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Perhaps the stocks had been borrowed from a wealthy friend, who has since died?

4 hours ago, mommysboy said:

A language school teacher would likely be paid around 40k tops, and that hasn't much changed in 15 years.  Meanwhile, the cost of living must have increased 50%.  He faces more difficulties in obtaining a teaching licence. 

Yes, teachers are no longer welcome in Thailand.

“The most commonly used language today is of course English. If it was Thai, we’d be a great power already. Is there a chance? Yes. If you do what I say, one day Thai will be the world’s lingua franca,” Prayuth said.

What happened to "Good guys in, bad guys out"?

I thought that once all the English teachers had been thrown out, Thailand would become some kind of paradise on earth?

Must act now - double all charges for foreigners, and deport anyone who can speak English.

So Thailand has been doing its best to get rid of British pensioners and English teachers, but crime is getting worse!

So much for "good guys in, bad guys out" ......

54 minutes ago, Goldieinkathu said:

"YouTubers" make quite a lot of money from their video's, the more subscribers they get the more they make, the more 'likes" etc.

Mr Glass will be making money out of this sad event so I hope he is generous enough to see that some of it goes to Ms Anderson's son now that his mother is not there to use her YouTube earnings for him.

 

I don't want to go off topic but can anyone tell me what visa exactly one has to get in order to earn money from the  internet while living here in Thailand? When I watched the above video I was surprised just how many people are living here off their earnings from YouTube.

https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCOqfbDaPl-e5puj3MN1krPA

If you follow the link, you will see that Mr Glass has annual earnings of 0 pounds from his Youtube videos. Even if he  was monetizing his videos (he isn't), his feeble 1.9M views in 2 years would have earned him a poxy $2000 assuming $1 per 1000 views.

1 hour ago, anotheruser said:

I never heard of a program for piss poor Thais to come to England

 Well, the "piss poor" English are spending approximately 5 times the average Thai wage in Thailand, and all the money is foreign currency.

If a horde of Thai retirees came to the UK each spending 5 times the average UK salary, approx $170,000 a year - yes, they would be welcomed

Thanks for your help, my gf will be visiting a branch of superrich on Monday.

Where is a good place to buy Swedish Krona in Bangkok? My girlfriend wants to change 10000 Baht into Swedish currency.

Excellent, thank you very much for your replies.

My Thai girlfriend has got a 3 month visa to stay in Sweden. If she books a flight that goes via Zurich Switzerland, will she have any problems?

Thanks.

10 hours ago, pentap said:

They created the industry and now they want escape goats to hide their creation.

What are "escape goats"?

Can you use one when making your getaway from a bank heist? Or will they rescue you from a plunging airliner?

Or maybe you meant "escaped goats" - they could form a herd in front of go-go bars to deceive passers-by?

1 hour ago, Suradit69 said:

As opposed to the more popular approach of farang kvetching on TV about "someone should do something."

 

He lives here. Why not actually do something other than whine and moan?

 

A brand-new 40 person western-style diesel bus costs 10M Baht.

So I'm guessing that they plan to buy 70B/10M = 7000 buses for Phuket. OK, that's ridiculous, how about 700 buses for 10% of the infrastructure budget? No? OK how about 100 buses? 50 buses? 10 buses?

Silly me, no buses required in Phuket.

5 hours ago, fruitman said:

 

Ohh great, another one who knows it all....i have this insurance and found it after comparing loads of them. I asked them every question i had and it sounds like the perfect insurance for me...i can stay abroad in any country as long as i like and will always be covered. It's from a huge insurancecompany in W-europe.

 

 

That's great! Why not give us a link to the insurance policy in question? I too have looked for a long time for proper insurance at a reasonable rate - it appears you have found it. Show me your policy and I will sign up immediately.

1 hour ago, fruitman said:

I was speaking about if a Thai driver (drunk or not) drives into me...My insurances will pay my hospitalbills and claim it back (by Thai lawyers) from the offender.

 

My insurances work worldwide, 365 days 24/7 no matter where i am or what i do. I don't have the average travelinsurance but an extended version of it.

