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11 minutes ago, optad said:

Merkel is a polarising figure here but in OP terms, I think over time she will be proven right. Populism is dangerous, as it is an emotive appeal and these can defraud citizens of rights and justice in the immediate term and bring poor national outcome in the longer terms. Cetain will bring divisive tensions.

 

We are in  different age. Need new solutions. Movement of people is a twenty-ten plus trend which will not abate. Cannot be readily reset to the seventies. Multiculturalism will increase whether liked or not. Not a fan myself but a realist. Brexit is a slowing, but reasonably, Britain is already an extremely pluralistic culture. And more dangerously, just one generation away from seeing perspectives substantively shift.

 

Merkel's question is how we adapt to this. I expect many won't like it. Emotive appeals are dangerous and it is ironic a german Chancellor should be the one to make the  call.

Merkel and her irk have laid the fondation for a civil war in Europe and only the "populist" ie Trump, Farage, Le Pen,  Wilders who have the stomach to do what needs to be done

Merkel should be in jail cell for what she had done, along side Clinton and that silly French woman from the IMF 

Unhindered movement of people with no prospects into Europe will not solve the worlds problems either Furher Merkel, in fact its going to cause big problems for the world and Europe

Yours and the EU polices are a complete failure, so get out the way and let someone else sort the mess out you and your gang of pigs with their snouts in the trough have caused 

20 hours ago, JWNY said:

 

Hi Natway09,

 

Many thanks for your kind reply.

 

Could you kindly elaborate a little of "outside the norm"?

 

Just to share, when i was in Timor-Leste, it was my 2nd day. I gave one of my staff a piece of paper. My instructions were to photocopy and returned to me. 

 

10 minutes turned into an hour, after lunch and after tea - still no copy. I went and asked where it was

 

The reply was "Oh mr JWNY wants it now?"

 

My mistake? I did not specify I needed it back as soon as possible. I assumed it would be done quickly

 

In Singapore, anything more than 2 minutes would be criminal. 

 

Am i exaggerating? Maybe a little on the 2 minutes but it did happened.

 

And as a manager whose fault was this ? Yours..you never set expectations or communicated said expectations clearly, you assumed

6 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

Politicians don't seem to worry about honor, ethics, morals or about doing "the right thing" when exposed anymore. Hang on to the trough and power at all costs is the mantra.

 

You don't really think Mrs or Mr Clinton are the remotest bit honorable surely, do you?

As an American friend stated he is not a Trump supporter, but he believes the lessor of the two evils was elected President 

16 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Whereas a guy who speaks about grabbing women by the p***y is a basically honorable gentleman.

And a standing president inserting a cigar in p@ssy of a young woman who was working for him and wasnt his wife is honorable ?

The same ex president who was "checking out" a new presidents wife in front of his own wife honorable ? 

She has made  threat against a symbol of the American gov, a normal person doing the same would be investigated by the FBI and possible charges....lock up the old hag in a cell next to hillary 

17 hours ago, Jingthing said:

There is such a lack of basic logic and/or basic understanding of politics in your post that the only rational response is ignore list. 

Left wing by any chance ? Figures ? 

Will not engage in debate, hurls insults and threats and makes assumptions and jumps to conclusions with no factual base 

Refer video post 41 

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Dude, you way oversimplify politics. 

Demagogic populist authoritarians transcend left and right, they come from both.

Chavez, left. Castro, left. Duterte, right. Putin, right. trump, right. 

 

Ah ok got it Commie, Commie, Commie,  Putin right wing  Sure about that ?

So thanks for confirming that left wingers are all Communists...funny you say Putin is right wing...he  is a communist,...

given all all countries which became communist became so via a violent overthrow, i can see the connection between the violent communist actions in the past and the violence in the US over Trump

In summary there is an attempted communist overthrow of a democratically elected president in US with the intent of installing a totalitarian commie goverment in the US ? 

3 hours ago, BsBs said:

So it seems that the way Thai owners / managers treat their staff is the correct one ! Use them as much as you can and then tell them to leave or do easy things to push them to leave.

 

 

But one suspects your not Thai so that dymamic will not work for you, and you will end up of a DOL complaint, given some of your dismissive resposes you have given to date in this thread, maybe the reason they are leaving is your attitude ? 

3 hours ago, Jonmarleesco said:

Where did right wing come into it? Or, for that matter, populism? Every wing of the political and business spectrum helped create the conditions, either proactively or pro-complacently, that led to both the Brexit vote and that for Trump. Now they and their supporters seek to place the blame anywhere but where it belongs - in their own back yard.

If the truth be told the " right wingers " are now the populists, while the" left wing" are now the right wing facists 

11 hours ago, teatree said:

I used to consider myself a liberal. 

 

But I can no longer associate myself with some of the most intolerant and bigoted people on the political spectrum.

Well well said, one of the shocking things i read about was these so called peace loving tolerant liberals physically attacking US veterans at Trumps swearing in, really shows how dangerous these people really are, the scream facism, but one suspects its them who are the facists, intolerant to any opinions which disagree with their brain washed view of life 

7 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

Indeed, but 3/4" PVC has an outside diameter of 26.2mm (just over 1").

Which would be correct as its ID + 2xNWT 

26.2-19.03 = 7.17mm/2 = NWT of 3.58mm in this case, but the NWT could vary, but it still out be 19.03mm ID

No they are not exactly the same, Thailand has metric sizes and US uses imperial, ergo 0.75" is in reality 19.03mm 

And your point is ? 

44 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

To make it clearer you have a Philippine passport.?

Your parents are in which France or Spain.? 

Your g/f has what passport.?

Difficult one l think because this year alone there could be many changes in EU & UK let alone again within the next 5 years or so.

