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I can remember back in the UK winding all the Xmas lights onto cardboard in January and eventually unwinding and untangling them in December every year. Then hooking them up to make sure that they all work again. Going to the January sales to buy more every year. I am so glad that I am living in Thailand and we don't HAVE to celebrate Xmas.

Where do you live roughly.

I can remember not 20 years ago how rice was harvested by gangs of older poorer people working from rice farm to rice farm. Nowadays rice farmers telephone the guy with the rice harvester to book an appointment to harvest their rice paddies. On the appointed time and day a truck turns up with a rice muncher on the back, off loads it and away they go using only 2 or 3 people including the farmer and the driver. The other older people don't do it any more and the younger people don't WANT to do it.

*Deleted post edited out* You won't convince him. He truly believes that Trump can do, and has done nothing wrong in his entire life. No matter what evidence is put before him by the courts, by posters with truthful links etc, he will not and cannot accept it. I put him on ignore weeks ago and I only see his posts through other posters, and I only read them for the laughter factor.

Out here in rural Kamphaeng Phet, I paid 2 guys 1,500 baht between them to cut all my grass and scrub. It took them 2 days but they did miss several bits and they did not work 8 hours in the day. I consider myself lucky to even get somebody to cut the grass and scrub in the first place.

If you read the "other" newspapers Opinion page it has an interesting article which I cannot quote from.

Are you born and bred of Thai nationality?

Don't forget wooly bedsocks too.

But it is not planned to happen overnight, but over a 5 year period as the economy improves, something that is not happening under the current government.

It is actually 50 baht per person, per day, per year. In addition when people earn more money they tend to have less debt. The government gains, because people have a bit more money to spend so VAT income increases, as does the number of people who pay tax. The people who don't gain are those multi billionaires who have more money than they can ever spend in their lifetimes.

I wish I had a friend like that. ????

Not necessarily. It depends on where you live and where the weather station is situated. The closer you live to the weather station, the more accurate it is. If you don't like the Thai weather forecast try these, and choose your own locality. https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/th/khlong-lan https://www.accuweather.com/en/th/khlong-lan/318424/weather-forecast/318424 https://www.weathercrave.com/weather-forecast-thailand/city-588481/weather-forecast-khlong-lan-patthana-today https://weather.com/en-MT/weather/tenday/l/Khlong+Lan+Kamphaeng+Phet+Thailand?placeId=5e07d1001622e556db0a77e4674333837e7ce3469f89429d8e44c4ccde96c7c4 Please bear in mind that most of these weather stations are virtual and none really have a weather station on the ground. Alternatively you could buy your own weather station and set it up.

At 06:00 this morning out in rural Kamphaeng Phet it was 17.2 C, the coldest it has been for months so far.

It certainly clarifies it for me. You have described what, where and how you did it, and yes it was reasonably simple as both offices are in the same vicinity. Why other people may not believe you, is that for them the Provincial Amphur office and the Provincial Land office may be kms apart.

BBC link for you. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61735603

Just a thought. If you were to go to a country which requires you to wear a mask, would you comply with their rules and regulations and wear a mask?

So out of 70 odd million people in Thailand a huge 3 948 members, 81 online are members. Am I impressed, not in the slightest. You seem to be a foreigner like the majority of posters here and ResistanceTHA does not apply to you anyway.

Believe it. The bigger the institution the more corruption there is, and the easier it is to hide it.

My pc has an ad blocker. He has a mind blocker, so whatever you post in favour of common sense and mask wearing, he will mind block, because he does not agree with it, therefore you, me or anyone else are wrong and stupid. He is already on my ignore list.

I see trucks around that must be 40, 50 up to 60 years old and still giving service. Now the LTAT will expect the new owners to pay the selling price of each EV truck at 5-6 million baht, AND replace the batteries every 6 years or so. To meet that target you can expect the cost of transport to sky rocket, which in turn will raise the cost of living even higher, given how much transport is moved by road. Where will all these truck charging stations be, and how long will it take to recharge the truck batteries? Serious thought and forward planning seems to be missing here.

My wife's family live in Bangkok, some 350 km away from us and we are on good terms with them. The house and land are to go to our son (18 years old now) when she dies.

But she was doing it as the hacker was breaking the law. If she had been tasked with it and the account was in somebody else's name, she would still have done it. The fact that it was her own account must have been a bonus.

HE is quite irrelevant Sandy, and is already on my ignore list.

It is easy to impersonate anyone on Facebook. You can create a new account in anybody's name or you can simply hijack the account which is what happened to me. Only if Facebook notices the account goes against their "Community Rules" with they do anything. What they did to me was suspend the account IN MY NAME and contact details and they say it will be sorted out, usually within 24 hours. If you appeal against it then the account is suspended and after 30 days the account is shut down, OR SO THEY SAY. My account was suspended to me on 30 October this year yet it is still active today. You can appeal to Facebook but you need a Facebook account to talk to them. Catch 22 rules. I could regain my account but to do that I need to know the password that the hijacker is using, I need my email address and my phone number which is suspended to me as it is in use on MY hijacked account. Catch 22 rules.

I have just done a Google search and it seems that the USA is suffering, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/coronavirus-hospitals-capacity.html https://www.npr.org/2021/12/19/1065626395/hospitals-are-still-reeling-from-delta-as-omicron-cases-start-to-multiply https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59960949 The UK seems to be the opposite https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51768274 It seems to me that, if you want to search for a result that suits you, you can find one. It all depends on your point of view.