DeaconJohn

Spot on. The FAA doesn't give "hints". They give warnings. Deadly serious warnings where so many lives are at stake. Compromising that system by social engineering or hiring based on racial or gender quotas is beyond daft. But hey, that is what the country has become in my lifetime. I was glad to leave and I'll never willingly go back.

Wonderful quote... a literary precedent for "Bibi Agonistes". Uncanny how Biblical history repeats itself - often without even changing place names. We are seeing the "tragedy" of the rerun now. The "farce" will come after the rampage to impose "Greater Israel" on the Middle East succeeds. Then the stench of corpses will overwhelm everything, and the Zionist state will rot from within.

Speaking the lingo has got to be #1. If not, you're dealing with sensory deprivations akin to being deaf and dumb - you just don't know what is going on around you. Some people seem to be born with an aptitude for learning languages. I wasn't, but I overcame it to learn Thai because I didn't want my wife and our two daughters to see me as an illiterate who couldn't speak the language. A close second would be a good marriage into a decent family. Thais take care of their own, and that would include a farang who has lived among them for many years as a husband and father. Family means everything here. Your position in the family defines who you are. Without one you are nobody. Farang tao-nahn eng. Most expats come here too late in life. Too late to learn the language and attain some degree of literacy. Too late to attract anything better than a mercenary woman and become a cash cow for her greedy relatives. Living among low-life Thais in some cesspool like Sleaze-by-the-Sea, or leading an alienated hermit-like existence surely explains the Thai-bashing and general negativity so often seen on the forums and elsewhere. Now that so many Faranglands have changed out of recognition and gone to the dogs, these expats are stuck here - they can't go home again.

So true. One good example - among many that could be named - are recently arrived Gypsies in the US. Lots of them are begging and some using children in their scams in spite of receiving comprehensive social welfare benefits. Beggars will always be beggars no matter how successful they are at gaming the system.

Yet another graphic warning to drive carefully and defensively . It has always seemed to me that taking to the roads in Thailand was like participating in a Demolition Derby.

That's the obvious conclusion after reading the story. What is Khaosod supposed to say... that he had an accident while speeding back to his station in CM after a booty-run to the boons?

The DEI hires who dominate tbe MPDC will have this case solved in a jiffy... even before the FBI arrive on the scene.

What difference does it make? The Protestant work ethic died a slow death a long time ago. The future belongs to East Asia.

It is the $100 per person per day tourist fee that is - and will remain - the deal breaker regardless of whatever else they do to increase the number of visitors.

For sure. It's all about media coverage and attention. Like children, when they can't get it by doing something good, they'll do something bad. A textbook example of arrested development.

Meiji whole milk. Widely available here in CM. For my money, it tastes richer and better than the others I've tasted.

Indeed you don't. You have more than enough idiots of your own to run your dysfunctional countries into the ground.

One of the worst. Totally unhinged.

Exceptionally good post. Perceptive and spot-on. Some people seem to be born with an aptitude for learning languages. I wasn't, but I overcame it to learn Thai because I didn't want my Thai wife and our two daughters to see me as an illiterate who couldn't speak the language.