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OMG, this is HILARIOUS. I gotta download this and use it.

Bread and circuses ～♪

Locally re-worded as "rice and lakhawn"

Wow, that is <deleted> amazing. Not sure why people get angry and wanna call the guy stupid, "GoDdAmMiT bOy StOp BeInG wEiRd AnD dRaWiNg So MuCh AtTeNtIoN tO yOuRsElf". Hell, he made. It's cool stunt.

To the critical peanut gallery: You get up and do it. In fact, just try standing on the edge of building and looking down. Or I guess you can just continue to scold him like a fat man sprawled out on a couch cursing professional athletes for not performing as desired.

I wonder how the cops and security guards reacted to his stunt.

Too bad it was so windy. Applause to the guy for going out there in the wind.

Here's another link for the dead one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqfF8BARtI

Like robblok said, there is no spot treatment for fat burning. General weight loss may help with gynecomastia, but depending on the size, you may be stuck with fatty tissue there. Some people get surgery for this kind of thing cuz dieting isn't enough to make it as flat as they desire.

As everyone is telling you, high estrogen levels is what causes this. Aside from the BPA we consume, drinking alcohol also results in higher estrogen levels.

If your man boobs have gotten bigger over the last few years, I would definitely check hormone levels. A hormone imbalance doesn't just result i physical changes, it also results in emotional changes, which can suck more than having man boobs. Go get yourself checked out to see what your numbers are.

I love the clear shot of "Jacky Tattoo" in the background.

>"then-Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was about to face a serious political crisis

>after an unusual amount of mushrooms were spotted in the compound."

Well that clearly explains where the ghosts came from.

I am not a fan of the rice pledging scheme/scan whatsoever, but this article is crap, and the list of aspects are silly.

The plan had plenty of specific problems, it's better to talk about those then say things like, "Most complicated cheating trick" and "Most covered up project".

I'm afraid I have to call this "The dumbest most vaguest sweeping statements list."

Now that is a seriously freaky level of vengeful spite...

But she never intended for anybody to be hurt, she isn't a bad person, and apparently doesn't have it in her to hurt anyone, except of course for the husband she tried to frame with such a twisted crime. I guess the authorities should just have a chuckle and let the nice lady go?

Aw, man, I already bought tickets for the whole family... Good thing this much-needed warning came out in time.

I'm not sure what to route to take if I can't drive on the wrong side of the road and make right turns where right turns are not allowed...

Some folks who are in-the-know are saying, "It gets like this every once in a while. Everything shuts down, then the situation returns to "normal" a couple of months later." Others who are in-the-know tell me, "This feels different... I don't know what to expect."

Popular belief is that everything will be on hold for as long as the current people in power remain in power (i.e., until elections next year).

Sorry if I'm just repeating what everyone has already heard... I plan to withhold getting excited about it until after I hear reports from foreigners trying to enter Thailand on a tourist visa after mid-August.

"Some folks who are in-the-know are saying ..."

I don't think bar stool pundits actually qualify as being "in-the-know."

Believe it or not, Suradit69, I don't drink or go to bars. This is from people who run businesses directly involved with getting visas of all types. I guess I just heard from 2 different people (again, not in a bar) who gave me their take on what is going on.

I just want to say that last week I left after my 3 year ED visa expired, and I got a double-entry extendable 60-day tourist visa in Vientiane. I re-entered by land at the Nong Khai border the following day without any problems. I am a bit worried about what will happen when I extend my 60-day visa to get another 30 days, and then what will happen when I exit Thailand for a few days and attempt to re-enter for another 60-days.

I legitimately studied Thai for 3 hours a day during my 3 years of ED visa, and I would now like to spend time traveling around Thailad for 6 months using the Thai I learned. It seems to me that this should be ok, but I fear that the immigration folks at the airports and land crossings are going to start rejecting everyone who wants to be a tourist for more than 3 months.

I hope foreigners entering Thailand on a tourist visa for extended travel (i.e., travelling for more than 3 months and therefore re-entering a double-entry 60-day tourist visa) will post their experience passing through immigration after the new rules are implemented in mid-August.

OK - if mom says there was no one there, fair enough....

But - really - who takes 3 attempts to shoot themselves? And he's an activist.

So foul play completely ruled out?

Well put.

