Chads

If you've watched Pirates of the Carribean, you'd know pirates always come back to life right?

And it wouldn't such a big problem if they had regularly serviced the wiring in the first place. Biking through the streets you can literally hear the buzzing coming from the faulty powerlines above you everyday.

Seriously, Apple can go to hell with all their hype. I will never buy any of their products.

Their OSX is quite good. I used windows for many years and although windows is very good to run programs, the internet has loads of trojans and viruses and hijacks that mess up web browsing. Linux is also good for the net.

The ipad is good for audio/music related stuff.

I primarily use Linux

Seriously, Apple can go to hell with all their hype. I will never buy any of their products.

Don't let them know cos they would be really devastated.

Why should I? I know it wouldn't matter at all

Seriously, Apple can go to hell with all their hype. I will never buy any of their products.

What else can I say but "Serial Masturbator"?

Word on the street = made up by someone.

Word on the street = made up by someone.

I would have to say, absolutely true, and one wishes posters would corroborate their statements with some kind of evidence.

In this case, however, finding out about Singapore and its dissidents, and the authoritarian nature of the government, is fascinating. I don't want to drag this thread off-topic, so I will simply say that an internet search turns up the cases of people who have opposed the government, and faced repressive consequences. Not unlike another country or two that TV readers are familiar with.

Sorry guys, I'm a Singaporean, born and bred. I used the term "word on the street" to show you all how it's talked about even at the fish market or coffeeshop. You guys can find whatever evidence you want from the internet. I could provide you with all that, but I'm sorry I don't have the time to. The fact still remains that under his leadership, the ruling party of 50 years has just gotten its lowest ever vote percentages.

This guy is an absolute bloody joke!!!Think of a cowboy town and immediately Phuket springs to mind...Here's what they do to you if you do try to do your jobhere ...I rest my case your honour...

http://www.thaivisa....resorts-raided/

That's a really sad case

"DNP Director-General Damrong Phidet said the chief of Phuket's Sirinath National Park would be 'better suited to work in Bangkok'."

“I took up my position here on August 8. I have been working in Phuket for less than a month, so I have yet to really learn about the area,” he said. I do my best; it doesn’t matter where I work, as long as I am protecting the nation’s land,” he said.

I guess that's the lifelong reality of a man who has even an ounce of pride and dignity.

"people driving on the wrong side of the road, without lights, without drivers license, without helmet, police collecting money like buying eggs at the market from the above motorbike drivers."

These are the reasons I love Thailand; the fact you can pretty much do what you want. Many people are tired of the 'Nanny State', I'm a libertarian, it's innate within me. Try living in Europe for 365 days!!

If you are a farang, you just wait and see what happens to you if you cause a problem. You will cry for your nanny states help, OR here.

+1

Seriously, what is there to spy on in Thailand?? Thailand would be the last thing from a security concern to the US.

Sorry maybe I need to correct myself. If it's under instructions from China, Thailand may want to prevent NASA.

I wanted to move within Southeast Asia and really wanted to live in Indonesia but alas, I couldn't. Next choice was Thailand.

I don't miss much about Singapore so that's not a bother. But oh Indonesia... Yogyakarta...

He is scared that all the land up the hills in Patong will be checked !

As most of it is ilegal owned and there is loads of ilegal build houses there (Land with a slope of 35 degree or more is STATE LAND) so many plots up there is state owned !

What about his own hotel project up there ???

If he was born in Patong (he lived in Kathu for several years, had to move to Patong to get elected there i remember) he would also know, that no one owned the hills up there 40 years ago !!!!

He is the biggest crook on the whole island !

I tend to agree, that he is the one being a hypocrite. Who was it that built a big shrine up a steep hill for a "temple"? Who controls the tuk tuks and the resulting payoffs to the bibs? Etc. etc.

Oh that temple! I've not been there yet but I thought it looked interesting. Who built it?

I'd have to say that Indonesia felt the safest/calmest and most pleasant.

Possibly not quite the case anymore...

Why do you say that? I was there for quite some time earlier this year as well and it felt the same.

Seriously, what is there to spy on in Thailand?? Thailand would be the last thing from a security concern to the US.

dude007, on 2012-10-02 04:50:33, said:

I'm afraid: the same old story!

May I suggest this good looking police chief to clean his own Augeas stable first because there are the most stinking elements in the Thai police force. I know a few names but I am not entitled to tell them, but these are the real ulcers in the Phuket Police force: wrotten until the bottom... They are all real farang haters who are doing anything in their power to subdue the farangs rights in any case of dispute: from the most simple to the biggest!

Then I suggest you supply those names to the new police chief. You are entitled to do that.

Bullseye.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic but yes you totally should hand over those names! Maybe you need to do it anonymously, I'm not sure.

And while we're at it, let's also remember that Singapore's current Prime Minister is the son of the previous Prime Minister

Lee Hsien Loong isn't doing a bad job.

