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1 hour ago, scavenger said:Environmental awareness, and as part of a global community effort to boot! I hope this also translates into concrete actions, such as refusing plastic bags, walking rather than take a motorcycle taxi, switch to a vegetarian diet, bring their reusable bottle to the coffee shop and enjoy that iced coffee without a straw, and so on.
1 hour ago, RickBradford said:I think it's more likely to translate into concrete solutions such as new shopping malls, condos and elevated highways.
The world is really in trouble if we start taking instructions from ignorant narcissists like these.
My experience work, and it is related is that environmental stuff has made an impact.
Ironically, on oceanographic ships, full of scientists, people chuck things over the side without caring a toss; but move to an oil & gas industry ship and try the same thing, and you're toast.
This, I think, is indicative of where the solutions lie. Countries that do well out of tourism need to stay pretty or they feel it in the wallet when people go elsewhere. In Thailand you get your bins emptied and your recycling picked up very frequently; in the UK they bleed you dry with tax and leave it a fortnight.
Some of the solution is about compelling manufacturers to change their packaging and manufacturing, and that's where legislation comes in, but individuals are incredibly lazy and most of the domestic recycling you do in the west is a complete waste of time, as it's contaminated anyway.
Young activists aren't foregoing the lifestyle and the pollution it brings; but at a job, you need or want the money, or if a business you don't want to pay fines or extra costs, and money talks. It's not clear what specific policies these protesters want changed, but they might not like the price of environmentalism.
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11 hours ago, worgeordie said:
China's debt bomb, I thought China was holding a lot of U.S. debt,
They are, about $3Tn, but that's a fraction of their total potential debt of $40+Tn.
That's a lorra lorra socks... I think it's more than half of stock market trade.
I think the total value of the world's biggest banks is around £25Tn. Scary.
Quotewhat I don't understand with so many countries in huge debt,who
is holding all this debt ?, anybody really know?
That's basically the problem... it's borrowing against the future... (e.g.: future growth, that may or may not happen) and that's where the defaulting/moral hazard comes in... In China they are estimated to have about $6Tn of local government debt, and it's been a way of absorbing debt and sweeping it under the carpet.
Eventually, someone will ask for their money back, or there'll be no income left to service the debts, and then defaulting starts happening, and that can be contagious as confidence falls like dominos.
When debts that are held with the expectation they'll be paid off, and companies/organisations/governments start selling off assets to try and fill the holes, then prices start tumbling. Confidence in countries and their currencies falls as growth looks like tumbling, and if it happens in China, you can bet that this forecast will be way off the mark.
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2 minutes ago, Elzear said:
The suspense is killing me.
Will you follow it up or will you drop it ..?
He could always promise her some money, and get a few jollies out of it, if she's got a private hospital room.
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5 hours ago, Berkshire said:
These romance scams continue to happen all over the world. The stupidity of these people is just off-the-charts. Hard to be sympathetic.
I wish I could do one, but I'd just burst out laughing in the middle of it, and I wouldn't be that convincing.
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19 hours ago, Bluespunk said:People
The people
I see what you did there... you turned my word "people" into a new concept by adding a nother word that wasn't there, and twisting it to become "the people" and presenting it like it meant the same thing.
Remainers are so clever... no wonder they won the refendum (in real life).
18 hours ago, Bluespunk said:No, a refusal would be no talks
No, a refusal is saying that you refuse, which is what Mr Juncker said.
Sitting in a room with crossed arms saying, "well then", is a bit like a woman throwing a tantrum and sulking, it's not really negotiation, it's more like a weak attempt at attrition.
13 hours ago, wilcopops said:
Well you won't find Brexiteers in the sewers, that's where Remainers lurk, raking up ordure to chuck about as they thrash around their keyboards like they'd just necked a pint of flakka.
10 hours ago, MRToMRT said:You need to get to a temple or practice some deep breathing exercises ;+) Seriously though what's your blood pressure today?
Lower than your mamma's drawers. Is that the best you can manage? I'll leave the heavy breathing to you.
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On 9/19/2019 at 11:21 AM, Basil B said:
But there again wonder if Boris will visit another hospital in the near future short of having no visitors present, staff vetted for political views and all patents sedated?
