There is no doubt in my mind that man has upset the natural balance of our globe. One of the main reasons stems from pure greed. Destroying the rain forests is a huge contributor. We will never be able to plant enough trees to put nature back in balance nor will windmills and solar replace oil. Capt...

I'm not a Brit, just an observer. If it were my country, I would resent a huge bureaucratic group making rules for my country. I certainly would have supported leaving. Obviously the majority of Brits felt the same way.

I have had more good experiences with the Thai police than bad. One example was that I was driving in a bus lane while heading for a dinner cruise on a boat that happened to be on the other side of the big river. A policeman on a motorcycle pulled me over. Fortunately he spoke decent English. My nav...

I should have said water rather than air. My mistake.

Until they can extract hydrogen from air economically, major hydrogen use is out of reach. Extracting hydrogen with electricity is somewhat promising but not yet unless the electricity is generated from renewables such as wind and solar. Then there is still the problem of how to transport and store ...

People have gone on extended vacations, come home and find their homes broken into and occupied by squatters who have changed the locks. Following the liberal laws takes them more than four months to recover their by then severely damaged homes. The liberal laws stink to high heaven. I wouldn't blam...

The world will NEVER run out of oil. There are many new proved deposits discovered ever year. The doom and gloom reports that oil deposits are finite is just ignorant or maybe stupid to increase oil prices. Oil usage will eventually fall due to environmental problems and not because of shortages.

I won't be voting this election. I would be ashamed to vote for Biden or Trump. The only other option would be RFK and he is insane. Dirty corruption in politics is now the norm and the country is suffering from it.

I have a good friend who is a pothead. He was diagnosed with liver cancer. He went through all the chemo therapy and went so far as to have a radioactive BB put into his liver. He appears to have beat the cancer. He said that the pot was his only relief from the sickness. I myself don't use pot main...

These home owners have a deed and their taxes are paid up. How can that property be considered abandoned?

Squatters are in the US news lately. It appears that the squatters have more rights than the legal property owners due to liberal laws, especially like in NYC. What has it come to when a person has no rights to protect their legally owned property? I can see that home owners will soon be going to ja...

Just a couple of spoiled brats from a wealthy family.

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February 27, 2024, 12:34 pm

And I thought that US politics was bad. LOL!

I had a friend who retired here. SCB refused to open an account for him. He wanted that SCB branch because it was close to where he lived. I took him to the Immigration office in Jomtien and told a guy working there the story. He wrote a very short note in Thai on a scrap of paper and told my friend...

I still have my untouched nest egg in my US bank. I also had a substantial balance in my expendable savings account. I did put a large dent in that account by buying a nice condo in the farang ghetto of Jomtien and depositing the 800,000 baht in my Thai bank. As it is now, I have a very comfortable ...

Speculation is the same as guessing. Thailand actively encourages new retirees and taxing pensions would certainly affect retiring here. It is true that Thailand wants retirees who can afford to support themselves. That's the reason they require 800,000 .baht in a Thai bank or 65,000 baht monthly in...

This may come across some what contencious but hey ho ... more n more when out n about im seeing this piss take of free ice in places WHY SHOULD ICE BE A FREE,, WATER ISNT Thai bars n restaurants are quite happy to charge 10 - 20 - 30 - 40 bt for ice and its openly n readily paid by everyone Thai n...

All posts are pure speculation. We won't know anything until the dust settles and then we still won't know for sure. I seriously doubt that Thailand would risk losing future retirees by taxing pensions. This whole thing has blown up while I think this new tax was aimed at wealthy people dodging taxe...

The deniers may soon have to switch sides. How can they possible explain the strange weather patterns.

The only flight from the Loei airport to Bangkok is to Don Muang. Ten days ago the ticket cost me about 1,000 baht one way. Yesterday the flight from Don Muang to Loei one way cost me about 2,000 baht. I don't understand the huge differences in price. The airline was Air Asia.