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The hypothesis Ukrainians did this is shaky on two grounds. The town is Bucha, close to the capital Kyiv. It's not in the Donbas, where the collaborator aspect may be more plausible. Secondly, those dead people would have been photographed exhaustively by the Russians if they had found them like that as they occupied the town, and they had several weeks to do it. Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is also the most probable.

You'll have to put my rudeness down to exasperation. You've got the evidence before you, and still persist with a spurious claim one cannot bring sporting equipment into Thailand as a retiree. Put me on ignore if you can't handle the truth.

Too hefty for me. Wouldn't like feeling like a tube of toothpaste being squeezed in the middle.

Refer the post by ThailandRyan, now there's two of us. You're waffling, clarity my ##se.

I'd be worried if it did.

IMO you'll find the keyboards are dual Thai/English, it becomes a matter of selecting the alphabet you want in whatever OS you have. As I have done with this post.

So how would you explain what I was able to do, not once but three times? BTW, no bribes sought or offered.

Now you are reminding me of an old Aussie expression: " If bull###t was music, you'd be a brass band." Keep up the good work.

I'm wondering if it is part of the job description at TAT to issue optimistic forecasts. Put out anything downbeat, and you'll be posted to Mae Hong Son to organise the tuk-tuk drivers.

My thought too, faulty SSD. Although it should last a lot longer.

IMO we are talking at cross-purposes, I brought my first set of golf clubs here as a tourist, no duty. Second set no duty, third 3000 baht. Retirement visa. You may be right in saying you can bring in personal effects with no duty payable when you come here, excluding sporting equipment. However, does the exclusion mean you can't bring it in at all, or only that you have to pay duty assessed by a Customs official if you do?

Having imported three sets of golf clubs while on a retirement visa, your post is incorrect. IIRC, paid duty of 3000 baht on one import. You can import a vehicle for personal use, but the duty and shipping costs make it unviable.

Unless there are pictures, we won't know if they were 40 kg spinners, or 120 kg whales.

IMO this one by Nicklaus would be close..... jnedit.mp4

I'd agree on Oakmont, Sam Snead once said it was like trying to putt down a marble staircase. Never played on Shinnecock Hills or Winged Foot. When amateurs like me play on such courses, the stimp-meter readings are normal. You think that's quick? I'll show you quick. RMedit.mp4

I saw a recent article that said Putin's popularity had gone from about 70% to above 80% with Russians, which demonstrates the power of media when all other voices are stifled or howled down. I'm wondering how that figure will change when the Russian economy collapses. Every foreign company is either pulling out of Russia, or suspending operations. Aviation, automotive and other industries can't get spare parts to sustain their businesses. How much money is Putin's war machine sucking in to keep going in Ukraine? There's a lot of unemployed Russians coming down the pipeline, and mass unemployment has been known to give rise to revolutions before. It may get even bloodier within Russia than in Ukraine, when the body bags of conscripts get there.

There are two golf courses in the world that have greens this fast. Augusta, and Royal Melbourne. At Augusta, the speed of the greens is created by a process I described in an earlier post. At Royal Melbourne, it is natural. Having said that, hard, fast greens are also true. It's a matter of getting the right line to the hole, the ball will drop if the player picks the break and speed correctly.

Evil that knows no bounds...... https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2022/04/09/russian-missile-attack-train-station/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday News - 20220409

As a very occasional tourist to other countries before COVID, I have no intention of jumping over all the hurdles governments have erected during COVID. I'm staying put, until those hurdles have gone. You want tourists back to pre-COVID levels, Thailand? With all the BS regulations, I doubt you do.

Perhaps one of the less obvious war crimes is inflicted on Russian children, when they are taught in school the attack on Ukraine is justified.

Nobody is going to convince anti-vaxxers to get vaccinated, or mask scofflaws to wear masks. The best any of us can do is take sensible precautions to stay safe, without going overboard. I don't wear a mask on a golf course, not when there are 150 acres of free space surrounding me. Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers will always be there. I just ignore them, Darwin will do the sorting.

Abstention is not the same as expressing support for Russia. Having said that, it is consistent with Thailand's record of sitting on the fence. It would be more meaningful if Russia was voted off the UN entirely, and designated a rogue state.

https://www.concordmonitor.com/Garlic-history-34999881

I was told by an Augusta member how the greens become faster every day. Scores on the Wednesday warmup round mean nothing, the greens are standard stimp before the Masters. Every night during the tournament itself, the ground staff spread dry sand on every green. The sand is then vacuumed up after drying out the grass, I forget how long he said they leave the sand there. The greens are then cut every morning before play starts. By the time they get to Sunday, they are like greased lightning. It's why one almost never sees anyone fix a pitch mark at Augusta, the greens are too hard. OTOH, they are true because they don't get bumpy like a soft green would. IME it's the guy who has the hottest putter who usually dons the green jacket. I still remember Mike Weir's win in 2003, he had nerves of steel on the final day with a succession of 6 foot putts.

The countries that realize dependence on Chinese supply chains is setting them up for trade blackmail, and develop their own manufacturing capabilities again, will be better off economically. The countries that say business as usual will get swallowed up. While the Chinese proclaim the virtues of free trade to all and sundry, they do not hesitate to apply tariffs and other protection mechanisms to imported goods and services when it suits them.