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3 minutes ago, robblok said:

That is for sure I am guilty of buying stuff like that too (for sleeping xanax)

Most ex-pats do and it is usually no big deal.  I did it for years.

6 hours ago, robblok said:

What an idiot, bit strange the pharmacist does not want to report the problem or at least doest not make an effort.

There are plenty of drugs you can buy from a pharmacy that are illegal to sell without a prescription and most pharmacists in Thailand are happy to oblige.  It is unlikely this pharmacist will press charges as it is very likely he was breaking the law by supplying the foreign thug in the first place.

10 hours ago, pegman said:

40% approval of Trump's handling of the pandemic. Pretty much tells you all you need to know about that basketcàse country. A former FDA Commissioner thinks there are already 100k new cases a day.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/01/us-already-at-100000-new-coronavirus-cases-a-day-it-just-isnt-testing-them-all-gottlieb-says.html

Yes but all will be fine because Trump has declared that he is all in favour of face masks after all!  Thank god that the USA has such a well balanced intelligent individual in charge!

19 hours ago, sweatalot said:

Cudos to those men. 

Thank you for good work

Yes good result for all involved .  Without freeing the whale sharks they would have lost their nets and the consequences would have been a tragedy on all levels.  So Kudos to the crew!

Donald doesn't like testing because it highlights his miserable failure in dealing with the Covid-9 pandemic.  How about a gullibility test then?  You could start in testing those attending the Trump rallies.  I am sure the positive test results would be overwhelming but unfortunately,  there appears to be no vaccine available for those poor souls.

4 minutes ago, johnpetersen said:

Not true at all. There are several epidemiological studies out and they conclude that wearing masks - even cloth masks - is probably the most effective practice you can undertake to stop from contracting Covid-19 and spreading it to others.

It is a shame then that the President of the USA doesn't endorse using masks at all.

5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

40,000 new cases in one day. And 46,000 according to worldometer. Those are mind boggling numbers. Americans generally have little in the way of self discipline. And there is a multitude of things that can be done to strengthen the immune system and prevent the contagion, and few of the talking heads are getting anywhere near that topic. Nobody is talking about prevention, through diet, and avoiding processed foods, sugar, fast food or other things that weaken the body.

 

Why are Americans getting infected at such high rates and why does the nation have a fatality rate of over 5%? Americans are by and large very unhealthy people. Many gorge on fast food, fried food and incredibly toxic diets. Combine that with pre existing diabetes, heart disease, morbid obesity, horrendous leadership, and the lack of self discipline (I do not want to wear a mask, and nobody can make me do it!) and many other factors, and you have a perfect storm that we are now witnessing. 

 

This second economic shutdown is going to be devastating for the US economy, and could very well trigger a great depression. 

Spot on.  Sad but true.

5 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Was always going to happen. People looked at Dominic Cummings getting away with it and decided its OK for them to do the same.

Try tracking and tracing that lot!  

Many of those people will have sat in traffic for hours to get to the beach, many of them expecting to be able to adhere to the social distancing rules when they got there.  After all Bournemouth has miles of sandy beach and is rarely over crowded at the best of times.  I think the biggest problem here was that everyone gravitated to the centre of Bournemouth rather than further down the beach towards Boscombe where social distancing was easily achievable.

So once you had found a place to park (always a nightmare in Bournemouth) and dragged the kids and the sunbeds and beachballs down to the beach, how many of us are going to say "Sorry Kids we have to give this a miss today".

Yesterday, the hottest day of the year, a major incident was declared in Bournemouth due to the amount of people gathering on the beach totally ignoring the social distancing rules.  Did this government really think that any families with young kids would actually stay away or keep their two metre space?

Once the holiday season kicks off properly there will be a tsunami of people heading for the beaches.

London pubs vary a lot.  Average for a pint of Peroni or Spitfire is about £4.50.  I don't drink the stuff and always buy a bottle of wine for between £15 and £20.  But going out to the pub is more about socializing than just drinking for the sake of it, isn't it?Unless you are only interested in the cheapest pint and where to get it.

2 hours ago, OneeyedJohn said:

It is pretty much irrelevant nowadays, there are cleverer ways of ensuring your transaction isn't fraudulent.

 

Speaking of which my HSBC Visa debit card expires this month and my bank claim they sent me a replacement card on April 20th. I haven't received it , so upon telling the bank of this they ask me to phone them.

This process of phoning a bank is so long winded with all their security questions I told them it was out of the question.

I then discover that their suggestion of phoning and having the charges reversed so long as I use an international operator is no longer possible in Thailand.

 

We shall see what brilliant suggestions they come up with from Ashwini, Chakra, Kamala and Pradeep.

When I lived in Thailand I retained a UK address so that I could keep my UK issued credit/debit cards.  Without it the cards could not be renewed when they expired.  I assume you are British and have the same arrangement.  Unless the banks have changed their policy and you can now have a UK card without a UK address. 

If you are not British or not living in Thailand then of course I am completely off kilter.

20 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

Why dont they just use the track and trace app they paid for?

