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He's never been to any of the big parks in Bangkok, nor into a Thai 7-Eleven for that matter, so he wouldn't know.
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It's nice to wake up every morning. When that stops happening, you've got a big problem.
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Yep, your drunk again, thanks for reconfirming. I hope at least you haven't shart your pants again. Some of those Trump branded orange colored diapers might help.
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And WTF does that have to do with the price of fermented fish in Isarn? Wrong topic? Drunk?
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bob? sophisticated? respect? Your post here is one of the best bob piss takes of 2024. A windup within a windup. When bob reads it, he's surely gonna believe that you mean all that fake man stroking. 🤣👍🏼
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There is no AI, there are no content producers, the forum management isn't generating any topics or paying anyone to do so, they only moderate us children when we slap each other too hard and there is only one OP creating all of this Pub engagement rubbish and it's bob and his minions, I mean collin, I mean bob smith, no it's collin from dorset, whatever, it's just one drunk nonce troll getting tanked up in Soi 6 and he sometimes answers if you shout out the name "Mrs. Smith". DONE.
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You surely have never heard or him, have no idea who he is, what his user name is and have never seen any of his posts here on AN?
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Yep, lots of people sleeping within the Manila underground metro system, just like GG, although he may be the only mop pusher in the lot.
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I agree. I actually noticed that myself earlier that the newsletter emails showcase too many of bob's trashy topics. But algorithm go algorithm. And it seems there is no human intervention within that construct.
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I can't imagine anything that can frame bob's feelings of being invaded by the world any better than this scene. It is epic:
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Brown bread!
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Oh baby, please don't act butt hurt. I'll make it up to you when we head back over to 6/1 together.
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Lovely, we got a bar-boy/cat-boy bromance going on now. I think the most satisfying thing about this whole thread is all the other people confirming that the only one who believes Colin is not Bob is Bob himself. The other thing that's for sure is that the only part of Bob's windups that aren't fiction is the fact that he dislikes all the other posters here on AN, as well as the locals, the Russians, the tourists, and everybody else who's spoiling his own little corner of paradise. 😂
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Thanks for the positive feedback. 👍🏼
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LDL is a hoax if it goes a bit over 130, say as high as maybe 160. But when it gets above 200, it's no longer a hoax and it can start causing damage and inflammation to arteries.
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Oh bob, still whinging and moaning about other foreigners and everything else in Thailand. Cmon honey, you need a new shtick already.
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I realize you were referring to retirees and not Japanese expats working for Japanese companies in Thailand, but I had figured by now that quite a few of them had retired here too. Though it seems I was wrong and the foreign resident retiree figure you gave is nearly spot on, plus there was likely even some drop off during and after Covid. I just read the following: As of 2021, approximately 52,040 foreigners were residing in Thailand on retirement visas, up from 10,709 in 2005. In 2018, Thailand issued nearly 80,000 retirement visas, marking a 30% increase from 2014, with British nationals making up a significant portion of these visas. A 2016 estimate indicated there were 68,300 foreigners over the age of 50 holding long-stay visas in Thailand, reflecting a 9% increase over the previous two years.
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It all depends on how big their tax liability might be. For some it could be small, but these probably aren't the bigger spenders and earners either. The ones with the larger sums, who would be paying a lot more tax are more likely to leave. If you read through all the posts on this topic, you will already see a few people who mentioned that they've already uprooted and are happy to spend their money in other countries, and not just to other cheap places like Vietnam and Cambodia. Some of them are heading back to Western countries as well. Presumably, these aren't the ones who are on small fixed incomes and who do have other options to leave.
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30 years ago, I remember hearing a figure that there were over 100,000 Japanese residents living in Thailand alone. Perhaps that number has grown since then. Add to that all the new Chinese runaways and the numbers there could be large too. And this is not even counting retirees from Western countries.
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Interesting if that is true. But also, if you have interest earning bank accounts or equity investments overseas, then you often need to provide the overseas financial institution with a local TIN. Perhaps people with pink cards just provide their Thai ID numbers to overseas financial institutions in those instances. So I wonder what happens if those financial institutions eventually start sending income statements and tax documents to the TRD under all those foreigner owned Thai ID card numbers.
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Good and bad. Hard to generalize. Once somebody moves to Thailand full-time, they usually buy a vehicle or two, which is a large purchase and often carries large import duties. Some also buy condos. These are all large sums that go into the economy. In addition, people above the age of 50 may spend a lot more money on private healthcare in Thailand over the next 20 to 30 years. They may also leave a sizable inheritance to a younger Thai wife, which then also eventually gets spent within the Thai economy.
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Well done. Have you checked your lipid profile since going on this diet? I did Keto once. My LDL went from 100 up to 212 in about six weeks. Very dangerous. That was the end of that high-fat diet experiment. Also, the reason that you possibly lost weight was not because of your dietary changes necessarily, but the fact that your caloric intake decreased to a considerable deficit when you cut out all the carbs. That means that you probably could've continued eating carbohydrates, just less of them to reduce your calorie intake and you would've lost the weight just the same and then blood pressure would've fallen also from the weight loss just the same. Also, you might want to check your thyroid hormones to make sure that that's all working correctly too: TSH, FT3, FT4.
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Got more bread than I can use up in a lifetime and it's all green!