Cereal

What an insane reason to kill someone, anyone, let alone a friend. Good gravy, what the heck is going on with some people?

yeah, I'd be proud as a peacock to have my daughter bring him home and say, "Daddy, I want you to meet my new boyfriend. But you better talk quickly, cuz here come the cops."

I've eaten in a couple of Michelin starred restaurants over the years. The food is great, the presentation pure perfection, the ambience spectacular but generally speaking, this ol' home boy likes street chicken and sticky rice with some spicy dip.

My wife has had a Scoopy for years. Smuggled it in from Thailand before they were legal to sell in Laos. It has been fault free for 37,000km and running like new. 

With me living in Laos and the law passed a couple of years back allowing 2 land crossing per year, I am wondering how this will affect me? Is it going back to the old system whereby I had unlimited crossings with my multi-entry B2 visa for Laos? The article is not extremely clear on that point.

5 minutes ago, Roadman said:

I notice that too. And you can add the ridiculous statement from some Americans if it wasn't for them then the French would be speaking German but conveniently forget if it wasn't for the French they would be speaking English...the pure British form 

You are absolutely correct. George Washington went to France twice begging for help to fight the British. France turned him down the first time as they simply didn't want to get into another war with England. The second time Washington was successful and the French joined the colonists to fight the British. Had they not helped, the colonists would have never had a chance.

The biggest highlight of this is from Mel Gibson's movie The Patriot which shows a single ship sailing over the horizon with the French flag flying off its top mast after the war is finished and the colonists have won. Americans believe that cr@p. Idiots.

Reading the American various media outlets, watching the news and countless TV shows, it's little wonder Americans think poorly of France. She is constantly on the sh!tty end of the stick. Few Americans know about the French underground resistance during WW2 and how big an effort it played.

I've been to 39 of the states in the USA over 100's of trips there and can count on 1 hand the number of Americans that knew The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France. It's astonishing how little they know about pretty much everything outside their microcosmic sphere.

The fact is, HIV isn't as prevalent as the fear-mongers would have us believe and chances of catching it are slim even with someone who is infected. Magic Johnson's wife never got the virus and he must have banged her 100's of times after he became HIV+.

Perhaps they were modeling the hotel after the rooms for athletes at the Sochi Olympics.

12 minutes ago, giddyup said:

I was being sarcastic. Whoosh!

No whoosh, not really. I understood your remark for what it was and meant no offense to you. I was simply reiterating my original stance.

On 11/6/2018 at 1:34 PM, giddyup said:

I'm just expressing my individuality man, same as a million others that have nose rings.

I get it...well, not really. But nonetheless, express it once you're through immigration. Use your head for more than a hat-rack.

"Bikie gang" ???? Yeah..........I'd just love for someone, anyone, to go up to a Hells Angel and say, "Can I join your bikie gang?"

That's a a$$ whupping coming up.

According to the CDC the chances of catching HIV by having unprotected sex 1 time with an infected person (male screwing female who is positive) is 0.04%.

11 hours ago, ujayujay said:

They bite exactly Animalhaters like you. Stupidity shoult hurt.

How do you know the poster is an animal hater? And, just as an aside, prior to calling someone out on their apparent lack of intelligence, check your spelling and grammar. I count 9 words and 6 mistakes. That's not a great ratio if your intent is to call someone stupid.

20 hours ago, Laza 45 said:

..export to Vietnam?

This could work. I wonder if rabid dogs taste better?

20 hours ago, worgeordie said:

If you've got it flaunt it ,all the fun is slowly draining 

out of Thailand,where you can smoke,when you can buy

a drink,I prefer the more freewheeling Thailand of years

ago. 

regards Worgeordie

This seems to me to be a worldwide phenomenon.

Man, that is a lot of yaba. I've never even seen it and have no desire. Fortunately it hasn't had a great effect on my life. The neighbour's 2 kids (18 & 16) were busted with about 4 or 5 yaba pills almost 3 years ago and they're still gone. I think they were sentenced to 10 years each.

Those numbers would be a death sentence in Laos, probably quickly.

I've been teaching here since 2005. I wouldn't limit the p!$$ poor education system to any one country in these parts!

The cops have a body, a gun, tape, a guy who admitted to the crime and a girlfriend with background info on threats to kill by the perpetrator and they haven't charged dude yet?

Strange.......what more do they need?

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

While I agree the injuries should be dealt with and the teacher fired from teaching, I would like to know what REALLY caused the teacher to punish him.  Teachers in Thailand rarely care if you can recite a timetable as a matter of fact I think most of them would have trouble.  I am willing to be there is more to it than the boy has admitted

There usually is. In general, you seriously cannot take the opinion of the student as being flawless and factual.

Two good places to start would be:

1) Standardization of rise / run for stairs. In Canada it's 200mm/254mm. In Thailand it's whatever...and in Laos it seems worse.

2) The tile floor situation. There are tiles that are meant to never get wet cuz they're slippery as ice and there are tiles that are not slippery when wet, such as those we put in our bathroom. A simple rule is that if a tile is shiny when dry, it's slippery when wet. Use non-slip tiles on stairs, bathrooms and outside.

I bet these 2 thing would help immensely in reducing slip/fall accidents.