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Frogs whilst I admire your blind devotion to Trump - it IS blind ! When you write, "trump's tariffs are not exactly "reciprocal" the truth is they ARE NOT RECIPROCAL AT ALL. As for 'exaggeration' that's an irrelevant and incorrect word in this context. As for "negotiation tactic" - that reminds me of the Goon Show years ago - "it's all part of a masterly plan". Now we have a 'Goon Show' in the USA !!!

Frogs - my glance was enough to see that the formula to calculate these non-reciprocal tariffs was pure nonsense and that the tariffs are NOT reciprocal. The Trump numpties were looking at the balance of trade between the USA and other Countries, NOT the tariffs rendered by each side FFS. YOUR glance tells that you don't "know for sure what he's doing" but you have a theory, (apparently based on blind hopes). You're 'aving a 'larf' surely. "Reciprocal" is NOT this - the EU was charging 1-5% on US Imports and got a reciprocal of 20%. Or this, Switzerland was charging c.0% and got 31%. The 'liberation' was bullocks ! To quote the Master, (Trump), "they all rip us off, it's so sad, so pathetic" and "it's so simple, can't get any simpler than that". The joy in this is, even though it's SO simple, Trump's liberation doesn't get it at all !! What does that say about Trump? Explain that Frogs !

To 'Save the Frogs' and others who support this Trump idiot - hang your heads in shame. Lawless before he came to Office and Lawless now, this convicted Felon and Sex offender should NEVER have been elected. I am not a 'Trump hater' - (Trump followers like to describe those with rational doubtsabout him as 'haters'). Not so. It's obvious at a glance that Trump doesn't think things through and he ends up in a mess, dragging the USA with him. Trump has been a stain on and a disgrace to the great USA from the start. Let's see how this latest nonsense goes down with the Republican hierarchy. God save America. And save us all from this idiot.

Hi. The 'Natural Beach Resort' and 'Nisasiri' are both decent and quiet LS resorts, the first on and the other close to the best part of Laem Sing Beach. Yes parking & privacy and you're unlikely to be bothered by tourists. Budget sub THB2K I think. LS is quiet except at long weekends. Plenty of Restaurants fronting to the beach. Our favourite is Au Samet Dang, a few km away, looking back towards LS over the sea. Good luck

Save the Frogs - "Most people are still getting a lot of crap information from fake news sites". Yes Frogs, maybe you and maybe Trump too . . . as an example, I use Trump on Canada. Net of a US surplus with Canada on exports of 'Services', the overall trade deficit with Canada is $30-$40 billion. The claim of 300,000 people being destroyed by Fentanyl permeating the US border with Canada is ridiculous - official sources say the Canada border accounts for 1/5 of 1% of Fentanyl arriving in the US - (extrapolating that would mean that the USA has 150 million people being destroyed by Fentanyl each year). The trade deficit with Canada totals about $70 billion p.a. for goods less $30-$40 billion of US services in surplus. The US benefits enormously from the goods it imports from Canada, i.e. crude oil delivered by pipeline direct to the industrial mid-west, cheap aluminium because Canada uses hydro-power, timber etc. There is NO $200 billion imbalance and it wouldn't be a subsidy anyway. Trump is quite MAD. Clueless !

Hoorah for that ! To me, it seems there is a lot of resistance in the Judiciary to Trump's wild attempts to 'walk past the Courts'. Good luck USA, labouring in confusion under this sad looney !

Yep this is 'woke' madness, continuing a trend of decades. Whilst it's not just Starmer's fault, is he the Man to turn the tide? MMmmm Even more alarming is the current drift toward 'two tier' sentencing and 'two tier' Policing. The UK and the World is largely, atm, going quite potty !!

Just seen a video on Fab Pattaya News 103 - you can clearly see that the top floor started collapsing at the side where the crane was sited on top?

Re. 'planks of wood' - I can't see them . . . The outside of the Building looks to be insulation material between the floors and starting to install cladding at the lower level on one side?

I stand corrected.