Politicians should be banned from hospitals, unless they're bleeding to death, and even then, they should have to join the back of the queue - it would be kind of an incentive to make hospitals function better.
obviously by removing that "free at the point of use" thing, which is part of the problem.
On 9/19/2019 at 2:17 PM, DannyCarlton said:I think you are mistaking that for the Tory front bench. Johnson and Gove both attended Eton, Oxford and were members of the Bullingdon Club whereas Corbyn left school at 18 and got a job. Never went to university. John McDonnell, went to university (not Oxford) quite late, at 23 after previously training to be a priest.
The MP with the highest net worth is probably Reece-Mogg, another Eton and Oxford toff, who stands to make another fortune if the UK leaves on a no deal Brexit.
If you're going to indulge in extreme right wing rhetoric, at least make some effort to get your facts right.
Alright, let's have a look:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1120937/jeremy-corbyn-net-worth-labour-leader-salary-wages-earnhttps://www.leftfutures.org/2013/04/labour-politicians-on-the-rich-list/
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/10/who-s-who-labour-shadow-cabinet
You're right, they're proper working class, aren't they!
It seems like Labour keeps its Etonites slightly under the radar, just providing funding and campaigning leadership.
Corbyn comes from a non-working-class background, surely his two Es at A-Level are the reason he didn't go to ..., not his
middleworking-class principles? no wait up, wikipedia says he went to a polytechnic and dropped out for arguing with his lecturers all the time....bear in mind that if class war is your thing, the MP doing most for your Remain cause, Oliver Letwin, is probably the epitome of everything you despise... go read his bio... will you stick or twist?
On 9/19/2019 at 2:29 PM, tebee said:so? it's such a non-story, really.
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Watching you lot bickering over "left" and "right" is like watching drunk tramps fight over a sock.
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2 hours ago, Nyezhov said:
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1 hour ago, grollies said:Whereas in the UK:
Have you smacked your lips round one of these yet?
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1 hour ago, Nyezhov said:
I just am amazed at you dudes freaking out because in a foreign country, where you are a guest, the local folks call you foreigner?
Who's freaking out? Foreigner in Thai is "ชาวต่างชาติ" or sometimes "คนต่างประเทศ", which is what educated Thais often say. Some even ask you which country you're from. If you came to a European country and everyone kept saying "foreigner" to you in their equivalent way, how would you feel?
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11 hours ago, SheungWan said:
the loon Brexiteers on the right.
Wow... that's a lot of loons... I mean, millions... polling and analysis from academics and assorted trainspotters in this field reports the largest part of the electorate favour no deal. They must be wrong, because they're not listening to people like you who know much more than them.
With so many millions of people less intelijunt than you, how do you get them to vote the correct way? i.e.: your way? Should we just not trouble them with confusing things like that, and just help them by voting for them? We don't want to let evil far-right loons to get FTAs with the growing economies of the world.
I mean, some of these silly Leave voters believe they are the centre and Remainers are extremists, just because there's more of them than anyone else! Everyone knows that the Remainers are the centre, because they're clevererer, and their votes are worth twice as much, or something.
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23 minutes ago, Yinn said:
MY THRED, my rule.
please,watch the op video BEFORE post comment. This thred not for arguement. Just for learn.
Thankyou.
That's not how threads work. This isn't Thai secondary school.
57 minutes ago, BobBKK said:I had this debate on T e a k D o o r once... they had a thread of "beautiful farang women" (naked, of course).
So I dutifully uploaded some gorgeous black women photos, because I assumed that they are farang too... what a backlash! you can't even be "sexist" without encountering "racism", even of the positive kind.
That's not a URL, and censoring it is childish.
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3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:
Please I would love to see from any of the Brexiters here a proposal for a deal which the majority of the UK citizens would agree to and which is compatible with the EU laws. Does such a deal exist?
Well, to handle your hedging, espcially the "compatible with EU laws bit", let's look at what the public appear to say:
"Some polls show no deal as the most preferred Brexit option. Others show remaining. It all depends which options respondents are surveyed about and how the question is asked."
https://fullfact.org/europe/does-public-want-no-deal/
Anthony Wells (IMO a LibDem and pro-EU person), concludes that 44% v 34% prefer no deal and WTO
A ComRes poll found a similar result.
