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Thai Hotels Struggle as Mid-Priced Rooms Fail to Attract Tourists
The p(l)andemic shifted everything. Lots of mental diseases now in the wake of what corvid nineteen did to people and society. Flights still too expensive compared to pre-corvid. Ever shifting visa rules and inconsistent application wait times and processes. The kids go for AirBnB or the ultra-low budget setups now, so traditional guesthouses/hotels are becoming irrelevant to that demographic. And weed shops aint enough considering you can smoke your brains out legally in much of the USA and all of Canada now. Most significantly - Thailand has lost that joie de vivre that it had when I first visited many moons ago. -
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Trump Harris: Who won the debate ?
Did you read the rules of the event? Obviously not. How many times did the moderators correct the false statements of Trump? 5X? 10X 20X Trump made 30 false claims so there were plenty of opportunities. For you to claim the moderators took sides with their fact checking, means that there must have been multiple times when they did so. Trump forced the moderators to correct his false claims because they were inflammatory, hateful and grossly incorrect and violated the debate rules about remaining civil, which means not inciting hate against people. Three such occurrences were; 1. Claiming that unauthorized immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, OH despite there being no evidence. 2. Claiming that Democrats support killing babies after they are born, despite there being no evidence. 3. Claiming that “crime is through the roof,” despite the evidence showing a significant decrease in violent crime and event that the property crime rate had fallen. Trump's intentionally false statements were corrected because the moderator's had a duty to do so. Aside from that, the moderators were not fact checking, although Trump made 30 false claims. -
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Thai Hotels Struggle as Mid-Priced Rooms Fail to Attract Tourists
Open up the country to cheap mass tourism and these are the consequences. -
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Trump Harris: Who won the debate ?
33 lies from Trump to 1 of Harris, if you can't understand why somebody was corrected more, there is no hope. -
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He is Right...It is scary
Ahh...the history and views of Piers Morgan and U.S. politics involving Donald Trump. Per Wikipedia and others: --Morgan won the U.S. celebrity version of The Apprentice in 2008, where Trump called him "ruthless, arrogant, evil and obnoxious." https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/gq-entertainment-donald-trump-interview-piers-morgan --Morgan, who's not eligible to vote in the U.S., said at the time that he wouldn't have voted for Trump in 2016, but still considered him a "good friend." --"In January 2018, Morgan presented President Trump – The Piers Morgan Interview for ITV,[133][134] which many thought of as "sycophantic" and a "love-in" for Trump.[135] Of respondents to a Radio Times Twitter poll, 88% viewed Morgan as being not "tough enough" on Trump." --In December 2018, Morgan wrote to Trump asking to be appointed his Chief of Staff in the middle of Trump's term as president. https://fortune.com/2018/12/11/piers-morgan-trump-chief-of-staff/ --"In the aftermath of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, Morgan stated that Trump was "mentally unfit" to remain as president. He claimed that the pandemic and Trump's election loss that followed had "sent him nuts". In response to whether he regretted his support of Trump, Morgan said "No question. I never thought he was capable of this." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan#Donald_Trump https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/piers-morgan-donald-trump-good-morning-britain-b1785297.html Thus, take his presentations and choices of content on U.S. politics for just what they're worth.... -
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Trump Harris: Who won the debate ?
Maybe the nature of the candidates where one speaks without facts, and another who is a scholar knows better between facts fiction and pure lies. -
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Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
And yet Churchill had close Jewish friends. Let me cite again this passage to you: Churchill was in Germany in 1932 doing some research on an ancestor of his. Someone offered to arrange for Churchill to meet Hitler. Churchill mentioned a few questions to ask Hitler in advance to prep for their meeting. I'll let Martin Gilbert take it from here... "Among them was the following question: “What is the sense of being against a man simply because of his birth? How can any man help how he is born?” This may seem a simple sentiment to us now, but how many people, distinguished people from Britain, the United States and other countries, who met or might have met Hitler, raised that question with him? So surprised, and possibly angered, was Hitler by this question that he declined to come to the hotel and see Churchill. FROM the moment that Hitler came to power, Churchill in his public speeches, and in his Parliamentary speeches, made it clear that the racial aspect of Nazism was a central concern. He always insisted on raising this issue, and pointing out the relevance to his listeners of the Nazi racial policies, and this he did again and again." https://winstonchurchill.org/the-life-of-churchill/war-leader/churchill-and-the-holocaust-the-possible-and-impossible/ Maybe this seems to you like sentiments that Hitler would share. Not so much to me. As for your prediction about what Hitler would and wouldn't have done...the man was an inveterate liar with an immense hunger for power. It seems dubious that he would have tolerated a British empire to exist. But you take a more benign view of Hitler's character. -
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Thai Restaurant Industry Faces Crisis, Urges Government Action
Yes but Thailand opened the gates to Russian tourists, who have done a really good job so far at starting up businesses and contributing to the local economies. More than offsets the cheap Indians. Regarding the Chinese tourists you go to King Power on Rangnam Rd and its packed to the gills, those tourists throwing cash around like confetti. So Thailand wins some, loses some. Cant win em all buddy!! -
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What are the requirements exactly for credit cards?
Well I have had a credit card for about 880 months and have only ever paid interest for 1 of those months!!!FFS. I have always paid off my card and only once paid interest. -
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Trump Harris: Who won the debate ?
Total tripe. Anyone could see the supposed "moderators" ambushed only one candidate with their "fact checking". It was a clear effort to favour Harris and they took sides. Everybody could see it. Anyone who claims otherwise has not watched the debate or is taking the mick, or even worse. -
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Quality sofa in Bangkok, maybe built in Bangkok - where to get one?
Large isn't the same as high end quality. -
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He is Right...It is scary
But apparently unable or unwilling to put his thoughts on current events into writing. -
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Trump's Wild Claims: The Truth Behind the Pet-Eating Conspiracy
My first trip to Thailand back in '82 I was up trekking in Golden Triangle. Some village couple guys had a dog dressed and splayed out for grilling. I politely declined joining them for dinner. Took a photo of scene, used for Xmas card that year (yeah, yeah, I know). No idea where photo gone over the years.... "all tastes are acquired" as my marketing professor pointed out....
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