John Drake

So would I if the same cost of living and prices came back with it.

Fell asleep in episode 2. No rating.

Watched the first two episodes. Cinematography is dreary, full of gloom, and washed out. Seems like they've shot the scenes so they fit the subtitles, instead of the other way around. Lots of yacking. And the characters seem faceless. Some guy named Cosmo is in Richard Chamberlain's role of Balckthorne. And non-entities in Mifune's role as Toranaga and in John Rhys-Davies' Rodriguez. Chamberlain, Mifune, and Rhys-Davies were bigger than life characters. The Cosmo guy looks like he's selling perfume on TV.

Any follow up on this? Does this story have legs? Or is it just a New Zealand only thing?

It's always the nighttime temperature that determines comfort, at least for me. I can pretty much take in the daytime highs, even to around 42 or 43. But when the temp fails to go below 28 or 29, with high humidity, like last night in Bangkok, it can feel sweltering.

Hobbits.

Need to streamline entry for Russian mafia and Chinese triads. Don't know where the poor ole Indians fit in.

Because Thailand is anti-Western and increasingly anti-American specifically. Thaksin has been solidly pro China/Russia. And Thailand wants to join BRICS. People don't want to admit it, but Prayuth followed a much more nuanced and balanced foreign policy.

Or not. This is not your grandpa's US Navy.

Did Thailand actually think all that excitement over exporting durians, chicken, and timber to China would be a one way street? Meanwhile, The utter surprise that China cheats. Not to mention organized crime coming in through the open visa entry program with China. Haven't seen a word about triads since Chuwit went off to die abroad. My bet is they are hip deep in this stuff. Thailand will never get them out, now. Or the cheap Chinese goods and customs evaders.

What are the differences? I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just interested to know how you think the average tourist to Malaysia acts differently than the average tourist to Thailand. I know some laws, such as those regarding homosexuality, make a difference. But what else do you see?

Maybe they go there for the same reasons I and the soi dogs do. For a dallop of aircon when it's hot outside.

Might be barking up the wrong tree.

This article makes a nice accompanying piece for the news that visa fees are quadrupling for Westerners. Not Russians, of course.

Pretty sure that the Chinese stimulus is for China, not Thailand. And I doubt the first thing on people's minds who have seen their property development company go bankrupt is a trip to Thailand.

The other side of the coin, where apparently Americans adjusted and didn't throw out the newly arrived Thais. https://daily.jstor.org/thai-american-life-in-los-angeles/

Apparently, nothing. I've seen no stories or claims that the Chinese vaccines caused dangerous side effects. If I'm wrong, I'd like to know.

He'll be back. And when he does . . . beware! Because . . . He's making a list He's checking it twice He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice

Reading the headline, I initially misread it as "Monkey Dispute," instead of "Money." Looking back, a monkey would have been better behaved.

Why recycle a news story from four years ago?!?!?!? https://nationalpost.com/news/tripadvisor-places-warning-notice-on-thailand-resort-after-management-sues-guest-for-bad-review

Have you seen what Google Gimini is pumping out the past few days?

Many people are in such debt that it doesn't matter how much the government and banks tinker with things, they're never going to get out from under what they owe. Need something drastic like lopping off a zero or two from the amount each person owes.

Remember where your UK tax dollars are going the next time you get skipped over for 90 day visa free entry to Thailand.

I haven't seen anything either, but my wife says it's popular in her village. For myself, it seems to cool things down for at least an hour before the effect wears off.

A Ukrainian and a stateless person. No Russians. Something tells me Boris and Natasha are getting a pass.