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9 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Sterile & Dull? Muslims driving at Christians and vice versa. 

Sounds exciting.  I'll give it a miss, and stay in sterile and dull Thailand. 

https://www.facebook.com/praiyasuriya/?fref=nf

Click on the Coconuts link in the OP, scroll down, there's a video of a bar girl sat on a sofa singing Thai karaoke (very badly) whilst doing the laughably stupid eye and head bobs they believe are sultry and seductive.

And yes, looks like she's been around the block more than a few times.  Lots of base and cover up make up.

I would like to see her CV since leaving school. 

@jenifer d  

Getting back to the OP, is it actually possible for a spirit to be insulted by a human, and the latter to exact revenge or retribution on them in return?  

Do you agree this presents a danger to humans, tourists, et al, and should be taken very seriously by the concerned authorities?  What would you propose to ensure harmony between tourists at this site and the spirit(s) there?

2 minutes ago, jenifer d said:

i am not angry, rather merely  justifiably pissed off when anybody who doesn't bother understanding the language, culture, or people

 

i won't respond to you further after your imbecilic "tin foil hat" comment

 

and YES, i HAVE "gone native" -what's wrong with that??? at least i'm not a modern-day COLONIST!!!

Oh Dear. 

After a life spent traveling and living/working abroad, I'm over all the cultural ambassador BS, and have discovered the secret of life.

21 minutes ago, jenifer d said:

moving forward to what? a technological nightmare, a cyber-dictatorship???

 

so sorry for you, but i can most definitely assure you that there ARE spirits and ghosts;

my neigbors even saw my mom's ghost here before she announced herself;

when she actually MANIFESTED physically, i ran to tell my neighbors, who said

"we know, dok mai, we saw her already, we were waiting for YOU to say that you saw her!"

Was that the moment they accepted you as "a Thai"? 

The warm embrace of acceptance in the group think collective. 

5 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

It is easy to mock the local people for their beliefs, but having spent a long time in rural Asia (outside of Thailand) I have a slightly different take.

 

I always found that the local animism and the concurrent belief in 'spirits' was more a way to try and live in harmony with nature, In olden days, the easiest way to express what we now call environmentalism and common sense in dealings with nature was to ascribe what they saw to a supernatural presence, and by heeding the 'spirits', local people adapted themselves to their local conditions.

 

I think it is true that the guy slipped on a rock. That said. the local belief might actually have been saying "don't go there or you might slip on a rock". It is just expressed in a different manner.

 

Cheers

 

Right, I think it's a waste of time taking the "Locals" to task.  Perhaps we should take them at their word.

Here are the facts asserted by the esteemed "Locals" quoted in Daily News:

• Spirit lurks at/near this tourist attraction.  
• Spirit acts as a protector and violent, random enforcer for insults such as urinating in the wrong place and climbing up the wrong rock.
• Spirit caused this young tourist's death, and also previous accidents and deaths at this site.

So, why aren't these "locals" shouting warnings at the tops of their lungs?  Why aren't there monks up there chanting and whisking holy water all over the place?   Where are the local authorities in all this?  How about the Minister of Tourism and Sports?  Why in the hell isn't this dangerous tourist site barricaded off, with warning signs as big as an M-150 billboard on the Asia Highway? 

I say take the esteemed Locals at their word and hold them, the Temple, and the government, accountable for it. 

Then let's see how long they stick to their cave man bullshit stories.

I heard an unconfirmed rumor that Burger King is selling hamburgers. 

Me too, always have seat belt on just shy of "snug", including when in flat bed mode.   

I don't know much about the Chinese, but the Arabs and S. Asians in the ME/GCC region seem to have a shared anti-seat belt gene.  I would always hear the "click" of seat belts being released immediately following take-off when still climbing steeply, and again right after landing, when we were still braking heavily/ engines in reverse thrust.  

22 hours ago, baneko said:

 

I still own a property in the UK with no mortgage and an income of 700uk per month. Approx 150k uk for the apartment. 2 Rai in Chonburi possibly 1.1 million and my home here probably 3.5. Im 44 and do have oppertunities. Just fancy a break before im too old to enjoy it.

Sounds good, you're a lot better off financially than some.  

Also came here around the same age, tracked expenditures on an Excel spreadsheet the first month or two to see where the money was going.  If you intend to pull off that 5 million for day to day living expenses, running a similar exercise will give you a tailored result as to how long the 5m will last - save any new big ticket items, emergencies, hospital, etc.  

Me and the Mrs usually went through about 50,00 Baht per month out in the countryside, now about 80-85,000 as we've moved closer to the city=more to do/spend money on.  If you are out in the countryside and all the big expenses are done and dusted, 5 mil could last a very long time..... probably far longer than would be advisable if you plan to re-enter the work force.   Hopefully you'll maintain qualifications, contacts, etc., so you can jump back in when you're done with a well deserved, extended holiday.   

13 hours ago, quadperfect said:

Yes but since the cole there is a minimum distance any vessel big or small is allowed to approach a war ship.If you enter this space you get fired upon.So this ship should have been fired on, not ramed.

