Katipo

Please don't.

Yayyyyy.... the Arabs can buy their porn in a more classy environment.

Right, only Arabs buy porn.....

People still buy porn?

Arabs do.

The rest of us discovered torrents.

Yayyyyy.... the Arabs can buy their porn in a more classy environment.

Ah yes, that favourite past time of only entering into fights when you have overwhelmingly favourable odds.

The only fair fights in Thailand are inside a Muay Thai boxing ring.

Well I suppose it makes a change from the floods.

Can we have just one year without some sort of disaster please? Let's be honest, even the natural ones are in fact due to human mismanagement.

I feel there is something dodgy with the lottery. The draws being held behind closed doors in recent times is fishy to start with, and all these draws reflecting Yingluk's vehicles goes beyond chance.

I honestly wouldn't put it past the government to manipulate the lottery in an attempt to make Yingluk appear as auspicious. The weight of this perception in the minds of many Thais cannot be overestimated.

If this is indeed the reason, it is more blood on the hands of the PM, her brother, and their government.

Sorry mate but no you are wrong!!!,

the farmer did NOT sell to the rice pledging scheme, but to an independent miller that cut the buying price far lower than the farmer could afford, This is one of the reasons why the government started the rice pledging scheme, to help the farmers out of poverty by offering a higher price than the rich profiteering of millers holding them to ransom , GEE have you ever heard of price fixing??? Which goes on in the most modern country's and when they get caught they are made to pay large fines and sometimes jail, but here the out stretched Palme's are crossed with cash and everything is just a misunderstanding,,,now remember TIT so it's been going on for years, Now I agree the rice pledging scheme is not a well planed policy and full of corruption, BUT in your claim the PM has blood on her hands, try understanding the facts before throwing around blame, fair enough.

Not wrong, and I didn't throw blame. I was very cautious in my wording "if this is indeed the reason".... so if it's not, it's not.

However... if now unscrupulous rice millers are taking advantage of farmers who are in debt and desperate because of not being paid for past crops under the rice pledging scheme, the PTP must shoulder some of the blame, and must find a way out of this ever deepening hole the farmers find themselves in.

How charming.

Can someone please bookmark this thread so we can all come back in 10 months time for a good laugh?

It's very disappointing, but not surprising, that when a bunch of nobodies who suddenly have an over inflated sense of worth think they have the right to do this to someone. Sadly it's not uncommon.

Here we go.

Any news on punishment for anyone involved in land misappropriation? Death penalty for corruption? That takes out 90% of ptp and 50% of the democrats.

I know. Good, isn't it

What is "Paddy"?

In relation to what is mentioned in this post.

Paddy is a rice growing paddock.

Paddy is an Irish person

rice, especially in the husk, either uncut or gathered.

100 people? Quite the turn out then.

Good on the PTP for lowering the price of rice for consumers worldwide. All hail Thaksin, our benevolent and magnanimous leader!

I think a task such as this is beyond the reach of the government.

While normally this type of duty would be considered normal, given the current situation it is anything but.

The fact of the mater is that she is not in control of the government, and so is simply choosing to be elsewhere.

It might be internal, but after all these years and loss of life it's pretty apparent that the Thai people cannot resolve this themselves.

Whena re Thai leaders going to learn that just because you say it's so does NOT make it a reality.

Wow! She couldn't get out of Bangkok fast enough

That's kind of condescending. Thailand is neither big brother nor boss of this rising Asian nation, and it's position at head of the ASEAN table has long gone. Time to wake up to that reality before it slips back even further.