Chongalulu

Yet you can produce no substantiated counter argument …? The RTA figures for Thailand (25,000 deaths per annum) are a substantial support of mine however.

The locals seem not to learn from the experience of crashing into each other though. The tourists seem to leave their good senses behind when "holiday brain" takes over and they suddenly think that wearing helmets etc. rules/consequences are miraculously suspended because they’re "on holiday " and everyone else is doing it.

The poor should learn to "count" on themselves not to slaughter each other so mindlessly. 99% of the solution is in their own hands.

There was plenty of regulation and building inspectors would have been involved during the construction. Not something done in Thailand.As I understand it the cladding didn't contravene regulations at the time. The instances are far apart in equivalence in that respect. Rarely would you find a house collapsing in UK from a thunderstorm!

At the time of installation of the cladding I understand this didn't contravene the building regulations at the time. A far cry from this Thai house where the fundamental structural construction was severely flawed. Yours is a false equivalence

The OP was talking about a UK pension and the responder claiming theft was Britman 2 , suggesting his was referencing a British pension too, which is what I based my response on. Otherwise I agree with all you said.

No, YOUR financial advisor might have been a crook and if he Indeed did embezle monies from the fund then you would have been entitled to compensation from the association they have to be part of via the FCA.

Not really,in that case it was the cladding to the wrong spec rather than fundamental construction. Not to diminish the catastrophic consequences of that error.

It's MORE expensive when you have to build it 2 or even 3 or more times to make it last as long...

I've finally concluded that there's either a genetic flaw in the spacial awareness make up ,or else the "thick gene ????”. The two are not mutually exclusive as two of the drivers here have demonstrated...

So you're in the pub talking to a mate and another friend walks in but you'll never notice him....? Or you're driving but can never glance down at the instruments? Oh dear,you are one dimensional chap!

Was "He".... ?

You win today's internet for the most useless advice of the day!

Being on the phone doesn't makes you " oblivious" to what's around you. Can you not walk around without bumping into things while talking?

That makes little sense. Unless major reform, really only a prospect under move forward,not the current dinosaurs, addressing the poor education system amongst many others is addressed Thailand and it's labour force are going to be left behind in a world changing fast and embracing AI. The status quo which is all that's on offer otherwise is a recipe for disaster.

The difference between a good and a bad haircut? .. About 10 Days.. ????

You suggested he maybe as bad as those regimes , including the current one here, in potentially manipulating the vote. I note you are rowing back now on that unsubstantiated falsehood

So do you imagine the major trading economies are favouring a continued junta government or this forward looking Move forward party headed by Pita? The "damage" you allude to is really only in your own head

He hasn't even been allowed to begin despite a clear victory.

No you can't,Pita, unlike the junta wasn't in power to influence nor manipulate the process. His achievement in that respect as an unfancied candidate is even more stunning . The junta have been resoundingly defeated despite their machinations. Time to go..

There are plenty of examples of unsavoury regimes around the world who "got the most votes". Can you explain how they were first voted into power…? before they then stacked the deck including stuffing in 250 appointed senators. There have been plenty of arguments already (including from me) pointing out your flawed argument - one of the major ones being a proper democratic government in a free and fair election..or does that argument need explaining to you too?

Abhisit and Pita were educated at Oxford and Harvard respectively. Now who were you saying was stupid…?

Your apologist’s view of the junta certainly leaves a bad taste in the mouth.. ????

Not on my WATCH! ????

You could put lipstick ???? on it ? ????