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2 hours ago, Toby1947 said:

That's because Thais who ain't got a pot to p#ss in won't buy anything second hand. New cars with red plates parked alongside <deleted> hole houses you wouldn't keep pigs in. 

To impress the Mia Noi you undersatand !

Anyone (apparently) running this country is in the hands of a 'Certain Person' plus the overwhelming power of the Big Five Families that control 95% of the business in the country and as these people are the ones owning all the combustible fields that are at the root of the problem then it is in their economic interests to ensure the burning continues.   Anyone trying to make something different happen will find themselves looking down the Gun Barrel of a Tank !!

12 hours ago, heybruce said:

According to some posters nurses are under-worked and overpaid, yet they are resigning in droves. 

 

Could it be that the anecdotal evidence presented by these posters doesn't accurately capture the big picture?

If these posters had Wives or Girlfriends in the Industry they would know better !

Proper Education preferably !

Whenever they say this we never get a drip in Hang Dong !

Still not a drip in Hang Dong !

When did they ever find anything wrong or illegal on these 'Inspections' ?    Never in the 15 years i've been here.

EMS works well most of the time but for the last year or so nothing ever gets signed for on Tracked International Post.  I asked my Postie why and he said since they removed the Paper Signing Sheet and replaced it with the 'Device' nobody can be bothered as half the time they are defective.   Not hard to believe is it !

Regularly see them in our Local Supermarkets filling Trolly's with Booze; it's not unusual and i have seen several drunk Monks roaming around  Temples !

I'm so scared i don't know where to hide.    Geez; i encounter these beasts often in my garden almost weekly and just let them go on their way unlike some Thai Neighbours who spend several minutes smashing the life out of them every time they see one !

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Torrential rain most of the night in CM.

Really; just down the road here in Hang Dong not a drip !

There's no Labour shortage here; just Millions of Bone Idle Thai Men who will not get off their A+++s   !

No ban around our way; every Mom&Pop shop for miles around will sell it every day of the year !

Monks are just Blokes wearing coloured robes; so he should be charged with all the appropriate offences in the same way as any other Bloke.     But wait....this is Thailand where abnormal is normal !!

Anything Managed by Thai's will be sure to fail; they can't even run Supermarkets properly !

7 hours ago, hotchilli said:

People in high places are the route of the problem.

Well; Root anyway !

49 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

I mentioned to Mrs Brian yesterday that the Army/Prayuth might try to cling on to power, and she has told me, our 'Village' have already got themselves organized to go all the way to BKK to demonstrate if that scenario were to happen. 

(no doubt organized by the local parties that won) and that would happen all over the Country if Mr Pita is blocked from becoming PM. IMO.

Ditto; interesting too that many Northern Families have Sons in the Military and most voted Orange, so does anyone think they will mobilise against their own people ?

1 hour ago, mania said:

Less true than most believe but...if so basically anyone who stayed & spend big since 2014 in essence was supporting the Junta

 

Many expats did in fact leave & have only visited family since then

But if a real government was back many would return

Yes; but a lot of those that left still have to send money to support their Thai Family, so the Junta have still been getting their cut !

Dumb thing to do when you just won but i bet a lot of the losers drank more and then drove home !

PT need a new strategy; anything other than the continued use of Thaksins money and the Shinawatra name used decade after decade of Elections.   I live in the North and talk to many Northern Thai Families and with few exceptions they all say the same as i do.  The young however want a complete seachange and yesterdays results show that quite clearly.

See Women her often driving with one or two fingers of one hand on steering wheel whilst using Phone with the other hand. no Seat belt and appears no general observation of what is going on around them.  Add speed and poor driving skills to that and you have accidents just waiting to happen !