"The Thai seamen were all allowed to jump overboard and swim back to Thailand"

My Lord, is that a round about way of saying "left for dead"??

I would like to know which camps they are talking about.

I believe that they aren't talking about Rohingya camps, but about other ethnic minorities like the Karen who have had camps for over 20 years along the border. The government of Myanmar and the UN are saying that it's safe for many of those people to return, but I'm sure there are stills serious risks.

I figure that the schools are supposed to show some evidence that tests are being taken to monitor progress. As for whether schools actually do that or not... I imagine the schools that really want to be legitimate probably require tests.

There is a silly-easy interview required at the Ministry of Education to assess your Thai language when you go to extend your visa after 1 year. It's almost insultingly simple, but I guess they want to keep it that way so that everyone passes. I have done it twice. It's just a formality, nobody takes it seriously. I incidentally took it along side a Japanese guy who clearly bombed it, he just didn't have a clue when he was asked, "Do you have any Thai friends?" and "Are you married?" He just started back blankly. The interviewer switched the question to, "What kind of Thai food do you like?" and he was able to list of a couple of popular menu items. The woman asking him the questions smiled, told him his Thai was wonderful, and he got approval to extend his visa for another year.

I was just thinking-- I have had to take monthly "tests" at the Thai schools I have studied at. I think this is a requirement for the school to get approval from the Ministry of Education. The tests are silly easy, it's clearly just a formality we have to go through. The schools keep the tests, and do not return them to us. I assume such records need to be shown to the Ministry of Ed.

So that may be the case with the test that you said your school was saying you had to take.

"3 hrs class per day, then 2 hrs a day outside class"

"requires substantial studying"

Oh! You mean STUDYING!

I know a couple of people around here on this visa. Even an old guy who cannot scrape together 800,000 for a retirement visa.

​Officially there are three classes each week. But if it is raining, the teacher has some urgent stuff to take care of or the "can't be bothered" syndrome kicks in, or it is a school holiday, they hardly ever attend and are not making any discernible progress. In fact, it is a mirror of the Thai school system.

Maybe to boost their self-esteem the Thais should claim Thailand as the "Hub of Education",

I'm talking about what is likely required for a foreigner who wants to take the Grade 6 Exam. I am not talking about the Thai education system for Thai people, so I'm not sure what relevance your comment really has to mine, or to the subject at hand.

Sounds like the people you know were studying at a Thai language school that exists primarily to give people an ED visa, a school knows its students have no interest in learning Thai, let alone taking the Grade 6 Exam. In my Thai classes over the last 3 and half years, I have never had a teacher miss class. Not once.

Some schools,, of course, exist primarily as visa factories, and I suppose the teachers might not be serious about teaching. I don't attend those schools.

I'm going to guess that you don't know much Thai language or about schools Thai schools that are interested in the students learning Thai, and are more interested in just taking a swipe anything Thai? I wonder why you feel the need to make a comment about something you don't know about.

Is this the part where I insert several laughing faces to give my response the appropriate condescending tone?

You're talking about the Grade 6 Exam to assess your Thai language skills? No, that is definitely not a requirement by the government (though I don't think it would be inappropriate if it were). As for whether that is something your school came up with as a requirement for those studying there, I can't say. Or maybe they just want you to sign up for their exam-prep course cuz enrollment is low, so they fed you that line.

The exam, incidentally, doesn't have a passing or failing grade like it used to. Now they just give you a score between 1 and 6. I think 3 is the equivalent to what used to be passing.

When I lived in Japan, some schools and some workplaces required that foreigners sit through the language proficiency exam, but it didn't matter what the score was.

If you decide to take the test this year: You have been here for 6 months, so you will have been studying Thai for about 10 months when the exam rolls around? You could get a score of "3" if you study hard (say, 3 hrs class per day, then 2 hrs a day outside class).

I question people who say that the test is easy. I think getting a score of "3" isn't super hard (i.e., what used to be a passing grade), but it still requires substantial studying: Nobody is getting that score without putting in daily time to review in addition to classes. If someone got a 3, then probably most of the answers were guesswork, and their performance on the written section is probably close to incomprehensible.

God, a little pot and coke (and Viagra?) doesn't really seem to me to qualify as a "drug binge". Just sounds like she drank herself to death.

Sad, of course, for all involved.