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I'm big on self-responsibility.

If I cross the road and get smacked by a vehicle, it will be 100% my fault. Doesn't matter if the driver is sober or dead drunk and doing 160klm/h.

Applying this attitude to everything in daily life (from crossing the road, to managing your diet, to not sending your life savings to a Nigerian prince), leads to generally positive outcomes. 

Follow the West's solution to the economic impact of a declining birth rate - encourage mass unchecked immigration from Africa and India.

Nothing could possibly go wrong. 

If the woman makes a habit of confronting perpetrators of poor driving, it's a miracle she's survived to be 42.

Toys for the boys. 

Branston only 69B at Siambury's.  

With the upcoming dedollarization of the USD, maybe baked beans should replace the McDonald's Big Mac International Currency comparison.

If you have the shipping receipt or other documentation from the PO or courier, that should suffice. They don't want all 5 requests to be met.

But this is Thailand. Photographic evidence is now part of the culture. Everybody from coppers to couriers and security guards take photos to prove a task was completed - the clincher being the metadata location and timestamp on the photo.

Yesterday I got a delivery from Homepro, delivered by two of their staff.  They proceeded to take about 8 photos of me with the delivered articles, me and the delivery driver and the articles, then the other bloke, then closeup pics of the barcode on the 3 articles (all the same), then a picture of me and the building frontage, and then a pic that included their vehicle and the building.

All for three plastic bins that cost 79 baht each.

I thought there was an official list of things "not to do" in Thailand. I'm sure paragliding comes right after bungy jumping, riding in a mini-van, and arguing with ladyboys on Beach Road at 3am.

Ever wondered why you think the "other side" are so extreme in their social and political views, but never considered that you might be (or might not be) the problem?

I encourage everybody to take this simple three-minute test to measure how far left, right, libertarian or authoritarian you are.  Some posters might be surprised how extreme their views are.

The Political Compass

Most of the people I interact with would define me as a dyed in the wool right-wing authoritarian.  On this test I am just right of centre, and bang in the middle of authoritarianism versus liberalism.

My views haven't really changed in 50 years and I am, and always have been a little to the left or right on most issues. I haven't changed, but society now defines me as a Neo-Nazi - go figure.

If only it had been a classic VW Combi wagon with a surfboard on the roof, this story could have been so much better.

I wish the Press would stop calling this area South Pattaya and refer to it correctly as Little Mumbai.

It's a world-wide phenomenon that taxi drivers/riders are those least suitable to be drivers. They have no other marketable skillset, and so default to lowest common denominator of taxi driver. 

In years gone buy they would have normally defaulted to becoming farm labourers, ditch diggers, gas lamp lighters, leech collectors, or army cannon fodder.

It's the same with politicians of all flavors.  Anybody seeking power is more than likely the least desirable person to be given power. Therein lies the core problem with democracy.  We'd all have better governance if our leaders were randomly selected from a phonebook, if phonebooks still existed.