Old Croc

A sound humanitarian move designed to legalize stateless people closeted within Thailand. As stated, it also helps the host nation suffering from a declining birth rate and in need of economic stimulus. This program has nothing to do with expats holding citizenship in their home country. A completely separate matter, but Thailand does need to make an easier pathway for these people to obtain citizenship or PR if wanted.

It's amazing that these massive tourist areas with their millions of annual visitors also have so many rip-offs, scammers and criminal activity. I can't understand the reasons.

Republicans?

They were clearly French as the clever play of words in the headline indicates? plan fails to baguette away with it in Phuket

Unlike you, I don't get misinformation hot from the inventors like MTG, Hannity, Meagan Kelly, Pirro, convicted felons and traitorous insurrectionists.

Yes, only hunters have guns in America and then only firearms suitable for hunting. And of course, those US road rage incidences, police chases, and riots that are all over YouTube, are committed by illegal immigrants not peace-loving citizens.

Last year, they also insisted on signed copies of the 90-day next due date slip. When I asked why, and what rule applied, they got quite nasty and decided I needed more house photos and other BS documents. I now play along with their silly games.

For my marriage extensions I still have to submit signed copies of my card from my last entry in 2011!

Insulting other nationalities is hilarious! Funny how you don't find it so when it comes back at you.

It's sad that the sense of entitlement of some Brits lingers long beyond the era when Britain was considered a superior nation to the unfortunate countries they invaded, plundered and enslaved.

It's normal for an individual to choose their friends, those who meet their standards and are like thinkers. However, for a person to use this open forum to selectively recruit people that he decides are suitable to dine with him at a closed social function seems to be at odds with the aims of this forum.

I know who you're talking about but give it a rest. Our interpretations are not going to coincide.

Outsourcing certain skills is not recruitment.

I'm fairly sure no police force hires criminals deliberately. Not saying they don't end up there. Paying informers is not hiring. And don't call me Sir, it's disquieting in this forum! 🙃

Sorry for the confused person. I'm just saying illegals can't be both thieves and honest people.

The way I understand it, life expectancy calculated from a particular birth date includes all deaths from childhood, through idiot youth and later age illness. To exceed the end figure is no great achievement in itself, other than you weren't one of the unlucky ones who dragged the average down. Having reached that age, your life expectancy actually rises quite a bit higher because all the fools and unlucky soles are no longer part of the equation.

But you said the 12 were honest, ergo not law breakers. Your solution of recruiting the thieves into the Immigration Police force still sounds weird to me.

In one sentence you both criticized Immigration for only catching 12 transgressors, then without evidence, claimed they were "poor souls making an honest living" Your second sentence was even weirder.

The desperate god botherers attempting to conjure up a victory for the babbling old man with rubbish postings. Couldn't help but notice that NickieLouie's post was number 666!

This indicates they know the identity of the suspects and perhaps the victim. If foreigners, no doubt an alert at departure points has been raised.

From our farm we can see 3 temples in 3 different villages. The closest temple is 450 meters away. I hear the tom-toms at 0600 most mornings when the monk wakes up, again at 1600 for whatever. Sometimes there's chanting or traditional music. The travelling carnies include our village in their schedule, so once a year for a couple of days there's a fair, with rock music blaring until midnight Ish. All good entertainment for the locals and I can listen from the verandah, beer in hand. This year they moved all the way to the village on the other side of us so we were entertained for consecutive weekends I have no problems with most temple noise. However, with the aging population, there seems to be far too many funerals, which are punctuated with very loud fireworks. Always poignant as we usually know the subject. We can only just hear the village head's messages as he is further away than the temple. The wife goes outside if she wants to hear it. It is rarely used now as the village has their own LINE account where members exchange information and wares.

Mummy's basement!! My mother never owned a basement (not common in Australia) and has been dead nearly as long as Kerr. I've been a member of this forum for nearly 20 years, have lived in Phuket and now Isaan for 15 years. I own property and residences in both places. I think my assessment of you being somewhat short of factual opinions is not misplaced. You haven't seen my anger, you're just a lightweight know-it-all.

I worked in The Aboriginal Affairs Dept for over six years and have visited tribal group settlements all over Western Australia. I met, worked and socialized with many great indigenous people during that time. Unfortunately, I also had to deal with some of the worst people, who had no qualms in stealing from the government and each other. On several occasions, I saw vandalized and uninhabitable govt funded dwellings. I had a job auditing government grants (not small sums) and found many cases of theft where the project was ignored and the money used for personal items such as cars for self and immediate family. Instructions from above were that these funds were to be written off rather than forwarded to the DPP for action.

Kerr died in 1991. Probably of a pickled liver. He was a notorious drunk. If you think that is a rumor do a search for his infamous drunken speech at a race meeting while dressed in top hat and tails. Of course, he consulted the queen before he sacked the elected government. She agreed. You're the one who spouts off all the time without facts.

The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, as prime minister to hold a new election. It has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australian history. Wiki