 

This insurance costs about the same as an average travelinsurance but is much better for my lifestyle. It's worth the effort to check yours and maybe change to what i have...just search on the web for one like this.

 

 

Your travel insurance is amazing. People living in the USA should cancel their expensive health insurance plans and buy your worldwide travel insurance that costs far less. It looks as if normal health insurance is for suckers. Could you specify the company and policy that you use so that I can sign up?

No! That's not how things work in Thailand!

What you need to do is to build a coal-fired power plant next to Provincial Hall, and import the coal from overseas. Far more efficient than some solar rubbish.

Just now, stevenl said:

IMO for a place like Phuket, looking at numbers compared to population makes no sense.

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Good point.

They say that 73.6% of statistics are made up, although Thai statistics are probably not that reliable ...

On 06/03/2017 at 1:26 PM, stevenl said:

I must correct, just realised the number of 180 is old, recent numbers are lower.

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I should have clarified that my 70 road deaths per 100,000 population came from this source:

http://www.thephuketnews.com/it-official-phuket-worst-in-thailand-for-road-accidents-53869.php

I have no idea how accurate that statistic is, but if annual road deaths in Phuket totalled 140 (for example), it would imply that the population of Phuket is 200,000, which is clearly wrong.

28 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Agreed, except that annual road deaths on phuket are appx. 180. I would guess holiday makers are at a higher risk than natives, but don't know if the statistics support that.

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I think I misunderstood your post initially - you mean 180 in total, rather than 180 per 100,000?

6 hours ago, smedly said:

Thailand being one of (if not the worst) country in the world for road traffic accidents, phuket exceeds that by quite a margin, the whole Island is a serious black spot for RTA's, time for the authorities to enforce a strict island wide speed limit of 30kmph, they do the same thing in the USA on coastal islands and resort communities enforcing 15-25mph speed limits

 

something has got to be done to combat the carnage on the roads there

Phuket's accident statistics are misleading. The official registered Thai population was 360,905 people at the end of 2012. But when you add unregistered Thais, Burmese workers, expats and of course holidaymakers, the number of people in Phuket routinely exceeds 1 million.

Let's be conservative and say that there are only an average of 720,000 people living in Phuket at any given time. That changes the road deaths from 70 per 100,000 every year to 35 per 100,000. The average in Thailand is 36.2.

I personally think that the 36.2 per 100,000 figure is appalling, and I agree that something should be done in Thailand as a whole -  proper enforcement of existing laws would make a big difference overnight.

But I don't agree that this problem is specific to Phuket - Phuket just has a larger transient population than any other province, leading to inaccurate RTA statistics.

Well done Elon Musk. He's a visionary engineer and businessman. Let's hope that he achieves some of his many extremely ambitious goals in our lifetimes. Colonising Mars, superbatteries, electric self-driving cars, Hyperloop high-speed transport, giant tunnel-boring machines ... some think he is a fantasist, but he is extremely successful already with his SpaceX and Tesla businesses.

15 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

China and India build coal fired power stations everyday, they do not have any plans to

stop this in our lifetime, what about Russia how is their power produced.  

Carbon penalties is just a big money scam.  Carbon capture if it is done effectively

could be done by all countries that can afford to do that.

Erm, no, that's completely wrong.

China announced in January 2017 that they were cancelling 103 planned coal plants, which would have been been worth $62 Billion and generated 120GW.

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-end-of-coal-is-near-china-just-scrapped-103-power-plants

Well spotted, stuarty. I particularly like your first link, where there two signs at each side of the road. One sign is correctly pointing towards Nai Thon, but the sign at the other side of the road claims that Nai Thon is located in the opposite direction!

What could the people who installed these signs have been thinking? "Yes, travel East to go to Nai Thon Beach. Or West. Up to you".

I was skimming the headlines, and misread this one as "Baboon emerges from White House", sadly the actual story was not about a primate with a big red arse.

Sure oilinki, here is the link:

Google maps link

And here are the Laguna traffic lights 600m up the road (the first set you come to after the sign):