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That works. That really all I want to do - use it for future purchase. I guess I'll open one and send the item back.

That's the only reason. I was going to return an item and it requires a Lazada Wallet for the refund.

Me too. In fact, I simply detest everything Android and 'smartphones' in general.

If the morality bothers you Nick, you've come to the wrong country. Try Japan or Korea. They are probably a better fit.

Honestly. at the bars I'd go to, I'd buy occasional drinks for the staff but at the same prices as customers pay. I never have gotten turned down. It may not be 'extra money' but it is a free drink.

Nope. All the men I bought drinks for in the past were....ah-hum... 'ladies.'

Lazada Wallet - reality check. Can foreigners use it? I thought I read somewhere that Lazada Wallet didn't work for foreigners who applied.

Given that a significant portion of Thailand is under drought conditions, and at least here in Northeastern Lamphun I venture that less than 60% of the fields are producing rice this year while the rest lay fallow. We ain't go no extra water. So what this may mean is that rice commodities middle men are getting filthy rich as Thailand back-fills rice export due to India's rice export ban - but - Thailand does so by screwing over their domestic supply and duly rogering the Thai public next year, as I fully expect domestic rice price to "surge" next year and by multiples of 12%.

Try the Chromium browser. I've found that Lazada product pages aren't loading in Firefox (which I've found to be an all too common problem with FF over the last couple of years). Anyway, Chromium is open source (not Google) and works very well. In fact, Chrome is open-source Chromium that Google has d**ked with. I'd rather have less 'features" and a more stable platform. I'm starting to use Chromium as my "go to" browser now as FF pukes on more and more sites that I often use. And I have had no problems with Lazada logons using Chromium. Info here: https://www.chromium.org

Justice whispers: Thaksin’s sentence may shrink yet. Every Thai and Expat in Thailand knows exactly what is about to transpire for Thaksin.

Are people better now or back in the 1980s? 1980s

Is TM30 Required if you have a Yellow House Book? Yes

Why not just come out and say, "Your taxi driver may rape you if you let your guard down?" Welcome to the Land of Smiles.

The Weather Underground is usually pretty accurate, except this year when the forcast 75% chance of rain, we end up with fluffy clouds and sun. Ditto about the Nun's nasty.

Not so much here in Northeastern Lamphun province. The catch basins for farming are still about 50% below normal and a whole lot of rice field are laying fallow this year. The local river is but a trickle. It's gonna have to do some serious raining in the next two months to catch up to normal, then expect higher rice prices next year as there will be shortages unless the Thai government limits exports. It bodes not well.

A Perfect Storm A'coming.

Rimping in CM for Sweet Mango Chutney. I've got some in the frig.

We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom. Teachers, leave those kids alone. Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone! All in all you're just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall. "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat!" I spent the first three years of education in the 1950s in a private British school. The quote above regarding 'eating your meat.' That's true. They'd serve up this horrid meat with blood vessel sticking out of it. And you'd be forced to eat it. "Aggghhhh." A throw-back to WWII scarcity. On the flip side - at that time British education was wayyyyyy ahead of schools in the US in STEM and general liberal arts. It was a excellent education. Now? The product of that US system comes to Thailand, bonks a 16 year old and probably will do time. None too smart methinks.

Moron. So many babes and dude's gotta go for one who is under-aged. I've no sympathy. That's just stupid. Do stupid things, get stupid rewards - like prison.

Pass legislation to allow same-sex couple to marry. That will bring them. The daughter of good friends of mine has been living with her girl-friend for over a decade. I'm sure they would come here if they could get a legal marriage.

I buckle my seatbelt as soon as I sit in the car - Automatic. I put a helmet on before getting on my motorcycle just to drive to the local mom and pops. Automatic. Is that silly? In the time I've lived in the village, at least three people I know got killed on motorcycles. All of them from skull fractures among other injuries. Do I think it should be The Law that everyone wear seatbelts and helmets? Nope. But I also think that a Darwin Award awaits many of them who may have lived out normal lifespans had they done so.

Bye bye ????

I'd rather sail the world while working on a container ship. Ex-navy. I really enjoy being out at sea for extended periods of time. If I had this life to do over again, I would have entered a maritime academy with the end goal of captaining a commercial ship. Not a cruise liner.

The Red Bull heir is young and will simply wait out the statutes of limitation and walk back into Thailand a free man - and laughing and laughing and laughing at how he beat the system without seeing a day in the general prison population - just like Tony will be laughing and laughing and laughing at how he beat the system without seeing a day in the general prison population by playing the elderly, frail, Thai who is on death's doorstep and just wants to breath Thai air once more. ???? <wipes away crocodile tears> It will play out like a Lakhon soap opera. One system for the commoners; another for the connected wealthy and rich.

Like other convicts, further clemency for Thaksin possible on important occasions Wake up. Any one with a functioning brain can see exactly where this is heading as the public is being primed for Thaksin's early release. You're average 'other convicts' will be rotting in jail long after Thaksin is a free man. Average commoners don't get clemency. Rich, connected, sick, ohhhh so sick and frail somebodies get clemency. Tony ain't seeing much more time under arrest in a hospital, no less seeing the inside of a prison cell.