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Thanks for posting this, Jingthing, because it was classic trump.......losing the plot, telling lies and made to look silly by the reactions of Kamala Harris. A classic clip, may I say!!

They don't need to because trump lost that debate Bigly, and some. No need to offer him another chance, but just keep on doing what they are doing and make him look the liar and fool that he is.

Unfortunately xxit happens......look at Boris Johnson in the UK and Jacinda Ardern in NZ; both incompetent and even though Ardern was "praised" by some countries, she left NZ in one hell of a mess. And trump if elected, will do the same in the USA, mainly because he is ignorant and dumb as well as a crook.

"Ground Control To Major Tom" LOL

So what you are really saying (to quote Jack Nicholson) is:- "You can't handle the truth"........ "And what you will also notice,” she said, as Trump bobbed a bit, pendulum-like, “is that people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.” On those two nouns, Trump’s eyes shot up. Harris completed her thought: “The one thing you will not hear him talk about is you.” And then, Trump talked about Trump. She had him by the "short and curlies", as the saying goes! Great work Kamala!

As I recall bamboozled, I had my nose taped up for a while and was supposed to take it easy, however the end result was good – – no more sinus problems and never have had since. As I recall, the surgeon removed my septum and somehow straightened it, and also snipped a bit off the end, thereby making my nose about a centimetre shorter, and that shows in my photographs of the day, would you believe. From suffering badly from debilitating headaches and sinus problems, I've not had any since. Well worth the operation for me. Good luck if you give it a go.

Sorry Newbee.....it was a paste from another poster. My mistake, apologies.

I suffered from sinus headaches for years when I was a young man, some of them debilitating to a certain extent and they would come and go. Eventually when I was in my 30s, I got another round of sinus problems which made me feel absolutely rotten, so I went to a specialist in NZ (which is where I was then living) and he stated that I had a deviated septum and that was causing the problem, so I agreed to have the operation as anything would be better than the misery I was going through. Whilst he was at it, he removed a few bone chips where the septum joined the skull, these from breaking my nose a few times playing football, and said it was needed to tidy it up. After that was over, I never suffered from a sinus headache again (40 years) so consider it an operation well worth having in my case.

Great article which is "spot on" as the saying goes.

How on earth you can come to that conclusion with all that trump has done over the past few years, and I'm sure you don't want me to list all of his crimes and misdemeanours here, but if you do, I will gladly do so, and perhaps you will see the error of your ways......but then again, there's none so blind as those that will not see!

The thread heading says, "trump shows why he is unfit for office" and this complete and utter nonsense shows that he is both unfit and dumb. Just cannot believe that folk still want to elect him to office; unbelievable!! These are Trump's exact words…… On Thursday September 5, Donald Trump presented remarks at the Economic Club of New York. After his remarks he answered several questions from the panel and Reshma Saujani, the founder and chief executive officerf “Girls Who Code,” asked Donald Trump a very specific question about his policy priorities: “If you win in November, can you commit to prioritizing legislation to make child care affordable, and if so, what specific piece of legislation will you advance?” Trump's exact words in response: “Well, I would do that, and we're sitting down, you know. I was, somebody, we had Sen. Marco Rubio, and my daughter Ivanka, were so impactful on that issue. It’s a very important issue. “But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I’m talking about, that — because, look, child care is child care. It’s, couldn’t — you know, there’s something, you have to have it. In this country, you have to have it. “But when you talk about those numbers compared to the kind of numbers that I’m talking about by taxing foreign nations at levels that they’re not used to, but they’ll get used to it very quickly. And it’s not going to stop them from doing business with us, but they’ll have a very substantial tax when they send product into our country. “Those numbers are so much bigger than any numbers that we’re talking about, including child care, that it’s gonna take care. We’re gonna have — I, I look forward to having no deficits within a fairly short period of time, coupled with, uh, the reductions that I told you about on waste and fraud and all of the other things that are going on in our country — because I have to stay with child care. I want to stay with child care. But those numbers are small relative to the kind of economic numbers that I’m talking about, including growth. “But growth also headed up by what the plan is that I just, uh, that I just told you about. We’re gonna be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it’s, relatively speaking, not very expensive compared to the kind of numbers we’ll be taking in. “We’re going to make this into an incredible country that can afford to take care of its people, and then we’ll worry about the rest of the world. Let’s help other people. But we’re gonna take care of our country first. This is about America first. It’s about: Make America great again. We have to do it, because right now we’re a failing nation. So we’ll take care of it. Thank you. Very good question. Thank you.” Trump’s speeches are frequently incoherent and contain this type of meaningless, rambling word salad, but the quality of his speech is often ignored. Most of the media, if there is any mention at all, simply report it as “Trump being Trump,” rather than questioning the mental fitness of a presidential candidate who talks and acts this way, which foretells how he would perform in office if elected.