No wonder the Singaporean people increasingly want him voted out Word on the street is that he's the worst PM among the 3 Singapore has had, and that he's not doing a good job.

seriously a lot of you blokes that are posting here really need to have a long hard look at yourselves, The complete insensitivity and lack of empathy displayed by many symbolises a complete disconnect with the real world. I doubt many of you have any tangible real world relationships with family or friends. Oswald was a much loved man and you are tarnishing his reputation. I suggest you set up your own thread somewhere and compare how empty your lives are.

I'm sorry we're discussing other matters here. I do think it is a very sad thing that this man had to pass.

I'll agree with the statistics, though I'd have to say those places "felt" safer and/or less violence-prone. That's the same impression many foreigners I've spoken to have. Maybe our perceptions have been influenced by the media, to lesser and greater extents.

That's exactly it.

Out of curiousity, how long have you lived in Thailand?

Over 25 years. You?

Seems much more dangerous now, in the internet age, when we get to hear about every little thing.

In the past, if it wasn't reported in the papers or didn't happen to someone you know, you never heard about it.

I've been moving in and out for a couple of years.

I'll agree with the statistics, though I'd have to say those places "felt" safer and/or less violence-prone. That's the same impression many foreigners I've spoken to have. Maybe our perceptions have been influenced by the media, to lesser and greater extents.

That's exactly it.

Out of curiousity, how long have you lived in Thailand?

I try to be fair with my criticism as much as possible, and I'm willing to accept if it seems like I'm proven wrong.

But in the case of Thailand, I still do think it's quite a violent and violence-prone society, when I compare it with all the other Southeast Asian countries I've stayed in.

That's the feel I get, reading news and through interactions with Thai and observations of them interacting with others (Thais and foreigners alike).

In Southeast Asia, the following countries all have higher homicide rates than Thailand's:

Indonesia

Laos

Myanmar

Philippines

Timor-Leste

Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and Cambodia have lower rates.

I try to be fair with my criticism as much as possible, and I'm willing to accept if it seems like I'm proven wrong.

But in the case of Thailand, I still do think it's quite a violent and violence-prone society, when I compare it with all the other Southeast Asian countries I've stayed in.

That's the feel I get, reading news and through interactions with Thai and observations of them interacting with others (Thais and foreigners alike).

In Southeast Asia, the following countries all have higher homicide rates than Thailand's:

Indonesia

Laos

Myanmar

Philippines

Timor-Leste

Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, and Cambodia have lower rates.

I'll agree with the statistics, though I'd have to say those places "felt" safer and/or less violence-prone. That's the same impression many foreigners I've spoken to have. Maybe our perceptions have been influenced by the media, to lesser and greater extents.

Sorry I was referring to homicide by gun violence which was mention in this previous post: http://www.thaivisa....25#entry5714092

Well, I was talking about murder. Not quite sure why the choice of weapon makes any difference...

Hmm I was trying to highlight that highest homicide by gun violence also highlights the availability of firearms and the frequency of their use for murder. I thought that to be a bad sign.

@ Chads. I agree. In a society where it is not easy for an everyday Thai to legally possess a firearm, gun crime is huge.

However I think you are dude trying to get your point across to some.

I try to be fair with my criticism as much as possible, and I'm willing to accept if it seems like I'm proven wrong.

But in the case of Thailand, I still do think it's quite a violent and violence-prone society, when I compare it with all the other Southeast Asian countries I've stayed in.

That's the feel I get, reading news and through interactions with Thai and observations of them interacting with others (Thais and foreigners alike).

Sorry I was referring to homicide by gun violence which was mention in this previous post: http://www.thaivisa....25#entry5714092

Well, I was talking about murder. Not quite sure why the choice of weapon makes any difference...

Hmm I was trying to highlight that highest homicide by gun violence also highlights the availability of firearms and the frequency of their use for murder. I thought that to be a bad sign.

would love to see the Thais sort their society out.

Like your society has sorted itself out? No murders there? No gangs? Football hooligans? Drunken drivers and aggressive lager louts?

Get off your high horse for Chrissakes. It's pathetic.

And oh the humanity...a farang killed a day. As if a farang life is so much more bloody valuable than a local's.

Yes, let's clean up society because a foreign man was killed. How bloody arrogant.

Of course there are gangs and murders in other countries as well but Thailand was still the country with the highest rate of homicide by gun violence in the world.

Interesting statement, as I lost count at over 50 countries with (much) higher murder rates than Thailand's.

http://en.m.wikipedi...l_homicide_rate

Sorry I was referring to homicide by gun violence which was mention in this previous post:

would love to see the Thais sort their society out.

Like your society has sorted itself out? No murders there? No gangs? Football hooligans? Drunken drivers and aggressive lager louts?

Get off your high horse for Chrissakes. It's pathetic.

And oh the humanity...a farang killed a day. As if a farang life is so much more bloody valuable than a local's.

Yes, let's clean up society because a foreign man was killed. How bloody arrogant.

Of course there are gangs and murders in other countries as well but Thailand was still the country with the highest rate of homicide by gun violence in the world.

Well from his smile he looks like an honest guy. I don't know, I'm kinda optimistic about the guy.