manfredtillmann

7 minutes ago, ZenoBresson said:

No airline ask me for an return ticket or an visa. I fly already to Bangkok from the following airports:

 

- Spain (Mallorca)

- Greece (Athens)

- Austria (Vienna)

- Cambodia (Phnom Penh)

- Germany (Frankfurt)

 

used Airlines

 

- AirAsia

- Thai Airways

- Etihad

- Norwegian

- Austrian

 

 

It's interesting that so many people are asked for an return ticket or an visa.

 

 

germany - frankfurt - thai airways - business class... they did ask and demanded. lucky i had my 'nok air' to somewhere ready to allow the check - in dude to press the 'yes' box

5 minutes ago, twizzian said:

Bloody ell, I'm not reading all that!

you miss out, then...

i just read that this ground breaking album turned 25 years old...

so hard to believe.

i loved 'teen spirit' and 'come as you are', it just seemed so natural, a continuation of something i left behind in the 70's...

any one of you guys have memories of the time this 'epic' got released?

3 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

Are these what the Aussies call "blue bottles"?

yes

19 minutes ago, ronmnk said:

Definitely was a problem with building quality. Heard that several other apartments had issues like me as well during that time and the owner also said that exactly the same thing happened last year during rainy season.

 

The lease also states that the owner is responsible for keeping the apartment inhabitable.. which he didn't do. Asked them for several weeks to fix the problem, said that I'm having health problems due to the mold, nothing happened. I asked if we can terminate early since the lease would run two months later anyways, he agreed to it.

 

Now he all of the sudden goes back on his word and doesn't want to return the deposit.

 

Really no chance to get the deposit back? Even with a lawyer?

man, remember where you live now. this is THAILAND!

lease conditions, lawyer? you are writing about loosing a few thousand bath... just walk away, learn,  and start again.

23 minutes ago, Dibbler said:

Newest pilots too, some of the most inexperienced flying in Thailand

please substantiate your claim.

11 minutes ago, Chicog said:

 

It's almost as if you believe the 9/11 commission report was BS....

 

 

you, i and thousands of others know: it was!

there is so much more to this incident...

we are with 'true' , i think it's called 'smart family' or something.

unlimited internet, no faster than 300 kbs, ever, plus some 90 or so sd and hd tv stations for less than thb 1000/month.

they provide modem and router and service (i.e. after lightning strike), within 24 hours.

happy, totally!

https://www.discogs.com/Charly-Antolini-Knock-Out/release/1358291

blew up speakers in the 70's.

54 minutes ago, F4UCorsair said:

I partly ahree/agree (can't edit).  Everybody should get a pension based on their tax contribution.  On that basis, I'd be on a couple of hundred thousand a year.

 

I think you're wide of the mark on entering Into a contract with the government though.

 

As an aside there are 580,000 people In Australia, known as DEETs (Sorry, NEETs, can't edit), an acronym for Not In Employment, Education or Training.  They refuse to work, and continue to draw the dole, almost $200 a week, and that's costing the workers almost $6 BILLION a year!!

 

Execution comes to mind.

lucky i did not write the execution bit... as an ex -german those things attract scorn. but i silently agree. labour camps???

as for the contract - and you are not the first person i am discussing this with, but perhaps the brightest - when australia 'bought' me in october 1980, the month of my immigration visa approval, i was presented with a range of documents i had to sign. pay for my flight, my settlement, not draw benefits for n - months, find employment, not sponsor relatives etc. etc.

in return i had an outline (i still have these documents in storage somewhere) of the conditions the australian government was providing and, among that, clearly, was a government pension benefit for the over 65's of - if i remember correctly - A$47 / week.

legal or not, this was a contract, an agreement of two parties to act in a specific way.

today, 36 years later, me, having provided countless advantages to the australian society (and having done well myself without doubt - but that is not an achievement of australia, it is an achievement of myself), still providing housing to the under privileged at a fraction of the cost that public housing burdens the australian taxpayer with, i am in no position to claim any of the benefits WE agreed on back then.

australia breaks 'contracts' with their citizens often and regularly. and because of the complacency of australians they get away with it.

11 minutes ago, craigt3365 said:

So the law prohibiting people from driving drunk is only for fools?  Really?

only fools would drink & drive, so Mansell's  statement is totally correct in this respect.

10 minutes ago, Gary A said:

My wife has no idea of how much I get. Why would I post it on a public board? Suffice to say that I live comfortably.

58 minutes ago, Khon Kaen Dave said:

I hate to be a killjoy ,and you guys obviously love giving your personal money details to a complete stranger,,Well,i'm doing quite nicely thank you.So mind your own business.

i think that few people know who we posters really are, that's why we all have our little forum names.

one thing not to tell your wife how much pension you get but posting it here seems fairly anonymous.

anyway, it gave me the opportunity to have a spat about my favourite pet - hate.

happy weekend, everyone.

mft

30 minutes ago, Faz said:

 

98% of the members can tell you exactly what happened to the money!

i belong to the 2% who don't care. it was peanuts, if it made her happy...

