SunsetT

I think you, like so many others, need to take your blinkers off: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/killer-domestic-cats--bbc-presenter-chris-packham-says--there-are-too-many-cats-in-the-uk---171602889.html

Cats are not wild animals. WE have domesticated them and are keeping them unnecessarily now as pets when they do so much damage. As for mankind? We are the 'wild animal' that is killing all other fauna and flora, and, as we are so short sighted, we will kill ourselves too.

China invades Taiwan. USA has sworn to defend Taiwan. War breaks out between China and USA; potentially evolving into WW3. Who would Thailand side with?

Are you not aware that many species of small mammals and wild birds are endangered species and cats kill thousands every year? But hey ho! who gives a s h i t when we are destroying all other species on this planet at an alarming rate!

Yes. I have noticed less mosquitoes too. We are destroying all other species on this planet.

I heard it was trying to get into the Guinness book of records.

So this thread is referring to the airline's fast track check-in lane and not at immigration?

So who is eligible to use a 'fast track' lane?

Dont you mean North west?

I thought that Thai owned ThaiSmile already.

Despicable!

Do not pass go. Do not collect 200.

Donation! Donation! Donation! Where does it all go?

Spot on. As with only lip service being paid to teaching English. They want to keep most of the Thai population blinkered and stupid...More easily controlled. More easily manipulated. More easily exploited for cheap labour. I was previously excited about the internet opening their minds but sadly it is 99% Thai content + inane tic tok type garbage that they now imbibe through their drug, i.e.., their phones.

My lady says many candidates did this in the past. So they just took the money from all and still chose freely who they wanted to voted for.

Very sad to hear this. Thanks Joe for all your help on here over the years. Condolences to your family. Bon Voyage!

Thais do not feel shame. The only thing that works is international publicity and condemnation and/or boycotts/sanctions.

So is there now a new railway station in Nong Khai or does this new link to Vientiane terminate at the small existing station?

The UK has recently been returned to the Stone Age in most respects!

Rub some on the base of the power cord too. And a line all around the table under the table lip and around the base of the table legs.

Difficult to get your head round it but this actually happens twice as the sun passes directly overhead twice in countries within the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. Once around the Spring equinox and once around the Autumn equinox. I dont know why the Spring equinox zenith is hotter than the Autumn in Thailand. Must be other climactic factors involved like humidity in Spring and the rain in the Autumn.

...and those who occupy low status too.

Thank you. I did not know that. I will look into it.

Yep! Successfully brainwashed. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=people+pulling+own+teeth+in+UK "It's not difficult to voluntarily pay more if you really want to" ...Where did you dream that up? Sir Alan Sugar could not even get his Winter fuel payment stopped. "but you don't really want to at all do you? "....Now you are telling me what I want as well as what I think. Your last paragraph shows where your priorities lie. I would be quite happy to pay more tax to provide a higher quality of life for ALL, not just myself.

Wow! You are clairvoyant are you? You not only know what the UK would be like if the Socialists (not Communists) had won the last election or win the next election, but you can also read my mind. All I know is, at 70 yrs old, I grew up in a country where I received excellent free education to graduate level, excellent free NHS healthcare, incl. dental and eye care as a child, all public services and utilities were nationalised and more efficient and affordable by most, I felt safe with emergency services and police arriving in minutes not hours or days when needed. And all of this was from Socialist policies introduced by post-war Labour governments. All of this has now been destroyed by the Conservative party! I never thought I would live to see UK people having to pull their own teeth because there are no (affordable) NHS dentists in huge areas of the UK; city people having to hail taxis to get to hospital after road accidents because ambulances take hours to arrive. Elderly folk, after a fall, spending hours (one 9hrs, one, over 90, 14hrs in my area) laying on the ground, even outside, and sometimes overnight, waiting for an ambulance. And when they do eventually reach hospital they, and other patients in emergency circumstances, often have to spend hours and hours in ambulances queued outside of hospitals because A&E is backlogged with patients lining corridors on stretchers waiting for beds to become available. And it is Jeremy Hunt, the current Conservative chancellor who is personally responsible for most for this appalling situation. Because, as Health Minister, he was notorious for closing wards and small rural hospitals cutting the number of beds available, and also nurses and doctors to the bone. As for the police, they have become a complete joke, not even interested in arresting shoplifters, taking hours to answer non-emergency phone calls to report a crime. Rather they expect people to fill in a lengthy online form to do so. Again even in an emergency, it can take them hours to respond even where there is a threat of violence, and then maybe just with a phone call! Who is responsible for the absurd UK price capping system which has made gas and electric the most expensive in Europe and unaffordable by most and requiring government sudsidy for all. This when the government is refusing to increase windfall taxes on the fuel companies supplying it who are raking in obscene and record profits? Who is responsible for the total disaster that is Brexit, and which has led us from being one of the most respected countries in the World to being the laughing stock of the World? Have you tried using UK government depts. such as the Passport, Driving Licence, or Pension offices lately? There are often long delays, and it is virtually impossible to contact them by phone or get a reply if you have a problem. Why? 12 years+ of Tory austerity again have cut their underpaid staff numbers to the bone. How about the ongoing Tory corruption, hypocrisy, and cronyism, e.g., the millions of tax payer's money squandered and wasted on PPE, etc., during Covid giving contracts to their mates and Conservative party doners? I could go on and on but sadly most have been brainwashed by extreme Right wing populist propaganda published by tax haven millionaire owned publications such as the Daily Mail who have an extreme vested interest in keeping the Tories in power, i.e., tax avoidance. Also many more voters, thinking they are superior and more enlightened, suck up to the biased political coverage of the BBC who are the propaganda wing of the British public schoolboy establishment & elite who again have a vested interest in tax avoidance and hanging on to their wealth by keeping the Conservative party in power. People in the UK make the mistake of simply voting for the party leaders that they are presented with when they should be scrutinising and voting for party policies and their track record when in power. Labour lost the last election because Jeremy Corbyn, who, OK, never had leadership qualities, was completely demonised by the establishment media who, along with Boris Johnson's lies on Brexit, convinced people that returning to the socialist Britain that I was blessed to have grown up in, would be a nightmare. So Corbyn had no chance compared to the cuddly, charismatic and posh eccentric Boris Johnson (The British Class system is alive and well). They said that Labour would take us back to the Seventies (which were actually great), but hell! the Tories have taken the UK back to the Stone Age! So I ask you, how can the alternative be far far worse than this? Any alternative must be better than the utter disaster that we now have in the UK. Are Corbyn and Starmer far far worse than Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss (????)? I dont think so. And now we have an unelected ethnically Indian millionaire or is it billionaire as Prime Minister (who is actually not doing such a bad job compared to the previous shower!). How can we possibly know that the alternative is far far worse until they are given the chance in power to prove that they are not? Of course I forgot, you are clairvoyant. You must be rich or one of the rich British establishment greedily clinging to their wealth and frightened to death of paying more tax under a Labour govt., or even paying any tax at all to contribute to the country that has given them so much? Or have you been successfully brainwashed by the UK media?