mfd101

The Thai legal 'system' seems to provide for an endless stream of appeals and reviews. Nothing is ever finalized, even years later. I guess it keeps the moneybags moving around the system.

There are more ways than one to help one's ailing mother.

A model for Thailand to follow.

So a Falang comes along to live in the village & expects the villagers to change their way of life for him ... Good luck with that. And - what makes it extra risible - the Falang probably comes from a country (there are quite a few of them) where the locals are currently rioting against foreign newcomers. In sum, it's the Falang who needs to change his attitude or else pack his bags & leave.

My family here in sth Surin was coming round to that view until Anutin became PM a few days ago ...

You would commit suicide after 1 year.

Surely increasing your deductible on the health insurance is the way to go. I'm age 76 & healthy. With Pacific Cross on 3million baht health insurance but a deductible currently (I think) of 40K. Which means I pay the first 40K baht of any claim. Total annual cost in the range 70-80K. And I'm thinking of increasing the deductible to 60 or 80K when I renew next month.

Well, it makes Pheu Thai Party's real status pretty obvious ... just another family possession. I would have thought they would at least pretend that PT is a real political party that stands for a particular set of values and policies to take this great nation forward. But No. I'm obviously too naive to understand.

Decent rail system should be a higher priority. To reduce pollution & improve productivity.

From the 1950s to the 1970s in one great leap! Wow! Thailand on the move. Soon it'll be a new hub for moving.

Which rather raises questions about the car/truck dealer who sells to people who - one glance would usually suffice - obviously can't repay.

Oh no! I'm going to have to cancel my first-class round-the-world trip!

An interesting but unrewarding job. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

And we're all watching with endless fascination.

Um, forgive my ignorance, but what does it do?

Hard not to laugh. It works only when it's about to rain anyway. Wouldn't it be cheaper & easier to simply give each farmer a truckfull of dry ice for him to spread on his fields?

Holding my breath for the outcome.

I think he mostly wants to just stay in office as PM so he can avoid some unpleasant court cases.

So, um, nothing has changed? Or maybe a little changed, just for a select few more upmarket establishments? And all on the principle that the more nothing changes, the bigger the announcement.

Golly, so many variables for a simple set of scales. I had no idea there were so many things that could go wrong. Even batteries! I don't think I've checked the batteries in my scales for the whole 10 years or so I've had them. Is that why I have to put on my distance glasses to read the output?

I was 11 years old 65 years ago & I'm sure that in the NZ of the 1950s such things did not happen. My mother would have had no idea whatever (my 2 sisters and I were, we concluded decades later, immaculately conceived). And my father would have been so appalled and embarrassed he would have warned me that we do not talk about such things in front of the ladies. And, as it turned out, we never talked about such things at all From memory my best mate and I had - in the total absence of information from either parents or books - only just worked out - very approximately - how babies got in there in the first place, but we were still working on how & where they managed to pop out. Or perhaps it was the other way round.

Thank you. I've never seen before a reasonable summary of the actual achievements (as opposed to promises) of the Thaksin government. It would be interesting to compare those with a similar list of actual achievements for all the subsequent governments. I suspect that overall Thaksin's government would be out in front (but I may be wrong). Certainly it gives me better understanding of why (until very recently) the villagers in my Khmer village in Phanom Dong Rak were all rarara for Thaksin. Still it's not quite a list of his "political principles". So it will be interesting - as the next dissolution of Parliament approaches - to see what PT offers and how the poor people of Isaan and elsewhere respond. And then contrasting of course with the PP whose current up-front leadership looks a bit mediocre (certainly not the sparkle of its previous 2 founding leaders).

Anyone know what those are? It would be nice to see them set out in elegant prose.

I have no idea what a 'claw machine' is and have never seen one to my knowledge. Can't understand how I've reached age 76 in such a state of ignorance.

And there'll be the usual disconnect between 'being alarmed' and 'actually doing anything useful' ...