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1 hour ago, smedly said:

not soon enough 

Agreed. I don't mind it but it is completely out of hand now. Pot shops are as common as 7-11 some places

Ban the sales of forest mushrooms completely. Make it illegal to have or sell these forest mushrooms. It can't be that hard and will stop the incentive for starting them in the first place

9 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Gatwick sucks for me, but hopefully bring other direct flights down a bit on the London route. The KL route is interesting.

but not for me, cuts nearly an hour of driving off and no ULEZ fares. Just hope prices are reasonable

Surrogacy should not to be encouraged, and definitely should not be commercialised

Can someone who knows more clarify that these fires are being set solely so people can pick some kind of forest mushroom that only grows after the fires? Or is it for crop production?

everyone gets sex and gender mixed up and it causes huge problems.

Sex is binary gender is whatever the current trend says it is

Facebook post shows it completely emaciated https://www.facebook.com/reel/689810063077041

Tiger looks emaciated. If its natural food supply is poached by hunters then they should be worried if it is pushed towards farms or villages to find food

It's a done deal he's out already

Avocados surely can't be GI? they are an imported species

2 hours ago, Emdog said:

FYI we are all (most of us?) Cro-Magnon, so no surprise there. That is the group that replaced Neanderthals, now only found in small pockets of expat forums and Onan news sites

No neanderthals or cro magnons in Asia, they were most likely Denisovan, who we know very little about

1 hour ago, OneMoreFarang said:

There is an easy solution: Let her do it and decide things, and let her be responsible for it.

Obviously, there will be he headache later on. But there will be anyhow headache later on. At least you can avoid the headache now. ;) 

Ha, no I am resolved to keeping the peace. It can work, I know it can, just not my preference in any way

After many years of will we won’t we, looks like wife is finally prepared to make a decision on building a house for wintertime in Thailand. Plot is quite small, facing wrong direction and all sorts of other wrong, but this is where she wants it, near family ( I’ve given up arguing about it…)

have measured the plot and it has an existing barn type structure on it which would probably be incorporated or not into a single storey house. 
 

Would like some input on groundworks really as only 1m space at 3 sides of the house qs planned and bathrooms I thought should be at rear so where should septic tank (1 or 2) go? How far away should they be and how would drainage be best run?

Happy for you lot, but the blatant attempt by Tories to further rig the vote will backfire spectacularly I hope

55 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

In cities, banning ICE vehicles and burning, like BBQ vendors, makes a lot of sense. You remove millions of pollution producers and replace them with a handful of powerful polluters outside the cities.

 

This way cities produce little air pollution themselves.

 

Now you go to cap pollution on these few large targets, where small actions bring large effects. Particle filters in thermal power plants, as well as capturing the CO2 and redirecting it to greenhouses to increase growth, and using heat generated for some other benefits, like supplying hot water nearby so residences no longer require water heaters, etc. There are many things that could be done.

 

But challenges remain the large scale burning of agricultural land and forest clearing, which cause environmental devastation and vast amounts of air pollution. But Indonesia, when there was still political will, did a lot about that. By using satellites to identify fires, and penalise land owners by banning use or confiscation of land for repeat offenders.

 

There are ways. But is Thailand having a political will beyond signing a piece of paper to put anything into practice? Yet to see, but not holding my breath.

Pass a bill banning farming on recently burned and cleared land and confiscate crops grown on such land. Simple. Just no one wants the bother of policing it

This is great but only if you are doing long distance I’m guessing? Still baffles me why you can’t book short distance in advance. Recently had to book CM to Phitsanulok just so we could get off at Den Chai, which is only available 2 hrs before train leaves apparently 

This lady has a lot to get off her chest…