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Perhaps they have the wrong kind of sand.

He has a point though. The issue will not be westerners buying one rai out in the sticks somewhere and building a house for him and his familly. The issue will be Chinese companies buying up huge tracts of land and developing them as a home from home for use by a select few of their fellow countrymen. Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos are already experiencing this.

Can also be caused in rural areas by villages which vote the wrong way.

Water hoses onto lithium battery packs? Shocking.

I imagine this will empty Monaco overnight.

Was it consensual? If it was not I would expect she would have screamed from the rooftops the first time it happened. Now she is claiming it happened three times? Its a joke. She knew what she was doing. She was doing what most bar girls in Thailand do. Holding her nose while an older guy pumped her. Its the oldest trade in the world. Do I like Prince Andrew? No hes a dick. Do I believe he raped her? No she is what she is.

Oh good grief. Years ago he was known as "Randy Andy". Everyone used to laugh about it. His list of girlfriends was long and all of them were gorgeous. The guy would have done a barbers floor. Now. Was he enjoying girls provided by Epstein and Murdoch? Probably. Was she making money out of this arrangement and happy with it? Probably. Otherwise she would not have stuck around. Was Andrew stupid to continue to hang around with Epstein when times and attitudes changed? Aye. He was. Did anyone believe his "I dont sweat" interview? No. Does anyone believe Virginia Roberts claims that all this was non consensual? No. Judge should just throw it out and tell everyone "You all knew what you were doing now get on with it".

Tibet was an independent nation which was invaded by China.

Actually they cant. Take a country like Gabon. China arrived and built a new parliament building for them. And a six lane highway which goes from nowhere to nowhere. Most traffic it sees in a week is three carts and a donkey which got lost. Just google Chinese construction in Gabon. Gabon now finds itself unable to keep up the payments. The solution? China will accept repayment in hardwood trees from the rainforest. Gabons solution to that problem? Its asking the west to pay for them not to cut down the trees. Thereby essentially paying Gambons debt to China for it.

You can get that in Pattaya but it does cost extra. Or so I am told.

No its because western companies and countries are not in the business of handing out brown envelopes to despots and corrupt officials. When they got caught doing it the penalties are severe.

Thats the thing. Evergrande is in trouble for several reasons but one of which is that house sales in China have dropped 20% in the past year. Chinese banks know they are over exposed having given out so many domestic and foreign loans which are now starting to be defaulted on. Now that was OK while the economy was expanding year on year but in the past two years the economy has started to shrink (please dont believe the "official" CCP figures regarding growth. I think they get TAT to compose them). This has caused easy credit in China to become a thing of the past.

Tip of the iceberg mate. When Evergrande goes down it will start to take some of the huge Chinese banks with it. Some of those banks have huge investments in things like loans and government bonds here in Thailand. They will start offloading those. Value of them will plummet. Thai central bank will be forced to start buying them up but will eventually run out of money. Thailand starts printing Baht like its going out of fashion. Currency collapses. China still wants its money back but will now accept goods and services rather than money. Deep water naval port on the west coast? No problem. We want a military airport there. No problem. We want control of your water and electricity suppliers. Take them. Still got some hardwood trees in those national parks. They are yours. Hell China will probably take the few remaining wild tigers as well. Thailand will become a Chinese colony. Us westerners will be invited to leave at that point. China is already doing these things in some african countries. They got themselves up to their necks in debt to China building railways and roads they didnt need but powerful people got rich from the brown envelopes involved.

They must be bringing a lot of blue dye as well because I have never seen the Mekong that colour.

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Crossy has given you the best option in my opinion. Schneider would be the best but comes in at a premium price. Let me put it this way. If you buy a really cheap unit and it electrocutes you, your wife or your kids would you consider that 1000 baht saving to have been worth it?

You would think at some point she would have stolen a hairbrush.

Never understood this. Why would what other people do bother someone if it does not affect them? Especially over here. Go into many bars and there will be at least one ladyboy working in there. Some of them are pretty busy. But if you are not interested in them they will not be interested in you. Its a waste of their time. Same with gay people. I worked with an openly gay man. I treated him no differently to anyone else I worked with. He was good at his job which was all I needed. I believe it was all he expected as well. Live and let live. I think most people would agree with that. But your "friend" appears to be some kind of dinosaur. I would avoid further contact.

Cmon. The couldnt find any prostitutes in Pattaya remember?

Astonishing piece of police work. Goes to show when the Thai police or immigration need to go after a hardened criminal like this old lady they are fully up to the task. Catching Red Bull boy..............not so much.

It could if the water table drops. I guess. Honestly I am trying to think out of the box as to how this could be happening. Would really like to get it resolved because I worry a child could be the next to get a belt ????

IPL is excellent. Really enjoy that. Although it is a complete anathema to some who regard it as some kind of sacrilege.

Cricket would be rained off here in Nong Khai thats for sure. Even Yorkshire wouldnt play in this.

Crossy you are a hard task master. You know how long its been since I dealt with this stuff? Even back then I was an electronics technician not an actual electrician but had to occasionally try my hand at it because the Royal Signals had no electricians ????

If the supply is underground and the insultation was broken then with heavy rain you could find the earth spikes are picking up a voltage?