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OP - I learned a lot on a daily basis here in LOS, it could fill books, and I am surprized and caught off guard anew on an almost daily basis as well...

Sure his phone service provider will bail him out and make him a national celebrity

Very disturbing to see - where was the "army" there? If anyone would say that Thailand is a $#itty place and getting worse by the day, I'd agree if I wouldn't be living here. Sometimes the Thai's desperation to make a bad name for themselves makes me wanna puke

If I'd seen the incident, "the mask" would have taken a bath. This video should be all over the news and show the Thais how "great" they are...

Another more pressing matter to be dealt with instead of pi$$Ing on western tourists, expats and investors with out of proportion visa and immigration rules and regulations, destroying people's businesses along the coast and the many more overacting to show that "we are cleaning up here now!" The true and life threatening problems remain untackled while tourism and small/medium businesses will be taking a nose dive in the years to come...

Sad news for this "we're so proud of ourselves, never have been occupied, we are simply the greatest" country... Think this extensive suicide rate alone would be a much more pressing matter than demolishing people's livelihoods along the coasts of Thailand or suppressing western tourists, investors and expats with ever tighter visa and immigration rules. But demolishing is what armies do, sorry I forgot - my bad...

No one has been able to answer my question with confidence, that I have bought up several times.

Do mainland Chinese tourists pay the Thai price or the non-Thai higher price to enter attractions etc ?

They pay nothing, because they are either on all-inclusive trips or free of charge events. Hope that answers your question.

Message to all Chinese "quality" tourists who spend nothing (except cheap flight/hotel all in one budget ticket) and do nothing but riding in huge bus loads from free of charge event to free of charge event: Don't take the OP serious, it was a typo - stay home! Thank you!!!!

Message to the peope in charge: Don't underestimate the backlash of further visa and immigration "sanctions" targeting western tourists, expats and investors who pumped shiploads of money into your country in the past twentyfive years!

Your bets are on the wrong horse!!! The result will be disastrous and you will feel the heat soon!

Customs officials can’t account for up to 500 imported cars which have disappeared from privately held warehouses...

It's not gonna happen, stop sugarcoating the situation!

Wanted to get my prostate checked for quite some time now, think she might be the right one to do just that

Eliana, Thailand is a safe haven for you where you will be accepted unconditionally for who you are! Try to get here a.s.a.p.

Wishing you best of luck!

Hope he goes straight to hell - and remains there!

How come there were 18 boys but only 8 girls?

gang bang of course...

Modernization ... Thailand has entered the global world of the obesity epidemic.

Where overweight issues are more of a health threat than hunger and starvation.

Rather than relying on tired old morality lectures from Grandma's era, perhaps start to get educated about how things really are different now?

I highly recommend this series.

The Men Who Made Us Fat

12 part series all on youtube.

Here is part one. The remainder available from there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE-H__aIEFE&list=PLA0E2B2461B536A26&index=1&feature=plpp_video

After that, try, also multiple episodes.

The Men Who Made Us Thin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-_LoAm_etU

Yes, SUGAR is a big part of this. Used to be a luxury food. Now it's everyday, in large quantities, HIDDEN in all kinds of modern processed food (often you can't even taste it).

For Thailand it is not too late to avoid becoming the next BIG thing ... like Mexico, a middle wealth country that is incredibly obese. It is not only about the individual and not only about education. Changes in the FOOD INDUSTRY and involvement by government is absolutely necessary.

Best video on the case - thank you, Jingthing!!!

Tax sugar. Tax it at 100% or 150%.

Sugar is the enemy.

Well, better let's tax stupidity in Thailand, more revenue and more funds to fight the sugar and food industry

Surpize, surprize... you can't demonize us "whities" first and then expect to flood your country with tourists, can you?

Another self-inflicted shot in your own foot, Thailand - well done!

Think one of the biggest problems is that many kids in LOS are raised by grannies, ants and uncles who bottle feed and don't know how and when to stop. I.e. baby cries after the bottle - "Oh, must still be hungry - an in goes another bottle..." instead of doing the "burp thing" to get rid of excessive gas in the baby's stomach. The bottle milk is full of sugar and other $#ite the baby won't need.

Then, most Thais find fat babys "Narak maak, maak!" (Cute, so cute) which adds to the disaster taking its course. Once the kids is three or four and fat like a Sumo wrestler, there's no turning back. They turn 35, best 40 and die of a heart attack because the heart has the size of a trash bag and is too weak to go on.

My oldest had a girl in his pre school class - a three (and a half) year old girl weighing 35 kilos!!!! That "thing" (sorry) could not even walk from the classroom to the entrance gate without a few breaks in between to catch a breath. She'll die at early age. Trying to warn her stupid father was impossible - he took it as an offense, because everyone thought that she's so "narak"... I thought she looked disgusting, more like an oversized bowling ball with a head, feet and starfish hands popping out... an insult to the eye... poor girl stupid parents

7Eleven with 70% of the assortment being fatty and sugary stuff, as well as the ever rising amount of American fast food places (can't call em restaurants, can I?) puts the final nail in the coffin...

However... My best advise is to find a girl who lost her entire family in a plane or bus crash.

After 175 entries I think it is evident that VillageFarang didn't write his article in vain and that he has made a point here. If some folks did not like it, thought the choice of words were too eloquent or whatever - who cares?

Great post, some very valuable answers - success, Villagefarang! Congrats to that!

Aaaaaand the winner is......?

<deleted>? I mean look at the photo... I'm in shock

His facial expression

Looks like FinLander hasn't realized yet that he's possibly up for life... If it were Singapore, Malaysia or Indonesia he'd be a dead man walking. I simply despise drug dealers - get rid of him! Thanks!