spidermike007

Alot more fast food, alot more junk food, and very few work out or exercise. It is a recipe for both obesity and disaster. Survival is a skill. One has to be able to educate themselves, figure out what is healthy food, and what the body needs, or suffer the consequences. Nothing about life is automatic, unless you are unconscious enough to make it so. These are personal choices. Everyone has the right to wreck their own lives and their own bodies.

I believe if he tried to steal the election, the response would be overwhelming. It could be the last thing he ever does. He and the army are despised like never before. And any moral authority is gone. Everything has changed. See ya, Prayuth. Nobody is going to miss you.

Imagine an American corporation, or any corporation, considering moral responsibility? Look at CP. Though they know they are choking the nation, and likely killing thousands of people by encouraging the burning of crops, and they know it is both harmful and illegal, it continues. That represents a pathological disregard for humanity. That is the way most corporations roll. Profits over anything or anyone. Biden is being naive to even ask such a thing.

Not to sound unsympathetic, but people die from overdosing drugs all over the world every day. This is just not a big surprise. In 2021, over 100,000 died in the US, from over dosing drugs. Granted, we are talking about a very, very broken nation. Same can be said of the UK. Most would not consider ecstacy to be of a high risk nature. Oxy, Fentanyl, yes. Almost a death wish, in my opinion. When I was younger I did alot of LSD, mescaline, peyote, speed, etc. Never considered for a moment, it could be fatal, and it rarely was. Who knows what she mixed it with, could have been a bad batch, she could have had a weak heart, etc., etc. Many variables.

Oh please. Such purile sanctimony. How does one even take it seriously, for even a nanosecond? She is cute, she has a rather nice pair, and she is using her available resources. Nothing wrong with any of it. There are alot of netizens who seem to have nothing better to do, than give people a hard time. It is not an expression of their better nature. Get a life.

Yes. A location like that would immediately disqualify the unit. Is there not already enough dust and bad air here? And the noise. I get it, if there was a huge discount for the bad environment. When I make major trips, I often notice nice homes, developments, and condos built in horrific locations. Right off the interstate in the US. Right off the highway in Thailand. Noisy, dusty, nasty. No privacy. Yikes. Some people either have very very poor judgment, or noise and excessive dust and pollution does not seem to bother them. Or, they just did not consider it sufficiently, when buying. Or renting. I don't get it.

Yes. An emphatic yes. Thai beer is only rivaled by Serbian beer, and the mass produced American beers, in terms of the very low quality. Poor grade of hops, barely, and the production process seems to be entirely lacking in pride. Typical of the big monopolies. Even a large production beer, like Beer Laos blows away any Thai beer, hands down. Thailand desperately needs a vital craft beer movement, and the youth are ready to mount it. If only the dinosaurs would stop protecting their "bankers" and move out of the way. In other words, allow some progress, you despised bunch of dinosaurs! Boon Rawd Brewery, which makes Singha, and ThaiBev, which brews Chang, the country’s best-selling beer, are owned and run by two of the wealthiest families in Thailand. Through longevity and political influence, these two breweries have dominated Thai beer for nearly a century, forcing out or crushing any competition, foreign or domestic. And we all know how they easily accomplish this. Thaopipob Linjittkorn, or Thao as he is more popularly known, a lawyer and homebrewer, was very publicly arrested in 2017 for making beer. He used that publicity to win an election to Parliament in 2019, along with 80 other members of the Future Forward Party. This progressive, pro-democracy party included in its platform a detailed plan to deregulate the beer industry, as well as a proposal for the legalization of marijuana, citing both as ways of putting money into the pockets of small businesses and local farmers. The opposition that Future Forward was up against is a military-backed, hardline government that supports the duopoly with strict regulations that allow it to control over 99% of Thailand’s estimated 180 billion baht ($5.8 billion) beer industry. The duopoly was originally made untouchable with the first Thai Liquor Control Act in 1950, a law which has been amended several times since to push legality even further out of reach of any small brewer. Prayuth's administration has done much to reinforce the isolationist and nationalistic policies that Phibul established in the 1940s and ’50s, and has called again and again for citizens to display a certain level of “Thainess,” which the PM defines in part as unquestioning loyalty to the government. Do not be disobedient! For small breweries, it requires production of at least 100,000 liters (852 barrels) but no greater than 1,000,000 liters (8,520 BBLs), and stipulates that all beer must be sold on the premises. At the same time, the minimum amount for an industrial license was increased from one million liters to 10 million liters (85,200 BBLs) per year, as well as requiring that the brewer demonstrate available capital of at least 10 million baht ($320,000). Just to make sure small brewers were thoroughly intimidated, the rewrite also increased inflated penalties. Fines were increased from their original, almost quaint 200 baht ($6) for possession of bootleg alcohol to 10,000 ($300). For actually brewing without a license, fines were increased from 5,000 baht ($150) to a range of 50,000–100,000 baht ($1,600–$3,200), plus jail time. Reporting in 2017, The Bangkok Post estimated that in order to meet the new regulations, a brewer would need to have a billion baht—around $30 million—in start-up capital. For some, craft beer is associated with anti-establishment politics. “It’s very similar to the French Revolution, which started from a cafe in Paris, where people drank coffee,” says Taopiphop. “The fuel of the revolution is not coffee any more, it’s craft beer.” Taopiphop adds that, after the 2014 coup in Thailand, many pro-democracy activists chose to meet in Bangkok’s craft beer bars. If only the younger Thais were allowed to express themselves, be inventive, be creative, be industrious, and use their smarts and ambition, Thailand could have a future. Craft beer is needed here, and so are the young entrepreneurs. But, that future appears to be suppressed at every turn by dinosaurs, who only answer to money, money, and even more money. Money is the God of lesser men. The money first attitude is holding back Thailand on so many levels.

