thaibeachlovers

Prove there are Russian prostitutes in Thailand or it's fake news.

Perhaps they might be keener to return if they got a decent wage. I guess it's easier to call them lazy than to make the job worthwhile. I wish my government was as committed to supporting local workers as the Thai government is.

Given that she sucked up all the media attention, I know nothing about the man as a person. Apparently the Labour party is so short of potential PMs that he was the only nominee for the position.

Care to prove your "aged white redneck demographic" claim? I doubt you can- IMO BS. I guess your next claim will be that anyone doesn't like her is a misogynist. LOL.

Successfully contain? Perhaps, but at the expense of the economy https://thespinoff.co.nz/money/06-12-2021/the-real-impact-of-new-zealands-economic-response-to-covid-19 Contrary to many assumptions, New Zealand’s economic response to Covid was among the worst in the world in terms of widening wealth inequality and the wasteful use of taxpayer funds, argues Bernard Hickey.

No points for the way it was done. The intention may have been good, but the execution was in the opinion of many a disaster. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2005/S00061/139m-gun-buyback-a-disaster-from-start-to-finish.htm “The Auditor-General has been unable to determine whether the Government’s $139 million gun buyback scheme has made New Zealanders any safer”, says ACT Leader David Seymour.

Perhaps you can explain why, having won a majority and an outright victory, they came to be expected to lose large in just 2 years. While I have no facts to support it, it's widely supported that many National voters voted for Labour to keep the greens out of government. IMO they are seen as a greater threat to the country than Labour.

Had she been going to win the election, I have no doubt she'd have stayed on. Al Jazeera has a news item where she was hugging a lot of Labour people goodbye, and IMO they were as upset about their vanished prospects to win the election as they were to see her leave.

Seems like she was pretty well respected on the international scene, despite some of the dinosaur opinions expressed above: Thankfully the "international scene" doesn't have a vote in NZ. Just goes to show that you can fool some of the people, some of the time etc. some of the dinosaur opinions expressed above: Ah, so because people don't like her, they must be dinosaurs! LOL. Call me T Rex.

Pity she didn't discover that before the last election. Not surprisingly, she did discover it when she became unpopular and faced losing badly in the upcoming elections. Perhaps she realised she wasn't doing well when she started insulting other politicians in parliament.

I'm not American and the US courts seem a very weird system to me ( eg suing a corporation because one thought it OK to put a hot drink where it could spill ), but as many cases seem to be "frivolous" this ruling seems politically biased to me. I hope Trump appeals and wins.

You are posting excellent information. I hope you keep it up.????

The person laughing the most at this is IMO undoubtedly D T.

The use of hydrogen is not new, so that isn't a huge problem to solve. London had some hydrogen powered buses a while back. https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/mayoral/englands-first-hydrogen-double-deckers-launched

I don't remember if I "bashed" you personally for anything, but I can't say much about Obama or Trump on this thread without getting deleted for off topic.

Sadly, the people of Ukraine are dying, and will continue to do so till a negotiated end is arranged.

Wasn't Ukraine attacking Donbas before the invasion? That's hardly accepting the situation, and wasn't it separatists ( ie not "occupiers" ) and not Russian military in there? I don't believe the Russians invaded to take over Donbas, otherwise they could have just invaded that area and not the rest.

So you insult me and think I should not respond? It's sentences like "Anyway, having seen your various comments over the years, I don't find the claim to be very credible" that cause me to consider your posts of no importance to me. It is possible to post without making derogatory comments about other posters, and the forum would be more pleasant without them. Quoted from forum rules. Use of ASEAN NOW Forums and Social Media Our Forum Rules and Standards of Conduct can be summarized as Be Nice, Be Respectful. We encourage all members to be nice to each other, to help each other and to enjoy the forum and its content.

IMO hydrogen IS the way to go. If the amount of money spent on battery cars had been spent on hydrogen, that'd probably be universal already. If they want to use battery cars, they should have made it possible to do a battery swap so don't have to recharge on a long journey. That'd work for taxis and other vehicles in cities that do a high mileage every day as well. Strange that they didn't come up with that idea long ago.

While I don't have any figures to prove it, apparently many farmers, among others, voted for Labour last election to keep the greens out of government. They won a majority, but still managed to find a place for green policies. Nobody will be doing that again.

I don't understand your post, but if you want to know why farmers don't like her policies I'll repeat for you "Ever heard of 3 waters? Ever heard of the methane tax?"

Good for him.

I think you are wrong about this,giving in to Putin would have only made him stronger in his believe Russia is invincible and it would even encourage him more to try to "reestablish the old USSR" like he said he wanted to do. I've seen that often, but no one actually knows, do they? Anyway, he wouldn't invade a NATO country and why would most of us care about some country in Eastern Europe if not in NATO? I strongly believe that now he realizes he has made a very big mistake but being the man he is he will never admit that because it will show weakness and that in itself would be very dangerous to him. IMO it's gone too far to back down now, and if he did it's over for him, literally. You think support to the Ukraine will dwindle,i think it will not. I disagree. IMO it's already dwindling in the US as their problems mount. Wait to see if the GOP is prepared to spend the money on missiles instead of on Americans. Don't forget the US debt problem The USA is getting rid of an age old enemy for a relatively cheap price,there is a lot more to that but that is for another discussion. LOL. Russia isn't going away, whatever happens in Ukraine You are saying it is not your war,it is a war against pure evil and the Ukraine is fighting for all the right reasons. All war is evil, but humans still do it, and probably always will. Honest question,if you had a neighbor who wanted a piece of your garden for whatever made up reason,would you give it to him to keep the peace? If he was bigger and stronger than me and was going to destroy me- yes I would

Must be longer IMO. Purachai stopped the nudity and the shows, and it took many years to get back, though it was never as good as before Thaksin's time as PM. BTW I hated those boots. They had gone by the time I left Thailand though- back to shoes.

I never wanted to miss out on a night at Nana Plaza, though I started to go in morning ( for afternoon flight ) and they had cheap stays for 4 hours. That worked for me. Reminds me of the time I went to airport and they delayed the flight by several hours, so I took train back to town, stayed in Nana a while, and took a taxi back to airport. Unfortunately, the rain started at 6 pm and back in those days the roads would flood, so I left before any of the shows started. Talk about bad luck!