Stocky

I always pick the queue with a female immigration officer, they're more often than not quicker than their male counterparts.

Says the sucker who just showed Putin all his card.

The main beneficiary will be the truckers, they queue for hours to get through the border.

HYFC isn't on the list, nothing beats Hat Yai fried chicken. BTW who's Guy Satay, Erik's brother? .

Well we all know Voldemort likes a flutter.

HSBC Singapore have been talking up their new faster international money transfers using the global money transfer option in their HSBC phone app. So I thought I'd give it a try as a possible alternative to Wise, though HSBC's small print is one of the reasons I use Wise, for although HSBC Singapore now waive their fees, it does say "Some intermediary banks may charge fees. You can see an estimate of the applicable fees when you review your transfer. The actual amount is subject to the intermediary bank and will be debited after you've confirmed your transfer." So the figure you are shown might not be the final cost! I made two small transfers, one from Singapore to Thailand for Bht5,000 the other Singapore to the UK for £500. The Thai Baht transfer gave me Bht 25 more than Wise, the UK transfer was £4.50 less than Wise, both transfers arrived within 20 minutes. So far, 48hrs on, I've not been hit with any intermediary bank charges for either transfer. Comparing rates for Baht transfers, then below about Baht12,000 HSBC was fractionally cheaper, as the Wise fee percentage are high to start but fall with larger transfers, but for HSBC the difference in exchange rates offered remains at about 0.85%. That said, the difference at say Bht100,000 is only Bht300 so it's not a great loss; HSBC are now certainly a lot cheaper than they used to be, and with transfers taking only twenty minutes HSBC Global Transfer is a real alternative to Wise. Please note I have no idea if this fast Global Money Transfer works for HSBC account holders globally. Will update should an intermediary bank charge appear at a later date. https://www.hsbc.com.sg/accounts/products/global-money-transfers/

If they're rounding up the females this time then castrating the males didn't do the job, so time to sterilize the females, which is what they probably should have done first time around.

Last time they had crack down (2020) on begging and aggressive monkeys at Khao Tang Kuan in Songkhla it was castration, some 200 faced the chop. Surprised they're trapping them again so soon, but would suspect they face a similar fate. https://thethaiger.com/news/south/monkeys-castrated-after-causing-chaos-in-songkhla

Indeed, which is why American voters without a college degree were more likely to vote for Donald Trump

You can hear for yourself August 15th 2024, Bedminster, New Jersey. https://www.instagram.com/mddems/reel/DF-tFGtJYlD/ “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one”

I've got the A53 5G - Macro works fine

But I recall Trump clearly stating prices will fall day one, I think it's more the Orange One that failed economics.

With Trump it's always someone else's fault

He is the swamp monster.

Is this article parody or reality? It's become increasingly hard to distinguish the two.

Indeed, sometimes there's nothing to say in response to inanity or insanity. But require some small token to acknowledge the scale of the fatuity.

Well a protest vote is actually doing something, so the facetious use of emojis is the equivalent of spoiling my ballot paper

Yes, Phang Nga, Phang Nga .

True, but some posts just aren't worthy of the effort

Absolutely

Agreed, if you're going to have a thumbs-up you really ought to have a thumbs-down

That's true if you're starting with USD, because the margin between buy and sell is so narrow. However, this is not the case for most other currency pairs, certainly for the two currencies I use SGD and GBP, transferring any amount into THB with Wise is a win.

Not a huge target to be fair

Not in my case, I arrange the transfer in Wise, send them the required SGD from my HSBC Singapore account to their account in Singapore using PayNow, transfer is free and instantaneous. On receipt Wise pay to my Thai bank account, usually within seconds. .