billd766

Not everybody who posts comments lives in Thailand and not everybody lives in resorts. "We" as in you might so speak for yourself and perhaps those who may agree with you. You certainly don't speak for me. I don't think I know anybody who lives in a resort permanently, and most of the people that I do know, farangs and Thais alike, live in houses with their families, over their businesses or in condos.

I miss spelled one word. My apologies. It does really matter. That should have been "It doesn't really matter", which changes the whole meaning of the post. Again, my apologies.

The same could be said of anybody in the military who starts a military coup. IMHO they should be sent for trial and executed if they are guilty of treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'état#:~:text=A coup d'état (%2F,to unseat an incumbent leadership. A coup d'état (/ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/ ⓘ; French: [ku deta]; lit. 'stroke of state'),[1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. There is a lot more information in the link.

And if you don't have the money or you don't want to spend it, and you are a general, you simply commit treason, make a military coup and steal the whole country including the judiciary who are then under your control. Then you can have anybody you want, charged with any crime you want, knowing that they will be found guilty anyway and have them jailed for as long as you want. What is the penalty for treason in Thailand? Ruining the country for 9 years, selecting your own mates to be senators, tearing up the constitution and getting it written the way that you want, even granting the senators the power to select the PM (you naturally), jailing people who dare to speak out against you, twisting the law to hold them without bail, then losing an election and promotion to the Privy Council. There is no punishment for running a military coup in Thailand. There are even people on this forum, who believe that another military coup would be the best thing that could happen for Thailand. Not forgetting to mention the yellow shirts and the rabid ultra royalists in the Thai population, many of whom believe the same thing.

It does really matter if you prefer the old hand picked by a military coup general or not, unless you are Thai, and even they did not get a vote either.

I have 2 rai. Not much is level and some of it is in a drainage trench that some people have dumped bits of cut off tree and a lot is in a Sam O orchard.

Thank you for the link. Plus of course the cost of getting there. It looks as though it is somewhere close to On Nut BTS on Sukhumvit 71. Did you look at the prices for the meat as well?

I would think that the size of the area you have to cut is the most important. For 100 or 200 sq/m a cordless trimmer is OK, but for large areas of 1 or more rai, you are likely to run out of battery power long before you are finished with cutting the grass.

Throw out teaching by rote and replace it by pupils asking questions. If the teacher does not know the answer it is the teachers job to find out the answer. That way the teacher AND the pupils learn. If the school directors, the ministry of Education or OBEC don't like that, then sack them and replace them with younger and more progressive people. Enter the 20th or even the 21st century and NEVER regress to the 19th or even the 18th century. Only then will Thailand progress from the stagnation it is in now.

The last time I saw "fresh" rhubarb was many years ago in Villa supermarket at Sukhumvit 31 in Bangkok. You needed a big credit card back then to buy it, Nowadays you will probably need to remortgage your house and land, and probably sell your soul to the devil. IIRC it came from China. My Dad used to grow it in the back garden in the UK.

Luckily I don't wear socks. It is hard enough getting my underpants and shorts on anyway

I thought that it was familiar somehow. My memory threw up the name and and internet search did the rest. From 1964. youtube.com/watch?v=rPu9mLfLoOA Filmed in Supermarionation

Of course they eat meat. Go to any supermarket, fresh market or even 7/11 and you will find fresh or processed meat for sale every day. I am sure that there are not enough farangs in Thailand to eat all the meat consumed every day in Thailand. It is up to each individual to decide what they eat, not you to spread religious mumbo jumbo about what people should or should not eat.

What is your problem. It was his decision, and not yours to make. Are YOU a Thai buddhist?

You must have got your degree in immunology, (assuming that you have one), from the trump university, or perhaps from Khao San road in Bangkok.

Been there, done that I was one of those "volunteers". Oddly enough I actually did volunteer a couple of times.

I strongly believe that as a woman's body belongs to the woman, only she should have the right to decide what happens with it and NOT a bunch of fat old men who can never, and will never gestate a child until it is born, and then support it through its life, and who have no idea what it involves. Kamala Harris is a woman and a far better idea of what women like and need, than you, I or any man ever will, especially that fat sick person, EX president Trump. His idea of a woman, is simply a pussy that he can grab whenever HE wants. Disgusting vile piece of humanity that he pretends to be.

What a great plan. Elect a convicted criminal, a convicted sexual abuser and a a serial liar to become POTUS. What could ever go wrong with such a superb plan of action as that?

And most of the things you have heard like that are true.

My marriage here in Thailand has been going since April 2000 and I knew my Thai wife for 7 years before that. I broke up my UK marriage after 22 years to marry my Thai wife. My UK divorce cost me far more that my Thai marriage ever will. I am now 80 years old. What would I do if I owned the house and land here in Thailand (which I can't anyway) and the marriage broke up? It all belongs to my wife and our son, when she dies. It is far more of a hindrance than a help.

Why not? Half the land was hers anyway before I even met her, plus she had a small house here as well. It is mostly about trust. If you can't trust the woman that you married, why did you marry her in the first place?

His name must be Gordon. He reminds me of a song from many decades ago by Jilted John called "Gordon is a Moron". I will spare you the agonies of watching the video.

So if a politician said something 34 years ago, it is still sacrosanct today and can NEVER be changed. I suppose that would be correct IF the world was exactly the same as it was 34 years ago, but it isn't. 34 years ago Russia was in a mess, breaking up and the East European states and their peoples were choosing to side with Russia or go to the West. Russia had not annexed any part of the Ukraine and the Ukraine still had Russian nuclear missiles on their soil. NATO was much smaller then. Poland was not even a member of NATO. East Germany was being reunited with West Germany, the Berlin Wall had been demolished and the Iron Curtain between the East and the West was being dismantled. Putin was not president of Russia. Yet you believe that what one person said 34 years ago is current today in a completely different world to then.

And what "rule" would that be?

Not really. There are of course many men, even on this forum that actually DO believe it. It perhaps does NOT apply to the majority of Thai women, or women worldwide, at least in my experience, but I am sure it applies to some Thai women and women worldwide.