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9 minutes ago, Woof999 said:I'll support activists to a greater or lesser extent depending on whether their views fit with mine and my own sense of morality. I'll listen to the views of most activists because only then will my views be "up to date" and my morals adjusted where necessary. I might then think:
1.) You're a nutter
2.) You have a point but it's not something I want to be involved in
3.) You have a great point but I'm too happy in my comfort zone to give a monkey's enough to do anything
4.) Off to the art shop to buy a white board and some paint - which I've never ever done.
Should also mention that how activists try and put their point across also makes a difference. Have a peaceful protest, lobby the government and wave some banners and that's great. Glue yourself to the road and I'll run you over.
Having said all that, if people don't like my morals then I have others.
100% agree. Especially with the 'can't be ar**d' part. Whenever I've been confronted with a situation that isn't personal to me I give it a wide berth. That include anything to do with politics , picket lines, protecting the continued existence of the 3 legged octopus.. Simpler to just work around the problem, move on and not get heated about the subject. Life's too short.
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6 hours ago, StevieAus said:
In relation to the police pressing charges the same would apply in Australia and I believe the UK.
If the victim is not prepared to give evidence in court the police will not usually charge the alleged offender.
If the police witness the assault a different situation.
I have a very good friend (cough, cough) whose wife came home late one evening bearing the signs of 'intimacy'. She continued to wind him up when confronted and the guy grabbed his coat and headed for the door, whereupon she followed and grabbed hold of him. In response he pushed her away and the scene was witnessed by a neighbour who called the police.
The police arrived and questioned both parties. The wife did not wish to present charges , however the husband was taken to the police station to give an account and then presented with a 'warning'.
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This is absolutely not my experience here in Bangkok. I actually live in Nonthaburi which you would believe to be a problem from the city centre ( Sukhumvit). After midnight some taxi want to charge flat fee, others don't want to travel that far out but after 3 or 4 taxis I'm set to go. Pleasant guys that will take my left/right/straight on directions, all on the meter.
Biggest problem is standing around waiting for a few minutes and some lovely looking girl wants to drag me into yet another bar.
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17 minutes ago, champers said:
How will they resolve the problem of different gague lines in Thailand to those in Laos and China? Does anybody know?
Same as when they were planning changing driving on the left to driving on the right in Ireland back in the 70's. Gradually over a period of a few months.
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8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:
Surely it withing the ability of large scale importers of anything to dictate their own standards to the supplier? I fail to see why a governmental department has time to be concerning itself with how bent a banana can be.
It's ridiculous anyway as the taste of a banana has nothing to do with how bendy it is.
If the government wants to get involved with bananas, I wish they'd do something about making them last more than 4 days before becoming unpleasant to eat.
4 days! luxury, you're spoilt. 4 hours with the bananas my wife brings home in LoS.
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1 hour ago, webfact said:The factory where it came from has been contacted and better procedures are being put in place to avoid a repeat.
'Better procedures' ! What I take from that is that the company had sent out numerous loads incorrectly secured in the past. I've had employment in the steel industry, construction and shipping and it scare me to death when I'm behind people on the road transporting anything heavier than a few bags of leaves.
12 tons of metal travelling at 30-40 km/hour no longer weighs 12 tons.
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15 hours ago, mjakob007 said:
Jewelry in the west varies from 9-18/24
Jewelry available in Persian gulf & indian subcontinent are 21-22/24.
In Thailand its 23/24
when buying bullion, we get 24. This not used for jewelry as its brittle.
I’m not familiar with jewellery gold, so thank you for the detailed information on that subject. The reason they don’t use ‘pure’ (99.99%) gold as jewellery is that it is too malleable, which metallurgically is the opposite to brittle. Gold is actually the most malleable of all metals.
1 gram of pure gold can be rolled into a 1 square metre sheet, that sheet becoming semi-translucent.
Reflecting on that outstanding information made me realise why I took redundancy after 15 years in the steel industry to move onto more exciting employment.