Its really pathetic. Unless there is some kind of story behind the story.

Like the navy ship running dark and manuvering near this ship. They do usually run dark no ais no lights etc.

Somone really screwed up.

 

Someone, or more than one, did screw up. Obviously.  But equating this with the USS Cole, or pier side force protection measures and Condition 3 or 4 Steaming, is apples and oranges. 

Just now, JHolmesJr said:

You should see the other guy…hehe

 

How the %^$ do you collide with something this big? (no titanic references, please)

My first ship in the US Navy, an aircraft carrier, was T-boned by a commercial ship.  It happens, and more often than you think but it obviously makes news when the US Navy is involved. 

http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cv41.htm

That link ^, the June 03, 1987 entry, re: AIM 9  missile falling off the F18 and rocketing off the flight deck.... I was there, just forward and to the right in the photo, on fueling station #6 when that happened.  I looked right then WOOSH, there it went right off the angle deck. 

Witnessed the next entry below that one as well.  It was the last bird to shoot, and I was standing up there watching it, smoke, flash, poof, the pilot ejected.  We were blanketed in JP5 fumes as we advanced under the cloud, and the pilot floated down our starboard side, waving his arms and yelling. 

The more you know.  LOL.

6 minutes ago, manarak said:

update about the erratic manoeuvers: they could have been the consequence of "restricted navigation" rules, such as if a ship loses its channel, it must make a U-turn and get back in line where it left the channel.

 

also, the collision appears to have been more or less a glancing blow, if the Fitzgerald had been T-bones, it would probably have sunk, the container ship being about 4 times heavier.

 

from the damages, it appears that the Fitzgerald was stopped or nearly stopped at time of the collision. or, if it was not stopped, it was going at a similar speed as the freighter.

 

 

Good call.  Noticed that in the damage from the photos of the cruiser and ACX Crystal.  The latter's forward ballast sure would of punched a hole below the water line of the cruiser.  While the incident is bad, fact she made it back to Yoko is testament to the training of the Flying Squad and DC teams on board. 

13 minutes ago, tomacht8 said:

It is not forbidden for a ship to make a turn.
The question of guilt will certainly be clear.
Hope they find all the shipwrecked.

For no reason, it might as well be "forbidden" in the merchant fleet, where fuel and course goes to cost of operations and profit.

Right... sack all the yobs teaching English with an East London accent, and hire some bloke from Cuba instead. 

How old are you?

Does this 5 million represent your entire portfolio, or do you have other assets and cash/investments?

Paying off debt items was a good move.  Doesn't that feel great?

Forbes puts him at $3.5B.  #594 out of 2,036 Billionaires listed. 
 

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime

Looks as if this cobra wasn't so lucky.  Not sure if any mention in the Thai title or comments about lucky Lotto number 7944.

On 6/12/2017 at 7:14 PM, nycjoe said:

I opened an account in Bangkok Bank, Phang Khon and was given a union pay card and I asked for a Visa card as I travel to the states and Europe, was told I could no longer get one, this may be problematic if you go to the states and want to withdraw your money from your thai account. Luckily I have a visa from Bangkok bank that is good until 2021. Also I saw someplace where they don't give Visa cards to anyone over 68.

Never heard of the 68 year old issue.

Bangkok Bank still showing Visa logo debit cards on their website, but they are at the bottom of the offerings.  Union Pay cards are at the top of the list. 

Your branch may not have had any Visa debit cards in stock.  But there's also a chance they had them and were simply lying to your face.

Return to the branch, don't get angry, insist on the Visa logo card.  If they attempt to put you off by saying there's a long wait for the card to be made (like 2 weeks), agree to that, and 2 weeks later, trade the UP card for the new Visa logo card. 

2 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

Its looks like quiet an efficient system, thief meets the tourist as they get off the bus, maybe a robbery booth at the airport could be next

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Ha ha, good one.  Tourist arrivals are made to file through the airport robbery kiosk before Immigration, and they are issued an official receipt.  If confronted by another robber later that day, just show the receipt as proof you've already contributed. 

19 minutes ago, Rigby40 said:

Attempted censorship? Wow. Somebody dared question your line of reasoning and you consider that censorship? Amazing.

 

Welcome to TVF World News Section. 

17 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

Who are these people who are running The Resistance? 

Did you lose your password to Google as well? 

9 minutes ago, funandsuninbangkok said:

This was a political assassination attempt. A Democrat rabid from the recent vitriolic BS spewed out from Peloci and Schumer tried to kill democratically elected opposition party members. 

 

If a similar event had occurred but Republicans shooting Democratic leadership, the cries for Trump to resign would be thundering. 

 

schumer and Peloci should resign. They have created a McCarthey like environment of uncivilized debate and false innuendo. 

 

Shame in them 

I don't know if I would go that far - I don't know. 

But it's a reasonable assertion this guy made the transition from political disagreement, to using violence to affect political change.