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  1. 1 hour ago, Coss said:

    Also as heard on NZ radio - Parents are local multi millionaire Business persons and the "boys" are in Thailand on a "Wellness" trip. 

    At least one of the boys reckons he's a MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter.

    I'm reading this last as two boys, still living at home, sent overseas to get some life experience.

    Mission accomplished, they'll be wanting to get home to their hipster lifestyle, pronto.

    Both of these men are married and have family back in NZ. They're brothers who worked in the family business. Multiple reports in the local pres said they have travelled many times through Asia.

    My best guess as to what happened is that they saw a police checkpoint and decided not to stop because they didn't have motorbike licences. This was beyond dumb. They were chased and things escalated from there. What they did next was pure madness.

    You really get the impression the Thais are fed up with misbehaving foreigners and they could be sentenced to a few years behind bars. The maximum penalty for the most serious charge is 7 years and, amazingly, it seems they wish to fight the charges. That seems like a dumb idea. Plead guilty which comes with an automatic discount on sentencing and get it over and done with. Fight the charges and the sentence might get ugly. Whatever way, I can't see them being back in NZ with their families for some time...

  2. My old 2014 Macbook Pro, which I keep as a backup machine in case my main machines dies, can't be updated any more....or rather the updates are simply security fixes. Haven't been able to update the main OS for a few years.

    My iPad must be 4 or 5 years old. Can still update it ok. Will wait for the standard iPad to get an OLED screen and will upgrade then. I use my iPad way more than I use my iPhone (5 years and counting) so will upgrade iPad before iPhone.

  3. 21 hours ago, Mekong said:

    Whilst I have basically been bed bound for the past 4 years or so I have basically been using it every waking hour, a conservative estimate would be around 4.5 Million hours of usage over its lifetime, probably more so and it never once let me down.  OK recently I have had to give it a Restart every 3-4 days but apart from that it has been fine.

    You must be one old dude now, Mekong! 4.5 million hours is 513 years :)

  4. I get the feeling the bar scene just doesn't have that addictive nature that it used to be. Where once those who were flying out from Bangkok were already planning their next trip and trying to work out how they could return as soon as possible, these days the impression I get is that the best times in the bars are very much in the past. There might just be more fun looking backwards than forwards.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Mekong said:

    So based on such you have come up with a casual analysis that ( a ) Covid Vaccine cause ( b )amputation of limbs amongst diabetics. Correction does not imply causation. I once ate chicken sandwich before playing a game of football in which I broke my leg. According to your logic chicken weakens bones making them more suspectable to fracture where as I recognise it as what is was a coincidence 

    Diabetics are 15 times more likely to need a lower limb amputation than people without the condition, that so more than 135 a week and I have not seen any peer reviewed reports stating that the Covid vaccine has increased this figure.

    I am not saying that Covid Vaccines cannot cause complications with ongoing health conditions, what I am saying is based on evidence I have a hard time believing that Covid vaccine is responsible for an increase in LLA’s amongst diabetics.

    Dave had his leg amputated because of the complications of diabetes. He had the big toe from one foot amputated in late 2015. The wound never healed and despite some of his imploring him to seek medical treatment, he did not. In 2018 or 2019 (I cannot remember which), he had two more toes off the same foot amputated. Again, the wound never healed and he did not seek medical treatment despite many people insisting that he did. Not long after COVID broke out, Dave returned to the UK and some months later he developed a very high temperature. A doctor came to his home, saw the state he was in, called an ambulance and he went to the local hospital. He ended up in a university hospital where after a couple of operations to try and save the leg, they were forced to do a lower leg amputation. That wound didn't heal so they had to take more of the leg well above the knee. There was an infection in the bone which apparently is very hard to treat. Osteomylytis or something like that it is called - and is apparently a consequence of uncontrolled diabetes

    Dave's amputation was nothing to do with Covid and I never said it had anything to do with Covid. It was all as a result of diabetes that he had been diagnosed with years earlier but which, very sadly, he never took seriously.

