Grumpy John

There is an Opposition?  My guess is if the situation was reversed (555!) they would be smacking their lips at having an overflowing trough to plunder.

Whichever way you look at it temporary is the best option for Chakkrit.  

So old age is now considered an illness???   Maybe he should watch out as time ticks away.

It has to make some money or no one will be interested.  I know I  won't be!   The worrying part is they are talking 5 years......depending on what the offer will be that seems to be a short time for such a commitment.  I won't fund it so the wife will need to go to the BAAC to secure the finance and I am guessing they will be wondering about a 5 year contract too!  

Someone suggested 600 - 900 baht a shot.  If they can convince a few million people to take it the payback will be great!  If they convince the government to make it compulsory......the party will last for weeks!   

So now Thailand can be called a broken hub of tourism as the only place a tourist can visit is the islands on the new government list. 

On 6/29/2020 at 11:13 AM, kickstart said:

I would say with most rice fields being short of organic matter, and most most plant  minerals ,a bit of calcium from the hard water would not do anything any harm.

Our garden has a lot of fruit trees ,we  normally use our pond and pump water out ,but the pond is dry ,so the wife uses our mains water ,that come from the end of our Soi, from a water tower pumped up from underground ,same as a well ,but a bit deeper,it has no effects at all on the plants and trees,and our water is hard .

We have plastic bowls and containers about the place ,and the calcium deposits stick to the plastic like the proverbial to a blanket ,and our shower heads are always getting blocked up. 

Having lived in Mt Gambier for several years I am familiar with the problem of calcium buildup.  When I moved there the house I bought had a water filter on the supply line.  Great I thought.  But no-one told me I had to test the water every 6 months and replace the filter salt. So that fancy Russel Hobbs electric  kettle we got as a wedding present was krapped out within a year!  You live and learn!  

47 minutes ago, sungod said:

Why are they wearing arctic cam?

It's Dairy Queen Monday.  Any ???? in winter Cam who turn up for a cone get free chocolate on top! 

Sounds interesting.  We had enough space on the house for 15-18 kilowatts of solar panels and another 20 on the big shed behind the house...26 it we use the verandahs on each end with tracking solar.  Wonder how financing the deal would work out??? 

Lion seeds have a range of tomato seeds including Love 161 for good size table tomatoes.  Cannot get Lion seeds here in our neighbourhood but maybe some garden centre in Bangkok has them.  My Australian seed varieties have been almost a complete failure.  Got a handful of tomatoes over the years and a few bell peppers.  Beans, onions, broccoli and kale seeds were RS!

I am retired so the grueling 1 hour trip to do the 90 days and annual renewal isn't the end of the world to me...but in the true tradition of Aussies the world over I like to b1tche and whine about it.  The 90 days is pointless anyway!  So, thanks but no thanks for the opportunity to pay a big chunk of cash for something of little value to me.

On the other hand if they had a scheme, that worked for the average Joe, to become a permanent resident without the need for visits to immigration, I would be interested! 

5 hours ago, dougiemac52 said:

Why should they forage, would you ? Or are you quite happy with your retirement fund sitting in the bank. People like you make me sick. Have you helped anyone ? You obviously don't read about the suicsides and stuff like that ! But you're right no one is starving ????????????

Foraging is someThing a large part  of what the peasant population do anyway.  RaTs, snakes, fish,  yabbies,  mushrooms, frogs,  certain plants....  Even paddie rice.  A woman comes out to wifeys orchard every year to collect fallen mangoes to feed her ducks.  No shame in being a scrounger.   If people are starving they can go to the local wat and share breakfast with the monks... Maybe the content of your post is a bit off track due to your lack of local knowledge. 

I think I can absorb the extra cost.  That's only 5 baht a tray so an extra 10 baht a week. 

On 6/24/2020 at 6:46 PM, bwpage3 said:

What kind of parent kicks their kids out of the house for any reason?

The kid was 22, lazy,  making no effort to do any work around the house, made no effort to GEt a job, took advantage of Mar....actually removed 5000 baht from Mars bank without asking...which to me is stealing.  And we suspect she had her hand in the till at our shop in Pattaya some years ago...but could never prove it.  Unfortunately some relatives are better remembered when not around!  Actually she isn't related to me as I didn't adopt her as a child.  It was the vibe.  She never liked me from the get-go.  I knew,  but I still honoured my promise to help take care of her till she turned 18.  Sometimes you have to be tough to get action.  She now works in Mueang Phitsanulok for just over a year...in an office...handling money all day long! ????

1 hour ago, bodga said:

I  wish it  would  stop raining by me in Prachuap Khiri Khan, weeds going crazy although did have 3 months with very  little rain.

Sounds like my situation!  And it's amazing how big some of those weeds are when you try to pull em out.    ????

9 minutes ago, billd766 said:

And what penalty would you subscribe for treason?

There is plenty of simmering....tension shall we say out on the sticks.  A harsh penalty will not go down well!   

On 6/24/2020 at 7:05 AM, Yinn said:

False narrative.

village chiefs is voted by local people. Prayut not give them the job. 

 

291,244 personnel serving as local administration officials – 7,036 are subdistrict headmen, 67,619 village headmen, 7,036 subdistrict doctors, 14,072 assistant subdistrict headmen and 194,491 assistant village headmen. They not Prayut supporters. 

 

Our pooyai baan work so hard since covid. He check every house every business. Help the road block, school, the Burmese worker camp. So much.

we have ZERO covid. 

 

Meanwhile you complaining last 4 months with false information.

 

 

Where you from? 

Controlcovid yet? Or not?

On 6/24/2020 at 10:32 PM, Meat Pie 47 said:

village chiefs is voted by local people. Prayut not give them the job. 

555!  You can't be that nieve.  The people voted in the last general election....and look who you have in power.  Do you seriously think poo yai ban across the country are going to go against this/any government?  Wake up and smell the kanoon dude. 

At least one a day...that's announcements from the Thai government make me chuckle!  ????  Professor Anutin Dope at your service.

I am not a real expert on the forex market but I do know the slip from 32.5 to 21.xx of the Aussie dollar to Thai baht is more the fault of bad decisions in Australia than the trend here in Thailand.  The result of decisions of corrupt or inept fools has cost ordinary Aussies many millions of dollars in losses. But that doesn't explain how the baht is, it would seem, artificially high.