Gilligan In Drag

This guy proposing this horrible idea, him and his party, have only 13,000 supporters according to CIApedia. The way the article is worded it is as though he can as a no-name just haul off and do anything he wants with Thailand. Either there is the part missing that explains how he can make declarations and have it go into effect in Thailand with very little power in the government, or this article is not accurate and just out there for the purpose of getting old foreign men's knockers in a knit. My Thai wife told me she didnt give a hoot, shes happy to go dig up crabs in the mud and to hell with money. OK...I suppose you will live but I can imagine that the ATM machines will be out of cash a lot, they will have to stock ten times the bills.

Not a very helpful article, they should have spelled out in obvious terms whether retail sales would continue with the 2:00-5:00pm prohibition. Though they say venues, which suggest bars and I suppose restaurants. In terms of the strict definition of the term venue, it refers to places where events are held, so I suppose no events take place at supermarkets 7-11s, so we are supposed to deduce that no you still cant buy something nice at a ridiculously taxed price whenever you like every once in awhile. Ma and Pa corner shops of course will usually ignore the hours anyway. But I dont have any confidence either that the people or whatever they are at Tiger Magazine are particularly concerned with the legal/academic meaning of the word venue. And really one has to ask why are bars and restaurants venues, ie, places where events are held. A few of them hold events sporadically, live music seems heavuly resistricted in Thailand, its quite rare for a bar to have a band apart from obvious tourista strips. So is going to have a drink by yourself an event, as this is about all most bars in Thailand host? I suppose for me it is, but then for me going to a supermarket or a 7-11 is an event as well, but I dont imagine Tiger magazine would consider it as such. That said I see the very helpful photo from off of the fridge door to the beer section at one of our sparkling glamourous 7/11-Family Mart venues. A case in point that a picture is worth more than 225 words from one of today's post-journalism shill-a-zines.

Some weed has very intense effects. We used to think that too back in the day, "Oh! There was PCP on that weed!" PCP has a strong chemical taste and smell so you would know. There are some types of weed better left to the hard core, which is the problem with most Thai businesses selling weed, they dont have very good knowledge or even smoke it themselves, so they might sell fermented weed, which is what Thai stick probably was back in the 70's and fermented weed has very strong effects or itcoul dsimply be say a very strong Afghani strain, some of them can induce paranoia and other negative effects.

The irony is they would actually be doing pot smokers a favor if they would only be thorough/probably not corrupt about shutting down shops. The shop weed is ruinously expensive and its bad, genetically bottlenecked yawn festival stuff, often not harvested correctly or cured (these require waiting and who can be bothered with that when you can make the same money off of weak stuff), and so therefor weak in effect and not the wild and crazy mania inducing stuff we had back in the 1920's. They even spray the stuff with terpenes (aroma producing oils) because they dont harvest when they should or grow it well so it has little to no terpenes and these are said also to have some influence on the effects. You want to smoke pot, then dont smoke the styrophone hormone and fertilizer salts nonsense that most shops sell and grow your own, get some good Thai, Indian lowlands or African seeds that can handle the humidity and heat here, one or two plants is all you need and grown the way it should using organic fertilizers, bat manure cow poo, worm castings, kelp extract, molasses and grown in a living garden soil or in a pot on a balcony and Kevin's your uncle, you;ll have bags of kick ass stuff for 1000-2000 baht. Of course, Its terribly unfair what has happened, closing the shops the Thai govt has utterly betrayed their subjects once again.