Decided to watch a movie which was released in 1996, called, "Sleepers" and despite seeing it many years ago, I enjoyed it (again)!

That wouldn't be too hard...................

Did my electrical apprenticeship in England and qualified as an electrical technician with the appropriate certificates, and once that was done I travelled to work in the Sahara desert for an oil company, then Nigeria at the end of the Biafran war and after that on a few oil production platforms in the North Sea and offshore Norway. Completely changed tack after that and became a sales manager with Rank Xerox UK, and emigrated to New Zealand to take up a job in marketing in RX New Zealand, moving on to become Director/Vice President of Sales and Marketing for American Express for almost 6 years, and they were the best years of my working life. Was approached to join a major NZ bank to instil a "sales and service culture" in it, which was bloody hard work, but I did it' and also took courses on Managed Funds and Financial Planning so that I could take up a position in the bank, starting a new division, which I and a colleague did. We started with $100,000 seed capital and I eventually became Chief Manager Investments, and by the time I left/retired in 2005, I had built it to just under $2 billion and it was the second largest managed fund in NZ. Have been in Phuket for 17 years now.

Ah the man who wants to make "America Great Again" sporting a hat made in China!!

I decided to watch an old movie a couple of nights ago, and also glad that I did, because I had forgotten a lot of it – – the movie is, "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment (who was absolutely brilliant in it) along with Toni Collette. A couple of scenes in it were absolutely gripping, although the rest of the movie was very good indeed, and I may say, very cleverly done.

More bad news for the convicted felon......and it couldn't have happened to a more deserving case!!! I should feel sorry for the rubes who bought into this, but I don't!!! Trump Media stock plunge has cost Donald Trump $6.4 billion in potential wealth Former US president Donald Trump’s shares in the parent company of his social media platform Truth Social have plunged in value in the weeks before he can sell them, a losing streak that has at least temporarily erased billions of dollars from his paper net worth. Trump Media’s stock has plummeted almost 70% to about US$17 ($27.53) - an all-time low since the merger was approved. At that price, Trump’s roughly 60% stake in the company would be valued around US$2 billion ($3.2b), over US$4 billion less than when the company publicly debuted. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/trump-media-stock-plunge-has-cost-donald-trump-64-billion-in-potential-wealth

Many thanks for this OJAS and also thanks to another poster, chiang mai, as you have both been very helpful. As per your suggestion I will take along my Thai daughter, who is currently domiciled in Phuket town after finishing university, and I'm meeting up with her on Wednesday after going to hospital for another checkup, so a quick visit after the hospital, should be fairly easy (hopefully). Also, do I need to take along some proof of where I am currently domiciled (address etc)? Sorry to ask but my memory now after the concussion is terrible. Many thanks, Xylo

Trump Media shares are now 70% off the $66 high they hit in March. Still very much in meme-stock territory (market cap is $3.4 billion for a social media platform with next-to-no revenue that loses tens of millions per month). Another venture to add to his other failed ones perhaps........but he still managed to sucker his MAGA rubes into this "investment". LOL

Many thanks for your speedy reply Chiang Mai, and I will do exactly what you suggest, very shortly. I am slowly getting better, however the effects of the severe concussion do seem to "come and go" with regards to memory, and the fractured coccyx still gives me some pain unfortunately. Anyway I will locate the nearest TRD office and pay them a visit. Once again thank you for your reply.

Please pardon me if someone else has asked this question before, only I have been unwell and sometimes find it difficult to focus/concentrate, so have not been following this "personal income tax" thread very closely at all. I checked my Bangkok Bank account, in which I have the 800 K invested for "retirement" purposes and noticed that tax has been deducted on the interest earned, so does that mean that somewhere in the system I have a TIN?? And if so, how to find it – – I suppose I could ask the bank?? Any help would be much appreciated.

There, there, you poor thing!!

Agree, I sold my Omega De Ville through Facebook and it all went smoothly, although prior to selling it, a Russian guy was interested and asked to meet me to see it! I did meet him and showed him the watch and he wanted to take it away to show "a friend" to ensure it was genuine...........I didn't come down in the last shower, so refused to let him take it.

May I ask if all of the files and desktop items were untouched during the process?

An interesting original post, and on that point, I did buy a Lenovo PC about three or four years ago and it came with Windows 10 already installed. However sometime later I started to get a few problems with it so I took it along to a local PC repair shop and they fixed it and I think they installed another copy of Windows 10, but now I cannot receive any Windows updates, so I'm wondering if this is a genuine W10? I'm also wondering if I following the instructions in the original post, I could start to receive these Windows updates – – anyone have an idea on this??