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See ya next week bob.

Teflon Tony is untouchable.

Here's some links. Don't see it on AN world news but it is news worthy. Videos on X and other platform. https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=Baltimore+François+key+bridge+collapsed&atb=v317-1&ia=web

Advice for tourists? Don't go to Lopburi. As far as gaurs and bears? Where. In most of Thailand they have been shot and eaten. They exist in a handful of National parks, and even there they are being poached into extinction. The average plod is more likely to get mauled by a soi dog or there neighbors pit-bull. Compensation for getting mauled by a soi dog? "Sucks to be you plod."

Thai gold hit 38K THB per baht-weight a few days back. When this happens, it will be hitting 50K or higher. And let not even talk about the resultant inflation.

You can be married 15 or 20 years and they still assume that you are a criminal attempting to game the system. We were told this year that when we submit our next extension paper work, we need to include pictures of my wife and I "doing something in bed." Well, what do we do in bed? What does anyone do in bed? Sleep or ****. So Immigration are now voyeurs it seems. I should have asked, "Which position do you want with the **** pictures?" If you are a foreign gal married to a Thai guy? Well, a Thai family is sacrosanct and to be respected. If you are a foreign man married to a Thai gal? Well, you are a potential criminal waiting for the right time to commit your crimes, like pretending to be married to your wife for 20 years. You need to be actively surveilled year after year after year because eventually you'll slip up and expose yourself as a tricky male foreign devil. A foreign man and Thai woman with Thai children isn't a real Thai family according to Immigration as that family unit is always under the Sword of Damocles waiting for the horse-hair to finally give way. Remember foreign man (potential criminal) - you are only visiting. In the meantime, your foreign female counterpart who is married to a Thai guy is already a citizen as you submit your 10th, 15th, or 20th extension.

I rest my case.

Now - imagine a train going 200 kph. 'Nuff said.

Ask @bob smith 🗒️📱

It's time for Nart to shed the robe.

In the West, in cities? Yep, they're there. Do I know some? Yep, generally daughters of good friends, often childless, husbandless, boyfriendless, and often uphappy misandrists. In the West, in rural fly-over country? The gals are pretty normal, i.e., not feminists. Daughters of friends and family members, often married with children, happy enough although the least impacted by the feminist movement tend to be the happiest in the marriages. Here in Thailand? I can't say I've met or interacted with feminists. I don't hang out with tourists. Which is fine by me as I prefer gals with traditional family values. Plenty of those in rural Thailand.

I always find the binary, black & white views held by members to be rather ironic. Such hatred and loathing for the side of the two-party duopoly whom you personally detest, all the while as your own favorite party and candidates bend you over and have their way with you. As we said in the military back in the day - BOHICA baby. Here it comes again! I'm voting a Taylor Swift / Minny Mouse ticket in 2024. Change my mind.

Let's see...back of a napkin calculations. 7.2 km in 4 years = ~ 1.8 km / year Nong Kai to Korat = ~335 km So therefore Nong Kai to Korat HSR completed in about 186 years. That's about right And with inflation, brown envelopes, and cost overruns it will probably cost $100 Quintillion USD - or 5 and a half BTC and be completed in..... 🙄 Well, anyone remember what the post-1997 crash's building projects looked like including the BTS to Ringsit. There ya go.

https://www.immigration.go.th/en/?page_id=3202&eeFolder=form-download https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/the-endorsement/endorsement-and-re-entry-permit/

Politicians are quite literally some of the lowest forms of life on the planet. Name-calling on all sides? Immature, sophomoric, and juvenile. Taylor Swift for President - that's as good as anyone else other than perhaps Minny Mouse or Alfred E. Newman. I'll write one of those three in on my ballot in November.

Already have while checking out the other numbers. $200M/km. They have a lot of "brother-in-laws" to feed in the UK too it seems.

If it was published that US cops where targeting Thai and Asian drivers - oh lordy - the screams and cries of racism would abound. Here in Thailand. Racism is institutionalize and fully accepted. Like others said, where are the listing of number of Thais pulled over? Non-existent.

Notice that they target farangs. Coincidence? 🤔

It's an ongoing money-maker for the BIB. If Thailand was really interested in stopping illegal MC driving by foreigners without legal driver licenses/IDP, then they'd make it illegal for MC rental shops to rent without checking to see if those renting MC have valid licenses and permits. Nope - it's about the money, collecting fine, and about targeting foreigners as opposed to targeting Thai businesses renting MC to foreigners who do not have licenses/permits let alone any semblance of MC experience or skill or defensive MC driving know-how. On the flip-side, I can't understand why farang fools or foreign tourist fools in general think they can drive a MC in Thailand when they have never driven one in their home country, no less having a legal license/permit/endorsement to do so in their home counties. Hence when we hear about Joe and Jane Farang getting killed on a MC while on holiday? "Stupid is as stupid does as my Mama always said." 🏍️

$411M USD per kilometer? That's a whole bunch of rich "brother-in-laws." Doing an internet search, HSR ranges from $17-30M in China, $24M in France, and $27M in Spain.1 Thailand? $$$Cha-Ching$$$ Source: 1 Lowyinstitute.org

Agent time. But then again, that's the point isn't it?

Vote with your feet. They obviously think their customers are chumps.

Welcome to Songkran Chiang Mai 2024!!!

You can have mine - cheers!