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I saw my first one of the season a couple of days ago. On past performance there should be 4 or 6 of them around each day for the next few months before they disappear again. Very beautiful and lovely to watch as they peck peck peck their way across the lawn-covered clay. I think of them as woodpeckers who are after a change of scenery. They certainly (at least to my entirely untrained eyes) look like woodpeckers.

Saw Palmetto pills can help (not fix). In Thailand called 'Sametto', available at any pharmacy. Other than that, greatly reducing your sugar intake (in all forms) makes a big difference.

Obviously the USN (if at all).

The only thing that will make China reflect and step back is to sink one of its 'coast guard' vessels in process of carrying out aggressive acts (eg ramming a Philippine ship).

So Act II, Scene I has been cancelled? Sob sob, can I get a refund?

'New constitution' sounds gutsy. Dinosaurs won't be happy.

Multitasking is a concept unknown in Thailand. Lack of higher education or indeed any at all, plus unable to respond to work pressures. Every time I ask my b/f about X while he's in the middle of Y I get snapped at.

Just another Republican method for excluding voters unlikely to vote for them.

I wonder what the historical record over, say, the last 20 or perhaps the last 80 years would show about the wunnerful useful gratitude-enhancing activities of VEEPS.

So far - over 2 months & including The Debate - it appears that the more people see of her, the more they like her. Funny that.

Over the last month Harris has displayed the capacity to learn & grow. Trump just displays the same old unmerry-go-round grinding on & on. The results on show today.

So if your 'home' country has a DTA with Thailand - as most expats' home countries certainly do - then what's the problem? The DTA is designed to PREVENT double taxation, not to ENABLE it!!!

Question: Is there a set date on which the Fed will announce a decision one way or the other (as would happen in Oz)? or can it announce a decision whenever it feels like it?

Yes, everyone needs to read this. No point in bleating. The Thai government having signed up - along with over 100 other governments - it now needs to at least go thru the motions ...

My b/f has several brothers, half-brothers and male cousins. He spends most of most days with them at the farm or at the cockfights. His cock doesn't seem any the worse for wear.

Yes, and La Harris would immediately be sworn in as President. Which would enrage Trump and likely bring on a stroke or heart attack ... 😀

It's all about productivity. Low wages, low skills, low outputs. Increase wages ... what happens? In Thailand, probably not much except a slightly lower level of participation in the 'formal' economy. As the Vietnamese example demonstrates, the transformation will come when Thailand finally has a C21st education system from 5 years to 25 years old. Should be fine some time in the second half of this century.

Brown envelopes circulating at high speed at the moment, I should think.

And this cost structure will never evolve over time?

We are told that hydrogen is the future. Hope so. Still some years away before practical for everyone. When that happens I'll probably abandon my petrol-driven Mazda ...

I don't think you'll find all that much water that was dropped on or around Hanoi over the last few days moving to Thailand least of all Bangkok. I think the geography of Vietnam and the laws of physics would suggest the South China Sea as a more likely destination.

No. More people voted for MFP than for any other one party. But not more than all the other parties put together. So you can scarcely call it 'overwhelming'. What it means is that no one party had a majority so, to form a government that can pass legislation in the Lower House, you have to form a coalition. And MFP & PT did form a coalition for 5 minutes till PT got what it thought was a better offer from the dinosaurs. Will that do PT any good in the long run? Well, we'll have a fair idea after the next 'election'.

Agreed, but people keep writing things like 'The public voted overwhelmingly for Pita'. Well, they didn't.

No. Winning more votes than any other party is not the same thing as winning 'a majority of votes' (ie more than all the other parties put together). Which is why we don't have an MFP (or now PP) government. In parliamentary democracies - and even in pseudo-democracies such as Thailand - 'winner takes all' is NOT the underlying concept or process.

Yes, so all those here who think they'll escape the new evil tax by quitting Thailand for some other Third World country are barking up a gum tree. Wait a year or two more and the international agreements now about to be enforced here will be enforced in every vaguely liveable country.