11 minutes ago, F4UCorsair said:

As It should be.  Taxes are for government expenses to run tje country.  How much did you contribute to a superannuation plan?

I paid several million In tax, and was never going to be given an aged pension, so contributed to my own retirement plan, for 30+ years.

 

Unable to edit typo  tje = the

when i migrated to australia in 1981 as a self - financed immigrant i entered into a ' contract' with the then government. and part of this contract was the commitment of the commonwealth to pay me the standardised government pension upon me reaching the age of 65.

in australia income tax payments contain a levy for government health insurance and government pension. other countries, like germany, might actually call these tax components by name, but there are still TAX.

apart from 'running the country', which they really don't, perhaps they administer it, and not too well for all i care, my tax payments also finance welfare payments to the needy and the not so needy ones, foreign aid, warfare etc., and these components are also not shown separately in my tax assessment.

my personal provisions for my retirement and my present life are not superannuation, i make all my current income from residential investment property. why that appears to give the oz government an excuse to not pay me is beyond me.

7 hours ago, teacherpaul said:

How can you not know? Were you in a coma?

i was in oz when my then girlfriend moved out and i do not know what happened to the money. we never had a contract or official lease, the rent was paid in cash to the brother of the owner etc. etc., a typical thai thing.

when i tried to talk about it after it was not conclusive and perhaps not important enough to make a big deal out of it. some things are difficult - and others are easy...

as my wife always says: everyone no same.

2 minutes ago, catman20 said:

another millionaire ? BAHT ? 

'my' government appears to think so...

nothing! my government has decided that i am too wealthy to gain any benefit from the A$ 1,000,000 plus of taxes i have paid...

3 minutes ago, djlest said:

well if populations are increasing, china is growing, russia is growing and those Muslim baby machines keep at it....
What do you all expect is going to happen?
Evidently another great flood will be required to rid us of the excess...

i just 100% love this post. so much insight, so much vision...

37 minutes ago, JJGreen said:

ALmost like they are the same guy
...

come on, jj, that is not fair. just on the basis of eloquence , if i may.

the george - boy just triggers something in me that i thought australians did not need to portrait.

given that he seems to think that he is an ambassador of oz, i don't believe he is doing australians a favour.

a functioning, multi - cultural society has no room for people with visions like him. perhaps a few usa democrats can understand that.

i just posted somewhere else that political differences will never be solved on a forum. so be it.

if you had ever lived in oz you'd know what damage to society people like him do.

last post, no more.

cheers

mft

3 minutes ago, ddavidovsky said:

 

Who is being brain-washed, and how, regarding this plane?

Personally, I'm brain-wash resistant, they can't pervert my cynicism of all things human - it's a kind of enlightenment.

i grew up in the '70''s cold-war scenario. we were all told this and that, just bs, really, because we were needed to be kept quiet.

the us had technology even then to take photos from their u2's  to capture the engine number of a soviet tractor.

there is no such thing smaller than the size of a moped - or even less - that can disappear on this planet without someone knowing - particularly not if it is an aeroplane of a muslim nation!

i am not a foil - hatter, but i know we are ALL being crapped on.

did you observe the recent discussions on scientifically renowned websites about the demise of the world trade centre?

start from there, please...

7 minutes ago, ddavidovsky said:

I don't know why they didn't get high resolution satellite images of that whole area of ocean immediately after the crash. A computer could analyse the images and spot every white piece of flotsam - definitely something this big - within seconds.

 

Sending all those planes and ships all that way to trawl the area manually was absurd. Heck, they could have sent up a special satellite just for this job and it would probably have been cheaper...

we are all being brain - washed by our 'governments'.

you do not need to wear a foil - hat to know that.

please, all ,accept:  you will never win a political  debate on a forum - you will never win one, anywhere.

we all 'know' what we believe in and adverse  arguments on a platform like this one will do nothing to change your or someone's  mind. no one will ever convince me that afd/trump/wilders will make a good government - and v/v.

that's just how it is.

i think.

Just now, thaibeachlovers said:

and some have large bulges in their wallet pocket.

That explains why people like Jagger still get young women despite being old and anything but handsome.

on the basis of what one ex - girlfriend told me in the 70's, jagger's genital bulges and abilities far exceeded his financial ones for a loooong time...

and i am really happy for him, honestly!

i don't think that anyone from outside germany / netherlands / austria should be allowed to post on this topic.

usa beer? thai beer? australian beer? no, thank you very much.