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Even bigger than I thought. I admit to being lazy and not doing my research. IF they spent 5 days a week or 20 days a month at the senate the would reap 2,562,720 thb per year before tax and over a 5 year period they would turn over 12,813,600 thb before tax plus of course the Free car Health insurance Travel allowance. So the 250 senators would cost the Thai people 3.203,400,000 thb over 5 years IF they all bothered to turn up for work. That does not of course take into account the normal salaries that they get as well. Money for old rope and the saddest thing is that the Thai people are forced to tay them without being represented by them. Are they good value for money? Personally, I wouldn't give 25 satang for the whole lot of them.

Have you interviewed the majority of Americans to know what you are talking about? Now I doubt that so we are left with your word and your opinion only, which is like saying "everybody knows" and is meaningless.

I agree 100%, and then I scrolled down the OP to be greeted by the "Fox News" logo. I just scrolled past that post as I do with anything from "Fox News", as I know it will be BS and not worth wasting my time reading.

Perhaps when you are appointed to a well paid job you do as you are told to do. That does not mean that what you are told to do. is the rightful thing to do. IIRC the senators are paid 100,000 monthly (and probably expenses and perks are freebie extras), 6,000,000 thb (++) is a nice little earner over 5 years, simply for doing as you are told. No thinking involved.

A second, third and ad infinitum vote might just get it their thick skulls and oh so thin skins, that they are irrelevant, unwanted and detested by the majority of the Thai people.

And I am so glad of that. I have used that avatar for many years and his was the first comment. The little boy in the avatar, Mowgli, is really my son and he will be 19 next month.

When I used to live and work in Bangkok back in the 1990s, I used to give to the beggars everyday and be thankful that I was not one of them. Usually my small change or perhaps a 20 baht note.

If only the Office app disappears and not the files associated with it the OP should be OK as the app can be reloaded again. Hopefully the OP has moved all those files to a separate external HDD.

I thought it was a back problem, similar to a backache when trying to get out of the mia noi's bed in the morning. ????

No. I did not know this either, so I did a Google search. I learned more about sausages today than I ever needed to know. https://study.com/academy/lesson/history-sausages-overview-types-invented.html#:~:text=Sausages are thought to have,and various herbs and spices. Sausages are thought to have originated in Mesopotamia over 5,000 years ago, in at least 3,100 BCE, with the earliest evidence being discovered in Sumeria. Since then, many different kinds of sausage have been invented as a way of preserving meat by mixing it with salt and various herbs and spices. https://sausagehouse.in/history-of-sausages/

Sausage and mashed potato with gravy Sausage, bacon and eggs Liver and onions with mashed potato and gravy Yorkshire puddings Cod or Haddock and chips Roast Beef, Pork and Lamb Pork pies Apple pie with Rhubarb and Custard All good rib sticking stuff Nowadays also curries

20 years is temporary? Why did the the SRT not ask them to leave at the start, some 20 years ago? After all the SRT have had decades to do so.

A grammar nazi as well. Should I hang my head in shame, wear sackcloth and ashes, or perhaps treat your post with the contempt that it deserves. AFAIR Baloo was a bear, hence my words.

IMO a troll, plus slow on the uptake.

You will. trust me, you will. I started wearing Pampers at 78 in hospital (and again at 79). They may look foolish and they are not 100% waterproof, but they are better than the alternative,

That didn't happen in 2014, 2006 and all the previous coups back to 1932, so why should it matter now?

I spend more now than when I came here back in 1993. IMO it is due to the forex rates changing over the years.

Most of the posters here do understand that most of the Thai population are too busy trying to make a living to demonstrate. They also understand that you can only push people so far before the people start pushing back. IMHO Thailand is getting to that point now.

I feel sad for the people who died if they were civilians. OTOH if the Russians had not illegally seized the Crimea in February and March 2014, it would not have happened.

It is that difficult if he does not want to understand.

The senate should NEVER be permitted any choice in the PM. They should also be elected by the Thai people, and NOT appointed by the military.

But the Russians are ALREADY using cluster munitions against civilian targets, whereas the Ukraine wants to use them against the Russian military. A completely different ball game. https://www.politico.eu/article/putin-says-russia-has-sufficient-cluster-bomb-stockpiles-to-strike-back-against-ukraine/#:~:text=In a report in May,%2C hospitals%2C and schools.” There is strong evidence, however, suggesting that Moscow has used cluster bombs in its war against Ukraine. In a report in May, Human Rights Watch said that “since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in attacks that have caused hundreds of civilian casualties and damaged civilian objects, including homes, hospitals, and schools.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_cluster_munitions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine The use of cluster munitions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022–present) has been recorded by a number of eyewitnesses and journalists, as well as representatives of the UN, humanitarian and public organizations.[1][2] In particular, the head of the UN Human Rights Council, Michelle Bachelet, reported on March 30 at least 24 cases since the beginning of the invasion.[3] As of July 1, hundreds of attacks by Russian forces with cluster munitions have already been recorded in the settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.[4][5][6] 215 civilians are known to have been killed in these shellings and 474 injured, many of which may go unreported.[6] Both Russia as well as Ukraine have used cluster munitions during the conflict, however, Russian use has been extensive while Ukrainian use has been more limited.[7]

Keep on your high horse, and keep believing that 250 people have more power than 27 million. Simply more coup BS support from you. You have no vote, and nobody cares what you think or want. The Thai voters have said who they voted for and what THEY want, and if it is not what you want, that is called democracy. It is their country and not yours, therefore what THEY want is paramount.

Yet the navy want to build an anti aircraft unit at a different national park. They will do far more damage in 1 hour than this guy will do in a year.

But the senators are appointed, UNELECTED and fireproof under the current coup government, and they can ride roughshod over the electors who voted for Pita. At least they believe so, but they are finding out that what the people want, is what the people voted for. NOT what the senators want or have been ordered to vote against.