John Drake

The Thai navy is going to need Chinese "technicians" to be based in Thailand along with the submarine. They wouldn't be needed for a business as usual frigate. That's why the subs stay and the frigate is forgotten.

Waiting now to see the blue ringed octopus story to make its way to Chinese social media.

Knew it was the "I swear to God I thought turkeys could fly" episode before I even scrolled down to the youtube link.

The Avengers was my favorite of the British imports back when it first hit American TV. But looking back, it's my least favorite now, although still okay in small doses. Danger Man and The Saint were/are far better, IMO. Danger Man is simply exceptional TV. Patrick McGoohan was far, far ahead of his time, as an actor and producer/creator.

Liked 12 O'Clock a lot less when Robert Lansing had to quit and was replaced by Paul Burke.

Any Monkees still living?

Didn't any of you English watch Blake's 7?

In Bangkok it looks like winter consisted of those four or five days in mid November where the night temperature dropped to 22ish or 23ish. That's it.

BTW, best and most memorable Rod Taylor performance for me is Dark of the Sun. Curry (Taylor) to Henlein: "Put your swastika back on. You've earned it."

Rod Taylor always had an aura of danger around him. He went from Hong Kong directly to The Time Machine and then a couple of years later, The Birds. BTW, the entire one year series of Hong Kong is available on the Internet Archive.

Rod Taylor on the cusp of stardom in 1960. Hong Kong. TV series.

You found a real, actual SCB ATM? Wow! There used to be four of them within a couple of km of my house. Now, they're all gone. Last week I went to Lotus on Phutthamonthon Sai 5 and walked over to where the SCB ATM usually was outside their bank branch. Both branch and ATMs gone.

Or what?

Soooo, here in Bangkok it looks like those four or five days back in the middle of November where the temp dipped down to 22 or 23 were it for "winter."

I did find interesting Tim Newton's otherwise totally unrelated "recommendation" of a hospital at 6:11.

Or "further enhance colonization"

From now until March I rarely get close to 300 units.

Exactly what do they mean by "termination?"

The "Big Fish" the article says Thai IRS is after would probably be people on Thai Elite and the Long Term Visa?

Why not?

He's going to eat up the small individually owned shops, and if any owners refuse to play ball, then what?

If that didn't make you sick, nothing will.

I predict that in one year the air pollution will be the same, the debt will be worse, and we will have had either a flood or drought or both.

Had a cable like this slip down in front of my house in the village. Called my housekeeper and she actually got somebody to come out and fix it within 15 minutes.

PTP just makes things up as they go along. Need money for the dodgy digital wallet? Shazam! Create an income tax on foreigners out of thin air. Instead of going in and cleaning up the organized crime surrounding loan sharks, just go poof! and make everybody magically negotiate. Ought to tell loan sharks to clear all debts and get out of the business or face 30 years on a chain gang.