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NanLaew

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  1. Thanks to both @MicroB and @Bkk Brian for references to insightful and enlightening plans, both historical and more recent. Both reference nation-forming and economic rationales as incentives for peace-making but hasn't Hamas and Hezbollah raison d'être been primarily couched in religious hegemony, cultural domination and the all-embracing intolerance that comes with it? I broadly agree that any freedom fighter has a price and "everyone can be bought" but deep seated religious hatred and bigotry endures regardless of how much money is thrown at it. Look at Ireland for an example of a fragile and superficial peace where decades of financial boosters and incentives hasn't really cooled the core of an intense, mutual, cross-generational hatred and revulsion.
  2. Expropriation of land and forced exile is humane treatment? You read it here first.
  3. Solid advice. Those who claim his pre-election comments about stopping wars within hours or days of his inauguration are lies have forgotten the tenor of his rhetoric during his first joust 2016-2020. A lie would be him claiming that he has stopped a war when in reality it is still ongoing.
  4. More like @placeholder hasn't gone full Trump?
  5. He has been charged with the visa overstay in Thailand. The offence has been proven. He is wanted in the US for the more odious charges, not arrested or charged yet. That will happen on arrival in the US. There's no evidence that he committed any of the more serious criminal acts in Thailand. I trust you can now appreciate why the media chose not to sensationalize the report
  6. I doubt that any Native American Indian would go along with your rather abstruse notion of revenge, but maybe your beloved Iranians would?
  7. 1 x Salaeng (scooter with side car) 1 x Portable pizza oven (gas or wood pellets) 1 x Gas bottle or bag of wood pellets 1 x Ice box with 2 or 3 dozen pre-made small pizza bases 1 x Ice box with pre-cut pizza meats, marinara, veg, cheese, etc.. 1 x Pack of paper plates (optional) 1 x Driver (wife) 1 x Pizza maker (me) Stalk the local "pub row" from around 23:00 onwards, each pizza takes around 20 seconds to create. Charge 80 -100 baht (or whatever the hungry drunks are happy to pay). Cash out and go home by 1 a.m. with 2000-3500 baht in your pocket for maybe 90 minutes "work". Sleep. Wake up, day at your leisure before preparing the next batch, ~3 hours in late afternoon. Repeat as above. PS: Queue the work permit pedants among us.
  8. Is that by way of an admission of your poor lifestyle choices and lack of due diligence in past relationships? Or are all women to be avoided like the plague because of their gender?
  9. I truly believe that Iran wants to wipe the Jews off the face of the map and the only thing that's holding them back is a lack of capability.
  10. That's almost as far-fetched as suggesting he be arrested for "inciting an insurrection."
  11. Tamales. Tacos are for the white folks, but making fresh tamales and serving them up to the Hispanic migrant manual labor force on their way to work at an intersection in Northwest Houston was another little gold mine.
  12. My pleasure. If you need any advice on making a small fortune as the town's premier provider of natural, home-made ice cream in northern Brazil, or as the village baker (and hub of the community) in northern Peru, let me know.
  13. Why don't you and your better half, armed with passport and ID card, visit the nearest AIS mall lounge and ask if they can do it before the bank demands that you to do it? Better still...
  14. Sorry she didn't work out for you. She was cute but.
  15. We do that, accumulated fresh veggies from several family and friend's small "garden" plots. All home grown and as organic and fresh as we can. Delivered and/or collected at the house for cleaning and sorting in the pre-dawn. Then given to another relative to sell on her market stall. Quite lucrative in the cool season (right now) but forget about it come March when it's heating up and bugs need serious pest control. Very (short) seasonal income. Scaling up would probably mean investing in land, pesticides, etc.. Another source of seasonal or opportunistic income is from foraging. Depending on the season, frogs, waterbugs, ants, land crabs, snails, mushrooms and other short-lived but quite expensive flora and fauna makes its way to the relative's market stall where some city slickers will pay (almost) a king's ransom for some weeds, grubs or furry critters. Keeping an eye open for a natural bee hive full of wild honey is a tidy little earner with some happy to pay upwards of 400 baht for a large Saeng Som sized bottle of the stuff. The other one that keeps us in beer and skittles is the roadside food stand that, as already suggested, specialises in something that's NOT already offered nearby. No need for somtam wars in the moobahn! Minimal dine-in as it caters for locals either going to work in the morning (closed after lunch and rest of the day) or, the evening commuter headed home. The latter is a bit less busy with a greater possibility of a dine-in request. You may also need to offer more than one specialty dish too (open late afternoon and evening only). Thai landlords are as mercenary as the ones back home so if any chosen enterprise avoids paying rents, leases and inflated utility bills, it's going to be more profitable (take longer to die). Good luck
  16. And with all those blue checkmarks, that looks so much like a circle jerk. As granny Loban used to say, "Self praise is nae honour."
  17. You mean 2 week billionaire. Musk's a billionaire.
  18. The evisa is single-entry. A old fashioned single entry visa would be stamped "Used". If there's an electronic version of the "Used" stamp on the immigration database, is the exit with a Re-entry permit even an option? That would be using a single-entry visa like a multi-entry and I'm not sure if that's permitted.
  19. Don't know anything and never been there but wanting advice on what sort of small business would work in Isaan? What has she suggested?
  20. Does anyone have experience or recommendations for setting up and registering a non-resident UK company online? This will be for business activities and services conducted outside the UK. There are many sponsored links on a Google search for UK company formations, so I'm interested in sorting the wheat from the chaff and not necessarily the cheapest and fastest set up. Being able to open a business bank account as part of the formation would be a bonus. Thanks, NL
  21. somehow there's some unwanted and possibly malevolent software on your pc. you should NEVER have clicked OK time to nuke and pave
  22. Or Croydon British? Or Lewisham British?
  23. Och aye, th' noo. Hoots mon,Scooby Doo an' Howe o' the Mearns!
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