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9 hours ago, Saastrajaa said:

 

Largely a myth spread by the "rescue industry" to help fill their own white-lady pockets.

Well you clearly have no direct knowledge of the reality of life in Isaan - or perhaps you are a trolling stooge with a vested interest in trying to minimise the more shameful aspects of the LOS? 

3 hours ago, nontabury said:

 

  The main Question "what do the Scottish people want. Well in 2014 they gave their democratic answer. In 2017, in fact this very morning, I received from Scottish friends living in Scotland the following-

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Spot on.

This silly little woman actually thinks that she is in some way relevant in the great scheme of things and needs to constantly "make noises" to prove to herself that she is somehow important..........

..............and these nice shiny things here are the new bomb detectors we've just bought.

This is the HiSo version of "fleeing the scene of the accident"..................

Judging by the Prime Minister`s remarks it does display the fact that Farlang expats are still considered as complete outsiders and will never be an acceptable part of Thai society. Or may be I`m reading too much into this?

He needs to keep beating that xenophobia drum to try to distract the populus from the nightmare that he's trying to create...............

Did you check to see if there's a sleeping Thai lady firmly attached to it?

Yes, I found that reducing the number of female occupants to a minimum does help with this "heavy mattress" problem.............

She's beautiful and they both seem very happy together.

I find the whole sequence quite delightful - good luck to them both!

There is a nugget of truth in this latest B.S.

Unlike most sensible economies that value efficiency, Thailand has deliberately created a system that requires at least four people to do the work one could do alone if it were not for the layers of useless burocracy and mountains of pointless paperwork involved in the simplest of transactions................and, of course, keeping wages artificially low in the process..............

There is no such thing as Thainess.

You are, of course, absolutely correct - however, in the blinkered, nationalistic world of La La Land there IS such a thing as "Thainess"..................

If these moral dinosaurs actually understood what foreigners experience as "Thainess", they would want to hide it, not boast about it................

It is a little difficult to image a $7,800 massage chair. What types of massage does it do?

Very expensive ones.................

His eyes tell you that he would be only too willing to "help" - and that he is itching to do so...........................

Excellent! - when the purge of "mafia" police personnel is complete, I have full confidence that a similar exercise will be conducted to eliminate "mafia" miltary personnel........................

A drug dealer named "Coke" with "Heroin" emblazoned on his T shirt and having a history of selling amphetamines is arrested for possessing marijuana - well that covers most bases I suppose!

This is actually a photo of the post-raid auction.................

"Who'll bid 10,000 Baht for a box of these?".

"Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit."

Emma Goldman

..............and "...........the last refuge of a scoundrel"................Samuel Johnson.

Excellent info guys - many thanks.

My wife and I now have 2.5 yrs to prepare for the FLR..............but no doubt the goalposts will have been moved yet again by then!

"While competition is driving prices down, the M.O.T. approved a fare increase..." - yep, Thainess at its most mysterious...................

"Code of Ethics" ?....................on an international scale that might be likened to a country's "constitution" and we've all witnessed, time and again, how the Thai military uphold that particular "code"!

Lastly he said the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy is not a fixed formula, but a principle that must be implemented in different approaches according to the environment and geographical conditions.

Here we go again, what is sufficient for some is too little for others. How about this, put a number forward, say 2 million baht, anyone that has more can contribute to those that have less. Once everyone has the same amount, they have sufficient, unless of course they're in Bangkok or Phuket, where they should naturally be entitled to more according to the quoted statement. Madness is what it actually is.

Now, now rr711, Truth, Logic and Common Sense have no place in La La Land...................

Makes you wonder how much a begging license is going to cost and how much the weekly costs will be.

....and whether an "aspiring beggar" will be allowed to beg for the money needed to become a "licensed beggar"...............

Soooooo, with the RTP's history of honesty, transparency, wholly lawful conduct and quite impeccable reputation for impartially upholding the law without fear or favour and, on the other hand a foreigner, whose version should we believe, I wonder...............?

Well, thank goodness there are so few pretty women in Thailand otherwise the military really would be stretched trying to "protect" them all.....................

I've been successfully using IE to make my 90 day reports since the start of this service but for the last 2 days, instead of the "extranet.immigration.go.th" page I get presented with an error page "Failure of web server bridge - no backend server available"

Is anyone else having this problem? - has the service broken down?

Well, good luck with that, I have personal experience of just how receptive Thais are to foreigners offering to "help them change".......................