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Drag Queen Story Hour? ????

Uh-huh. Right. ????

It's a free market. It you can't compete - fold.

And 20% inflation YoY. Food inflation at around 50%.

Another Covid booster might clear that right up!

Whoo Hoo. I guess that means that Thai banks will offer 0.050% on long-term accounts. <laughs>

Offense is a good defense!

Less than he makes off of his side businesses? ????

Thanks, agreed.

My favorite is the pronunciation of a women's name "พอล" which gets transliterated as Porn. Then all of the Farangs have a great laugh - "That gal is named Porn! Ha ha ha ha ha! She must be a Porn-Star! Ha ha ha ha ha!" What the jerks don't know is that the correct pronunciation is almost exactly like Pawn is in Pawn Shop. Like I said - transliteration are at best approximations and most often full of holes unless you completely understand the pronunciation substitutions of the transliteration schemes (and there are more than one which makes it even more confusing). Even someone with a rudimentary understanding of the Thai alphabet and their pronunciations and work out the proper Thai pronunciations on signs.

Transliterations are at best approximations.

Notice that Thais don't worry about the crushing unsecured debt that most of them carry. Banks and lenders are easy. Just borrow more!

BJ can just claim that he was 'undercover.' However, I'd suggest updating the bullet-proof glass and side-panels in his vehicle.

1 kg bell peppers - 10 THB. It all depends where you live and where you shop.

Thai retailers urge government to reassess import taxes on luxury goods Yeah, roll back the taxes on high-end luxury goods as the obscenely wealthy don't like paying taxes. Just tax the import goods that the commoners, plebeians, and little-people use.

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2000 THB fine the next time you show up. Go down and get it done and pay your fine. It can go to 5000 THB. Been there, done that. Watch the IO. They'll put on really, really serious faces. Fun to watch!

There are large swaths of Thai women who are openly looking for Farang (European descent) husband and are very vocal about it. At 30, my own Thai wife would not have given me a side glance. At 45, she was actively looking for pasty white men! And there ya have it!

Mims is the best place to find drug info but they have become total (expletive deleted) regarding access to the database (I used to have access). So, if you have a specific drug or category of drugs, that you wish to find the legal status, ask @Sheryl In the US they are open with information about drugs (e.g., drugs.com) but so many drugs are prescription. Here in the LOS, they are totally closed about providing mere commoners with information, but most drugs with the exception of narcotics, drugs that are narcotic precursors, and some odd-ball nootropics are all OTC. It might be easier to find the list of illegal drugs than trying to find which are OTC. Lunesta and Ambian - by prescription from a hospital. And expect to pay total dollar from the hospital's pharmacy. Not cheap at all. If you have sleep issues you will find other avenues (speaking from experience) from diazapam (be very very careful) which is available from smaller government hospitals (which don't carry Lunesta or Ambian) to using antihisamines (e.g., Hydroxyzine Hydrochloride), Melatonin, and herbal supplements. Talk with Sheryl (who has access to Mims) or your pharmacists (although talking to Thai pharmacists about drug categorization can be an exercise in futility).

Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra to be eligible for parole up for release next year month (December at the latest) In the meanwhile - cushy hospital digs that are afforded to all sick Thai commoner prisoners <not>.

Yeah. Wife got Covid and me shortly after. High viral load in the house - where can a guy go? Sort like chicken pox as a kid when your sister comes down with it - you're gonna get it. Wife wanted to go to the hospital where she was loaded up with med and sent home. I came down with it two days later. Positive antigen test. I stayed home - didn't see any reason to go to the hospital as I wasn't any more sick then with a typical 'flu.' It was over in 60 hours - two and a half days. In the past, I've had much worse bouts of influenza. So much fear and loathing over a nothing-burger. As you age and your immune system decreases, yeah, you may die of IAB or IAC influenza or SARS_Cov_nnn "flus" if secondary infections, like bacterial pneumonia, set in. For the vast number of humans on this planet with healthy immune systems, it ain't a big deal after so much fear-mongering.

"Get your masks of compliance on plebs. Fear fear fear fear fear." In the meanwhile, I'd like to see Covid compared with the current influenza going around. Or - are we calling the flu Covid or Covid the flu. In reality, and SARS-based infection is now essentially 'the flu" as far as symptoms go.

Which if enforced would cause the exodus of retired expats for sure.

As I have no other income sources from the US then Social Security and an approve pension, then Article 20 applies to me. Any effort by Thailand to derive tax income from my SS and pension plans would be in direct violation of the existing tax treaty. Thanks for the PDF. I'll save that in my tax folder for future reference in 2024. ARTICLE 20 Pensions and Social Security Payments 1. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 21 (Government Service), pensions and other similar remuneration paid to a resident of a Contracting State in consideration of past employment shall be taxable only in that State. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1, social security benefits and other similar public pensions paid by a Contracting State to a resident of the other Contracting State or a citizen of the United States shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State.

Exactly. How does he plan to attract foreign investors by hammering all foreigners with a tax on income in their home country? This moron doesn't understand the benefit of foreign funds flowing into his country. The fool is about to throw ice-water on both foreign investment as well as foreign funds flowing into Thailand. And again - we're about to find out if the Tax Treaties between Thailand and G20 countries are going to be honored or not.