billd766

I have had 9 requests this month, each with an SMS OTP from Linked In to change my password. I have NEVER asked to change my password, nor do I live in Venezuela where the email request came from. All the OTP requests ended up deleted and in my spam file.

3 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

There's only one effective way to deal with such a poster - do not reply to them.  The following very sage advice can be found online:

 

 

Thank you.

I only see his posts if somebody replies to him.

Because that is the only time I see them, he and it doesn't bother me anymore. I used to respond but I found that his posts were getting stranger every time.

There are still a couple of posters that I read, simply for the entertainment and laughter value and most days they post wilder and wilder stories, but add little or nothing to the value of any thread they post on.

1 hour ago, thongplay said:

She does NOT have the right to sell what she wants. For example suppose she had T shirts depicting anti Buddhist images? Would she demand the right to sell those?

 

Or other obscene or distasteful images, depicting sad war or child images.

 

There has to be a line drawn somewhere. Is no one sensitive to these issues, does no one care?

Of course she does. It is HER shop in HER country and she has probably been in the business for a while. If she wants to sell goods banned in Thailand, that is up to her. If she did  and was reported, fined and jailed that would be her problem also, not yours or anybody else's.

Stop with the nit picking and whataboutery. Don't project your values in somebody else's country. 

She seems to sell what the majority of customers want. If she didn't, then she would go out of business. She is making a living the best way that she can.

If what she sells offends you personally, then just walk away from the shop and don't buy anything from there. Whilst you may be offended, the people that buy her stock are obviously not offended as they are buyers.

There are many things worldwide that offend me, but I live with them as other people are not offended. It is their choice and mine also.

29 minutes ago, charmonman said:

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.

But objectionable to whom?

1 particular tourist or to the majority of people?

1 hour ago, cardinalblue said:

I wonder if she is willing to selling negative monarchy shirts? Why not?

Probably because she understands the penalties involved and realises that the majority of her customers are Thai and not farangs.

She also seems to have more common sense than you.

Why don't you go into the business of selling negative monarchy shirts? You probably won't find a supplier to sell you the shirts in the first place, nor will you find many buyers. Why not try it and see how you get on?

Somewhere not long before or after 2pm out here in rural Kamphaeng Phet I started swaying a little in my chair for about a minute. I though it was something to do with me and a balance problem.

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

ever heard of too many businesses? you think anyone does a business plan? did you?

Y never needed a business plan as I was never in the restaurant business. Reading some of the posts so far from people that have been in the business, I am glad that I never was, either.

It was never in my skill set.

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

ever heard lower price higher sales

Did you ever hear of supply costs, wages. rents and electricity bills going down?

If the costs keep rising, the restaurant will have to find cheaper and lower quality suppliers and cut the portion sizes, and even then the customers may still walk away if the cannot afford the prices or the quality and portion size drops too far.

10 hours ago, billd766 said:

The one thing that is not going up very much are the wages.

 

If the prices keep rising, but salaries don't. eating out at a restaurant will be a dying thing.

It is not just the restaurants that will die, but their suppliers all the way back to the farm producers will have to cut back or die as well.

Back in 1954 there used to be an alliance in the Region called SEATO. South East Asia Treaty Organisation.

Sadly it was dissolved in 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia_Treaty_Organization

58 minutes ago, proton said:

Maybe the voters will triumph one day and get what they voted for, which was not her.

But not enough voters put their mark to vote that party into power.

Unless ANY political party either on its own or with other parties can form a government or a coalition then they cannot run the country.

What is so difficult to understand about that?

You may not like that but it is a simple fact of life as is the fact that unless you have Thai nationality you have no voice or vote in any Thai election, which is how it should be.

You can howl at the moon, moan all you like but Thailand is unlikely to change.

So you have the choice of accepting or not accepting the rules as they are, or trying to change the rules, which won't be changed in your favour anyway.

3 hours ago, rough diamond said:

You would probably have to do it yourself as most Thai vets will not put an animal down in my experience.

I understand that.

I put our last 2 dogs down and I was not happy about having to do it either. They are still up in the back where I buried them.

