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Scouse123
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Many years ago I had a black pickup. I bought it new. Looking back, I don't know what I must have been thinking to choose that colour.
It was hit twice whilst parked, once whilst I was sat there outside a mom-and-pop shop by a driver who had been drinking. One accident I witnessed where he actually stopped, he was drunk and worked at the local land office.
The other was a glancing hit-and-run, very common up here. He knocked off my electric mirror, and some trims I had on the car. He also damaged the rear and front doors. Not only that, but he looked, saw the damage, and hit the accelerator. He had no rear number plates and it was an old pickup.
I changed shortly after to a white coloured car and have changed my car three times since and stuck with White.
Up here on roads in the sticks, many are unlit, and we have many where they turn half the lights off at a certain time to save money, it's just better to be seen.
I still see the dimwits up here in pitch black conditions driving motorbikes and riding bicycles and not opening their lights. Even those pushing handcarts are as bad, and the only display at the back are reflective old CDs hanging off the rear end as a warning to drivers.
Pure stupidity, as in the immediate area we have one of the biggest sugar factories in Thailand and 12 wheeler trucks are part of the life up here, constantly rolling on the roads 24/7 delivering sugar cane.
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9 hours ago, advancebooking said:
you get up at 3am? why
what time do you go to bed each night? do you nap midday?
That's not unusual in the countryside.
I, when I am on an exercise period, get up around 3.30am and just after 4am I am on the local lake doing 5 laps which is equivalent to five miles around.(I measured it)
At that time there are plenty of older, and some younger, people who work the morning markets out exercising.
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1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:Because she joined a Terrorist organisation and allegedly served in the Islamic State's 'morality police' and recruited other young women to join the jihadist group. Separate intelligence reports claimed she stitched suicide bombers into explosive vests, a potential offence of preparation of terrorist acts.
Thus... her crime is 'terrorism' and she can be tried anywhere.... Just as those guilty of War-Crimes are not tried in the country in which they commit said crime...
Hopefully with this explanation the over simplified and dumbed down folly of your argument that she committed her crimes abroad and should be tried there is something you now understand.
She is no longer a British citizen, so no point in her coming to the UK to be tried in a court of law.
She might as well, as a stateless person, be tried where she is.
Who should decide if she comes back to the UK to be tried in a court of law, as now, a non-British person?
a.) The British law courts in their entirety.
b) You.
Well, the British courts have decided that the government acted within the law.
I bet you would be one of the first blasting the government if she was allowed back, released on parole and then committed a terrorist act where your immediate family or relatives were the victims.
I hope she dies in a filthy, squatter tent in the detention camp, where she belongs along with any other ISIS filth.
People who have met her, interviewed her, spent long periods of time with her and those that know far more than is allowed in the press state she is dangerous, a manipulator, and still a threat to UK security.
However, you feel you know better?
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9 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:Then she should be convicted in a UK court and locked up. The key can be thrown away for all I care. I think you have missed the point!
Shamima Begum committed the crimes abroad, she can face justice abroad.
She was stripped of her nationality because she was and is a danger to the national security of the UK, and at that time, she had options to gain nationality in other countries that would not make her' stateless '
Begum deliberately did not apply for it to Bangladesh, because she wanted to put pressure on the UK's soft option society, to go back to a private cell, with shower and phone, family visits and early parole.
I didn't miss the point.
The amounts of money invested by our stretched security forces and Police keeping these useless pieces of human rubbish under surveillance is ridiculous.
Meanwhile, our armed services are cut back every year leaving us, our people and our borders, vulnerable and weak, because of this filth.
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On 2/25/2024 at 6:00 AM, SGD said:
I used to have many businesses in Thailand, mostly in and around Pattaya ranging from bars to restaurants to a hotel and later student accommodation and laundry.
Let me tell you about how the economics have moved against everyone inthe small business sector.
You could, even as late as say 2000, maybe even 2004/5, buy a bar which could give you a return of 200% to 400% per year.
Now you would be lucky to get 25% per year outside massive investment (and the associated risk).
It made absolute sense before and makes zero sense now.We had exactly the same as you including the hotel, I did own the land and property, however, in South Pattaya, and it was at that time a big investment.
I got out in 2005, and earned a very good sum, partly because it was freehold property and a profitable business.
Furthermore, I wouldn't do it again, and the niche market we catered for has gone.
