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  1. 3 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

    You obviously have no idea what the real issues are here.  

     

    At its last meeting the RBA took its foot of the rate increase peddle.  Lowe has made a decision to sacrifice the AUD in order to TRY and stop the Australian residential property market from collapsing entirely.  This decision is entirely political.  Boomers have the largest voting mandate in Australia.

     

    The outcome of this retarded and abhorent decision however, is that the AUD will collapse, it is heading for sub 20 THB if Lowe fails to raise by at least .50 at the November meeting.  Lowe is also pi**ing in the wind because as the AUD collapses he will import additional inflation on goods purchased from abroad.  So CPI figures will rise expontentially.

     

    A lesser issue here is also that the BOT is now stepping in to buy the baht.  I already started another thread on this if you check my post history.

    Sure the last rate rise was 0.25 instead of 0.5 but a lot of the fall in AUD to USD had been before this when rates were rising at expected rates. Sometimes limited rate rises are a good sign that inflation has peaked ie Australia has less inflation than the United States in the past 12 months. Not sure too if it is political to raise rates less given no upcoming election. Accept though that recent drop could be directly related to limited rise in rates. It’s difficult of course - raise rates too much and demand stalls and then you are guaranteed a recession. Off topic so delete if necessary. Not off topic for me as it affects the future options.

  2. 1 hour ago, Iamfalang said:

    some people value friends.   some value having a "home".  some value security.  some value relationships.  some value nice things.  some value nationalism.  some value freedom.  some value trust.  some value safe streets.  some value animal protection.  

     

    none of these things you will get in LOS.  

     

    BUT you will get a room, Pattaya girls!!!, and nobody will bother you until you die.

     

    I'm not retired here, so I can joke all I want.   You are delusional if you think LOS is better than falangland.  It might be "better" for you because you can't enjoy what falang land has to offer, but that's like a homeless person creating a thread about how living in the park is better than a mansion.  In ways, it might be.  

    Not sure why you can’t have those things in Thailand. For many retirees having nice warm weather, a range of good food options, imperfect but nice beaches, good accommodation options, sports etc, friends and yes things like massage and fun and entertainment can seem more attractive. Some older people could sit in a boring cold Australian suburb in a million dollar house or come to Thailand and have fun. Depends on your ties to your home country but the modern era makes communication easy. In terms of fun there is more Western arts etc in the west but now you can enjoy many things online. Rural life in Thailand could be potentially more fun than living in rural Australia. Not sure why living in Thailand has to be like a homeless person living in a park. You could spell out the fun in your home country that is so much better or not available in Thailand. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

    You actually remember a post like that for 6 months

    Do remember stuff. Don't you? Remember topics and the personality of posters a bit I suppose. Not hard really - there are certain posters whose personality comes through strongly and this is such a poster.  I remember he lives in Sydney in a job he's sick of, is close to retirement, and has holidays in Pattaya and such and gets annoyed at giving tips. 

    If you don't I suppose it's like Groundhog Day - seems like that on some topics, where the same posters have the same responses or complaints, weekly if not daily. Still get 30 likes and laughs for the same comment as before. 

     

     

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  4. 4 hours ago, KhunLA said:

    TBH, don't know who to believe.  USA's fueled regime change of UA seemed to cause the problems.  Crimea first wanted out, or so I read, then Donbass, with their coal industry (huge % of UA GDP) had enough of the 'corrupt' installed govt, and were getting regularly bombed, women & children, for wanting out.  Or so I read.

     

    It always seems to be about money, and what corrupt govt/regime controls it.  Cower & comply or die.

     

    Was Putin right to go in, and stop that, I don't know, as MSM is anti RU & Putin.  But go to alternative news, and plenty of confirmation of UA being quite brutal to those, Donbas, that don't accept the new regime, since 2014.

     

    Actually don't know, don't care one way or the other, as doesn't affect me at all.   That it caters to the western elites' grab for power & money, does confirm Putin's stance.  US & NATO countries have been trying to de-stabilize RU forever.   RU has asked NATO to stop expanding to their border, and ignored.  

     

    Putin/RU going into UA is a no win for RU, so why, except to protect Russian that want out of UA control.  There's no profit for RU with war with UA.  UA's arms supply has been depleted, a while ago, and what little they had left, was used on Donbas and now against RU.  No longer a world supplier of arms as they were before the regime changes.  

     

    What if RU put nukes in Canada & Mexico ?  Oh wait, they tried that in Cuba, and seems that wasn't allowed, and yet, RU whole western front if a launching point of nukes.

     

    The news & politicians can't be trusted, so unless I see it with my own eyes, I don't believe any of it.

     

    I remember when we were told the arms race was to keep peace.  Now wars seem to be started, to fuel the arms race for profits.  Screw the women & children caught in the middle.

