mrfill

Both are valid. Polarity reversal has happened before and will happen again. They just have no real idea when.

And what they like to call a mini Ice Age happened (in the UK) for around 300 years up to around 1870. Average winter temps were 2 degrees less than normal. Rivers froze and skating became a popular pastime. Lately average winter temps have been dropping slightly leading to a belief that we are entering another 'Little Ice Age' which is more accurately described as 'a bit colder than usual'

However, there is no connection between the two. Polarity reversal will not cause Arctic weather to appear in Thailand, nor will it make the Arctic a tropical paradise.

I think the temperature drops you refer to were a bit more than 1 or 2 degrees.

'....the Great Frost of 1683-4......the Thames was completely frozen for two months, with the ice reaching a thickness of 28cm.

The first recorded Frost Fair was in 1608. In the previous century, King Henry VIII travelled by sleigh to Greenwich during the winter of 1536, and Queen Elizabeth 1 went shooting on the ice in the winter of 1564.' http://www.deptfordis.org.uk/2011_12_01_archive.html

Quite correct - there were several years where the winters were very severe, but the average winter temp was only 2deg down.

I live in North Suffolk and up to the early 1960s there was an annual skating race from Oulton to Beccles. Try it now and all you get is wet feet. The average winter temp though is only slightly higher.

The information is fresh in my mind as there was a TV programme about ice on last night (the solid water type..) and the subject of cold Victorian winters was well covered. They even invented a special way of skating known as the 'Victorian way'.

Such mountaintop snow - possibly this month and in January - would result from an approaching "Little Ice Age" and reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, which had last taken place 800,000 years ago.[\quote] this guy knows stuff others don't, we should listen to him.

It takes very little effort to discredit an idea without reason.

It also takes very little effort to actually try to find out if there's any validity to the idea. By using google for instance.

And it avoids going from deriding to being derided.

Fact:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal

Theory:

https://www.google.co.th/search?q=new+ice+age&oq=new+ice+age&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2j69i60j0l2.4208j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Both are valid. Polarity reversal has happened before and will happen again. They just have no real idea when.

And what they like to call a mini Ice Age happened (in the UK) for around 300 years up to around 1870. Average winter temps were 2 degrees less than normal. Rivers froze and skating became a popular pastime. Lately average winter temps have been dropping slightly leading to a belief that we are entering another 'Little Ice Age' which is more accurately described as 'a bit colder than usual'

However, there is no connection between the two. Polarity reversal will not cause Arctic weather to appear in Thailand, nor will it make the Arctic a tropical paradise.

So global warming has finished has it?

Interesting theory about magnetic weather...

Walk a couple of miles a day, get a bicycle to ride around and go swimming.

Give it a couple of months and then decide if you need to change diet.

I find it rather silly and presumptous of OP to make such statements like thai ppl worship rich people what about the sports ppl like david beckham or kobe? What about rock stars and singer? These ppl are worshipping by millions of common sheep in the west.

I'll give it though that western ppl have a way of making everything seem more noble even though they behave exactly the same way as ppl in thailand.

Let's take a person donald trump. Rich guy behaves just like every rich guy the world over. Has women and knows how to control his underlings etc. Yet i am willing to bet ppl here think donald trump somehow is a more "noble" or a better person than a rich hi so thai person similar to him all because trump is a western guy.

Sounds really stupid but that's how people like you think.

Would that be the wealthy millionaire footballer David Beckham, recently valued at $300m?

Another case of focusing the blame in the wrong direction.

How about blaming the criminal, not the drink.

Its exactly when people blame guns instead of the criminals in shootings.

So you would advocate the legalisation of heroin, crystal meth and crack then. After all, its not the drugs we should blame.

And how exactly can you perform a shooting without a gun?

When staying in Lat Krabang this line is incredibly useful. 30Bt to Makkasan is a bargain. Vastly cheaper and quicker than any taxi.

The line is used a lot by locals going in and out the city (it goes from nearly full to nearly empty after Lat Krabang). The express has always been a joke. Nice if you like travelling on trains with lots of space.

