oldhippy

11 hours ago, 473geo said:

Thai government cash hand out predicted 210 billion baht

 

Stingy Tvisa farang whine that the proposed 300 baht tax might not get used effectively

 

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The prediction was 300 X 10 000 000 = 3 000 000 000 - going where?

And in the next years several times that, as tourists will flood in again.

6 hours ago, Bangkocker said:

Unbelievable !! A whole thread with mostly old whingers being incensed about paying 300 Baht. Birds of a feather indeed ... as if an open forum is going to alter the course of the decision made by the Thai government. Take more of your medication guys >> it might make a difference to your lame attitudes.

QUOTE: as if an open forum is going to alter the course of the decision made by the Thai government.

So you want to close TVForum?

Or use it only as a board for official government announcements?

2 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

You didn't fare well in your logic classes way back, did you?

 

Logic? Where? Surely not in your post about eating animals in order to be able to type.

3 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

The irony is that it took million of years of evolutionary development based on eating concentrated protein (dead critters) to get humans to a point where we can type this stuff.  If our ancestors were all vegan, we'd be competing with chimps for the best branches to sleep in.

 

I do get your point about cruelty in the name of $$$.  Sadly, it's more profitable to skimp on care and ethical treatment of the animals we depend on- and not just for food.

 

QUOTE: it took million of years of evolutionary development based on eating concentrated protein (dead critters) to get humans to a point where we can type this stuff.

Easy to prove the falsehood of your statement:

Lions and alligators can not type this stuf.

1 hour ago, kingdong said:

Then the workers rights fought for were taken away by thatchers conservative government,and when blairs government,(who incidently had been financially saved from bankruptcy by trade union support) got in labour did not rescind any of them,stating " we,re not going back to the dark days of mass pickets"bit hard to have any rights when you,re on a bogus "self employed" zero hour contract both of which came into being in labours 3 terms of office.

Criticizing both conservatives and labour puts you where?

Any positive suggestions?

Just now, Loiner said:

Why would you raise the issue of better pensions in some EU countries in this post-Brexit worker rights thread? Do you believe that the EU would or should or could have ordered the UK to have pension parity? You are the one who thinks it's a problem.

Yes, as you say: QUOTE: should ...have ordered the UK to have pension parity

41 minutes ago, sirineou said:

I appreciate your love for Thailand and your concern that the $10 increase in ticket price will adversely affect the economics of traveling to Thailand   

but if as you say, there is already 700 bht tax in the ticket price  and itself  it did not affect  arrival  rates  , why would you think that increasing  the ticket $10 more it will have a negative affect. 

Again, this is not about a few more bahts, it is about where the money will end up.

53 minutes ago, Bangkocker said:

So go !!! just sayin', go to some other flee pit country without the infrastructure because you are sobbing of being diddled for a whole of 1o bucks.

Ah Thailand!

   It's temples.

   It's enlightened democracy.

   It's infrastructure.

1 hour ago, spiekerjozef said:

They should make it 600 baht.

No.

600 million million baht.

Per day.

Just now, Odysseus123 said:

Ah the little digs ..Aussies and Kiwis eh?

Please-let's round this up and let "Jolly Hangmon" and "OldHippy" at least get a laugh in.

555

2 hours ago, MasterBaker said:

is this clown also a vegetarian?

What would Boris think about swallowing life oysters or boiling shrimps alive?

19 hours ago, sirineou said:

what you mean. In their pockets? , clothing?  Hair? 

The CDC says :

"All COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the United States have been shown to be highly effective at preventing COVID-19. "

 

"Based on what we know about vaccines for other diseases and early data from clinical trials, experts believe that getting a COVID-19 vaccine may also help keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19. "

 

" Based on what we know about vaccines for other diseases and early data from clinical trials, experts believe that getting a COVID-19 vaccine may also help keep you from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/vaccine-benefits.html

 

But hey, what does the CGC know about these things. 

 

So you quote the CGC as saying vaccines can prevent getting infected, or worst case, reduce the seriousness of the disease.

So True!

But the CDC does not say - at least not in your quotes - that a vaccinated person can not pass on covid.

But hey, what does the CGC know about these things.

In my hometown musea give me a discount because i am a local.

In my hometown musea give my Thai wife a discount because she is a local.

In my hometown musea don't give my sister a discount, as she lives in a different town and is not a local.

No racism, no nationalism, no banana republic.

8 hours ago, SupermarineS6B said:

What's this a horror story for scaring babies off the teat ?      I've got malaria, had Dengue twice, no big deal really...... Had pleurisy a couple of years ago, put me in bed for a month without the ability to move with the effects similar to drowning, shallow breathing and a fear of even coughing, then two weeks crawling around the floor........ and yes that does leave all kinds of nastiness, and i'm also told that i'll get it again.......  So to tell you the truth i'm not that worried about C19. I've met people who tested positive for it, not had a single thing wrong with them....... Figure that .......

From now on, thou shall be called Superman, while the others in the hospitals shall be called Losers.

5 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

rats.

 

 

‘I can’t stay here’ — Mick Mulvaney resigns from Trump administration, expects others to follow

 

WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, told CNBC on Thursday he has resigned as special U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland.

“I called [Secretary of State] Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can’t do it. I can’t stay,” Mick Mulvaney said in an exclusive interview on “Squawk Box.”

“Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,” Mulvaney said. But he said other officials may resign after Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/mick-mulvaney-resigns-from-trump-administration-expects-others-to-follow.html

Too late for these bananarepublicans.

1 minute ago, HandsomeTallFarang said:

Everyone is going to die from the Doomsday Virus, that’s why everyone’s life needs to be ruined, the economy needs to be made non-existent and the single greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world has to happen. 

You see, making people unable to go to the gym, or drink alcohol at a restaurant is the number one way to defeat the virus. It’s been proven! 
 

 

It’s a mild flu virus with a greater than 99% survival rate, so everyone needs to have their life ruined. That’s just plain sensibility.
 

 

tell that in an English hospital, nutcase