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Tham Luang cave set to welcome tourists to historic rescue site
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Chiang Rai News
You too can be rescued! Flippers and oxygen tank optional. -
74 and I'm not attracted to disgusting processed foods but I'm trying to cut down on the more attractive ones (muesli, granola, rolled oats; lovely little cakes at Amazon & Starbucks; sugar of all kinds; boiled white rice (sigh) ... ). As far as I'm aware I'm doing fine.
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Thailand ranks bottom of the pile with ASEAN English score
mfd101 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Well, quelle surprise! -
Oh isn't she luvly! cringe cringe.
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Thai village bans road rice drying after tragic motorcycle accident
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Isaan News
My point was & is that what makes a country interesting is what makes it different. What our wunnerful modernity imposes is universal sameness, so everyone might just as well stay at home. That's why tourism is a self-defeating industry: The more successful it is, the more quickly it destroys the reasons why people want to visit. -
Taxation of Ex-Pats pensions etc.
mfd101 replied to LittleBear57's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Good luck with that. -
Thai village bans road rice drying after tragic motorcycle accident
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Isaan News
And so, if boring Falangs have their way, what's interesting and different in Thailand will slowly be eliminated and you might as well stay in your boring little suburb in Falangland.- 63 replies
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Thai village bans road rice drying after tragic motorcycle accident
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Isaan News
You've never seen them for yourself? -
Not sure what people are complaining about. For those who live on disgusting processed foods the cumulative cost of food over time will be much less because of the reduction in your life expectancy.
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Thai authors poised for breakthrough, Hollywood boost
mfd101 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I always visit Kinokuniya whenever I'm in BKK. Always struck by how few people are visiting, but there are always at least a few Thais. -
Taxation of Ex-Pats pensions etc.
mfd101 replied to LittleBear57's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
So I can come out from under the bed? (It's been a while, what with the plague and so on!) -
Taxation of Ex-Pats pensions etc.
mfd101 replied to LittleBear57's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Why would you be (already) using such an expensive transfer method (poor exchange rates + atm costs)? -
Thai Airways’ sky high ambitions: Plans for 90 new jets unveiled
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Oh dear! Perhaps they could buy a Chinese submarine instead. -
"Social Security" for Thais. A question.
mfd101 replied to swissie's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Noone seems to have mentioned that the people who get the 600+ baht old-age payment are mostly people who have spent their lives NOT in the formal economy - piece workers, part-timers of all kinds, and of course millions of peasants in rural villages. And they have their own 'informal' arrangements out in the villages eg My PILs (just a little older than me) have paid a few baht monthly for many years in to the village 'life insurance' (my term) fund. When they die, their 2 youngest sons (including my partner) will receive some 200,000 baht out of the village fund. (That is, if it hasn't already been stolen by the village Head Person.) -
Revolutionising Thailand: Game-changing smart city plan unveiled
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I hadn't realised we had come so far! -
Russian Navy’s Admiral Panteleyev pays surprise visit to Thailand
mfd101 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Hope they can find their way thru the great Pacific. Left hand down a bit! -
Former TAT governor urges government to boost Chinese visitor numbers
mfd101 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
So much time & energy poured down the drain of tourism ... If only Thai governments and people devoted themselves to lifting education & productivity outcomes so they could lift their country out of the Third World/Second World borderlands. -
Thai authors poised for breakthrough, Hollywood boost
mfd101 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I suspect that Thailand needs a Chinese-style simplified writing revolution ... One SIL (age 40) has 'been to university' (here in Surin - about school-leaving level, I should think). Is there a book in her little house? Not one. But the 2 small children - bright as a button - have a mobile phone each. Another SIL (mid-40s and intelligent, hard-working in a BKK factory) told me she tried to read a book once but it was SO boring ... -
I gained at least an hour a day - probably 2 hours - to spend wasting time on Facebook.
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Sky’s the limit: Nine new airlines on board for Thailand aviation recovery
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
And all of them following the very best of air safety practices ... -
Navy Chief Prefer Already-Ordered Submarine Rather Than Frigate
mfd101 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I guess they found the torpedoes couldn't reach all the way upriver. -
Global diabetes cases surge with steady rise in Thailand
mfd101 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
And I'm guessing that a hundred years ago diabetes of either kind was rare, everywhere in the world, and mostly confined to rich 'n powerful people. Today, mostly poorer people ...