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billd766

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  1. But that is simply your opinion, which is worth just as much as anybody else's.
  2. But he has exactly the same right to post his opinion as you, me or anybody else. If you don't like his posts, then skip over them or put him on your ignore list.
  3. Both, but at least you understood my meaning.
  4. And this post got a sad emoji. My response is just the same. Sadly there is no known medical cure for stupid. Instead of leaving an emoji, why not respond to the post and explain why? Or is that too difficult?
  5. Can YOU see and predict exactly what the future will be in 20 years time, or even what will be happening in the next week. I can remember what the forex rate was for the Thai baht. From 1993 it has varied from as low at 37 to as high as 95 baht to the GBP. Could YOU have predicted that? Did YOU or the majority of the world see Covid coming? Where even if you wanted to, you were not even allowed to fly back to your own country. The stupid person here is YOU. You can make a plan and a budget, and then you have to change it simply because circumstances beyond your control change. Can you predict the exact time and date of your death? Will you live to be 60, 70, 80, 90 or even 100 or more. How long do you plan to live, and how will your plan be affected if you live for a longer or shorter period. What happens to your master plan, if you are involved in a car crash and have to spend the rest of your life in an ICU?
  6. I can remember those from Bahrain in 1963/64. Most of the taxis had them.
  7. Once again a laughing emoji, un-named of course. I answered a serious question from a poster, and this is the response. Whoever the poster was obviously needs help, sadly there is no known medical cure for stupid.
  8. Here is the main stumbling block to peace in Gaza. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz55y6k0p5go quote "Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to quit and collapse the governing coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to a Gaza ceasefire proposal unveiled by US President Joe Biden on Friday. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said they were opposed to striking any deal before Hamas was destroyed. But opposition leader Yair Lapid has pledged to back the government if Mr Netanyahu supported the plan. The prime minister himself insisted there would be no permanent truce until Hamas's military and governing capabilities were destroyed and all hostages released." Instead of talking and threatening to bring the Israeli government down Just do it. JFDI. There is more information in the link.
  9. I can still do ladders though normally no higher than 3 treads. I did 4 treads this morning but I was definitely unhappy about that. For instructions I normally scan them into my computer and increase the text size. In settings I have already increased from 100% to 125% as my standard and sometimes to 150% and even 175% for some texts. It is an age thing and gets to most people in time.
  10. This forum changed its name a few years ago. Back in 2003 when I joined the forum it was called the Thai Visa Forum and is probably still called that by some of the older members, such as me.
  11. If you read these forums regularly you will find the most of the problems (though not all of them) are concentrated in the areas of most tourism, such as Pattaya, Phuket, the southern islands, but rarely elsewhere. Most of the farangs of all nationalities living outside of these areas cause few if any problems. They are generally married to Thai ladies and have families of their own, or are retired. They get on well with their Thai neighbours and cause no problems for anyone. If you stay with the forum you will find that the majority of posters are normal, some are pedantic, some are grammar nasties and some are simply not worth bothering with.
  12. But it does free up sticky or stuck drive spindles.
  13. I still have the skill and the tools to fix many things. It is my 80 year old body and slowly failing eyesight that is letting me down nowadays.
  14. When I take the fans down to clean them, I usually give the motor spindle a few squirts of WD 40.
  15. A quote snipped from the OP. "The protest, organized by Robinson, aimed to call for the resignation of Met Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, whom Robinson accused of overseeing a "two-tier policing" system in London. The event drew a significant crowd, some of whom had been previously linked to "football violence" and anti-lockdown protests, according to the Met Police. As the demonstrators marched down Millbank, some set off smoke flares and air horns, creating a chaotic atmosphere".
  16. Thank you from everybody who needs the link so that they can compare the two.
  17. If you know of a better link then please post it. All I did was a simple search and came up with that link. I didn't write the policy, the UK government did. If you have a problem then they are the people to tell. If you have a better link, then post it and prove them wrong. However, what you have posted is only your word and your opinion, and you have not backed it up in anyway. Why would anybody accept your unsupported word? I have no idea if the link and article are correct. My State pension was frozen in 2009 as I expected it to be. Far better and more knowledgeable people have been trying for decades to get it changed and have not succeeded.
  18. I do a forex rate every day between KBank, BKK bank, Wise and XE and KBank has the lowest forex rate every day. I have attached a file for the forex rate 2024 if you wish to compare them. They are based on the bank mid rates and usually done around 11:30 am Thai time.forex 4 together 2024.xlsxforex 4 together 2024.xlsxforex 4 together 2024.xlsx
  19. According to the UK SWP site here https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension/what-youll-get#:~:text=The full rate of new,Insurance qualifying years you have the basic weekly pension rate is he full rate of new State Pension is £221.20 a week. Your amount could be different depending on: if you were contracted out before 2016 the number of National Insurance qualifying years you have if you paid into the Additional State Pension before 2016 Which comes to 884.80 every 4 weeks so he wasn't far off. Still, if you know differently, just put the link up.
  20. According to many people. How many people see it like you? 1, 10. 50. 100. 500, 1,000. Your figures are meaningless without confirmation How many people is many people, and where is everywhere? I could claim that hundreds of thousands of people don't have any problems and I would ne correct, and also meaningless. but that is perhaps that they live in condos where they have no grass. Even in condos, people have neighbours
  21. I assume that you are speaking for yourself, and NOT for everybody else That may be where YOU are, but that is not the whole of Thailand.
  22. One compared to the much larger number of whiners, moaners and complainers.
  23. But he is not making excuses for the IDF and the Zionists. You are.
  24. I have been using Wise since 2018 and my money has always arrived in BKK bank +/- a couple of minutes of the time Wise has quoted.
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