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Just as well armchair travellers (and armchair pilots) don't know what really goes on up (and down) there, eh?

They probably did see it and the report doesn't say they had actually started rolling, only that there was 350 meters between them at some point.

I wonder how the Thais (or Malaysians) would have handled a similar incident and reporting thereof.

The problem is the Thai language and translation, or in this instance transliteration (spelling a word to emulate the sound in Thai). There is no agreement or common 'dictionary' for this and the results are seen every day on the roads and maps. It's the same in Laos for that matter which is why you can see different attempts at transliteration everywhere.

None of the English versions properly reflect the tones of Thai or other tonal language. Also, Thai does not use spaces to separate words. The 'ch' and 'j' sounds cannot be properly emulated so you might drive around (or try to read a map) and see a small, relatively unknown-outside-the-area name like Jomtien spelled Jom Tien, Chom Tien, Chom Thian etc. Pattaya itself is very well known and seems to have a single written version, but how many foreigners pronounce it 'correctly', saying Pa-TIE-yer rather than PATTA-ya?

Have another Jang

NOTE TO USA: great job with your condemnation of Thailand over recent months . . . you've succeeded in pushing them even further into the arms of China, the polar opposite of what you actually want. Thumbs up on that one.

what has America got to loose here, it's not as if America had a high tech train industry lobbing for this contract.

America has lost its only ally in the region. I had expected trouble after an exercise in Cobra Gold went horrifically wrong which led to a wide body jet being shot out of the sky over the Gulf of Thailand and led to one of the biggest coverups in human history.

And they managed to cover up or remove all the debris too? Impressive.

Pity that most of them have lost the Chinese work ethic part of the DNA.

Consider setting it up as an online operation including a decent third party affiliate program to manage sales and commissions. Your only concern would be product delivery and returns/refunds.

No need to rely on Google for maps (or GPS navigation). Open Street Map (OSM) is used by developers to produce display and navigation programs and apps for Android and other systems. Free maps for most world countries too, including Thailand and Laos.

Visit openstreetmap.org as a start, then App/Play Stores.

went to our local minimart yesterday, had signs on the door saying no booze sales and why. Came out with three bottles, the General has his work cut out on this one.

Money talks - in Thai or English.

At least nobody took a dump off the wall.

You reckon? It must be the ultimate 'long drop'.

One wonders how long a group of Chinese living/operating in that area of Thailand went unnoticed.

I read where the high speed train would hook up with China which then hooks up with Europe. This is a huge vision that takes courage and money to pull off.

And it will only be the Chinese who could/will do it.

Air Marshalls are required

What about Air Vice Marshals?

Wonder if he will fly direct or take a stop over somewhere in the middle east en route?

Is it just a coincidence that all UK flights stop off in the UAE, before heading to BKK? (There are no direct flights from BKK to UK )

Except for British, Thai and Eva ...

Doha is worse than Dubai for Gulf stopovers.

I like it...

It's just peachy!

It is the nation that has a particularly vicious history with African slavery and currently the largest prison population of negroes on the planet which spouts all the pc propaganda about how we should refer to people. The UK (US lapdog) never had an issue with so called racism until the US invented political correctness presumably in an attempt to whitewash it's sordid past (and present).

Careful! To whitewash something is to paint over a darker coloured area with white. Does that make it better or superior?

The paper thin skinned PC brigade have nothing better to do and the media are complicit in stirring up dissent about nothing, when no real news to report. A complete collection of nobody's. The Mirror being a prime example. Next on their list will be Pooh Bear.

The whole concept is aimed at producing a sterile population with no sense of humour, perspective or balance. What a miserable place that will be to exist. I'm not PC, never have been and never will be. If others do not like it then it's their problem as nothing is said with malicious intent.

Yes,but it may be taken with intent.Your disregard for other peoples feelings and not willing to change is typical old world thinking.Some have learnt by their mistakes and try to improve their lives.

And 'new world' thinking is automatically better?

A lot of rapper made a ton of money off the back of that N-word. Also hip hoppin' on the concert stage and Cds cracka' and honkey this and whitey that. Italians are often wops, greaseballs, and guineas in movies.

Quite true, but maybe the majority membership of TV wouldn't be listening to a rapper. What if it was a superstar with over 100 movies to his credit, what if he said the N word on a regular basis (has modern society even made us nice folk afraid to say it?) Yep, Samuel L Jackson says this and related words in many of his blockbuster movies, he's not singing and old nursery rhyme, he is using these words as they were intended in referring to the people in the intended use. Unlike "slope" the meaning of the N word is undeniable and can only mean one thing. But no outcry. Is it because the actor is black himself, or because there is no rascist intent. Samuel uses it virtually in every sentence in some movies, but it nearly ruined poor old Emily's*life and got her thrown out of the BB house, why ? Was it because she was a rascist, or because she is a white person saying it to a black girl in jest, with no malicious intend.

Reginald D Hunter, a funny man who talks a lot of sense. On one show he said that because he is black many of his friends/acquaintances talk to him about rascist issues and he said one thing that made me think. A white chap said to him that he thought he had been rascist and wanted Reg's opinion. He was in a cinema and bumped into a black man, he said "sorry I didn't see you, it's dark ". He wanted to know if Reg thought this was rascist. Reg's replied "was there hatred in your heart when you said it". I think that is what is relevant.

Is Jeremy Clarkson rascist ? Samuel L Jackson ? Emily from Big Brother ?

It seems to me that the majority of people that get upset by these comments are in the white middle classes who have no connexion to those supposedly being insulted.

SDM

I like Reginald D too, but is your spelling of racist like fascist a Freudian slip?

All you Clarkson lovers is it okay if I call him a pig?

Call him a white pig if you want and neither he nor we would give a t0ss.

Oh happy days when no one was offended.golliwog_1292744a.jpgthe-proud-golliwog-brock-little-book-no-3.jpg

Or the few that might have been offended didn't make a fuss about it. Sticks and stones ...

As if we are ever going to have a perfect world with perfect people who never say anything bad about anyone to anyone.

No offense but if she has run out of money then tell her to get a f..... job and then she will have money. And when she has it, send it to you.

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Tell her to go back to her old job. You became a loser the day you met her.

In the US the accident would not have happened in the first place

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Maybe not that accident, but accidents occur daily in every country of the world. How things are handled in the event of them is what differs.

I bet there are a hundred countries where this accident could have occurred and been handled as badly or even worse than in Thailand. Foreign visitors to any country need to be aware of these things and try and manage potentially life-threatening risk accordingly. Adequate travel and medical insurance is a must. Extra common sense on the roads and always 'expecting the unexpected' may help reduce some of these risks.

Alternatives are either not to travel abroad or when things do go wrong, accept and manage as best you can in the local circumstances.

And sure you could call the Police...And pay them some money too.[
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And the Biggest Dumb Ass Comment go's too !!

And the worst English goes to ... ^

Ridiculous, pointless, not to mention the cost for vehicle conversion as well as redesign of highways (camber).

Take China out of the equation? Myopic too.