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  1. John Drake
    Better than shaking some hand that you don't know where it has been.
  2. John Drake
    This is Thailand. It will amaze you.
  3. John Drake
    So, they intend to take and keep my wife's money.
  4. John Drake
    Given the choice, Prawit is my favored old goat.
  5. John Drake
    Need to tax some more.
  6. John Drake
    Enjoy your worldwide income tax, then.
  7. John Drake
    Good thing the Shins never did anything like that, huh?
  8. John Drake
    Prayuth looks less and less inept every day. Comparatively speaking, he was Periclean.
  9. John Drake
    This originally was a common sense Prayuth proposal to take the pressure off hospitals being overwhelmed with non-insured tourists. I agree. Good idea. All the rest of the tax stuff is from scatterbrained Srettha.
  10. John Drake
    Should have kept the damn 300 baht tax and dedicated it to emergency hospitalization reimbursements for insufficiently covered tourists.
  11. John Drake
    About to say, I initially set up ID.Me in February of 2022 to access IRS. It took me almost a week to get the appointment email and 50 minutes to wait in line for the live interview. Happy to hear it worked out so much more easily for you. People wanting ID.ME probably should use this "off season" to enroll. It sounds faster.
  12. John Drake
    I have two Bangkok Bank accounts. One for receiving social security, which I opened seven years ago. And another regular ATM account I opened 12 years ago. I go once per month in person to transfer money from the locked social security account to the regular atm. I actually like the locked social security account, because it's safe from online scams. And it is where I park my 800K for retirement extension.
  13. John Drake
    Where's news of the day via Tim Newton?
  14. John Drake
    I think you're right. PTP and MFP are a catastrophe for expatriates. Yes, Prayuth was better.
  15. John Drake
    After 20 years, in other words, absolutely nothing took that would have made Afghanistan more tolerant, enlightened, or even slightly democratic. It went right back to being what it really is. Twenty years and trillions of dollars utterly wasted. And somewhere George W. Bush is painting a picture.
  16. John Drake
    He could still skedaddle. There is a family precedent for doing so at the last minute.
  17. John Drake
    MFP doesn't worry about much other than doing a gender purge of its own members. Otherwise, they're completely silent and useless. Prayuth and the army, however, must be looking at this and getting quite a chuckle, as PTP commits one economic blunder after another. Like me (Prayuth is better), I think they're going to come back with the biggest I toldya so in the last 20 years.
  18. John Drake
    Pretty much the situation until the last election.
  19. John Drake
    Yep. Looked and listened. The Biden speech plagiarizes Reagan. Biden would have been better off just asking AI to generate a speech that sounded like Reagan's. That's what I just did below:
  20. John Drake
    Accusations are out that Biden plagiarized Ronald Reagan's 40th year D-Day commemoration speech yesterday. People will argue, but the outline and some of the words apparently are the same.
  21. John Drake
    And besides having its (Muslim) religious police who can burst in on people in their hotel rooms, Malaysia also racially and religiously discriminates against Chinese ( Buddhists), Indians (Hindus), Indigenous (Orang Asli), and any other minority unlucky enough to fall under Sunni Muslim Malay control. It is a benighted place. And just about every Thai law, institution, and social practice is better.
  22. John Drake
    Nobody cares anymore.
  23. John Drake
    Yea but my wife is going to spend it anyway. At least this way just gets a microscopic chance of a lottery win and gets the 3000 returned to her. Even if it does lose to inflation, it's better than the nothing she is going have right now.
  24. John Drake
    And it's just one bad news item after another.
  25. John Drake
    Malaysia, where the religious police can raid your hotel room. And all that diversity is fake.

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