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Bangkok already has several large entertainment complexes with gambling!  They can just move the gambling out of the basement and they're set to go.  😂

Probably ransomware.  It'll be back up when they transfer some bitcoin to the hackers!

My first car wasn't a V8, but it was still quite sporty!   Mine had wire spoke wheels, but otherwise looked a lot like this one.

^Wasn't that a 'box of donuts' that actually had a stack of money 'accidentally' included!  🤣

40 minutes ago, brianburi said:

I can always tell our American friends on here as they like to use the word 'gotten' in posts.

A decently educated Brit would never use that word.

My old English teacher would have a fit.  I am a 1960's educated secondary modern school boy as well.......

That is an interesting example of how American and British have become so different from each other.  If you go back several hundred years the past tense in English was -en rather than -ed.  While English speakers adopted -ed for most words, a few retained the older -en form.  In the 1600s, when my English ancestors moved from England to the Plymouth Bay Colony (now Massachusetts) all English speakers used gotten as the past tense of got.  Sometime in the past 400 years the British dropped the -en while the Americans kept the original version of that word.

On 4/25/2024 at 3:28 AM, webfact said:

The proprietor, 21-year-old Natthanaree Puangmala,

The business owner was only 21??  She was probably recruiting the younger sisters of her school classmates!

I see that the article carefully does not mention the political party of the the two MPs  (they are members of BJT).

I will eat my hat if "construction projects on Rama 2 Road, spanning nearly 50 years, were being addressed as per the prime minister's directive to complete them all within the next year." are actually finished within the next year!

A couple of my wife's nieces married within the past 10 years.  One had a simple country wedding at her Aunt and Uncle's house, (not us, another Aunt and Uncle) which cost about 100k with a dowry of about the same (which went back to the couple). 

The other one married a wealthy Thai-Chinese guy.  I don't know what the wedding cost, but I suspect it was over a million.  The dowry was a 20 million baht house in Bangkok.  This one is my wife's real niece, the first was one of these related through marriage 'nieces'.

So, 500,000 for a pair of working professionals, sounds about right.

24 minutes ago, Guderian said:

 

Did you just turn up and go in, or did you have to make special arrangements to visit like the guy who wrote the article I linked to? I'm also a fan of old military stuff, and I'd like to visit but it's a long way to go just to be turned away at the gate.

I went with my school's activity director, who is also the daughter of a military officer.  I don't think I would have been allowed in on my own.

38 minutes ago, 2baht said:

I can fly!

Could you let us know which airline you work for? 😉

It's OK, she's taking a water pistol with her....

I think that the refugee problem is not a government vs rebels problem, it will be more that Burma will probably fragment into several areas that are controlled by different ethnic separatist movements.  Ethnic Burmese or other minority groups will probably leave those areas and head to Thailand.

I will eat my hat if that roadwork is completed by 2025!  2035 is more likely.

When I married, I was in my mid-forties and my wife was in her late thirties, with an ex-husband and a child.  I paid zero sinsot, though I (actually my father) did pay for the wedding.

When I asked her about the sinsot, my wife told me that it was not needed as this was not her first marriage.  However, if her parents had still been alive, we would have been expected to send them some money every month.

This is classic TRT 2.0.  All of Thaksin's old policies are being brought back:  Casino, crackdown on drugs, emphasis on nationalism/xenophobia...  it's 2001 all over again! 

I wouldn't be surprised to see a massive increase in Visa/extension fees and a new Rice Scheme!

The only way to screen out "bad people" or "scammers" is to require everyone entering the country to produce a current Criminal Background Check.  This is obviously impractical (until AI is further developed) so all they can do is make it more difficult for everyone to enter the country!

5 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Fly with an Islamic airline like Brunei, no booze on them.

A Saudi friend once took me to the disco in the basement of the Grace Hotel.

Believe me, some of those Arabs can really drink once they are away from the mullahs!