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Thailand Expands Digital Wallet Scheme, Aiding 4 Million Seniors
connda replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Just a heads-up, but come the next election cycle, when all the candidates are again sporting, "Vote For Our Party And We Will Give You ฿10,000 ฿20,000!", how many dumb Thai voters will fall for it a second time? Don't answer that question, I know the answer. -
Halcyon Days of Chiang Mai's December. Enjoying it much?
connda replied to GammaGlobulin's topic in Chiang Mai
I don't mean to be disrespectful, but really - what planet are you on? Wife and I drove to the market in our amphur here in NE Lamphun and the haze IS back already. The AQI sucks - and this is the wonderful December Cool Season weather that you are celebrating. According to wife the Thai government is implementing a burn ban starting Jan 1st until probably around May. I can once remember clear, blue skies and AQI in the "Good" range. What is here now is not clear, blue skies. Most people living here have probably forgot what a clear, blue sky looks like. Look out - this years "Burn Season" is going to be a doozy. My personal preference is the rainy season where I know the air is relatively clear. With "Cool Season" comes inversion layers and with inversion layers come the smoke. The PM 2.5 right now is anything but "Good." But hey - look on the bright side - it's not violet or purple yet, only yellow, orange, and red! https://aqicn.org/map/chiang-mai/ -
Dozens Feared Dead in Crash After Passenger Flight Diverts From Russia
connda replied to TedG's topic in The War in Ukraine
So has the US - Iran Air Flight 655. So using that same logic, perhaps using an America proxy in the region it "increasingly looks like they've done it again." Yes! That statement is as ludicrous as yours. But I expect no less from the Russian-haters here on this forum. Time will tell. -
Bangkok Lowers Speed Limit to 60 km/h Amid Safety Push
connda replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
Ahhh! The "Joke of the Day!" -
Bangkok Lowers Speed Limit to 60 km/h Amid Safety Push
connda replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
Bangkok Lowers Speed Limit to 60 km/h Amid Safety Push Dear Thailand - all Thai drivers ignore the posted speed limits. And now that traffic tickets can't affect the ability to renew your car's annual registration (excise tax sticker), few if any Thais (or farangs for that matter) are going to bother paying their speeding tickets. I wonder how many billions of THB will be spent changing the signs and what percentage of that amount will go into brown envelops and "brother-in-law's" pockets? 🤔 -
The Persian (I-Ray-Knee-N) Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was the Father of Algebra. So no doubt in the liberal West - The Bastion of Democracy and of All Things Exceptional - all Algebra and references to Algebra should be banned as Iranian propaganda and as a Danger To Our Democracy, and any country using Algebra should be sanctioned.
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Axios. An offshoot of Politico - both liberal Left-wing media outlets. What would you expect - a Trump endorsement? With that said: Trump is a narcissist and at times an over-the-top moron, so I expect to hear stupid stuff from him. One thing I'm sure of - it's 100% Trump. Biden, on the other hand, is at best borderline compos mentis and whatever was posted on X was no doubt written and published by his staff writers - it's 100% not Biden. Now - add a liberal media outlet and stir. What do you get: Denigrate Trump; Glorify Biden. And you expected what? Something different? <laughs - cue slide whistle, whoopee cushion>
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Thai PM Pressured to Dissolve House Over Skyrocketing Power Costs
connda replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
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Thai influencer dies after alcohol stunt for 30,000 baht
connda replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Do stupid stuff, win stupid prized. Welcome to The Darwin Awards.- 55 replies
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.....or you made it all up.
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Thailand Announces New Minimum Wage Increase for 2025
connda replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
2nd quarter of 2025: Thailand announces more factory closings and increased unemployment. -
I don't care. You forgot that option!
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If the world governments are worried about pandemics, then they should close all of their bio-weapons labs being run under the cover of "gain-of-function" research. "We need to be ready for the next pandemic!!! Grrrrr" Yeah - by creating the pathogen that will be "accidentally" released from a L4 gain-of-function lab, and surprise, surprise - big pharma just happens to have "vaccines" ready for distribution. $$$Cha-Ching$$$ The Who! I liked them as a band. As a global health organization they suck!
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Better than writing ผมรักแมว, the finding out that the tat didn't quite express what you thought it was going to express. Btw - Thai vernacular for that last word on that bicep is หอย. Just saying.....
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Yep - My wife can point out the meth dealers in the village (and the tambon), tell you where they live, who is dealing, and who is supplying them (see zepplin's comment). 🙄 It's a nice cosy little world. She did get a twenty-something year old monk busted for meth. The young monk was the sole caretaker of the village temple as the official abbot was often in Bangkok and was due to be replaced with a new abbot. During that time the kid spent most of his days with the yaba crowd hanging out at the temple and installing stereo systems into cars. My wife bypassed the local amphur cops and went to a narcotics cop she knew in Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai narcs contacted the amphur cops and showed up to do a surprise pee-test on the monk. Caught him with meth in his possession as well. Lucky for him he escaped going to jail. A local shop owner took him in as an employee and the got off with pretty much a hand-slap and parole. Which is fine imho. Yaba users need treatment, not prison. Wife is not interested in the rest of the yaba dealer network. She only cared about a yaba-taking monk being in charge of the village temple. She is a solid Buddhist if a monk is disrespecting Buddhism - look out. We now have a older monk who is doing a great job renovating the temple grounds, and I believe he will eventually become the abbot - he's a stand-up guy.