Maggusoil

3 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Is it just me or are people actually becoming more stupid.

Its not you . . . Your observations are in sync with reality. IMHO.

On 9/20/2017 at 3:37 PM, CelticBhoy said:

". . . possessing illicit drugs with intent to sell, which could spell the end of her acting career."

 

Understatement of the year, unless they do a remake of Oliver and need a female Fagan.

She looks just the part for that role nowadays. What an advert for drug use she is!

Perhaps this is more to your liking . . . . Perfect. Perfectly legal. . . . Good boys

8 hours ago, The manic said:

251 milligrams is a quarter gram. Nothing. Disgraceful inhuman treatment given the conditions in Thai jails the majority of whom the inmates are women on petty drug offences. A blog on the face of Thai humanity. Truly sickening yet  rich killers in cars remain free.

The sentences for enjoying a little something on the side to enhance an evening or morning, are absurdly and ridiculously high. What sort of a crime is it? The criteria for crime used to be hurting others physically or stealing their possessions.  Yes, like Ferrari Red Bull Cop Killing. Stealing from Govt funded schemes. Are these people hurting someone? No. Are they stealing from anybody? No. Leave them alone for f. . . k's sake. 

4 hours ago, farcanell said:

Personally, whilst taking risks, I try to calculate them... factor in such things as risk awareness, risk management and even risk avoidance. (maybe it's just because I don't bounce as well, these days)

 

anywho.... a punter on the beach should have the right to expect that the operator has done his due diligence, and that the risk of personal injury has been reduced to "as low as reasonably possible"

 

clearly this was not not the case, and the operator should be sued for willfully endangering his clientele....( we all know what the weathers been like over the past week) 

 

and whilst recognising that the drive may be the more dangerous part, this does not excuse others from their responsibilities (tourist operators). Devolving to the lowest common denominator is a pretty low bar to set.

Yes and doing any of these things in South East Asia is a bit suss anyway. 

Not a good reputation

19 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Still doesn't explain your predilection for the terms you used, mind you the Tosca Russian Vodka probably says a lot  

You're probably right 

7 hours ago, doggie1955 said:

It's what Thai cowards do...

Booting the guy that is down. That takes some bravery doesn't it. . . 

When I was a boy it wasn't done. Ever. Plenty of street brawls and so forth but no one 

broke bottles and used them like they do now either. 

That was made popular in our country by Vietnamese immigrants.

On 9/8/2017 at 5:13 PM, natway09 said:

Yuck,,, is this a disease???

Oooops. Did he really mean to say that????

Hahahaahh

2 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

You really seem to be partial to the terms "whatever whatever" and "blood sucking blood sucking" OH and don't forget the judgemental, that had a couple of mentions, did you have a troubled childhood or maybe just not happy with the world as it is ? Have a good evening, maybe a hot Cocoa or Horlicks before you retire will help.  

Cocoa and Horlicks? hahahaah Actually its Tosca Russian Vodka, which is $3 USD for 700ml bottle n the town where I  Iive hahahah. Helps me put up with the Catholics here. hahahahahah

If you need Horlicks, mate! Take some yourself

WHAT GOES UP . . . . . C'mon everybody. It doesn't matter how failsafe, how good the equipment is, how rotten the managers of the "business" are of putting people 'in the air', 

. . . MUST come DOWN. 

I love flying, planes, parachuting and a bit of danger

anybody that does this, must know, that one MUST

At some point EXPECT the worst. 

And still it is safer doing all these things than driving to the beach.

ANYWHERE.

We take our risks

On 9/18/2017 at 11:10 PM, madusa said:

This jumping from balconies is certainly a Thai thing, I seldom if ever heard of jumping from balconies in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines......may be once in a long long time you read in newspaper in Singapore or Indonesia, not a weekly or monthly sort of thing like in thailand. Something is not right here. 

I was pushed. Fortunately for me, not over a balcony, however if there had been one available and i wasn't at least, in the moment and have maintained some awareness through tai chi and so forth, I am sure she would have pushed me. I got out before they put a bullet in me.

Indelicate this is.

I am still alive for our daughter, when things calm down and we become rational again. Its happening, but consequences and karma? I can't understand why the Thais don't think about this more often.

whatever whatever. The fun police and the judgemental whatever's their names are, out in force for people having a little fun and making money out of arresting them. Blood sucking, judgemental, blood sucking, politically correct, nanny state ism, whatever whatever, little old ladies, sitting at home watching television, sucking on your beers, judging others. 

IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO DO??????      My god live a little gentlemen and ladies? any ladies out there. OMG

they could not be more specific from which country they were from?

19 hours ago, tryasimight said:

Personal pride and environmental cleanliness has nothing to do with the police. That has got to be a mindset....not a threat of getting caught.

Not so. When fines are imposed for polluting/ littering, "incentives" are set.  It takes time for the word to get around that it could be expensive and people change their habits.      If you wait for them to "change" their minds/ mindset you may as well forget it. 

14 hours ago, Lingba said:

only 6th?

and behind whom or what other countries?

They are a strange lot that come up with these figures. Really how would they know? The Indonesians. The Indians? I was wading out into the surf in Bali one day and recollect thinking how nice it felt to have the seaweed washing around my legs and feet. Seaweed!! Turned out to be a sea of plastic that floods the coast whenever there is a storm in the Indian Ocean.      People are really awful and I have seen this sort of throw it overboard, down the ravine, in the hotel central courtyard mentality, all over the world. In many countries. The worst being countries with a coastline.

