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  1. 23 hours ago, dcsw53 said:

    Another tragic instance of someone who would seem to have had mental health issues.
    The government needs to invest in providing support to vulnerable people, so we can slow this almost daily reporting of someone doing a vicious act because of a deranged mental state. There are too many unbalanced people here grabbing guns or knives seeking revenge for the most trivial of matters. Road rage, feeling disrespected, marital issues, grab a weapon and let's get even.

    Who knows it could eventually be safe to live here.

     

    Agreed. It's called FTMES

     

    Fragile Thai Male Ego Syndrome

  2. 6 hours ago, ronrat said:

    The "historic" hunting of whales by the Japanese is largely BS. They began eating them after WW11 because they could not get protein easily from other sources. The Australian and Kiwis were not going to send beef to Japan when Britain was crying out for it.

     

    Scandanavia aside much of thw whaling done in previous centuries was done for the oil for lamps. Some smaller nations like those in the pacific would kill maybe one whale a year which became a feast for the whole village and the whales teeth became a status symbol.

     

    If it constitutes 0.1 percent of their meat products it can easily be replaced.

     

    I took some Japanese students who were staying with my parents as part of Lions International whale watching off Hervey Bay in Australia. A deckhand was part time Greenpeace warrior and spoke Japanese. When he explained to them that some may be harpooned by the Japanese as a bogus research plan to eat them they were in shock. They signed up on the spot and in Japanese told the deckie they would go back to Japan and tell everyone they could.

     

    The Japanese can have the ones beached and that should satisfy whoever it is that are still eating them.

    WW11....man, how long have I been asleep?

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  3. You need a hammer drill which are not expensive and easy to find at Home Pro. Buy a couple of masonry drill bits and some anchors and screws, these can be bought in packages, and you're good to go.

     

    I bought a Black and Decker drill with a toggle switch for regular / hammer for something like 1200 baht. 

     

    How difficult is that?

  4. 17 hours ago, lordblackader said:

    You need to make sure you have a car passport which you can ONLY get in the car in unencumbered - that is, it's owned outright without any finance. 

     

    T on the back and you are required to buy insurance on the Laos side to drive though. Not that hard once you have your paperwork in order.

    This. I live in Laos with my wife and we have our car paperwork in order to drive over to Thailand. The car needs to have insurance to drive on the Thai side of the border. It's a little time consuming to get (what isn't?) but it's not difficult.

  5. This shows a clear lack of critical thinking on the part of those students and any other student who balks at learning English. As mentioned, it is the sole lingua franca now and the global language of air, sea and the U.N.

     

    I learned French and German in school and there was no under the table envelopes being passed or cheating being accepted in those days.

     

    Knowing 2 languages is better than knowing 1...knowing 3 is better than knowing 2...and on and on.

     

    Anyone who cannot see the basic logic of that is destined for the lunch pail crowd.

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