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People should know when they are conquered

Just now, Thomas Hannah said:

It collapsed over 5 years ago.and they keep on building.

Quite right.

Just drive around anywhere in Thailand and see the empty properties all over, not just condos.

Part of this is that Thais want to buy new houses.  They are, for some reason, often loathe to buy second-hand.  Maybe they are scared of the ghosties!

Look at the rows and rows of newly developed shop houses and all the empty properties above older shop properties.

Clueless.

They do the same with cars. 

No-one wants a second hand motor.  They want to have nice, new, shiny ones (even though they have never had a driving lesson in their lives!) so they can go out on the road, pretend to be Hi-So until their cute red number plates are taken back, stick ridiculous, cutesy stickers, toys and other childish baubles on their pride and joy, all until they pile it into the back of some equally untrained, unintelligent, unskilled dope on a motor scooter, or until they get ploughed under by an equally skilled moron in a truck equipped with obviously mass-produced <deleted>ty brakes!

4 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

The biggest BS is this country is just never fair. I would even give $10-$15k just to have a PR. I don't actually want a condo. My next step is a small house or some property that the wife and kids would have in the end.

Good point.  I have been here about 15 years now.  Married to my Thai wife for the last 10 years.

We have 2 houses (one we bought, one we built), a condo (Thai style, not farang bait) which we use for her son whose going to tech school in BKK and two other plots of land for development.

Why would I not qualify for residency, given my commitment to this place and the amount I have brough in over that time?

The uneducated, xenophobes in government are as clueless with this issue as they are with tourism and road safety.

OK......... bring on the rose-tinted shill brigade!!

12 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

please explain to me if they are so dumb and you are so smart, your homecountry is falling apart due to mismanagement of a health crisis while the country of these uneducated lackeys has the crisis well under control. You are emotional but not logical.

.what homecountry would that be?

The one I actually chose over 20 years ago and continue to live in, despite its very obvious flaws?

Because I can write in pretty good English, don't make assumptions.

This is my home.

A choice.

Try thinking before typing.

...and maybe take off those rose tinted specs for a few minutes!

Absolutely ridiculous as usual!

This is what you get when you have uneducated, parochial lackeys elected appointed to positions of power in a dictatorship or authoritarian bubble.

So, what happens when the tourists lose the wristband/forget to charge them/they fail (undoubtedly they will be supplied by China on a cheapest price/maximum kickback basis) or the tourist simply forgets to take it off when they go swimming ?  NOt as big a fan of the working ladies as some on here (you know who you are!), I may well set the damn alarm of with a little morning "relief"!

Also, most of these devices use a bluetooth connection to a mobile phone in order to send the data back to a server.  Will they come pre-loaded with a phone?  Must the tourist be forced to buy and maintain a data connection (VERY expensive if roaming)?

Clearly, they have put as much thought into this as they did into electing their last Prime Minister!

Are they going to arrest/jail/fine the tourists?

What effect would THAT have on future tourism?

Honestly, you could walk into any field in Wales and come up with a better flock of decision makers sheep!

1 hour ago, tonray said:

Parts of Europe currently about to re-impose lockdown measures as the seconda wave takes hold

True.  My colleague spent most of the European lockdown in his native Norway.  A couple of weeks ago he flew to his home in the South of France.

Now he is scrambling to get flights back to Norway before they impose the second lockdown in France.  He reckons it will close again by the weekend.

2 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

Does not sound very divisive to me. Quite the opposite in fact. I wonder what quality Trump had that allowed him to succeed in brokering peace in this turbulent region? A region where career politicians and their shadowy backers have failed to calm for so long it started to look an impossible task. At any rate it is fortuitous timing for the President. 

What peace?!!

When have either the UAE or Bahrain been in a shooting war with Israel in the last 50 years?

This so-called agreement is totally worthless and designed to boost Trump's ego and, somehow, his re-election chances, not that his idiot supporters could even place any of the countries on a world map!

This is nothing but lipstick on a pig.

4 hours ago, Airalee said:

I’d be curious to know exactly how much the hospital bills have been for the Thais that have been hospitalized here for coronavirus, and if it even comes close to the US$100,000 coverage that they require foreigners to carry.

 

The ฿400,000-800,000 insurance requirement to extend my “retirement visa” now basically jumps to a ฿5,000,000 policy requirement (The ฿3,000,000 pacific prime policy won’t be sufficient according to my insurance agent) if I, as a retiree, ever want to leave and then reenter Thailand for any reason.

Exactly!

Thai hospitals will view that $100k as a target, rather than a limit!

Yay!  Get a cheap fare to the airport!  Arrive. No flights.

Yay, get a cheap fare back again!

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

I have to admit it was pleasing to be on the beach in Jomtien on Sunday evening with just a handful of others around.

so, you had invited all your friends and family then?

37 minutes ago, Falcon said:

What a racist <deleted> you are Richard, and you are from...? Wherever your from, we should probably ask the question “are there any honest (insert your country here) And should all (insert your country here) be deported because Richard is a complete racist A$$?

there are plenty of honest Africans living in Thailand, just that as they are law abiding, you don’t hear anything about them. Just as anyone and people from any country, the bad ones cause the good ones to be all tarred with the same brush.

Name three!!

I think Richard's point is that they do seem to have a very prominent position in the online scams that are reported and, of course, Nigeria is the home of the renowned 419 scam.

You can go ahead and call me racist, which would be stupid as I have worked and lived over 25 years across Africa (so, at least I know what I am talking about), but when you think about it, I am just a realist and call a spade a spade.

ps  Was the "tarred" reference a racist jibe?!!

Shame on you!

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2 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

 

You are correct.

 

Sorry.

 

That is the yacht he was arrested on, in the Connecticut coast.

 

It is owned by a Chinese billionaire.

 

https://nypost.com/2020/08/20/steve-bannon-was-arrested-on-chinese-billionaires-28m-yacht/

 

The boat, the Lady May, is owned by Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted fugitives, who is wanted in Beijing on fraud, blackmail and bribery charges, according to the Washington Post.

 

 

I'm sure we'll find out what bannon spent his cash on? Ostrich jacket?

 

 

 

 

Birds of a feather, and all that...........