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You are quite right, but one glance at IvorBiggun2's avatar should alert one to the kind of answer you are likely to get from this person.

Where exactly are the "expensive delivery costs" in your narrative above?? You consider 400 baht "expensive" for the weight you describe as being delivered?? What would be an INexpensive cost?

Ta, squire. But I'm only here for another six weeks. Is there much fol-de-rol involved in "registering"?

No end to the effects of Chinese Covid: https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/oil-china-covid-brent-west-texas-price-51672228349?mod=mw_latestnews

anyone come across Cheshire cheese or Wensleydale? I'm in HH.

This whole thread is wonderful for its exposé of all the various arguments about Covid. When Trump insisted on calling the virus "the Wuhan virus" (later "the Chinese" virus) he was called a racist. (Also, Dr Fauci had assured everyone in Feb 2020 that this virus required no special antidotes, but no one held him to account for that lie - or was it a lie?) Then Biden started spreading the lie that it was a "pandemic of the unvaccinated" and then we hear about (and know personally) many people who who have been sick with the virus after several vaccinations (my own very healthy son being one of them - after 4 booster shots!) So it goes....information withheld, brutal government power, misinformation, disinformation, the amassing of untold wealth for pharma companies (given immunity from litigation if nasty things happened as a result of the vaccine). Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.....( For the foreign language thingy: the more things change, the more things stay the same).

Don't forget that China owns the WHO.....ask Dr Tedros ....

This kind of whataboutery, while accurate in its depiction of a history of savagery, refuses to acknowledge what is the actual truth: that the history of mankind is littered with all kinds of debauched militarism. But don't you see that if I now respond by drawing your attention to all the savagery that has been committed in the name of America in the last 200 and more years, we are no further ahead in the task of creating a better civilization. In the midst of all the savagery, America produced an advanced technological civilization that makes us all "freer" in so many ways. At the same time, Russia produced a revolution that, whatever its later consequences, overthrew a repressive regime in an attempt to create something close to democracy. Russia also produced the likes of Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Dosoevsky, the Bolshoi Ballet......etcetcetc These sorts of "whatabout" arguments can go on for ever, but they may have the advantage of reminding people that politics is a complex and serious business. Happy Christmas.

Such naughty boys and girls. This kind of "watchfulness" is right out of Orwell and also reminds me of some schoolteachers whose day was perfect when they could put in detention those who tried to defy convention in some way. At the end of the day, nothing is more cringeworthy than watching a roomful of grown-ups (over 400 of them) rising as (nearly) one to applaud whatever lies are being spouted at that particular moment. Shameful picture of a debased civilization.

Sad, sad, sad. There's none so blind as those who cannot see.

Aw, shucks, isn't that great....Zelynski made it back safe and sound. He's got to be the smartest politician around: he's extracted, so far, 100 Billion dollars from the US taxpayer. Nice one. Great news for democracy....

Carlson is the ONLY anchor on the MSM who asks difficult questions, who does not sing from the same hymn-sheet as all the other bleating sheep toeing the party line. Watching American news tv, you might as well be in the old Soviet Union. It's actually quite alarming to hear all that unified bleating.

Yaaaawwnnnnnnn????????????

No, I think he should change his name to Mike Litoris..

For me, one of the best reasons for being in Thailand is that one never has to bother with such things as Christmas shopping (and high-end stores). Is there anything more stressful at this time of year in a cold climate than wandering round the shops wondering what to buy for so-and-so, who will have forgotten your present by Boxing Day? And any temp over 15 C will do for me....

It already is....

Lesbian, is she? Or worse? Wot's da secret?

Can anyone confirm that the French town of Condom is twinned with the English town of Maidenhead?

Roi Et has flights???? Imagine that. Which airline is brave enough to provide this one daily flight?

I got my 30-day extension yesterday, Dec 8, with 7 days remaining on the 45 exempt. What surprised me was the fact that the IO did not in the slightest check my passport number against the number I had filled in on the TM7. I even had to point out that the TM30 was stapled into my passport! She spent most of the time I was at her desk talking to my (Thai) wife and pointing out that I could instead have applied for a 60-day visa (with extension) or for a visa based on marriage (with "only" 400k in the bank in my wife's name). In other words, she appeared more interested in selling a more expensive way of staying longer term than 45+30 in the country. Weird. (Expensive? well, the extension does cost 1900 baht!)

No, you can hear the klaxon all over Hua Hin on the Khao Takiab side, which is where this train was approaching that crossing from (excuse poor English).

Makes sense.

Ah, so a gay accountant into weight-lifting. The plot thickens....

Dipso sad tale. Cost of my Aussie red wine (same bottle, same shop) from November 15 to Dec 6: Nov 15: 26.76 Nov 25 26.83 Nov 28 27.03 Dec 1 27.77 Dec 3 27.96 Dec 6 28.21 Canadian dollar Baht 699 each transaction

As long as Southgate's little sheep don't take that ridiculous knee, they will do ok.....