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23 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

Why are there no safety standards enforced here regarding glass doors.

The glass should either be tempered, or laminated, either of which would have prevented these injuries.

You can even buy car windscreens here that are not laminated.

It depends where in Thailand.  For instance, along the Riviera, where its quiet, flat, plenty of visibility, and the roads are well maintained, its about as safe to ride as anywhere in the world.  However, on Koh Chang, where the roads can become busy with half drunk tourists, the hills are very steep, there are lots of blind corners, adverse cambers, slippery concrete, sandy and poorly maintained roads, its about as dangerous to ride as anywhere in the world.

10 hours ago, MeePeeMai said:

It's "mash taters" in Kentucky (where the good ol' boys come from).

I thought they were from New Hampshire.

13 hours ago, stevenl said:

I don't believe in these coral restoration projects. Time is all that is needed, but more time than we, humanity, are willing to spend.

Providing coral the time and space it needs to regenerate is a type of coral restoration project, just one with minimal interference, so what you are really saying is that you don't believe in invasive coral restoration projects, and this one is not actually very invasive so I recon you'll get over it.

10 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

So telling Elon to stick his submarine up his bum and have your mother saying Elon needs to be lined up against a wall and shot is not defamation? Hmm? I call BS.

Sent from my SM-A700FD using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

No, defamation is making false claims about someone which are damaging to them, neither of those comments are even claims, let alone false claims.

10 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:

All very interesting, but going off on tangents doesn't alter the fact that FOM applies to the UK whilst in the EU, and nothing can change that.  

The point was that we chose it to apply to us, but fair enough, now it does apply and the EU is not budging on that, it is too late, I just think it prudent to be aware of history and the real reasons we are where we are with this, its not like you ever hear a Brexiter who knows this, they all seem to imagine that we were forced in and that the EU will never compromise, and that couldn't be further from the truth.

18 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

Let me remind you of what you said: "we don;t have to have free movement to be in the EU". Is that true or untrue? 

 

We were in the EU with the full opt-out from freedom of movement from 1992 to 1997, we decided to no longer opt-out, we could be in the EU today without free movement, sorry for the ambigious grammar, it must be so tough.

9 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Yes, I know. That was a joke, Joyce.

What do you want, an emoji?

1 hour ago, Wilsonandson said:

Oh come on have you seen Elon Musk's twitter and tweets?

It's all childish humour. Even as I write this his avatar is a cartoon. He recently wrote a song about a gorilla. He just got angry and went a bit too far that's all.

Another thing is he did apologise to Vernon. But Vernon wants his paycheck. Nice retirement fund. I bet if Vernon picked up the phone and called Elon, then he'd see his life change. He'd see what a nice guy Elon really is. Elon would probably fly him and his family out to his LA home. Make friends. Heck, Vernon's caving expertise might help understand Mars. The two could pioneer future Mars expeditions. Who knows.

At the moment there's too much negativity.

You're quite the dreamer, I expect Musk will just quietly settle and do so on the grounds that he can't talk about all this again to the press, and that will be it, but sure Mars, its what all the big boys are talking about these days.

10 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

Not quite true. EU member states were allowed to postpone the implementation of FOM for up to a maximum of 7 years, but Blair / Labour chose not to do so. Saying we don't have to have FOM to be in the EU is incorrect. See the Treaty of Accession: 

 

"In the Treaty of Accession 2003, the Treaty of Accession 2005, and the Treaty of Accession 2011, there is a clause about a transition period before workers from the new member states can be employed on an equal, non-discriminatory terms in the old member states. The old member states have the right to impose such transitional period for 2 years, then to decide to extend it for additional 3 years, and then, if there is serious proof that labour from new member states would be disruptive to the market in the old member states then the period can be extended for the last time for 2 more years."

That was later, before all that we had a full opt-out of the Social Chapter of the Mastericht Treaty, until in 1997 Blair when tore it up and singed the full treaty, putting us on the road to freedom of movement.

23 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

This contradicts the remainer argument that the EU don't impose laws and regulations on the UK 

There is no remainer argument that the EU don't impose legislation on the UK.  There is one that most legislation which affects is is been made in the UK, and that is just a fact.  But not all legislation, not in things we have been lagging in for the past 30 years, such as welfare and H&S, those have been led by the EU.

17 minutes ago, CG1 Blue said:

If you don't know the difference between trade cooperation and political union, I can't help you. 

There was a political union made before the common market, that was the very first thing they did, Churchill got all the allies to form a political union, the Western European Union, they called it.

