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My wife is superstitious as heck about the lottery. The problem is, she wins. Often and a lot. We've been together for 15 years and in that time she has won at least $12,000. She won $3500 6 months before we met. She doesn't spend a lot of money on tickets either. At most $10 a month and rarely that much. 

She dreams about numbers and buys a lottery ticket. No dreams no buy! 

I still find it difficult to grasp, after all these years, why normal people doing normal jobs carry a knife with them. What is it I am missing?

I wait with baited breath the following headline:

Massive 2nd wave of Covid 19 in Thailand. All borders closed. All flights suspended...except those from China.

8 hours ago, gunderhill said:

And  do the dead relatives agree  or even know about this?  and she says she buys them from the monks? so why does she donate some  of the money back to the temple? or is  this  just the "make it  look good"  part of the sales  spiel?

It's like normal clothes," she said, when asked how it felt to wear clothes of the dead.

Yes , that's because that's exactly what it is although a  blooming good  wash is  the first thing I'd  be doing  to any of them and of course BRAND NEW leather shoes  are made from animal skins,  again the skin of a dead animal, do they ever  think how  stupid  all of this death nonsense sounds?

She doesn't buy the clothes from monks. The article clearly says she sources (buys) them from funeral directors after the monks have prayed. She then gives some of her profits to temples.

On 10/12/2020 at 1:13 PM, Orton Rd said:

https://www.dogsbite.org/   the numbers just in the USA: 'Pitties' and 'Rotties' are bred for aggression and violence, you cannot train it out of them

 

In the 15-year period of 2005 through 2019, canines killed 521 Americans. Pit bulls contributed to 66% (346) of these deaths. Combined, pit bulls and rottweilers contributed to 76% of the total recorded deaths

I think you could train it out of them. back in the 70's, Doberman Pinschers had the well deserved reputation that Pitbulls and Rottweilers have today. Through careful and professionally selective breeding, they managed to remove that particular aspect from the breed. I owned a Dobie for a little over 10 years. She died a few months ago and I lost the best friend I have ever had. She was a gentle giant but very capable of attack if me, my wife, or friends were in danger. She never harmed a person but killed more than a few of the neighbour's chickens which flapped over our wall. 

She was also smarter than most Lao and Thai people I have ever met ????

The police applied for a warrant? Is this simply a measure of cultural differences in vocabulary?

Nobody wants this guy arrested. Think of all the potential dirt he and his family have on everyone of note in the LOS. 

Just like Jeffrey Epstein "committed suicide", Boss is never gonna be allowed to face the music. He'll live a life of pampered ultra-luxury abroad forever. That ain't so bad. Hell, I could handle Dubai with a billion in my pocket.

I've never been to Pattaya. When the border opens perhaps I'll go. I bet there are deals galore there now!

I still have trouble accepting a 400cc bike is considered big. 

Don't those restaurants have a time limit? 

Wow! 9 slugs and dude's still kicking. That's amazingly poor marksmanship.

19 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Did he really think that a customer would not notice 6 rusty nails in their seafood?

 

Yes.

On 8/24/2020 at 8:27 AM, ChipButty said:

There is in Phuket my wife used one

Is that the one she crashed into whilst trying to find a driving instructor?

Sorry to tell you this, but the world doesn't care. Also, what good would it do to send him to jail? Seriously, what would that accomplish? Money, that's what it's going to take. Make the family pay a billion or two in fines and spread it out to every family member of the cop he killed. Make them all millionaires and then let it go. They will all be broke in a year or two and living back in the rice paddy. 

What about educating the population on the fact that deaths on the road are mostly the drivers' fault. When 1/3 of the population believe nothing they do will change fate, that is a clear starting point for education. 

Whenever I need a good laugh, Thai Visa's posts on new laws and rules is my go to place.

22 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

So how is it a 'largely inaccurate report', apart from the Police quote?

Read, man. It says "largely accurate". 

And yet these desperately poor people keep pumping out kids. I don't blame the government, or Covid 19. I blame idiots for having kids they know they cannot afford and are destined to grow up living in ignorance and poverty. 

In my opinion, it is the epitome of child abuse.

On 8/19/2020 at 2:10 PM, ThaiFelix said:

Ive often wondered if some people are just not yet ready for technology.

Yeah...like zippers and buttons and laces on shoes. Complicated stuff! The only thing that surprises me after 14 years here, is that nothing surprises me anymore.

On 8/14/2020 at 1:48 PM, ExpatOilWorker said:

They took all our ticket money, flew very few flights and still loses billions. How is that even possible?

They are still paying leases for the planes, parking fees, taxes, some salaries, some maintenance...as well, flying passengers doesn't bring in any serious money, even if the plane is full. 

I was with Air Canada for 10 years and the profit margin per passenger was around 3 cents a flown mile. To put it clearly, if a passenger flew 2300 miles (3700 km) which is from Bangkok to Seoul, the airline would make a profit of about $70 off of that passenger. So that's what, about 2000 baht?

Cargo is where airlines make their serious profit. 

It's easy to understand how the airlines are losing so much. Thai is a <deleted> airline anyway. let it die.

On 7/30/2020 at 5:20 PM, giddyup said:

Is everything so cut and dried with you?

Yes, it is. And throughout nearly 6 decades of living is has been both vice and virtue. But it is they way I am. 

At least everyone knows where I really stand on every issue. I would have made a lousy politician.

5 hours ago, GraveRobber said:

Whats the speed limit on that soi where this accident occured?

Why has the fleeing an accident scence charge been dropped?

Is it not a crime to operate a vehicule while under the influence?

Fleeing to avoid prosecution isnt that a crime?

They have more than enuff broken laws to charge this guy with.

 

 

One by one all of those things ran out due to the statute of limitations. All they had left was the manslaughter charge and they've figured out a way to get rid of that. It must have cost the family a lot of money, but what's $5-10 million when you've got $3-4 billion?