charmonman

This is the email I got from Wise on the subject.

I believe this has to do with some new money laundering measures that came into effect on May 1. Only some banks were properly prepared for the changes as regards transfers from Wise, UOB not among them. KBank and Bangkok Bank OK. The notice I read about this said they were working on getting all banks authorized to accept Wise transfers but it might take a while.

The only way he would “influence” me is to kick his teeth in!

Agree to disagree.

To my knowledge the outdoor scenes were soi 7/1 (I stumbled upon the filming one day) and at least some of the indoors scenes were Tilac on Cowboy (I knew a dancer there who told me she had been paid to appear as an extra in the movie).

Were you there in the 90s? It has definitely changed a lot since then, and not for the better. I used to hang out there once or twice a week through the first half of the 90s and earlier. I used to love the atmosphere. Now it is just a loud pushy tourist trap and I can’t stand it.

Did the tourist get confused about what country he was in? Had he not bothered to learn how to greet someone in Thai and thought Chinese was an appropriate substitute?

A simple google search will show that many elected Democrat politicians have been violently threatened by MAGA types. I guess you’ve only got Foxnews in your cable package?

I really don’t think cannabis is the problem. Alcohol and other drugs are widely available and are much more commonly associated with this kind of stupid behaviour. The other problem is simply that every idiot in the world now has it in their head that Thailand is a place where you can come and behave like a complete a-hole. I’ve been here a long, long time and the quality of tourists coming here just seems to decline every year ( aside from 2020/2021 when there were none - fantastic!)

Once again the corruption and/or incompetence is out in the open for everyone too see, but tens of millions of Republican voters are too brainwashed to see it and Republican politicians are too cowardly to call it out.

There’s no use arguing with these people BLM. They can only respond with their silly macho man insults about safe spaces or “making the libs cry”. Pathetic really.

Right, of course everything Trump does is the Democrats or Biden’s or George Soros’ or Bill Gates’ fault. The good Christian, Jesus praising Republicans would never be involved in any corruption, would they?

The new Secretary of State when Trump throws Rubio under the bus.

Another premonition?

It is indeed perplexing but people get dragged into all kinds of irrational cults, Islam, Scientology, Q-anon, MAGA. It seems many people have trouble thinking for themselves and just want to follow a simplistic ideology or a charismatic leader who relieves them of the difficult task of thinking about reality.

They probably used the word because the silly woman they were interviewing used the word. They should have explained it, that’s all. I had no idea about the use of this word by Muslims and it is just one more example of the utter arrogance at the heart of the religion. You can of course say that about any religion claiming to be the one true religion but Islam often seems to take it to a whole new level.

My ancestors in Canada go back several generations so I consider myself “native” if not exactly “indigenous”. I would not mind a British or European passport but, my now distant ancestry doesn’t qualify me for one.

He doesn’t have the right to tell the owner what she can or cannot sell but he also has the perfect right to tell her that he finds the products she sells objectionable.

Curiosity?

What’s love got to do, got to do with it?

I expect that if a different employee had posted some pro-Hamas statement claiming that most of their colleagues agreed on the company website they would have been similarly disciplined. At least I hope they would have.

You know little to nothing about the guy and you come up with that comment? Who do you think you are, Elon Musk?

And Trump is one of them.

If he’s actually using tariff threats to get other countries to eliminate their tariffs on US goods, why is he picking on Canada which has no tariffs or very low tariffs on US goods under the USMCA agreement that Trump himself negotiated and signed in his first term?

Not sure, but you could take a two week holiday to Thailand in 1913 (not counting the time it took to travel there) and you could buy an EV in 1913 - they were actually quite common.