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well you were not there i don't think so you did not see what i did now did you?

no idea but sure are a lot of "agents" there that appeared to my eyes to be getting special treatment and i suspect that might result in a few thank you envelopes to some immigration bosses who enable it....

was at jomtiem immigration today...i think a ten minute investigation would uncover a lot of nefarious visas being procured in preferential ways for a brown envelope properly distributed..

cue a bunch of other bkk restaurants who want to put a video of their whatever special and get free ad on the forum.....

not true on Jan 10...rode train from hua hin and definitely did not go inside terminal..i can tell the difference of being inside and outside.... me and many many more did haul luggage across tracks then down to basement and eventually to mrt....

Oh please not another video guy in Thailand.

He had his chance but blew it....IF IF IF he would have accepted that he lost and announced he would never run again and gone to mar a lago and played golf he would have avoided most all of the investigations....he could have gone on fox "news" and spent all his time blasting Biden and/or every other president, king, Queen, CEO, Athlete and any and all the 'idiots" during his "golden" years. He could have still grifted many millions more from the kool aide crew without worrying much about going to jail or being seen as a massive loser. He did the opposite and has gotten himself into a heap of sxxxxt.....in the end he will indeed be seen as the Greatest con man ever to be POTUS. To paraphrase Mick Jagger....NO sympathy for the devil.

It is truly a waste of time to try and engage with trumpers. See no evil Hear no evil, pass the kool aide. And when it is finally all over and all the investigations are done and the DOJ indicts or does not indict you can be sure if any of the results do not please trumpers they will whine and whine then whine some more about the giant witch hunt and how very unfair it all is to little donnie and the delusionals.

dtac has a store in central festival mall ...3rd or 4th floor i think

the only place where a van driver totally scared the <deleted> out of me was the road from Hanoi to Halong bay....never again....and i still question why i didn't demand to just let me out as the driver was a total and complete idiot passing into head on traffic running cars off the road etc....very stupid on my behalf as he was a bad accident just waiting to happen....i got lucky guess i have also been lucky in thailand as i have actually had some decent sane rides...did one pattaya to cambodia recently for visa run and rode shotgun.....the driver was very good and no issues at all. But not a big fan of asian vans...i much prefer a big bus although they also seem to often have issues with speeding/sleeping drivers.

The entire republican party with very very few exceptions are spineless cowards with no morals and no courage to challenge the absolute batsxxt crazies that have taken over the party. It is the exact opposite of "profiles in courage" that Americans once proudly celebrated. The Electoral college is the ONLY reason a republican has won the white house in decades. This arcane law has allowed the person with fewer votes to defy the will of the people for decades. Add to that the constant redistricting and gerrymandering by republicans and it is clear republicans can not win without figuring a way to game a very stupid system. ONE PERSON ONE VOTE. Why should a vote in one state count more than ten votes in another state. It is absurd. Electoral college. A rigged election. Republican presidential candidates have won the national popular vote only once in the last 32 years. They have therefore depended on the electoral college for nearly all presidential victories in the last generation.

How many snowbirds come to thailand during the oct/nov to apr/may time period? Not really tourists and not really full timers. Sure would be nice if there were a six month visa to encourage even more snow birds without having to do visa runs, extensions, etc etc....one of Thailand's assets is it is warm here while it is winter time in a half the world. Take advantage of that and promote it.

I used to get mine cut in chiang rai for 60 baht...but they raised it to 80 baht those greedy bastards...just kidding...it was and is a heck of a bargain and they did a very good job. It was an old fashioned barber shot with all male barbers who knew what they were doing. I nearly always gave them a small tip of 20 baht or so but noticed that their clientele which was almost all Thai gave no tip at all....and far as i could tell no tip was even expected.

and your qualifications are better than career generals? trump much?

How would the world be doing now economy and otherwise if Putin had not started this entire mess? Just as we were semi coming out of the covid he has to blow up that good news with this stupid hitler wannabe move. Maybe one of Putin's generals will be able to get rid of Putin, end the war . blame entire mess correctly on Putin, and become a national hero in Russia? I doubt the Russian people are all that happy about the road Putin is dragging them down and many would be very glad to see him gone. One bullet to the head could perhaps change history and allow Russians and Ukrainians to return to some semblance of a normal life and avoid potential nuke war as Putin gets backed further and further into a corner..

Trumpers like dear leader whine and moan if investigations move to slow or too fast...it's what they do...whine whine whine. DOJ moves very slowly as usual because unlike trumpers they don't go off half cocked with a bunch of theories and BS. They actually gather all the facts from documents and testimony. Then they determine what charges should be filed if any. None of us are privy to what evidence the DOJ actually already has or may still be double checking but I for one would bet they are being very careful to present only FACTS and not a bunch of tin hat conspiracies like the BIG LIE. Donnie will likely get his days in court where he can try and sell his side of the case to a jury and we will see how that works out when it becomes all about provable facts.

