NanLaew

Spare us the hubris. This "war" ended about two years ago when Azerbaijan did a "blitzkrieg" on the Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh. They had stopped shooting at each other already. However, in DC, the day after this contrived photo-op for the self-proclaimed peacemaker-in-chief, the Azeri leader and Trump's flunky-of-the-week Witkoff, presided over the signing of an MoU between the boss of SOCAR, the Azeri state oil company and the veep of ExxonMobil, for oil and gas exploration, production and development in Azerbaijan. This is key, as it further marginalises the Kremlin's already waining influence in the Caucasus. Putin's so-called infinite warmongering resources are being totally consumed in Ukraine, leaving Russia's back door wide open. This also bolsters European energy security by opening up an alternative route for European oil and gas flows from Kazakhstan, a route that avoids Russian infrastructure. Now that Azerbaijan no longer has any active conflicts, they can also proceed with joining NATO and who knows, maybe the EU?

You thought? Honestly? Anyway, enjoy your "life" or whatever you think it is.

Thanks loong John. Cogent interpretation and polite discourse appears to be sadly lacking on this particular thread, so thanks for sharing your honest and venerable opinion, and welcome to the Thai haters forum.

Meanwhile, @IsaanT appears to be a relative neophyte. Not a total neophyte (but it's a close call), so no need to get overly upset.

Go ahead, have the last word... and then crack one off at the wrist (again).

... anecdotally.

Meanwhile, other members get upset when the Thai police target only farangs on scooters without helmets. Context. Gurners gotta gurn. Damn that industrial revolution!!!!

You think that legality exists on the same level here as it does back home is possible?

Ahh... so that's where my ex- has ended up.

Think before you claim to have the faintest notion of what irony is.

Special pricing has JUST expired! PS: Please note that EPL coverage will not feature Son Heung-min. Please don't call Monomax or AIS to complain.

I'd wager it was gambling, the social blight of the great unwashed, including those habitually lurking at Ladbrokes, Betfred and Coral back home.

Are you suggesting that the collective balance of foreigner's bank accounts here in Thailand is greater than the collective balance of the Thai account holder's bank accounts? Seriously? It's guaranteed that the owners of Bangkok Bank aren't feeling any pain due to any arbitrary ruling on the MOMENTARY "freezing" of accounts belonging to SOME foreigners.

That "outside stairs" story reminds me when, in a sop to the clean up Pattaya brigade, a "law" was invented briefly for Soi 6, that prohibited direct access from the bar to the short-time rooms upstairs, and the door to the inner stairs needed to be locked. Some of the more creative bar owners knocked a hole in the back wall of the first floor (on Soi 6/1), fitted a door and installed a steel stairway from just outside the back door on the ground floor to the short time rooms in the "separate building" upstairs. You technically (legally) left the bar and did the dirty deeds in another building, so the owner could claim the bar did not have short time rooms. Amazing Thai people Indeed.

Yes, it's always "too hard" to plan for your future when you're up to your armpits in beer and girlies. It's only later in life that the realities of one's excellent, youthful misadventures come home to roost. If one is or was qualified to apply for Thai PR, but hasn't or never made the effort to become part of that "backlog", that's not Thailand's fault, is it?

Ooohh... pithy. Oh, look mum! Another emoji fetishist!!!

Yes, it's in English in the mostly English-language section of an internet forum for foreigners. Weird stuff eh? Now, what size are your noodles, sen yai, sen lek or sen mee?

Ooooh, careful there BMT. If you don't have statistical evidence to support such a fallacious claim, the holier-than-thou brigade and armchair road traffic accident investigators will try and make you look the dullard who ignores the "protocol" with "stupidity and assumption , with a sprinkling of racism."

Nope! Yeah, Johnny The whole idea of posting such garbage. I reckon we've got ourselves a know-it-all (but we knew this a long time ago). Would anyone? Oops, sorry, I forgot to mention you're the other one.

That's just a bank clerk being a lazy arse. About four years ago I wanted to update my address and contact info on my Bangkok Bank account that's hosted in Pattaya. I went to a mall branch in Udon Thani where I live and the clerk said it could be done but I had hit the branch at peak waiting time. She suggested she would take the basis details but I should come back shortly before afternoon closing which I did. She had all the forms ready, had pre filled some parts and marked where I needed to sign. Took about 10 minutes. As well as card renewal, there used to be a restriction on renewing your bank book, that could only be done at the holding branch but that's not been the case for quite a while.

Correct. Some factions of the Mexican police and army work hand-in-glove with some of the cartels in order to <deleted> each other. Win-win for the cartels.

Unlikely. Any terrorist activity would mostly harm the general public. It's really bad business to kill your customers.

Apparently Fentanyl can kill in very small dosages so yes, great idea, legalise it and cull the herd.

"Like other opioids, fentanyl can ease pain and make a person feel happy and relaxed." https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/fentanyl#feel Does the opioid epidemic mean that a lot of Americans feel neither happy nor relaxed?