19 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Those treaties, plus the Treaty of Rome are the main changes and reasons. They represent the erosion of sovereignty out of the UK and I don't like any of them. Since 1973, and especially for the last 3 years, the simple question remains: do you want to your country to remain independent or are you happy for it to become a province of a false European power, constructed by a controlling oligarchy of remote, faceless power grabbers?    

What is it, within those treaties, and which had not already been proposed by 1975, that you do not like?

I mean the  specifics of those treaties.  And claiming things like "erosion of sovereignity", is easy, I expect you to make clear how you feel this has happened, not just that you feel it has, otherwise there is really nothing to talk about and you will either find yourself faced with, "no it didn't", from those who disagree or, alternatively, you will find yourself in a circle jerk with those who agree, either way its not going anywhere, so please be specific.

16 minutes ago, nauseus said:

Treaty of Lisbon

Treaty of Nice

Treaty of Amsterdam

Treaty on European Union - Maastricht Treaty

Single European Act

Did you not understand the question?  I am not asking when or where the changes you do not like were ratified, I am asking what those changes are, specifically what do you not like that has changed and was not already proposed in 1975?

8 minutes ago, nauseus said:

And I'll say it again. The UK was way ahead of the EU with HSE regulation. The EU only started in the late 1980's (probably out of guilt). 

"The EU only started in the late 1980's (probably out of guilt)."

Err, no, the EU started in 1993.

11 minutes ago, nauseus said:

If you are going back to the 1950's I can't be bothered. 

Get a grip, it is clear in that which I wrote that I can't find evidence for your claim post the 1950's, I invite you to provide evidence to the contrary, however instead you hide behind a date, sad.

6 minutes ago, yogi100 said:

What Thatcher did decades ago is of little relevance now 30 -40 years later.

 

When it comes to employment unfortunately most bosses will put money before loyalty. 

 

IF we quit the EU we can then force our politicians to restrict immigration. The fact that an EU passport will no longer be of such value in the UK will be an important factor.

 

The rise of nationalism in the West and of the Brexit Party and UKIP in Britain will hopefully teach politicians to understand the concept of loyalty and put our own people first. I for one won't hold my breath but we can hope.

Goog grief you haven't a clue!!!   It was Blair who introduced unrestricted immigration, not the EU, they warned against doing it, so clearly leaving the EU is not the issue if you want to control immigration as its always been a British led idea.

Just now, yogi100 said:

Employers do not act in the interests of a nation. The act in their own interests and national legislation is required to keep them in line.

Right, so did our national legislation prevent Poles being paid less than minimum wage?

34 minutes ago, nauseus said:

I could only vote in one. I did not follow the campaigns closely - too much BS - my mind was made up after following the mutation of the Common Market into the controlling political project it evidently is now.

What that has happened in the EU that you oppose which had not already been proposed, or already happened, in 1975?

1 hour ago, Basil B said:

I am talking about the many dives have done over 25 years at many dive sites in Thailand...

Right, so nothing to do with the topic then, this is about Maya bay, they have already banned boats.

1 hour ago, canopy said:

 

Elon consulted the cave experts in Thailand in the design. In fact it was because of the experts it ended up a sub rather than a bouncy castle. Elon's first idea was a long rubber tube pumped up with air the kids would crawl all the way through without contacting water, but the experts saw a sub as a more practical approach. There were a number of submarines made customized for different cave sections, including this low profile, flexible one for the tight passage known as "the choke point" you refer to. All subs were designed, built, tested by experts, and delivered in unimaginably tight schedules. However, the gears of rescue had already begun turning and it was too late to see usage. Elon deserves credit for trying his best to help. What did you do? It was a slap in the face at the time everyone was in relief and celebration the kids were safely rescued that this foul mouthed geezer stepped up to a cnn microphone for the sole purpose of spouting a bunch of insults at Elon. Despicable and unnecessary.

 

 

 

 

 

Very funny Vern. But we aren't laughing. I see people doing their very best to help.

 

 

Who else deserves credit for trying to help, please name them.

2 hours ago, simon43 said:

 

 

 

(I have highlighted the relevant word in the above quote).

 

So Thai scientists have found the secret of life itself!  Superglue can bring dead things back to life.....

I don't think it was unknown that physically holding together fragile elements of an ecosystem can allow it to grow and hold itself together, they've done much the same with plastic netting to stabalise soil, for instance.

As for the glue, they just bought a product, the news is that they are doing it in Maya bay.

14 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

1600's England pre dates that. The dish was called Mashed Potato.

You claim without a scrap of evidence, the earliest known reference being what I posted from 1747.