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Same. Money from a Mutual Fund deposited to US bank and once they said funds were available, I tried to transfer. However Wise said (warned) funds would not get to my Thai branch for FIVE DAYS. Never had that message before. Tried again in a couple hours and went through immediately.

No need to pretend you care about taxpayers in foreign countries. However, as a US taxpayer, this is money well spent. $200 billion over two years for the US, so 0.5% of GDP per year to see a war that should have lasted THREE WEEKS, drag on over years, more countries joining NATO, Russian military exposed as a laughingstock and suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties. As long as Ukraine wants to fight we should support them. Cheap money for all the damage it's done to Russia's (and Putin's) standing in the world.

People were voicing concerns about this kind of tourism in Chiang Mai, back in the mid aughts (or naughts). Twenty years down the road & they have progressed to a national level. Not that they will do anything but at least problems with Chinese tourism are now talked about.

Totally irrelevant to the subject. You only surmised he was a football fan. Why? Not at all irrelevant. A resident at my condo put his car into a tree two nights ago. He had been watching the Euro fixtures & glop baan buckled. Easy to make a connection with that & the Pattaya miscreant. BTW Lucky for our guy, it was on the drive, not the road or the BiB might have been involved. Now, how about man up?! Note Thistle did not have the best of seasons, you don't see us mewling. Aloha

Total BS guesswork. From which country do you think he is a fan? Maybe he was just told that he had cancer and wasn't feeling too good. MAYBE! Looks like I can't comment on it. The post was deleted. It's always something, UEFA makes a complaint, footie fans offended, WOKE mob objects to implied meanings, but you never know the real reason.

A candidate for our time. Maybe, I'm so stoked Hulk Hogan & Bubba; The Love Sponge, were able reconcile & drop the legal fight. Hulks sex tapes, banging Bubbas wife Heather. Followed quickly by ‘Hogan Knows Best’ reality show getting cancelled, as Hulks then wife Linda filed divorce papers & pretty PO’d about it all. Nasty, sure, but something any candidate in todays world might face. At the end of the day, Hulk & Bubba made the switch & dumped the b----- . Just so happy Hulk & Bubba reconciled. Bro love, it’s a beautiful thing.

The military knew about this rice for a decade; since the 2014 coup. Yet they chose to let it it sit ... potentially rotting, but for what reason? They did not want to get money, to give back to the farmers? They felt people would recall how Yingluck was blocked from selling the rice, by the judicial coup, in the year previous to the real one. Somehow this would appear a victory for Ying & Reds?? We do know they had no problem, not to sell and make money for Thailand. I really have no idea but another of those Thai cultural stunners. A deep seated vendictiveness, so powerful that they would rather it sits, potentially rotting, & do nothing. That hurts the entire country, just no real idea where their heads are at. More Coffee .... Too Early ..

Just discover that did you ...... However Did the USA invade? And that was what you were claiming they 'would have done' Better review the Cuba missile crisis & Bay of Pigs for that matter, if trying to use it justify Russia's invasion of the Ukraine. Ignorance or feigned ignorance, is no excuse. Aloha

Cuba has been communist since 1960, with Russian support & military equipment. Yet you think the United States should have invaded? Fascinating and very enlightening to understand how you look at the world. Whilst invasion is popular amongst those with a communist authoritarian oligarchy mindset, glad the US for all its faults, did not invade Cuba.

Some here cry crocodile tears for the US taxpayer. Not me. This has been money well spent from my perspective. It's like $200 billion over two years for the US, so 0.5% of GDP per year to see a war that should have lasted weeks drag on over years, more countries joining NATO, Russian military exposed as a laughingstock and suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties. As long as Ukraine wants to fight we should support them. Cheap money for all the damage it's done to Russia's (and Putin's) standing in the world.

The Maoris of New Zealand, like most indigenous populations of Oceania, & Australia were decimated by disease. As such colonization was inevitable. I feel for your pain & the cyber tears you shed, but really, no need to live in guilt & self loathing about it, even if you are a "settler".

Always a good sign when Putin howls, gnashes his teeth & threatens expanding the war into other countries or, gasp, a nuclear conflict. G7 just promised more aid, on top of seizing funds, & a real warning to Russia’s sugar daddy China. Add that to the US money, the senate and congress put through. Then their big ace in the hole; the Orange mound of sound, looking less a realistic chance come November. Things are not good on the Volga & Putin has his wind up. Excellent

With the state of Thai economy through most of the teens. followed by the years of the virus & lock up. The economy is bad no matter how much lipstick they put on the pig. Many got into cannabis; from Ban Nok to college grads They have invested, borrowed & got loans. Now the government is going to pull the rug from under them? The big fish can buy polls, create news articles & buy petitions, but at the end of the day if they do this, they are going to make a lot of angry people crossing age and economic class. Yes it should have been rolled out better, more controls etc. but TIT.

Another travesty of justice. Everyone should have the right to purchase weapons, drug addicted bagmen included. Everyone. It's our God given right as Americans.

I have no idea what DeNiro has said about Trump, nor would I care. I trust that is not too difficult for you to understand.

I don't really care about the actors personal beliefs but DeNiro is pushing it. Some say Ton Cruise is an idiot, I don't care, I like his movies. "I don't really care about the actors personal beliefs but DeNiro is pushing it. Some say Ton Cruise is an idiot, I don't care, I like his movies." if DeNiro was pushing it … but saying those same things about Biden & was a Trump supporter, you would have a problem with it?!! Of course you would not. They call that hypocrisy and it is so common these days we do not even think of it. Beach lover, he enjoys nothing better than to howl about the ‘Woke Mob’ and the evil that they do, like “Cancel Culture. Yet there he is, canceling people right & left, and proud of it. I doubt that it even enters his mind how hypocritical it all is. Typical right wing mentality, BTW.

He was great in The Irishman. It looks like you have successfully cancelled yet another actor. First George Clooney, now Robert DeNiro. Wow, I am seriously out of touch with todays world, and how powerful this Cancel Culture thing is. BTW, Charlton Heston was a right winger & President of the NRA for many years. So that means I can't watch The Omega Man, or True Lies?! What kind of world is this?

Wow, they ditched 'foreigner' and actually said; Chinese. It has to be bad, when they drop the accepted protocol for reporting these crimes.

Given Chinas anti western stance, their pumping of this message to their citizens, all it takes is one unhinged person listening to it to take matters into their own hands. The virus years of lockdown & blame game about origins, only seems to have intensified their cultural xenophobia. I visited Shanghai, parts of the Yangtze back when. Always wanted to trek Tiger Leaping Gorge & visit Lijiang/Dali but realizing now that will never happen. By the time things get better, I will be too old.

Sounds like a code for AI generated.

Speaking of Ferraris, Joe Ferrari is still here, still in country. However all news about him has stopped. Funny how that happens. You wonder if he is serving any jail time at all. Perhaps he hasn't been sentenced yet ... or out on bail

Lock Him Up.

"If crimes are found" Good on you for adding that phrase as Trump does not. Neither does his sycophant Republican enablers. What was Trump just lying about? .. I never said that ---- 'lock her up' . They never did lock her up because no crimes were committed. I would not be surprised in a Trump 2nd term if they just, uh, create some. That is what fascists do.