Old Croc

Have to be unlucky. On monday I was sitting outside on the veranda watching the rain when lightning struck the road about 20- 30 meters away. The noise and shock was massive and my body was tingling and shaking for some seconds afterwards. We had a violent storm the day before which damaged buildings, flattened crops, brought down trees and snapped off 2 concrete electricity poles near our property. Loei Province.

It's hard to keep up, there's a backlog of incidents that need highlighting.

One of the consequences of a country invading,conquering and plundering other weaker nations in the past is the intergration of those peoples into their citizenry in modern times, There's something like 5m French citizens and residents with origins in North Africa. Not all from the colonies are beautiful maidens from Reunion Island.

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Hahaha. If he's training in martial arts his gym needs to be converted to a yoga and wellness center for their gross incompentence.

Great advice for normal thinking people considering retirement in a country other than their own. Completely wasted on idiots who can't even remember the name of their hotel and think their workplace and other people should be their personal entertainment venues and directors.

Felt it near Dan Sai. Loei. Had just sat down in a lazyboy and it kept rocking and shaking in weird directions. My wife didn't feel a thing.

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Used to take allipurinol (zyloprim), but still had attacks which I countered by increasing colchocin until it caused the runs, which stopped attacks. As stated in Thailand everyone has a tendancy to flap their wings when they find out you have gout, but chicken is no higher in purines than most other meats Lists are available on line giving purine levels for most types of food. Avoid the high level ones. My Uric acid level was 9 when I started taking febuxostat (Uloric) it nows sits around 4. Much more expensive than alipuinol, but for many considerably better.

I've lived here for 15 years, never started a fight in my life. I am a month shy of my 77th birthday. However, I can recognise there are many silly old farts here without identifying myself,or you, as one.

In my experience people nearly always exaggerate (or downplay) their version of an event particularly when talking with the media. There is much more to this than the Brits have revealed in their sympathy seeking interviews. I don't know what happened or who started the physicality, although it's clear how it ended. You don't have to look far into Pattaya or Patong news videos to find silly old farts starting fights with bouncers or whatever. It rarely ends well. There's no doubt the other couple went way too far in the altercation. They admitted blame and paid compensation. They didn't mention it, but presumably the old couple accepted some payment after the police took their cut. The Thai legal system is based on English Common Law but with their own versions built in. Many crimes and disputes are settled with agreed compensation without resorting to charges and courts. It generally works well for both parties. That charges were leveled at the old couple suggests they were more involved in the initial dispute than they admit. It doesn't indicate a corrupt breakdown of the Thai legal system. The couple were never going to be jailed, that was part of their sympathy seeking version. The Thai supreme court recently ruled that leases can only be for a 30 year period, any extension has to be renogotiated after that time. This will have upset many people all over Thailand particularly so in the HH region where many developers have been hawking 90 year leases.

Shackling of prisoners was common in Thai prisons until quite recently. It's still done with dangerous prisoners in the US. In the UK it's more of a sexual practise than crime punishment These guys entered illegally, were involved in drug running and attempted escape and were stupid enough to do doughnuts in a car thereby attracting attention to themselves. When they started singing I bet the cops wished they also had gags.

Why dont you declare your love and obscesion on his YT comments page and not cause many here to vomit in their mouth?

Soi Ta-Iad in Phuket is well known as the Fight and Fitness street because of its many gyms and training centers for martial arts devotees. Tough guys, some of whom dont necessarily stay on the right side of the law, and others who use roids, etc., flock there from all over the planet to train. Many would be reluctant to approach a naked nut case there because of the chance they may think you're looking for trouble.

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The US President is expanding his lies and ambitions beyond his moronic followers at home and is siding with former world adverseries against former allies. He is lying on the world stage and the outcome will be dire for Ukraine and perilous for other European countries in Russias territorial gun sights. He is cutting historic ties with Europe, Britain and even close neighbors. He is placing personal wealth, power or embarrassment before world order. One man, and a coven of craven, religious nutcases, may destroy the planet. 'I think that's over': Retired general declares death of key U.S. alliance

Why, it seemed to be of little use up until this bank required it to open an account? Kasikorn Bank certainly didnt mention it all those years ago when I opened an account nor at any time in my dealings with them. I've not needed the things previously, and I've bought and sold a number of properties, built houses, extended my retirement visa many times before changing it to marriage. I've found myself in hospitals several times and still make regular visits for ongong treatments. Now, living in the sticks my bills for blood tests and treatments at a government hospital are laughably low. Perhaps you could explain how having a little pink ID card and useless yellow house book would have enabled me to get "my affairs in order" before this latest tightening of bank regulations for foriegners, and how you decided I haven't previously done so. Or was that just your petty, uncalled for attempt to insult?

He already gained enough to buy a som tum lunch for the staff. Also he'd have to fight the missus for the spoils I leave behind, and she takes on 12' pythons singlehanded.

Less than 50% of the popular vote is hardly anything to crow about.

I opened a new bank account yesterday. A simple statement, but it ivolved months of endeavour, disappointment, at least six trips to the local town and about about 12 hours of mine and my wifes time. Most of the latter involved interminable sitting, as the main curiosity, in various office waiting areas or watching a clerk dressed as Admiral of the fleet painstakingly writing on endless amounts of forms. Most of these had to have my signature emblazed on the bottom. My arthritic fingers had a workout comparable to an Immigration extension visit. I had to give details of my long dead parents and make up an address in my home country from whence I left permanently 15 years ago. The new acount was needed because the bank I had used for 14 years doesn't have a branch nor ATM within 120 kms and updated security measures necessitaed a closer relationship. The bank insisted I had to get some sort of quasi recognition by getting a pink ID card and my own personal coloured house book. I'm not worthy of inclusion on the real one despite my considerable contribution to the building of such. This involved the local orbitors office and took some time and several visits because, inadvertantly, I first fronted on Valentines day. This is apparently a big deal for marriages. I did wonder at the many young couples flooding in. The Admiral had taken a day off and his replacement was loud and incompetant and eventually told us to go away and come back tomorrow after we had spent hours waiting. The boss probably got his splendid uniform because he's clever enough to know when to have a day off. With this new documentation the bank relented and allowed me an account, albeit restricted in amounts transferred because I'm over 75 and not to be trusted with my own money.

A professional in any field who enters a foriegn country on a tourist visa and then plies their trade in an establisment that benefits from that work is breaking immigration law, and should not be surprised at consequences. That basic concept is most likely part of your country's Immigration legislation. Would a house painter or carpenter take on a job when on holiday? Musicians are not as special as many of them think. We all like music, and most of us are happy to get a show for the price of a few drinks instead of paying massive, overinflated sums for a concert ticket. The victims are the local band who miss out on a booking or the competing venue that loses customers. To characterise it as jamming, is disingenuous if doing it in a commercial establishment for an audiance. Whats different in Thailand is the unwieldy work permit process, instead of a more simplified business or entertinment visa for those who come for work. Enforcement of the law here can be quite lax which may tempt many to breach the rules, but when action is taken it's usually over the top without comprimise nor compassion. Our countries may be more flexible in the same situation. Musicians are not known for intellect and they can have a superiority complex, but laws apply to all.

I believe in real facts such as the enormous death tolls in southern (Trump) states. Way above that elsewhere. Articles written by people like you arn't worth the papyrus bark it was written on.

It's been announced they are getting divorced. Time for her to cash out. She will never have to work again so perhaps may think the trip was worth it..

It killed vastly more of these people than acual intelligent beings because they listened to idiots telling them it wasn't happening.

The Nomad Caitalist also suggests Americans should head to Uruguay where their money can buy citizenship in a short time.