Thanks Mike and thanks all for some constructive discussion, (a nice change on this Forum). Simply, the price paid for the structural concrete at this site should be easy to find and conclusions drawn from that. Naive again, to me, it's unconscionable that the wrong grade of concrete would have been used. The consensus seems to be that the building collapsed from the top initially. Mike, re the Chinese and straw curing, I wonder what their record is with highrise structures and building collapses. Thanks again all.

Bizarre posting again Riclag. I love Ray Charles and have listened to him for 50 years, so I am qualified to comment. I wonder if Ray would sing, "America the Beautiful" these days??He seems to have been a well balanced and decent Guy, so I doubt, in the extreme, if he'd want to sing it now. Anyway the premise of your post is so weak it is desperate. What Ray sang aeons ago is bigger all to do with bigger all.

Hi Mike - maybe I'm being naive - does anyone know anything factual about the existence of lower grades of concrete at lower prices ? Maybe I am being naive, but it seems unconscionable to me that sub-spec material would be used in a 23 floor structure. It will be a shame if we are not given the truth when investigations are completed.

Riclag your usual (IMO) mindless posting. You should revise these words - "The left wants to destroy the Greatest country on Earth" to, "mad Trumpties are wreaking havoc in the USA, a once prosperous, great and widely respected Nation". There's a hundred other ways to express rational revulsion at the antics of Trump, Musk, Maga and Co. and you. History will show Trump, (and you), in such a light you will hang your head in shame.

I agree with that Dinsdale - let's wait and find out what was wrong . . .

Gott - it would be amazing if the concrete supports did not have reinforcement steel as usual ! Quite unbelievable ! Armoured steel ? Never heard of it, except in military applications. IMO, unlikely that the concrete was below spec. We'll see . . . .

I'm always amazed to see how 'flimsy' these buidings under construction look. But surely it's the Architects for the project who specify and monitor construction and their necks may be on the line. The THB 258 million reduction in the project quote could of course be connected to some criminal corruption. Perhaps the structure after investigation, will be found to be in line with normal standards. Or maybe unbeknown, the structure of the ground deep below made that spot, is particularly vulnerable to earthquake disturbance - not everywhere shakes to the same extent during an earthquake . . . . Pity and R.I.P. the poor souls caught up in this.

Shocking - where is this stuff now ?

Sorry Dave - please explain that earlier post - it comes over as just a couple of slogans thrown out!

Hard to make out what you are getting at there Dave. A silly post . . .

Glad you are awake Hanag. But in Trumptie Numptie fashion, you can only look at the past - the attitude - its not US to blame ! What the heck has it to do with 'maroon' Tim Walz - he is entitled to his opinion though he's on the fringe now. He's facing the 'morons' - is that what you mean ? Yes of course Pension Funds are also Tesla Investors - the Pension holders should have something to say about that. As it happens, I agreed totally with the 'right's' stance on Bud Light. Glad you abhor the Tesla violence, so do I, but I remember Jan 6th 2020 and apparently, you don't ! I'd like to chat to someone who regarded Musk as thier 'Darling' 15 minutes ago. ATB

Dave and Hanaguma - if I remember rightly - Musk started off assuming full Executive powers to dismiss Staff but after the ensuing disaster, Trump was cornered to moderate that to, 'recommendation' only.

Hanaguma - Musk holds about 13% of Tesla shares plus Share options - that's $ billions - (you do the sum). I think that'll hurt Musk ! A lot ! Yes it's sad for innocent Americans too - but remember the 1st rule for small investors. Don't put the money in, unless you can afford to lose it. Your post also misses the point that it's MUSK that is responsible for the boycott ! Wake up.

Spider I agree with your post but with respect, I think you mean Trump ranks as the 1st worst of 46 Presidents ? Trump is in his World of his own. It's painful to watch. The Guy is a joke . . .

Yellowtail - you know it's a conspiracists' hook to dismiss everything you don't like - you are then in control and vindicated. A pathetic stance of our times which I often come across. I take the BBC as I find it and don't trust them blindly. Listen to the fecking link and make your own mind up instead of being as weird as you are. Or close your eyes . . . . . .