There are too many at it now, chasing the same $$$.
We took a trip to Koh Chang a year or two ago, and I chatted with a few guys who were doing bars and restaurants as a lifestyle choice, or their wives had relocated back to Thailand, and they wanted something to do.
That didn't appeal to me, using high season profits to cover low season deficits. It just reminded me of the hamster on the wheel.
Now, I am building new houses in the UK where I can find a plot of land or buying run down properties, refurbishing and flipping them.
Very little contact with the public and no cash tills and drawers to constantly watch.
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On 2/24/2024 at 1:28 PM, Dolf said:
I don't tell people how to spend their money. Sometimes tip sometimes not.
That's me to a tee!
I'll give a bellboy when he assists with heavy bags but not hand luggage, I give many times a waiter or a room maid.
Likewise, a taxi driver when he helps me with my luggage on to the pavement at my destination, after returning to Thailand from abroad.
I won't and don't feel obliged to give a tip just because somebody hands me an overpriced bottle of beer in a bar. Nor a street food place and the likes.
I don't like tipping when there is a service charge. Some posters have doubted that the service boy or girl receives it, how is that my responsibility?
When I came here to this country, tipping was never really a done thing, or the norm, and I won't blame the USA like many do.
I blame tourism, as a whole, that has instigated this and the locals have become familiar with it, and then it's become expected.
What hasn't happened, the locals have not understood tipping is for ' going above and beyond for service ' and expect tips on many occasions for lousy service.
Some expect to do the bare minimum for you and play with their phones, giving minimal service, and still call you a cheap Charlie if you don't leave a tip.
We are even seeing tip boxes these days, IN YOUR FACE, on display in IT and phone shops, in the back of taxis, coffee shops that are springing up everywhere etc, that is just brazen cheek in my book.
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47 minutes ago, jayboy said:You and many others on this forum have ignored the great point of principle at stake here.It is perfectly possible to hold this individual in contempt and yet insist she has a right to her nationality.Some will be surprised by the author of what follows.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/shamima-begum-shouldnt-have-lost-her-british-citizenship/
I wonder if she had any concern whatsoever about human rights whilst she was a senior member of ISIS morality police, passing judgement and sentencing her victims to appalling inhumanity?
Where was her humanity when she openly said "she was totally unfazed" by the beheading of aid workers and civilians?
I hope she dies in that camp rather than squirm her way back into the UK, where for the rest of her life she will be selling stories, living on benefits and costing us a fortune in monitoring and surveillance.
She committed the crimes over there, she can stay in the detention camps, and when convicted I hope they treat her as a terrorist and hang her as a warning to others.
She is a complete narcissistic sociopath, this has shown in countless interviews she has undertaken as an adult.
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Just now, retarius said:Silly vindictive nonsense from you. Obviously you have never made any mistakes in your life.....she was a 15.
Don't give a damn, she continued these beliefs well into adulthood.
15 years old, so where was the parental control and supervision?
Lefty and liberal clowns like you that have allowed the UK to become the dangerous place it is to live in today.
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Just now, stevenl said:
And I hope she will use her status to prevent others from making the same mistake.
Or use her status if we have the misfortune of her ever getting back to the UK, of assisting her terrorist friends, whilst in the UK, safe in the comfort that people like you want her back and let her free to continue her vile beliefs.
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3 minutes ago, retarius said:Despite the negative tome on this forum, the girl was 15 when she made a mistake. 15 year olds should have a chance at redemption after a mistake. Her 3 children have died, and she has lived for years in a guarded refugee camp. Cancelling her citizenship was simply an act of vile inhumanity. I hope she thrives in the coming years.
Obviously, you, unlike me, have never served in HM forces nor ever been an aid worker in conflict zones.
Easy to preach morality from the comfort of your armchair.
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Give the Chinese guy one of the 95 phones the police have just found in a hotel room in Ching Rai.
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8 hours ago, cowellandrew said:
Scratching head wont help!
No, and that is why I was very proactive getting the meter reader back out to my house.
I then had the PEA cable installer visit, then my own in house electrician to re-wire everything only to find the fault was on the PEA pole.
The fault was 99% probably due to sloppy works carried out at the top of the pole by PEA engineers previously,
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24 minutes ago, Straight8 said:
effin ridiculous......TiT
This place sometimes, does my head in.
