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Patong2021

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  1. Question Were you in Pattaya on the day of the event? Did you see ocean conditions? I can tell you that across the bay where I am now, the wind has been the strongest it has been and the sea current very strong. People drown in open calm waters on any given day, so this is not unusual, especially if the person is older and weak. Pattaya has many older men with poor health. Any trauma can push them over the edge.
  2. Pfft, so much complaining. If there was a problem, the caring and benevolent ruling administration would act decisively and crackdown. They can find protestors to the ruling cadre within hours, so they can find the responsible land burners and air polluters easy peasy. Besides, no one is really protesting. Many Chinese, Indians and Russians love Thailand and find air quality acceptable. Their happiness is all that matters.
  3. The unknown amount of raw sewage must be one of Patong's selling points since it is as popular as ever. No need to ever check water quality and disclose the results, since the water is pristine and unspoilt. Nothing speaks to the approved and ingrained corruption than the ongoing jet ski mob operations. Supposedly, the use of the beaches for personal profit is illegal, and yet there they are not a word from a provincial governor or deputy governor or a cop. There should not be any surprise then when other illegal activities are. revealed. Corruption allows such things to thrive.
  4. She should have been dealt with long ago. Her forensics reputation was in tatters a decade ago when she was the center of media attention. Describing the bomb detectors as a "mistake" isn't sufficient. She has responsibility in the debacle.
  5. Shouldn't you be looking at this as "Replacement Cost"? The intent of insurance is to put you back to where you were before the loss. Do an inventory of your household goods and then look at some of the home furnishing catalogues online and you will get an idea of the cost to furnish a bedroom, kitchen etc. In respect to the house structure, ask a reputable builder for an estimate of the cost of rebuilding. If the house is 25 years old with original windows , doors etc. those items will be depreciated and likely worn out, so you need to estimate using current cost to replace. If someone here suggest looking at the evaluation used to obtain a bank mortgage, never mind, because it is different than that used for insurance purposes. The bank takes into account land value. Land remains after a loss, so the value doesn't need to be considered for insurance.
  6. So, the EU, Australia, Canada, South Korea are enemies of China? If that is the case, perhaps it is time for a diversion away from purchase of Chinese commercial goods. Maybe it would do the world good to pay living wage to workers and to have consumer items that do not break after a few months use.
  7. Sean has always put his money where his political views are, unlike many "influencers" He has also volunteered his time whether it was in Haiti or New Orleans, doing hard manual labour. Unfortunately, Sean has in the past criticized the USA for supporting regimes in armed conflict. He's being hypocritical in that regard. He has every right to offer an opinion (and to be criticized for it too). And no, he is not on steroids. The man is very much into physical training and it is no secret that he has a strict regime that puts professional athletes to shame. He is firm and taught, not a bulked up gym nut.
  8. Wasted his time in "university" studying communication art. Would have been better off learning auto mechanics, or transport logistics or business admin.
  9. Ok, but that is irrelevant. The issue is the expanding activity of the previously low key Russian gangster class. They used to have free run of western Europe and USA/Canada, but have had their activities pressed down upon. Now they come to easy pickings in Thailand. Ukrainians are not doing this in Phuket.
  10. No it is not. She did not just have "broken bones". She had a complex fracture, and serious wounds in addition to the general breaks. ('Ruby arrived at hospital with a broken bone protruding from her right arm, four broken bones in her hand, a broken wrist, a broken collarbone and multiple lacerations all over her body.) As soon as a bone perforates the skin, it becomes a critical care case with potential for loss of the limb lacerations with a trauma event can result in serious infection leading to sepsis. ICU daily cost is around 100,000 baht. Post surgery care for serious trauma can easily exceed 50,000 baht per day. I expect that hospital care costs without the procedures are in excess of 500,000 baht. There is an assumption that Thai medical doctors work for next to nothing. They do not. The woman is lucky to be alive.
  11. Perhaps if one had made better personal lifestyle choices in previous years?
  12. Almost all of the critics of the spending on the Ukraine are either left wing radicals from the 1970's that time has left behind, who pay little tax. On the contrary, they usually are of the people supported by the state, which puts their criticism in context.
