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2 hours ago, bazza73 said:

I think you'll find I have contributed to this thread on the OAP,  although I have better things to do with my time than search 106 pages. I draw a Centrelink part pension.

I'd say it's evident from your response your  humour is only intended to direct attention to yourself. As Paul Keating would say, I'm being savaged by a dead sheep. Have a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down.

 

Keating was a busy guy.  I mean really busy.  He always found time for a quick snipe in between his busy schedule with the Darlinghurst gang.

On 8/31/2017 at 7:55 PM, Father Fintan Stack said:

 

Uneducated nonsense.

 

Thais are a licentious people, always have been always will be. 

All  nationalities bear the same traits.  It doesn't stop Thais from being ashamed of what goes on there. Or are you just trying to justify your behaviour?

21 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Most Thais are not good for Buddhism either, and çulture'......go to Pattaya or Phuket>

Most Thais don't go to "Pattaya" or "Phuket" because they are unhappy by what goes on their with their fellow country(wo)men complicit.

2 hours ago, happylarry said:

To start with you need to get your wife to make a legal will leaving it to you. You are then the legal owner but only for one year!!! You have a year to either sell the property or to put it into another Thai persons name. 

Also you need to get your wife to sign a usufruct to you on the property. This allows you to stay in the property for life if you so require, so that when you sign over the title deeds to another Thai name (ie a relative) there is no way they can then force you out against your will.

If there is no will then the legal spouse will inherit 50% and the other 50% is split between the parents of the deceased and the children of the deceased.

Hope this helps.

HL

What happens if both parents are deceased and the deceased has no children?

4 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

BMW was as sleeping as all the others German car makers in terms of electric driven cars. Go to Tesla. They will show you how to do (maybe even Toyota)

Tesla is $15Billion in debt.  The big guys - VW, BMW, MB etc will roll over the top of them when the technology becomes viable  for the mainstream.  Looking forward to that.  Providing sufficient power when that time comes is the conundrum.  

My condolences to Lorry's family.  The truck looks badly damaged.

On 7/6/2017 at 10:55 PM, Will E Vormer said:

If so I would sell bf the end of year to maximise the sale price. HRV's hold their value v well too

 

another reason to sell soon is due to next years refresh.

Oh and the whining engine/cvt

Not so concerned about the trans, which does the job, as the absence of sat nav.

4 minutes ago, Skyboogie said:

My wife said she would never have sex with me again if I bought her an HR-V.

Say it slowly HR-V,  not HI-V. Otherwise, buy her a Mazda 2 hatch.

8 minutes ago, al007 said:

There is little doubt the C5 is better than the HRV

 

But is it better value, my opinion no

 

How much do you think it would cost to change, my guesstimate is 800,000

Bit difficult to assess whether or not the HR-V is better value at this point since the new CX-5 hasn't arrived yet and I haven't seen pricing.  So I'll hold judgement until then. The HR-V is good value though,  except for the CVT trans.  Not a fan of that.  Any more than a 500k changeover would  become less attractive to me.

4 hours ago, Skyboogie said:

I think it's a notch above it's class and can hold it's own against similar base model premium crossovers.

Agreed. Why would you buy an X3 now they are assembled in the USA and build quality is so poor. BMW = Big Money Waster. I'm thinking of disposing of my HR-V when this new model arrives.  

1 hour ago, Na Lee said:

Yes if you apply for me a new retirement visa each year 10 years long.

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You're a generous fella.  If you gave me 1900 baht and wanted ten times that back,  you would only be getting 19000 from me. Up to you.  

2 hours ago, Na Lee said:

What is the missing part? No i don't have real estate to sell.

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OK.  I'll give you 1900 Baht.  If I ask you to give me ten times that back, will you give me 190000?

7 minutes ago, Na Lee said:

Am i missing something? Each year I apply for a one year retirement visa 1900 baht. Over 10 years is 190000 baht. No money in the bank required, Health insurance none, go to imm. Every 90 days. So what's the benefit of the 10 years visa.????!?!?

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Yes,  you're missing something. BTW, do you have any real estate to sell?

44 minutes ago, Redline said:

No, they are a tiny country with no significance in the world.  The USA has not invented anything worth mentioning, not even what you used to write this, or send this message.  Now take a nap.  I know writing that complex thought exhausted you. And, it's "Does the USA..." by the way.  Do shot for me too! 

The USA is not a tiny country, last time I checked.  What has changed? 

1 hour ago, Buriramfelang said:

Went to Oz embassy yesterday for  stat dec. no prob at all. In and out 15 mins.

Were you required to provide any proof of income to the Embassy official? 

On 3/25/2017 at 10:43 AM, Shawn0000 said:

 

Collectively, yes, by population there are more people in countries where English is the first or an official language that use American English, but by number of countries, if we look at how widespread, then it is not even close, the number of countries using British English far exceed those using American, but then not when you include second language speakers, then American English again exceeds, a relatively recent change but one that has already happened.

Quick update for you, cos I know you're so wedded to India using the word Lorry when referring to a truck.  Here is a link to road signs used in India.  Not a lorry in sight. 

http://www.aasindia.org/Traffic signs.pdf

14 hours ago, canthai55 said:

As if Fords sold in Thailand are made in the USA 555 !!