I agree, and because it is right at the top of the PEA pole, it's more chance than not due to works carried out wrongly by PEA engineers.
No way can members of the public get up there.
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2 minutes ago, stevenl said:
Those disgraceful politicians you refer to, and I remember this case well, had first-hand knowledge of what this misfit did.
They stated at the time, if the British public had access to the information that they had, nobody would be giving her an ounce of sympathy.
This information was held by the judges at her hearing, hence many things were redacted, and a closed judgement issued for national security reasons.
This included participating and witnessing decapitation of aid workers, and she said at the time when ISIS was flying high that she was totally unfazed by it.
Furthermore, at the time, it was known that she was in a high position in the equivalent of the Women's morality ' police force ' set up to ensure all were following ISIS twisted version of Shariah law, again something she participated in willingly.
So all you bleeding hearts on AN can do one!
They should put themselves in the position of the families, and reserve their outpourings of sympathy for the of murder of innocent civilian aid workers, not a disgusting creature like this.
What she did supporting ISIS, she did knowingly and willingly, and this continued well into adulthood. She only played the victim, claiming she was trafficked when the tide of the war turned.
She wasn't trafficked, she overcame many obstacles to get there and join them, well she can bloody stay there.
Her own parents had begged her not to go and join them, which she and
her two friends took no notice of.
All totally unimportant in relation to the legal decision to revoke her citizenship.
Morality and legality don't always match.
The legality, as the unanimous decision of the appeal court has found, was it was right and proper legally the decision to revoke her citizenship.
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11 hours ago, it is what it is said:er, no, could you travel the world without a passport? well neither can she. she is effectively stateless.
I don't want the evil cow travelling anywhere except to the toilet in the detention camp, where she belongs.
She wouldn't be stateless if she hadn't been a threat to British national security and applied for Bangladeshi citizenship within the given timeframe.
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13 minutes ago, transam said:
Why bring religion into the thread, one does not have to have a religion, like me, to keep this murderous regime collaborator lady out of the UK.............
Well said.
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1 hour ago, herfiehandbag said:The courts have for reasons unknown (but I suspect heavily influenced by the tabloid press) allowed that decision to stand.
If the British government believes that she is to be punished it should be by a British court, under a British law. They shy away from that because it is by no means clear, either under which laws or with what evidence. In fact what has happened is that an administrative fiat by the Home Secretary has denied that, and replaced the due legal process.
What a load of absolute rubbish!
You way underestimate the level and standards of understanding of British courts.
They were not influenced by the British press, they had full access to what she had been doing with ISIS (and a lot more information than the public had, which we were told at the time) whilst extolling the virtues of her ISIS memberships, including beheading of civilians.
Nothing has replaced the British legal process, hence this case is still ongoing appeal after appeal at the expense of the British taxpayer, due to the hag having legal aid.
Of course, people in the bleeding hearts club on here want her punished under British law, where she goes to a cushy woman's prison with TV and shower in her cell and a phone, and then let out as ' allegedly ' rehabilitated in two years, to then covertly assist her terrorist friends, claiming benefits and planning attacks from within the UK, whilst having the protection of UK laws and soft liberals supporting her.
Then the additional costs of surveillance and keeping track of her and her movements.
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12 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:
I suspect the Supreme Court will overrule again. I hope so. She deserves punishment but it should be handed out in a court of law, not by disgraceful politicians.
Those disgraceful politicians you refer to, and I remember this case well, had first-hand knowledge of what this misfit did.
They stated at the time, if the British public had access to the information that they had, nobody would be giving her an ounce of sympathy.
This information was held by the judges at her hearing, hence many things were redacted, and a closed judgement issued for national security reasons.
This included participating and witnessing decapitation of aid workers, and she said at the time when ISIS was flying high that she was totally unfazed by it.
Furthermore, at the time, it was known that she was in a high position in the equivalent of the Women's morality ' police force ' set up to ensure all were following ISIS twisted version of Shariah law, again something she participated in willingly.
So all you bleeding hearts on AN can do one!
They should put themselves in the position of the families, and reserve their outpourings of sympathy for the of murder of innocent civilian aid workers, not a disgusting creature like this.
What she did supporting ISIS, she did knowingly and willingly, and this continued well into adulthood. She only played the victim, claiming she was trafficked when the tide of the war turned.