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7 hours ago, Onerak said:
I was reading a report and all Indian insurance companies denied any insurance claim on stolen gold necklace. Lo go figure.
I had an insurance agency 30+ years ago. A (not English) guy approached me (rare occasion when you sell insurance) and subsequently took out a policy for £24,000 of jewellery on an all risks basis. The premium was mouth watering but my commission was most refreshing.
2 months later he travelled and ‘left it on his seat in the departure lounge’ of an airport whereupon it disappeared and that is most of the information we received on the claim form.
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2 hours ago, nigelforbes said:The forex system or market forces is designed to let water find its own level. The problem with Sterling is that the level was fixed unrealistically high after the second world war and the currency has been correcting ever since. After WWII, the US owned UK debt equal to 250% of UK GDP. Prior to the war the Pound was valued close to $5 so when the rate was set after the war it was set around $4 in the expectation the Pound would at some point return close to its old levels but there was no economic basis to believe this would happen. By 1950 it became clear that rate was not sustainable so Sterling was devalued by 30% to $2.80. When Bretton Woods collapsed in 1971 the Pound was further devalued to $2.40 and the era of fixed exchange rates ended. Despite a Pound positive period during the 1970's the currency continued to fall as a result of Dollar devaluation but it soon resumed its decline and the UK had to borrow from the IMF. By the mid 1980's the Pound was back down to a record low of $1.05 which is close to where it has been this year, in the time since then it has roller coasted from $2 to close to parity.
“Over the long term, the pound has been weak against the dollar, depreciating over the past 116 years by an annualised 1pc - that is largely attributable to Britain's higher inflation rate, which had the effect of debasing the purchasing power of the pound". (and this is reflected in the money supply which is ever increasing, year on year)
Dimson added, “If you look at the real (inflation adjusted) exchange rate of the pound against the dollar, it has weakened over the past 116 years by a minuscule 0.22pc per year."
Commenting on the chart above, professor of pension economics at Cass Business School, David Blake, seconded Dimson’s interpretation, “The chart shows precisely what you would expect - that the real exchange rate shows no real trend from when sterling started floating against the dollar following the collapse of the Bretton Woods agreements,” adding, “This is because the nominal exchange rate will adjust to reflect differences in inflation rates in order to maintain 'purchasing-power parity'."
Thank you. Excellent post . As a footnote and to remind readers that the governments during that period were, ( in no particular order) Liberal,Conservative, Labour and Coalitions.
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4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:Of course. Farangs come below the soi dog in importance, except as an ATM, IMO.
Family ( parents )
children
family ( siblings )
boyfriend/ unknown husband
friends
monks
educated Thais ( teachers, doctors etc )
official Thais
all other Thais
other Asians
soi dogs
farangs
You missed off phone and television.
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42 minutes ago, couchpotato said:
Kangaroo Club (2nd floor) back in the late 70's/80's was the raunchiest place ever.
Basically open 24 hours, girls sleeping on the floor. Go up at 7/8am, pick a girl off the floor, go and do your business (500 baht) in probably the horriblest toilet in Patpong. Those were the days.
Terrible, no one should have to pay 500 baht to go to the hong nam.
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On 11/4/2022 at 5:47 PM, OneMoreFarang said:
Does anybody remember Traci Lords?
She made movies when she was 16 - and it seems nobody noticed.
So much about: It's easy to see if they are too young.
Never heard of her so I never saw any of the 100 films Nora Louise made when she was under the age of 18, nor the one she made at 15. Was there a common theme? Some sort of Franchise?
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1 hour ago, Old car dealer said:How long have you been in Thailand, just a few days ? , if you are an older bloke and you have sex with a Thai lady you must give her money or you will never see her again, it matters not what work she does, the going rate is 1,000 Baht,
I've been here 12 years and obviously been mistaken all that time. I thought you gave them money to ENSURE you never see them again.
