LivinLOS

The entire system is a money making machine whose primary income source is tolerating the breaking of laws and being paid to not enforce them. The of course theres the Ferrari joes of the organisation.. How much evidence do you need.

and these inward remittances will be taxed next year ?? ???? Left hand.. right hand !!!

Because they culturally believe everyone will lie all the time.. Employer means control, salary proof and contracts that are harder to forge.. Freelancers would just lie (in a Thai mindset context) and claim the eligibility.. Many of these Thai 'centralized' top down type demands stem from a suspicion of total distrust / lack of honesty expectations.

I have a fiber inground pool which has been in there for 10 - 12 years, I know these things have a lifespan and as I am refurbishing a house I am looking at options. Its still in solid condition but there is the start of some hairline cracking on the sun exposed top surface and I can see cosmetically it may be something in the coming years. Structurally it seems solid and nothing looks to be weak or in need of attention. Its actually a functionally good pool (I used to be fairly snobby about fiber pools but this has been easy to keep and its 'just' big enough) aside from being skimmer. Obviously I could tear it out and put in a concrete pool but 1 - 1.5m to do it really nice is offputting. Then again so is doing a lot of house and garden landscape, including pool decking and a large garden sala, to then need to tear it out in a couple of years !! Does anyone have any advice on pool coping stones ?? Sandstone, porcelain, cantilevered cement... I was going to put a deck (processed fake wood style) but I could hardscape it also.

Before I knock up something and laminate it.. Long shot, but does anyone think there may be a source of these stickers ?? Not sure of the pattern is semi standard or different per valve maker ?? Small thing but trying to keep it all tidy

so thermogenics is fake.. 2 identical people, who consume the same calories and one who takes amphetamines burn the same output.. Thats nonsense. A buddy of mine, getting middle aged and out of shape went and has his hormones done, started TRT, without any change in diet or working out dropped about 10 - 12 kilos and reverted back to shape with no lifestyle change.

Yeah I dont think any sane people are talking about American portions.. But again, my wife portion consumption is still way higher than mine, per sitting, and I have 1 or 2 sittings she is 5 - 7.. and still is less than half my weight..

Its also metabolism.. By your logic 1500 cal will always be slimmer than someone who consumes 1800 cal and an amphetamine pill every day.. I mean its just calories in right ??

it really isnt with her tho.. She is well known among her and my friend circle as being this insanely hungry one all the time.. Its like this running joke.. She also gets insanely hangry minutes after becoming hungry, like as soon as she is hungry, you have a 20 minute window to get food in her before her mood goes mental. Yesterday I eat a banana in the morning, nothing else bar espresso's until +-3pm then a penang moo.. about 6 7pm a few spoons of natural yoghurt (not a bowl or 'portion') and that was the full days food intake.. And not an unusual day.. I almost never have breakfast and often 1 meal a day or a lunch and plate of fruit afternoon.. I am a 110kg on a good day (but 193cm) My wife woke up at 10:30 pm to go make herself an omelet on rice, actually woke up in the night to go cook khai jeow.. She will have eaten at a minimum 5 times in the day something as large as my penang moo days main meal. Shes already had one full cooked meal and its dawn. Rail thin, 45 kgs in her 40s, eats continuously through the day, a meal every other hour.

I often eat from the vegetarian / vegan buffet places.. I swear you can see an intellect difference in the people eating there than in the KFC / cheap fast food places.. Lots of serious looking glasses wearing studious type people.. Its (another) thing that totally puts me off if I ever succumb to a KFC or something, the people who eat there on average also look dumber.

You dont know her.. She absolutely does.. meal after meal all through the day.. Its noon and so far I have had a banana, shes had 3 meals..

They spoon sugar onto and into everything.. Sure its not 'dessert' but 2 heaped tablespoons on top of the phad see eow, balanced out with vinegar and fish sauce, is still 'in' the dish..

hmm.. I eat Thai potions.. possibly 2 times a day.. Compared to her 5 plus, a portion every 2 hours or so all through the day..

My wife eats 2 - 3 times the volume of food I eat.. Day and night, wake up for a mama noodles late evening just before bed, instant food the second she wakes up, 5 plus 'meals' a day.. A bowl of noodles every trip out of the house, a couple of dishes grabbed as a snack between meals.. Yet shes 45kg and fits the same jeans she did 20 years ago in her 20s (she just found a pair recently, not an exaggeration). She is active and hard working for house work and garden etc, shes 'busy' but the sheer volume of poor quality food she consumes is truly crazy. Shes eating now as I type this !! I often think it may be to do with chilli and metabolism.

I dont know.. I think he looks like a fair amalgamation of a lot of the denizens of 'Bangkoks nightlife' ????

Theres your problem right there..

The expectation that the police are there to stop laws being broken is a western assumption. The police are there to make money for the police.. If that means being paid to tolerate laws being broken, or collect petty fines as a tax on the population, that is what they will do. Occasionally social media will shame them into the job of enforcing the law but its only to maintain the primary income processes. Until this changes, with a total rebuild, which they will resist and fight, so it will continue to be. Police, Army, these power structures are just more clans that have evolved out of a clan based society. In such a collectivised culture the success and preservation of your clan is more important that the rights of the individual, so right and wrong no longer means anything outside of the framework of what is happing to or for your clan. Its an entirely different moral mindset.

That was exactly the conditions on Phuket as late as 2008 2010 kind of time. Once giant cell, 100 plus burmese, a hole in the corner to piss in.. Inedible food.. etc etc I helped 3 people deported via IDC by bringing them food they could actually eat etc. You need to remember these places are primarily for burmese (and other) migrant workers, caught or often discarded without pay by unscrupulous employers. Thais are not going to spend any money on Burmese migrant worker comfort !!

Yaba Daba Dont !!

'becoming' ?? Gang attacks, mobs, clans, student rivalry's have been feature here for as long as I can remember.

Back around 2010 there was an interview with Prab Keesin who was boasting that there were >600 registered tuktuks in patong alone. Each tuktuk was paying 10,000 a month to be in that syndicate.. Thats 6 million baht a month to pay out to maintain thier monopoly.. Each police chief has to pay a fortune to get allocated to Phuket and Patong is the crown jewel in kickbacks.. Bars, clubs, hotels, everyone is paying big sums in.. Its millions of dollars a month. Fairly simple why they dont want it fixed isnt it.

did you read the article or just the headline !!

did they even look at the video before writing this ??

Yeah they in the roadside squid selling game ??

In other news, a generous stoner shares a bong and 2 inexperienced smokers pulled a whitey.. After a choco milk they are reported to be feeling fine again.