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Breaking an Engagement to a Thai woman, does she keep the ring?
mokwit replied to Rhys's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Or if HiSo the family coming 'round to make it quite clear that if you sampled the goods in advance you have to marry her. -
Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
mokwit replied to Social Media's topic in World News
It played a major role by location, being a jumping off point for the industrial might of the US. The Germans referred to the "new" form of warfare they experienced after the Normandy landings as the "material war", they had never been up against so much armaments being fielded, not even in Russia. Prior to the imminent invasion France had been garrisoned by mostly second rate troops, the Germans withdrew Waffen SS and paratroops from the Russian front and shortly after that Army Group Center was annihilated by Operation Bagration. -
It seems to be attracting Chinese criminals.
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Can you help me do TM30 online
mokwit replied to advancebooking's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
You are right, poor wording by me, I meant he just has to do the TM30 for HIS address and not the hotel addresses, which it seems he thought he had to enter also. -
Can you help me do TM30 online
mokwit replied to advancebooking's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Don't you just have to enter your address? BTW don't forget to do a search by your last name to print out the TM30 so you have hard copy (just in case) within 7 days. -
NHS Faces Critical Crossroads: Reform or Die, Warns Prime Minister
mokwit replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Perhaps they can also give the elderly tips on staying warm in winter. -
Here, let me fix that: Currently, you don’t pay any tax if you hold a LTR visa.
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You have to have worked here to get onboard. Cannot work on Privilege visa.
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They think Thailand is so special the rich will be "flocking" here. How has attracting the global rich worked out so far?
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Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
mokwit replied to Social Media's topic in World News
The German position was that they made a pre emptive strike on an army massing on the border poised to invade. certainly the large numbers of PoW's and tanks and guns captured/destroyed tends to support that. Stalin might have originally been hoping to invade whilst the German army was across the channel in the UK if a successful campaign and thus slow to turn around and march all the way east. Historians remain undecided on this explanation. All this talk of peace offer by Hitler, was he not hoping for a temporary peace with GB to avoid fighting on two fronts? -
Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
mokwit replied to Social Media's topic in World News
In fairness the Luftwaffe evened things up in the first 3 days: a Soviet archival document recorded the loss of 3,922 Soviet aircraft in the first three days against an estimated loss of 78 German aircraft Main articles: Axis and Soviet air operations during Operation Barbarossa and German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941 Luftwaffe reconnaissance units plotted Soviet troop concentrations, supply dumps and airfields, and marked them down for destruction.[218] Additional Luftwaffe attacks were carried out against Soviet command and control centres to disrupt the mobilisation and organisation of Soviet forces.[219][220] In contrast, Soviet artillery observers based at the border area had been under the strictest instructions not to open fire on German aircraft prior to the invasion.[115] One plausible reason given for the Soviet hesitation to return fire was Stalin's initial belief that the assault was launched without Hitler's authorisation. Significant amounts of Soviet territory were lost along with Red Army forces as a result; it took several days before Stalin comprehended the magnitude of the calamity.[221] The Luftwaffe reportedly destroyed 1,489 aircraft on the first day of the invasion[222] and over 3,100 during the first three days.[223] Hermann Göring, Minister of Aviation and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, distrusted the reports and ordered the figure checked. Luftwaffe staffs surveyed the wreckage on Soviet airfields, and their original figure proved conservative, as over 2,000 Soviet aircraft were estimated to have been destroyed on the first day of the invasion.[222] In reality, Soviet losses were likely higher; a Soviet archival document recorded the loss of 3,922 Soviet aircraft in the first three days against an estimated loss of 78 German aircraft.[223][224] The Luftwaffe reported the loss of only 35 aircraft on the first day of combat.[223] A document from the German Federal Archives puts the Luftwaffe's loss at 63 aircraft for the first day.[225] Also the Germans destroyed 20,500 tanks in 1941. Despite this, the Soviet corps equipped with these new tanks [T34] lost most of them within weeks.[106] The combat statistics for 1941 show that the Soviets lost an average of over seven tanks for every German tank lost.[107][108] The Soviets lost a total of 20,500 tanks in 1941 (approximately 2,300 of them T-34s, as well as over 900 heavy tanks, mostly KVs).[109] The destruction of the Soviet tank force was accomplished not only by the glaring disparity in the tactical and operational skills of the opponents, but also by mechanical defects that afflicted Soviet armour.[110] Besides the poor state of older tanks, the new T-34s and KVs suffered from initial mechanical and design problems, particularly with regard to clutches and transmissions. Mechanical breakdowns accounted for at least 50 percent of the tank losses in the summer fighting, and recovery or repair equipment was not to be found.[110] The shortage of repair equipment and recovery vehicles led the early T-34 crews to enter combat carrying a spare transmission on the engine deck.[111] That the Soviets were able to massively outmatch German tank and airplane production as the war progressed is not disputed, but the Germans destroyed them at almost the same rate. -
Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
mokwit replied to Social Media's topic in World News
As opposed to the Democrat misinformation machine. How about those who don't get it that their own Democrat party is blaming Putin to cover up their own shortcomings. "Putins inflation", Hillary lost to Trump because of "Russian intervention" rather than because she was such an awful candidate etc. -
Misleading. Many have stated that it is not easy to arrange 2 witnesses hanging around all day to be present when IO's come. Not everybody lives in a village where everyone is related to their wife. I can't imagine why someone would do a marriage extension if they qualified for a retirement extension, other than the 800k/400k was too much or they needed the eligibility to work option.
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NHS Faces Critical Crossroads: Reform or Die, Warns Prime Minister
mokwit replied to Social Media's topic in World News
He's doing well with the immigrant vote though. It will be the only one that matters by next election.