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We can't say we weren't warned
Ah … I observe that, not all, but most comments on ASEAN NOW, that I click a “laugh” response is laughing “at them” rather than “with them”. I will be honest if asked but I hope those caring can discern the difference on the basis of my past comments and my public profile. -
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Hitler’s AI Translated Speeches Go Viral on TikTok in Troubling Trend
So people warning against Trump because they see him as a threat to democracy (have you read ‘project 2025’?) or just as a vile human being (he’s a convicted felon, among other things) is rhetoric now? Since when is telling the truth rhetoric? Trump and Vance, on the other hand, push all kind of crazy conspiracy theories, like Haitians eating cats and dogs, and all immigrants coming into the US being rapists and murderers. Now that is hateful rhetoric. -
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Pizza the action: Foreign man wreaks havoc at Phuket pizzeria
[quote] ... ... wearing a black bin bag around his neck. [/quote] .. as you do!!- 1
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Help on "Retirement Visa"
Suggest that you have your UK pension paid into your UK bank When your rent income + pension is 65k then do a WISE transfer on very similar date every month. Thinking for you that will be latter part of the month. -
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UK frozen pension returning to UK and going overseas again at a later date!
My personal experience is very different from what I have read at the start of this thread. I had been Thai resident for many years and my UK State Pension was frozen as of the date I left the UK in 2004. In 2018 I returned to the UK, purchased a flat and set about making myself UK resident once again. It took about three months and required support of my MP and also a letter to the Secretary of State, Amber Rudd. My intention at the time was to spend 6 months in the UK and 6 months in Thailand but to be UK resident for all purposes. After 3 months I received a letter from DWP confirming that I was once again UK resident and that my UK State Pension would be permanently uprated, the letter is copied below but is redacted to protect personal information. After a further two months I left the UK and returned to Thailand, the colder weather was starting to wear me down. The following year I returned to the flat and spent two months there with my wife on holiday, before we returned to Thailand. We were ticketed to return in the Spring of 2020 but Covid intervened and our flight was cancelled.....we have not returned since and the flat has remained tenanted, Per the letter below: I am very comfortable that my permanent and settled lifestyle is that I travel frequently and spend time in different countries but always return to live on the UK, often after a period of many years away. I am also very comfortable that the next time I return to the UK I will once again claim settled UK residency and my pension will be permanently uprated. The letter follows: I am responding to the email dated 1 April 2019 to which included the Rt. Hon Amber Rudd MP about your UK residency status. I should explain that due to the Secretary of State’s wide ranging responsibilities, it is not always possible for her to respond to every letter personally. In this instance I have been asked to reply. I was sorry to read of your concerns and on receipt of your email I arrange for your UK residency status to be investigated. I can confirm the International Group (IG) does not undertake Statutory Residence Tests (SRT). However, they did write to you on 20 December 2018 asking some questions about your residential status in the UK and abroad, this was to establish whether you are a habitually resident in the UK. As you have spent a significant time abroad we needed to establish whether you are now habitually resident in the UK. I understand that you returned to the UK on 1 July 2018, then left for an extended stay in Thailand on 6 November 2018 . As this was approximately 4 months after returning to the UK and because State Pension (SP) rates can be frozen, depending on the country of residence, IG required information to establish whether your stay in Thailand was temporary and to confirm that your country of residence is the UK. **Redact** IG has accepted that you are habitually resident in the UK from 28 June 2018. Your SP is paid up to 27 March 2019 at £xx per week, Increasing to £xx per week from 11 April 2019. It may help if I explain that your country of habitual residence is not decided on the number of days spent in a particular country. IG considered your individual circumstances, taking into account a number of factors such as: whether you retains a residence and continues to have financial commitments in the UK, when he goes abroad is your intention to return to the UK did purchase a return ticket do you own property abroad and have financial commitments in that country There are other factors which IG will consider when making a habitual residence decision and each decision is based on that customer’s circumstances. I have asked IG to write to you to confirm they consider your country of residence to be the UK. In the meantime, should you have any further questions about this matter you can write to, Complaints Resolution Manager, The Pension Service 4, Mail Handling Site A, Wolverhampton. WV98 1AG or by telephoning 0191 613 8158. Once again thank you for your enquiry, I hope I have clarified the current position. Yours sincerely Complaints and Correspondence Manager -
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Harris holds 7-point lead over Trump in national survey
That's not what I said. I clearly mentioned that the size of the sample is relevant. I then said the problem was concentrating on one demographic. I don't know what you are trying to achieve here. Maybe you are just lonely. Go adopt a street dog and get a life. -
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Interesting read from a well informed professor of US history.
You are the cultist obeying your masters voice you couldn't see a witch hunt even if it came and slapped you right in the face even while on the bonfire you'll be supporting the witch hunt thinking they will spare you if you espouse its virtue...think again learn from history once the dictatorship silenced it's critic's the sycophants are next in line. -
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Billy Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" - is it better than anything by the Beatles?
This is what's so astounding, they use electronic drum machine, but it actually sounds like music. And Billy Eilish is actually belting. Can you not hear her belt? Higher than anyone has ever done before. The harmonies are super complex btw, no way is this pre-school level. Tell me one Beatles song that compares to this. I can only think of Yesterday. That's it, at a stretch. -
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Man Dies After Attack by Mixed-Breed Stray Dogs in Ubon Ratchathani
It's strange that 'stray' dogs have attacked a man in his home. And it's also strange (to me at least) that they have maybe conveniently found and labelled a couple of breeds with a bad reputation. Don't get me wrong, this is a sad story and a worrying trend we're seeing... but I feel there's more to this than the story suggests. Were they really stray dogs, from birth? If yes, why are they in a man's house? That's not 'stray dog behaviour.' Hi @richard_smith237 I didn't want to disappoint you😇🫡 -
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Billy Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" - is it better than anything by the Beatles?
Garbage. Pre-school melody. Electronic drum machine. Autotuned voice. Don't compare her to Beatles. Maybe Yoko...........- 1
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Hitler’s AI Translated Speeches Go Viral on TikTok in Troubling Trend
Hardly, just over 20% of Israel is Arabs with most of those being Muslim -
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Help on "Retirement Visa"
Cheers, thanks for your help. 👍 -
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Pizza the action: Foreign man wreaks havoc at Phuket pizzeria
F-king Loser! Coming to Thailand and acting like birth gave him a brain of a chicken.- 1
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Major Storm Won't Hit Thailand Like in 2011, official confirms
It is almost the end of September; the rainy season normally goes on to the end of October. I am in Lopburi province, so far this year we have had very little rain, Wifes daughter and son in law are rice farmers and they are pumping water into their rice fields from a bore hole, not enough rain. Me writing this now will bring floods on now. -
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7-Eleven Introduces Convenient PromptPay QR Code Payments Nationwide
I find the whole thing of using phones and apps a bit behind the times. About time they introduced a swipe option as in the UK. No need for cash or phones and faster than both. No rummaging around for notes or scrolling to find the app. Just one tap with your card and done.
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