     

    Remember when UN was established to keep peace in the world.  Yet the 5 permanent members of the Security Council, are 5 of the top arms supplier of the world.

     

    Want to stop wars, stop making arms.  

    Simple solutions to simple problems.

    Why is the mainstream media an anathema to some. The way they became mainstream is by gaining trust and building an audience so they didn't have to be some guy on a  c r a p p y   website.

    There is a lot of distortion, influences and noise, but surely you can get something out of government websites -BBC, ABC Australia, Al Jazeera Qatar, or left leaning sites that are clearly bound by high standards - New York Times, Washington Post or the Guardian, or right leaning sites such as Washington Examiner, a range of Murdoch press - some in my opinion dodgy as hell but a point of view - and a range of non political media in the middle or either side. Take you pick. Have a look around. Better than some guy pulling a point of view out of nowhere or a government spokesperson clearly just mimmicking the words of the leader.  

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  5. I don't post in the marijuana pages as not my business. I had a bad experience with hash cookies in Thailand as it happens in 1985 on Koh Samui. My subsequent marijuana experiences not much better. So strong. 

    Happy to accept it's just me and have no desire to impose my experience on others. It's a bit hard to fathom that something so strong, and I believe it has got significantly stronger, can be all a good thing. But legalisation in America hasn't lead to too many issues that I have seen so let people do their thing I suppose. 

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  6. 28 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

    I thought he was Chance, the gardener (no surname), who became known as Chauncey Gardiner. So he was never Chance Gardener.

    Sellers best work was in The Goon Show. There can be no argument about that.

     

    There's comedy I liked as a kid that new generations would find funny and others that were of their time only. Monty Python has something about it that as a whole is still funny to new generations whereas I think the Goons were of their time.

    Probably new and exciting at the time, and an influence on others such as Monty Python, their stuff has always just sounded chaotic and silly and a bit childish to me with the odd funny bit. But individually Sellers and Milligan were so funny so I am not sure why that is the case.

  7. 46 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

    You walk around with cash in your pocket because you don't want to leave any trace of your purchase ?

       Only secret agents like James Bond need to do that .

    My bank card isn't connected to any outside agencies and I do not receive any correspondence or offers or mail or any  dialogue at all with anyone , no letters , no phone calls, no E-mails , nothing at all 

    I do but that's because I use the loyalty card too. The supermarket computers send me emails giving me offers relating to past purchases, telling me what's on special and targeting it to things I use, the odd free product. It is possible they sell my information so the powers that be know I prefer Shredded Wheat to Weet Bix but I can live with that. 

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  8. 31 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

    Brilliantly told in 'On the Beach' by Nevil Shute, a book I read as a teenager, of life there as the nuclear cloud came ever closer. There was a 1959 film of it too with an all-star cast.

    Filmed in my city Melbourne Australia deemed to be one of the safest big cities in the event of the Northern hemisphere apocalypse as long as the clouds of radiation aren't big enough to kill life everywhere. 

  9. You posted a similar topic 6 months ago and there were similar responses from some similar posters . My response was get fit and do some boxing if it feels good if only do build your confidence in yourself to know that it is best not to fight but you don't have to feel like a pussy by not fighting if you know you are able to handle yourself a bit if no choice. 

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  10. 40 minutes ago, Hummin said:

    Some or most people  I know or knew, liked to work, who had work they cared for, was interested in, or was passionate about, and I feel sorry for those who never experienced strong feeling of joy, passion or loyalty to their work in their life and I would agree. 
     

     

    One thing good about working for the government sector is you can do some good which makes work more fun. Worked for a bank and an oil company and not the same feeling. Not everyone concurs that government workers do good but the country would be in a mess without us. 

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  11. This wasn't your standard annual hurricane. So bad. Who knows if this particular storm is related to climate change but when you see what the future may hold, devastation and life lost, a beachside dream life in places like Fort Myers not practical anymore, so many lives thrown into chaos, it must give even Maga heads pause as they see have a look at the potential future. No more scientific theoreticals but how life could be. 

  12. 10 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

    Wasn't he about 70 years old ?

    Sex twice a  week is 100 per year , 1000  per ten years .

    5000 sex in 50 years . 

    Sex twice a week isn't out of the ordinary for married couples * 

    So 5000 sexes is about normal 

    (*BM2 really doesnt need to tell everyone that his UK Wife wouldn't have sex with him and that she cheated blah blah blah again )

    He is saying 5000 partners though not times. If you take out at least the first few years of a marriage where one might hope dalliances are at a minimum, married more than once, illness, periods of normal work where you are not in such an environment, start at 18 years old, 5000 is a big call.

    He doesn't seem prone to embellishment or to magnify or inflate himself so maybe he is in fact king of the monger people. 

     

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