the latest from inspector clouseau's lesser-talented comrades

has the highest concentration found on the door of their house,

with the agent allegedly administered as a "gloopy" substance

left on the doorknob. 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43577987

so they were exposed to nerve agent, left home, drove to a

pub, then drove to a restaurant, spent an hour eating, drove

to a park........and found 45 minutes later?  (see map timeline)

according to the bbc http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43377698

" Novichoks were designed to be more toxic than other chemical weapons, so some versions would begin to take effect rapidly - in the order of 30 seconds to two minutes. " 

why not wait until the results are in?  opcw has a sample now, and will

take weeks to confirm.  how did the brits confirm in hours?  oh, they

didn't, at least not according to an article linked a few pages back.

of course this could be an extra super special slow acting formula that

allowed them to wander around with no effect for several hours, eating

and drinking and driving.  i'm no expert, just feel that we want soooo bad

for this to be russia's doing, that we ignore anything that doesn't support

the narrative.

14 minutes ago, janclaes47 said:

 

Next time you copy and paste something from the web be so fair to give credit to the author of the piece.

 

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/03/of-a-type-developed-by-liars/

thank you......?  so you think my post was writed good?

nothing copied and pasteded.  just little ole me writing at my laptop

of a type developed in america.

***thanks for the link.  good article!  all should read.

***haha, okay, i see it now.  that author also used his

laptop to reference "of a type."  great minds think alike.

aside from that coincidence, anything in my post

incorrect?  i have an open mind.  just waiting for some

evidence, something besides "feelings."

3 minutes ago, Morch said:

And, of course, other than conspiracy theory nonsense, not much by way of a plausible alternative culprit.

not my job to provide alternate theories.  would just get my post deleted

as spreading conspiracy theories.

it's up to the brits to prove it, if they can.  obviously they cannot.

if there were evidence, we'd have seen something by now....

On 3/26/2018 at 10:18 PM, chickenslegs said:

Nobody has claimed that they have 100% proof of Russia's involvement.

The issue is that the nerve agent used in the attack was produced in Russia, but the Russians are refusing to cooperate with the investigation.

no.  this is just getting silly.

every single statement from uk, nato, europals uses the very very special

wording "of a type" designed or manufactured in russia.  we hear it was

quite a heated exchange when the folks at porton down refused to say

it was russian origin.....just the weasel worded "of a type."  only thing

missing is colen powell and his wee tiny bottle of antraxx.

well, i'm typing on a keyboard "of a type" orginated by californians, but

now designed by koreans and slapped together by the chinese.

novichok formula has been released, many countries are able to replicate.

some are known to have done some experiments.  of course russian

program was shut down, with the us department of defense leading the

decommission of the production site in uzbekistan.

russians have been demanding samples, and for cooperation in the

investigation as per OPCW treaty...but britian refuses, as that would

interfere with the fantasy.

interestingly, novichok is claimed to be 5-8x more lethal than vx, yet

no one has died.  the policeman has recovered, any others sent to

hospital for treatment were all released.  only the two russians are

missing.

no explanation as to why the russians would do this, attempt to kill

a former spy.  not a threat, and no conceivable gain to be made,

especially not in the run-up to election and world cup.

1 minute ago, 8OA8 said:

The land ownership in certain areas may have to change hands before any of the actual stops can be decided 

thus ensuring the profitability of the project.

i'd compare this to china's high-speed rail on hainan island.

haikou station to lingshui is about the same distance, about

200 km with 6 stops.  depending on how many stops are

skipped, flight time 1:15 to 1:45.  speeds up to 250 khm.

trains stop max. 3 minutes per station.

highly subsidized, 1st class 500 baht, 2nd class 400 baht.

completely separate from local traffic.  long sections, including

the part thru haikou city is fully elevated.

important note.......trains do NOT do 250 thru haikou.  speed

drops to 50-80 for a 20-km section.  expect the entire route

thru bangkok to the airport to be elevated and speed restricted.

12 minutes ago, Makara said:

I am referring to what you said about bringing mud covered bills into the exhcanger. 

 

*This was meant for ChouDouFu

yes, see post 1404 (edited)

boyfriend on GFM said ALL the bills had "copy" on them,

but "copy" covered in mud.

would love to know how they cleaned red cambodian clay

out of paper towel material.

4 minutes ago, Makara said:

That's not how it happened. Not that it matters much what I say, cause even if I told every single last detail of what I know it.literally.would.not.matter. Literally. 

GFM update #13:

"They bills they had all had "copy" written on them but after finding them in a puddle and them being covered in mud the "copy" was covered."

that's the story from the boyfriend who got it

directly from the ladies full of light.  the bills

all had "copy" written on them, all obscured

due to mud.  three possibilities:

either they cleaned the bills (destroying the

paper) and saw the word "copy,"

or they tried to exchange muddy bills which

would have been laughed at and sent away,

or........it never happened, and it's a scam originally

intended to net $150K, reduced to $15K after

they learned how social media works.

this don't make sense:  GFM update #13

" INFORMATION: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/world/asia/cambodia-qingming-festival-ghosts-prefer-dollars.html

This is the money that they found. Spirit money. They are realistic copies of new $100 USD bills. They bills they had all had "copy" written on them but after finding them in a puddle and them being covered in mud the "copy" was covered. They are facing possible jail time for a complete misunderstanding."