Justice for all. Wow. Yes. That's what the Burmese migrant workers want.       But Thaksin and his sister don't want and Boss, mow the cop down, Ferrari killer doesn't want. 

Right. Now we know. 

The <deleted>' truth.

The rich are rich enough to "ESCAPE"!!!        This guy's logic is bordering on the absurd.      Its a sour laugh, knowing how many innocents in this country suffer as suspects for the RICH escapees.

3 minutes ago, cyberfarang said:

Police said that she may have tripped or decided to jump.

 

Of course, what else could it have been? Case closed.

Can we have pushed? Yes decided to jump. Oh well. My God, the profundity of it all. 

Poor woman. 

29 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

Better change the law in Pattaya and construct hotels with only 1 floor above ground level!!!!!

 

RIP to the poor girl....

Balconies with Dwarf proof height of the railing. With glass windows with warning signs in red and yellow on them?              Perhaps its because there is no Thai Visa Forum in other countries but it seems to me, anecdotally at least, there are a very high proportion of these deaths in for example Pattya and say, Bangkok.     Is this a Thai thing? Or is it common elsewhere? Do any of you balcony experts know the answer to this?

Pardon my ignorance, but what was the verdict? 

Doesn't running away more or less "say" something about one's guilt or innocence? 

Isn't this all a trifle shoddy?  Theatre of the politically absurd. 

On 9/9/2017 at 6:50 PM, brewsterbudgen said:

Paying for sex is not, strictly speaking, illegal but paying for sex from schoolchildren is.

Yes, we are discussing two different categories of course. Sex with minors is illegal. Most girls up our way are pregnant by 16 or 15. Partnered or not. How do you deal with sexually mature youngsters, who will do anything to get their school fees or help their ageing parents or grandparents?

The whole issue is so out of control due to the poverty and the refusal by government to do anything constructive other than initiate draconian laws and fine the desperate "victims" involved and imprison as many people as possible.

The answer in a high tech country like America is, privatise prisons and make money out of incarceration and misery. 

Meanwhile these idiot pontificators worry about legal age prostitution. What's going on?

We have a girl there who has 4 children by the time she is 15. The prostitution market includes most online dating sites where many of these girls are seeking "any" relationship they can get with some kindly gent up to 90 years old.

No easy answers here, but the attitude at the top is total hypocrisy and very short on imagination. Just knee jerking and face saving.

Political St Vitus dancing.

12 hours ago, whaleboneman said:

Sorry but that old argument is totally false. If there were no customers, there would be no one forcing children to make kiddie porn.

And you think you can eradicate sexual desire in all its forms but the one's you approve of? 

Good luck tiger. You and what army? Half of whom are probably gay.

etc etc etc. . . the naiveté confounds profoundly. 

I suggest you wake up to the real world as quickly as possible.

No customers! On what planet?

On 8/6/2017 at 8:57 AM, ChrisY1 said:

K. Pravit is so typically Thai.....he feels unsettled with prostitution in Thailand....yet often referred to as the oldest trade.

Thailand has by some estimates 125K---200K hookers.....no-one can pretend it doesn't happen here!

 

Thailand is no place for puritans....the sex industry cannot be brushed under the carpet, especially when so many of Thailand' influential are in the business.....either openly or covertly. 

How about all the Thai business men taking schoolgirls and boys to short stays. Does that count? Is this the country that invented short stays?

Isn't prostitution natural? 

An exchange of services between two people for profit and pleasure.

What idiot made it illegal in the first place.

<deleted>?

Profoundly ridiculous, no matter how you look at it, especially the governments, fantastic ineptitude to bring a remotely realistic relationship between victims and the ruthless sharks that sell what they call insurance in this country. 

I've watched how these sharks subdue the expectations of the victims with glossy talk and intimidation. Its disgusting. The cops will watch on pretty well helplessly, because its the job of an administrative government to make sure that the insurance companies give the service they are actually designed for. 

Nobody, especially the rural poor have any idea of what their rights are. Most of them probably could not even read an insurance contract.

3 hours ago, pauleddy said:

Where is the hang em high and flog em' brigade??

oiling their whips, waiting for a guilty verdict

knotting their ropes

Trotting down to the village glen to watch them hang. Remember what fun that was?

There is nothing like crime and punishment for a bit of voyeuristic pleasure. . . 

So in fact it would seem "most" of these wretched pedophiles go about their business without doing too much damage, whacking off with their notebooks. While kids in abusive relationships in families cop the really bad stuff every day. If there was a hanging for every family abuse case out there, we'd be kept glued to the trap door spectacle every day of the week.

29 minutes ago, Chip Allen said:

Very sad. Why do these people have to come to Thailand? Simply spreading misery everywhere they go.

Because like many places in South East Asia, people are so poor, they will sell or rent the only thing of value they have. Their children.                  They will also sell drugs because it is a viable business, when they can't get work anywhere else.                      The misery is already here. "They" come with money which helps the miserable in their miserable lives, in "these" lovely countries with no mercy, no merciful government, no safety nets and no nothing.      

This is the way of the Globalist Empire that is engulfing the world in it's greed and avarice. 

The bow wave of the Globalist Empire spouts democracy, and opportunity and in its wake leaves misery, poverty and death.