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Love this weather....best time of the year.

1 hour ago, Chris.B said:

Do you want to elaborate?

 

I have been a bad boy. It's karma.

My financial future in the hands of the Thai government and a photo of a kid who looks like he could be my grandchild? I wasted I think......trying to buy as much land as possible.

What do I have to look forward to? A long slow painful death.

Have them repaired. Maybe 150 to 200 baht a wheel.

Inflation????? So the cost of a life has risen to 35 baht in Thailand. 

Another epic failure in the works.

Here's me thinking Maryjane and Ketamine Kate were practically legal here in Thailand. All drugs should be legalised and policy towards drugs should move away from interdiction and jailing addicts to harm reduction immediately. The so called 'War on Drugs' is a massive world wide government failure and here in Thailand responsible for untold numbers of poor people being jailed. All these stupid American inspired wars lead nowhere. Time to say NO to America, and let's have a War on American Inspired Policies.

Goodness gracious. There is inequality of poor people which is a much, much greater priority than gender and wokeness. I hope to god that wokeness does not hit these shores.

Crackdowns are totally useless for chronic problems. Chronic problems need constant enforcement. Every day the highways are clogged with over loaded, polluting vehicles spew black smoke and that look like they were last cleaning during the Vietnam war. Polluting vehicles need to be impounded and taken off the road until the owner pays for them to be made roadworthy. Hit the owners of these polluting heaps of junk.

Yet another total failure of government and enforcement. Put the burners in jail for goodness' sake.

Third world country wiring.

A pusillanimous decision. The restriction is either needed or not....if it is needed enforce it; if not needed abandon the restriction totally.

Cafe de Mer on Jomtien. Brick oven. Best in world outside Italy.

1 hour ago, maddermax said:

Many expats came here and purchased condos for rent to tourists to supplement their pensions and provide some financial assistance whilst living in Thailand. This new policy could see our condo units remaining empty for some time. As some expats choose to sell off property values will reduce. This is possibly a good thing for the richer Thais who will buy them up, but who are they going to rent to? It will also make Thailand less attractive as a property investment destination. Clearly, the status quo would be the best financial option for everybody concerned. Leave the snobby 'high-end' market where it belongs as there are a lot fewer of them!

Good observation, I might snap up a couple of condos if they get cheap.

None of above.......60 to 70 baht for a big bottle of Leo. My mates and I pay 60 baht in local Issan bars

I've stopped using Lazada. I was always disappointed with the things I ordered, which despite looking good on the website turned out to be cheap nasty rubbish when they arrived. 

I stayed at school until I was 25, then did as little as possible for 29 years, then retired to Thailand. I have never missed work, I hated it, but I dream about it every night.

A noble fight if ever I heard one. 

Shall we fight for real justice or long trousers?

Shall we fight for equality of opportunity or long trousers?

Shall we fight corruption in government and the economy or fight for the right to wear long trousers in court?

I am shocked that he has actually seen the inside of a prison cell....is this a turning point for Thai justice? Will the Red Bull heir be brought to justice, or is he grandfathered to receive hiso immunity?

I can't believe that he will serve his sentence....I'm guessing a medical discharge for diabetes.

1 hour ago, Gandtee said:

Are they now in prison?

Doubt it.

I'd invest in a government backed crypto. Not looking to speculate, simply to retain purchasing power of money. There are too many things about Bitcoin that make me very suspicious eg trading is very thin and a handful of folks make 80% or 90% of the daily transactions which sounds like a cartel of investors driving up the price selling to each other. 

The other thing, that I read was that blockchains are very slow to process transactions, about a million times slower than say Visa or AMEX transactions, and that this would limit the technology. I have never read any update saying that it has become faster.

Finally the spectre of governments stepping in and destroying value for existing investors on the basis that blockchain was laundering money from criminal activities (which it is) .

For these reasons I have avoided digital currencies. Does anyone have different information?