geoffbezoz

5 minutes ago, kotsak said:

Write them a cheque with plenty of zeros.. ????

 

Not always necessary

http://www.mfa.gov.rs/en/consular-affairs/citizenship#1b

But no worries in the long term as the market will bounce back ????

Just now, wombat said:

is there enough water to float a cruise boat in the river ?
the dams in China must make a difference.

No problem if they use hovercraft

7 minutes ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

They were cleaning up their own back yard including arresting two Thai pimps.

Somebody else on cloud nine.  When I say clean up Thais own backyard  I meant this from wiki

" In Thailand, the exact number of child-prostitutes is not known, but Thailand’s Health System Research Institute reports that children in prostitution make up 40% of prostitutes in Thailand. "

Now most of that is by Thais on Thais , absolutely perverts and disgusting. So the Thai backyards are large and 2 pimps is hardly clearing up the Thai male perversion of underage sex is it ?  As I said many Thais are absolute hypocrites when insinuating male foreigners are the worst when in fact 98% of sex crimes in Thailand as reported are by male Thais on Thais.

12 minutes ago, mercman24 said:

the gold shops in BKK that i know of, lock the doors when a customer enters, a good idea

But the thief stole diamonds from a diamond retailer, not gold,  and at only 84,000 baht, the stores claimed value should we say, then clearly he had no clue about diamond values and choose a very downmarket diamond shop in the middle of a shopping plaza.

49 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

Have you never been to Makro? And watched them cutting fresh meat every morning?  Don't they have Makro in the UK?

40 years ago they did have in the UK but what is a stupid comment like that supposed to prove ? this is about expats in Thailand leaving, not retail stores in the UK or anywhere else. However this post also discusses the cost of foodstuffs (the reason why some expats may be leaving) , but if you think a naive comment such as watching  Makro staff cutting fresh meat contributes anything then carry on ? It is not fresh in the real term. Just meat that has thawed after being removed from the freezer. Go on tell me the fresh milk they sell you think they milk the cows daily too ???????? . Makro  do not have any facilities in Thailand for the hanging of pork of beef carcasses in their individual stores for 10 to 14 days after slaughter.  So please before attempting to post things check you facts, understand that fresh meat is just that fresh.  Big C does ( but not many stores) amongst the major stores in Thailand. 

But hey I am not really knocking you because without you and others how would Makro survive ?

5 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

"They make nothing themselves..."

Garbage.

I agree, nothing but garbage which suggests anybody buying them is a chisel short of a full tool box.

20 hours ago, PatOngo said:

It's a shitty job!

You are telling me. My neighbour works for them all hours and his overtime is paid only at a turd and a half.

Just now, Just Weird said:

Thai Rung.

They make nothing themselves other than automobile junk based on Japanese  manufacturers pick-up chassis and engines.

Just now, Joe Mcseismic said:

You are soooooo wrong.

Just type in to Google Motor Yachts for sale. Loads. You can't sell a non-existent item, now, can you?

Clearly you can not even remember your earlier post quoting dictionaries, now you suggest looking at Google ads , you for real or suffering from a debilitating memory loss.   I hope neither really and that you are just trolling , so appreciate your nonsense posts and would suggest that has given many of us a good laugh but please please don't not go any further by suggesting adverts provide proof of a dictionary meaning of a yacht., as that would suggest you are bickering also.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Love is in the air as long as money talks !

Thainess. Ethics of which are instilled by governments and their immoral promoters in Thailand

15 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

Yes, cut and pasted from the two dictionaries. The search word I used was just YACHT.

So your previous post;

You are unable to support by factual direct quotes rather,  you use incorrect quotations.   Which means that Wendyfromooz statement, rather question,  was 100 % correct rather than your false quoting to suggest otherwise.  However enough of this stupidity. Yachts have sails and motor boats have motors and motor yachts have both sails and motors. End off.

American bastardisation of the term yacht still does not make it correct English.

1 minute ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

1. (Nautical Terms) a vessel propelled by sail or power, used esp for pleasure cruising, racing, etc

 

a : a sailboat used for racing

b : a large usually motor-driven craft used for pleasure cruising

 

As a person that works at sea, I know that there are motor yachts.

And exactly what word are you quoting the meaning off ?   Nothing in your quote, (cut and pasted by the looks of it due to the changes in font ) , definitively describes it

10 minutes ago, transam said:

Mon ami, my UK snooker hall sold beer and to assume a sport is just for drunkards is a little bizaar...

May I point out that darts world champion John Lowe (74) was awarded the MBE for his services to the sport... 

So expats are returning to the UK from Thailand ( the subject matter ) because John Lowe has an MBE ? interesting stuff that ????????????  

So by association when Lewis Hamilton is awarded his knighthood, which he surely should be,  the few remaining Thai expats will be driving back to blighty rapidly ? ????????    (assuming no jealous bugger throws a dart in his tyre that is )  ????

7 minutes ago, cheshiremusicman said:

What about LMTPA = 'Let's Make Thailand Poor Again' ?

Well you could say that this Thai government and their supporters  screw people  far more than Pattaya "entertainers" ????????????????

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I like CCCP. How about ANM. The army nothing men.

Or WBNTT. We bring nothing to the table.

Or LMMPST. Lets make as much money as possible in the short term?

Or TTPMNU. The welfare of the Thai people means nothing to us.

 

Anything but the current name, which is totally misleading, and not deserved on any level. 

The last one, TTPMNU, sums them up and the controller very aptly. Despite all the corruption, ignorance and arrogance of the elite Thais, or those that think they are anyway, and there are some of those on this board, the normal Thai people are lovely friendly folk and, just like most of the world, want to be able to live a happy life as stress free as possible without abuse.

Unfortunately the utterly corrupt and contemptible Thais whose sole aim is to enrich themselves, or the other lot who tried to pretend they are better than others with a hope of getting on that gravy train, spoil this challenge for them.

5 hours ago, mogandave said:

Has not the birthrate in most developed countries flatlined and in many cases declining?

yes but its the Indians that are breeding like flies still. The birth rate is outstripping deaths more than 2:1.   Put the amount of curry they eat into the mix and the 7% methane into the atmosphere from human flatulence is significant.

5 minutes ago, Joe Mcseismic said:

The Oxford English dictionary and Websters dictionary mention both sail and motor yachts.

I think these dictionaries have more credibility than the one you used.

I assume you state that to dispute that you were wrong .  Or else you can not be bothered to quote anything.

Let me help you, something from the Oxford English dictionary you appear to have misplaced. By the way that is not the concise edition.

"a large sailing boat, often also with an engine and a place to sleep on board, used for pleasure trips and racing a yacht club/race a motor yacht a luxury yacht "