Does this new bridge go to Petchaburi MRT station? I do hope so. Even with the 100 yard golf cart ride it is utterly hopeless at present

smelly old racist farangs in this here thread makes me sick reading this .. you have no clue bout this poor fellows life yet you judge being racist and want to see him hang high on the rope..what crime is it to beg ? and using violence against a beggar i can only shake my head the animal that did this is the one who should be put in jail..Classy to step on humans that are already crawling on their knees... you animals makes me sick shame on you "Immigrants"

Begging is a crime in England, I believe.

Maybe the guy does need help.

He sure aint goin to get it here.

Aggravated begging is certainly illegal in the UK, as is Assault and Battery.

If it turns out the battering was done by, lets say, a local policeman, I suspect the tone of a lot of posts would reverse. And what state of confusion would result if he was beaten by the local yaba dealer???

Jackanory....

Strange Yingluck is being condemned...when the real perpetrators are suthep and the democrats...have you not read what suthep and his mob demand...

45 million registered voters, 16 million vote for Yingluck and the PTP and yet 120,000 people say they know best - yes, that sounds democratic to me.

Suthep keep on walkin'

16 million for Yingluck out of 45m. Ergo, 29 million did not support her.

Bit like having a football match finishing 1 - 2 and the home team being declared winner.

A lot of politicians get in with less than 50% of the electorate supporting them but they still pretend to represent the majority.

And some who manage to get way above 50% in elections (with bought votes, threats etc etc), such as Gadaffi or Saddam are said to be undemocratic because they cheated (except in this case).

Funny old world...

"she was confident the driver was not drink-driving or under the influence of drugs at the time of the crash because this would be against company policy."

Presumably other companies recommend their drivers to be drunk and high....

And I wonder also if it is company policy to smash into motorcycles. Mrs Mouthpiece did not say it was against company policy or have one word of sympathy or regret for the poor sod on the bike.

300km in 3 hours on a bus?

Thats an average of over 60mph. Pretty fast for a bus.

The real figure is 10 hours by VIP bus and 11 for the non-VIP......

"i.e. If people make a nuisance of themselves impose strict and inflexible penalties for antisocial behaviour."

Like, you WILL pay 100Bt for driving while drunk or else.....

Why not do the beheading now and if the claimed deal turns out not to be true, a simple apology can be made later?

It is not about democratically and undemocratically . It is check and balance. The court has also told all the Thai people that to have check and balance, 50% must be "selected", while 50% can, if so wish, be "elected".

Precisely. These demonstrators want another undemocratically selected minority,since they are incapable of winning a democratic election. It is one thing to demonstrate for a particular issue - it is quite another to actively interfere with the daily operations of a democratically elected government. Clearly the Yellow Shirts in charge are hoping to provoke a violent reaction from the authorities - which they would get in any Western country I can think of for tresspassing on government property, etc etc.

Thus far, the government has fortunately not taken the bait. However, there are limits, and the Yellow Shirts have shown in the past that they are always ready to up the ante, no matter how much it costs the country- who can forget when they actually seized Thailand's international airport?

Bottom line is that this is mob rule, and fundamentally undemocratic. The Yellow Shirts must learn to accept the power of the ballot box and figure out a way to win elections. Indeed, it is ironic that the apparent leader of these demonstrations was a leader of the so-called Democrat party!

Let us hope there is a peaceful end to these demonstrations before anyone gets hurt.

What happens if the Administration decides to call an election? Simple, PTP win again. What the protestors want is another coup.

It is quite clear someone here does not know what democracy means.

In the original democracy, the politicians were selected by lottery, much in the same way as jury selection is done in the UK.

One day you get a note saying from next week you would be a politician. This keeps all the 'career' politicians out the way.

Every year the politicians had to face their electorate and explain the good work they had done. If the crowd liked it, you got the job for next year - if not, you were out.

Most countries are now plutocracies rather than democracies - i.e. ruled by the rich - and yet most people incorrectly call them democracies.