I put them down as they were stealing and eating other peoples chickens and ducks, which is not a good thing to do in rural Thailand. I would do it differently if I had to do it again, but it wouldn't stop the sadness I felt back then.

55 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

I see, you're not living in Thailand😳

I DO live in Thailand and if it were my dog, I would have it put down or put if down myself.

BTW where a person lives has nothing to do with the thread.

1 hour ago, sammieuk1 said:

All issues' have now been resolved revolver🤔

How sad. One person has been murdered, another is seriously wounded and yet you think that is amusing.

13 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

Are you really this foolish?

Where in the law does it state "Unlawful"?

Improper Entry is defined.  Where is it declared a criminal offence?

As per the Pew study I cited, an estimated 43% of unauthorized immigrants are violators of their visa. They entered the USA in a lawful manner.   You are now backtracking from labeling all unauthorized  immigrants as criminals to  trying to squirm out of your embarrassment  by referring to "unlawful entrants".

 

Yes, some  very bad people have entered the USA, and in some cases have been deported previously. Unfortunately, the immigration enforcement actions are not  specifically targeting these people. Instead they seem to be going after anyone  who is assumed to be an "illegal". Hence the increased reports of  hispanics being stopped and harassed. Too much of the activity is for show, and not for  a real impact. 

He will never believe anything that you say. He is a Trump supporter and will only believe anything that comes from Trump.

IMHO you are better off putting him on ignore and starve him of a response.

He has been on my ignore list for several months now.

14 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

You really  are devoid of cognitive ability rendering your reading comprehension below that of a high school student. There is no law making it a crime to live in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant. Instead, the law treats it as a civil violation. If the undocumented immigrant has lied, or misrepresented on legal forms to enter the USA, then that act may be criminal if a court so rules.    Undocumented presence alone is not a violation of federal criminal law. 

 

You can't have it both ways. The Trump administration has been relying on the  current civil laws to carry out its campaign. Federal immigration laws are principally enforced through civil proceedings administered by the Department of Homeland Security. Because these are civil proceedings, the accused immigration offenders do not have the same protections  that apply when someone is charged with a crime. 

He doesn't want it both ways.

The Trump version is the only version that he will accept. Facts have no effect on him, only what his supreme leader spouts is the true version.

On 3/21/2025 at 6:32 PM, spidermike007 said:

Don't be so sure of that. I saw dozens of entries about Trump dalliances with underage gals and articles about sexual assault related to him prior to 2015, in addition to countless articles about the lawsuits he was involved in with small contractors, once he announced his candidacy most of those just disappeared from Google.

 

Was that just some sort of magic or voodoo, or the power of the deep state? Those villains are neither Democrat nor Republican, they choose a candidate, back him, and all sorts of magic and shenanigans happen. 

Well to delete anything on my pc, they would have to identify it  from the millions of other pc around the world, hack into it and then delete the contents. And then they would have to do the same for every other pc in the world, followed by every tablet, smartphone and storage device, on or offline, cloud based or not.

25 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Here goes nothing.

 

A good poll and a very interesting thread.

Thank you.

I read an Ebook for about an hour a night.

I have read the first 4 books of Spike Milligan's war memoirs and I started a book called "The Sugar Queen" by Sarah Addison Allen.

Some authors books I have read 2 or 3 times as I enjoy them.

I used to listen to Audio books but I have run out of the authors I like and haven't found a better source yet.

I am 80 now and I first started reading properly when I got my junior library card at about 10 years old.

I prefer Ebooks as I can read them on most digital stuff and it is so easy to adjust the size of the text and the fact that I can carry hundreds or more at the same time.

8 minutes ago, Photoguy21 said:

I tell you what why don't you take in an illegal in to live with you and your family assuming you don't live alone? People talk a lot but want everyone else to take the responsibility. Enter a country without the proper paperwork and you should be deported. What Bush did along with Blair in the UK does nont justify letting anyone into your country.

Nice comment.

Exactly how many illegal immigrants have you taken in to your home to live with your family?