45slap

Well it's up to the Thais.

I'm sure it won't be anything nearly as good as the South Africa constitution and it remains to be seen if there will be any such language at all in the final document. This has come up before and led to nothing.

So those opposed to equality language for gender and sexuality minorities in Thailand, I doubt you have much to worry about.

Not opposed to it, doesn't effect me one way or the other. Do Believe god/nature creates genders, not man though.

Youre not really "grasping" the ladyboy concept, are you? Man doesnt 'make' ladyboys... nature does.

I thought money did!

Butt out! Let people smoke however they choose. Worry about corruption, graft, necklace snatchers, knives, guns, and bombs. Worry about young rich kids in expensive cars; kids begging on the streets and selling crap in bars. Butt out of MY smoking business. UP2ME!

Total lunacy.

Photos show license plates. Fine the idiots. The heat would track down anyone caught smoking ganja in a photo. It's just that they don't want to mess with big-money Bangkok elite.

Spoiled good-for-nothing. He has zero sense of reality. This is the Bangkok elite who forced Yingluck out of office. Money talks; democracy walks.

Lukecan, in your league? If you swim from Pattaya to Koh Larn, you will find something in your league!

Banzai, you are a fool. I have quite a bit of time and experience in Thailand, and I said generally speaking. I have met a million Thai men. Few, if any, send money home to support their parents. Women usually do. I am making an objective statement. I'm not criticizing anyone. Stop being a brown noser. Stop tripping over yourself just because you have finally found a place where you can date guys without your family knowing about your sexual preference.

Thai sons do not support their parents generally speaking. The women do.

Need a few hippie microbuses and a big jug of electric kool aid.

What are you talking about, people? Most Thais would flip if they saw a little girl mauled by a dog. The hotel didn't get involved as they don't want to be held accountable. Thais have children and most would empathize. If you really disagree then you should pack up and find a more agreeable place to live.

I have met many British people in Thailand. Some were offensive, many were glued to football games on the tele, and many were very cordial; but I could only understand about 10% of the entire lot. As for Australians, better to write down what you want to say except for the gentleman who started this forum topic- what is he going on about?

First, it's too damned hot to be peddling. Second, people want speed and affordability. Third, does this guy really wear those shoes without socks, or just seeking attention?

Jbauer, you have missed the point entirely. I have no qualms with the choice of running a red light in my home country. It is wrong, but I can decide whether to take that risk. As a guest in a foreign land, I should not have an option. Proper decorum tells me to obey the law. I am free to think what I want about the politics of another country, but not entitled to voice my opinions. I am; however, allowed, and encouraged through a voting system, to voice my concerns in the country of my citizenship where I pay taxes and vote. Thank you for your comments.

Now that the U.S. Has regained its position as the number one, I have dusted off the Aerosmith vinyl to listen to Back in the Saddle Again.

And we can thank Obama and the Democrats for pulling us out of the recession that the GOP helped put us in. Presently, the Republicans are trying to lighten the regulations put on Wall Street. They never stop.

Gazpacho guy is another free-thinker now that he has been brought up on misinformation drilled into society by the beneficent pharmaceutical and alcohol barons. How many people die each year from FDA approved pain relievers? How many people locked up for a joint? At what cost? Well, let's see...the police department gets to legally steal your property and auction it off. Marijuana is harmless. Tobacco and alcohol are the killers. Snap out of it. You are easily swayed by non-factual opinions which you deem creditable because they are coming from the such pseudo-scientific sources. I believe we need to start dosing people again with large quantities of LSD.

Race is not the issue; you readers see only black and white. The point is that. Young punk murdered a defenseless old man. Like taking candy from a baby.

You mean third; George W holds first place.

Bye bye, Hook!

August marked the turning point of no return for the CCP's China economy.

The PRChina is going down, as expected for several years now. It is anticipated the China economy and financial system will crash completely during H2, 2016. The crash during 2016 has been expected and anticipated by Western investors, Wall Street especially and in particular, since the effects of the 2008 bursting of the US housing bubble became fully analyzed.

The CCP's development model provided by Deng Xiao Peng has however always been known to be unsustainable. By the time of the US crash of 2008 the trend line had become more definable to the West.

The complete drying up of bank liquidity for both the official state banking system and the off the books shadow banking system caused the Boyz in Beijing in August to throw $700 billion into the official state banking system. The shadow banking system, which is off the books and not included in GDP, remains an additional wild card that is on its own, making it the free radical of the financial system.

The $700 billion is a drop of water in a desert.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is quoted in the OP and is accurate, but I like the similar account as follows that is provided by BNP Paribas, which couches its analysis but all the same pulls no punches.....

China’s deflationary chickens continue to come home to roost. The biggest investment bubble in history, financed by one of the biggest credit bubbles in history1

is producing serial overcapacity across swathes of the economy, especially basic industries and real estate. The logic of China’s wildly unbalanced growth is steadily intensifying deflationary pressure, a fading ability to generate cashflow and a slow, grinding march towards unsustainable debt dynamics.

With system-wide leverage already well over 2x the size of the economy and the average interest rate paid by corporates around 7%, nominal GDP growth needs to run well in double-digit territory for debt to be sustainable. Q3 GDP data could show nominal growth slowing to 6-7% with the deflator close to zero or even negative in y/y terms (China: Stumbling & mumbling).

These pressures are, of course, not new and China’s state-controlled financial system ensures that its capacity to sustain the Ponzi finance dynamics that artificially elongate the credit cycle remains considerable. The asset-management companies (AMCs), aka China’s ‘bad banks’, have increasingly emerged as credit-risk absorbers and liquidity providers of last resort. Clear evidence of growing deflationary pressure on an economy-wide basis, however, is accruing as growth fades and the diminishing return from stimulus worsens.

Developments in the housing market are even more disturbing, with over-supply already producing house-price declines at an annualised pace of 10-12%.

http://rss-globalmarkets.bnpparibas.com/r/20141017_China.pdf?t=AiKoAjNfPl5-V9v0TO887&stream=true

So Uncle Sam will keep its place as número uno in Billy Boards Top 100.

Tabloids are the same in the States, but I am talking about publications that purport to be newspapers; news reporting publications; not sensationalist or entertainment schlock.

Hell, I work with a d...head who ignores everyone when he's not in class. Just plays on his phone. Has zero social skills. Reminds me of autism. When I speak to the guy and he ignores me, I feel like stuffing the phone down his gullet.

Maybe he actually is autistic, doesn't have the same social advantages as you, and doesn't really deserve abuse. Just saying.

I understand where you're coming from; however, he is not autistic. He prefers to speak only to the natives in their tongue while speaking to foreign staff only when he must. I will just have to ignore him and pretend he doesn't exist.

I don't believe anything written in Thai newspapers. From personal experience I know they fabricate stories. If what they claimed about me had been printed in a newspaper in the States, I would be filthy rich right now. The 'reporters' don't write investigative journalism; creative writing is more like it.

Don't you clarify butter?