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Misterwhisper
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2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:
It’s pop culture. You will never understand as you in the wrong age group.
Mind you, that's exactly why I asked YOUNG people. I still only got blank stares and question marks in response.
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1 hour ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:a thank you message to the K-Pop star, for making the local street menu so well known across the world.
Have contacted a few young people from my circle of acquaintances in the UK, in Germany, France, Ukraine, Turkey, Spain, California and a few more locations, asking them if they had heard of "South Korea-based Thai rapper, Lisa" and what they thought about Buriram pork meatballs.
Unsurprisingly, their replies have been quite uniform so far: "Lisa who?" "Buriram what?" "Meatballs?"
1 hour ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:Interest in Buriram’s pork ball specialty, has also grown among the singer’s international fans, with orders for pork balls now pouring in from Australia, the United States, and South Korea.
From Thai people living in those countries, no doubt, i.e. NOT "international fans" but Thai fans.
These obnoxious NNT news articles are always sooo misleading and nationalistic.
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20 hours ago, ukrules said:
No serious government in the world takes anything Thailand says or does seriously at the moment.
Have they ever?
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9 hours ago, Damrongsak said:
Good deal.
Kid, ditch the NYC shirt.
Quite right.
What's next? Donning a Yankees cap?
That little ingrate!
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16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:
a measure to attract “high potential” foreigners
"High potential" for what? Being fleeced and stripped down to their last shirt so they can "inject" up to 1 trillion baht into the local economy? As always, it only ever about 1 thing, isn't it? The big M.
It's always oh so telling that these schemes are tied to substantial financial pre-requisites.
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And another one of these wonderful cultural traits Thailand has to offer to the world. Where is the PM praising it and wanting to spread and promote it internationally?
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15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:The application of Thai culture will help to spread the culture internationally.
What is it with this man's almost pathological obsession to seeing Thai culture being spread internationally?
He truly IS the kindred of a rather insular, inward-looking nation that is (wrongly) convinced it somehow is the navel of the world and pinnacle of human civilization.
Do you ever hear from Thailand's neighbors constantly flogging their culture and wanting to "bring it to the world"?
Besides, what has the Phanom Rung complex in Buriram got to do with Thai culture at any stretch of the imagination? It's Khmer!
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4 hours ago, webfact said:
She said that in previous years the death toll was about 20,000 annually but last year it was only 17,831.
With that 10% drop in road deaths quickly being compensated - and exceeded! - by skyrocketing Covid deaths.
Are you a milkmaid, Khun Rungarun? Or why else are you presenting us with such a naive calculation?
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Let me fix that headline:
‘World’s Best Awards 2021’ names Bangkok and Chiang Mai among the globe’s top 10 destinations that almost nobody can get to at the moment from abroad
And while I'm at it, let me also spruce up that first paragraph a bit:
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to have yet another opportunity to jump at a useless report that Thailand has performed well in the ‘World’s Best Awards 2021’ survey by Travel + Leisure, with destinations and hotels being voted among the top worldwide, though they are all unreachable at the moment for the vast majority of foreign travelers..
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9 hours ago, Moonlover said:
''Thai police helicopter allegedly used to smuggle bootleg liquor''
Strange headline. Both the CN235-220M and a Falcon 2000 are fixed wing aircraft.
Only until they're piloted by a Thai.
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4 hours ago, bkkcanuck8 said:
"The pass can be downloaded via the Mohpromt application. However, the app currently accepts only 13-digit Thai ID numbers, meaning expats may have difficulty registering. "
This happens again and again... the simple solution to fix this repeated issue - is to issue encourage and issue the Thai ID (for a fee of course) (with an indicator that it is non-immigrant, non-work permit) to anyone with non-immigrant visa (annual). The ID can have a link to the passport which means anyone holding it can leave their passport at home rather than bringing it for ID purposes (hotels etc.).
Oh, you mean the Thai authorities finally making things easier for the tens of thousands of expats legally residing in their country? Fat chance.
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There does not one week go by without another scandal involving this so-called "law enforcement agency".
yet when a member or the general public blows the whistle or merely points out that the entire apparatus is rotten to the core, they are being prosecuted and slapped with draconian punishments for "damaging the reputation of the police". Go figure.
15 minutes ago, webfact said:Two senior officers were involved, it was claimed but a NACC investigation stalled as the officers rose through the ranks.
So... who is going to investigate this supposed "anti-corruption body"? Somebody has been paid off for sure for "stalling".
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1 hour ago, rooster59 said:
and a strange place where you entered via the toilets (more of that later).
And indeed how wonderfully strange - surreal, otherworldly, absurd - "it" was! Its reincarnation was a mere shadow of its former self, a poor, shallow, unexciting, uninspired (and uninspiring) copycat.
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The boy seems well integrated. He also didn't make the decision himself to migrate to Denmark. His aunt made that decision for him, and she's the one who made mistakes in the adoption process. The boy shouldn't be punished because of his aunt's errors.
There certainly are scores of other migrants who are stubbornly unwilling to integrate and would be more deserving of being deported than this 10-year-old boy. Some parts of Copenhagen nowadays look and feel like seedy, filthy urban neighborhoods straight out of the Middle East or Northern Africa -- with all the negative connotations.
