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Stand bye for incoming comment : It's the hot season for heavens sake. Perfectly normal for time of year. Nothing to do with global warming. Personally I love this hot weather. The hotter it is the more I like it. Bring on 45 degrees and I will get the wife to stake me out on the lawn . GREAT.

Obviously has mental health issues which she won't get help with here. Portuguese embassy should assist her family in getting her home for the medical help she needs. The longer this is delayed the worse things will get. Definitely not a problem that will go away or can be repeatedly swept under the carpet

Which part is BS. The temperature 40 years ago or the ice on the puddles ? Both are true . I lived in a village ( Prayuen ) 25 k outside KK. Even now parts of Thailand get hail storms and villages are temporarily covered in icy hail stones. Dito for the temperature. Whilst I was there , never hotter than 35 in the shade. Even when we lived in Nonthaburi 14 years ago, woke up one day IN MARCH and it was 17 degrees when the sun came up. Totally freak weather for that time of year. Again , back in 1984ish I had to wade up Sukhumvit Soi 24 with water halfway up to my knees to get to my apartment at Peter Court

Well Tony Pengs vlog starts off with : The crucial goal/assumption of a poll of being able to select a random sample of voters, So right from the get go there is a problem since to have a truly ' random sample of voters ' you would have to take that sample from all the voters without any pre screening. This means you would have to collate all the elligible voters into a computer program and then have the computer randonly select 1000 people to interview , wherever or whoever they might be. But this is not what happens. Those individuals doing the poll will obviously ony talk to people from whom they can expect a coherant answer. They won't look under the motorway for a group of drunks and poll them. And yet , those drunks , if they are adults , will probably be eligable voters. Similarly , the pollsters will not venture into the provinces to interview the computer chosen individuals, they will stay close to base and take their' random sample ' from people close at hand who look like they could answer the questionaire. But this has already introduced screening and bias into the poll so the results will be affected. Thai polls are well known to be inaccurate and this has attracted attention : https://www.thaienquirer.com/49635/shy-prayut-voters-or-scared-prayut-voters-election-polls-accuracy-and-bias/ The BP has commented on this and about the disparity in results between the Suan Dusit Polls and the Nida polls but forum rules forbit me provideing a link but you can google it using the words Bangkok Post inaccurate polls. Worth noting that none of the pollsters predicted MFPs huge victory because they could not truly select a random sample of voters. If they could have , then the 1000 people selected would have been able to paint a more accurate picture of the situation in the whole country. Statistical fact is that there are more voters living outside Bangkok than in it.

Plant based meat . Can't they just call a spade a spade ' plant based food ' Why do they have to drag meat into it at all. If a eating meat is abhorent to some people why try to make fake meat for them ? Actually, I know the answer to that. Big profits

Well, the link to Tony Pengs vlog is a perfect illustration of the old saying : There are lies , damn lies and then there are statistics :

I'm glad you like MFP. So do I . But did you read the full article ? This is what I find misleading and meaningless since although , as you say , MFP had a great victory at the polls , this poll implies that at the next election it will be ' other parties ' that get almost 50% of the vote ??? What other parties do they mean ?? The parties associated with the conservative military parties ?? This poll suggests that if there were an election tomorrow : Personnaly , I do not think this poll, conducted on a small amount of people not living in the provinces , reflects the true popularity of MFP. Either way , most people ( even Pita himself ) are of the opinion that the MFP will not be contesting the next election since they are likely to be banned again by those who fear an election victory by a party they deem to be too radical. Question is, if MFP are banned and a third incarnation appears , will it stand a fair chance in the next election when both Phua Thai and the military are running scared and will do their best to see that the status quo remains.

Yup air con needed. Fans just don't cut it .

Just put the Ruskies on a Vodka drip . That will calm them down. If they get too much blood in their alcohol stream they get a bit cranky.

The NIDA Poll was conducted between April 9th and 11th among 1,310 people on the topic of Thaksin’s role and Pheu Thai party’s chances in the next election. Wow, they really pushed the boat out for this poll. 1310 peoples canvassed. Almost double the usual number of people they ask . Both meaningless and misleading.

Ask any elderly Thai if the hot season was as hot as this 40 years ago. They will answer no. 40 years ago I was living in a village outside Khon Kaen. If the temperature hit 35 that was already thought to be seriously hot . Never saw any day hotter than 35. Conversely, in the cool season it was often really cold and in the mornings it was not unusual to see any puddles frozen with an ice crust. You don't see that either these days.

Some Chinese soap thing in the living room. Not a regular TV channel. One of the options on the free TV box 3BB provide. Before she took over and I retreated to my man cave, I was watching the news on TNN. Also no problem. We are in Petchabun.

Ours is fine. Working normally. Wife is watching something right now.

Best method IMO. Sold 3 houses in Bangkok without agents. All the adverts I placed online on various platforms only garnered a slew of phone calls from agents offering to do what I had obviously already done. The sign on the gate method produced instant results. Everyone in the neighborhood who saw the sign contacted friends or relatives and a sale followed within a fortnight.

Yes, I would not be sùrprised. Back in the early 1980's , any foreigner living in the country for more than 180 days per year had to obtain a tax clearance certificate from the revenue department. This had to be produced upon departure at Don Muang. The amount of tax calculated was a couple of thousand baht. However, if you could get a civil servant to act as your guarantor, any taxes were waived. There used to be several of these moonlighting civil servants hanging around outside the revenue department and for 500 baht they would act as your guarantor.

As things currently stand , can those of us just living on our pensions depart Thailand as per normal or will we get hassled at the airport for any documents relating to our tax situation in Thailand.

I think we were both lucky to stay there many years ago. Back in 2020 I drove past it with my wife on the way to our hotel in Barmouth. We had it in mind to spend a few hours there but couldn't get into the car park ! Jam packed solid with day trippers which somehow took the shine off visiting. We went elsewhere for a walk.

Yes. A classic of the time. Right up there with Kubricks Barry Lyndon. Kubrick is not an easy man to work with. A couple of anecdotes about working with him on Full Metal Jacket. The second one at 5.00 minutes in is brilliant. I would have loved to have been there when it happened

A holiday to Thailand now has as much kudos as a fortnight in Torremelinos to most Europeans. The country has prostituted itself to the tourist industry and over hubbed itself , all the while missing the point that the ' high quality ' visitors it wants are looking for a more exclusive experience than Thailand now has to offer. The quality of the tourists Thailand is now attracting has spoilt places like Phuket and Chiang Mai and this has not gone unnoticed.

Free accomodation will now be provided at the IDC hotel. Right up his street.

Paperwork requirements ?

Asean Thaigers Now Visa forum ?

In other news 65 million people didn't take a train and at least 1 did not leave his house for 4 days,

Storm in a tea cup.

Great respect for other people's property. So many morons out there .