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Maybe I am wrong. Perhaps I am. I am always willing to learn new things. If I gave you 1000 baht and told you to find a woman for sex but it had to be in a mall and in the day time. What country would you choose? And what city?

If you gave me the 1000 baht that would make me the prostitute!

Have they been detained? Will they be transferred to an inactive post as punishment?

I think being fired and detained = inactive post no?

Are they actually sitting in a prison cell? Being fired from their job doesn't necessarily mean that they are completely out of the police force. Transferring to an inactive post seems to be the usual punishment for government employees who commit wrongdoings, particularly for politicians and those in senior positions. I hope one day they will at least be punished as ordinary citizens if they commit crimes.

I am quite confident that the Thai justice system will right this wrong!

Ok one more story. LAPD was at one time probably the most corrupt department in the states. During the 1950's They got a new Chief named Parker. He did essentially exactly as you suggested. More older training officer's called it being Parekerized. It has had it's ups and downs since then. Don't know what it's like today but in my time frame I never saw any graft. Doesn't mean it didn't happen just means if it did I didn't know about it.

Why didn't they call it Parkerized?

I do not know of any Thai that doesn't take pills less than daily.

High Blood pressure is norm for alot, migraines, stomach ailments, gout etc

I think Diabetes will be the next issue, especially with young fat kids.

It is the culture, seeing others taking pills makes them follow,

almost like a competition to see who can take the most.

My Ex in Australia (Thai) used to brag to friends about pills he was getting cheaply

on trips to Thailand. A Thayang Pharmacy was very obliging to him, even suppositories for migraines.

He was most upset when the Australian Immigration took away his sudafed for headaches

but it is a component in illegal drug manufacturing.

Plus the Thais aren't the healthiest of people, look at what they eat.

Old people, as in Western Countries, love attention as they get older and

going to the doctor to have a 'chat' usually ends up them happy to spend their

Social Security money on medication.

Thailand needs a data base for people's medications to see who is using what and how much

but realistically I can't see that happening.

Even Celebrities are killing themslves with medication. eg. Heath Ledger, Whitney Houston

Good post.

I know this is slightly off topic but I want to say it anyway. I have recently been introduced to Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar by a friend who swears by it's healing qualities. He had been suffering from anxiety and panic attacks for the last 3-4 years and tried everything, with regards to medication, with no affect but now says that he takes daily doses of this natural medicine and has never felt better.

Furthermore, he has recommended it to many others who were suffering from a who range of complaints from Diabetes to Back pain, Arthritis to skin complaints and even gout, and all say they are at least in a lot less pain, if not totally cured. Apparently the high level of Potassium content is the main healing ingredient: "Potassium's main function is to promote cell, tissue and organism growth. It is necessary to replace dead cells and tissue. There is no better source of potassium than vinegar - particularly natural organic apple cider vinegar."

Other illnesses it can cure are: sinus infections, high cholesteral, flu, chronic fatigue, candida, acid reflux, sore throats and people are raving about the curing of chronic skin conditions such as acne, rosacea and even dermatitis.

It is a winner and it's available in Thailand, so no need to get bag-fulls of non-effective pills from anyone thats willing to sell em to you.

For more info: http://www.earthclin.../acvinegar.html

Good post...are you able to advise exactly which supermarket/health shop stocks this product in Bangkok please

Yes, I bought mine from Foodland in Pattaya, so expect it is in their stores. The best brand is by 'BRAGG' as this contains something they call 'The Mother' which I believe is the living organisms in it. My 1 pint bottle cost me 254 baht.

Since my post I have got another 6 people on it for their various problems - like I was told, try it for a week and see for yourself, you could be amazed.

I do not know of any Thai that doesn't take pills less than daily.

High Blood pressure is norm for alot, migraines, stomach ailments, gout etc

I think Diabetes will be the next issue, especially with young fat kids.

It is the culture, seeing others taking pills makes them follow,

almost like a competition to see who can take the most.

My Ex in Australia (Thai) used to brag to friends about pills he was getting cheaply

on trips to Thailand. A Thayang Pharmacy was very obliging to him, even suppositories for migraines.

He was most upset when the Australian Immigration took away his sudafed for headaches

but it is a component in illegal drug manufacturing.

Plus the Thais aren't the healthiest of people, look at what they eat.

Old people, as in Western Countries, love attention as they get older and

going to the doctor to have a 'chat' usually ends up them happy to spend their

Social Security money on medication.

