hunkydory

Sounds to me like "Blame the staff" and not "us operators"

With bad business standards within the business culture there's something wrong.

Too much brainwashing propaganda of what the Thais call "education" doesn't teach children how to behave, but how to cheat and rip each others heart outs to get the profits

Exactly. This all stem's from when they first go to school. This Khun Thai Khun Dee and, somehow, Thai's are superior, indoctrinated nonsense that's puked out at any opportunity doesn't help. It has to start from root's up.

Jesus, Amazing(Thailand)ly nobody noticed a suitcase, obviously weighing a fair bit, being dumped there. Just around the corner from me and it's not a quiet area at all.

Well, i'm sure you have guessed wrong, most countries will only sell alcohol to over 18 or 21. i can send my seven year old to the shop for whisky and fags here. not in th uk

The youngest "gambler" was a seven-year-old... wow! It makes me wonder how young the little thais start drinking whiskey

About as young as the youngsters in your country, I guess.

Not here either unless you are referring in general to village shops? Same as in the UK, go to a rural shop and they'll even sell you their daughter, same here if you go to a village!

P.S send a 7 yo to buy fags in the UK and he/she will more than likely get mugged on the way, especially carrying that kind of money!

How deluded are u mate (BrianCR). Interested to know where these rural villages are in the UK selling daughters over the counter. I honestly can't think of any western countries selling kids out of local shops. I've seen young kids walk out of shops in Bangkok with fags and a plastic bag of beers or Lao Kao. Stabbings for a few hundred baht, and there's nothing rural about The Kok I can tell you, apart from the mentality. You haven't moved to a better or safer country here, just a warmer one.

Is this, by any chance, in reaction to heineken being the winning bidders for the tiger beer deal?

Know a few old Aussies who have been caught up in that esarn bar girl trap as well, but they just got on with it and didn't whine or whinge or anything, drunk themselves to death mainly, had the odd one smashed up on a motorbike, but that could happen to anyone without a helmet and completely rat-arsed on Samui. Don't want to sound like I'm whinging or being a smart arrrrrrrse mate but is xenophobic racism against Brits pretty well tolerated in Australia?