SmartyMarty

17 hours ago, Brigand said:

Yet more surveillance being slipped in under the cuddly guise of a mobile app for "security" reasons. People sit there using Google search on Chrome, Android, gmail, smart speakers in your front room they ask questions of and on and on ... go to Wiki and have a look at Google products, the list is endless. I stopped a while back using any of Google's products apart from Youtube (without signing in). I don't have a smart phone (although they can still ping it from a tower, I guess) just an old fashioned talk and text one and I use protonmail and duckduckgo for internet browsing in Firefox. Old saying, "If you can appease a man's conscience, then you can take away his freedom." That's what is slowly happening everywhere. It's very hard not to be online in some capacity but you can certainly lower your electronic/digital footprint.   

How exactly do you have more freedom than the rest of us?

200 years? How many illegal governments is that?

Whenever I see the words “Thai” and “expert” used together I shudder.

how can you one skip a checkpoint? maybe when those manning it are sleeping or on their phones?

17 hours ago, rkidlad said:

I think Thailand should be steering away from China now. I thought that before anyway. China might be good at business and making money, but it’s a horrible regime that will let its own citizens die before it loses money or face. 
 

After this is all over, many countries will be looking to move away from China. I see the Japanese are even offering incentives to their companies to move out of China. 

Surely you mean USA and not China when it comes to letting citizens die.

Ant, you've missed the point entirely. It's not about CM being the most polluted city in the world over a 12 month period.......it's about it being the most polluted city over a period of several months.....year after year after year. And nothing ever gets done about it.

won't make any difference. the horse has already left the stable.

Thank you pinocchio for doing such a brilliant job for Thailand since you illegally overthrew the govt. Thailand 4.0 is an ongoing credit to your intelligence and ability to govern. 

why aren't these govt bozos arrested under the fake news rules?

15 hours ago, drtreelove said:

Brachychiton acerifolius  Flame bottle tree  Native to Australia

 

https://selectree.calpoly.edu/tree-detail/brachychiton-acerifolius

 

Please post photos of entire tree, and the trunk and bark.

 

Where in Thailand did you see this tree?

Thanks for the info. Sadly I can’t recall where I saw it as the last couple of months have been a blur of me trying successfully to pack up my life and leave the kingdom. 

Can anyone help me identify this tree please? Never seen it before. Not sure if it has flowers but there's plenty of pods. Appreciate any advice.

CNX governor unfit for office. Complete muppet.

17 hours ago, schlog said:

Which travel health insurance will cover Corona? Since beginning february it's impossible to get cover for that.

None. Nada. Zero. Zilch. 

situation normal, powerful people screw the rest and the general population too busy trying to get by instead of rising up. Thailand 4.0

Smooth as silk?

clueless muppets.

30 baht for locals, different for foreigner. no sympathy whatsoever.

With the increase in Chinese that will result, along with the huge new Chinese housing developments there, it will be the new Wuhan.

THAI hoteliers disappointed that tourists aren’t taking advantage of low room rates to come here and risk death. Doh!

The Thai burglary stats are low because they don’t include the outright theft that occurs whenever one buys something imported.

Still lots of tourists up here, even if numbers are down. Many restaurants full every night, still Chinese here, and while hotels may be suffering, bnb operators are doing ok. The main thing keeping the numbers down could be the hysteria of the media over this virus (that only kills Chinese.)

We don’t need a court ruling to pass judgement on her. Just look at the facts.