Prof Curtice's analysis of this and other polls
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/are-voters-ready-to-leave-with-no-deal/
concludes that the public is polarised between No Deal/WTO and 2nd Referendum, but that No Deal/WTO is the larger of the polarised groups.
So in answer to your question, a simple majority for no deal/wto is consistently there, but the opposition to it is a large and vociferous minority of about a third of the population at best.
This more or less maps onto the way the referendum was going prior to the politicisation of the Jo Cox murder, where Remain was heading south of 40%, as the less passionate 30% of "swing voters" in the middle responded to Project Fear and moved towards Remain, but not enough. This has been true since about March, as the graph shows:
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16 minutes ago, MRToMRT said:Latest on Sophie Ridge (Sky News) - in interview with JC Juncker yesterday he openly states he thinks a deal is possible and that the UK government delivered documents (proposal) to EU last night.
Juncker and Barnier have been heavily criticised in the EU parliament for putting EU jobs at risk with their "negotiation" strategy. A German MP spoke, and Germany is facing recession. It's not a voice the EU archons can easily ignore. Germany is concerned that an unfriendly departure of the UK could have blowback.
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10 minutes ago, Airalee said:
If you really want to wind them up, look at the Thai next to the person who calls you Farang and say (in Thai)...
”why does it (mun) call me Farang? Doesn’t it know the word for foreigner?”
I'd suggest you're safer referring to yourself as mun so as to mock them more subtly, and playfully, and avoiding an uncomfortable situation.
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2 minutes ago, BobBKK said:
Farang is not a word for foreigner only 'white' so how can that not be racist? they don't call blacks 'farang'
I had this debate on <URL Automatically Removed> once... they had a thread of "beautiful farang women" (naked, of course).
So I dutifully uploaded some gorgeous black women photos, because I assumed that they are farang too... what a backlash! you can't even be "sexist" without encountering "racism", even of the positive kind.
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1 minute ago, Nyezhov said:
I dont really care. Japanese, Chinese, Cambos all have their words for foreigners. I was married to a Japanese girl, I was a gaijin. No biggy. Call me what you want, just dont call me late for dinner.
I like the honorifics Thai folks use towards me: Papa Falang (Respectable Old Foreigner), Falang Baa (Mature Foreiner), Falang Kwaii (LIvely and Active Foreigner), Falang Hia (Clean Foreigner).
Yes, but did she like it if you called her a nip or a jap? I speak Japanese, and I've once advanced the argument that Jap is just like "farang/bule/gaijin/gwailou" etc..., Japs will go along with it, but whitepeople get offended on their behalf - fortunately, I speak Japanese, so I can switch languages so the dogooding whitefolks don't have to have their virtuesignalling triggered.
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1 hour ago, cmsally said:
How about "Kaek" ? Do Indians regard that as polite?
...and Jaek for Chinese, I believe. Bule in indonesia, I dunno...
It's such a nuisance when people object to the names you call them based on how they look, isn't it.
I'm sure well-meaning progressives like Mr Trudeau find it a real minefield working out when you can and can't used the word black, or yellow etc... using the word white seems to never be a problem.
The issue is supposedly about "power", and hence because whitemen are inherently evil (and I feel the evil brewing up in my soulless white male carcass almost hourly), so everyone else can call us anything, and it's OK, but heaven forfend if we do it back, even in the mildest, gentlest way.
Whenever Thais do it to me, I mimic them, "ouei falang!" or say "ouei kon Thai!" or "ouei kon see dam" - because they really don't like being called see-dam, but then I add "falang chorp see dam", and all's well.
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17 minutes ago, tomacht8 said:Arrogance and no respect for their own country leaders.
That's an interesting thing to say when you look at what the Remain establishment in parliament and the courts and in the media is doing. It's like a state within a state, trying to pull all the levers to unmake the decisions of the people by any means necessary.: arrogance and no respect for their own voters.
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14 hours ago, damascase said:Exactly who is being awkward here?
Quisling Remain MPs, undermining the UK's negotiating position, and working with the EU negotiators?
14 hours ago, damascase said:The UK
The crypto-Remain leadership of TM, you mean
14 hours ago, damascase said:has had over three years to come up with a concrete proposal for a deal, but never did it. You can’t blame your opponent at the negotiating table for having done some preparation and lay down a proposed text - but I’m sure you will.
