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News to me that you can buy (fresh) papaya, mango, etc for same price in Blackpool as in Bangkok....

Well, he was certainly right about John Kerry, the Climate Alarmist who travels the world in his private jet to tell us all to prepare for the Apocalypse. Hypocrisy personified.

Anybody got an opinion on Touch Hill or other condos in that area?

Good old ChatGPT missed out the much more famous novel, The Quiet American, by Graham Greene (1955), set in Vietnam and influential in critiques of American foreign policy in the 1950's. Also made into a movie. The subject matter of the novel deals with all the themes mentioned above (Lederer and Burdick).

Didn't do anything for his hips though....

In Asia, there is generally no problem with obesity (so, yes, this may just be an opportunity to gouge further). In the US of A on the other hand....

Dublin is preferable to Belfast, where "now" is pronounced "noy". A different thread perhaps, but which is the absolute worst English regional accent? After Belfast, I'd vote for Liverpool and Yorkshire. (Sorry if I've offended anyone here.)

The worst mistake one tends to see on comment sites like this is: "would of" when they mean "would've". There is no such construction in English as "would of been proud of...." Of course to be absolutely correct, one could simply add two more letters and say "would have".

One of the great benefits of living in LoS (or indeed ANYwhere in Asia) is that if, like me, you don't spika de Asian, you don't have to hear people talking WOKE as they do in the Anglosphere. Alas, this benefit is too easily cancelled out in these unsocial media days by simply going to an Angloshere media website to learn the latest news. But to answer the thread question: Defo Spain (except for June to August). Cheap fruit and wine and wonderful cities and trains (FAST trains) to whisk you between cities. Seville or anywhere down south. #2 would be Penang, Malaysia, but the local religion is not exactly hospitable to alcohol.

Yes, indeed. At least 2 million have just walked into USA in the last two years. No questions asked. But then, they do have sanctuary cities to wander off to.....

I would suspect that the word has come from Comrade Xi that, if the Thais want help or favours with this and that, they had better toe the line laid down by Beijing/Moscow.

No, I think you're right (when you say the Thais will "cry fowl"): the bureaucrats are indeed a bunch of headless chickens. Why give preference to the citizens of a foul country like Russia?

The Last Days of Biden. But who the fk is left to bring the smallest "neet noi" of credibility to this absurd statement? Nero? Caligula? Napoleon? Clint Eastwood?

Totally agree. This gives hope for us all, especially as we get older and deportation seems less catastrophic. Natural death may come before the Immigration boffins knock on the door....

Is your name Peter Sellers by any chance?

You mean, they did once "have" the plot?

Precisely.

Excellent analysis. Totally agree. Amazing how well the analysis also fits virtually any modern government, including of course the US of A. Your mention of the Covid response and the way governments used it to exercise Soviet-style power would apply to the UK, Canada and many many other so-called democratic countries. Perhaps Thailand is a latecomer to the feast of the power elite.

No more backbone than Trudeau when dealing with the Chinese over dodgy behaviour on their part. So little backbone that Trudeau had to suffer the public humiliation of being reprimanded in public by Comrade Xi.

Ah, I see now. Trudeau in whiteface.

Lionel Messi. But wtf would I do with $600,000 per week?

Who's this? Trudeau?

Most of the legitimate beefs mentioned on this thread can also be directed against other countries. One thing Thailand should consider is opening up the country in the same way as Mexico, Spain, Greece and other such countries do. (You've got 6 months in Mexico, no questions asked., no visas, no deadlines - perfect.) Let's face it, the main reason (these days) for those from cold-winter climates to visit LoS is the WEATHER. As tourists, as opposed to ex-pats, we will put up, short-term, with all the things that pi$$ us off as expats. Abandon most of your regulations. Period.

You mean Valparaiso has loads of homeless (sorry, "unhoused") on the streets defecating, urinating and shooting up, and daylight robbery is....er....daylight robbery?

Not just Chonburi, but the whole of bleeding Thailand.....