alien365

My memory is very bad on this subject, so can anyone remember what happened with beer Lao and how Thailand managed to get around the ASEAN free trade area? They found a way round it to keep the price high. I wouldn't be surprised to see some clever tax labeling to 'reduce' the taxes on American products.

I'm not the most tech savvy, but I guess he likely uses a VPN. I have one too but I don't know the ins and outs of them. Just that they change my location.

I guess he changes his username regularly after being blocked by many posters time and time again. i enjoy reading his posts. They lighten the mood.

It sounds like she wanted to take the credit for the party while you pay for it. If the kids ordered extra I'd pay for it, but based on what you described I'd have done something similar to you. I can't say what exactly as I've not had that happen to me yet.

I thought in Thai culture, you gain a lot of face from being able to pay for everyone and you should feel good about being able to do it. When the family pop round, I don't mind being the head of the table and pay it all, every now and again, but in general they understand the bill will be split.

Considering you seem to be using different numbers in each post on this thread, I don't think you'd know how much you spend yourself. Maybe it's because you're talking about pounds all the time rather than the currency we use every day here.

They lost me at 'don't drink coffee.'

You're clearly ignorant to your subjectivist falacy. Flooding causes a lot of problems around the country every year. You can't just dismiss it doesn't happen because your pond doesn't always full up.

I'll just leave these here showing 22,23, and 24 while you stick your head in the sand.

Naturally news tends to focus more on the bad rather than the good. I shake my head in disbelief at what some people get up to here. I then think I'm glad that I don't live in an area with people like that. When I see the bickering start, I usually go to another topic, but sometimes it amuses me with some clever or amusing responses. One thing I'm glad about is that they have stopped with all those Vloggers. I just want to see the news, not someone making the news about them. If the forum continued in that direction, I wouldn't look at it anymore.

To me, it's not about being happy or fulfilled, it's about finding out what is happening around the country. I think it is a good source of news. I get the newsletter every morning, skim through the headlines and see if there's anything worth reading about. To avoid a lot of bickering I simply don't read the comments when it's relating to things like US and Thai politics. Also, as soon as I see Thai basher or Thai apologists being mentioned, I usually stop reading as I expect the threads will go south.

Table tennis is a great sport though to get rid of some frustration. At the same time, it can also make a week worse if not playing well. Completely up to you of course, but if you're playing 3 times a week you may want to consider buying some better rubbers/blade that suit your game. I don't play as much now as I used to, but I use Tibhar Evolution MX-P on my backhand as it blocks effortlessly and the more power people give me, the more feeling I get. I use Nitaku fastarc G1 on my forehand as I love the biting point for the topspin. It gives me confidence that the ball will arc when I topspin and that I can control the height over the net (It's useless for driving though). My blade is an Innerforce ZLC by Butterfly, which provides excellent feel for my style of play.

What blade and rubbers do you use?

Fill the logbook using pencil rather than pen too, is what the dealer told me on my first new car here. With my second new car I'd already assimilated with the culture and simply didn't care anymore. I drove at any time of the day in multiple provinces through police checkpoints etc

Thats how I felt for over 10 years on this site too. There comes a time (for me anyway) when you just can't be bothered with some people anymore. At times I enjoy reading some of the bickering between posters, so my block list is very short.