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Got himself in trouble in Bangkok? Nah.

Am I the only one who has African dating service ads all over his screen? AfroIntroductions.com

One can see where TV is getting a good share of its revenue from.

I've never seen any on TVF. (Or am I missing a joke?)

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No, not a joke. TV is always full of ads for dating sites but normally just the Thai and Filipina ones. This is the first I've seen of it being context sensitive.

Or maybe it's just me? ...

Am I the only one who has African dating service ads all over his screen? AfroIntroductions.com

One can see where TV is getting a good share of its revenue from.

Someday, someone in Thailand will figure out how to make a CCTV system that works. How many stories have there been (mostly from Phuket & Pattaya) that "the video camera was not working that day."

I was just about to say the same thing. The hub of faulty CCTV systems.

I know it's high season but Pattaya and Jomtien were packed in mid December. Compare that to Cairns where during their high season this year the place was empty.

His reaction was simply too violent. Missus said if there is a dog around the village that keeps making trouble and the owners do nothing then someone will give it something to eat and it will "fall to sleep". For ever.

These stories are usually followed by lots of posts making vacuous assumptions as to what happened or indeed why it happened.

But assumptions aside, we really need to learn from all these tragic situations. What measures can we take to prevent this happening to us. Let's face it, none of us want to meet with such a grisly end.

Don't talk or interact with the local population at all, ever.

How do you through immigration then? Or catch a taxi? Or order food in a restaurant? Buy stuff at a 7 eleven? Exist at all?

Was one of the six Thai ladies he was recently "partying" with perhaps married to a jealous husband? Be him Thai or Farang?

Usual Thai Visa case of there being so much we don't know yet.

The whole things sounds utterly ridiculous.

Why did she get on the bike?

After interviewing her "police went straight to a house on Phra Baramee Soi 9". She knew their address?

He confesses on the spot and names his accomplice?

???

"Khun Jidapa aged 48 .."

Certainly didn't grab a young one. What a silly boy.

Maybe she [ and her handlers] should do a little research on Thai Culture,Customs and Traditions before doing such a photo shoot. I think the Thai reaction is warranted and measured.

Had the model done a photo shoot in a Mosque with nothing but a copy of the Qaran covering her private pieces the world would be at war.

Yep. Spot on. Dead ambassadors and the lot.

I don't get all this penis enlargement stuff.

At 48 and 4 kids and 2 marriages down the track all I can say is that it's never been laughed at, never frightened anyone, but done its job admirably.

Lead me into loads and loads of trouble. That's what it's really for, isn't it?

Poor old Psy,or the ceremony had nothing to do with this. A pissed (and/or pissed off) idiot with a gun was the problem.

I think the song and dance are fun. But that's just little old conservative me.

I've done all my travel through Swampy. 20 odd times in the last three years. Had one bad experience leaving on the 23:59 flight to Brisbane on TG last January. 1 hour, 50 minutes in immigration. Since they implemented that go upstairs for security, come back downstairs for immigration (which I thought was strange at first) it has been much better. Never had more than a 10 minute wait in either the Farang or Thai queues coming in.

Maybe I'm just lucky.

It's Sunday and I feel like being ridiculed.

That's a terrific picture of Yingluck. Sure she's a puppet, but a great looking one.

Just sayin'

Any interference in the free market whether pro farmer or pro middleman, pro domestic or pro foreign, is going to distort prices. By keeping the price high for the existing farmers, only encourages them to stay in the business, this year and next year, and maybe encourage more people to start growing rice, which all together will make the matter worse the next year. Let the free market work, and some farmers will surely suffer a loss, then next year, maybe they will grow soybeans, or maybe just starve to death, so then next year there will be fewer farmers and the remaining ones will each get a bigger piece of the pie.

The U.S.A. certainly has no right to talk about subsidies to farmers. The u.s. heavily subsidizes various crops and livestock.

I couldn't agree more. US farmers just don't have a good track record on monopolising markets or trying t freeze others out by other means, ie beef, GM vegetables. Also seed patents by agrochemical companies. Not too mention pharmaceuticals, etc, etc

+1. The US and the EU con all manner of governments into so called trade agreements and then blatantly, and unapologetically, subsidise their own agricultural sectors. It is typical of the US to then cry foul if there is even a perception of another government doing the same. Australia in particular has long been a victim of playing by the rules in an uneven playing field.

The free market, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" as it were, should be allowed to prevail. However it is naive in the extreme to think that this will ever happen on a global scale.

I try to stay out of this red shirt/yellow shirt stuff.

But, here you have the DPM basically saying that he will not uphold the law becasue he thinks it's a bad law and when we have good laws he will.

Wow. It doesn't matter what side of the fence you sit, that's very bad. Scary bad.

Whenever Governments interfere with the market - however good their intentions may be - it usually ends up in a total shambles for all concerned. The EU's agriculrural policy of subsidies created one fiasco after another. When will we ever learn?

Agree entirely. Look at Australia at the Australian Wheat Board and the Australian Wool Corporation debacles. At one stage they held so much wool that releasing it all at once would have killed the world market. One piece of advice at the time was to burn the stockpile.

This pledging scheme had disaster written all over it.

Odd story. He just sat there watching the money run out and did nothing? I'm 48 but still too young to retire and am focussed on accumulating wealth for later, not watching a diminishing sum with an impending sense of doom. He's only 42. Get a job.

Also we of course only know his side of the story. My missus reckons we're missing something here. So do I.

"Well-Known Australian Ex-Pat Golfer"

By who? I think he's far more "well known" now.

It's hubtastic. Again.

This isn't satire?