Growing outside can be done and without pesticides or much complexity. Don't try to grow during the period most cannabis outdoor growers will grow in most parts of the world May/November because the rain will wreck just about everything. I even tried using a clear plastic tarp 24 feet off the ground to fend the rain off, but the humidity will rot most flower, tho' I did have some success with Ace Seeds Honduras, a large sativa plant supposedly a mix of Oaxxacan and Colombian, but I don't like the weed I got from it that much. Gorgeous plant tho' and did not have issues with the humidity and heat. I had success with Thai and Lao landrace/heirloom strains growing in the September-March time frame. Probably a bit too late, I lost a number of plants in March to bud rot and powdery mildew. Anything with dense buds is not going to work during that time frame or any time frame as I found, anything with what most people plant and grow in the west in the dna. You have to plant stuff with fluffy open bud structure, not nuggets, as dense buds will rot mostly outside. Plants will do great up until not long beofre harvest and and go black and brown overnight, very very sad. What grew best for me was Real Seed Company's Lao Gold. Nearly without a hitch and a very enjoyable mood elevating buzz and zero paranoia. Did not spray them for bugs and there did not seem to be any and gave them weekly bat guano extract and molasses and some fermented banana teas as well as stuff off our compost heap and cow poop from the neighbors cows which you get magic mushrooms out of. The plants are also not so enormous so better stealth factor, a nice manageable 6-7 feet high. I would grow them again in a heartbeat, tho' not sure I dare to. post script- It probably would have been cheaper to buy bud from a shop, but the Lao Gold is unique in its effects, I have never had such nice stuff to smoke and I like growing the plants, I enjoy that part very much if not more than smoking, so even tho' its a bit more expensive than your cheapest bottom barrell stuff quality is better and nobody sells old Thai and Lao heirloom strains unmixed with skunk and cookies dna like that. So many things will grow well or probably grow well outdoors here, lowlands tropical strains generally speaking from India, Southeast Asia and East Africa, though many Indian strains are going to be highlands strains or from low humidity areas. It is speculated that many Thai strains are descended from Orissa India strains an area with a climate similar to Thailand. I have never tried to grow Malawi or Congo african strains which have a solid rep as being very good weed and would grow outdoors here I think.

This would be a much better article if it focussed on the useful bits, that there are plenty of alternatives for older people to Thailand. Its kin dof click baity isnt it? Theres been no pivot recently, so why suggest that there has been. But I apprecite the info on other countries, needed a reminder and a sense that i am current on what it is eksewhere for older people. I did not realize Cambodia did not require money in the bank etc and only wants 300 hundred dollars per year(?) or something. I've been to Cambodia for holidays and seems like a pretty good place, I much prefer the shady leafy riverside vibe of certain parts of Phnom Penh to denuded, concrete jungle Thailand. If I werent married and on that visa, it'd be a no brainer. I think what i dont like too is the shiftiness of everything in Thailand, you just feel that any day they are going slam the door on your stay with your family, it is something you have to watch unfortunately so I really dont appreciate being click baited, its just one more irritating drop in the bucket.

Most fo the world has the same kinds of problems. Glad to see they wont give in. In the US we have Tusi Gabbard and Robert Kennedy, both of whom enjoy much popular support, but they don't support the status quo so they get marginalized and virtually eliminated as candidates we could vote for, which liek Thailand doesnt make any sense anymore either, you will have Chuckles Harris as the new presidnt whether no one votes for her or not, deep state calls the shots not voters now.

Even if you got Pita on a silver platter he is going to have to do the bidding of globalist interests. Still its a shame people voted for him twice and they denied him twice. Wouldnt it be lovely if there was such a thing as democracy? But you don't get to see his true colors util you have him as head of state and I'm skeptical about him, Thailand has been so corrupt for so long and hes just another politician at the end of the day.

Oh thanks dfor the reassurance about Palantir I feel so much better about having a vice president who owrks for someone who makes his fortune on spying on an dviolating people's privacy. Cheers and I'm done here, 007.

Oh and lets just pretend Kennedy doesn't exist. he would be a great alternative, but Americans have a blind spot if it isn't republican or democrat, we're like trained pavlovian dogs in that way. Coke or Pepsi? Burger King or McDonalds? And we'd rather fight than switch dad gum it! In and Out Burger?! Say what?! Whats wrong with you! Get out of here man! We going to Mac Donalds! No it won't happen despite Kennedy being an honest and very well informed and experienced leader already at cleaning up the pollution and problems with corporate capture and corrupt agencies and corporations. This to do with aour problems in a big way but nobody wants to talk about that. Most people hate kennedy, the hippie needss to get a job with tha mess, grow up already bothering our mega corps with lawsuits. You can get a real education just listening to a Kennedy interview. Not so with Trump or Biden, its just bluster and fluff and dishonesty but no matter Americans don't want hear about corporate corruption thats biting the hand that feeds so people like Biden or whoever the Dems want to put up there they'll get away with it so you are left with getting outraged about Trump's character and personal style. yeah I know you'll just laugh or yell at me go ahead I don't care it doesn't matter very few will be able to overcome their indoctrination enough to be able to vote for an independent and one who doesnt constantly lie to them or deflect to fluff-oh and stuff you've heard for decades from presidential candidates, "And with that I'll balance the budget." Yeah right. So yeah how enthralling, its Trump or Kamala man, but Trumps' freakin Quwazy mahn Krazy Koo Koo and Kamalas a ding dong lights on but no ones home-muh jig who thinks she freakin Socrates talkin about, "Ya, so whatever is gonna be on the way to becomiiiiiing...becoming who you already are.... .... thats what it is ya know, its just what it is baby like that, and thats alright." Yeah on the edge of my seat, who's gonna win wow its so significant our lives could change for the better or something doyou think we could handle something like that no.

