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So clever of you to spot that and feel the need to point it out....

Every yer we get the same story from the same company - EF - run by an eccentric Swede who is intent on selling his bizarre brand of English. Quite frankly we should take this "one quote wonder" with a pinch of salt.

Probably a factor. But the visa less and undocumented extend well beyond Russians. Lots of Brits working without permits some are teaching, others claim to be "digital nomads" others are in the diving business and in gyms. Many are just arrogant enough to think they don't need to obey the laws in Thailand.

Samui and Koh Pha Ngan are full of foreigners on overstay or incorrect visas - many are operating shonky massage or healing operations. some are working gyms - all think they are above the law and most serve no benefit except their own

People who claim cannabis as a medicine do so because they "want" it to be. They used recreationally and now they want it legalised. I've nothing against it as a recreational drug but medically it's 99% quackery. THe whole thing about quack medicines is their claims are nebulous or psychosomatic....pain is usually the target claim as that is nigh-on impossible to quantify.

What kind of healthcare service has nurses in SKIRTS of any kind????

Cam across this guy http://www.speedhunters.com/2017/08/building-bmws-in-the-heart-of-bangkok/

Is it a 4x4 pickup? Why not fit a locking diff?

The mazing thing is that the English had the arrogance and audacity to drag Scotland and Wales out of the EU with them. Whether or not you approve of independence for Scotland ad Wales it has basically sealed the fate of a dismantled UK, N.I merger with Eire is also inevitable. Countries around the world just look on in amazement as a once great nation destroys itself. Little England is an international joke.....

I think you failed O level economics amongst many other subjects....... do you really think it works like that? Would you like to try giving a more der=tailed reasoning? I didn't think you would or could.

I'm always slightly befuddled by your questions as they always appear to have no connection to what has been said. Instead they just reveal your simplistic attitudes to race or life in general.

Brexit was brought about by the same kind of thinking that brought Trump about. Probably the most embarrassing blunder in British history it was a fatal mix of lemming-like stupidity and nationalism – and we all know where both those traits lead. Everything that Remainers said would happen has happened.... The problem with the UK at the present is that everything that is affecting other nations is affecting the UK between 4 and 10% worse. This is made even more devastating because the current government is a bunch of second-rate politicians elected on a single issue – Brexit – they have no skills to run a country on the general issues that are needed to run a country, they are swamped by dogma – to the point they elected a series of PMs who weren’t up to the job. The first tried to mitigate the damage got sacked, the second tried to lie about it, got sacked, the third put UK on the edge of collapse, got sacked and now the current PM is being told what to do by the Monday club and Tory men in grey suits in a vain effort to try and restore the UK’s reputation before the next election. The fact is that the UK is now looked at quizzically by other countries and is outside the political arena in which it used to be an influential leader. The only nation in the G7 in recession. There have been blunders in the past, the South Sea Bubble, the British Expeditionary force, and Suez but Brexit dwarfs them all; it can only be compared with the loss of the American colonies – and even then, we didn’t lose the whole lot.

so what is they voted the world was flat?

" not possible to tick none of the boxes .: - QED!!!

It's same old cliche's somewhere between Jackanory and conspiracy theory. What I can't fathom is how the UK got so stupid.

So no good using reasoned thought and deduction, then?

Voting leave wasn't a result of critical thinking, it was a largely emotional response so now that project fear has materialised they can't go back because there is nothing to go back on....it involve a degree of naval gazing tat is way beyond them. They will just latch onto another feeling to get them by . Dunkirk spirit and nationalism are 2 that spring to mind - and of course the shape of bananas and contents of sausages.

Not all Brexiteers are racists, but all racists are Brexiteers

THere's a common theme running through all your posts on Thaivisa - look back at that checklist of Tropes and cliches I posted.

the 2 Brexit myths - bent bananas and Bangers - that is the only thing Brexiteers ever refer to - hardly a reason to leave the biggest free trade area in the world - but it does sum up the mentality of so many Brexiteers.

"When it gets better" - Don't make me laugh! It started before 2016 - it was forecast and referred to as "project fear" - only a fool thinks that Brussels told us what to do.

Brexit - it puts the UK out of trade and 4 to 10% economically worse. The rest of the world is suffering from inflation ,energy crisis etc etc but the UK threw the baby out with the bat water.

Once you say "I have known" your opinion becomes invalid....do you not understand that? The topic stays "strict medical purposes" which don't exist with cannabis.

I crossed a few years back in my pickup and it was so quick and easy, I thought I must have got something wrong. I crossed at a beautiful crossing the Wang Prachan border post. I obviously had my passport d/l, insurance, Vehicle documents, the Thai temp export forms etc etc. (you don't need the purple book car passport - that's for entering Laos) To get to the crossing you drive through a national park and depending on Time of day/moth/year it is relatively quiet. We basically were rushed through the border and ended up the other side somewhat bewildered. bought insurance once through the border but my vehicle needed number plates in western script but the office that provided them was closed as it was after 4.30 pm. So we then drove to Padang Pesar where we got fully documented and the number plate stuck on. Then fully documented we set off for Penang. Stopping over=night on the way. one thing that won't affect you on a motorbike is the tinted window rule. I don't have tinted windows but there is a limit on how much tint you can have in Malaysia and they actually measure it on some vehicles - so those with tints make sure they aren't too back. fuel was about half the price of Thailand.

You just don't understand the topic.