Luckily, Denmark has taken the wise resolve of closing its borders to uncontrolled migration, a move that many other European nations should follow suit.
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2 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:
Or wearing only a hula-skirt and a flower garland, she'd become an instant hit in Hawaii, Tahiti, and beyond...
And with me, too!
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Perhaps if she wears lederhosen in her next video, she'll become an overnight sensation in Germany and Austria, too. Ching, ching, ching!
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It's also not illegal to fashion a krathom leaf into a little boat and let it float down the soi during the current rainstorms. Or compost it in your backyard and use it to fertilize your ganja plants so they blossom faster.
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Don't fret, Thammanat. You can always pick up your erstwhile vocation again -- which potentially also might be much more lucrative than being a politician.
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Thailand is falling into the same trap as governments elsewhere.
Frequent steep excise tobacco tax hikes are making cigarettes increasingly unaffordable for smokers, many of whom naturally will resort to illicit products -- particularly when they are so easily available as here and sold at practically every street corner.
We have seen it in Australia, in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, and pretty much everywhere else where cigarettes have become out of the financial reach of a large proportion of consumers. Rather than giving up their habit, the majority of these consumers simply will look for other ways to get their tobacco.
Just as much as there always will be people who drink, there always will be people who smoke. But when will that fact finally sink in with regulators?
But then again, fleecing consumers under the pretext that cigarettes are only getting so expensive because the government is oh so concerned about smokers' health is rather hypocritical, because the true reason is to raise more revenue for the state apparatus, of course.
It's the same with alcohol tax. Or for that matter the oddly named "value-added" tax. What "value" is possibly "added" to a product when it is being artificially made more more expensive? None. "Cost-added tax" would perhaps be a more accurate moniker.
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2 hours ago, tonray said:
I thought they all flocked to Bath on their holiday week...????????????????
Brighton?
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Hm.... seems those PATA reps have been very grateful for the free trips they received to observe the "Phuket Sandbox" and have now repaid that favor by heaping accolade on a "special tourist visa" that almost nobody wanted.
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For as long as I remember, the RTP has had an unmatchable propensity for tarnishing their own image and losing their oh so precious face with one faux pas after another after another. They really don't need any outside help.
The Keystone Cops were fictional movie characters. But here we have a force that stumbles from one mud puddle into the next in real life. No creative script writing needed. It all happens naturally.
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Now... a little overly confident there, Pheu Thai, aren't we? After all:
North Korea: No matter which ballot system is used, Kim Jong-un will ALWAYS win.
P.R. of China: No matter which ballot system is used, the CCP ALWAYS comes out on top.
Turkmenistan: No matter which ballot system is used. Gurbangyuly Berdimuhamedov ALWAYS is the champ.
Belarus: No matter which ballot system is used, Alexander Lukashenko makes sure to ALWAYS prevail.
Thailand: No matter which ballot system is used, Uncle Too et al know a few tricks in order to...
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Buriram’s fried pork balls more popular than ever!
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I think you completely misinterpreted my comment.
I am sure that Lisa – or rather, "Blackpink", the group of which she is a member – enjoys a substantial following in Asia. If I had actually mentioned “Blackpink”, the name perhaps would even have resounded with some of the rap lovers that I messaged in Europe and elsewhere. The few “Blackpink” music videos that I have personally watched look very professionally produced and the songs are snappy. No complaints there.
But that was not the point of my comment. Rather, I wanted to refute the claim in the NNT news piece that “Buriram pork meatballs” have suddenly sprung to fame and glory [quote] “ACROSS THE WORLD” just because of that song.
Even IF “Buriram pork meatballs” WERE more than fleetingly mentioned in that particular song, “Lalisa”, very, very few music fans outside of Thailand would develop an irresistible urge to want to taste them.
Secondly, not more than a tiny handful – if any - international fans would recognize the backdrop in the video as a scaled model of Phanom Rung temple in Buriram, let alone be aware that a Thai province called Buriram even exists.
Additionally, that backdrop appears all but a couple, three seconds in the 4-minute clip and is easily missed if you don’t purposefully watch out for it.
Yet the NNT article makes it sound as if “Buriram” and its oh so famous pork meatballs have become “talk of the town” in a myriad of countries around the globe and EVERYBODY has succumbed to "meatball frenzy" now. But not just any meatballs. No. Got to be “Buriram pork meatballs”!
THAT is what I meant with “obnoxious”. Why does every other NNT news story have to carry that nationalistic spin to it that Thailand and Thai culture are somehow relevant to the world at large? They are not.
You are correct, there is nothing wrong with local news. Yet… if you DO publish local news intended for a local audience, better make sure to let it come across as such. Don’t dress it up as news that a rap song produced in South Korea whose performing group by pure chance also includes a Thai-born artist has been triggering “Buriram pork meatball fever” WORLDWIDE. It hasn’t.
P.S.: Good luck to the online buyers in Australia whose orders of Buriram pork meatballs have allegedly “flooded” local producers. These customers better brace themselves for some hefty fines, because importing meat products into Australia without a license is strictly illegal! It’s even worse when the product in question is made from RAW meat as in the case of the by now world-famous “Buriram pork meatballs”. The same goes for the UK, the EU and the United States, by the way. Some small consignments always slip through. But if you’re caught… oh dear!