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Must be that "Thai-ness" thing that farang will never understand. The longer I stay in Thailand, the more I am asking myself why?

Thai men are a bit like elephants in some ways. When they are in musth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musth), they go haywaire, and if you damage their rather sensitive face, then you are asking for trouble

I am still alive, Thaksin tweets

Thats really is unfortunate.

I am pretty sure he keeps himself busy shorting rice futures.....

I propose hovercraft! just as reliable and just as probable as this ridiculous suggestion. Instead of fixing the REAL bloody problem lets waste money on creating a new one

Why not a space shuttle: Phuket will become a hub for space launches.

A local technical college could become a training center for space cadets, and the provincial administration could replace monkeys in low gravity research (not sure about the IQ though, conditions apply!)

Space is even less crowded than the sea.

A bullet train would be good too.....Maybe all three solutions, all together.

In the development phase a road solution could also be tried...... No That is impossible, it would require a functioning brain and a fight with the taxi mafia

And how are they stealing Thai's jobs..... Are there any Thais living and working on Phuket who speak fluent Russian????????????????????????????????????

Get rid of all the Russians, and see how many Thais lose their jobs. Thousands I should think.

But Thai peasants don't matter, as we all know......

What matters is a few Thai business owners who will make a bit more profit, as they can clean up with no competition. Almost certainly they have friends in the provincial administration,

When o when will thai police enforce bus safety . They drinve like crazy fools , outside lane wont let anybody pass, if you speak about slowing down, driving safer ,you get abuse, student r.i.p. driver you bloody clown.

They drive worst with a police escort when in a convoy....

How about an improvement of services before Thailand thinks of increasing high end tourists. I should think that wealthy tourists aren't interested in dealing with the neanderthals lurking in/outside Suvarnabhumi for a start.

? Peking man is already established here.

Homo erectus pattyensis is also here....

Wow, all that over a DUI, you should have offered the judge 100.000 baht. After all you shelled out 80.000 for 2 bail bonds. Maybe don't drink and drive even? But better yet who are you kidding?

Troll

May be you should have been polite to the first policeman and shown some money and contrition on the spot. .200 is more than a skulled beer, my friend. I think you are too deep in this one to fix it with cash now. Get a good lawyer....

Is it doomed to fail, or is it doomed to not be completed on time?

------ but GUARRANTEED to be funded on time!

The best seafood restaaurants are not in Pattaya.

Go to Ban Amphur or Bang Sare, and they're not airconditioned.

I would go for Preecha, in Baan Amphur, or Rim Haad in Bang Sarae. The style in Preecha is more chinese (full of tours now) and Rim Haad has a more Thai (richer, sweeter) style, and fewer tours. No airconditioning, but nice breezes from the sea.

Makro does good fish fingers and frozen prawns, which you can cook in the time it takes to leave your aircon appartment.

Phuket - the "hub" of brake failures.

I once hired a jeep in Phuket....... The brakes failed on the way down from that hill, Fortunately, I was in low gear from the top so handbrake was good enough to change down, and 1st gear was slow enough for safe descent.

I nearly killed the guy who rented me the jeep: my parents wife and one year old in there. He thought it was funny, and didn't want to return my deposit. I was a bit more muscular then so he agreed in the end. He immediately parked the jeep on his forecourt with a "for rent" sign.

That was 20 years ago..... lesson number one in thai tourism business ethics. I have had a few more lessons since then. Do you wonder why tourism operators in Thailand want their own people on the ground here?

I actually feel sorry for the driver of this bus; no one ever told him about low gears downhill

Meh, he will be sued for defamation. End of story.

I bet he has a lot more than 21000 followers on twit now.....The thai govt always capitulates when face is at stake..... its in the genes.. add his tweets....

So it will immediately be available on the streets from non qualified vendors.

i cannot see Xanax being a problem. It is hardly a knockout drug- more like a mild sedative. Also it tastes bitter as hell. Any coke (....acola) with that in it will definitely taste strange. And you would need several pills to drop a normal adult.

Hub this hub that.

It's the hub of hubs.

Tiring to hear such nonsense.

lets do an official hub count: I try to go back 20 years- please help add the many hububs I missed

Banking and finance

E-commerce

car manufacturing

filmmaking

video game production

rail car production

air travel

aircraft maintenance

telecommunications

food production

ethanol production

international education

printing

medical services

logistics

electricity trading

Ironically, the hub for which Thailand is truly world famous may not be mentioned, for fear the culture ministry will get upset

The whole of Thailand is watching ...

For once can the justice overcome fame and wealth?

Failure, in this case, is not an option.

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Does that make a difference?

Mu Ham yesterday got off with a 2 year suspended sentence and mandatory psychiatric treatment. He only deliberately ran over and killed a peasant who got in his way, after a bus scatched his mercedes.

The fact that his mum was an ex beauty queen and his dad a very senior ex police officer had NOTHING to do with it. It seems the boy can't control his anger, poor thing.

Maybe Mr Red Bull can't control his need for speed/cocaine/alcohol, poor thing........

I've got to get it first - Bangkok the HUB of high tech (we even have western toilets, some with running water!)

more hubbub from the hubhub,

"You know, elephants, we trade ivory, falang no understand". I await her sheepish response to why this shouldn't be outlawed.

Get Chalerm on the job: its a cultural tradition

"elepant, him hab big ivoly, dat mean big monee". Dit foleign elepant, maybe neegro, him no thai elepant, thai peepen make big monee

The facts are this he got his head kicked in by the American Marine and somehow managed to loss his dog at the Longfelows house.

7/11 is giving out free knifes to kill people with

This pitbull bum bandit looses his dog around the home of the American that kicked the crap out of him and he ACCIDENTLY stabs the guy twice

The british A**hole has still not located his dog,,, he left his dog behind when he took off back to England,,, didn't seem to worry about the dog

7/11 has cctv of him stealing the knife

Garbidge brit is seen outside of Sunshine bar when Longfellow was dancing after kicking the crap out of British garbidge

This British guy needs to spend the rest of his life in Thai prison just to work on his BS and grow a brain......................

I take it you are not British, my dear fellow..,,...

Sad.

This is a major news story. " The driver did NOT flee the scene"

Nothing wrong with horse meat. We are carnivores. The largest and best T-bone steak I ever ate was in Cap d'Antibes in the S. of France. It was horse, and delicious.

I would have more reservations eating chocolate covered cockroach again, however. (- - or MacDonalds!)

Horse Tartar: really delicious, much better than beef.