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Depends on the fee. Depends on the locality. Chaing Mai really lifted their game after the new building was commissioned. But I still get hives dealing with it. Tho I don't have to as I returned home this year, and will only holiday in the southern winter from now on. We've kept two properties in Kalaland for now. One in CM one in BKK tho we'll rent a third for our own stays. Marriage extension keeps more of my money mine, but it's intrusive and demeaning, we're under suspicion of "faking" it, every freaking year! In the end, home's better, nowhere is perfect and it was fun here until it wasn't.

I'm sure the Thai junta will sympathetically NOT grant them asylum like the little Sri Lankan criminal who fled his responsibilities recently.

Not me! What a life it's been! I know when I'm really old, I'll be living as cheaply as a church mouse anyway, paying for nothing but the internet. As for chronic ill health? Including advancing senility. I'll be checking out in a dignified moment of my choosing in such an eventuality. That about covers it then. I'm more like 1/8 of my savings left! That's the mark of living well while I could enjoy it.

He's a tosser. But a very successful one.

Probably applies to most bargirls.

Put it in a hard shell suitcase. Well wrapped, don't use original packaging, it wastes space. Check it in as usual. No need to declare it as dangerous goods. If they see it on an X ray on arrival, they may ask to inspect it at the other end. And so, you let them! And then you and your desktop happily go on to your final destination. If it's new-ish, and you are importing it, bring the proof of purchase. Go online and find if there's any duty to pay for a used machine. If it's not used, start using it. Make sure it looks used, or be prepared to pay duty.

Brake failure blamed. Brits don't crash, that's just a local bad habit. ????????????

And yet... Where were all the "metheads"? What about "one hit and you're hooked?" What about "this is your brain on meth?" You can't fly a low-tech fighter or crew a Tiger tank with a fried egg for a brain. The war on drugs like all wars, dripping with propaganda to keep the rage going to the final defeat, the white flag will be raised by your government only after thousands of good but youthfully reckless kids have died needlessly, because of prohibition. Not dying from the drugs they thought they were taking, but from the prohibition that allows crims to sell anything as anything.

"Lav" rov, so called because he's full of <deleted>!

There's no "drug plague". A plague looks like a pandemic, only worse. So where are the body-piles of drugged out zombies? There's drugs that are out of control in a tiny minority, and that's because society chooses to allow criminals, rather than the authorities, to distribute drugs. Anyone who still thinks, after half a century of increasing drug use, that they can continue to demonise, and criminalise the human desire to be altered in a myriad of ways, is deluded, and probably needs some substance therapy themselves.

If you're not always driving sober, and defensively, including a lot slower here at night, because all the street lights are appalling, then you're unable to save yourself from these situations. RIP too bad he never made it to retirement to really enjoy his loot.

Lotus's Supermarket. They are all not even close to any Western or even the excellent Japanese brands. But they are cheap enough to try your own taste-tests on arrival, although there is no inbound duty-free shops in Thailand. Give the opened unwanted bottles as gifts to your residence security, garden, cleaners, and demimondaines, they will be gratefully accepted in every instance. Chok Dee Krub!

Watch the video and try to imagine this is the same nation that once had the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Mostly handed back to inept criminal governments. And now -run by an inept criminal Government itself. How skin-crawlingly shameful for the current Prime Muppet to be greeted by her Monarch with the words "Dear oh dear!"

We are talking about the Thai underworld, not sensible Aussie tattoo enthusiasts. But why don't you first check with any Thai person who can speak English before embarrassing yourself on here again?

So almost like any deadbeat zone the world over then?

Lest anybody be tempted to Thai bash, let's remember that Jeffrey Dahmer got away with what this guy was doing for years, because the US cops were far less competent than the often deservedly maligned RTP, and also, so race biaised, they refused to believe Dahmer's black neighbour. Imagine if the racial tables there had been turned? The UK Yorkshire Ripper case was similarly marred by bigotry against the Prostitute victims, being engaged, as they were, in illicit sex work.

The day they legalize, manufacture, tax, drugs, then de-program the fearful population, and register recreational drug users who peacefully and occasionally use, like alcohol, is they day they start actually paradoxically, winning the war on (the societal fallout caused by) drugs.

It's already unavailable in reputable pharmacies. Has been for a few years. So if you're getting stuff in a transparent blister pack, it's fake. If it's in the dull foil, it's smuggled. So welcome to the world of "druggies" and arbitrary criminalisation for making personal adult choices about the chemicals you choose to consume. ????????????????????

We were done after your last post, matey. I'll let someone else waste their priceless time debating you.

Blame the Jews, how original! Wasn't that written by the geezer that got his pretty daughter incinerated for his troubles? Dear oh dear! As King Charles is wont to mutter.

And even when the Ukrainians use captured Soviet relics, they can still effectively use them to kill ex Russian accountants and burger slingers with a days worth of military training, foot bindings, and first aid kits made up of tampons. I really felt for those guys getting on the buses, with their wives, mothers, sweethearts and kids in tears. But this is their reward for sitting back and swallowing the post-Soviet rhetoric since kindergarten.

Well called, bobbin. In all honesty, the mods need to clear out these russbots. Sorry if that gets me a "holiday", but disinformation is a realistic threat on all social media. No one here (left or right) can deny the mess both the US and UK are in, that didn't just happen internally on its own. Russia and friends got very busy... And it worked!

The only way it is likely to happen is if they *do* have a revolution, and the reason being is invasion would provide the restive masses with the old "external forces" distraction, a desperate move to keep the CCP from imploding due to mass dissent. Even so, I doubt very much China will see a popular uprising ever. The grip of the CCP is sophisticated and the brainwashing has been as extensive and successful as the way the west has trained its own citizens to unquestionably fear and demonise every mind-altering substance that exists, along with all their responsible adult users -apart from highly addictive and deadly, ethyl alcohol. What is more likely to happen in China, is a rebel cadre at the highest levels will attempt a coup -for its own ends, but will of course, dress it up to get their tribe to go along with them. This will then lead to a gradual factionalism and perhaps eventually civil war. Even if all the horrors that are likely to befall China happen, they won't dislodge the party. But it remains to be seen if they can convince broke and starving middle classes that Taiwan is worth invading. Taiwan will look increasingly prosperous as China declines faster and harder, the west is already reverting manufacturing home, it doesn't have a choice, and if it did, would likely do so anyway. Our love affair with cheap stuff wasn't worth it after all.

Iraq was a disaster, and a price was paid by good men on both sides for it. I don't mean the Daesh terrorists, I mean the Iraqi conscripts. Saddam was a mass murderer all his rule, and was hanged. Ditto Daffy duck ran out of luck in the drainpipe. Another murderer, murdered. Belgrade, the west went in to stop MUSLIMS being mass-murdered, or at least, to bring their killers to justice. It was done. The rest of your post is so silly it's not worthy of a response. Welcome to the debate anyway, Vladbot.

Ukraine has likely saved Taiwan. Because China has gone real quiet lately. They're smart enough to see their Putinesqe future if they ever try that stunt.