in that local areas choose to ignore the exemptions and collect from everybody. Really need for someone to go to the local office and ask for details.

Last year we questioned our tax and did the calculation in front of them. It turned out the bill we had been sent, was let's just say, not accurate.

There are going to be inherent problems in the interpretation of this, probably the biggest is the estimation of value. Then you have people who use or rent out a small piece of their residential land or building for commercial use.

The previous tax which this will be replacing (Pasee Rong Reun sp?) is already often paid by tenants rather than landlords and this goes for tenants of some of the very big landowners. How this pans out should be interesting. There are some very big landowners in downtown Chiang Mai. The cynic in me says they have had time to restructure and relocate the "owner" to the Cayman Islands!!

They have been out in force over the Muang area for weeks with clipboards and writing stuff down. There is no local information as to how they will be calculating it. The only info. is such as can be found here; but don't know that it provides much of a gauge.

https://www.tilleke.com/resources/new-land-and-building-tax-act-thailand

In the city area it would seem to affect rentals and commercial property the most. Next year has the possibility of being rather a bloodbath on an economy which has already ground to a halt.

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Isn't there a choice of GRAB and GRAB ROT DAENG on the app?

So some red truck drivers do go through GRAB I presume.

The songtaews are licensed as they all have yellow plates. It seems that GRAB cars are not licensed to take passengers and therefore paying passengers would not be covered under their insurance if they got into an accident.

Their switchboard will go into meltdown when I start calling it non stop in "pollution season". Without an air purifier the air is much worse than having a football team in your living room lighting up simultaneously.

I can't wait !!!

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30 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

How come you can cope with wheelbarrow and marmalade, but not car key and khaki?

He is Paddington Bear in disguise !

1 minute ago, JAG said:

I don't usually use the confused emoji - but it somehow seems appropriate for this conversation!

Khakis !!! 

Is number of parachutes according to rank ?

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This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

Bowie obviously knew a thing or two about Thai politics!

1 minute ago, Longcut said:

Can this be done using Windows 7? 

No , only Internet Explorer 4.0 and Windows 98 

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Golden tree snake, no problem. They tend to stand their ground and not slither away though. Not poisonous .