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Nope. It needs to rid itself of both extreme left and right a-holes having influence on the wider world. Both are as idiotic and as damaging as the another. And, 'normal' SHOULD mean anyone over the age of 60 should have absolutely no power or anything to do with politicy making.

What the actual F! People are currently fighting for their lives and you're posting flippant tat to get yourself noticed. There are many messed up old screwball folk on this site, but this topic takes the biscuit. Complete ****!

Probably more so that she hates the guy with the fire of a thousand suns. He is kind of a priick. As a kid of Elon, she’s got an excuse for being mentally unbalanced—what’s the average ASEAN NOW user’s excuse?

What a state of affairs… genuine folks worried about going back to their own country. Would the above be as blasé if/when they get hassled with their other half, I wonder. It was a rubbishy experience getting into the US, as a white tourist even, 30y ago! US immigration was policed by robots back then, so guessing it’s a ball now! You’ll probably be alright though Mike, but I get the apprehension. However, better off seeking info elsewhere than this hateful site.

I dunno, Alex Albon is none too shabby. Alright, born in UK but half Thai and potential future world champ. Plenty of talent here. Thais can even fly planes you know. 🙂

Ooh, the boomers will be all over this… ‘a good old thrashing never did me no ‘arm’ etc. Never met so many messed up folk as that age group. If you’re a decent parent and know what you’re doing, you don’t need to bash a kid for them to turn out well rounded and respectful. It does take time and effort of course. The schools here are notorious for smacking the kids, even for late homework. They typically do this because the teacher is hopeless in the first place. If there’s a particularly unruly kid, expel the rascal. Of course he’ll then likely be beaten up by his father… see above.

That's all fair enough and I agree, but one has to baulk at the incredulity of the Secretary General of the Office of the Education Council in questioning the survey, which is non-bias. It is what it is. He then bandies about word salad--'objective educational metrics'--in a bid to cajole the World Population Review or impress upon readers in general that the system is wrong. The bottomline is, and aside from the occasional brilliant student, Thailand's general education standard stinks and his typical misdirection is not helping. Points mentioned above: not failing flunkers, laziness and cheating for sure. But, more so, there is an abundance of poorly trained/educated teachers overseeing bored kids with tired rote-learning, making classes 'fun' rather than educational first and foremost, saluting the flag and chanting nationalistic slogans day after day, etc. A lot of time wasted in teaching the wrong things the 'right' way. This is not showing a superior attitude. It just is what it is. I personally couldn't give a monkey's chuff that I may have gleaned a decent education or that my country might be right up there in the rankings. Who cares! I'd still rather be here after all. I'm also of the mind that the place doesn't need to be world leader, in anything, or need its populace to be proficient English speakers and the rest of it. Thailand is about right where it should be, the people are laidback and generally happier on the face of it than the so-called first world. BUT... Dr Prawit Erawan should perhaps see it how it is, focus more on the above and not try to bs the rest of the world.

He would do. Boguns one and all. The EU sucks on many levels, but the US administration is acting like a bunch of school kids. How embarrassing.

But thanks for what exactly? Bleeding the world dry? Another reason to despise boomers… the three biggest a-holes currently holding the world to ransom are of this generation. Of course one cannot blame all and have many great friends and family in this age bracket, but just can’t hack that air of superiority while giving F all back. Would sooner have the woke gens front and centre and that’s saying something. Time to move over, give us all a break yeah. 😉

... not an untypical view of those born of convict musings, of a place with a dubious history that could fit on the back of a matchbox. Be wary of overly contentious posts from new niks, folks. Probably been banned a half dozen times. Darn, I ignored my own advice... see above.

Ignore the troll. If you changed the topic to 'Should all US officials be banned from entering Western Democracies...', then yes. Until they're ready to be civil and grown up, then countries should start turning their backs on America. Thailand is still emerging from the grips of third/developing world status, so could be forgiven for discretions here and there.