1.  spirit money is printed on rough, poor-quality recycled paper.

2.  they do not all have "copy" printed on them. some are simply photocopies.

3.  they are in no way "realistic"...........UNLESS your only knowledge of

them is from the intertubes.  (photo above from the GFM linked article),

4.  cheap paper can not be washed, mud will stain permanently.

5.  no bank, no exchange booth will accept soiled bills.    ink marks,

slight tears, too many creases....all reasons to decline.

6.  no bank or exchange will test bills that won't be accepted. they would

merely tell you to take to another bank or to main office.

it's a great story for gullible donors, but only if they have never traveled

outside the usa and have never exchanged currency in a foreign land.

1 minute ago, Makara said:

Right. I was a fine dinning server (7 years ago) and a person gave me fake money for their payment of the meal. It was such a good fake and I couldn't tell till I deposited the $ I made that night into the bank and it spit it out. Then I THREW IT AWAY.

 

I don't appreciate the venom.

did you take the $20 in to have it checked, or just throw it? 

sometimes the atm's won't accept bills for various reasons. 

of course, if the bank employees determined it was counterfeit,

they would have retained it.

8 hours ago, AboutThaim said:

Try reading the reviews for World Nomads.  I looked at them, pretty sure their cut off age was 70 and  their reviews were bad, as in hard to get them to pay up.  ...

is true.  had world nomads for a while, needed emergency heart surgery

while traveling. 

world nomads denies...."don't pay for cosmetic surgery"....."don't pay for

experimental procedures"....."don't pay when in your home country".....

each new excuse meant more papers to be sent, resulting in yet another

excuse from the long, long list.  and when they get to the bottom, they

start at the top again.

continues until customer gives up or dies.

6 hours ago, Makara said:

Ever heard of Supernotes? ?

they dinna find a thousand bucks in "supernotes" in cambodia.

if they had, they'd have exchanged them and gone on their way.

local banks/exchange booths don't have teams of specialists

on hand, just minimum wage clerks that do the simple look,

feel, run thru machine tests.

"A team of forgery specialists at KEB Hana Bank have confirmed that a US$100 note found at a Seoul branch in November was a fake which was almost impossible to distinguish from real banknotes..."

did your friends happen to send you a photo of the bills they

found?  i know if i found a pot o'gold i'd snap a photo to show

my friends.  nowadays in facebookland where everyone sends

shots of dinner to all their followers, i'd expect it.

my mistake.  thought it was recent, as it had the

current date at the top.  was at the top of a long

list of googled articles.

didn't notice the ancient "may 2014" byline.

could be any number of reasons.

1.  he's having a really, really bad day.

2.  he's simply a total douchebag.

3.  completely lost in thought, didn't notice you.

4.  recent transplant from china, used to hearing

    and ignorng a thousand "haloooo's" every day.

5. he's on the lonely planet circuit, pretending to

   be the first foreigner ever seen here.

6.  afraid of strangers in general

7.  thinks anyone approaching his is a scammer.

8.  been tricked into conversations by too many

   witnesses wanting to save his soul

9,,,,,

28 minutes ago, Shaunduhpostman said:

...they would be working with security staff at Wat Pra Kaew to do their jobs better and tap tourists on the shoulder....

 

but then they would need to put down their cellphones, somewhere in

the middle of the fifth level of wafer wharf!  can't just pause, only get

50 moves to grab 3 striped candies!

4 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

It plays well to the authoritarian, xenophobic, nationalist crowd

yes, but he's tourist police.  shouldn't he be protecting the tourists?

he should be going after whoever took the upskirt photo of the

innocent foreigner!

the camera is angled up under her skirt, and she is not wearing tights

or leggings.  not only that, they published the offensive photo!  there

ought to be a law against that. 

2 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Publicity. 

i don't quite get it. 

big game hunter tracking gerbils just looks foolish.

don't understand why a top cop would waste time with

something so trivial, something the temple security

guards or caretakers should handle, when there are

more important things to worry about.......drug dealers,

pedophiles, human traffickers, counterfeiters....

why waste his valuable time on this?

why is a lady who can't scrape together 200 baht

paying for eyebrow tattoos?

from same article:

"Using average two stroke scooter emission factors... suggests that two stroke scooters contribute to around 60 per cent of roadside POA in Bangkok, where they account for 10 per cent of fuel consumption."

i'd love to cycle here in the city, but it's just crazy.  too many dead-end sois,

only way to travel is on the 2 or 3 lane roads.  with 3 lanes of traffic, you get

4 lanes of crazy scooter drivers.  but 4 lanes still isn't enough, they try to

cut between cyclists and parked cars, or speed by in the gutter between

the cyclist and the kerb.

would be better to build a real bus system and

ban anything larger than a swift.

Scooters pollute more than lorries

Scooters give off thousands of times more smog-causing pollutants than larger vehicles, according to research

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10834679/Scooters-pollute-more-than-lorries.html

**UPDATE v2.1**

SMS sent from tax office to notify refund approved march 20

check covered refund for tax paid on fixed account

bank interest and tax paid on dividends.

doubt it's possible to get tax number online.

went in person to tax office. 

very easy.....with translator assisting.

fill in form.  provide copy of passport and visa.

took maybe five minutes.