    Dave complained about issues with Covid and I said that I agree that there are various health issues due to Covid as well as the Covid vaccine. I did NOT say Dave's leg was amputated because of Covid. Never said that at all.

    No more comment from me on this and if what I have written here is stuff you disagree with or dispute, drop Dave an email and ask him.

  6. 3 hours ago, Mekong said:

    There you go fixed it for you.

    It shows the mentality / mindset of the people who tend to gravitate towards his site

    Probably one of the biggest complaints I get is that the site has too much nightlife coverage. *Many* readers say they don't want nightlife coverage at all. I think you'd be surprised at what people make of stuff.

  7. 21 hours ago, Mekong said:

    You think the All Blacks are bad, take a look at England FFS, will be lucky to get out of the Pool.

    In the end your boys played well this morning.....looked a lot better than the All Blacks. Horribly boring match though!

  8. On 9/9/2023 at 11:47 AM, Coss said:

    Kiwis have lost their mojo

    lost to France  27  13

    https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/2023

     

    Crap tactics from a crap coach. But let's be frank, the current band of All Blacks are not a shadow on some of our teams from the past. Some players are barely international level and some should have been put out to pasture years ago. Oh, and the captain is shit too (although he didn't play yesterday).

  9. 16 hours ago, bust said:

    In all honesty I don't have any issues with the majority of Kiwis. Similar to us Aussies in so many ways.

    But the term "Aussies" is very different to what it used to be. What I have found lately is a level of racism beyond what I remember growing up. Australia used to be a very tolerant country to foreigners. Sure there was that pocket of society who felt threatened by anything different but all in all it worked. There was a great film called They're a Weird Mob

    That was kind of how it was growing up. Now I find as a white Anglo Saxon Australian I am a minority. I recently had a guy at work complaining about his kids new school being full of Asians and Indians. Oddly he migrated here not too long ago.

    Personally doesn't really bother me.

    I agree entirely. Relations between Aussies and Kiwis at an individual level are excellent. The odd idiot (on both sides of the Tasman) aside, it's always been pretty good.

    When I said that I didn't think Aussies would be up for New Zealand merging with the country, it was  not so much at an individual level but in terms of New Zealand not being nearly as strong as Australia economically and New Zealand would require more from Australia financially than Australia would get out of the deal.

  10. 12 hours ago, bust said:

    Who's indigenous people?

    I always believed the indigenous people of New Zealand reconciled long ago and all parties were quiet agrreable with what took place.

    Here in Australia it's a completely different story.

    Maoris, the indigenous people of New Zealand, would NEVER be ok with New Zealand becoming a part of Australia.

    As for Maoris being quite agreeable with "what took place", nah, that's not the case at all. I would suggest race relations (between Maori and the rest) is one of the major issues New Zealand faces at this time.

     

  11. On 8/29/2023 at 11:49 PM, Coss said:

    I've always thought that it would be sensible to combine the two countries.

    However I'm not sure we'd convince  enough people over here, to make it work properly.

     

    It will never happen, primarily because the indigenous people would be very much against it.

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  12. I'm somewhat younger than you, Coss, and am still some years away from qualifying for the pension, but I have looked very closely at the current rules regarding NZ superannuation for Kiwis who live outside the country.

    As things currently stand, to qualify for NZ super, you need to have lived in NZ for 10 years after age 20 and 5 years after age 50. That's it. No other requirements. Of course, it has been mooted many times over the past few years that the 10-year requirement might increase to 20 years.

    If you wish to be paid NZ super and live outside of NZ, that is fine. You simply declare that you live outside the country and it will be paid to you. However, if you have spent time outside of NZ between ages 20 and 65, it will result in a reduced pension. So, let's say for example, you spent 25% of that time outside of the country, you will receive 75% of the super and not the entire amount.

    I know one Kiwi who spent all his working life in NZ and now lives in Thailand. He receives the entire NZ super which is deposited in to a Thai bank account.

    That's my understanding of things. Hope this helps!

