Lacessit

Proposed legislation does not become a fact until it is passed.

Do you still have to do the yearly extensions and 90 day reporting?

You don't get it, do you? You're posting opinions on what will happen, not facts. It may or may not happen. Nothing wrong with having an opinion. It's when said opinion is repeated 100 times on the same thread that it gets on everybody's wick.

The last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

I have a pink Thai ID card. Given the amount of stuff I had to do to get that, I'd say residency is only available to a miniscule proportion of expats.

Glenn McGrath to a Zimbabwe batsman: "Why are you so fat?" Batsman: " Cos every time I <deleted> your wife, she gives me a biscuit".

I transfer money into my WISE account BEFORE I make a transfer, sometimes I will wait a week for an uptick in the exchange rate. The only time I have been asked for photo ID was when I opened the account. I do everything via laptop or desktop, as I simply do not trust the security of phone apps.

I have a couple of rich friends. Much wealthier than me, anyway. They have not let their wealth go to to their heads. If they did, they would no longer be my friends.

Shane Warne to Daryl Cullinan: " I've been waiting for another chance to bowl to you for two years". Daryl Cullinan: " It looks like you spent them eating".

If you go to Kuala Lumpur, it is noticeable not a single vehicle - bus, truck or car - blows any smoke at all. The problem in Thailand is enforcement of emissions from vehicles is a joke. Slip 200 baht to the tester to turn a blind eye to the smoke-belching vehicle, problem solved. I get my elderly Vios registered in Phan. While it conforms, thanks to a good mechanic, I've lost count of the sh!(heaps that pass inspection at the testing station, when it is obvious they should not even be on the road.

Australia. The government still protects new car sellers by making imports of secondhand vehicles from Japan almost impossible. However, we have no manufacturing industry to subsidize or protect. The last car maker left 5 years ago.

" A souffle only rises once" Paul Keating, on the possibility of Andrew Peacock becoming the Liberal leader a second time.

He uses statistics like a drunken man uses a lamp post - for support rather than illumination.

Bear in mind Air Asia have add-ons down to an art form, the real price with baggage, food, seating and taxes could be anything up to $100 more. IIRC they also sting for online booking and card use. I have not flown with them for years, better value elsewhere.

You might want to try sleeping semi-upright in a chair on and off, sleeping flat on your back can cause breathing difficulties. Best wishes for your continuing recovery.

What do you do with the skid marks on your trousers?

Big C. I usually buy underwear when I am in Australia, the stuff here is too small even when it fits. Like wearing a G-string.

My Thai GF absolutely cracked up when I relayed that insult to her. You made her day.

On a tangent, it reminded me of: "If a seminal thought ever entered his head, it would be a clear case of promiscuity".

Quite a good insult, is it original?

I have not done the online test, as I don't need to. As far as the ATO and Centrelink are concerned, I have a financial interest in, and reside in a house owned by my son. I also return there periodically. What I do in Thailand is quite opaque to those organizations. AFAIK information flow between the two countries is very limited. Where I think it could get interesting is those pensioners who have elected to no longer lodge a tax return with the ATO. I have submitted the requisite form, and have not had a peep out of them for two years. One of my friends in Chiang Mai has not put in a tax return for about ten years. Centrelink says one is supposed to update assets regularly. I don't do it unless I am in Australia. For those of us who are off the tax radar, the only way for the ATO to collect 32.5% tax is to deduct it from our pensions.

A variant comes from the Latin " Si tacuisse, philosophus mansisse". Loosely translated, it means : "If you had kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you are clever".

Your mouthwash ain't making it ( Clint Eastwood )

You're as welcome as a turd in a punch bowl, or a pork chop in a synagogue.

Each to his own. Surely you must be tempted occasionally, when you encounter something egregiously stupid.