Doctor John

Let's face it, the Thai gov't just cannot get it together, at least by Western standards. 

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Each year in the U.S. 13,000 people are treated in emergency rooms because of severe injuries from malfunction or careless use of fireworks.

What western standards do you refer to ?

Once again they arrange the crackdown at a time when all the retailers have stocked up on fireworks for the holiday period. The perfect time to do most harm to those at the end of the chain.

Why oh why can't they get it into their heads to think ahead and plan these things. Don't want fireworks at Loi Kratong, publicise the fact from Songkhran onwards.

Decent words fail me and I don't want to set a bad example, so I will stop here.

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Each year in the U.S. 13,000 people are treated in emergency rooms because of severe injuries from malfunction or careless use of fireworks. Seven of every 100 people injured from fireworks require hospitalization. Over 40% of those injured from fireworks are children ages 0-14. Males are injured three times as frequently as females. The most frequently injured body sites are the hands and fingers (38%) and the eyes (19%). About half the injuries are burns. Also, fireworks can be life-threatening when they cause a house fire. According to the National Fire Protection Association, fireworks result in more than $41 million in direct property damage annually. Studies suggest that state laws concerning the sale and use of fireworks are related to the number of injuries incurred. For example, in one state in which the sale of fireworks was legalized, the number of injuries seen in emergency departments more than doubled. Injuries occur around holidays associated with fireworks celebrations, especially Independence Day and New Year's Eve. Two-thirds of all fireworks injuries occur July.

Decent words fail you eh?

Thais can't get it through their heads eh ?

Read up also on firework accidents in your own country.

It is tough enough now for Thai people to get onto the property Ladder, opening up the market to Farangs would make it impossible for them.

I am a Farang, I agree that Farangs should not be able to buy and own land in Thailand.

Just buy it for someone you love.

I will agree that the current government seems determined to ruin the entertainment industry. Early closings, drug checks in the discos and now driving the ladies out of sight will certainly reduce the number of punters visiting the LOS. If that is the goal, then Thaksin may get his wish.

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If I was the Prime Minister of Thailand I would also do all I could to keep sex tourists away from my country. I would draft laws where customers would be arrested for engaging in an illegal activity.

Would you not do the same for your own people ?

To rid Thailand of sex tourists would be a great achievment and would probably get Thaksin the Nobel prize, and I for one would be behind him all the way.

The sooner Thailand is rid of the scum that arrives to exploit her people, the better it will be for all concerned.

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Are you for real or in love with seeing your self in print!

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Wow, thanks for the contribution to this thread, it was a well thought out and worthy addition. Did you write it all yourself?

To rid Thailand of sex tourists would be a great achievment and would probably get Thaksin the Nobel prize, and I for one would be behind him all the way.

The sooner Thailand is rid of the scum that arrives to exploit her people, the better it will be for all concerned.

What about the *locals*, which is lets face it 90% of the business. And what about the *local* scum exploiting their *own* people (at least one of whom featured prominantly in the recent election for Governer of Bangkok !)

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So you think that the Thai government need take no steps to try to rid Thailand of its Cheap sex image?

What would you do if it was your country?

I See DrJohns reasoning now, he thinks if the sex tourists go home the price will drop and he can get away with 250 baht again like he used to in the good old days.. caught ya

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Just go home? I would like them to face criminal charges first.

Thaksin is a Pussycat compared to what laws and crackdowns I would unleash on all that come to Thailand to abuse the laws and exploit the people.

Whenever people talk of prostitution in Thailand, you will read the same comments over and over again..............

" Why don't the Thai goverment do something about it " Is an often used phrase used by Farangs

When the Government do take some measures, then what do we hear?

" The government will ruin the tourist industry "

Many people want to act all moralistic and ethical, but it seems they also still want young Thai women to be available for cheap sex.

I say: Arrest a few farangs engaging in an illegal activity in Thailand, ( prostitution ), name them and shame them, fine and deport them.

International headlines. Thaksin will be a hero. Sex tourists will exploit other countries. Then maybe a different class of Tourist will come to Thailand.

I will agree that the current government seems determined to ruin the entertainment industry. Early closings, drug checks in the discos and now driving the ladies out of sight will certainly reduce the number of punters visiting the LOS. If that is the goal, then Thaksin may get his wish.

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If I was the Prime Minister of Thailand I would also do all I could to keep sex tourists away from my country. I would draft laws where customers would be arrested for engaging in an illegal activity.

Would you not do the same for your own people ?

To rid Thailand of sex tourists would be a great achievment and would probably get Thaksin the Nobel prize, and I for one would be behind him all the way.