On TV twitter it says "Protests cause number of foreign tourists to drop by 300,000:"

So where are the cheap tickets that should be available for all these newly vacant plane seats?

A decent smart phone with removable memory card can eliminate one piece of equipment to carry around.

32Gb can accommodate a lot of music.....

Also, you can get some bluetooth speakers and have your own room stereo at home.

I'm fairly sure "recorded to phone" should be "copied". English as a foreign language...

Not at all. Copied implies that a duplicate was made. This was made by a phone camera, recording the analogue image from a monitor onto a digital storage device.

If you took a photo of someone's face, you would not say you copied the face but I can appreciate it may be difficult for someone with English as a foreign/second language.

More truths exposed! Not a land of smiles!

What's interesting to me about this story is that I've witnessed far more physical abuse by Thai women on men than the reverse, and while there may be no reason to doubt that stats that are presented in this story, I'd like to see a pole of abuse from the point of view of the men.

Saw a lady at work today who looks like she went a couple rounds with mike Tyson in his prime. All she could do is look down while walking and fiddle with her hair with her hands covering her face trying to hide two black eyes and lumps, bumps and bruises all over. She took a real beating, but showed up for work.

Was this in Thailand or somewhere else? It's not clear, but just goes to show that this happens in all countries.

And as for the pole of abuse - a lot of men have one of those and often it contains their brain.

My god. For a country that does very little to acknowledge or at least protect tourists (aka foreigners), you can't see ANY discussion of Thailand's macro economy without significant mention of tourism.

Surely tourism accounts for a larger percentage than they would have us believe?

Tourism only represents 6% of GDP in Thailand. It is highly visible and probably has a larger effect on the poor than industries such as manufacturing (44% approx of the economy) because of its labor intensity and fluidity.

There are reasons why tourism seems to appear in economic discussions a lot more than other sectors, such as manufacturing. It is because some of the features of tourism (sensitivity to security, unrest, exchange rates, transport) are precisely those that also affect foreign direct investment.

Given that tourism only represents 6% of the economy, we should be thankful that the country has a police force devoted to tourists (few other countries have bothered to do that).

Admittedly without data to the contrary, I find the 6% figure difficult to believe given 1) how much attention the topic gets from very senior political and business leadership and 2) the fact that those figures cannot possibly account for the huge underground (grey/black) economy in Thailand which includes the sums contributed to the economy through various forms of the sextrade.

How many countries anywhere in the world go on so frequently RE tourism? I've lived all over the world, and I've not seen it to such a degree anywhere else.

As for the police force "devoted" to tourists, I'm guessing you are trying to get a laugh or perhaps you are being serious and meant "How many countries have 'needed' to do that"?

Spain - 2007 most visited country in the world, 2010 4th most visited. (34m tourists)

Tourism represents 6.4% of GDP there - so the figure for Thailand is comparable - and they have their Tourist Police....

Statistics show that at least 40-50% of injuries in accidents occur from not wearing a seat belt.

Am I mistaken? cause what I see is the driver eating, drinking talking on cellphone, sleeping, drunk, while driving.

Well that's ok then, so long as he's wearing a seat belt (statistics prove that).

So what about us from other countries in Europe, or from other parts of the world for that matter...

If it exists a new deal for only these 7 countries, good for them, but try to take one step back and think about it for a second.

Are the citizens of these countries looked at as some kind of elite? Why not just go back to the old rulings from before 2008, where almost everyone were treated equally?

I will once again say, amazing Thailand.

This is exactly the same as before 2008. Almost everyone is treated equally.

In this case I am treated more equally than you but less equal than residents of some other countries.

A while ago New Zealand residents used to get 90 day visa exempt on arrival. They were obviously even more equal....

Well, at least by confessing to taking 'some drugs' (unspecified) it will make the highly informed point and say it was all his fault because he was on drugs (unspecified) and thus deflect attention away from any faults the boat or the operating company may have meaning no loss of face..

Promotion for him and a nice bonus when he gets released