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8 minutes ago, NativeBob said:

14 million copies of "Becoming" sold they said? 

Please, get real! That was (me think) one of the oldest trick to grease or bribe officials. 
Trump bought his own portrait from himself

Michel "sold" 14 million copies of ghost written most boring book ever. 

Sure! 14 million-shmollions

Purely out of curiosity, have you ever written your life story (or had it ghost written for you)? 

If you have, how many copies did you sell? 

quote from your post, 14 million-shmollions, or none?

9 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

Need a tissue?

Need a brain cell?

14 minutes ago, ThreeCardMonte said:

You can always adopt.

 

Many adult TG would be willing.

I am 80 years old and my Thai wife is 59.

Why would we even consider adopting?

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Are local hospitals on alert?

Why ask me and not the local hospitals?

I don't live anywhere near the area.

2 hours ago, cdemundo said:

Good one.

Always with the razor sharp wit, a regular Oscar Wilde.

It seems to me from this thread, that most of the whiners and moaners are Trump supporters and democrat haters.

All the CAAT need to do is issue a NOTAM (NOtice To Air Men)advising them of probable times, dates, areas and air lanes/ heights etc, to steer clear of during the season. The villages should be smart enough to notify the CAAT early enough for the NOTAMs to be issued.

Perhaps he will change his mind once again this week or next week, something he seems to do on a regular basis.

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

Of course not. What a ridiculous question.

But I can read and comprehend the OP.

So you only know what was written in the post and rely on that for your information in much he same way as I do, yet you believe that you are right and I am wrong. However as you were not there (neither was I), that your  interpretation is right.

Just now, emptypockets said:

I made no assumptions. I read the OP and stated the facts.

Were you there or not?

Just now, emptypockets said:

To highlight your false assumptions.

Your assumptions were not false then?

48 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

There is no mention the rounds were live or that he flew from Australia.

He was apprehended in the domestic terminal.

Most likely he sourced them in Thailand.

So you have no idea where the items came from, no idea if they were live or not and you were never there at all.

Why did you bother to post at all?

To bring reality into the equation and before Pita can confirm his words, first the party must win a general election with an overall majority of perhaps more than 300 seats. so that they do not need to form a coalition government. Next the party needs to win an overall majority in the senate.

If they cannot win either or both then it is just talk and hot air, Thailand already has far too much of that from the current bunch of politicians.

The other tricky bit is what will the military do IF he wins?

Nothing is cut and dried yet, and until the next election and its follow up, nothing can be guaranteed.

21 hours ago, Rimmer said:

I went there many years back maybe 1980, it will need a lot of work to bring it back up to working level as it was falling into the sea back then. 

 

 

IMO it will cost millions of USD$ to bring iy up to a habitable working an living condition then it will need staffing for 4 shifts 24/7/365. Where will they find enough staff for that. I think that water, electricity can/will be piped from the mainland, but everything else will need to be brought by ship.

Does that Trump really understand anything?

10 hours ago, andersonat said:

 

 

*Why* would there be a General-Election called *this* month ?  

 

 

Dis you read the post properly, and do you understand the meaning of the word "IF"?

It is what many dictators and illegal military coup leaders do on a regular basis. They have no interest in reality nor in the population that they are controlling. They understand only violence, which keeps the population cowed, and makes them richer.

IMO you can never trust or believe anything that Trump says.

What he may say on any given day, he may reverse 2, 3 or more times over the following few days.

2 hours ago, jvs said:

Imo this is a crucial turning point in the war.

The US has to protect their investment in the Ukraine now.

It is not because they want to help but to secure their own interest like they have always be doing every where

they got involved in a war.

Also the announcement by Mark Rutte holds a lot of weight.

Putin is not going to like this very much and probably will huff and puff again but not much he can do.

China has asked the Ukraine not to bomb Moscow during the parade,thereby admitting the danger.

Slave Ukraini!

And all Trump needs to do is to tell Putin to stop the war, remove the Russian military from ALL of the Ukraine and share the rare earth minerals etc.

Good luck with that little task.

However, do NOT expect the USA to come to the rescue of the Ukraine.

Oh Horlicks, I have just remembered that the USA, under Trump, has pulled out of the peace negotiations with Russia and the Ukraine.

41 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Exactly what this country needs.

 

Some wonderful ideas here.

2 hours ago, sidneybear said:

True. They might also do what Australia does: You can only apply for the state pension if you've been physically present in the country for at least two years preceding your application (meaning people who leave prior to retirement age never get a pension), AND; if you move overseas, the pension is prorated by the number of years you've lived there during your working life divided by 35 years. At least the Australian pension is indexed though. 

And what happens to ALL the NIC contributions that you and your employers were forced to pay in over the year?

11 hours ago, Lorry said:

I would think the hammer is good to destroy the data.

And that's the way my last laptop ended. Hammer and sickle, then the bin.

Now, gf started talking about electronic waste.  It makes me feel bad if I, from a rich country,  am less environmentally conscious than she.

But, of course,  she has no idea what to do...

IMO smashing all the stuff up with a hammer will only lead yp a bigger pile of broken bits foe me to get rid of, and they will probably end up in a landfill and pollute the environment.

Something that I really don't want to do, especially if anything can be salvaged, reused or resold by somebody else.