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Thank the lord I have no chance of ever listening to, let alone believing, any politician.
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On 11/5/2022 at 8:35 AM, webfact said:
We were penned in behind fences due to regulations to stop hooliganism and pitch invasions.
Webfact makes a good point regarding crushing at UK grounds.
Football and its well documented mob following by a minority is one of the problems. Just been to F1 in Singapore , 300,000 spectators over the 3 days and as far as I know there wasn’t any rivalry associated violence.
I’ve been to a good number of grounds in the 60’s and the violence was evident then.
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18 minutes ago, ivor bigun said:
no he lives here permanantly ,but as he was getting older he just ,wanted to know if he gave up his uk residency , and said he now lived here ,what would the pension service ask for ,if anything .
Apologies , I will clarify. Unless you have a fancy (expensive) Thai Elite or whatever, or have gone through the (almost) impossible application for permanent residence here, or have a legit (tax paying etc) business here (most bars don't count) the remainder of non Thai in Thailand in my view are temporary travellers. They are here on a temporary basis and have to comply every 90 day to remain here on holiday. If he was born in the UK and lived in the UK a substantial time before travelling the world I suggest he retains his UK residency.
Unfortunately the UK gov. have a different view that suits their agenda. My view is it's not their business where and when people go on holiday.
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1 minute ago, ivor bigun said:
A guy i was talking to a few weeks ago said he claimed to live in the uk ,(i am sure many do) he was wondering if he told the pension service he was coming to Thailand to live ,what information would they need if any ,? or would he just say what date he left?
He is probably a 'temporary visitor'.
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5 minutes ago, happysoul said:
You kind of can... Keep on the 37 (AH2) and exit at Pala U road
Yes, correct and thank you for pointing that out. Unfortunately it isn't made clear that you don't need to add to the congestion in Cha Am to get directly to Hua HIn. DoH don't have to do anything other than change the sign I posted above. Such as Hua HIn - shortcut - by passing Cha Am. Is it a shortcut though ?
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It would be a good idea to cost in a link from this road into Hua HIn by-passing Cha Am. There is a significant amount of traffic into Cha Am at the weekend visiting the town, but this is compounded by all the traffic heading for Hua HIn.
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30 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:
Funding for the N.H.S has increased by 51 Billion Pounds since 2010 and staff increased by 200 000 people .
So easy to confuse ‘cuts’ with an increase. If I could have a pound for every time I have read about Tory cuts to the NHS, I'd be able to fund a new hospital.
Between 2009/10 and 2018/19 health spending increased by an average of just 1.5% per year in real terms.
Between 2021/22 and 2024/25, total health spending will rise on average by 3.8 per cent a year in real terms.
Source: \\https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/positions/nhs-funding
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3 minutes ago, n00dle said:
And let me guess, some of your best friends are black.
Actually no. Anything else you wish to try in an attempt at disparaging me? The ladyboys I know are customers of my wife's business. There aren't too many black people in this country and to my knowledge none of her customers are black. If she did have black customers and I came in contact them I would form an opinion on them.
Unlike yourself who attempts to have an opinion on someone you've never met.
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Did I really just read ....
'sparking a police investigation' ?
Ok, but RIP to the guy, I'm 100% hetro but some ladyboys are a good laugh.
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54 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:
I didn't see a question. I was just commenting on your post.
You saw the non reference of ‘refugees’ in my post but missed the two question marks ? Questions specifically asking what the impact of only 1 illegal immigrant entering the UK in the next 10 years would have on you personally.
I would suggest returning to my original post, however I’m still not confident we will receive a straight answer from you.
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3 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:
I think you're confusing immigrants and refugees.
I know you haven't answered the question.
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Couple in their70s now rationing cups of tea !
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Firstly it’s not happening to pensioners, its a report on 1 single couple of pensioners. Delivered to us by Tic Tok from the hash tag ‘Tories out’
So more to the point, what’s happening with journalism and reporting in the UK. (World for that matter).