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Thank you very much. I found the second one by snipping out most of the text. It is definitely the sort of thing I am looking for.

Expats can, but can, and will the families sell up all they own, leave their families and friends behind to follow their husbands? Some will and some won't. If they don't want to leave, what should the husband do? Wives and children are no longer goods and chattels, to be dragged about the world at their husbands beck and call. Most husbands don't own the land and houses, business etc where they live. If the husband leaves he will necessarily travel lightly as he will own very little here in Thailand. If you are from the UK and married to a Thai, IIRC you will need £23,000 to get your Thai wife into the UK and she will need to pass English language tests at varying levels. You will also need £5,000 per Thai child unless the child has dual nationality. You will also need accommodation to go to. If you die within 5 years, your wife and Thai children will be deported back to Thailand. For dual nationality children I am not sure Unless you already own a property in the UK the price of houses is well past the silly stage and into the ridiculous stage. You may also need to pay the doctor and hospital bills for your wife and children and university fees, though I am not sure about ordinary schooling. Is it still that simple?

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately I live about 350 km from Bangkok and Central. I suspect that nobody in the local hospitals will know either as that sort of stuff will be handles by the Min of Health.

I have also been looking for a set of scales similar to the ones in hospitals, where the readout is around waist level. I can't find them anywhere. I have just read down and found this. Sadly the response from Lazada was Honor Scale 2-809 0 items found for "Honor Scale 2-809" Sort By: View: Search No Result We're sorry. We cannot find any matches for your search term. I started to look at weight scales but there are 60 pages of them.

When I first came here in 1993 there was NO puritan PM. Since then there have been 3 military coups and the latest and current lot are the worst. We expats have no say at all in who will be the PM. Neither do the Thai people.

I wonder if the countries that the "refugees" pass through have also read and obeyed the treaties? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53699511

Our Moo Ban is about 3 km long but is the only road in it apart from a small square area with about 30 houses on it. My wife's old shop is registered as 9/4 in our Moo Ban, except that is actually in the next Moo Ban along.

We live in 9 moo 8, our next door neighbour has 9/3 and 9/5, my wife's old shop is 9/4 but is over 2 km away. There only seems to be 1 postman who knows where 9/1 and 9/2 are. I think that they allocate house numbers on an as and when basis instead of marking on a map each 40 metre wide frontage in sequence.

And who will pay for all this extra stock?

It is a criminal assault on a child. The teacher should be suspended with no pay, and if he is found guilty, immediately sacked, ALL benefits cancelled and given the maximum jail sentence. All of his supervisors and the school director should be suspended,and placed on half pay and lose half their pension rights etc for life.

His family are also a part of the cartel of big businesses that own many of the cannabis concessions.

Mine is 630 a month. Neither of us has an internet connection as found in a hotel with multiple rooms and guests who must have the fastest internet. It will depend on the number of rooms served by the internet, the number of routers required and the number of guests. IF the hotel has been shut due to Covid the may still have to pay the yearly fee until renewal time. If they cancel and the supplier takes all his kit back, they will have to re-apply from new and that won't be cheap, even for Thais.

Was your WiFi for a single router and what did it cost? I have no idea of the cost of WiFi to cover even a small hotel but it will be a lot higher than for a single house. In addition the contract is usually for a year at a time. Just the cost of a single installation is expensive, though cheaper if you are Thai.

Those are current salaries and NONE of those re still playing at 77 years old. As a reference he would have been 35 in 1980 and probably be nearing the end of his professional career as a footballer. A link for you. https://www.sportingintelligence.com/2011/01/20/from-20-to-33868-per-week-a-quick-history-of-english-footballs-top-flight-wages-200101/ Figures cited in the official history of the PFA show that only eight players in England earned basic salaries of £50,000 per year in 1980-81, but this rose to 41 players by 1984-85 and steadily thereafter. https://sportslens.com/news/english-football-wages/ In 1984-85, top division players in England earned a basic average of £480 per week (£25,000 a year), which was more than double what the average worker earned, and which was three times as much as players earned in the Fourth Division. Today the difference is 30 times as much. In 1984-85, according to the PFA’s data, the average basic wage in the First Division – as the top division was then called – was £24,934 a year, or about two and a half times the average working man’s salary. With bonuses, it would have been around £36,000, perhaps more. In 2009-10, the average basic Premier League wage was £1.16m and the average take-home pay was £1.76m.

