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proton

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  1. Yes it does
  2. Not sure age had much to do with it, He was always middle class from a well off family and never really spoke on behalf of poorer Thais. Did he ever speak up or write a song about the Thammasat Uni massacre or other protests? The IPA beer he does is the best, lager is only 4.9%
  3. I just completed this quiz. My Score 60/100 My Time 89 seconds  
  4. The late great Bill Monroe
  5. Yours is the monger tax then, should be a lot higher
  6. So where would those allowances come in, is that just on the amount transfered into the country?
  7. Thanks, i am against the over teaching of grammar, that's what puts kids off and it's boring. I will pass this on
  8. If it's this confusing the Thai tax offices wont have a hope of understanding what they are doing or what the rules are
  9. You might not be able to view the latest one- government complain- about a song!
  10. If Carabao had been anti establishment they would not still be around to retire
  11. Mrs has no work these days teaching Thai so has started teaching Englsih. Any recommendations for a reasonably priced TEFL course in Bangkok, she has a degree in education but this would probably be an advantage for her.
  12. Not giving loans to illegals sounds like common sense to most people.
  13. I would rather die than give these buggers in power any income tax, so leaving for 6 months is certainly an option, even if it costs more.
  14. Opposition to what? Aed was one of the establishment, not fighting against it. He called Prayuth his brother!
  15. Never been a fan at all and don't know any Thai music fans that are, it's a niche genre of watered down original phua cheewit merged with rock so I can see why it attracts foreign fans. The whole persona of the band has always seemed phoney, with the founder on the one hand a yellow shirt conservative supporter of the last coup, but fronting as one of the people concerned with social ill's and inequalities, only as far as I know he rarely if ever did in his music. I am not denying their popularity over the years, but they never really changed and the music was never what it professed to be, it could and should have been a voice for change and progress but never was.
  16. UK has about 10k foreign nationals in prison out of 95k. It would make more sense to send all these criminals back home. Most are from Albania, Poland and of course, Nigeria and Pakistan.
  17. Mrs wants a trip to Vietnam which surprised me, I have never been. Thought Da Nang would be good as it's got a beech and an airport only a couple of house away. Any suggestions on a decent hotel near the beach, or what to do and see. The money puts me off a bit with enormous denominations, must be easy to make mistakes paying for things, I would get the money at superrich not interested in doing it there in gold shops.
  18. What were the allowances for tax free income brought in again? So it's not what you bring in now, but what you have at home even if it's already taxed. Can't see this being a winner, another nail in the coffin.
  19. Popular, not influential. The beer is better!
  20. Why would she go all the way to Pattaya if it's just working in the bar and not selling herself? Plenty of bars in Bangkok where she could do that without the hours of travel involved.
  21. Trump sees blacks as equals and treats them as such, so has no need for an excuse. Lincoln could have had congress free the slaves in the Union in 1861, but chose not to, slavery was still legal in some Union states. Lincoln is the President people make excuses for. Although a brilliant speaker he was a racist, even by the standards of the day.
  22. Are you a recent arrival to Thailand?
  23. Should be pulled down, he was a tyrant and a traitor to the constitution, as well as a white supremacist Read some of his speeches eg 18th Sept 1858 I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]-that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
  24. Not your strong point then! Lincoln could have ended slavery by other means than slaughter. The Brits ended slavery in it's colonies in the 1830's by purchasing slaves then freeing them. Of course that would not have solved the problem of the CSA which was all Lincoln was interested in. The war did not end slavery, congress did, which they could have done before.
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