So what's next. Why not have some good old book burnings like back in the good ole days and ronnie and his minions can decide what is fit for you to read and what is not. The less history kids learn the less likely they are to question the motives and people who make history . And not sure if those blacks should be allowed to vote at all. Let's pass a bunch of rules and redraw districts to make it harder for them to vote. And not sure if GOD intended women to vote either. And if you should by some weird circumstance happen to lose an election whine and pxss and moan like a 5 y.o. til the cows come home. If that doesn't do it then round up an army of screaming idiots to attack the capital and arrest any who oppose you and just take over....because GOD knows that YOU are supposed to lead the country back to the good ole days when men were white men and women and blacks and gays and history professors knew their place. Round up all the gays and democrats and make them wear a yellow star when outside (holocaust precursor). Stir up violence and create controversy so you can fund raise off of it. Why not come up with some snazzy armbands and a one armed salute to show your support. And outlaw all those commie solar panels and electric cars and get back to burning good ole black coal from Merica.... Yeah that's the ticket....

OK i am guilty of judging what i saw . I judged that it was unusual and kind of weird. My judgement. If that offended anyone then so be it but I am incapable of not forming some kind of opinion on most everything I see.....sometimes good opinions, sometimes bad, and sometimes just that is different. Perhaps some can see things and have a total neutral opinion and are rarely surprised enough to even think well that is different. I am not. I suppose I should just have not posted my observation and am sorry if it offended anyone. Does a day go by that many on this very forum don't give their "opinions and judgements" on something that is reported? I most certainly wish the man well whatever his motivations may have been.

so now you are judging me....got it.

I did not mean or attempt to judge the guy. I simply relayed what I saw as I thought it to be unusual. And I also hate to see food wasted as it is every day all over the world while people go hungry.

I did think for a minute maybe i should walk by and leave 100 baht on the table. But i did not. What made it so strange was how well dressed he was....very nice golf type shirt, nice white shorts and a better looking pair of shoes than i own.

So was having lunch at central festival food court today. Young Thai couple eating a few tables away. A nicely dressed mid 60's farang sits at table next to mine alone. When the Thai couple gets up and leaves they of course leave behind their unfinished bowls of soup along with a little of some rice dish. The farang gets up and goes and sits at the abandoned Thai table with all the dirty dishes ...seems strange as he was already at exact same size clean table. Anyway, next thing you know he starts eating all the leftovers, the soup, the rice, bit of salad etc, using same silverware that thais had just used. Another guy sitting nearby also sees what is happening and looks at me and rolls his eyes as neither of us can really believe what we are seeing. I guess if you are here long enough you will see it all. Was the guy that hard up to have to do that or is that some sort of accepted custom in whatever country he came from. As said, well dressed and appeared well groomed. Weird.

Just passed through few days ago....strange set up from what I could see. Big beautiful terminal but from what i saw the trains don't actually go into the covered terminal part...instead you have to go underground under the tracks and then you are outside to board or disembark train....it is a long walk into the terminal itself and very little cover from sun or rain outside...one little crossover path that requires you to walk and drag/haul your luggage over the tracks where you then can enter the mrt station and walk underground a very substantial hike to the main terminal....,maybe i missed something but seems a very poor design for a major new train station.....at least at hualamphong the trains arrive and depart INSIDE the covered area and very easy escalators to BTS. Also signage at new station leaves much to be desired...some say trains and point others say railway and point meaning i suppose the mrt trains one way and railway the other...some no doubt ythink trains means the train since you are after all at a train station.....then you walk down some long hallways and the signage just stops...had to stop and ask security several times as i really wasn.t expecting the railway trains to be outside far from the station.... anyway i think it will eventually get sorted out or i hope so

Both very likely did NOT pack their own boxes when they left office. They relied on aides to do that. The investigations will no doubt determine who was involved in the packing etc and how docs got taken by both. In one case. trump, when the Archives found that many docs seemed to have not been turned over as required the inquiry began....when it was discovered trump had numerous boxes with classified docs that had not been turned over trump did turn over some of them....but begin a long campaign of lying about possibly still having other docs. He tried to claim they were all his anyway. Then he claimed they had all been returned and even had his lawyer attest to that. He has gone out of his way to obstruct efforts to get the docs back. He has attacked the courts for granting with cause a search warrant and he has attacked the police and fbi for attempting to get the docs back. He was notified in advance of the "raid" and had ample opportunity to be present or have his lawyers present for the search. Now his actions are being investigated by a special counsel but to this day he continues to deny and deflect and attack the investigators, the courts, the media and any and all who dare to say follow the facts and then notify the public after a complete investigation and take whatever if any legal actions the facts suggest and the doj and court system suggests. In the other case. Biden, when his own staff lawyer found a few, not hundreds, docs had been taken that the NARA had not even noticed were missing the NARA was immediately notified and docs were turned over the next day. Subsequently a more detailed search was done by his own lawyers to see if there were any other docs around and yes they did find a few more and once again immediately turned them over to the authorities. A special counsel has been named and tasked to investigate Bidens involvement and a report will be issued the public and just like trump the doj and courts will determine if legal action is proper. I know it is a waste of time to even write all this as trumpers will never ever admit that dear leader could possibly be wrong or do wrong. See no evil Hear no evil. If Trump had handled it like Biden that would have been the end of it....made a mistake, corrected mistake, cooperated fully, docs all returned. But that is not what happened. Not at all. And I would bet when the two special counsels issue their reports if the trump report does not please them they will whine and pxss and moan like a 5 year old and call it all a big witch hunt as dear leader can do no wrong. Just like they have done for over two years now after the election fraud BIG LIE that was investigated over and over and over by mostly republicans as well as 60 court cases and found no credible evidence of election fraud, Every single investigation by dems or republicans or trump appointed judges or special counsels are all a giant witch hunt.

I will give your comments the attention that I think they deserve.