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Thank you for that information. I need to go to Immigration at Kamphaeng Phet after 9th April to get all the stamps put into my new passport which gives me Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th April clear to do it in before Songkran.

I just watched most of that link and the guy in black, to me at least was murdering that poor piano. The little girl in black behind him was enjoying herself though. I found a different video by Brendan which I liked more here, In the school orchestra back in 1955 I was taught the violin for 3 weeks, but I was so bad I was demoted to the triangle and proved no better. I admire anybody who can properly play their instrument, but Les Dawson must have been a brilliant pianist to play the piano so well and then so badly.

But It can't be true. It was written in the Christian holy book, and they would never lie. Would they?

Fortunately my son in the UK is 46 now, He is there and I am here. My Thai son is 19 and at uni in Chiang Rai, so I am spared that. My wife doesn't seem to play any music, so I am free to indulge in the music I like. I also like traditional jazz but not modern jazz.

I suppose there is always Fox News for the "real" truth. Do you watch it often?

It could also be over tomorrow if Israel went back to its own borders, all the illegal settlements handed back to the Palestinians from whom they were stolen from in the first place. If the Israeli's stopped the mass slaughter and genocide, that would be a good thing also.

And the source for this report is the totally unbiased 'The Times of Israel'.

Like you though I am a mere 79. I prefer older music such as the big bands of the 30's, 40's and 50's. Some of the 50's, 60's and 70's music when singers could still read and write their own songs. Can you imagine saying to your children how you loved punk, grunge and garage music?

JMO it all depends on what you want to do with an electric bike/trike/4 wheel/scooter or motorbike. Will you use it as a motorbike? Or like me at 79, just use it as a trike or small 4 wheel for getting to the local shops and getting around etc. Speed, range, battery life etc all come into the equation, along with can you tax and insure it. Price it not so important compared to use. I am looking at a couple of trikes, small 4 wheelers that have a windscreen and a roof to keep the sun and most of the rain off me, and they cost 35 to 50k thb. What I would need is an 80 to 100 km range, a top speed of maybe 50 kph and something fairly simple. 2 seats max and perhaps my wife will bike jack it for shopping. The bad news is that there is no a/c.

I well remember as a young boy of 15, being sent to the store for a long wait, a box of volts or amps, left handed hammers and screwdrivers. It terrified me as the store was on the other end of the building and I had to walk through a large room full of women, young, middle aged and old, single. married and divorced. Fortunately I was young, inexperienced and didn't understand what they were saying. Now I could give back as good as, or better, but would probably end up sacked or in jail as a few women nowadays would take great offence at the comments.

I wonder why anybody supports the Israeli's.

Why would anybody want to read a fairy story written centuries after the event to find history?

But that is simply your opinion. IMHO each life has an equal value so 1 Israeli life is equal to 1 Palestinian life. My opinion has exactly the same value or not as yours. The difference is that I don't preach hatred, genocide or mass murders. Thank you for reminding me about 1933 when Jews were being slaughtered. A pity you forgot to mention homosexuals, gypsies, Poles, Hungarians and everybody else slaughtered by the Germans, but of course to you only the Jewish people matter. It seems odd that you mention 1933, as it is now the Israelis who are doing the slaughtering, the genocide, starving the population, because, after all 1 Israeli life is worth at least 100 Palestinian lives according to you.

IMHO, I don't think that the whole western world backs Israel any more.

I agree with Hummin 100%. The is NO right on either side but Israel has slaughtered 30,+++ men women and children, injured 70+++ more men women and children, and still people on here defend them saying that Israel has the right to exist. So does Palestine and the Palestinian people, who at the moment are being systematically starved by Israel, who have blocked of access to food, medical supplies, electricity, water, fuel etc. They steal Palestinian land, houses and move illegal Israeli settlements and people in their place. They have a total land, sea and air blockade of Gaza and when challenged, they deny anything and everything and blame it all on Hamas or anybody else.

They are NOT mercenaries, but volunteers who are part time rangers. She was NOT executed but MURDERED whilst off duty, by a cowardly terrorist, masquerading as a civilian and a human being, who was so bold and brave that he ran away

I can comfortably, carefully and slowly drive to the big village 6 km away and reasonably happy enough to drive to the Amphur village 13 km away. Further than that I ask my wife to drive me. I would like an electric trike or 4 wheeler with a roof and a windscreen but there are few to be seen out here, though electric trikes and scooters are getting more popular.

Good for you. The nearest new car dealers to me are still 65km away. You are obviously converted whole heartedly to EVs. I am not, and I doubt at 79 that I ever will be.

Are you not big enough, old enough and capable enough to search for that information yourself?

Do you really believe anything that a Thai politician (or any other countries politicians for that matter) say. It doesn't matter to Thailand what anybody on ANN says. None of us, and I include me, has a voice or a vote in Thailand. So why bother what ahs or will happen to Thaksin. It has been agreed with the highest person in Thailand and I don't think that anybody in their right mind, wants to argue with that person. It is purely a Thai problem, and one that they alone have to deal with.

Absolutely correct. And if I can't charge it at home, then I have a very expensive flat useless battery. Come back and tell us all how much a new battery will cost when it needs replacing. Tell us all what the second hand value of your EV is worth at 5 or 6 years old. You keep plugging the virtues of EV but never mention what happens if it breaks down. How many garages can actually repair them, and where are those garages in relation to your home?

I was up in Kamphaeng Phet city yesterday and I saw about 8 EV in total. There is even a BYD dealer in the city as well. For all the wonderful claims about EV its will be interesting in a few years time to see how the owners react, when they have to replace the battery or try to sell the car. That will be when the value of an EV will show its true value. For me. at 79, the only EV I am interested in purchasing is an electric trike or 4 wheeler, with perhaps a 100 km range to get me to the shops in the local village 6 km away, or the Amphur village 15 km away.

Thailand may have an oversupply of public charging stations in the big cities and on the main highways, but the charging stations OFF highway and big cities in the majority of rural Thailand that I know of, are rare. The nearest public charging station to me is 60 km away.

Apart from you, who really cares whether you believe it or not?

Why do YOU need to know, especially as it is not your problem.