And  (some) BMWs are assembled in South Carolina.  So who is responsible for the poor build quality - the Yanks or the Germans?

Get yourself a Ford.  Man, they are so good. Mechanics hate them - never in the garage for repairs.  Anyone who says Fords are frauds are buckets of <deleted> masquerading as a motor vehicle is clueless.  And the design -so attractive.  

Forget the Honda.  They only were only any good at making motor bikes anyway.  Noisy,  so bad, With the wife whinging and the radio going off - just noisy as hell.  Don't start me on the build quality of a Ford compared to a Honda.  The Japs don't know <deleted>. USA quality - awesome.

22 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

Its over ten percent who speak English in India now, about 125 million people which makes it the second highest number of English speakers in any country in the world.  Utterly hilarious that you wanted to include the 9.6% of South Africans who speak English, all 4 million of them, but do not want to include the higher percentage and far greater number of speakers in India, where English is actually an official language.  You really haven't done well here.

 

Who knows what you were thinking when you decided to write, " what ever way you do the math" having just been shown that there are only 4 countries where English is an official language use truck whereas 34 countries where English is an official language use lorry, but never mind darling, now you feel the need to once again move the goal posts to include all of Europe.

 

And lorry is not a colloquial term, it is the British English word, it predates the use of truck in this usage by about 50 years, both having been railroad terms.

 

 

 

 

It's already been established that in English speaking countries (that is, where English is spoken as  first language)  the collective majority use the term truck.  You're still desperately predicating your fallacious argument on the inclusion of India. If you really want to use India,  then you have to include Pakistan, who use the term truck. 

All of South America, Europe and most of Asia including China, Japan and   South Korea use the term truck.

Let me know if you come up with anything new that is material, princess.  

14 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

English and Hindi and the two official languages of India, you know not what you speak, they had intended to phase out English as an official language fifteen years after independence, but they later negated that act and English remains the joint official language along with Hindi, 

 

There are only four countries where they also say truck that use English as an official language, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whereas there are 54 countries that use English as their main language.  Funny that you bring up South Africa, where English is a minority and unofficial language, but reject India where it is an official language.  There were actually 22 other countries you could have chosen in Africa, 3 of which use English as their primary language, but you chose South Africa, shows just how little you know about English usage worldwide.  Anyway, there are far more English speaking countries just in Africa that say lorry than there are in the world who say truck, whether you want to talk about numbers of speakers or numbers of countries, lorry, and British English in general, wins hands down.

 

And what made me sound upset to you, surely not simply repeating the same inane language you used to me?

Less than 10% of the population in India speak English.  Hardly what you would call an  English speaking country. Many other countries where English is used as a secondary language  have much higher rates of literacy in the English countries and use the term truck.  8% of the population of India is circa  100M. I'm a generous person and you insist on  fallaciously including India, so i'll let you use the 100m. Using your figures, again, i'm a generous person,  that's less people using the term lorry. None of the rest of Europe uses the term lorry. So you can  do whatever maths you like, more people use the term truck.

Oh,  and there is no lorry manufacturing industry in any country in the world, only a truck manufacturing industry.  Lorry is simply a colloquial term for truck. Not even the UK has a lorry manufacturer - it's Leyland trucks Ltd,  not Leyland Lorries Ltd.  So looks like you're the one who doesn't know what they're talking about. And no,  don't bother playing back your dodgy argument again. 

3 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

No, English is the joint official language along with Hindi, nothing like that in China, you clearly haven't the first idea what you are talking about so I suggest it is you who "moves on".

Hindi  is the official language of India.  English is also used, just as it is is in every other country in the world.  You're just trying to use India to prop up your flimsy argument.  The fact is  Truck is used where english is used as the main language in every  country except  UK, SA, and a couple of  smaller jurisdictions. So no,  Lorry isn't used in the majority of english speaking countries. Although I do know a couple guys named Lorry.  You sound upset.  Sorry if I have offended you.

4 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

How does that translate into bad news in your mind?  Who cares about the first language?  This was about which countries use which term.  India, Malaysia and Singapore all use English to a great extent, in fact English is an official language in all of those countries, their laws were written in English and they use English as a business language.  Once you stop moving the goal posts you will have to admit that lorry is a more commonly used term than truck worldwide, that is just a fact.

Just because you reach a call centre in Bangalore every time you need tech support it doesn't mean everyone in India speaks english.  Far from it.  If you want to include India then you will have to include China,  who use the term truck.  So the facts are that truck is the most widely used term.  Move on.

I  have heard there is a van company in Udon where I can securely park my car that provides a transport service to Vientiane and return. Any information would be appreciated.  

18 hours ago, Shawn0000 said:

 

No, it is like I said, just North America and Australia, the rest, Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. all say lorry, about 1.5 billion saying lorry to half a billion saying truck.

Bad news. Of the english speaking counties  (english as a first language )North America (incl Canada), Australia, New Zealand say truck. While UK, South Africa, Northern Ireland use the term Lorry.

Neither India, Malaysia or Singapore use English as a first language.  Neither does Pakistan, who BTW use the term truck.  

Hope that clears it up for you.