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On 6/22/2019 at 6:43 AM, ezzra said:

Trump is playing with the Iranians just like a cat plays with a mouse before the final act, admittedly, no one wants war, least of all Iran, but Iran being Iran with it's well known passion for rhetorics and death and destructions proclamation to anyone whom they don't like, and Trump being Trump, he will hold on as long as he can before he will have to strike back, casualties or not, just to maintain and show who's boss here...

Mmmm, not entirely clear who's the cat & who the mouse.

Not sure I understand what this thread is about. Motorcyclists only? Corrupt police demanding money for no good reason? People driving without licence or with no current rego or with defective vehicle or no helmet ... ?

I get stopped (Mazda 3) here in Prasat at the same spot about 4 or 5 times a week as I'm driving to or from brunch at PTT. Usually they either just wave me thru without stopping, or if I'm in a line of vehicles they glance at me thru the window & wave me on. About once a month I get asked to show my licence (usually elsewhere). No sweat.

Since these police checks became more common over the last couple of years, I notice the number of motorcyclists & their passengers driving without helmets has declined sharply. Not sure what people are complaining about.

Clearly destined for greatness.

Churchill's private life was something else again ...

monito.com is always good to make comparisons between transfer providers including relevant banks. For me (AUD) TW always comes out 2nd best (after Singapore-based Instarem - who are impossible to join, however, if you don't still have a home-country address).

The important thing is that the comparison is between baht-in-your-account end results, while showing the process details too (xrate + fees). So no stupidities about 'X doesn't charge fees so they're the best' or 'X has the best xrate so they're the best'.

1 minute ago, GeorgeCross said:

 

err its down 22% in 2 years. how is that stable?

Perhaps his concept of 'relative' is purely relative.

I've just (Thursday) initiated my monthly transfer of funds from Oz to Thailand via TW:

(1) I initiate before 0700 Thai time & money arrives in my BKK Bank account afternoon of the next day. This was signalled on their messages this time but then the signal changed to delivery next Monday. Don't know why. Not a holiday in Oz ...

(2) Having had one occasion over the last 6 months when the intermediate bank was NOT the BKK Bank & so the transaction does not show in my bank book as FTT, TW advice by phone in Oz is that EVERY time I organize a transfer, I should ring them to ask for it to be done via BKK Bank. Works fine now. Phonecall is local cost (00500 on AIS - other service providers here have similar arrangement).

Can't quite find it but I'm sure there must be a conspiracy lurking in there somewhere.

We often see monks eating at PTT where my b/f and I have brunch most mornings. They look at us as if we were from another planet ...

Clearly the improvement to 'traffic facilitation and safety' is going to be so spectacular and with such longterm effects that there will be no further requirement for the 'command center' after next Sunday.

Forward planning not a strength in this country. Spontaneity is the life of the party. Either go with the flow or just go.

Question Time. Always fun to watch.

This is what happens when you pretend to cease being a coup-leading general & start being a civilian PM. He's gonna havta continue pretending!

Annual monsoon season now well under way, at least here in south Surin.

So, um, what do we need to think about announcing this year? Um, maybe we could say something about dengue fever and measures against mosquitoes? Do you think? Howsabout a committee? 

23 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

It's all here (3 pages):

  https://www.nippon.com/en/views/b06302/underground-temple-safeguards-greater-tokyo-from-floods.html

 

 

 

 

 

Well, THAT is impressive: well-designed, well-built, everything works as planned. Of course Thailand will seek detailed advice & perhaps even design from Japan ...

Not sure I understand the THEORY of this, let alone the likely corrupt & incompetent putting-into-practice ...

So you have a 'monkey cheek', of whatever size. Even the largest will fill within, let's say, 4 hours in & after a downpour. And then what happens?

57 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

I know this may be less true for more Westernized Thais, but from what I've seen out in the country, birthday celebrations seem to be mostly reserved for very young children and for girlfriends during honeymoon stage of the relationship. Birthday celebrations for men don't seem to be that common. Before anyone jumps all over me, just saying celebrating birthdays doesn't seem to be as widespread a tradition as in the west. OP needs to discuss his expectations with his girlfriend.

 

Yes, no birthdays in my Thai peasant family. Some of them - the older ones - don't even KNOW when their birthday was, let alone remember to celebrate it. The emperor was far away in the old days & there were many rice paddies, so no officialdom to register births. My oldest SIL & oldest BIL are officially twins, but actually 3 years apart. Their parents just didn't get around to registering the 1st birth till the 2nd arrived ...

So the only birthdays celebrated, now, are the children's & mine & b/f's ie kids + source of money.

37 minutes ago, legend49 said:

WE hope its good news for Kingsgate. This issue has killed any prospect of foreign companies ever mining here. I contract with 2 Russian mining companies and Thailand is blacklisted.

Yes, sad really. Thai people get the government they deserve & the government gets the outcomes it deserves.

17 minutes ago, ocddave said:

So he's either a complete idiot, or he thinks everyone else is, I'm going with the former.

I don't think it's an either ... or ... . More of an and ... and ... .

1 hour ago, david555 said:

congratulating the English for “giving us all a great lesson in democracy”

 

Are you kidding …?Seeing the result of your blocked democracy and Dominic. Raab  talking to put the H.O.C. out of power ...Henry VIII is back …,compete loonies …."lesson in democracy" .

 

Anyway just do whatever you like on that Island in the North Sea it is yours ...????

 

 

People believe according to their emotions. They see only what they want to see.

And that applies to everyone on every side of every argument. Rational thinking & openmindedness are rare human qualities.

12 minutes ago, Aforek said:

... it's true that French are big moaners, that's what we say when we speak of ourselves 

Yes, and in many ways an intensely conservative country. Which is why they have to have revolutions from time to time to overthrow a static but no longer tolerable present.

My point related to Singaporeans' putative expectations, not to the actual state of either post-modern democratic Thailand or authoritarian postage-stamp Singapore..

30 minutes ago, GeorgeCross said:

it's gonna be a hell of a year

Yes, certainly exciting. Somewhere between fun & depression.