John Drake

It's a matter of comparing the athletes. You could take NFL, NBA, or NHL players and have them square off against the best in soccer and probably still see a score not too far out of the realm of reason. Put soccer players up against even the worst of those other games and you would have unimpeded scoring just about every play, drive, or rush.

Watched the Cowboys-Giants Thanksgiving Day game. That was entertaining. Soccer is such a soft sport in comparison. Take the best players from either the US or England teams, put them in an NFL game, and no way they make it to the end without ending up in the ICU.

I didn't even know the US had a team in these playoffs. But I saw the title of this thread. When I saw how few comments there were in the topic, I just knew that the English had lost. But no. It was another one of those boring ties. Best part about this? English are butthurt and Americans don't even care.

I thought Subic Bay was turned into retirement villages for expatriates.

You would think so. I believe many/most of us file a return every year. But there is probably a privacy firewall between the two agencies.

It's not about you or anything you wrote. The use of quotation marks, here, are as simple scare quotes, used to indicate irony or disagreement with the phrase.

Not Hawaii. They wish. It's in San Francisco.

Tang China Shanghai in the 1930s Japan in the 1980s

I do hope you are correct. I went to my PO Box at the Taling Chan post office today and did not have a second notice waiting in my box. As most of those receiving them apparently did so earlier in the week, I hope this means I'm free and clear. I'll check back on Wednesday and see. I still think this is a deplorable way for SS to leave recipients hanging in the air. It was especially disconcerting in that other main topic on Form 7162 to see one poster report he talked with someone at the Wilkes-Barre building who told him that thousands of returns were laying around in boxes on the floor.

There are plenty of people posting on Thai news topics on Twitter that are perfectly reliable. Some are current and ex correspondents for major international new agencies. Too, there is simply a much larger base of people posting to Thai news on Twitter. And I think it's a good thing to have hundreds of contributors, instead of the same 10 to 12 you get on Aseannow. The one exception on AN is the Immigration/Visa forum, which is unmatched anywhere for information about Thai visas. It's also the one forum where many different people post, instead of the same 10 to 12 on all the others.

Twitter is just fine. It's the best source for breaking news there is. That includes Thai news, which is faster more thorough and detailed than anything you get, for example, on Aseannow. Even if a story makes it to AN, it's usually hours after the event, sometimes days. I know that I look for both local Thai news and international news on Twitter first. Most of my focus and interest has migrated there. Elon Musk is now running Twitter with 50 people doing the job 7500 were doing before. There's a billion dollars right there.

But shouldn't those rules and regs also require them to process the forms they demand? If people returned the 7162s back in mid July, that is plenty of time for ss to do their damn job.

A suspension from receiving SS could play havoc with those on monthly proof of pension with Thai Immigration, instead of the 800K. I can't believe how cavalierly SS is with wrecking people's lives.

In that original topic, one poster said he talked with an SS representative who was in the Wilkes-Barre building and the rep told him thousands of forms were sitting around waiting to be processed. If so, my and your (I sent my 7162 in the same time you did) forms may be sitting at the bottom of the pile. I haven't received a second notice. Yet. But I have a PO Box and I last checked it on Wednesday. I'll go to the Taling Chan post office and check tomorrow. If I have a second notice, I think I'll send it, hoping it gets put on the top of the pile. And I'll send it regular air mail. The last notice I had from the registered USPS mail site was that my mail had left Jamaica NY en route to the next facility on 24 July. Truth is that Thai Post is better than the USPS. And the Thai government agency I deal with, Immigration, is better and more reliable than Social Security or the IRS.

So they just don't give a damn. Why don't they do something reasonable, such as mail out a personal code to SS recipients and allow the recipient to login to an SS website and confirm they're still living and update info. My social security does some of this right now. And apparently, they're outfitting a new page that will do much more. https://beta.ssa.gov/

Won't mean a thing unless the Russians are included in the crackdown.

If they cancel this, what happens to the eight people mentioned in the other topic who have already taken them up on the offer?

Health food.

I don't know. Go to the investment and stocks forum for Aseannow. We've got some mighty big wheeler-dealers, here.

And, btw, I've had a Twitter account for almost ten years. During that time, however, I've never posted a single "tweet." It's just a good information source. In fact, I'm reading it right now in another browser window.

Twitter is the best existing source for breaking news. You see stories almost as they happen. OTOH, if you wait for slow moving forums, such as Aseannow, you may need to wait a day before you see anything. And on many topics, with these "curated" sites, you'll see nothing at all.

Avoid crowds.

"Authentic" is a controversial term, here. But "Anne," is a savvy media pro, and has built a considerable empire. It's been years since I've been out past Central Salaya off Phutthamonthon Sai 5, but JKN was supposed to be constructing quite a media complex there, including big studios, for their CNBC Thailand project. This company is more than a beauty contest owner. It distributes lots of SE Asian programming into Thailand and exports the same.

Beats teaching English.

Good to go until next year, then?