NeoDinosaw

4 hours ago, George Bowman said:

A great expo to visit in Thailand and hopefully they will double check their sign for the Netherlands...

 

At least they will be clean !!

13 hours ago, Youlike said:

I have a free standing house in Thailand, if i can qarantine in there i will come, if not then i won't come soon.

I'm with you on that. But looks like it will be a whioe before we see our houses again

I would assume that whoever won the bidding to operate this field took it over 'as is'.   They should have made allowances for decomissioning before maki g their bid. Should not come back now and ask Chevron to pay.

5 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

time to break with old outdated senile dinosaur thinking & institutions that brings NOTHING for the people

Plese do not denigrate dinosaurs !  They were really smart critters in their day

6 hours ago, J Town said:

The term "oriental" has long ago been deemed offensive. From my understanding (Thai girlfriend from Sa Kaeo area), "farang" means anyone not connected to the Asian continent. Someone from India is not a farang, someone from the Philippines or Japan are farangs.

So India is not on the continent of Asia ?  Did you learn that at a Thai school or in Farangland ?

4 hours ago, billd766 said:

Oddly enough I think most the people who voted for Brexit will accept it.

 

That is 37% of the electorate !

6 hours ago, luckyluke said:

 

I try to understand the Remainers, they seems to not want to accept that 52% will decide about the future of 100%, but that's the way it is with a simple majority.

 

Thus they present the future of the U.K. as somber and all negative.

To be honest I think the Brexiters here present the future of the U.K. as a bit too positive/optimist as well.

But time will tell.

 

However not an easy job for the U.K. government next year :

 

proving that the Leavers made the right decision;

proving the Remainers that they made the wrong choice.

 

This can only be reached with concrete decisions/facts which all can see and experienced.

Only 37% of the electorate voted to leave.   No other organisation would accept a fundamental change to it's constitution without a 66% majority of votes.

The UK desperately needs proportional representation.

19 hours ago, steffi said:

they often just distract the snake whilst sneaking up from the other side and necking the snake.

Is that the same as necking a bottle of Chang ?

11 hours ago, DaLa said:

They are planning to get the Japanese to 'recruit' a few thousand English and Aussies to help with the job. Apparently they managed to lay down some track from Burma to Thailand a few years back in 3 months.

 

Most of the workers buidling the Thai-Burma rsailway were asians - mainly Burmese.  'Only' about 12,000  Brits Aussies and Dutch died.  Over 80,000 asian workers died.   Total was in the same ball-park as a bomb on Hiroshima.

4 hours ago, sqwakvfr said:

 

 

If the answer to all 4 are Yes then I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn at a low price.  

Are you the guy who sold the old London Bridge to some Americans who thought they were going to get Tower bridge ?

The rocks seen near Chiang Mai are clearly volcanic 'glass'.  However there are meteorite fragments about 500,00 year old (I think)  in the eastern part of Issan. These are the western part of a strew field of meteorie debris which extends over part of southern Vietnam too. They can be collected near Dalat - or they could  be in 1986 !

25 minutes ago, Boedog said:

How can you build something that big for 5 years without planning approval .Amazing Thailand 

If it was built without planning permission,  how is it that nobody down in the town hall spotted it before it go so high ?

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

If this was just open for women, there are some women in those photos that look suspiciously like men

This is Thailand !!

1 hour ago, Jimbo53 said:

Probably no requirement for buses to have seat belts installed!

Buses are definitely required to have seat-belts, and passengers are required to use them !  The staff on the buses from Hua Hin to Swampy are very strict about this legal obligation.

4 hours ago, seajae said:

they realy need to start being original, everything they do is coppied from US movies, the 3 finger salute meant something in the movie, here its just another childish response because they lack the ability to think for themselves. Protesting is their right but copying movies  to do it is not the answer, time for them to use their own ideas and maybe people will take more notice especially when they have genuine protests

There is nothing wrong in following others if it supports your aims

But copuing without thinking is just as bad as learning by rote

4 hours ago, Nout said:

Income generated abroad is taxable

Not so

Just now, NeoDinosaw said:

He advised people to shop around and travel to less visited places to get value for money. 

 

He must be talking about Thai tourists here.  I don't think it's possible for farang to gravel around freely

I meant 'travel'  noy 'grovel'

6 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

And likewise, if no guests, the price will go up. 

He advised people to shop around and travel to less visited places to get value for money. 

He must be talking about Thai tourists here.  I don't think it's possible for farang to gravel around freely

23 minutes ago, JusticeGB said:

Hardly surprising when a Government Minister spouts about dirty farangs. People who retire here are supporting Thai families and the smaller Thai shops and restaurants. I hardly ever go to these mafia controlled places. Maybe because farangs complain about the rip offs they aren't welcome. 

Maybe the report does not reflect the attitude of many of the hotels there.  Perhaps the reporters wrote what they thought their masters wanted to read ...

7 hours ago, MRToMRT said:

I think its the standard Thai inter quarantine flight. They will just run more flights or fill up more seats.

MRToMRT got it right I think :

42 minutes ago, Chivas said:

Theres zero chance of any Brexit deal because of the simple reason Cummings and his junior assistant Johnson dont want one in the first place

We are going no deal make no mistake and the catastrophic brexit fiasco will be duly complete

Sadly, you are so right !