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IMO the Thai authorities are doing what they excel at, fence-sitting. Who knows how much Russian oil they are quietly buying.

I prefer pork with the fat completely grilled out of it. Having said that, there is nothing wrong with fat per se. Inuits live on a diet very high in fat. The problem starts when too much sugar and carbohydrate is in a diet, because the body is metabolizing those compounds instead of fat, which then accumulates. During the Depression in Australia, some rural families actually became fat deficient, because they were living mainly on rabbit meat, which is the leanest meat of all.

I am a one-finger typist. My autobiography runs to 155,000 words. Perhaps the reason you cannot type competently is you are going too fast. Festina lente.

I enjoy reading my posts again, mainly because I am always looking for ways to improve them. A thought more elegantly phrased, perhaps. Your posts are discombobulated because you don't wish to improve. Perhaps you regard your posts as perfection, or a work of art.

"I would be that"? I would suggest making an appointment with a neurologist, to check the connections between your brain and your fingers.

If people respect me, I respect them back. If they don't, I don't. Ever since the Roman writer Juvenal, the old have been saying the younger generations are going to hell in a hand basket. I suppose one major change today is social media enabling the flow of information and helpful advice. Unfortunately, it has also facilitated people who should have their feeding instructions tattooed on their foreheads.

I can make thousands of posts without a single typo, and it does not matter which keyboard I am using. What am I doing wrong?

By getting GG to have a monkey type his posts, it is highly probable we will never see another of his posts in our lifetimes. A very cunning plan.

I have found reading my posts after I have typed them is the best way to avoid typos.

80 yo, one marriage, divorced about 30 years ago.

Your mistake was a typo. It was not a speling mistake, such as the one I have just made deliberately to illustrate my point. That was like drawing teeth, by the way. The things I do for you.

I think you are, if you are putting forward Vietnam ( no long term visa ) Malaysia ( too expensive ) or Cambodia ( a sh!thole ) as options. Non-resident tax is a fact, its application under the current systems of definition is not, irrespective of how much you may wish it to be so.

You first.

Sounds to me like you got burnt in Thailand or elsewhere, and are envious of those who have negotiated relationships more successfully. What's the age gap between you and your wife, or is she just a figment of your imagination dragged out to try scoring points?

Where in my post did I talk about anything to do with Australia? Are you losing the plot?

I have no problem with being in a country where I can have a GF 23 years younger than me. I also have no problem with the fact she cannot strip me of half my assets if we split up, as happens all the time in Western countries. She is anything but second rate, and your post stinks of bigotry.

At present, the tax situation in Thailand is as clear as mud. No one knows. IMO it's a good idea to set up proof one is drawing on savings, and not income when transferring funds into Thailand. That's something I have already done.

You'll have to ask my GF, she proposed to me a few years ago.

Hot damn, GG posted something without a single spelling mistake. On topic, I have always found their hotline help centre ( 02 018 0000 ) extremely helpful. Please note, centre is English spelling. Center is American English.

Hard to believe she is a bigger one, although if she married you........

Given the number of times you have posted the same statements on this thread, I'd say you are the one with the wishful thinking. It's going to be an administrative nightmare for the ATO and Centrelink if a pensioner like me decides to game the system by shuttling back and forth between Thailand and Australia within the 'proposed' time frames, and don't think I am not bloody-minded enough to adopt that strategy. Hopefully, the government won't be taxing pensions. Number 1, no other country does. Number 2, there are several ways that could be challenged legally.

So what happens to your predictions if a pensioner says to the Australian government - I am resident in Thailand, and pay tax on my income to the Thai authorities. Therefore, under a double taxation agreement, you cannot tax me. Personally, I think the returns from pensioners are too small, and would have a cost politically. It's probably why there is no rush to implement the proposals. Much juicier and more popular targets around. It's not almost an impossibility you will stop posting the same repetitive material on this thread. It is.

Yes I do. I don't suffer fools gladly.

If you are going to make offensive posts on this forum, you should expect some return fire. Sorry if you lack the intelligence to understand that.

So all the foreigners in Thailand with Thai women are second rate? You sound like one of the guys I would not p!ss on.