It depends on the person. My Thai wife comes from a very good family. Solid, hard working, honest folks. Have lent money her sister, brother and folks money, over the years. Always been paid back. Not always on time, but always paid in full. Honest is honest. A crook is a crook, no matter the nationality.

He is a completely ridiculous man, and he loses far more than he wins. If only people knew the full extent of what he has done in his career of swindles, grifting, taking small contractors for the ride of their careers, and cheating people out of money. Thankfully, he does not have much hope of becoming president again. It is likely another way to "raise cash" for this anti social misfit.

This man is very misguided. He simply picked the wrong pony. Move Thailand forwards, not backward.

It is possible that the new opposition leadership would be wiling to defy big Agra, and start enforcing the laws against burning. Up until now, we have seen nothing but obedience and shame and cowardice.

Time will tell if these cars can truly rival the build quality of the Japanese rivals. I don't think they ever will.

Make it easier for Burmese and Cambodians to get work visas, and make it free. You need labor? Get creative and show some humility.

I am sure they do. However, being aware of the competition, and being able to build a car that last like many Japanese cars do, is a very, very distant dream for the Chinese. Time will tell. These MG cars have a very short track history, in their current evolution.

Wow, 1%. So very impressive. Prayuth should not only be re-elected, he should be made PM for life.

Yes, and my body fat is down to 3.5%, my net worth is up to $78 million, the air quality improves every year, and I have an investment for you that returns 45% annually. Guaranteed. Yeah, right. Believe anything these guys tell you, at your own peril. Likely closer to 13%.

Alot of the build quality is on the outside of the car. It takes research to know which cars last a long time, and some of us prefer a solid Japanese car over a modest Chinese one. They "look" like nice cars for the money. Need I say more?

Not to be too disparaging of the educational system here, but the top University in the country is considered to be Chulalongkorn. Rated 463rd worldwide. The focus on education has always been intentionally poor, on the part of the authorities. And we know why.

Personally, I prefer a smart Thai, who is not highly educated. Takes care of the practical end of things, without the intellectual arguments, debates and her need to always prove she is right. So much more harmony at home. Tried it both ways. Will stick with a Thai angel.

Alot happened in the 17th century. 78% of women were illiterate in the 1670’s but twenty years later this figure had shrunk to 52%. Quakers believed in women’s intellectual capabilities and eight year old girls who could read well at Mrs Makin’s school at Tottenham received instruction in Latin, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian and Spanish. Charles I was put to death. That was a good thing. On his acceptance of the Crown Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, which formally recognised religious toleration, protected rights to land ownership and subordinated control of the Army to the sovereign. Ever wary of how his father’s uncontrolled tyranny had created years of bloodshed, Charles was eager to achieve a new settlement. This began the Glorious Restoration. Many of the stifling restrictions imposed on public life during the Commonwealth were also lifted, creating more liberal circumstances in which the arts and politics could flourish. Theatres reopened, religious festivals were reinstated and the natural rhythm of life was resumed.

I will simply say I think my life would be infinitely less rich and fascinating, without an interest in history and geography. History is utterly fascinating.

There is a gulf of difference separating ignorance from arrogance. Cheney, Rumsfeld and their employee Bush Jr. were beyond arrogant.

Some consider it alot less work to just meet, greet and bring her out. The back and forth texting is only for the hardy ones.

Thank you. And perhaps five from Covid, and who knows what all the details are? It is endemic now. People will continue dying of the flu, colds, falling down, and breaking a hip, and other things older and more vulnerable people die from.

10 bar fines. And a few beers and lady drinks. I think it would be a tough way to make a living and the hours are brutal. And whatever kind of novelty it brought, would wear off after a month. When I was living on Samui back in the day I often thought about buying a bar and calling it the Chocolate bar, hiring only beautiful women that had very dark skin, and when the beautiful light skinned women came in you could tell them sorry you don't qualify, you're too white! Offering all kinds of gifts and prizes and and incentives and free trips and things like that for the highest earning girls and creating a really fun scene, but that was back in the day, that's not going to happen now.