bradiston

Er, I think we are. Otherwise, as Hitchens said, "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." So nothing you read here is believable. Just as I always thought. It's just a daily roundup of articles mainly from other English language sources. If the sources aren't quoted, the whole forum becomes utterly meaningless.

"More and more criminals seem to routinely carry guns". This is not the basis for a cogent argument. If there's no demonstrable proof, there's no argument.

Who gives a shxt? I don't live there. But as for "facts": https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/ Most deaths by gunshot are suicides https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2021/jun/1/us-doj-statistics-race-and-ethnicity-violent-crime-perpetrators/ "The report concluded that for whites and Blacks, “there were no statistically significant differences by race between offenders identified in the NCVS and persons arrested per the UCR. White and Black people were arrested proportionate to their involvement in SNVC overall and proportionate to their involvement in SNVC reported to the police.” It seems to be a popular myth that blacksxand Hispanics are responsible for all the ills suffered by whites. Mass shootings in the U.S. by shooter’s by race/ethnicity as of December 2023: https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/ It's alright. You can take your head out of your ass now. Peddaling disinformation on line can have consequences.

Baked in? To what? Sing a song of 6d...? Yeah, if you're going to blame it all on immigrants, Americans have been killing each other for centuries. The Irish? Probably the most violent of all. Then there's Italians. The Jewish gangsters. The thugs who ran the slave trade and the plantations. And to think, all the Brits did was to raise taxes without giving the colonials the vote!

The UK has been being invaded by migrants since the year dot. Nothing new here. Get over it. Time to move on. (I love those phrases. What my arch brexiteer enemy used to love bellowing at me when I mentioned it might be tough for the younger generations to go and work in Europe thanks to Jonno and his idiot cronies.) But about arming the cops. We don't in the UK have a 1st Amendment thankfully, we don't even have a written constitution, so you don't see civilians armed to the teeth roaming around blowing the brains out of anyone they don't like the look of. I've met plenty of Americans who absolutely relish the European model where you can have a heated discussion and not risk being offed. I call it civilization. You might call it something else, if you're not woke and proud of it. Libtard? Mangina? All rightist insults from Middle Ages America, or middle aged if you like. Update... I see most countries in the world have armed police of some sort of another. The odd exceptions appear to be notably China, New Zealand and the UK. So I guess so long as the general populace isn't armed, we can feel reasonably safe in our beds at night. I am over 70. I've never once even touched a gun and I have no wish to. Got my own make and model and I keep it where it belongs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country

Maybe they're having to cut the beachside power further up where the diggers are out so they needed to bring a feed across from the other side. It reminded me seeing them there of the sinkhole that opened a couple of years back and swallowed a large lorry head first. Took a while to sort that lot out too. Diversions and what have you. Course, scooters always find a way to beat the traffic, and the traffic systems, don't they? I do love the new found, or maybe it's ancient, open air picnicking on the huge beaches down that end. Pickups full of collapsible seats and tables, and all the street food vendors, and 7s, Tops and restos. Under the stars. So much room!

I answered this earlier. I think they were caused by underground cabling taking power across the road to beach lights. The contractor maybe received complaints, or maybe it was planned, but he's come back and levelled them off.

What in heaven's name has this audio transcript from Catch 22 got to do with the op post? The guy has been badly wounded by anti aircraft flak. The 2 GGs. What a pair. Or maybe they're one and the same. Oh yes, maybe you hadn't noticed but the Thai police are armed. Does it help? Better law enforcement?

Why not quote the original: "He/She who pays the piper, calls the tune"?

...the mice behave like rats.

So according to the first 2 photos, it's started. What's the plan? I never did find out. Uprooting trees not a good sign.

Yeah, bar all Aussies, kiwis, ssafas, Canadians from the UK. All they want is a terraced house in Balham!

Who's your internet provider?

I wonder what native Australians and native Americans said when white man turned up on their shores. Bloody immigrants. All they want is everything they can make money out of. Send 'em back, I say. And let them take their revolting diseases with them!

Thanks. Very enlightening.

There seems to be a trend on AN to not publish any sources for their lead articles. As commentators, many of us do do just that, so why don't you?

There is, or was, a thread commenting on 3bb and unusable bandwidth. They were blaming it on damaged undersea cables, but since then things have improved, at least for me. There still are intermittent problems, often around 10pm and onwards for a few hours. But generally they seem to have found a way (route?) around it. Watching the snooker can entail trying different channels.

Agreed. There are a few around Pratamnak too. If the stench doesn't drive tourists away maybe it's just worse back home.

Sure, those are the regular large ones I suspect. I think the poster was referring to the recently added narrow ones.

Of course, any prosecution of a politician is described by the defense as a politically motivated witch hunt. I know if the cops come after me, I'll be shouting the same. Pee! Pee! Pee!

Funny you mention that. I was going to include it, but it seems they've flattened most of them out. I think it was the electric company or maybe city hall running lighting cables across the road and just not finishing the job immediately, maybe letting the tarmac set. They were a nightmare on a bike. Black, invisible and quite a nasty jolt. I quite enjoy my 2am trips down to Pu pen and then left up to Sukhumvit past the nasty biting dogs. I'm always amazed at the condos down there, and on the Na Jomtien end of Second Rd. Look like quality.

I've been pulled twice in the last few weeks. Thank heavens I went dry years ago. They put the straw on me the first time. The second, I was weeded out from a whole queue of bikes and cars. "Dink mai?". "Who me, guv?". "Ok, you go". And go I did. Gotta love the police here! On a separate note. I was in my lawyer's office today. A conveyancing job. But we got talking. She says every day she has to go to court to defend foreigners, at least 2 or 3 a day. She doesn't do criminal, just civil, usually claims and counter claims after RTAs. D and D. Drink driving. All the stuff you read about here. Scary thought though. I figured fear is a man's best friend. She agreed. Arrested, held for 21 days, passport withheld, visa expires, and so it goes on. It's all your problem.

18 tonnes of speed! Could be they've avoided 1,000s of brake failures.

Sounds like it might sort out my fungal ear infection

It's lost most of its appeal to be sure.