BJ just don’t seem to seriously seek a deal - and will then blame the EU for the following crash......
The whole game from the start seems to be pass the (blame) parcel, because the EU can't permit a successful exit from it lest it emboldens other nations to try to cecede from the empire, which has up until now pursued an aggressive expansionist agenda. The EU position always seems disingenuous.
11 hours ago, bangrak said:Allow me to add, there is/was/has been a deal, negotiated between the UK Government and the EU authorities, which was agreed on by both sides, end of story. ...Was it not that the leave camp 'traitors' inside the Conservative party (yes, these are the real ones!) voted against the deal negotiated by their own Conservative Government! This should not, never, be forgotten!
It's an unreasonable asymmetric deal, and further evidence of the illegitimacy of a remainer parliament that is at odds with the expressed will of the electorate, and refuses to hold a general election to obtain a mandate.
The wording of this bill is appalling - it's the legislature trying to act as the executive:
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/26/enacted/data.htm
The latest action through the courts is the legislature trying to drag the judiciary into acting as the executive, it's intolerable, this law, and this parliament must be challenged - in the courts too if necessary, and forced to hold a general election, if not, then the monarch should instruct the military to remove them from parliament, and dissolve parliament and hold a general election.
" courts should not seek to regulate the prerogatives of sovereignty where Parliament has chosen not to do so. "
" What is vital is that an abuse of convention does not lead the Supreme Court in a direction that could fundamentally alter the nature of supremacy within the constitution. The oversight role of the courts is vital to ensuring legality within the constitution, but this does not extend to policing the fundamental relationship of supremacy that binds the Crown to Parliament. For the rule of recognition within our constitution to continue to make sense, only the supreme body can determine matters of supreme rule. "
The Remainiac faction are out of control; this game has to stop or be stopped.
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13 hours ago, overherebc said:Absolutely. They have nothing better to do and only do it to stoke the fire under their already inflated ego.
Weird comments from you and Puchaiyank. You'll end up tying yourself in knots like Trudeau with all this po-faced virtue-signalling grandstanding. The whole "everything is racist" bandwagon doesn't go anywhere good - the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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21 minutes ago, worgeordie said:If the predictions are correct ,it's a downward movement of the mighty $.
I've seen this and I don't buy into it, and the reason is that it's based on current trends, and does not factor in the impact of China's $40+ Trillion debt bomb, that could floor China's growth and impact the Thai baht massively. There are indications of problems with China's debt beginning to emerge, and that may increase.
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16 hours ago, peterb17 said:
As long as you do not require some medical help- things such as blood tests are sent to Bangkok.
Sure, it's obvious to me that that's what Cambodians prefer to do. Being on the border with Thailand or near an airport with regular flights to Thailand is a consideration for location: Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Poipet.
16 hours ago, peterb17 said:The political situation there is worse than Thailand
I think that's par for the course in all these countries, and part of why they are affordable. Many people go to tropical places for affordable beaches, villas, culture, and yes, access to younger, slimmer, more compliant women, and iffy politics is part of what keeps them affordable, otherwise they'd be like luxury .cations in Caribbean, Mediterranean, or South Pacific. Pretty much every country in Asia has politics we wouldn't tolerate in the west, especially SEAsia, but I guess if you're wise, you design your life there such that you can get out quickly. I like being near a land border or the sea, so that I wouldn't have to rely on airports. You could argue the case for Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, and have concerns about future events between those countries and their neighbours. I hear Taiwan and Japan are very appealing places though.
16 hours ago, peterb17 said:Back to the OP - I think as others have said - it’s peace of mind- sticking to the rules . Yes 800000 is a reasonable amount of money , but it just sits and does not go away.
It is less than other comparable places, like Malaysia, require, and I can see the appeal if there's any uncertainty about the rates and the source of income for the income method. Hopefully policy won't change the required deposit amount in future if the country becomes more developed.
16 hours ago, peterb17 said:As a retiree- I have all the time in the world - in a year I spend at most 2 hours a year at immigration- not exactly a huge burden .
I don't think the admin itself is the issue. I think it's just the arbitrary nature of the policy (e.g.: 90-day exit and reentry) and the lack of reciprocity with Visa rules (like not being able to work on a spouse visa).
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It'll be interesting to watch. My kids keep asking if the currency in Thailand is Bitcoin.