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Plz excuse my wanton bigotry but a 'classier?' bunch of falangs I have not seen in quite some time.

I watched first hand this being 'built???!!!!' and its as shonky a job as one could possibly imagine with another road surface collapse or high-side cutting collapse just waiting for enough H2O to cause subsidence. Stay tuned for the inevitable death toll.

Wouldn't it be amazing if the government actually grew a pair and legislated a total residential burning ban, and any other form of burning (agricultural) requiring a written permit ... nation-wide. With severe penalties if breached.

Well done george. Thanks for posting this today. The catch-phrase 'R U Ok' is not meant to be what one says to people straight up (unless you have an intimate relationships that allows for such direct enquiry). It is a key, a prompt, to take notice of and make contact with those around you to see how they are managing, coping in their lives. I encourage those here who reply to such a post with cynical, dismissive, mocking and contemptive tones that they themselves are not doing Ok today.

Try a can of silicone type lubricant (WD) make a great product and give the joints/cavities a food stray and allow time for penetration and see if this cures the stuckness. I had a Samsonite carry on, after years of use, did the same and the spray cured it.

The term "loser" denotes a moral judgement of another. Usually such judgements are made without any in depth knowledge of the life experiences of the judged or if some degree of info liberally sprinkled with lots of imagined things about the other. Usually based in out-of-awareness thinking and inherited social and familial bias's. If my hypothesis is factually based then those who direct the term at others may be considered uninformed at the very least, and projecting a tonne in some form at best. I guard at making moral judgements of others or comparisons based on MY life experience and NOT theirs, and thus their value and credibility as human beings (I do falter, sometimes way to often for my own integrity and make similar judgements e.g. he's not s real man, so and so is stupid, they're poor, or poor looking and so less-than, people with money are up themselves, Falang culture is superior to others, he or she isn't appropriate in their gender behaviour - too effeminate to soft and gentle to be a 'real' man).

You can order and with knowledge of a decent sommelier buy a glorious $2K+ bottle of Grange almost anywhere, in Oz or OS.

Its a few years ago for me and my application and granting of the EV but back then I was told by Elite office, if I had no address arranged prior to entry in LOS, to leave the space blank.

OMG! ???????????? Vegemite n toast for me for the rest of my uber-paranoid life. lol ???? But seriously I never eat anything remotely raw or bordering on raw, and for the sake of my imune and endocrine system avoid, and always stipulate NO MSG for me!

I had implants for the first time at age 55, yes this is a tad shy of the 80's granted ... but ... implants are fantastic no matter how old you are. I paid somewhere in the region of 1000 AUD each for mine (I have 5) and will get more should I need to replace old unviable teeth. You say you have lost a lot of teeth and obviously have issues chewing and digesting. If you have the money, dense enough bones, and dimensions in your jawlines that allow for implants then its up to you. I love mine and having them put in has changed truly my entire mouth law behaviour and allows me to chew anything I wish. What we can eat is crucial to our health. Fibrous materials and a good steak every now and then keeps us healthy and vibrant so go for it I say. Call Dr Lily at Bangkok Dental Spa. Soi 19, Sukhumvit Rd (right near Asok BTS). She is a sweetie, speaks perfect English has served falangs for many years and is an expert superb dentist. Tell her Philip from Sydney sent you.

My experience of implants (German and 5 star quality), implanted in Bangkok, is nowhere near that. Talk to Dr Lily at Bangkok Dental Spa in soi 19 Sukhumvit.

Look at the alternative. Go on, take a good long open eyed look! A goose stepping authoritarian chaos and madness or an old man who has despite the propaganda done, by even the harshest sociological and economic measure a halfway decent job. The greater picture is what is at stake in the next election. An authoritarian, evangelical theocracy or a flawed democracy. If Trump, or anyone of the present Republican Party runners, except for Christie perhaps is elected then you can say bye bye to whatever a ridiculous quasi-democracy the USA ever was, and welcome with the next four years a cruel, vengeful, dystopian darkness. Trump will leave NATO, destroy NATO, hand power to Putin and join him in the same despotic terror ridden rule. If anyone thinks that Trump or those who speak like him serve decency and cohesive government and policy is truly lost to logic, common sense, and any moral decency.

If you live in the countryside and live simply (this can still be very pleasant), a game of golf at the local course, a game of tennis or some gym workouts, a few beers, a flight for a holiday to another localised nation every now and then, a small Thai built Japanese Korean or Chinese brand car (no import tax), you could manage. You MUST be on the Aged Pension for 2 years and a resident of Australia before you take it with you O/S (otherwise you loose it) then you can simple transfer the Pension anywhere in the world you please and access it easily. You can import your household goods too for FREE (one off import in concert with a retirement visa) for only the price of the shipping and container. So if you have decent stuff and can fill your home with useful practical things then the shipping cost might prove a good idea rather than have to buy new stuff here and not have as much of the things you might like want and find useful around you. Yep medical insurance is expensive for those over 60-65. I pay over 12K a year now at age 67 (for a Platinum level coverage till death.) Policy was taken out at age 64. Personally I would not retire here with the pension and a lump sum of 400K odd AUD you have in hand (you haven't stipulated if the 400K'ish is all you have or property value at sale, super, or both). If you have a home worth 400K, plus super, and a car, and household items to sell and squirrel the cash away then maybe you can add a few thousand to your pot n' make decent lifestyle choices here. The amount you might live on is subjective to you. I say this because we like to travel and do other things in daily life that cost. For you and others 400 odd K life would work wonderfully in a LOS lifestyle. I'd say to have decent, not-too-frugal wholesome life you need a mil AUD AND the FULL-Pension. Unless living upcountry and not doing or going anywhere much suits you (little international travel in that figure), this would give you funds for a decent basic hospital coverage and capacity to co-pay if any additional medical treatments are needed without killing you on your savings, and monthly premium payments. Its possible to live on 2K AUD a month upcountry and enjoy a simple peaceful life, but as the years pass this will increase. But this would be a pretty restricted lifestyle by my reckoning. Phuket add another 1000 AUD minimum to that (these figures include renting not buying a place to live). Expect in a place like Phuket, Chiang Mai Bangkok Pattaya and other larger hubs for this to rise steadily. If living and wanting to stay as safe as possible, a car is essential, NO bikes if you wanna stay safe long term. A nice new 4 cylinder a Japanese type car (assembled in LOS - for no import duty) costs around 25K AUD. If your daughter is smart and wants to develop herself then as one OP posted maybe bring here to Oz, settle her in school and set her up for uni and a great education, and in the meantime set up your move. Good luck with your choices. At 74 you are getting along somewhat so I would think if I were you I would get a move on if I decide to make the move to LOS so I could enjoy the delicious food, the laidback lifestyle, and excitement of exploring such a change.

