RanongCat

Concern is limited by number? Not Gaza. Agricultural workers on the Israeli side more likely.

More than ! It has been reported that a number of Thai have been taken as hostages so it is more than as simplistic as that.

Have searched but not yet found any indication of the situation for the illegal settler enclaves on the wrong side of the fence. ????

So said with a vicious swing of handbag forgetting "IMO" and forum rules on accusational personal attack?

Israel has answered some fire from Lebanon with artillery. Hezbolla seems to have offered some token of support to Hamas ?

Here in Isaan territory it is very true that digital payments are very common but I have yet to come across any business or vendor that will refuse cash. The Makro Branch I frequent has a "cash only" checkout which defies a claim I have seen that Makro only accepts electronic payments. That might please some checkout operators who have to have the patience to deal with a Mom & Pop store owner who counts out copious numbers of 20 Bht notes to pay for 5 Thousand worth of mixed items which requires them to recount it ! Thailand may indeed be rapidly participating in the cashless economy project which leaves Tourists and/or non Thai Bank account holders at increasing disadvantage. But not exclusively in the rapidly changing global suppression of human cattle.

After 18 years of tossing money at her he wakes up to the fact he's blown much his fortune, she is a fading 45 , and is some Heffner fantasy he wants a refund to splurge on a new fancy? Puts some doubt in any belief he originally got billionaire rich by being clever !

Wording distinction: Used as a pawn vs he is a pawn. Bye .

I broke my barge pole years back !

Go on ! Give em a bath then !????

RSV has already hospitalized 3 infants including a 3 week old with severe pneumonia in the last 3 weeks from our village ! The warning is real ! The resurgence of infections that were suppressed due to covid precautions has created a gap in generic acquired community immunity putting vulnerable groups at higher risk of serious impact. RSV is usually only of significance to the very young and/or the very old.

I currently am waiting for the response to an online application dated 10 days before current printed paper notification as stapled in passport. Due to previous online notification blah blah I received approved and printable notification of re established legitimate 90 days further stay but which was dated from date of submission rather than date of original requirement to extend. That simply put it further out of step with date of application for annual extension of stay. Not a big issue as my Immigration Office is not some ridiculous distance from home address. So then having in person applied for and had approved an annual extension of stay the Immigration Officer then also updated my 90 day report date as of from extension date. Many thanks and khop Khun etc. But then by email I receive a notification to comply with 90 day reporting as of previous notice as entered but superceded by Immigration. An attempt to telephone relevant Immigration Office resulted in a request to call again later. I had exchanged no details at this stage so decided to wait and apply for notification within the date of eligibility of new passport notice. Online application "success" and currently waiting outcome. In the event I receive no approval I can rely on the within 7 before/ 7 after specified date for an in person application ... I believe ! At least I have document printed /stamped/ signed by an Immigration Official to contradict a computer system which like any needs timely input by human clerics to maintain legitimate reliance. Weep on AI unless you want to inflict false autocratic authoritarian domination ? Oh S...t . Tax Departments already been there, doing that !

There is this weird assumed presumption that no Foreigner achieves a mutual relationship with a Thai partner that does not or does involve the declared assumed cultural expectations. I too have lived and have been married for in excess of 20 years, never paid or suggested I pay sin sod, This forum seems occupied by a majority of bitter disenfranchised controlling cheap charlies who traditionally in many cases keep posting from outside of the Thailand that they both resent and/or express remorse in terms of blame for personal failure. Even those that brag that they have "prevailed" in site of the dangers of the culture they have chosen to impose themselves on as foreigners fly some strange flag of success but in the terms of reality that they are are actually only being tolerated as non citizens at a moment in time. .

If drivers ignore or presume in some euphoric state the capacity of a train to pulverized not only body but pathetic machine ( despite bold BMW attached medallions) then as Transman would say.. ????

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As bizzare as it may seem there are jurisdictions where the severity of a criminal act negates that expected norm of juvenile culpability . Demonstrated diminished physc control regardless of age in terms of community threat justifies detention and confinement until timely investigation and identification of contributing factors are established. By that I mean that if serious drug use was a factor then as a component of the criminal act the perp should be confined and treated for an extended period to confirm loss of addiction and then an ensuing period of establishment of acceptable comprehension of social and legal norms. Enough of the new age humanitarian concept of " oh they did not mean it, it was the drugs that done it, they had a broken heart, the parents did not love them, beat them, Uncle/Aunt Doe sexually interferred , etc etc , f....n etc. Some of the contributing factors may actually be true. But the social community reality is "kindly remove them from society ....but find a genuine way to re-introduce them......which is not "do the crime...serve your time". If they are eventually genuinely found to be incurable Phys..paths ..... employ them as contained Black Ops members !

As I suspected would be the case. But be honest. Has such adjustments been adequate to compensate in home country ? I would doubt it and although you may resent me making a likely valid point of it the fact remains that regardless of where disposable incomes are derived from they are rapidly reducing the historical quality of life across the spectrum regardless of employment or designated "retirement". In lowest extremes now presented in mass poverty. Disproportionate "incomes" are the current standard of the elitism that is driving economies into disaster. CEO's bragging $100,000 per day ? Ludicrous distortion.

Nice that on this occasion there was no surprise.

If you had just stayed home ( wherever that was) you would have not lost anything ! Go stay in another country where you are subject to things you have no control over such as exchange rates.......? Joking ! Inflation in place of origin would have had just as much impact unless pensions there are genuinely adjusted for inflation ( yeah right ! ) Do tell why you are living in Thailand ?

Maybe that was exactly what this individual was thinking ? As he flew on glue as you do Came to harm. Broke an arm! Next time round to reach the ground from nice and high will take a dive from floor five

The average expat here will only object when the cost of the imported items they "can't live without" rise disproportionately as importers and retailers alike take further advantage of that niche Vegemite/Marmite like market. People rarely comprehend the fact that as commodities rise in cost the local 7% VAT take also increases but Govt. budgets are fixed. Bigger pot to dip in ! Cheers !

On trade volumes significant enough . On paltry pension volumes not so much.

A tedious start to a process intended to avoid any fundamental change in protections for a select few ?

I am going to back the Savants ! Natural ability, not a contrived measure of the capacity to regurgitate information . ' '

IMO your post contains some confusing and contrary views . If a Government is properly elected as representative of the majority then the "we" need to accept such "ideas" if they also concede to the principles of democracy or not ? As for Nation States being a new concept then that need dismiss not only the legitimacy of historic BC Empires but reduces their major battles to mere village tribal squabbles !