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  1. Putting somebody in prison costs tens of thousands per year and basically enrols then in the University of Criminality. He was 15 when he committed his first offence, and still a child. There was a chance that he might be diverted from the path and a humane ( Scottish - different from the English) legal system gave him that chance. Unfortunately he failed to be diverted from his downward trajectory - but with the British press, you'll never hear the success stories about the ones who took that chance to change their lives. Note the Scottish Tories' finger pointing, too. Newspapers have an agenda. Don't fall for it.
  2. The staff don't care, at least the ones I've dealt with haven't. I've topped up several times since they changed the rules. Anyway, OP..... what's the fuss over a couple of hundred baht? It's not a lifechanging amount.
  3. "it never did ME any harm"... But it did, if you think that violence is the best way to train children (or animals).
  4. The only significant difference between these sharks and private equity firm sharks ( like Blackstone) is that the latter wear suits.
  5. The disadvantage of using Spotify is that only a tiny fraction of your money ends up with the person who actually created the music. You are part of the commodification of the arts and eventually won't notice when everything is created by AI. If you use Bandcamp, and occasionally pay for downloads, you will help to keep musicians in existence. On the first Friday of every month 100% of any money you spend on a download, or vinyl, or a CD, or merch, goes to the artist.
  6. Indeed they weren't. In the middle 1920s, the UK government calculated that to maintain bodyweight a working man needed about 6000 calories a day.. a working woman slightly less. Wages were low. No NHS. No benefit system. Most people could not afford to eat enough to get fat.
  7. Possibly because ASEAN News is published in English?
  8. Proper porridge - brose - is made with stone ground pinhead oatmeal, hot water, a pinch of salt and a wee pat of butter. Basically a hot oatcake. Anything else - particularly sugar - is an abomination. 😂
  9. One of the reasons it's possible for both Thais and foreigners to live here comfortably on relatively low incomes is the comparatively low price of property and the restrictions on land ownership. Take those restrictions away and multinational corporations and billionaires will price everyone else out of the market, as they have done already in so many countries. When I was younger, it was possible for ordinary people to save enough money buy a house in a decent area of London. Now the Qataris, Chinese, Russians etc have changed that. So let's hope Thailand doesn't change.
  10. Some breeds have been deliberately bred to be aggressive for use as guard dogs, in dog-fighting, to bolster fragile human egos, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox Experiments with foxes have also shown how easy this is to do. So yes, it's reasonable to classify certain breeds as "prone to aggression".
  11. https://www.expattaxthailand.com/crs-information-request-thai-banks/ Apparently it is indeed genuine. Shall be writing polite letter to Data Protection division...
  12. I received this exact email as well this morning, having opened my KBank account last year. It is rather poor practice to send this to " valued customer" instead of addressing it to individual names. The bank has everyone's passport details so why not segment their list by the country the passport was issued in? I'll be going to my branch this morning to ask them about it - and if it's genuine, I'll be writing to head office to give them some feedback. .
  13. You'll get a better rate and a faster transfer using Wise. If you can get a Wise card, it's a useful backup, you can load it with THB and withdraw cash from ATMs till your Thai bank is sorted out.
  14. Mr DIY has lots of different sizes of teapots with infuser inserts.

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