Like you, I have no idea when the war will be ending. I do however admit that I have no idea. On the one hand, the Ukraine is demanding that ALL Russians leave the whole of the Ukraine, including the Crimea which they illegally annexed in 2014. They also want full reparations from Russia and ALL Russian servicemen accused of murder, torture, war criminals, et al, including Putin if he is still alive when the war ends. Hopefully they will all be handed over to the Hague as war criminals. IMHO perfectly reasonable demands. OTOH there is the mentally deranged Putin, pouring troops (if he can find them) and equipment into a war that he started and is losing daily. The only threat really that he has left is the big red button, and he knows that if he gets to that stage it will really be all over for him. I am not sure that if he really carried that threat through that the military would actually do it, knowing that they will also die meaninglessly. I would hope that some of his own generals will be seeing sense now and be really plotting against him. It is said that he has a loyal bodyguard. I would like to point out that Indira Gandhi also had an extremely loyal bodyguard, two of whom assassinated her.

I do wish that whoever writes stories like this would do a little research about their subject before they post. Part of the problem seems to be that nobody checks their work, (editor or whatever) before it is dumped out. Actually neither of the aircraft are jets. He has two private jets - one a Cirus SR22T that he bought in 2013 for 22.7 million baht https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_SR22 It is powered by a nose-mounted 310 hp (231 kW) Continental IO-550-N piston engine. The four-seat cabin is accessed through doors on both sides of the fuselage. The TMB 930SOCATA that he acquired in 2016 for 139.23 million baht, according to assets' declarations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCATA_TBM 1 × Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-66D turboprop engine,

You do post such absolute rubbish most of the time. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63126156 Ukrainian troops have broken through Russian positions on the Dnieper river north-east of Kherson, a strategic Russian-held city in southern Ukraine. The advance was reported by the Russian military and Russian-installed officials in the region. There is heavy Russian defensive fire, they say. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said "there are new liberated settlements in several regions". In the east, Ukrainian forces pushed into Russian-held Luhansk region. President Zelensky said "fierce fighting continues in many areas", in his evening address to the nation, but he did not give details. On Saturday his forces recaptured the important hub town of Lyman in the east, lying near the Luhansk regional border. Russia's military had turned Lyman into a logistical base.

And if the west stops supplying weapons to the Ukraine will the Russians stop the war as well? Will they with draw from all the areas of the Ukraine that they have invaded. IMHO there is not a chance of that. Prove me wrong.

So you are privy to all the secret and not so secret plans in the USA. Well done. Do you have any more secrets hidden up your shirt sleeves?

