Scott Tracy

UK inflation rate is 2.9%, down from 3% last month. US inflation rate 5.4% in September, up from 5.3% in August. US rates rose significantly in March, April, May and June, steady since then at around 5.3%-5.4%

Hyperinflation... Not yet. Not by a long way.

Asda, (UK) Frozen for freshness broccoli, 58p per kilo.?

27 baht...

Fresh...£1.31 per kilo...60 baht.

Can't seem to get a response from Big C online, Tesco Lotus online or Tops online.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A further problem for motorcyclists, the professor continued, is that road rules mean they are obliged to travel on the left - the domain of six and ten wheel trucks.

 

No wonder we read so many stories of motorcyclists ending up under those much larger vehicles, he noted.

 

Other grave dangers for motorcyclists are roadside lampposts and trees that are the worst of all.

What side of the road does he propose they ride? Most of them ride along the hard shoulder, where, it appears to me, to be the best place, as they fail to keep up with traffic. Especially those with the hand made side cars and trailers full.of passengers, grass, dogs and other stuff.

There are no powerpoles, trees or such like in the roads or carriageway where I am. Most trees are more than a meter from the road. Most electricity poles are at least 2 meters from the roadway, road lamps too.

No one should drive through a puddle, no one knows how deep it is. I avoid puddles on the road in my pick up, for that reason and the fear of aquaplaning. Try anticipating the road conditions and drive to those. 

In my view, U turns are the worst. Driving against traffic flow, failing to look when pulling out of a side turn. Failing to accurately judge the speed of traffic. Failing to signal, or cancel the signal. No back lights, no front lights, no helmet. Road here are no better or worse than eslwhere. Percentages tell the story. The greater the percentage of bikes on the raod, the more likely they will be involved in accidents.

I did not forget drunk driving. It's up there with the contributory factors, like rural roads that have sharp 90 degree corners, no stop signs, no give way signs, no keep left signs, no turn left only signs, no no right turn signs. No idea of roundabouts. No idea of roadsense. 

These are not floods. Please stop calling them that. His PMness said there will be no floods. Thus, these are not floods. 

This is just a surfeit of water...

Damn power poles. Have no respect, not even for their keepers. Wild animals, the lot of them.

Big beautiful...

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Eligible tourists will be allowed to travel freely within the pilot tourism areas in 17 provinces quarantine-free, namely Bangkok, Krabi, Chon Buri (only Bang Lamung, Si Racha, Ko Sichang districts; Na Jomtien and Bang Saray subdistricts in Sattahip, and Pattaya City), ...

One presumes there will be border checks in p!ace to prevent tourists from accidentally stepping one millimetre outside the specified areas? Or perhaps there will be fences or a big beautiful wall...

As far as I can see, it's a step forward, but impossible to police. No joined up thinking.

I am mindful of the statement that says they came from out of Province, but saying they were not under the jurisdiction of the temple abbot smacks of hiding head in sand. Get a grip, abbot. They were at your temple, in your home. You can't tell me it's nothing to do with you.

Your authority is effectively undermined. You should be fired too, coward.

Fire them all. I'm sure there's something in the Buddhist faith and mantra about false gods, etc.

Or perhaps they view him as the second coming, or maybe someone likely to depose someone else, of high Buddhist rank.

I found I had to read the linked article to find out the reason for failing to distribute the kits.

The Society has deemed them inaccurate and the manufacture standards and quality of manufacture questionable. I do hope they have evidence of this, as to the withholding of the kits when they should be out there working is a serious matter.

Presumably there are standards which the manufacturer has to achieve before putting these kits on the market. Who audited them? 

and now...we ask the question, how accurate are any of the test kits? Food for more conspiracy theories.

Trust, but verify, the efficacy of the kits and make the results public.

Someone is wrong here. Get it sorted, or the confidence in the system is undermined.

I'm also wondering, is the owner of the building a Chinese national? How does that work with the 51/49 rule? 

This sounds like a legal minefield. Time to get a Thai lawyer involved, and yes, the theft/extortion needs to be reported to the Police. Failure to do so by all those affected could play against the claimants. In any country, theft is a crime. Extortion is a crime. 