More importantly than whether or not according to your professional psychologist opinion Trump is insane is to look at how he is actually just a figurehead for puppetry and entertainment. For example look at how the Trump show serves as a distraction and subterfuge from who is going to possibly be head of the Treasury Larry effing Fink. What could go wrong with that? Oh nothing, we'll just blame Trump. Look at who has his puppet hands up Trump's Vice President JD Vance's butt: Peter Thiel who controls Palantir the surveillance company that knows everything about everyone. Tgrumps friendliness with Israel will probably end up inspiring a major conflict with iran And we're just getting started, who else is going to be appointed to trump's cabinet. Its like they said before, Trump drained the swamp so he could pick his cabinet members from the very bottom of it. I'm not an anti-Trumper and it is appalling what they have been doing to him the attacks stink to high heaven, but they just serve as a distraction for the Deep State/Uni Party who are the real psychopaths at the mad tea party.

I don't get it. Seems like if you have the money, the elite visa is still a much better visa to be on. If i had the money I'd probably go that route. You dont have hardly any of the freaking hassles of having to re-new evry year and keeping money in the bank, running to the border I mean they really want tyou to question what the hell are you doing in their country as many ask me when they fin dout the hoops I have to jump through to stay here. That said I'm glad there's now a back door if just staying here on extensions of non-O married become problematic. I struggle financially to keep the 400k in and if they up that amount I'm schlitz out of luck. Now its a real relief that I could just do the border hop thing and if they limit your time to 6 months in Thailand per year of doing that only, oh well, India beckons I guess.

Anutin is just one of many fighting over this. I would guess that very soon the Pheua Thai camp will push back with more about tough prison sentences and criminalization. If you were here in the early 2000's you know Thaksin gets homocidally maniacal when you want to talk about drugs in "his" country. Yes his country not the Thai peoples or yours farang. He ordered police to shoot to kill anyone they thought was using possessing or selling drugs. Whether they actually were doing those things was no importance to Thaksin and he made that a point that he didn't care whwtehr or not people were actually doing it or not just creating that impression was enough. No questions asked just shoot anyone. And I would guess still that "the United Nations is not (his) father," ( an infamous quote of his when the issue of extrajudicial killings in Thaksin's drug war was raised by the UN, who threatened to send teams to Thailand to investigate, which seems rather quaint in hindsight, like the UN actually cares, any excuse for them as well i suppose) but he probably still thinks he's your your father.

So what anyway? What does achievement in sport or any field get you? Unwanted attention. Psychological problems that annoy others like arrogance and pride. Jealous family and community? If you like sport then play it, why does anyone need a medal. Theres plenty of people in Thailand to play with too. The guys in my village play a hell of a lot more semi-organized football than 90% of people from my developed\ Olympic medal raking western home country. They have two teams in my village and they play against many other teams from surrounding villages. The rest of the country doesn't care and these guys don't care that bigshots in Bangkok don't care, they ad hoc organize their own tournaments and lots of people turn out to cheer. My driver is way into it all. Sometimes he says I can't take you shopping we've got a big game today at 3 pm. He doesn't need medals and fame and money to want to play his ass off. Being happy is a natural tribute of our mind, we just need a bit of mind training in meditation and then every circumstance is fine, you don't have to win medals at the Olympics or be number 1 that's a sad and preposterous waste of a human life that misses the point.

If people don't have any money, how can you steal it from them by opening casinos all over the place?