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If it is the photo of Prayuth you are trying to get rid off, this is good because it is not allowed as an avatar or profile picture on Thaivisa.

Why not? It works !

Umm, no they will not be raising rates. There is a reason they have been at zero for 6 years and why they cannot raise them.

fed will be hiking rates in the next year for sure, so figure out if the dollar priced in that move(s)......oh wait, that is a guess as well

Worked a few days ago, tried to change it again and while it shows up on my profile does not show up anywhere else, only my old one....going on 24 hours...not 10 mins. Tried to delete old photo and re upload, brings back old avatar, logged out and in, cleared cookies...NO JOY.

What am I doing wrong?

Just encountered this, very annoying.

Was an article recently in the LA times that goes over some of this stuff, it's a good read. I am too saddened by the current state of affairs.

Sounds similar to the Obama admin recently banning the media from the presentation on government transparency.

Wonderful.

Moonoi, if you can not see what was absurd about it and what jayboy was trying to convey then it is you who have failed.

Awful...thoughts for those killed and hurting...very sad news.

I didn't like the idea of having to register my sim, but walked into AIS at Central and showed passport, very helpful gal handled everything, no forms, no address, in and out and they sorted my internet package as well. All in all very easy.

Always good to have options, and the products look great!

Some more great videos to be found on thier YouTube channel!

Incredibly painful to watch even skipping past most of it.

It was a disaster because it pulled forward demand, put lots of people in cars they could not actually afford, made traffic way worse than it already is and generally distorted the market.

"But we see an opportunity here for auto

companies to stimulate the market and maintain the sales momentum."

I think that happened a couple of years ago, it was called "the first car scheme". It was , by all accounts, a complete disaster, from which the market has not fully recovered.

I'm not trying to pick an argument with you, but why was/do you think the first car scheme was a disaster?
I know a few Thais who, thanks to this scheme, could finally buy a vehicle or get rid of their old, petrol guzzling bangers and purchase newer, more reliable cars/pickups.
I think this is the first time I've heard anybody referring to it as a disaster.

What were the "events" of yesterday? Maybe I missed something...

Nothing like a thread about TG to bring the Thai bashers out in full force!

Such a clueless bunch!

TG is going through some tough times and I hope it will get better soon. The hate for them by a lot of TV posters is really strange...

Steerage on a 744 with Thai sucks...guess what Lufthansa is worse, United about the same!

The whole VIP thing in F is so overblown, I have been upfront on probably 25 flights in the last 6 years, I can think of maybe 2 times there were some hi so freeloaders, usually it is way more farangs....and I have done a lot of the F routes, FRA, on the 380 and 744 multiple times, LHR, MUC, HKG, NRT, CDG (when they flew the leased Jet Airways 77W with the suites, miss those birds).

Neversure do you actually live in USSA and just post non stop ....555 almost 10K posts about how much Thailand sucks? Really?

Look sometime the street vendors and stalls suck, but nothing as horrid anti walking MUST drive a car everywhere culture in USSA.

Will never forget the first time my ex came to the states, I picked her up at LAX and we drove down PCH through the beach cities to the peninsula at 8 pm at night and the first thing she said after 20 mins was "where are all the people?"

The most bitter of the bitterexpat dot com crowd seem to be the most vocal, but it is like that on a lot of forums...meh.

Anyways, I imagine a lot of these guys that get pissed off and burnt out are in some cases control freaks that can not handle the outlaw nature of Thailand or just were either unlucky in who they met here or did not fit in well.

I'm not allowed to own a home and land in Thailand and I wouldn't buy or live in a condo so it has to be potatoes and strawberries. I'm describing what my life is like and what it costs in the US vs Thailand, considering what is possible.

Thailand is a smelly rathole. If you can't see that, up to you.

Cheers.

I wish we could dispel the myth that you can own a home in the USA...you can not. You just rent it from the government.

If you do not pay your property tax every month find out how much you actually own when guys with guns come to take it.

Thailand is a smelly rathole huh?

I have been all over the US, (basically like a truck driver, but different job) and have seen A LOT of it. The US is pretty ruff in a lot of parts. Many inner cities are totally bombed out. The old cool downtowns in small places are deserted and boarded up.

The zombified population waddles into the local Walmart to buy their GMO and High Fructose Corn Syrup and pick up their prozac.

Most of the women are fat, if not morbidly obese (although this is getting a bit better as people start to wake up). (The men are just as bad)

Total Police State with a fed gov't bent on empire and control and a broken fake 2 party system.

That said, lots of good things about the place I still love....for me a little time in both places with an edge to Thailand.

Thanks Lake Geneve, appreciate the info. I do hope they sort out the contract and begin construction on the Mo Chit extension soon, although after reading how they will have to tear down the flyovers at ratchoyothin and Kasetart I think the traffic in this area is going to be insane while they build it...hopefully it will go quick...

I really hope we do not see a property tax put in place, at that point you never really own your home or condo, you just rent it from the gov't, just like back in USSA.

I could see a tax on properties over a certain valuation or commercial perhaps might possibly be fair.

When China blows up there could definitely be some knock on effect here in LOS. I almost think the bigger problem in China now is not the ghost cities or shadowy banks but the pollution is so bad now it is literally making the place unfit to live in.

We may look back in 5 years and say that this was the big boom period for Thailand, peak tourism, peak exports, peak consumerism.

Went in to Hua Seng Heng the other day and purchased 1 Baht, had the usual wait and now days any Thai that tries to muscle past me gets the elbow, they then smile and wait their turn...and while I was waiting three Indian ladies bought just under a million baht worth of gold, then I tried to remember any time I have been in there over the last 3 years if I could recall actually seeing anyone sell any gold back, just buy.

I am sure it happens a fair bit but never seen it, just buyers, like the Chinese and Russians now.

They have kept the plates spinning for sometime, but this year looks to be really interesting.