Probably conspiracist tat, a bit like 911... you know, 'the towers were brought down by charges because they came down awfully quick' etc. Donkey flat earth people. Covid was real, the overreaction by our governments was agenda, but it was real nonetheless. Jesus was real, too, and the spammers pounced on him then wrote a bs fairytale about it all. Funny world!

Consider slamming your non-personal appendage in that door to protect your personal asset(s). 😋

Don’t you mean just women and driving? 😋 Blokes cause more carnage. Feel for these coppers though. Poor dudes just doing their job. Young uns, too.

Problem here is, aside from oil & gas and a banking system that sucks giant monkey balls, Thailand doesn’t make much and its workforce is inefficient. Some of the best engineers I’ve worked with and people can be well switched on as with anywhere in the world. But when you get to grassroots level with the ‘normal’ folk, they can be slovenly foot shovellers and unreliable and also nowadays don’t like to do menial jobs like labouring. All this inefficiency costs businesses time and money. And that is just fine actually as these guys also know how to enjoy life. The West is sick and has it wrong. F the monetary system!

Can quote those guys all you like, just can’t embed their links.

Yes, why not pat yourselves on the back! You guys are in total deniaL. The golden age was the generation before yours btw, a people that had balls and scruples. The boomer generation must be the most contemptible, needy and weak of any. They never fought a proper war and had the world handed to them on a plate, and at the same time have reaped MASSIVE pensions and property etc. Shame on you!!

Good stuff. Not a coffee connoisseur by any stretch, find Bon Cafe through a cafetiere good enough for me, albeit with a pinch of powdered eggshells to null any bitterness and another pinch of cinnamon to 'Christmasify' it. Coffee is indeed good, in moderation--couple a day. Gave it up once, along with alcohol, for several months. Healthy, but life was just vanilla and shiite. Don't recommend it. 🙂

Indeed and it is very beautiful, having done dozens of states back in the day. However, most Americans don't really seem to travel since they tend to have scant knowledge of the outside world, or think it's beyond them, or too expensive, or too difficult etc. It's bizarre that the richest nation has its 'normal' folk having generally the least amount of vacation time allotted to them (is it even paid?) in the western world, then there's the whole paying through the nose for medical and the ridiculous tipping culture thing. What's the point in being super rich and 'the best' if you can't have time off and enjoy life? Not a dig at the place, and it's nowt to do with Trump, it's always been that way, but it's all a bit fugged up!

Hmm. Yanky beavers and otters might have something to say about that! Typical Aussies... it's always 'the best, biggest, fastest etc with that lot. 😛 Fair play, though, that woman was a bit of a wombat. Why does she have to come here, enough idiots already.

Cue the donkeys, boomers usually, labelling it all 'hot air'. They think it fine to continually pump billions of tons of shiite into the atmosphere, that our tiny planet will handle it with no detrimental effect on its inhabitants. These old folk will be dead pretty soon hey, so it doesn't matter much, right? The human ego is utterly selfish, arrogant, corrupted, diseased and in denial. I hear Venus is cozy this time of year. The fire-starters and big polluting agents should all F off there methinks. Let's start the ball rolling with the you-know-who incompetent old war-mongering fogey politicians that could make the most difference.

Yuck. Wonder what the deviant got up to here!? Beyond the obvious—lock him up and all that—it sheds bad light on us in Thailand, because they all think we’re up to no good don’t they.

Might be easy done when overworked and tired. Trains are real quiet. Unlucky dude. 😢

Bizarre. Were you a client? Didn’t get a hug even? Perhaps a mannequin. I just don’t get this scenario.

You need to get out more… grouping Thai women into one basket (how many have you met?) while chucking farang women into another. You have no clue basically. I have met some of the most amazing women in both hemispheres. Thai women can indeed be wonderful, but, beyond the physical and even when you speak the language, it is typically shallow and superficial. Very tough to get deep as one can with a ‘standard’ (sorry) western girl.