billd766

4 minutes ago, Foxx said:

Why are the people running this site so keen on pushing articles from The Daily Telegraph - a notoriously right wing and bigoted publication?

How about balancing it with reports from The Guardian and Independent?

quote "How about balancing it with reports from The Guardian and Independent?"

How about YOU balancing it with reports from The Guardian and Independent?

1 hour ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

The only solution is to block him - he throws insults and abuse - then runs away and does the same to others in another thread. Classic Troll. 

He has been on my ignore list for a while.

On 9/20/2024 at 4:30 PM, billd766 said:

I have just done 2 transfers from my Wise UK account to my Thai BBK account using my pc and the UK Wise website.

 

The first was using the "personal funds" code, and the 2nd was using the the "other" code. 

 

Both will be paid out on Monday afternoon, but until then I won't know if they were an international transfer or not.

My BBK sent an SMS at 2:01pm this afternoon telling me that my funds were available.

I transferred what I needed to my KBank account.

I then did a statement search an my BBK account and both the "personal funds" code, and the "other" code showed as International transfers.

It appears that the "funds for long stay" has become irrelevant.

6 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

Hahaha....very good.....🤣

 

 

Going back a few decades here is a link from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-G7qd1RUtdk

1 hour ago, John Drake said:

 

So, are they going to pay back the money it cost? If not, why not?

And I hope that they pay for their own clothing and do NOT claim it on expenses.

I thought that there was a rule or a law preventing ANY donations of any kind to any politician, lest it be called influencing or bribery.

On 9/21/2024 at 4:57 PM, proton said:

 

Deflecting again, this thread is about the airhead and the stolen valour chump

Wrong again.

Here is the correct thread heading.

Harris-Walz Campaign Opts for Media Silence as Election Nears.

The only thing about airheads and stolen valour is in your own tiny little mind.

On 9/21/2024 at 3:32 PM, proton said:

 

Don't the American public have a right to know what Harris's policies are and see her answering real questions, instead of the media grovelling to her and putting up with her NOT answering anything put to her?

Would that be instead of listening to the daily drivel from Trump or the daily lies of Vance?

On 9/21/2024 at 8:24 AM, 300sd said:

That's why they are keeping "her" in the basement. She's not drunk on power, she's just drunk.

Besides they really don't need her out there. The die is already cast!

More Trump BS.

Naturally you have the proof and links that Kamala Harris is just drunk and that YOU will post them asap. Otherwise your BS post is only an opinion, and not a good one at that.

8 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

How many questions does she take from the audience then. None?

 

Campaigning is sound bites and the faithful ones in the crowd. She needs to be asked the hard questions, so she needs to do interviews.

 

Given she probably has nothing but sound bites to offer it's probably a good strategy.

Unlike your hero Trump, she IS out every day talking to people to people face to face and NOT in a studio talking to 2 or 3 carefully selected talking heads, who offer carefully selected and scripted questions.

5 minutes ago, thesetat2013 said:

Very sad day if she wins simply because of the hate of another person... Shows the mentality of using evil to become a leader works. Makes me wonder what other evils she will accomplish if voted in the office. 

Is that anything like the hate that you spew out every day against her?

2 hours ago, thesetat2013 said:

funny because MSN has an article about this also saying she is hiding from the public using a strategy of some prince i think. 

Saying by hiding from the press she will be able to win just on those who hate Trump. Sounds familiar huh. So many here validating Harris just because they hate Trump. 

She is hiding from the public so well she is actually meeting them face to face instead of in a studio talking to a few carefully selected media talking heads as Trump is doing, whilst he is babbling away endlessly about Haitians in Springfield eating cats, dogs and other pets and talking about the election being rigged against him by the Democrats and the media. Meanwhile Vance is faithfully following in his masters footsteps by telling lies every day.

2 hours ago, advancebooking said:

I have to give a lift to a bar girl and drive from Pattaya to Burriam. Can anyone give me basic directions how to get out of Pattaya in the right direction. I have a fold out map but its confusing. 

 

Im not in Pattaya right now and cant work out how to use google maps making pattaya the start destination and burriam the end. Its all too hard. 

