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An opinion piece by John Bolton.

This is not about the [COVID] vaccinations. My state, as most (all?) other states never had a mandatory public school [COVID] vaccination policy. Just Trump trying to scrounge votes & playing the great divider again; If I am elected I promise four more years of Culture Wars ... I promise to divide ... I promise chaos & what fun 😐 Good deal you are living in The Land Of The Long White Cloud.

Amazing what returning the Blue Stone will get you.

Friday. Live long and prosper, scooter people.

And feed it to dear brother.. As I recall Yingluck was unable to sell the rice because the judicial coup froze her government for six months prior to the real thing. Don't get me wrong, their rice scheme was as hairbrained as the Hunt brothers trying to corner silver, in the early 80's. Still they could sell it and at least cut their losses. That had to be stopped. After, gangrene had ten years to sell the rice. That is the last thing they cared about. Stuff those upcountry rice farmers who vote the wrong way. Let it rot.

Chinese gangsters operating in Thailand; Shock, Gasp, Horror. Who knew?!

The weekend is almost here and we have OUTRAGE. Thai Netizens hooked on righteous anger, rejoice!

Impressive storage, & you can really stuff it.

The story so far ... ‘I was Looking at a small scooter for city & market, around town, with occasional local trips. Not going to be putting major KM's on it, Basically a morning market, morning gym & swim, around town, put put. However want to look stylish doing it.’ No real scooter tales to tell. It’s the current lifestyle. Use them everyday. The car & big bike stay wrapped, protected from pigeon poo, in the car park. And that likely for longer chunks of time as months & years go by, unless we move. Day to day living, it is the scooter. Threading through inner city Traffic, ease of parking at markets. We like to go to Thai morning markets. I do a morning gym & swim, both places I go to are on the other side of town. Nothing better that a scooter for quick & convenient travel. This morning, out early to the gym, back, then we were off to CM gate morning market. That done needed to thread through little sois behind the market to the kanom Jen shack. (Proper care and feeding of a Kone Mueng girl is important for a stable relationship) Had a dental appointment right off Thapae square at noon. It is so much simpler on a scooter. The only place I could take the car would have been the gym. It is next to a hospital and has parking, early. However returning to the condo I would have to use the moat road as traffic is building and of course the moat roads are all tore up with holes. The current bury cable progect. Far simpler to navigate on the scooter. Morning market - Fleece coat so, 4 months back? Just oldsters doing what oldsters do.

555 ... well uh .... er ...

Did a month long vacation down south, escape from the smoke. I cannot recall a trip where I interacted less with Thai people. It is not like I have great language skills, but I do have them and I enjoy talking with people. I chalk this up to recent events on Phuket, and the Thai media, which has got the ok from the powers that be, to go after farangs westerners. In fact my wife got asked (in thai) point blank if I was Swiss (!) I am not joking. I was less than diplomatic. I got in their face, and told them exactly where I was from, loudly. Not proud of that moment, BTW, but yab to my wife, like I have no clue what pucky you are spilling, you are not going to get a positive response. As stated, I put this on the current media circus. As I have done a couple road trips up north, both early this year and last, which was about the same as years before in terms of interacting with locals. Up here it is about the same. However I am talking with people who for the most part know me. Still, I reckon the longer it goes the more long term damage will be done. Obviously the government is ok with that, which should give you a good idea how much they think of you.

Nanny states .. who doesn't hate em! However when death by non nanny state rears its head, as it does repeatedly in LOS, we seem not to like it. Interesting.

Netizens outraged! They are living the high life. Feeling that righteous anger yet again and what fun! A fascinating & at the same time, disturbing, Thai cultural trait. Oh. no! Oh my.

It's Friday . Get your scooter running head out on the highway

Comprehension issues or trying to re write my post, make a straw man, & do a little soap box preaching? Nowhere do I advocate breaking the law, no matter how trivial & ridiculous. My post concerns the blockheaded & ignorant westerners on Phuket who are oblivious to the fact the plod are looking for any and every transgression they do. It does not matter if the locals do the same every day. More to the point these brick thick westerners have had two months to catch on, but they don't. Pitiful little critters. Perhaps you can help them next time you are down there. Our hopes & prayers are with you.

Mike you are a great shop talker & bravo but really, they need to get that new tax form out which you have stated they are doing ... until then ... I need more ice & lime juice, and need to get that before noon. Aloha

Brits find the mericans constant use of the F--- word upsetting & abhorrent. Mericans find the Brits constant use of the C--- word upsetting & abhorrent. There is more but I can't be a-sed.

Everybody love to shop talk about this. Still waiting for the Thai government confirmation on what the heck they want. For all those who say the laws are already on the books. OK, If that is the case, and I have looked at them. I would be submitting a tax based on the capital gains for this year, which would be an extremely SMALL percentage of the non pension, money I bring in after exemptions. I can prove all that BTW, but the Thai tax system as it now stands would not be able to deal with or process my information. Which leaves it up to the Thai government to clarify what they want or are doing. I am not expecting any answers to those questions any time soon. As for the shop talkers ... eight more months of shop talk to go. Best to pace yourself.

Been that way for two months now. What I do not get is how these prats down in Phuket do not seem to understand this. You do anything questionable, not lawful, you are a farang, you are going to be arrested or video-ed & get smacked. Does not matter if Thais do it everyday, you are going to get singled out and splatted. Still the blockheads in Phuket line up to get kicked. Two months going on three and they have not figured it out yet. How dumb is dumb?

And the Thais will understand that you-we, the firengiee, that remain are the good guys and all will be happy happy joy joy. Bad out, good in. It is always eye opening to realize their are xpats out there that actually believe that twaddle. Stockholm Syndrome ... Call it TDS; Thai Derangement Syndrome. Still this is Thaivisa ... uh er AN, to be expected many here suffer from this delusion. .

For what?

Perhaps the Brits are also tired of two months of 'Farang, he evil & crazy', a Thai media special feature.

Or there was a problem with the wiring and they were electrocuted in the pool. So many possibilities. The article I read stated they had been working on the pool. I also know of another case in Thailand where this actually happend. The problem with Koh Tao & Thailand in general is you are never going to get a real investigation if they feel it might damage tourism. Case in point, and not on Isla de la Muerte. Across the peninsula in the Andaman ocean, the Phi Phi islands had a series of deaths, now known to be caused by aluminum phosphide poisoning. This chemical was being used to kill bed bugs. The police, forensic team, and of course, all the locals knew immediately what had caused it, but a cone of silence descended. Hats off to the Canadian forensic team who were able to prove it. That said, the Quebec sister, the American & Norwegian women’s bodies all had unfortunate accidents while in the morgue. The power went out and was not restored for a week to ten days. You can almost imagine the state of the decomposition after that. It also is a big tell, all was known before hand and all were trying to impede any outside investigation by any and every means possible. Thailand and posters here can spin so many possibilities, great, but with the history of Koh Tao, it needs to be crystal clear & proven conclusively it was an accident, or there will be suspicions and for excellent reasons. Right now the burden of proof is on Koh Tao and I do not see them doing anything substantive to reassure the public, if anything, just the opposite. .

Thipanet Rd, just north of the airport 4 way will have a Foodland in a couple months. Construction is moving along. Another small supermarket that will stock a number of western food items. Unfortunatly as you gain a shop, you lose one. Greens, in Hang Dong, a more Brit food centric shop, is going out of business, if it is not so already.

More like 40,000 baht in Phuket 30,000 in Chiang Mai I thought it excessive but ... 😆 ... not a friend.