No ....one suspects he had a UK passport and his parents who are also UK citizens live in Europe and he wishes to get his GF an EU pp without having to live too long in a single country 

Given in the next 5 years thing could change dramatically in Europe, he would be better getting her a UK pp, as if she gets anything else, could turn out problematic if sag she gets a french or spainish pp

1 minute ago, optad said:

 

What is wrong with you?

 

I claimed trump's election was a "mistake". That is an opinion which i hold and know many disagree. I am not howling, indeed laughing that he was put forward and fairly elected. Research my posts. Long history on this topic. None will represent anything other than that. No whinging. I am stunned [his idiot factor is immense] but mildly amused too, as much as one can be in Australia.

 

However, you called for decorum post 4 and yet slag away. Donald's hypocrisy is catching ~ being quick to preach then point no?

 

Not sure where hypocrisy's home is but I am sure you have a ready bed there .

Where did i say you were howling or whinging by saying Trump was a mistake ? I am confused ?  You stated Brexit / farage was democratic, and all i stated so was Trumps election, my remarks about changing the rules when one loses were rhetorical

34 minutes ago, FredNL said:

WU is the biggest supporter of IS.

IS is receiving money and paying terrorist using WU. This has been known for years but still nothing has been done. There is too much money involved.

Well the executives of WU should be in jail for supporting terrorism and money laundering as they would do with a man on the street 

How many members of the WU management team are going to jail for wire fraud ? 

If the answer is none, shows the hypocracy of the US legal system 

I believe wire fraud is a federal offence 

14 minutes ago, optad said:

 I disagree with both their politics differently.

 

Farage I grant ran a pov and won fairly. It borders racial lines but understand his and his supporters rationale. I lament that it is peculiarly  representative across spreads of the UK ie not urban centres and a voluminous disparity in a voters with a poor general turn out, but it is what it is. Brexit has merit and will watch.

 

Trump is just an egregious mistake. 

Mistake or not on Trump only time will tell,

Trump was elected into power by the US democratic process in the same way Brexit was a democratic vote, contray to what the remoaners tell people 

Trump won via the process in place fair and square, cant now start howling you dont like the rules of the game because one lost 

13 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

 

Hmm

Farage is such a loser that he managed to win the Brexit vote?

Trump is such a loser that he amassed a  mega business empire, the support of  tens of millions and won the  presidency of the USA?

 

It's your condescending dismissive arrogance that put these two people  where they are today.

Because you disagree, doesn't make them losers. I have no love for either of these two, but they gave voice to the frustrations of tens of millions who have been pissed upon for decades by people like you. You will propel them further unless you reconsider your approach.

 

It amused me no end when people start labelling the likes of farage and Trump losers, both gentlemen have acheived exactly what they set out to do, Farage gave the undertaking he would get the UK out of the EU and Brexit happened,

Trump set out to become President which came into fruition some 12 hours ago

In response to the person who labelled these losers, all i can say is....loser, spit the dummy, want to take ball home, get over it snowflake 

4 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

 

Pot calling the kettle black. Post made some sense but then you had to spoil it with "lefties loonies".

Well ok , but if this is true what right do the cultural marxists have to take the moral high ground then ?...could we agreed they are as bad as each other at least ?

On one side we have the red neck rhetoric of Trump and the other gangs of hysterical little girls full a self entitlement who have no grasp on reality who start labelling people racist and bigots when people present an opposing postion to their own 

7 hours ago, Jingthing said:

If you're suggesting that all people should just bow down in support just because that buffoon Putin puppet trump is now president, I'm not sure what kind of political system you think the USA system is. The opposition may be weak, but against him, it's needed badly.

Not in the least but once again the  rhetoric you use even in this post supports once again my original comment 

Your the one making devisive comments,  please to support your comment that he is a Putin puppet with a factual link and please dont quote CNN or some other news source which post false news stories 

Why as an American would one be sitting on  plane, called the USA wishing it to crash, this is exactly what people like you and others are wishing for ?  like children who are not winning so they  spit the dummy, want to change the rules to suit them and then  want to take the ball home 

I will reserve my judgement on Trump until he starts doing things, not basing my judgement on things he has said, if he does half the things he said he will do, he will be one of the most productive Presidents in a long time.

I am not American but think he is right when he look after Americans first

The easiest way but most short sighted way to keep staff is more money or better T&Cs but these alone will not buy loyalty or a good work ethic from personnel, if some one wants to leave sincerly,  very little you can do about it 

For loyalty to a company, people must want to work there, thats the only way you will keep people, its not just how much you pay someone. by your remarks, ie your last sentence gives some insight as to why you cant keep staff, ie "why cant Thai" 

Year end bonus is a great idea, and the reason bring addtional expediture for new year holidays etc, " the 13th cheque" concept is an excellent one, as the employer doesnt even fund it, the employee does, ie money is held for the employee every month before tax and given back to employee as a 13th cheque/bonus 

3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Thanks to the protesters in London.

I'd really like to see similar in Moscow but of course there they're celebrating the ascension of a grand useful Yankee idiot. 

 

And a perfect example of what i was talking about in an earlier comment 

2 hours ago, oilinki said:

Funny the way you think...

Not really the information is all there if one cares to look for it, 

The common market, and single currency were the first phases of a much larger "master plan", you will also note the more recent plan for the formation of an EU army, an army that certain UK politians lied about and said there were no such plans in place 

1. Common market

2 Single currency

3. Centralised goverment ie Brussels

4. Plans for an army

These steps plus many more are in indicative of nations co operating for a common good of member states, this is a back door attempt at creating a super state governed solely from Brussels, no different from what Hitler attempted to do