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Why? Thaksin has not set foot in the country in 15 years and the corruption is worse now than ever... Are you sure they are the problem? Certainly seems not.

I am sure Haagen Dazs is bigger commercially than BJ.. Outside of SanFran and Key West in the US & around the globe, Haagen Dazs is the 'Go To" premium high Butterfat brand other than a small subset of the population who for ideological reasons prefer BJ's.

haagen Dazs all day over Ben & Jerry????

No he wont. They will simply not let TS win unless he has come to an agreement with high ups. The only sane vote would be for Move Forward party. It probably wont be perfect but every other party is simply old style mafia politics... Thaksin, Chidchob (pure scum), Suthep all the grubby Thai Rak Thai politicians...

Has there been a worse Police Chief than the current one.... its literally every single day corruption, exposure.... I mean who selected this useless pillock? Presumably he is also reaping heavy rewards

Presumably it would not of been more than a 1-2 hours trip from anywhere in the country.... Questioning you is not trolling... its a message forum which relies on people engaging backwards and forwards. According to the reports the ship was listing for hours and hours before going down.

No No No @ozimoron assures us that condition were far to severe for any rescue- winds far to high for any rescue by sea or by air... Also they dont have a 31 seater helicopter so even if it was calm there was no point trying to save them.

I am not sure mate, I am not in the Thai Navy, but they seem to have enough money for Submarines, Air craft carrier, so certainly appears they have enough funds to have Rescue helicopters... For a country with 3000 km of coastline you would think it is right up there high on necessity, as would be modern life boats.... They were 20 miles offshore which is like Koh Toh, not 300 miles... Not sure they would have to pick up all 31 in one go, perhaps more than one helicopter could operate or they could drop them somewhere safe and return again after GPS marking their location... In fact you are probably right... better not to bother at all if you cannot find a helicopter with 31 seats...They would probably prefer to stay in the water rather than slum it on a floor of a helicopter for a 10 minute ride..

Well according to the internet Rescue Helicopters can fly in up to 90 Kmph winds.... If you want to suggest that there were 90 Kmph Strong Gale Force winds in the gulf of Thailand that night- You can carry on... you and I both know its complete nonsense but feel free to continue to believe that.

Its a shallow Gulf of Thailand, there was no hurricane, typhoon and its not the roaring forties... weather and Marine forecasts advised small vessels to stay ashore. A Thai Navy Frigate is not a small vessel and is specially built to handle heavy seas. All of the reports in the news indicate it was a moderately stormy weather and the pictures and video footage from the actual vessel show that,

Not often, in extreme weather- by all accounts the weather by Global Standards was not extreme... it was stormy with 4m seas... that is not enough to sink an 80m Navy Boat or prevent rescue helicopters flying.

Yes, as they should be, and when over the result disclosed.... Here we are still waiting for disclosure on the Red Bull panels which we were told would be fully disclosed... and that is not even national security... The Thai Military will just brush it all under the carpet as usual.

You what? So Coastal rescue service helicopters are grounded at the times when they are most needed.... have a day off....

Absolute nonsense. If a European country had a similar action there would be umpteen independent panels and courts to investigate it. The Navy leaving a door hatch open or poor maintenance would not be hidden under national security. Sure if it was a Trident Submarine there would be much more secretiveness, but not for a run of the mill navy boat sunk inexplicably in choppy water

Sorry mate its national security... an internal probe carried out by the RTN will perform a root and branch review leaving no stone unturned... but they cannot publish results due to national security so you will just have to trust them...

I thought that was a seperate issue. You probably no more than me, am just an idle observer reading the news and seems a cock up from what i read but sure more nuanced than i know.

So let me get this straight: The NBTC a government body lent 600 million to another Government body the SAT to help get the WC rights for all to see The SAT another government body accepted and also negotiated with corporate sponsors seemingly giving them exclusive rights to 32 matches completely contrary to the all to see regulation The NBTC were completely silent about this and never even raised it as an issue When the 1st match started it was clear that it was not free for all and TRUE had been given rights The public complained and the NBTC quickly trying to save face decided they had to do something Now they have demanded the money back and looks like hte two government tax payer funded entities will start wasting more taxpayers money in court So TRUE have effectively had the NBTC subsidize their bid for the best 32 matches- the public cannot see some of them, the money has gone, and the SAT dont have anything to pay back. They are all a complete bunch of incompetent morons who should be sacked and asked to pay the money back themselves. And lets not forget the President of the SAT is one Prawit Wongsuwan.

Such a juvenile comment, made me laugh though ???? Put a smile on my face.

Previously yes i believe he has come back in and out but suspect given how sensitive it is now i think even the family would think its just not worth the potential heat. Sure he is holed up somewhere nice near a quiet town he can have friends come and go.

He has certainly not been seen at F1 events for a few years since it last kicked off.

I am very much just a buy and forget about it for 5 years person. However when you talk about that interest it immediately alarms me... where are the interest payments coming from... for investments to produce a return they need to generate a return themselves. Where are polkadot generating income from to pay investors a 14% return? Or Kraken for that matter. Polka are probably many multiples down over the past year or so, so how can they being paying those returns. Something smells off to me. If something sounds to good to be true it normally is.

I have a Nano Ledger to. But i dont speak about things like that to anyone. How would anyone know even know?

Would prefer to keep it myself, what happens if your friend loses or deletes it. Surely its just far safer to do your crypto, keep quiet about it when things are going well or not, keep your crucial details somewhere safe like you would a title deed or passport.. surely its a bit of a stretch to think thieves are going to start robbing houses to steal hard wallets and keys.

Fair play to them... not sure why it would annoy 'haters'. Seems they have made a bit of money, but hardly massive amounts. Dont know why if they had plenty of cash they would ever think its a good idea to do an article about it so everyone knows. Although i did note that they repeatedly insisted that their cold storage wallets are hidden ALL OVER the world, not in their pant draw in their house in Phuket.... Not exactly convenient if one of their holdings sky rocket and they need to fly to Holland to get their wallet.

Both fairly disgusting nations.. not much between them... (I mean the leadership and certain policies/ideologies- rather than the ordinary citizen)