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  1. mikebell
    These drivers can often be seen the next day conversing with fellow pavement merchants in SIGN language.
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    How many Thais buy wine? Breakfast cereals?
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    Possibly it's not taught about in schools where most young mothers experience their first sexual encounter. Possibly it's more complicated to buy pills/diaphragms/IUDs requiring a doctor's consultation than sheaths easily obtained in any supermarket/chemist.
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    I share Jacko's misery. 20 metres away an unfortunate pet sits howling in misery whilst its owner is out working all day! That's before we get to the wider problem of dogs polluting every soi in the land (not just with noise.)
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    The name alone scares me. I like to think I could outdistance any snake over 100 yards whilst running backwards.
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    Never thought I'd see this oxymoron in Thailand.
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    Thai men don't either & desert the new mums-to-be at the onset of Morning Sickness. Why are men are not made to pay for their children here?
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    Don't tell DWP you're living in Thailand. I did & my pension has been frozen for 16 years! Worse HMRC have been taxing me as if I was on the full rate (presently 100% more than I get.)
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    Next to face charges: those with extreme haircuts; tattoos; limp wrists; big noses.
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    Its doors have been super-sized.
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    Staggering but this is par for the course on many farang foods/beverages even stuff made under licence or repackaged here. They bang on about attracting tourists, who are the future ex-pats, yet penalise them with racist taxation.
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    At last I saw 2 cops handling traffic flow on Kao Noi during Rush Hour on Saturday! This is a 1st. How long will Plod keep up this New Year's Resolution to work?
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    whoever. It's the only time Plod makes an arrest here; never the result of police work unless bad press is looming.
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    I am sure they will try as hard as they do to lower deaths on the road.
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    How much later? Another triumph for Pattaya Plod.
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    Heresy = 'opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine, especially of a church or religious system. the maintaining of such an opinion or doctrine.' 'the orthodox or accepted doctrine,' - drunk driving is Thai orthodoxy & the norm. Hearsay?
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    Thais are born optimists and can only see through rose-coloured glasses; look at TAT's figures. It also helps if you are useless at sums.
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    Another success for RTP as they stumble on in their bumbling way to mediocracy.
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    Of course it went smoothly. None of the privileged few are going to vote against a place at the division of the spoils.
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    I can't find a new series with Michelle Yeoh set in Taipei called The Brothers Sun. I've only looked on TPB. Trailer looks good - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17632862/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_7_nm_1_q_The%20Broth
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    Just finished it. Decks cleared for S3 - in Amsterdam next.
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    UK went thro this during the 70s. I taught in a Sec Mod which was forced to amalgamate with the local Grammar School. Exam results declined and NEVER reached the separate totals of the two individual schools before the Comprehensivisation process. Big is NOT beautiful.
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    No one has noticed the vacancies.
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    'The items or services excluded from the tax rebates are alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine, tobacco, cars, motorcycles, boats, vehicle fuel, public utilities, tap water, electricity, phone, and internet service fees, long-term service fee and non-life insurance.' How many Weetabix must I buy to qualify?
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    Rose-coloured glasses. Wait till the double taxation sets in.

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