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  1. mfd101
    As more and more medical tourists fly in expecting the very best of everything, two things will happen: Costs will skyrocket, and service will decline for everyone unable to pay the skyrocketing prices.
  2. mfd101
    The whole report reads as though all this happened over the last 3 or 4 days! Ridiculous.
  3. mfd101
    Population-control measures vary from one country to another.
  4. mfd101
    Oh dear! I wouldn't be crossing my fingers, I'ld be laying in supplies of sandbags.
  5. mfd101
    If they were silly enough to let him back in (unlikely), the next thing would be a demand for more money ...
  6. mfd101
    Boeing looking increasingly like a once-great company with an ever-diminishing future ...
  7. mfd101
    Actually hard work, amidst MUCH self-restraint. Which she was entirely unprepared for and unwilling to learn. As for him, he's just a nitwit.
  8. mfd101
    The left-over scraps of empire. But also a major military base. Oh dear!
  9. mfd101
    Um, you can't have it both ways. Either talk is cheap - in which case promises don't amount to anything - or it isn't, in which case they do.
  10. mfd101
    Noone cares.
  11. mfd101
    When in doubt, shoot the messenger.
  12. mfd101
    If we talk about it long enough, sooner or later it'll come true ... It would be nice to think though that the lower ranks of the army might face in the opposite direction next time, guns cocked.
  13. mfd101
    Mmmm, so it's a movable feast that depends on someone's entirely subjective view of how horrid the crime was. On that basis it would be hard to resist a movement to abolish the death penalty.
  14. mfd101
    Is there clarity on the criteria for when they do vs when they don't?
  15. mfd101
    That may well be the case. Do you have a sensible/rational alternative?
  16. mfd101
    Too soon. The boys are still on R'nR. Give it another couple of years or soon AFTER the next election (if won by PP).
  17. mfd101
    If you don't pay any tax anyway because your income is vanishingly small (as in my family and for millions of other Thais), then a 'negative income tax' will have little to do with income tax or educating you about income tax because any likely subsidy from the government will still leave you below the income tax threshold.
  18. mfd101
    Mmm, you may be right. Certainly keeping on about the little lèse majesté problem (despite many warning signs) was a bit juvenile. As to the next round, we shall see. Too early to know whether the Pita-excitement can be maintained.
  19. mfd101
    PT positioning itself in the Centre. Pushing out PPRP at the same time. Makes sense from PT's point of view. Getting itself nicely placed to face PP in the next round.
  20. mfd101
    That doesn't sound quite right. More likely Pheu Thai positioning itself in the Centre (and in the process loosening military ties) so it can better face the People's Party on its left at the next election. Without such a move PT looks like loosing a great deal at that election. Meantime the military nitwits have nowhere much to go, apart from crying into their beers.
  21. mfd101
    Thanks. No extensions planned or likely. Just a few days in Bangers with us, then we fly back home here for 2 weeks and will do some car travel to some parts of Thailand I & my b/f have never been before (Ubon/Mekong). Possibly also Korat. Then they fly back to Bangers & straight out back to Oz. Staying in hotels in the process will no doubt handle most of the issue (assuming the hotels do their job properly).
  22. mfd101
    Mmmm, well, never done it before in 7 years living here in south Surin, with multiple visits by Oz friends over the years. My b/f is the land AND house owner, not me. In the extremely unlikely event of a problem arising, he will know how to handle it ...
  23. mfd101
    In the broad I think Wallace is on the right track in thinking that The West tends to understand everyone else in the world - including the Chinese, Middle East and black Africa - as though they were just Westerners in disguise. Understanding the underlying motivators of political and military action in other cultures is fundamental to our security.
  24. mfd101
    I assume that none of this applies to someone like me who expects 2 of my friends from Oz to fly in and stay with us here in Surin for 2 weeks in Nov/Dec? I guess they'll be on visa-free entry of one kind or another.
  25. mfd101
    So the Soviet Union continues to exist? You are a true conservative and conservationist.

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