spidermike007

Were you expecting this bird to solve complex science or math formulas? Nobody ever said these were smart creatures.

Please, please Marjorie. Run. Run and lose. She is one of the most sickening, ignorant, and depraved politicians in a very long time. I hope she runs, gets humiliated and loses. Then disappears.

Not shocking. Ugly and sickening, yes. This kind of thing has been happening since Cro Magnan times. People are so easily shocked these days. Drama queens?

What kind of man does this? Who is this goon? He deserves the death penalty. A quick and lethal end to his miserable existence. Now. No hesitation.

Thailand is no longer attracting that many people from the West, and the vast majority of tourists are now Russian, Malaysian, Indian, and Arab, and some Chinese, and I don't think very many of them are wealthy. So, the industry continues to hurt. Thailand is no longer attracting very many Western tourists for a dozen very good reasons. One could argue that these are relatively low quality tourists, in terms of the amounts of money that they spend. Sure you have a few wealthy Russians and some wealthy Chinese, but most are lower to middle income and don't spend alot. Thailand suffers from an impossible level of smugness and arrogance, and a persistent belief that they are truly the center of the universe and the best thing in the world. They don't have a clue. Sometimes it feels like the fact that the nation was never colonized was a leading factor in this hubris and inability to see the world for what it is. The severe inability to adapt, improve, and reform, has hurt their prospects. It's all good. Far less tourism would make Thailand far more comfortable for the tourists who come, and for the expats, and would likely lead to better attitudes amongst people in tourism. They simply would need to be creative in figuring out ways to make up for the lost billions in revenue. This process will not be reversed until the authorities wake up and make some sacrifices such as lowering luxury taxes, lowering wine taxes, cleaning up the air, making the highways safer, allowing more private air travel, helicopter travel, high-speed trains and alternatives to the totally choked and extremely hazardous highways. And now they have invited in the Bratva, by opening up the country to all Russians. Quantity over quality only works if you are selling $2 items at a swap meet. Dumb and dumber.

Two academy awards and a fortune of $500 million, VS. five bankruptcies, five cowardly deferments, and 17 failed businesses, and billions in stolen money. Who is the failure as a decent human being?

Another totally ridiculous reply, and not based to truth, facts, reality, or life in the universe most of us share.

So what? This happens all the time, all over the world. You want higher quality tenants? Then vet them, get references and don't let the first person with some cash who comes along be your next tenant. Lesson learned? One wonders.

A totally ridiculous post. Just like with his highly ignorant tariffs, taxing films made overseas will not help the US industry. Trump does not get it. Why are films being made overseas? Why are products being made overseas? Because the US costs and inflation are out of control. He has no understanding of globalization. He is just not smart enough and he is being very poorly advised. DeNiro continues to do very well, and gets as many projects as he can handle.

He is a courageous man who speaks truth to power, and neither Trump, nor his devotees can stand that truth. I admire him for that. Someone needs to call the goon out on his reckless policies and callous hatred and constant verbal venom. Trump is a black hearted chump.

I think that in the second Trump term he’s changed that very quickly. Not just by taking America’s soft power and setting it on fire in all sorts of ways, but really making these abrupt decisions that are going to kill hundreds of thousands and maybe more than a million people and he’s doing it in this incredibly arbitrary, careless way. Trump is destroying the US economy one step at a time. It could be intentional. It could be diabolical. Nobody knows. He could simply be unhinged or following the dictates of a very sinister cabal. One thing is certain. He is accomplishing very little, he will NOT bring manufacturing back to America, which is stupid over priced (I am here now and inflation is raging at 20% or higher right now), he is causing alot of pain, he is losing support, destroying businesses, and consumer confidence, he does not have a coherent plan, and he is a destructive nimwit. I don’t think he has a coherent value structure as most of us understand it. I think we’re seeing a president who’s operating without anything any of us would recognize as a conscience. Truly. It is about showing what he can get away with. It’s about showing his enemies that what they support, he can tear down. It is all about displays of brute strength. He gets off on that, and in that sense, it seems not so much an autocracy but a flexocracy. Let me show you how I can flex my bicep as I use it to power my fist coming into your face.

Hua Hin needs to be an aviation hub. Not Pattaya, which is too close to Swampy to matter. HH remains one of the least utilized airports in SE Asia. It is a shame and a waste. The congestion getting in and out of Bangkok, especially with the monumental failure of the Rama II project is a national disgrace and needs to be dealt with.

Carney was smart in the Trump meeting and let the goon embarrass himself with his continued assanine remarks. Any and all disrespect paid toward the US under this toxic and hateful "so called leader" is a good thing.

General rule of thumb. Never buy near the peak. Having said that silver is still relatively low, compared to gold. That would be my choice. Though we have limited options in Thailand. In an ideal world I would have one, five and 10 oz silver bars or coins, and I would have the physical metal stored in a private safe facility in Singapore.

I refuse to put on winter tires because: • It’s my car, my choice, my freedom. • The effectiveness of winter tires is not proven, except by studies carried out by the manufacturers (like I’m supposed to trust them). • My neighbor Bob had an accident even after putting on winter tires. • Some drivers are already on their 3rd set of tires, which proves their ineffectiveness. • We do not know what the tires are made of. • The tire manufacturers scare us with winter just to enrich themselves. • In fact, I read on the internet that the tire giants invented snow and spread it at night when you sleep. • If I have winter tires, the government can track me in the snow. Educate yourself, open your eyes, stop being sheep! This year, I say no to winter tires!

Not at all, because the government continues to use magnesium ore, other incredibly silly commodities to measure the inflation rate so your increases will remain at 3.2% . If that.

Trump only picks from the bottom of the barrel. Was there a single choice in this entire administration that was a solid and wise pick? It is all about fealty, and merit is not a consideration. Just look at Hesgeth, Habbard, Patel, and Bessent. They are dreadful. A real embarrassment. Empty suits.

Tell it like it is. Trump loves, respects and admires despots and serial killing dictators (and nations that are our true enemies), and seems to dislike real democratically elected leaders and our friends and long term allies. Twisted? Absolutely. Just a day in the life of Don.

1% is not what anyone would define as a wobble. It is more like a tiny blip. Granted, a blip in the right direction. But, still a nothing.

You are very bad people. Me no like you at all. That was caught on tape? Woops. Me so sorry now. It was all a misunderstanding. Please don't hate me. I promise, I am not really that nasty. Me very good.

That is one creepy looking Western teenager. What a bizarre saga. At least now her family has a glimmer of who she is.

In all the years I've lived in Thailand I've only had one friend who has admitted that he met his woman in a bar. When someone asks where did you meet your girl he says oh my wife was a bar girl and she had actually been at it for quite a few years! It's so refreshing to hear something like that. I have another friend who met a girl at the Nana Plaza Disco on his on his first night in Thailand, she was in her late 30s, she had probably been working the field for 15 years or more, and she was not particularly attractive, and yet he would tell people that she was a college graduate, a chemist and all kinds of nonsense.

Perhaps the students should band together and form a "teacher disciplinary council"? Sometimes adults in a position of authority are out of control, and they need to be accountable for their actions.

That is such a total nonsense, it seems like you're not in the US at this point. I am, and inflation is closer to 20% believe me, everything's going up, everybody's talking about it, and it doesn't matter where you live or what you do for a living you're being affected by this ridiculous inflation storm. The government is constantly lying about it, and using magnesium ore and similarly silly commoditoes to come up with these stupid and faken umbers.