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Turning right into a small soi from a main road, coming out from a small soi and crossing 2 lanes in each directions, turning left from the right hand lane, sudden u turn in front of another car, stopping mid traffic to pick up/drop kids of deliveries, no signaling when turning and many other road driving annoyance and sometimes downright dangerous and not a police in sight, they're there though, but in a strategic spot to stop and fine you...

This is how it works, Trump makes a lot of noises waring words and veiled threats, while his aids ar 'holding him back and calming him down' It's all a game, a brinkmanship games that is full of bravado and posies, and the winner/s? while everybody knows how it started, nobody really knows how will it end...

No need to be a genius to know which penalty will be given IF found guilty, private hospitals are the to maximise profits even if it makes you sick all over again just to see the bill...

In the next item on TV it says that Thailand is the least miserable country in the world according to Bloomberg index, if you ask me, country that has the second highest road fatalities a year and loses so many of its sons and daughters in a wholesale numbers in road carnage is a miserable country indeed...

Nah, i don't trust the finding of this index when it comes to Thailand, who are champions in misinformation and statistics fudging and manipulations to suit the desired agenda and to save face...

Will never forget Lauda air crash in Suphanburi in 1991 and what a display of disgusting animal like a human being behaviour of the locals who out of sheer greed pillaged and looted everything in sight hindering and obstructing search and rescue operation, will never forget...

Have we become so selfish and self absorbed that every kind action someone dose becomes to be a 'hero'? are we so bad that a simple act of humanity immediately is hailed as a heroism act? what happen to just going thing because it's need to be done and now, without thinking what's in it for me?...

A well written and prepared last will and testament is unshakable and incontestable in Thai courts, solid as a rock, goes either way thai to foreigner and vice versa...

This Assange guy by now must be thinking to himself and examining his actions that put him in a lot of troubles of the past 7 years, what was he thinking to make public US classified information and secrets and get away with that? if yes, he's not very smart man, now he's forced to eat the putrid porridge he cooked for himself and all for what? abit of notoriety and a lifetime of running away from the law...

Makes you think how many leading politicians out there are in pockets of oligarchs and billionaires to preserve and perpetuate their agendas for influence power and greed, i dare venture to say that many are on the take, is just that they haven't been caught or exposed yet...

Duh, like what took them so long to come up with this 'brainstorm' to figure out that, hey, we can process the left over for oil residue can we? like it's not being done now all over the world with other sea mammals, crustaceans and fish...

The thing is the police is interested to see what you have in the other compartment of your wallet those colorful rectangular sheets of papers with numbers on them, and the higher the number the better...

Thai pickpockets gang? Meh.. not a biggie, in and out of jail few times, so what? they have to make a living too no?... now foreigners who are doing all sorts of naughty things, this IS where the big money is...

Thai police 'no mercy' begins and end with with a 1000 baht fine and don't do it again you hear'...

It goes to show how much the media and political pundit who predicted a huge win for labor knows, it is not that Morrison was the better candidate, it's that Bill shorten ( who's even his name was mocked over and over) was an uninspiring, charmless man in a grey suit trying to win what everybody thought was a sure win, but in politics, like in politics, there's no such thing as sure win...

Try Lazada and Aliexpress, tones of them and cheap there will sent to your home no need to run around shops...

Like i have said in one of my earlier post, prison time for you if you take a sea creature out of the water, shoot an wild animal of fell a protected tree species in the forest, but cruelty to animals in all forms under the guise of tourism entertainments is ok, allowed and encouraged...

Strange rehabilitation methods to allow the bar girls to own and operate a bar, so with this wisdom, will you advise a drug addicts to cultivate or produce their own cannabis and meth? of get alcoholics to set up a distillery as long as the keep good hours and the profits? strange indeed...

Nothing new here, this was made into a law couple of years ago with big fan fair, alas, in Thailand like in Thailand, many 'laws' start with a bang and ends with a whimper...

Since to culprit was a chinese inflicting their stupidity on other chinese the matter should there, after all 1.38 billions of them surely some will turned out to like theses one...

I like those guys who when they steal, oh boy they stal big, might as well they must have been thinking, in for a dollar in for a million...

Yeah.. that and 50 years in the slemmer will do thank you...

Madman Trump is the perfect antidote to a leadership such as Iran who fancy themselves as the masters of manipulations and subversion, Iran with it's proxy aries in just about everywhere in the middle east knows only one thing, not to fluck with madman Trump coz he just might do the unthinkable, Trump is playing the gambit of president Theodore Roosevelt. ... "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."...

It's not as cut and dry as the OP makes it out to be, the differences in costs of living between living in BKK and living in up country in some mooban could be very big, rent and food wise as well as domestic help etc. etc. of course, also it's very much depend on lifestyle and one's responsibilities to depended, the aussie dollar has fluctuated wildly over the years, but just about everything else in life did as well...

If a government that has a police force who sees a motorcycle on its way to school every morning with 4 young kids hanging for dear life or a beat up pickup overloaded with workers and turned a blind eye and does nothing about it, who are we to complain?...