In my view, the owner contracted someone to act as their agent. Their agent stole their money. It is their problem. But this is why lawyers need to get involved.

17 hours ago, FridgeMagnet1 said:

Yes, but the issue there is that the owner is in China and there is really no way of me getting anything out of him unless he is feeling generous. 

He might as well just write it off and turf me out, as he can’t do anything to the agent from there 

I would suggest that if the owner is in China, they would have an issue in trying to kick you out. What would they do, send the boys round? They have lawyers involved, eviction orders? What would happen if you ignored any written correspondence from the owner? Wait until the courts get involved?

I buy shed loads of tick treatments from Tesco and end up treating most of the village dogs that come into contact with mine. It helps for a while, but no one else seems to care. I just don't want my dog bringing them into the house. Keeping the dog in the garden doesn't work either, he wants to run with his freinds, but sleep indoors.

9 hours ago, tonray said:

We've exported our killing fields to the Middle East, Afghanistan, Africa. Pie in the sky view of the world.

Who needs world wars when a virus can kill nearly half as many people as world war 1?

Good job, Israel. But, like the French Embassy's actions, the US and UK's government actions and many other donations to this blighted country, it goes to show how badly the country is being managed.

The country seems to be run on donations from other countries, even from those who are supposed to be less well developed than Thailand. 

The government in Thailand has no shame, and it all really comes down too the nurture side of childhood. Giving to other people is the way to make merit, so the government says these countries are making merit, and is grateful for the money they save, not having to support their own population.

There has always been the debate about the need for drugs, their pricing and the copyright issues. Why are some drugs cheaper in some countries than others. Classic example is The disparity between some drugs prices in the US and those same drugs in Canada.

The issue about doctors and health care staff being what they are and the reasons behind it has also been an issue for a long time. Since barbers were surgeons. No nurses, no aesthetics, no pills, no injections. Medicine has moved on, greed has not, and, even before the UK's NHS, some doctors were where they are because they made money. 

I recall my mother's doctor, an NHS General Practitioner, being left a private patient's Rolls Royce car in her will. 

This is a discussion that's prevalent in UK, at the .moment and a long time before. 

In the GP practise where I was registered, not one GP worked full time. Most of them worked 2 1/2 days or 3 days at most. They were not working in other GP practises, so they were either being paid sufficient for their needs to be working these reduced hours, or in private practise.

Another story. My aunt had dementia and was seen by an NHS doctor who said she could not have a replacement knee, as she would not be a able to remember to the do the required exercises. My aunt, in one of her more lucid moments, said she would go private. The doctor's response was: it wouldn't matter as he would be the doctor she would see. NHS or private, seems that they are the same doctors.

Great idea.

Infamy, infamy...they've all.got it in for me... 

Sorry, had to do it.

Leaving gates unguarded or unsecured is asking for trouble. There are some gates from canal to canal near me. No locks, no guards. Someone opens them 'to water their rice fields' and floods a whole village, as they forgot to close them. Drunk, as usual.

Load of bullocks. Yesterday, everyone in the village hall, nissed as pewts. Today, back from Temple, same. Tonight, wifey has gone to the local bottle shop, 'to pay bill from yesterday '. She'll be back around 8pm, drunk...

What alcohol ban? It just seems to encourage them more around here.

2 hours ago, John Drake said:

then they're selling fairy tales.

Who isn't...?

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

while pitchers of beer were placed discreetly on the tables, in a futile attempt to disguise the fact the venue was serving liquor against current Covid-19 orders.

Not so discreet...someone is pointing at them.

There will be no floods. Thus spake his PMness. 

There are no floods, along the roads to Ubon and Sisaket. Just a surfeit of water. Get the boats or hovercraft out, boys...

Here, where I am...went to a bar on Saturday night. Plenty of Regency.

Hotpot Monday, beer there too, popped outside to a bar prior to driving home..plenty of beer and Regency there too.

I don't drink while driving, but just saying, the wife and her sister were drinking as if there was no tomorrow. 

It doesn't matter. 

Excellent. I'll get the buckets and barrels out.