     

  13. For certain lifestyles, Thailand is very hard to beat. For other lifestyles, Thailand doesn't even enter the equation of a desirable place to live. I think it all comes back to what you want in life. Most of the people I know who left Thailand did so for a change of lifestyle.

    For me, a secure life where and the chance to buy a house (specifically a house as opposed to an apartment) that would always be mine and I'd never be wondering if one day it would be taken away from me was a big factor. Further, I like the outdoor lifestyle and for much of the year Thailand is just too hot to spend a lot of time outside, especially in Bangkok. In New Zealand I am outside all the time, and enjoy doing long hikes. NZ is great for that. Thailand not so much.

    I also found myself becoming irritated by some things in Thailand to the extent they started affecting my general enjoyment of life. Funnily enough, the same thing has happened back in New Zealand - but the things that annoy me in NZ are very different to the things that annoy me in Thailand!

    Of course, like many people who called Thailand home for a long time and later left, there's much I miss about the place.

  14. 22 hours ago, My Penis is hungry said:

    He was one of the good guys, my family were very sad, he was friends to all the family,

    I have found most of my friends have died before 60, or soon after

     Maybe something about being an expat??  

    I think there is something in this last line, and that the life of an expat is not always conducive to a long life. I know a lot of people who have died in Thailand over the past 20 years or so and the average age would probably be in the mid to high 50s. Some died much younger, in their 40s - and not from an accident. The expat lifestyle is a fun one, but if you're not careful it mightn't be a long one.

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  15. 9 hours ago, Mekong said:

    New Zealand has proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals produce from burping and urinating in a bid to tackle climate change.

    The world-first scheme will see farmers paying for agricultural emissions in some form by 2025.

     

    The current New Zealand government has scored own goal after own goal - but this one looks to top the lot of them. It is the most ridiculous idea. New Zealand does one thing well - and that is produce clean, very high-quality food that the world needs. Our farmers are world-class in terms of efficiency. Making life difficult for farmers is more of the woke bullshit that this current government seems so concerned about. Hey, look at us, look at how fucking woke we are. Someone really needs to put a bullet in Jacinda's head.

  16. 16 hours ago, Mekong said:

    Let’s pretend he could hear and the Ref made the correct decision to penalise Foley I still don’t get why it was a scrum

    The rules are for are.

    Law 13

    11 DELAY IN DROP-OUT 

    The drop-out must be taken without delay.

    Penalty: Free kick on the 22-metre line.

    12 DROP-OUT INCORRECTLY TAKEN 

    If the ball is kicked by the wrong type of kick, or from the wrong place, the opposing team has two choices:

    To have another drop-out, or

    To have a scrum at the centre of the 22-metre line and they throw in the ball.

    The dropout was delayed and not incorrectly taken therefore the sanction should have been a Free Kick from the 22 and not a scrum. I just don’t understand where the ref got or from.

    You're looking at the wrong section of the rule book. That's the penalty for a delay in drop-out. It was *not* a drop out.

  17. On 5/31/2022 at 7:20 PM, Mekong said:

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    It must have been a REALLY slow news day for that to make the mainstream news. The fountain is an oddity, but it's not offensive and I really don't understand why someone would have much of an opinion about it. I reckon it says more about the diplomats who commented on it than anything else. If they want to comment on something crap in New Zealand, there are plenty of targets much more worthwhile than this fountain!

  18. On 5/18/2022 at 1:18 PM, khunsanuk said:

    Hi,

    4 replies in over a week. Guess there is not enough interest in this.

    Sanuk!
     

    I'm definitely interested but I didn't vote as, like many people I suspect, I am not sure when I will be in town. I hope to revert to visiting Bangkok 2 or 3 times per year but as I tend to book tickets just a couple of weeks before travelling, I can't say when I'll be in town. But for sure, if a date was announced, I would do my level best to make it. I suspect others might be in a similar situatin - not sure when they'll be in town but if they are in town they'd definitely attend.

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