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Concerning Harris: What is the most, for you, appropriate tune that comes to mind?
Apologies for this late addendum which I had intended to include in the original Topic: She's so Cold....too! I mean, she's not exactly the burning bush, or anything....imparting great wisdom....as once happened in Biblical times..... -
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Thai Parliament Set to Decide on Controversial Liquor Bill Today
The wine import duties in Thailand are insane, and the government is denying themselves a potentially huge industry in fine wine at wine shops, good hotels, wine events, wine festival. The wine could be promoted on so many different levels and there's no doubt that if they got rid of so many of the taxes that are applied to wine and reduced the import duties by 80% across the board at the wine industry would be 10 times larger than it is now. -
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Frozen in time: British expats losing out on pensions in Thailand
Yep I said the other day on seperate thread and produced another link from DWP saying the state pension is "not sanctionable"- 1
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To retire "in comfort", fine. What about your children?
Good advice to get started early. You could just invest in an index linked fund for them, with 100 USD a month they'd be guaranteed to be millionaires by retirement age. Provided there is no catastrophic event in the markets. Or, you could adopt the Kyoasaki method like KhunLa and buy land and hope it appreciates. Shares and land are the two classic options. I will teach them to trade FOREX, as I suspect the returns would outstrip land and index linked funds, if done right. -
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Thai Parliament Set to Decide on Controversial Liquor Bill Today
Thaopipob Linjittkorn, or Thao as he is more popularly known, a lawyer and homebrewer, was very publicly arrested in 2017 for making beer. He used that publicity to win an election to Parliament in 2019, along with 80 other members of the Future Forward Party. This progressive, pro-democracy party included in its platform a detailed plan to deregulate the beer industry, as well as a proposal for the legalization of marijuana, citing both as ways of putting money into the pockets of small businesses and local farmers. The opposition that Future Forward was up against is a military-backed, hardline government that supports the duopoly with strict regulations that allow it to control over 99% of Thailand’s estimated 180 billion baht ($5.8 billion) beer industry. The duopoly was originally made untouchable with the first Thai Liquor Control Act in 1950, a law which has been amended several times since to push legality even further out of reach of any small brewer. Prayuth's administration has done much to reinforce the isolationist and nationalistic policies that Phibul established in the 1940s and ’50s, and has called again and again for citizens to display a certain level of “Thainess,” which the PM defines in part as unquestioning loyalty to the government. Do not be disobedient! For some very small men, craft beer is associated with anti-establishment politics. “It’s very similar to the French Revolution, which started from a cafe in Paris, where people drank coffee,” says Taopiphop. “The fuel of the revolution is not coffee any more, it’s craft beer.” Taopiphop adds that, after the 2014 coup in Thailand, many pro-democracy activists chose to meet in Bangkok’s craft beer bars. If only the younger Thais were allowed to express themselves, be inventive, be creative, be industrious, and use their smarts and ambition, Thailand could have a future. Craft beer is needed here, and so are the young entrepreneurs. But, that future appears to be suppressed at every turn by dinosaurs, who only answer to money, money, and even more money. Money is the God of lesser men. The money first attitude is holding back Thailand on so many levels. -
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Frozen in time: British expats losing out on pensions in Thailand
If you were living in Thailand and getting the winter fuel allowance... - I would stay quiet and not complain about it's disappearance. Also not really sure why you're blaming Labour for the decision to freeze the personal allowance as that was taken by the previous government. Now you could maybe blame Starmer and Reeves for saying they're going to stick to Tory spending limits, but not for things decided by the previous government. -
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I Love Donald Trump
Pretty sad Trump lives rent free in your head (keep posting about him) LOL not surprised 🙂 -
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Travelling during Iran Israel crisis to and from Europe.
One of my lads is in Dubai currently with his Girlfriend due back Sunday He's on Saudia via Jeddah back to Gatwick He messaged this morning asking do you think there will any problems -
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Four Charges Filed Against Driver in Bus Fire That Killed 23
That poor "sacrificial lamb" will have to live with the thought of how many kids lives he could of saved if he had used the fire extinguisher and opened the emergency exits, but instead he run-off like a dog with it's tail between it's legs. -
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Russian Woman Rescued After Drifting at Sea for 7 Hours in Sattahip
I first visited Sattahip in 1971. Thankfully, I never saw any Russian women drifting around in the waters there. If I had, I would have recalled the experience, no doubt. -
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'Damning non-answer': Vance refuses to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election
The video exchange excerpt between Walz and Vance over the stolen election lies: https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/walz-presses-vance-on-jan-6-and-2020-election-loss-220632133537 -
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The Tim Walz thread.
He looks like Pepe The Frog. Not a good look for the VP candidate. He looks like he's about to zap a fly out of the air with his tongue. Excellent meme material tho'! 🐸 🪰- 1
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Thai Airways flight runs off runway in Bangkok storm scare
Thank you. Some horrible anti-Thai ill-informed rubbish posted in this thread.- 1
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