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He's a megalomaniac with his high faluting plans to buy Greenland and Canada to become the 51st State. It's like a kid that's just been given the key to his money box!

"Trump listens to opinions from many people including the people that disagree with him and then makes his decision." Really? I suppose that is why he has done a "temporary" U turn on his tariffs plan? Listened to his opponents who said it was a bad idea?

" Most everybody in Washington thinks the tariffs are a good idea whether or not they admit it." So you personally know "most everybody in Washington" ? If so, you really should choose friends that are prepared to stand by their beliefs!!!

Well if they're not broken already I am sure the "Ball Breaker in Chief" will see to it!

"Them"? "She"? Confused!!!

"The TAT remains hopeful but cautious,......" TAT are ALWAYS "hopeful", "estimate that", "anticipate", "are looking forward to ...", "are confident that..." Thailand will get xxx million tourists next month etc. etc. etc. Surprised they even acknowledge that tariffs may have some impact.

Maybe he was keeping up with his friends but had one of his drinks spiked?

Sorry for the mix up re gas, but I meant gas for cooking (Calor?) which has gone up substantially. NO bars here where I live selling beer at those prices - maybe 711/Tesco/Macro? "Farang food" gone up substantially, and when it does go up it's not by a couple of baht! For example - Salad Cream jumped from 199 baht to 299 baht in one fell swoop recently. (I have already agreed that Thai "street food" hasn't increased to the same extent.) The example I quoted is hardly irrelevant, as those rates did exist at that time, which is the time when I first started coming here. (Retired here 2004, but spent a few years before that as a "snowbird"!) Medical costs have gone up dramatically - Bangkok Hospital were going to charge someone here £19 for one stitch in a cut finger! It would appear that if you "go the full hog" and live here like a Thai, then prices have not increased as dramatically as prices for "farangs", and my point is that if prices continue to escalate the discerning tourist will seek other cheaper Asian destinations for his vacation (Vietnam, Cambodia etc), and let's face it, most tourists like to "sample the delights" of street food from time to time, but for a proper dinner they prefer a proper restaurant with a glass of wine (which is also ridiculously expensive!)

Think you're suffering from amnesia, mate! I've been here for 20 years and the price for all beer has gone up. In the resort where I live, a bottle of Tiger beer used to cost 60 - 65 baht in a bar - now it's pretty much a standard 80 baht in most bars. Same for "farang" food - a pack of pomelo used to cost 35 baht in my local supermarket - now it's well over 100 baht. The price for Thai food has also increased - but not by as much, I will agree on that. The price for bottled gas has gone up from 300 baht to almost 500 baht, so I think your memory is playing tricks! However, I agree with you regarding rental prices - they have remained pretty constant, but don't forget that 20 years ago we were getting 70+ baht to the British pound, so a 10k monthly rental cost you app £140. Nowadays, at today's rate of 44 baht to the British pound, it costs you £238!

So do I - especially whenever "TAT" is involved!

And 70+ to the British pound instead of 40+ as it stands now!

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"High - Brid"?

"The unabashed conduct of the couple has raised concerns about Pattaya's image as a tourist destination." Is that being said "tongue in cheek" and if so - whose cheek? 🙂

"but almost nobody voted for what he is actually doing." As happened in the UK with SIR Keith "All - ALL pensioners will be better off under Labour" Starmer - all lies and deceit!

You were confused as to what I meant so I had to show you what you had posted in its entirity, but don't worry you are on my "Ignored" list, so I don't have to see your duplicate posts of the OP any more! (P.S. You were the one who said "Try again"! )

Your post:- Photo and all of the text of the post to say:- "Bad luck, but that is the risk in that game" Bad luck, but that is the risk in that game I

Think and look at your post again!

You really don't have to copy and paste the full post and phtographs to reply to it, you know!

"This shop seller is either naively and perhaps even innocently ignorant, or just doesn't care - as others have pointed out, thats entirely their prerogative - but its also understandable that in such situations others may become insulted." Exactly as the text of the post says - she is within her right to sell whatever shirts she wants, whether they feature Hitler or Osama Bin Laden, so she doesn't care about other people's feelings - just about the money she makes from selling them. As another poster pointed out, I wonder how she would feel if she had lost a loved one in for instance, a car accident, and somebody printed a tee shirt of the disaster scene accompanied by some crass comment, and put it on sale to the public?

I looked like he was the one being accosted - with a smile on his face too. And not all of these shop owners are "scraping a living"!

Convicted criminal President of the USA - never thought I'd see the day! Shows the mentality and moral standards of some people.

"...........if you don't like go back to your country..." There's always one! "............if they don't like they can buy off the products and throw them away.." Rather defeats the object of making a protest really - the shop owner would be quite happy. She would probably label the next batch "Best Sellers"! 🙂 I have no strong feelings either way about these shirts, but I might feel differently if for instance, my family had been murdered by the Nazis, or I had been bombed out of my house in Ukraine.

"Despite a fall in drug convictions over the past three years, 73% of inmates remain imprisoned for drug-related offences..............." That figure says it all!