 

Please help. I dont want to fail on this mission. Oh and how many hours would that take?

thanks

If you can log into Google Earth you should be able to locate the start point and the lady can give you and end point in Buriram as the end point.

That will give you a route and the rough timing as it will depend a lot on your start time and also the weather. Heavy rain will probably slow you down a bit for safety.

If you are still stuck then send me a PM and I will see if I can sort a route out for you.

1 hour ago, connda said:

He from the Tuva areas of Russia and the primary form of Buddhism is one of the sects of Tibetan Buddhism. 

And she was a Thai Buddhist, which is not quite the same religion.

It started from the same roots 2,500 plus years ago, but like the Christian religion it split and divided many centuries ago.

For example, Buddhists in Sri Lanka allow women to become nuns and they can go all the way up as monks can and they have their own Sangha.

However, in Thailand they cannot as the Thai Sangha will not allow it.

5 minutes ago, connda said:

Ex-Russian-Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is a Buddhist.

Is he a Thai Buddhist, a Buddhist of the Tibetan school (approved by the government in Russia), or a different version.

That is like describing someone as a Christian. Is a true Christian, CofE, Catholic, CSFC, Lutheran, Russian Orthodox. Greek Orthodox or any other version of Christian?

47 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

Russian religion is Russian Orthodox interpretation of Christianity. It looks down on other religions. They won't care about the Buddhist rites, so I don't know where you would come up with there being a proper ceremony. Russia is the country which is famous for its pogroms of jews and for its systemic discrimination against  Polish and Lithuanian Catholics and Jehovah Witnesses. Today, Russia uses its  Yarovaya law to persecute and to imprison protestants. The Russian mentality hasn't changed since the time it  used to send its cossacks to massacre jews in the rural villages whenever the state needed an excuse to distract from the failures of the Russian state. The only thing that changed is the victims.

 

I just did an internet search for Buddhism in Russia and the results are quite interesting.

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

Depending of course where she was living in Russia she may be able to get a Buddhist cremation, though it is unlikely to be a Thai Buddhist cremation.

On 9/20/2024 at 5:41 PM, chiang mai said:

Yes, but you can argue this a number of different ways. You could say that at least the country doesn't have massive social security/pension costs hanging over its head plus it's free of unions. Plus the debt level is not that high by comparison and it's all Thai debt, not foreign. In those regards the country is still its own master and not obligated externally. Western countries are now on the cusp of having to take things away from citizens because of massive debt overhang, Thailand at least is still at that point where it has an opportunity to get the way forward right, for everyone's benefit.

Debt is debt no matter which way you look at it. It has to be repaid whichever way you look at it, and it costs more money than you borrowed, including interest to repay it.

55 minutes ago, Smokin Joe said:

 

Mobi format works fine with a Kindle. They don't need to be converted.

 

And if you do need to convert ebooks the Calibri program for PC will do batch conversion of many books at once.

Thank you.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Nope, easiest thing in the world .......

Plug kindle into pc usb port.

Open calibre, right click mouse on the book you want to transfer, choose "save to main memory"

Calibre will then convert to AZW format and load on kindle.

 

I'm currently reading  SF the Archimedes Engine by Peter F Hamilton, and the mystery series Alex McKnight omnibus by Steve Hamilton. Always use my Kindle as it's easy on my old eyes.

Firstly, I would have to buy a Kindle reader which is fine IF I only want to read books, but it is of no use if I want to do anything else on it.

Secondly I would have to convert all of my existing Ebooks to the Kindle format. As I have over 6,xxx authors and some 20,xxx books in Mobi format in My Ebook library already, It would take me months of 8 hour days, 5 days a week to do.

My pc screen is 24 inches and I can adjust the print size easily.

Thank you fot your though but I think I will stay as I am.

I am clearing down my Ebook library and only keeping Mobi format as well as deleting all the other formats and deleting duplicate books and authors. I have been doing that for the last 5 years, on and off, and I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.

11 hours ago, RSD1 said:

Did they happen to have something called humor in your country?

I have no idea as I haven't really lived there since 1992. I believe that having a sense of humour in the UK is banned now and has replaced by wokeism.

Political jokes however are permitted, which is one reason why the Tories lost and Labour won.