She wasn't trafficked, she overcame many obstacles to get there and join them, well she can bloody stay there.
Her own parents had begged her not to go and join them, which she and her two friends took no notice of.
Likewise, she had ample opportunity to apply for her Bangladeshi citizenship before she turned 21, which she chose to ignore and do nothing.
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/comment/59540/why-shamima-begum-cant-be-allowed-to-return
https://news.sky.com/video/is-bride-a-lot-of-people-should-have-sympathy-for-me-11640208
https://www.arabnews.pk/node/1708041/world
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23 minutes ago, PeachCH said:
Before selling, had a condo in Pattaya for 8 years. Never had to pay one Baht for electricity 😁! Why? I really don't know, and never asked, why should I? 😊 👍 😘
Why can't things like that happen to me?
If I jumped up in the air, I think I'd miss.
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1 minute ago, Crossy said:
If it was on the house side of the meter it's your problem despite being on the PEA pole.
I'd just be happy it's sorted.
Cheers,
Good to know your thoughts were right, though.
I'll leave it then at that. I just said to him that I hoped he'd fixed it so it wouldn't re-occur, he says it won't.
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5 hours ago, Crossy said:
2A is more than a "leak".
Is the cable to the house underground or on poles?
If it's on poles examine carefully, particularly at the top of the meter pole, that's where any hooky connection is going to be, use binoculars if you have them.
It's worth talking to your PEA guy, many of them are happy to do a bit of moonlighting.
Crossy,
You are spot on!
Previously, the power went from a PEA meter pole, to my pole in the garden where it went underground. We have now put new cable and connected above ground and disconnected the underground connection.
My electrician re wired the house to above ground and cut the supply to below ground where it was previously and STILL the meter was spinning around.
He was annoyed that he had re wired and re routed, and for his own peace of mind wanted to get to the bottom of it.
He then went out to the pole located across the street opposite our house, and right at the top of the meter pole, he has found the short/ bad connection.
The connection he has repaired then cut the power to my house, and the meter stopped dead.
However, and I know you get this, it's on the wire side of the power output from the meter as opposed to the input side, at the top of the pole like you said, so he is saying PEA will deny and say it is our responsibility.
I was ready to challenge them on Monday, but is it worth it, or will I be wasting my time?
So, us rewiring the cable above ground and cutting the underground, and re-routing to the house is an expense for nothing when it was on the pole all the time.
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53 minutes ago, SingAPorn said:
Not to mention all the stray cats and rats hovering around many very popular thai restaurants. One may assume the stray cats are not doing their job.
OMG, The times I've seen them around Suriwongse and Silom.
Seen the size of them? Sure, the cats won't take them on.
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49 minutes ago, Tarteso said:
Nothing new… this is a common practice in noodle shops and Restaurants.
That what I was thinking, it's always been that way throughout the country.
All the street vendors do it and many of the temporary and permanent shops.
42 minutes ago, julsmark said:It’s is impossible to get hep B and Hep C from unhygienic practices. Hep C can only be transmitted from blood to blood. Hep B can be transmitted from blood to blood or sexual fluid. The only hepatitis that can be spread from unhygienic practices poo to mouth spread by not washing your after you defecate is Hepatitis A.
Then I would say there is a high risk of Hep A from street vendor stalls in particularly.
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2 minutes ago, steven100 said:oh well ' at least you have a defined reason. Not what one would expect though, and strange that it's at your cost to fix. but TIT ...
I did query it.
The PEA guy took some testers that went around the cable leading from the meter and showed is that it was still drawing current with the breaker to the house off.
He said he couldn't assist further as he wasn't allowed to as it was on our property, as I was pushing to know where the' leak' was. He did, however, speak on the phone to our electrician, who I have begged to come today, explaining the situation.
I believe this' leak' is coming from the power wire that links our house to PEA box.
I hopefully, will update AN today.
If I hadn't been away for half of the month, I would have just put the expensive electric bill down to price increases or an anomaly and paid it.
It looks like I'll still have to pay it if the fault is the cable that connects our house to the main supply.
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Elderly Swiss cyclist killed in hit-and-run in Sattahip district
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RIP to the man who has passed away, it's sad to see and hear of people passing in such away whilst enjoying retirement.
People really need to get a grip and understand how dangerous the roads are here and European or Western road rules and sense just does not apply.