Oh Boo Hoo!!! ???? ???? Poor babies. They financially rape every client for years and years and when their monopoly of graft and extortion is challenged they get their panties in a bunch

One possible difficulty with said revulsion et large in the USA with the Orange Obscenity is that tens of millions of citizens have proven themselves apathetic to the privilege of being able to vote (consistent barrier to the Peoples vote being powerful and decisive enough to allow forward movement with the Peoples actual wishes and needs) who may simply not vote, which could result in allowing this vile traitor to sit in that Chair again. If that were to transpire then it would take God indeed to help us survive such a catastrophe. I hail from a nation that sees the vote as a sacred duty, a democratic right, nay an existential imperative to steer and help our country. Unlike the USA which takes this notions of democracy (actual clear fundamental tenants define a nation as one and if absent preclude that State from defining itself as one), chops them into little bits then mixes them with contradictory, non-functioning, built in sabotaging, nonsenses resulting in the gestation of ... what we see now ... a full-bloated body-politic, a collective socialised endemic system so entrenched in the psyche of Americans that the people deny the obvious evidences of how incapable this devised pseudo-democracy is in functioning. A systemised, morbid body-politic.

You very hansum man

Me thinks as I read the reporting of how tarred they all are. Poor trough feeding 'pollies' lol ???? It has been said and it appears from chronological evidences that the GOP is no more. Rather it is now a party of sedition, treason in some considerable numbered quarters, anti-democratic principles of even in any of its mildest of forms. There is the larger and oh-so painfully, cringe-worthily obvious demography in the US concepts and executions of 'democracy'??? It being antithetic to any form of a just democratic stewardship and governance to any educated (non-brainwashed, critical thinking, adolescent or adult). Christie is just another of the multigenerational zeitgeist's of citizen hostage to the fantasy and false-narrative the USA is a democracy of any credible sort. To claim a nation is a democracy yet not count each vote as unilaterally equal in value i.e. The Electoral College System, is as one of the fundamental bedrocks of that societies political system, wrought asunder in its hypocrisy, idiocy, and open contempt for the rights of all that nations citizens.

Interesting take KhunLA. I believe Kierkegaard, Socrates, Plato, Camus ... just to name a few spoke of how the humanities and arts in all their forms were the noblest and most sociologically cohesive of all study ands learning.

A concise synopsis of why America has little to no resemblance to a democracy.

Yeah ! Oh but wait??! ... He's been indicted on massive tax-fraud charges, tax-evasion charges spanning almost his entire adult business life to sums in the region of billions of dollars. A man who has made a life-work of stealing from the American people just like the sop called 'swamp'. He has envied and hated (like his father before him) the elite classes and desperately fought (always illegally) to join them and have the same access to power. A silver spoon child without doubt. Lived a privileged life. Cavorts and curries favour with the elite classes. Is cheek to jowl with the robber baron class and is undoubtably one of them. A slumlord property owner who has stiffed the working class who built his obscene edifices for decades. A man who has an appalling business-crashing resume, and who has maintained his lifestyle by lying, cheating, bullying, persecuting those who oppose him, and defrauding everyone his entire life. Oh yeah he's going to "drain the swamp" alright NOT!

Disgusting Donald needs to write some more "love letters" to his despot paramour ... that'll fix everything, then, once again all will be 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL, AND THE GREATEST THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.' To paraphrase the Orange Idiot.

#3 Nope ... NO Elite Visas are issued and placed in passports outside of the Kingdom (well not that I know of. I have never had any info from Elite, nor any others on Elite Visas to the contrary). ... You get official approval from the Thai Government (Elite is actually an arm of the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT). Elite will most likely call and email you in Canada to tell you if you have been successful in your application. I was given a direct call from my allotted Elite Concierge (you get a specific Concierge to guide you throughout your application and after granting of your visa as part of their personal Elite service), we got a call while at home in Queensland to inform me of my success in my application. A nice personal Executive/Elite touch I thought. You give Elite your flight entry info ... get on your flight as normal ... and as others have told you, you simply arrive. But from their on its an Elite experience. Elite, in their sombre elegant uniform, meet at the plane door, carry your bags for you, and golf buggy escort you to the Elite Visa I.O. area (separate from all others I.O. checkpoint streams). They present your documents to and dialogue with I.O. for you and bingo you get your nice fancy Elite thingamajig in your passport and you are good to go.

What an unexpected surprise! NOT! Rotten, all the way back to their karmic wheels.

One of the most sickening sounds I have ever heard was a riders head hitting the roadway helmetless. The dark blood that poured our of all his cranial orifices and deformed skull didn't make the sight any less horrific either.

Marianne Williamson for President. Trump the Traitor for Federal prison. President Biden for a peaceful retirement writing his memoirs in 2024.