Oh yeah wait. Just more money donated to Conservative party friends which ended up providing nothing.

Exactly the reason for this is because the track and trace is not working despite assurances that it is.  Interesting (for me) that they chose to feature one of my drinking haunts in the photograph, maybe because it is one of the very few pubs in London that serve Thai food!  It used be one of my favorites in the eighties when all the Kensington totty used to go there.  

So giving your name and contact details, it will be interesting to see just how many Disney characters do actually drink in English pubs ???? 

5 hours ago, ezzra said:

Many foreigners are using nominees for the property ownership and transactions but but it's a long way between that and swindling abd cheating buyers, as far as this guy concern he's done and his goose is cooked in this country...

Any of us who have "owned" property in Thailand know that you have to use a Thai Nominee as foreigners are not allowed to own land.  It is usually the wife or a good solicitor.  It's been the same for many years and accepted as the normal procedure. I built a few properties and sold them over the years, usually to foreigners.  As long as you tick the boxes and do the paperwork properly there is no problem.  Beware the corrupt officials who try to extort money out of you in trumped up "fees".

However there will always be the crooks and charlatans, Thailand attracts it's fair share of them as there  are plenty of scamming opportunities and plenty of naïve dummies to take advantage of.  

1 hour ago, 5633572526 said:

There is not a man alive who hasn’t paid for sex. Dinner out, movies, drinks, flowers, holidays, that new car, the house, wedding rings and or dowries depending on where you are. 2 divorces cost me more for bad sex than I will pay the rest of my life for good sex here ????

Depends on what you consider good sex.  Girlfriends and wives want to have sex with you as part of a loving relationship. They are doing it because they want you.  Paying a prostitute to have sex with you is just a business transaction which she doesn't actually want to do but has to as it's her job.

That is fine as long as you are not kidding yourself that it is anything different.

1 hour ago, sweatalot said:

Well about time.

 

Prostitution is there anyway. 

It helps fulfilling a natural need.

It helps people make honest money

Why can't sex be a comodity among others?

Making it legal gives rights to the prostitutes and can make them independant from pims.

Pims are not necessary anyway. 

Well if we are talking about bar girls then the bar owner is the pimp and without them they would pretty much be street walkers.  Same can be said for massage parlour owners.

To legalise prostitution you open up a real can of worms.  Gone will be the monthly brown envelopes for the cops. The bars/massage parlours commission will need to be shown and tax paid.  Medical insurance will be demanded and someone needs to be held responsible for that.  Many of the younger girls use their "friends" or relatives ID, they are often not who they say they are.

To sanitise the business would have it's upside but you are likely to lose that edge that makes the game far more of a social event.  Well for newbies anyway.  There is a lot of difference between visiting a hooker sitting in a window with a red light and going into a bar and having half a dozen girls all over you for a drink or two.  For many single ex-pats in Thailand this is their social life and their relationship with the girls is much more than just paying for a short time (deleted).  Sad but true...

Paedophilia is abhorrent and the abuse of children ruins many lives.  But Paedophilia comes in many shades of grey from the uncle who rapes his vulnerable 11 year old niece to the people abusing three or four year olds, girls and boys.  Then there are those who groom 15 year old girls and get them to post naked pictures of themselves on snapchat.  And those who then view those images on line.  It's still paedophilia looking at those pictures but a long way from the uncle raping his niece. Often over and over again.

I don't know the severity of the images this low life was downloading, could have been just naked kids or kids actually being abused.  Again all paedophilia, but severity wise quite a difference.  As far as I am concerned all of those involved in the paedophile world should be hunted and prosecuted.  It is all illegal.  The uncle, (IMO) should be castrated with a blunt knife, have his eyes burnt out with a poker and then boiled in oil.  Viewing images of naked children on line should then have it's own appropriate punishment.

So to be absolutely clear, I am in no way excusing any form of paedophilia but there are a vast range of offences and the punishment should be appropriate for the crime.  Just the same as any other crime.

Total rubbish as usual. Thailand needs mass not quality.

It's election time USA and the circus is in town as always.  It's a complete madman versus a complete inadequate.  Pointless trying to guess the outcome as nobody thought the orange guy was going to win last time out and look what happened then.

8 hours ago, worgeordie said:

She will be ex farangs wife,when/if he finds out,one of the bad ones.

regards worgeordie

Tip of the iceberg I fear.  These women need their flirtations and more....

20 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

For once, I must agree with a member of the government. You don't need to show tokenism to have conviction. Over the past few months I never stood on my doorstep and clapped for the NHS as my neighbours did. That doesn't mean that I care any less, or have less appreciation for key workers, but that I have never understood or felt comfortable with group gestures. This is a non-story. 

Fair comment and as a  member of the public we all have that right.  Trouble with this is that Raab didn't say this privately, he said it as a government spokesman.  It was said mockingly in a statement to the press.  Another example of this arrogant prat opening his mouth and putting his foot in it.  Maybe I should say that he is my MP so I do have some personal experience of him.