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15 hours ago, ivor bigun said:
I fear that when this is over it will no longer be an overseas destination for far more than the Chinese
Would be nice if they would clean up the beaches and seas, ban plastic bags and ban the noisy water taxis that totally ruined places like Koh Phi Phi.
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On 11/7/2020 at 12:30 AM, cheshiremusicman said:
Great shame, as I personally thought it was the best aircraft I have ever had the pleasure to fly on - both economy and business class.
Great if you don't mind (a) boarding with 550-650 other passengers. (b) just flying to major hubs instead of direct flights in the event the hub isn't your final destination (c) that dozens of airports had to spend a lot of money to accommodate the behemoth (unlike the trusty old 747) (d) that, if you're from Europe, your tax money went to yet another prestige project only marginally more sensible than the Concorde.
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Nobody wants an A380, I can pretty much predict that.
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2 minutes ago, Dustdevil said:
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44 minutes ago, DFPhuket said:
Stocks will go up and stocks will go down, but assuming you're in it for the long haul the day to day, month to month, and even year to year change doesn't really matter.
Buy and hold some low cost Index funds (i.e., Vanguard) and ignore the day to day noise. Since the 1920s, the S&P 500 index has returned a historic annualized average return of around 10%. In the past 25 years the Dow index had an average annual return of 7 percent.
Precisely. Without having read anyone else's posts beforehand, my reply mirrors yours.
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On 10/19/2020 at 4:50 AM, brianp0803 said:
In anticipating the outcome of the presidential elections, are people generally pulling out of the market for safety or putting money into the market in hopes that the stock market will go up after the election for you.
I am pulling my money out in a anticipation of the election results. I’m expecting at least a 10 to 15% drop in the months following the election.
opinions?
Never try to time US markets. You'll lost half your shirt. Dollar-cost average (i.e., invest a fixed mount every month to a selection of diversified mutual funds or ETFs) and in 3 or 4 years you'll be a happy camper.
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13 hours ago, scammed said:
no they havnt, like rest of the world they had a brain fart and shut down economy.
agree on the choice for roger penrose for nobel price in physics though.
"In Chiang Mai a 33-year-old Thai wife said that her “lively” 85-year-old American husband fell from the 7th floor while cleaning the windows."
i agree with her, he has served his purpose
Did she make sure he cleaned all the windows thoroughly first?
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On 9/27/2020 at 12:44 AM, micmichd said:
Yet the Marlboro cowboy died long ago...
Oh, yes, and I'm so glad I quit so long ago.
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Whether the guy's a jerk or not is irrelevant in the larger picture. Where I come from, defamation cases are civil, not criminal, and libel or slander cases are difficult to win, protecting ordinary people from the rich and powerful.
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21 hours ago, onebir said:
Yunnan Province, more or less next door to Thailand in China, has two kinds of good blackish tea Puerh Er and Dian Hong. (for PuEr you want Shu/Shou Cha, which has fermented more than Sheng Cha.
Idk if Lazada (etc) has it, but in case it's listed in Chinese:
Puerh Er Shou Cha - 普洱熟茶
Dian Hong Cha - 滇红茶
(Puerh Er Sheng Cha - 普洱生茶, kind of 'light' black tea a bit like Oolong worth trying for comparison)
There are a couple of lesser-known black teas from other parts of China that're good. (And several that seem to be terrible, like Inner Mongolian tea bricks!)
For what it's worth, I like black tea, and in the U.S. the best one is Red Rose--like a better version of Tetley black, I suppose. I can't stand that Earl Grey stuff or similar.
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On 9/27/2020 at 9:23 PM, Oxx said:
I guess you'd have to buy the supermarkets' entire stock to make a single cup of coffee.
Ha ha, yes, I deserved that.
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20 hours ago, Kaopad999 said:
1 He left fabricated stories on his reviews on TripAdvisor and Google that included
xenophobic connotations, accusations of slavery and even comments that could mislead
readers to associate our property with the Coronavirus.
2. He had been posting reviews roughly 1-2 weeks apart with obvious defamatory
intentions. We chose to file a complaint to serve as a deterrent, as we understood he
may continue to write negative reviews week after week for the foreseeable future.
3. Despite our multiple efforts to contact him to resolve this in an amicable way for well
over a month, he chose to ignore us completely. He only replied to our emails, messages
on review sites, etc. once he had been notified of our complaint by the authorities.
And there are still people defending this guy? ????Did he cause damaging reputation loss?
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One of the benefits of being back in the West. My local Winco supermarkets, vast places open 24 hours, sell 65 different fresh coffee beans. (I counted.) Having said that, I loved the Rimping Supermarkets in Chiang Mai. They are packed to the rafters with American and European goods.
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On 9/22/2020 at 6:07 AM, TheFreqFlyer said:
Yep. Having lived in Vietnam and visited countless times, I was surprised to find how backward they are (for a lack of a better term) when it comes to banning smoking in public places. There are still lots of restaurants and cafes with smoking sections or where patrons light up anywhere inside the restaurant.
I'd say that in Vietnam, there are easily 50% more male smokers than in Thailand, and it's about the same small percentage of women.
Probably a lot of South Koreans and Japanese too, especially businessmen/"salarymen."
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29 minutes ago, Cats4ever said:
Smoking does reduce the risk or impact of Parkinson's disease.
I smoke and try to avoid inconveniencing others. Some anti smokers travel great distances to be offended.
I tell off smokers who throw butts on the ground (great idea to get rid of filterless cigs (I don't count Camel - can't get into them).