The sooner Thailand is rid of the scum that arrives to exploit her people, the better it will be for all concerned.

Maybe it is fortunate that the rebels do not seem so extreme, just one bomb in a tourist area such as Phuket or Pattaya would decimate Thailands tourist industry on a scale of Bali proportions, and also attract worlwide attention to their cause.

I hate to say this, but it could well come to that.

djpats dirty little secret, yes he is a thief.

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I asked his permission!!!

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Who's permision? You used TWO posts by different people on the thaizine forum and amalgamated in to one post which you then used as your own as the topic starter.

I would be interested if your post about your visit to Samui at the weekend was realy your writing or if you took that from another website also.

Noodles.

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Yep Noodles, I think you could be right there.

what a sad act you are DJ Pat.

PROSTITUTION SEASON

A new three-part season lifts the lid on one of the biggest – and most hidden – industries in Britain. Prostitution alone is estimated to generate between £700m and £1b per year. As a nation we spend more on sex than on going to the cinema. Yet we treat people who work in that industry with a mixture of contempt, pity and legal marginalisation.

Good old Great Britain.

We can teach those Asians a thing or two about morals eh?

Have you never been a "John",  Doctor?

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That was worthy of your 2000th post.

By the way, No Comment.

And yet I am enjoying the pleasure of their beautiful figures and company. I wish I can do more.

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What a hero you are..........

You can do a whole lot more, You can help them without having the pleasure of their beautiful figures and company.

Try helping them without them having to sleep with you for your help.

Recent research indicates that over one million women in the United States earn their living by full-time prostitution. Furthermore, roughly one in every six American men has been a willing client of a prostitute within the past five years. Even more interesting and alarming is the fact that engaging in sex with a prostitute is now the third most common way for an American male to contract the AIDS virus.

Ironically perhaps, the rising threat of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases has become one of the most compelling arguments for the complete legalization of prostitution. According to current evidence, roughly half of the street prostitutes in Washington, D.C., and New York City are HIV-positive. In Newark, New Jersey, the estimate is that close to 60% of all prostitutes carry the AIDS virus.

And USA is a welfare state, if all welfare stopped, what would the figures be like then?

10 Million Prostitutes, 15 Million ?

Don't come to Thailand to partake in such a sordid business, The Americans have enough Prostitutes that they can pay for sex without travelling thousands of miles to do it.

Bought my tickedt months ago for a week in February.

###### well better be some prostitutes left when I get there

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Another tourist coming to Thailand that is coming only for the sex trade that exists in a country with financially vunerable people.

Wow, what a great guy you must be.

Great stuff,

Now I would like to see laws passed that could prosecute customers of the Prostitutes, it is my opinion that many people travel thousands of miles purely to exploit the situation that exists here in Thailand.

If prostitution is against the law in Thailand then people are travelling to Thailand to partake in an unlawful act. If they are really serious about cleaning up Thailands image, they will bust some farangs and fine and deport them, it would make world news and send out a message that sex tourists are not welcome here no more.

I for one would welcome any laws that made the customer the guilty party. In my opinion people that travel thousands of miles to exploit financially vunerable people, should be made to pay for that crime, cos that is what it is, a crime.

The avatars are better .... not as funny as it used to be ... too many people banned I think! 

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Agreed,

Moderation should be done in Moderation.

Dave, you also met.

ThaiGirlTeen & Bulldog

Along with Begs, Polo and Crush   

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Add 'Heartache' to those 5 also.

I forgot-

BoonMee

I know who doctorjohn is now.

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See you in a couple of weeks Dave.

Dave, maybe TV members present and Banned could meet up at your Place sometime. Or have you done that before?

So far i've met-

Begs

polo

britmaverick

crush

penzman

thaiflyer1

stumonster

lovelycutie

sickboy

stroll

jayenram

bartender100

monty

bluecat

kurgan

erco

chaaman

huski

tukyleith

eyebee

CTG (RIP)

DJ PAT

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So you met 3 people that had 7 names each ?

Dave, you also met.

ThaiGirlTeen & Bulldog

Along with Begs, Polo and Crush

Erco.

Things have Changed a lot..............

Controversial posters have been banned, Bargirl threads have been banned, I think there are less interesting threads now.

Erco, Sick Boy, Rod Kalashnikov, Polo, Begs, Kevin N, and many many more.....all banned.

Pretty tame site now.

But, still number 1 for visa information. And I suppose that is the general idea.

1,800 posts in 3 months - do you do anything other than post on ThaiVisa?

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Well, there's posts and then there's one-liners...

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One liners like that one.

And this one.

And for me, it's more a pity to see a goose go bare foot, than a woman cry.

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Good one.