  13. I was living in Patong when yellow shirts were running wild and I was here for the occupation of airport by yellow shirts. Today, their grand instigator, Suthep enjoys his luxury life. One must be very much in land of self delusion to not see that the protests were all staged and initiated with one goal in mind: To justify a military coup. It is institutionalized terror when political opposition is squashed for fear that it can win an election, and I am not talking about Thaksin and his gang. Rather, look at all the decent and honest young Thais who wanted to make a difference who have been falsely accused of crimes and had their political parties dissolved or sabotaged. They were neither of the Democrat or PT/TRT politics, but were apolitical with only the goal of having a corruption free nation. Where are they now?
  14. Over the past 4 years something called inflation has had an impact on airline fares. Jet fuel costs have almost doubled during that time, and fuel accounts for 40%+ of the costs of a flight. Labour costs and air craft parts/service costs have increased.. It is to be expected that the cost of an airfare would increase. That airfare is still less than what it was 25 years ago.
  15. There is enough reaching and stretching here to complete a phys ed class.
  16. Rubbish. The Rice plan was the longstanding option conceived by civil service bureaucrats and had been in place for 50 years. Thai farmers had often complained about the lower than market price that the plan paid. The revisions APPROVED by the ELECTED parliament were an attempt to correct past deficiencies. Although, the changes made things worse, there was never a set intent to steal or cheat anyone. Yes, rice millers and grainary silo operators made windfall profits however critics forget is that these entities were typically not PTP supporters. On the contrary, they leaned towards the Abhisit /military part of the political spectrum. The corruption occurred when some officials started to panic at their disaster of a program and tried to cover up the extent of the losses. They started playing with the books, recording inaccurate sales data. It was wrong. The finance and agriculture ministers were responsible for oversight of the program and instead, Yingluck was blamed for their failure. In hindsight, it appears that the ministers were not totally open about the program with the PM and a case can be made that the PMO was mislead. Using the debacle of a program to justify the overthrow of a democratically elected government, as flawed as it was, is wrong.
  17. The man should stick to running his monopoly of over processed junk food and leave healthcare to the professionals. Mask mandates did not "kill" tourism. The limiting factor was the limited number of aircraft seats, and common transit restrictions. Not going to get any visitors from China if China doesn't allow people to travel. Once the outside travel restrictions were lifted, tourism started to rebound. There was nothing Thailand could do in respect to the absence of Chinese and Indian tourists who were subject to out of country travel restrictions.
  18. Turkey is a secular state in name only. Erdogan has turned Turkey into a fundamentalist state, with draconian restrictions of basic freedoms. Try being a member of LGBT community and enjoy the abuse. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/30/turkey-mass-arrests-anti-lgbt-violence-pride The remnants of the Greek Christian community live in fear of persecution. Are you even aware that anti semitic nonsense predominates in the Turkish media, even going so far as to blame jews for Covid19? https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-report-on-international-religious-freedom/turkey/ Turkey is quite good at burning symbols of the USA and of Israel. http://qodsna.com/en/365593/Turkish-protesters-burn-Israeli-flag-ahead-of-Israeli-president-�s-visit They especially love their effigies of big nosed caricatures that they burn. You quickly forget the vile racist filth the nationalist Turks launched against the former President Obama, emphasizing his afro american heritage to ridicule. Some idiot in Sweden burns a koran. Hardly a justification to have mass protests. The Swede is an ignorant fool and should be treated accordingly. The Turks should take comfort in knowing that the fellow probably hates jews more.
  19. Never terminated, always transferred. Never punished, but instead encouraged for corruption.
  20. What does a job opening for a soprano have to do with this? The person lost one testicle, not both, And in any case, once puberty has occurred a man's voice does not magically become that of a child's if the testicles are lost. Is this what they call a grampa joke?
  21. The current common recommendation is to have the new Pfizer bivalent booster, (if you had Pfizer) at the 6 month period. It is now be given at the same time as the flu vaccine in North America. The reason for the change in guidance is that the updated vaccine is reportedly better at preventing serious harm from the Omicron variant. (Yes, I know there is new variant - Kracken now, but the comments from multiple health agency is that the updated Pfizer is better. Advice also applies to Moderna.) if someone was willing to put up wih the vaccines for 4 doses, one might as well take the next booster to enjoy full benefit of the vaccine.
  22. If true, then this man is truly filth. It speaks volumes that some republicans from the backward districts still support this deceitful fellow.
  23. Thank you. Appreciate the education. In respect to Thai baht exchange rate over the next 3 quarters, it would be helpful to see projections of THB against i. USD, ii. Euro iii. Pound Sterling and iv. Australian$,. More specifically, will the exchange rate remain close to what it is or whether or not it will change (significantly).
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