thaibeachlovers

What are you on about? Did you ignore my previous post that addressed that?

Oh the irony. I guess the greenies will be crying in their lentil soup. Re opening nuclear power plants- it just gets better and better. Wonder what Merkel has to say about that? PS. what happened to all that "renewable energy" certain people are always on about.

They have 2 years lost "tea money" to make up for. What else did you expect? I even commented to expect that on this forum some time ago.

I'm pretty sure it's easy enough to get a fake driving license.

That's the skytrain. I never bothered with the skytrain from Phaya Thai, given how close it was to MBK. I'd just get a taxi to the door at MBK.

Do Buddhists even have something equivalent to a "church service" I know the monks get up early and chant, but while my wife would go to the temple to pray to the Buddha I never saw anything resembling a "service".

Can someone tell me what happens when they can't use cashless eg card or phone gets stolen/ lost/ breaks/ flat battery? Cash never gets a flat battery. It's good to see from the poll that the cashless are losing big time. It's not even close.

I don't care if people want to go cashless, as long as I can use cash.

I prefer to learn from history. The Nazis would have loved that technology. Don't believe the Nazis or similar will happen again? Good luck with that.

That made me chuckle. The same people that would accept cashless are the ones pushing the "climate change" thing, and if there is one thing for sure, when the transmission infrastructure gets flooded or burnt it's not going to work very well. So, lets imagine that you wake up one morning and the phone doesn't work, or it got stolen or something, how are you going to pay for your public transport to work, or buy lunch or a beer after work?

Sooo, you think absolute control by government is a good idea then? Don't give me any of that "safeguards" BS. Governments change. Laws change. Want to be like China?

Look harder.

If I don't know what I'm missing, why would I miss it? I certainly don't miss the personal abuse.

Hmmmm. I have only one page so far. I guess I have some catching up to do.

I only recently started putting a lot of posters on that, as they insisted on personal attacks and bickering with me. I wish I'd done it long ago as it's been so much less abusive when I can't see their posts. I wish there was a similar function for the assorted antisocial morons bad people that "disturb" my real life.

Well said. I'm sick and tired of the "rationalization" that a married man or woman can't travel to where the work is, as it's BS. Almost every Filipina that I worked with ( many ) had left her children to move to far far away for work and only saw her family once a year.

The point is that they are British and should have Britain's interests at heart. Did you think it would be something else?

5555555555555 What else would he say?

Your post is full of supposed facts, but not a single link to prove any of it. You don't even reference the "law" that you mention. If it's all your opinion, you need to make that clear.

Got any proof of that?

If there is anything that I am certain about related to Thailand, it is that the elites don't care how much farangs contribute to Thailand.

Most tourists arrive on visa exempt, or visa on arrival and leave after a couple of weeks or so. They don't have to do border runs to stay longer, as they are tourists, not living in LOS.

You are welcome to your viewpoint of course, but IMO nothing is going to change unless it benefits the unknown that run our world. Am I complacent- no, but I know what a losing battle looks like. A "better future"? I think that hope vanished the day the world population passed 3 billion, and now it's just a long, slow downward spiral to the end, whatever the end may be, but IMO not good for anyone around then. Am I cynical? Absolutely. I only have to look outside my door to be so.

I suspect any that don't agree with the leftist agenda are judged to be "conservative" as if to be "conservative" is a bad thing.

Throwing oneself in front of a moving horse is stupidity, as one might cause the horse to startle and bolt and hurt innocent people. If one wants to kill themselves to make a point, do what the monk in Vietnam did. IMO society is far too divided on everything these days for any one side to bring change. Also the really big changes in western society already happened eg votes for women, decriminalisation of homosexuality, welfare etc, so all that happens now IMO is annoying people to try and tinker around the edges eg 36 genders or some such which isn't really important for most.