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  1. 50 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

    Clinton Plaza, named after the naughty president.

    Dollhouse was there but also a bar named the Whitehouse. 

    There we a nice place called Tivoli, with live music and a cute Philippine lead singer at the entry. She had real talent and later sang for a few years at the Hard Rock Cafe at Siam Square. 

    Also the Monica Bar or Monica's, first bar at the entry, I believe.

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  2. 1 minute ago, SiSePuede419 said:

    Still not understanding you.  You mean after you called up your bank and activated your new debit card, you had to first go to a bank somewhere and withdraw money from an ATM using your new card and enter your "bank token" or PIN as we call it?

     

    Because Transfer Wise's website doesn't have any thing like that picture?!?

    I am Belgian, it is possible the system is different from one country to another.

    I have a bank token from my Belgian bank.

    I had to validate my new Credit Card using the token.

    Now I simply give the 3 digit secure number to Transferwise when I do a transfer, nothing else needed.

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  3. 20 minutes ago, ericthai said:

    I recall that! I went to work that morning and noticed all the bars were gone. The owner of the land tried to evict all the bars, but the owners of the bars wouldn't move.  After they closed that night the owner of the land brought in the dozers leveled the place. Their were some law suits but I never heard more about it. 

    Mr. Chuwit got a 2 year prison sentence, don't think he did the 2 years, it seems he received a kind of pardon, when promised to make a park of the area, and not rent/sold it for business purpose.

    My wife, who had a beauty salon there, was compensated with a few thousand baths, via the Lumpini police station.

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  4. 8 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

    I haven't read through all of the responses but I would say something on Soi 10.  At the very end of Soi 10 you can access the Tobacco monopoly grounds, the elevated green path, and Benjakitti Park.  Soi 10 is closed to cars at 6:00pm so it is a quieter soi than many others.  The Asoke BTS is very close by.  I loved my time living on Soi 10 back in the days of The Clinton Plaza being so nearby.

    So you must also remember the Sukhumvit Soi 10 Square entertainment complex, and its destruction in January 2003.

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  5. 49 minutes ago, josephbloggs said:

    It was Delaneys originally.  Then it changed its name a couple of times to Shenanigans then Molly Malone's.

    The Bull's Head is kind of still there but now as the Royal Oak and just not the same.  

    There was a time when Dr. Blues, and also The Soi Dogs Blues Band were playing there on Sunday afternoon.

  6. Thonglor is nice, restaurants, bars, Tops, Foodland ( The prices at Foodland/Eight- Sukhumvit 55 are the same as in Pattaya).

    Many Japanese restaurants, as many Japanese executives are living there.

    A lot of " small " condo's , 33m2, that's the norm now.

    Prices dropped considerably, I paid 90000 for 90 days ( Rent, electricity, internet, water )via Airbnb, now 57000 directly with owner.

  7. 1 minute ago, nauseus said:

     

    So it is a problem then. Innit?

     

    If you call Brexit a problem, no.

     

    There were no problems between the U.K. and the E.U. to manage the exit of the U.K. out of the E. U..


    There were problems in the U.K. to finalize Brexit, but that is a pure U.K. matter.

     

     

    I you call the negotiations a problem, yes.

     

    It took a lot of time, energy, money to come to an agreement.

    Future will tell us, if it was worth the effort.

  8. 5 minutes ago, robblok said:

    Johnyfd (the one with the bike pic) was one of them there were others but hard to look through it all.

     

    Yes compromise is required during negotiation. I can remember the Dutch PM when they were negotiating about the loan issue for COVID. He said would not accept something later he had to accept it but got other things in return. He was a bit more honest then BJ. Telling the Dutch that he did not get his way completely but said this is what compromise is.


    BJ never did anything of the sort. 

     

    I think the UK and EU got a good deal however its far from what BJ promised his hardcore fans. Why do you think the fishermen were so angry. He never said anything about it to the public acknowledging that he did not get what he wanted but hail it all as a victory. I guess he is kinda like Trump never admitting anything always acting tough.

     

    Mr. Rutte is an exception.

     

    It is no-no for a politician to admit he was/is wrong. 

     

    This is something the people learned to live with, and thus don't expect it.

     

    Even practically a certitude that the followers of the " lying" politician won't admit he was lying, but will find a lot of "perfectly acceptable excuses" for his behavior.

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  9. 26 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

     

      Just pointing out that its rather deceptive to put two different subjects into one .

    Like the people who think the Gov handled to pandemic badly are put in the same group as people who think the Brexit talks didnt go good .