Those of us who are hooked have to be careful and others, try to be tolerant.
From the note above you know when I quit, but the only cig for me was Marlboro--and apparently for Italians, too. When I was a US Navy sailor in the early '70s home-ported in Naples, a carton of Marlboros was literally currency--a carton of genuine Marlboros (as opposed tothe local knock-offs) was worth $20 and you could either get cash for it or barter many things.
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On 9/22/2020 at 2:49 AM, from the home of CC said:
another deadly drug that governments worldwide knew to be harmful. They became addicted themselves to the cash generated from taxation so they let the companies freewheel drawing in millions to another poison..
Well...you can look at it two ways. Certainly the US government came out strongly against smoking in the 1970s short of outright banning. Not sure I can say the same for European countries, where there are STILL a lot more smokers. The high cigarette taxes (a single pack costs anywhere from $5 to $10 depending on which state) don't really earn state/local/federal governments that much, but they constitute a strong disincentive to start smoking. I was lucky, by the way. I quit in 1976 when I was 26 because, yes, my kindly doctor kept showing me photos of rotted lungs (and by the way, my current urologist reports that smokers get kidney cancer, too) BUT I was able to quit mainly because I had some weird kind of colitis that made the cigarettes taste bad. Normally they had a nice flavor, to me. I knew this was the time to "strike," and thanks to the colitis causing bad-tasting smoke, I quit cold-turkey.
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The man may have been naïve about Thailand's fascist defamation laws. In the U.S. it's difficult to win a libel case, much more so than in Europe, let alone Asia, thanks to the First Amendment. It protects ordinary citizens from the wrath of the powerful. That's why Trump has spent a career threatening defamation suits but hasn't brought one yet. The plaintiff has to PROVE that the defendant outright lied and that damaging loss of reputation has in fact occurred. Maybe the arrogant Brits and Commonwealth people here wisecracking about "self-entitled Yanks" think it's part of your empire and that two years in prison for defamation without the aforementioned evidence is just fine. But criminal penalties for tripadvisor posts?
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3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:
what the model does not show is the huge antenna farm on top of the building.
all US Embassies and consulates have a gigantic basement full of radio interception equipment.
it would be interesting to see how large a hole they dig for the subterranean part of the building.
years ago the US Embassy in Moscow:
"finally, at a cost of $240 million, the embassy was taken apart brick by brick and rebuilt stone by stone. The top two floors were knocked off and replaced by four new secure floors. The stone and glass post- modern building was unofficially opened in May."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/U-S-Finally-Opens-Moscow-Embassy-Building-was-2714015.php
Of course. The Soviets/Russians were always good at penetrating US embassies.
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4 hours ago, sanuk711 said:
Is this America's mission in Chiang Mai , I had it confused with other duties.
Waiting for next sequel to the excellent "Narcos Mexico" series. Narcos Chiang Mai, now that wouldn't be so bad; I might join the DEA for that post (and go elsewhere to do my paperwork during the smoky season).
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4 hours ago, moontang said:
And besides not paying the transfer fees, there are a lot of cash back deals..I get one percent to use at Amazon.
Me too--but I'm using it in the States. Also 2% at gas stations and restaurants, and 5% on anything you buy from Amazon or Whole Foods.
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I imagine the operating manuals are either in Chinese or bad English, with three assembly diagrams that don't make any sense.
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11 hours ago, Neeranam said:
Don't you believe in rehabilitation?
Not for serial killers (assuming the three murders were serial and not a mass murder). They cannot be rehabbed--the FBI has studied serial killers for more than 4 decades. And this guy had the 100 additional crimes. I believe in the mental and spiritual rehabilitation of the victims' loved ones.
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11 hours ago, Seagull Sam said:
All very gung ho, chest beating stuff. I was attacked by a drug crazed bar girl on my last visit, repeatedly kicking & stamping on my already injured head. Now I have difficulty walking unaided. I know the damage yaba can do. Execution is wrong in all cases, end of. Summary justice? This isn't a John Wayne movie. Or perhaps you would like to live in the Wild West. Howdy partner let's give them thar baddies a woppin! Yee Haa!
I'd suggest reading the last chapter in John Douglas "Journey into Darkness." Long story short, serial killers cannot be rehabilitated and they have forfeited their right to life. Some of them even torture and--yes--eat little children.
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1 hour ago, herwin1234 said:
In too many farang countries he would have been a free man in a decade, give or take a few years.
Lets hope THAILAND doesnt get infected with these liberal ideas but stays strong and fair.
A convict in New Zealand, William Dwane Bell murdered three people (and had more than 100 other criminal convictions)--he got 30 years for a triple murder. He'll be 53 when he gets out. That's an outrageous miscarriage of justice, and I'd bet my life's savings he'll kill again when he's out. The NZ authorities apparently have no clue about either criminology or victimology. They need to read John Douglas' "Mindhunter" and "Journey into Darkness." Douglas along with Robert Ressler (who coined the term "serial killer") was the original FBI profiler and also the lead author of the FBI's Crime Classification Manual. He would be aghast. Meanwhile the families he's ruined will be worrying about their safety once he's out.
Thailand No Longer Top Overseas Destination for Chinese Tourists
in Thailand News
Posted · Edited by Dustdevil
Yes, the common high-rises are Stalinist-ugly and abut each other like a concrete forest. The supermarket I went to in Dalian was a nightmare of snaking lines, massive crowds and carnival barker promoters with megaphones in every corner.