Thailand needs a data base for people's medications to see who is using what and how much

but realistically I can't see that happening.

Even Celebrities are killing themslves with medication. eg. Heath Ledger, Whitney Houston

Good post.

I know this is slightly off topic but I want to say it anyway. I have recently been introduced to Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar by a friend who swears by it's healing qualities. He had been suffering from anxiety and panic attacks for the last 3-4 years and tried everything, with regards to medication, with no affect but now says that he takes daily doses of this natural medicine and has never felt better.

Furthermore, he has recommended it to many others who were suffering from a who range of complaints from Diabetes to Back pain, Arthritis to skin complaints and even gout, and all say they are at least in a lot less pain, if not totally cured. Apparently the high level of Potassium content is the main healing ingredient: "Potassium's main function is to promote cell, tissue and organism growth. It is necessary to replace dead cells and tissue. There is no better source of potassium than vinegar - particularly natural organic apple cider vinegar."

Other illnesses it can cure are: sinus infections, high cholesteral, flu, chronic fatigue, candida, acid reflux, sore throats and people are raving about the curing of chronic skin conditions such as acne, rosacea and even dermatitis.

It is a winner and it's available in Thailand, so no need to get bag-fulls of non-effective pills from anyone thats willing to sell em to you.

For more info: http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/acvinegar.html

What everyone seems to ignore is that the electorate must rule in such discussions. I am neither pro nor anti-Thaksin. Yes, I read the charges against him and the opposing arguments, but T.I.T. That is the lynch pin in my non-argument, and not to be dismissed as a mere notion. I am simply saying our opinions as ex-pats are not only wildly speculative, but also demeaning to Thais.

If the majority of Thais hate him, let him stay away. If the majority loves him, then bring him back. Whatever they decide we should wave their flags--it's their country, after all.Root for the home team, because they pay your wages and secure your well-being and that's the way it goes EVERYWHERE. Enough with the egregious finger-pointing. What the majority of Thais want to happen in Thailand, no matter how much we disagree with it, is what is going to happen. Live with it, wanke_rs.

How can a thinking person, in one breath, say that no one here gets jailed or elected without influences, and then also say that they know what is going on and who is the bad guy? That is vapid in the extreme. It does not equate, at all. Either we are in the dark or not, and the evidence is that we are totally in the dark. I can say I like this guy and hate that guy, but with such restrictions on freedom of the press it is quite likely we are basing assumptions on red herrings, cooked slowly over burnt rubber and served up as caviar. And some idiots call that gourmet.

But we don't like that, we don't like not knowing. And we never will. Almost like being in America again, for me.

I really don't care if he comes back. So many people here are just bickering, like old hens over an egg that already spoiled and belongs to someone else.

Worse, we came here because our own countries let us down, disenfranchised us, or screwed us in one way or another, and too many suggest the Thais should have the same model. If at first you don't succeed, make other messes ad infinitum.

Really, there must be a lot of bored arm-chair political experts teaching first grade floating around here.

FF

I bet you also wai fellow foreigners!

The funniest comment I've seen on here for ages.

Boddingtons, Pedigree or Jennings.

Even a straight forward pint of Tetleys would do

I'm on true and in Bangkok All i'm getting for the 'read more and the link' is 'The server at w3.mict.go.th is taking too long to respond'. Blocked i

presume!!!!, As its availible to some and not others could it be 'cut and pasted'?

It's not the best article in the world anyway so wouldn't worry about it.

I like all the coments about Chalerm. But it makes no difference to him. He has proven that he is above the law buy getting rid of all the witnesses before his sons court case. He was lucky the military didn't get him during the coupe a few yers ago. The military wanted him dead, but he was able to escape to Singapor by boat. Now Thailand is paying heavely for the military missing him.

I agree. I would like to start a new thread entitled: Chalerm is a C^*t!

Anybody have a link to the video?

it's at the top!!

Some love him, most hate him but you have to hand it to him, Chalerm plays a fine hand of poker. It almost appears that this has been perfectly choreographed. The stage is set to bury Jatuporn and Arisman in jail, as they and their ilk are the main obstacle to this Government staying in power and getting re-elected. Jailing the red 'terrorists' will win the hearts and minds of the educated Thai's who all know that the scumbags should be accountable to the law. With them out of the picture, it completely takes the wind out of the sails of the Dem party. What else to complain about? The reds in the North care not for Jatuporn and Arisman anymore, they have their local leadership all sorted out and judging by the number of reds that showed up to support Arisman it was just his extended family.

