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This is a set of Ping S56 irons I brought into Thailand from Australia in 2021, the ones I paid 3000 baht duty on. You read rules in 2016, they did not apply to me a year ago. You'd be really pushing to find the Ping brand in any pro shop or store in Thailand.

Actually, the women are nice until you get to the family law thresholds for cohabitation. AFTER that, they get nasty. IME, Thai women have it all over Australian women between the sheets.

IIRC, I did say you were not correct. Run that past me again about being rude?

Thanks for giving me my laugh of the day this early. Good one.

I might squirm if I had something to squirm about. If you are obsessed about the concept of being unable to bring sporting equipment into Thailand, when two posters contradict that assertion, keep on trucking. It's not as if I will be losing any sleep.

Mimi Reinhardt, the secretary of Oskar Schindler, has died aged 107. She compiled the list of Jews saved from the gas chamber by Schindler, and was Jewish herself. She is a reminder of heroes then, also of the pusillanimous apologists and fence-sitters for Hitler, just as Putin has his now.

That recently? 1960.

Perhaps it will become more significant if Putin starts lobbing nukes, which he has threatened to do. World wars start when we aren't looking. In 1913, the historian Christopher Clark made the famous statement the world was sleepwalking towards war. This was when trade between Britain and Germany was at a peak, and the Kaiser and England's King were cousins. Santayana's aphorism applies.

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.