     

    I am sure many people just believe the Brexit talks did go good, because Mr. Johnson claimed it was a victory.

     

    Now I don't pretend it isn't, I am not clever enough to understand a 2000 pages deal.

     

    And my only concern is, somehow egoist I admit, what concrete influence this deal will have on the daily life, of the gross, of the man in the street.

  10. 1 minute ago, CorpusChristie said:

     

       Brexit is sooooooooo "last year" , move on, its 2021 now , we've left the E.U.

    Notice how the anti Brexit Guardian put the Brexit talks in with the Governments handling of the virus , like they were one thing, one subject . 

     

    Well it may happen one day, that the opposition, and their media, agree with the ideas and handlings  of the government in place.

    Usually everything what " the others" do, and think, is immediately, without question, considered as wrong. 

     

  11. Just now, Hi from France said:

    (spelling corrected)

     

    you say Valérie Pécresse is a Frexiter?

     

    No, I don't even know what the program is of all these people.

     

    I just mention that next to Mr. Gallois, there are different other politicians with their own opinions about multiple subjects, yes or no Frexit included.

     

    All these people have their followers, who consider without a doubt, the opinion of their leader as very important,

    however maybe not that much by non-followers.

     

    Hence my point that a statement, from a politician, is a relative something, and must be placed in the correct context.  

  12. 16 hours ago, vinny41 said:

    Charles-Henri Gallois French politician in the Popular Republican Union party

    There is also :

     

    Nicolas Dupont - Aignan / President of Debout la France

    Jean-Frederic Poisson / President of the Christian Democratic Party

    Valerie Precresse / President of the Regional Council of IIe-de-France

     

    and many others.

     

    They all have their own opinions.

     

    If it is relevant, is of course relative.

  13. 23 minutes ago, herfiehandbag said:

    Which we have, and subsequently reached an agreement with the group as to how (both parties) can interact and trade.

     

    Now to return to the original post, as I have said before, the "wibbles" of a relatively junior French politician, weighing in with an attempt to impress his superiors, whether for advancement within French politics, or in  an attempt to be noticed by (and gain approval from) the Brussels "elite" are entirely inconsequential.

     

    I wonder, why one consider what a junior politician is saying, as of any importance.

     

    I personally don't even consider what a senior politician is saying, as important/believable. 

     

    " Politicians speak with forked tongue ".

     

  14. 4 minutes ago, vogie said:

    Yes but when you join a golf club and you start to notice that the golf club is secretly putting up rugby posts you have to ask yourself the question, I joined to play golf and not rugby. And on the golf club away days we end up at Twickenham, it is time to say 'this is not what I want from this club.'

     

    Absolutely agree,

    one follow the rules of the club,

    if one has the impression that the club is breaking the rules/ playing false,

    one leave the club.

  15. Just now, herfiehandbag said:

    Which we have, and subsequently reached an agreement with the group as to how (both parties) can interact and trade.

     

    Correct.

     

    My point however is that :

     

    "no longer being told what to do"

     

    is a relative statement.

     

    As agreed initially, one do what's being told.

     

    If no more agreed to do so, one leave.

     

     

  16. 21 minutes ago, transam said:

    It is amusing that a few here keep telling us the future outcome of Brexit.......????

     

    Even those of us that voted for Brexit don't know the future outcome except that we are now free, no longer being told what to do.

    Now if you have been on the star ship Enterprise to actually see for yourself the UK's future, then please tell, other than that, we have all read the doom and gloom from folk like yourself over the last 5 years, and do you know what, with all that doom and gloom waffle the UK voted a second time to rid ourselves of the future U.S. of G..

     

    If your life revolves around, and believing what you see in the T-leaves, that is up to you ...????

     

    " no longer being told what to do" .

     

    Is very relative statement, in my opinion;

     

    if one wish to be member of a group, it is evident that one has to abide to the rules established by this group.

     

    If not pleased, or no more pleased, with these rules, one simply don't become member, or leave the group.

  17. 2 minutes ago, vinny41 said:

    Frexit hasn't gone away just the main player has changed

    Could ‘Frexit’ Be Next? Macron Urged To Make A French Referendum

    https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/12/31/could-frexit-be-next-macron-urged-referendum/

     

    Personally I don't think any of the founding members will be next to leave, more likely to be one of the newcomers

    If you look at the EU project purely from a business point of view then once your country becomes a net contributor then it becomes a decision of cash in your chips once you have fill your boots

     

    If a E.U. member, is a beneficiary one,

    I think it is not that wise, to want to leave the Union.

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