Now the Army have had the prospect of a huge investigation likely removed and the Senior officers who may have been accountable for any wrong doing are firmly in the pockets of Chalerm and Yingluck. Perhaps a troublesome problematic senior police officer is about to become the sacrificial lamb to the slaughter, killing two birds with one stone.

The choreographer must certainly be Thaksin, who is now dropping his henchmen as the worthless pawns that they were. I do not think Thaksin will come back at the moment, he has no wish to be PM, he will bide his time.

I cannot stand these fellas but can't help admire their cunningness.

Very well put. I think 2012 will become an historic year in Thailand, unfortunately for negative reasons.

Can't help thinking something very bad is about to happen.

In response to the Pattaya bashing:-

It's funny, I don't remember any of the 800,000+ forced evacuees from flooded parts of Bangkok that relocated to Pattaya for the last few weeks/months, moaning about the hospitality and understanding they were kindly shown by the residents here.

Seems Pattaya was good enough then!

Yingluck doesn't give a shit about being a political figure. she was only put in to do one thing... pardon Thaksin.

But she wasn't at the cabinet meeting that discussed this. Seems if she had been the howls of rage would have been the same for her spending all her time working towards a pardon???

But that's predicated on the notion that she really didn't know what was discussed at the Cabinet meeting, which is... more than a bit difficult to buy into.

It would be along the lines of believing she really had no means of transportation to go from Singburi to Bangkok to attend the Cabinet meeting, which is..... even more than a bit difficult to buy into.

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The conversation probably went something like this:

PM..Quick start the helicopter I need to get back to Bangkok immediately so I will be able to attend the cabinet meeting.

General Half Track: Uhhhh sorry Madam PM our helicpoter can't fly at night.

PM: Call to Dubai. Hello big brother I did exactly as you said and General Half Track said exactly what I told him to say. Now what do I do?

Big brother: You're the best little sister. Now deny knowing anything that went on in the secret cabinet meeting.

Absolutely spot on!

She can't be seen to be too blatant in her quest to bring him back, so arrange the meeting and make sure your cabinet endorses the amnesty in your convenient absence (i'm visiting flooded areas to prove that I do care about the thai people and running this country).

Has anyone tried 'Mrs. Porky' pork scratchings that are around the Pattaya bars yet?

I'd seen the Bar Snacks behind the ramp in most of the establishments I frequent and was impressed with the (cheeky) packaging but hadn't tried them until the other day.

They taste great, as good as the ones you get back in the UK and went perfectly with a pint - I couldn't stop eating them!

Totally agree, Exsexyman, well said!

I guess you have to be a special kind of person to RAT on some one.

You have hit the nail on the head. I know in the UK, police informants are almost exclusively career criminals who do it for two reasons. To keep themselves out of prison after they have been caught, and for the money.Can be quite lucrative for some when payments from insurance companies are taken into account. Also many of them are given 'permission' to carry on with their criminal activities, within reason. A very dangerous game of course, bearing in mind what would happen to them if they are discovered. The 'specimens' we have here in Pattaya are a different kettle of fish altogether. They are police volunteers, the operative word being, VOLUNTEERS. They are given a uniform, which im sure is the most important part for most of them, a big badge, walkie talkies etc. Im sure most of them would love to have been real policemen in falangland, but just didn't make the grade. Sometimes they are made to feel very important and told, "Tonight you are going undercover in plain clothes". The poor misguided sap will be sent into a bar in soi six or wherever, to a bar that has fallen behind with tea money payments. He will be given some marked banknotes, and after he has procured the sexual services of one of the employees he will dial a number on his phone, and the BIB come steaming in through the back door to arrest every body and close the bar. A couple of days later said bar will be open again. This exact scenario happened a while back, but we all know this happens all the time. The point is that the falang undercover man acting as an agent provocateur is not doing it under coercion or for money, (although im sure they get a drink). They volunteer for the role. The ironic thing is that the Thai police who send them in, probably hold them in utter contempt for stitching up their own kind. So why do they do it? Trying to ingratiate themselves with the Thai powers that be? This possibly comes into it. A misguided sense of righting wrongs? I don't think so. They do it for personal pleasure. Lower than a snake's belly IMHO.