You should also learn that this is a discussion forum. He has exactly the same right as you, i or any other poster to reply to any post. If you don't think that he should reply then become a moderator or report him because YOU don't think he should reply. If you don't like my response then report me to the mods. Did you not hear about the Paracel Islands? https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=paracel+islands+dispute&sxsrf=ALiCzsbhd2L08yIApbbHczNeeT5BLuslMw%3A1664798602925&source=hp&ei=is86Y9b8NYaWseMPm4ivqAI&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAYzrdmlh1Tnua5rQ1rkGZD9BRDp7Tqc8g&oq=paracel&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYADIECAAQQzIECC4QQzIECAAQQzIFCC4QgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUILhCABDIFCAAQgAQ6BAgjECc6CwgAEIAEELEDEIMBOgUIABCRAjoKCAAQsQMQgwEQQzoICAAQgAQQsQM6EQguEIAEELEDEIMBEMcBEK8BOgsILhCABBCxAxCDAToICC4QgAQQsQM6DgguEIAEELEDEMcBEK8BUABYtBJg6CZoAHAAeACAAYABiAH_BZIBAzIuNZgBAKABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz The Battle of the Paracel Islands (Chinese: 西沙海战, Pinyin: Xisha Haizhan；Vietnamese: Hải chiến Hoàng Sa) was a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam in the Paracel Islands on January 19, 1974. Or even the Spratly Islands? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spratly_Islands_dispute The Spratly Islands dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Brunei, concerning "ownership" of the Spratly Islands, a group of islands and associated "maritime features" (reefs, banks, and cays etc.) located in the South China Sea. The dispute is characterized by diplomatic stalemate and the employment of military pressure techniques (such as military occupation of disputed territory) in the advancement of national territorial claims. All except Brunei occupy some of the maritime features. https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/territorial-disputes-south-china-sea Background China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty over the sea—and the sea’s estimated 11 billion barrels of untapped oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—have antagonized competing claimants Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. As early as the 1970s, countries began to claim islands and various zones in the South China Sea, such as the Spratly Islands, which possess rich natural resources and fishing areas. China maintains [PDF] that, under international law, foreign militaries are not able to conduct intelligence-gathering activities, such as reconnaissance flights, in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). According to the United States, claimant countries, under UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), should have freedom of navigation through EEZs in the sea and are not required to notify claimants of military activities. In July 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague issued its ruling on a claim brought against China by the Philippines under UNCLOS, ruling in favor of the Philippines on almost every count. While China is a signatory to the treaty, which established the tribunal, it refuses to accept the court’s authority. Background China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty over the sea—and the sea’s estimated 11 billion barrels of untapped oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas—have antagonized competing claimants Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. As early as the 1970s, countries began to claim islands and various zones in the South China Sea, such as the Spratly Islands, which possess rich natural resources and fishing areas. China maintains [PDF] that, under international law, foreign militaries are not able to conduct intelligence-gathering activities, such as reconnaissance flights, in its exclusive economic zone (EEZ). According to the United States, claimant countries, under UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), should have freedom of navigation through EEZs in the sea and are not required to notify claimants of military activities. In July 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague issued its ruling on a claim brought against China by the Philippines under UNCLOS, ruling in favor of the Philippines on almost every count. While China is a signatory to the treaty, which established the tribunal, it refuses to accept the court’s authority. Do a Google search about China claims and invasions, there are lots out there.

Or Yingluck as in 2011. Silly me. I would have thought that after 8 years of this government, that they would have put Prayuth into a throne and he would have commanded the flood waters to cease, and they would.

If I am wrong, please explain where and how. Remember, not everybody is as smart as you think you are.

25 kg without the container. 1 cubic metre of water is 1,000 litres and weighs 1 ton. I have a crate for 12 x 2 litre drinking water bottles which we fill from the 3,000 litre storage tank. I can carry the crate of empties or 4 full bottles, 2 in each hand. My 18 year old son can carry the full crate.

BTW I am simple and old fashioned but the USA is not my country.

Why do you answer your own question without a response from anybody? Firstly the leaders of any country don't wake up in the morning and decide that, as they are bored, today is a good day to invade country X, Y or Z. In the early days of planning a great deal of information is required. About your own country, its forces and more importantly the forces that are available, spares, fuel, ammunition, food and water and all the other logistics that you will need, plus the reliability of your allies. Then you need to know even more about the country, and its allies, that you are thinking of invading. That is obtained in various ways, satellite overflights, careful reading of newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, spies on the ground, the legal ones from the embassies and the black ones that have no legal cover. It does not mean that your leader goes out in a wig, false nose, moustache etc. All of this information comes from ordinary people, Perhaps from dissidents in the country you are looking at to invade, but even spies are ordinary people. It then goes up the chain of command through the various departments to probably cabinet level where it is brought to the country leaders attention. Meetings and discussions are held, with and without the leader and in the end a decision is made for or against an invasion of country X, Y or Z. If the decision is made to invade, ONLY then are detailed plans made, refined and adjusted for the final yes or no. I use the term leader instead of President, Prime Minister, Supreme Being, Dictator as it a an easy cover all label. It is all down to the little people who gather information and on the people above them who have to evaluate it. If they get it wrong then the whole thing is wrong. And then sometimes you get somebody like Putin who does what HE wants simply because he can. And it seems that he might have got it wrong in the Ukraine. he did annex the Crimea in 2014 and also Georgia in 2008. Should I mention the Russian invasion of Afghanistan? If you want a longer list of Russian invasions you could always look here. but that goes back over 1,000 years or 4 times longer than the the USA has been a united country. You seem to have an obsession or perhaps a hatred of the USA for some reason, and that everything that they have done or are doing is wrong. You keep harping on about the USA but fail to mention China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_People's_Republic_of_China