Everything posted by VillageIdiot
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Detained Political Activist Nethiporn Suffers Cardiac Arrest Amid Hunger Strike
Spot on. She committed suicide in every sense of the term. Better that she had lived and fought on.
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Thailand scraps visa requirements for Kazakhstan tourists
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Houthi rebels attack severely damages a Belize-flagged ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait
Probably so. Their coastal monitoring sites and capabilities have no doubt been blasted to smithereens. Now they will take refuge in their bunkers and caves, bolt holes and bung holes from where they can continue the never-ending conflict in and around Isael.
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Pita’s shocking family secrets exposed in IG post controversy
...and a lot of people worldwide are mighty grateful for that. Incidentally, what have the Swiss ever invented?... the cuckoo clock? I'll take the bum gun any day of the week. What about the Australians? Their list of inventions would be a short one, I'm sure. Sub-Saharan Africa? The Thais with their bum guns and tuk tuks don't look so bad after all.
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Chiang Mai Night Safari confirms four zoo animals died, not 13
Thanks, now I know.
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Chiang Mai Night Safari confirms four zoo animals died, not 13
It's a mythological animal often reported seen - especially on full-moon nights - but no hard evidence of their existence has been produced so far 😁 Seriously Teach... just google it.
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Do you think the thought police will be a real thing?
You have too much time on your hands, Chris.
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Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri killed in Beirut blast
Hear! Hear! You really hit a raw nerve with that one. Bravo! The responses - mostly from the usual suspects - are verging on the ludicrous.
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Jomtien culture compared
Exceptionally good post. It's in stark contrast to the clueless drivel that dominates this thread. Your own experiences are shared - to one extent or another - by most of us who were here before the economic boom and mass-tourism of the 1980's that changed Thailand out of recognition. One point you didn't make about marrying and settling down here is the importance of learning Thai. Living in a country and not speaking the language and being functionally literate is like being deaf, dumb, and blind once you leave the tourist ghettos. You just don't know what's going on around you. Some people seem to be born with an aptitude for learning languages... I wasn't, but I overcame it to learn Thai because I didn't want my wife and children to see me as an illiterate who couldn't speak the language. I would have been a lasting embarrassment to them all. That's a piece of advice that should be seriously considered by anyono planning to make Thailand - or any foreign country - their new home.
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Tax seminar at US Embassy with Thailand American Chamber of Commerce
That's true. However, Leona went to jail because she had the audacity to tell the truth about those who pay taxes and those who get a free ride. That quote (to her housekeeper) came out in open court and sealed her fate. That conclusion is often questioned, but how many other high-profile tax cases involving zillionaires result in prison sentences? If they do, it is usually a matter of months in some posh Club Fed.
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Tax seminar at US Embassy with Thailand American Chamber of Commerce
As in the USA there will be loop-holes, bolt-holes, and bung-holes for the wealthy and well-connected to go into. Leona Helmsley nailed it a long time ago when she said "Only the little people pay taxes."
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Despite Washington’s confidence, US war with Iran would be disastrous
Spot-on. Regurgitating a rancid word-salad that every MIC/Zionist shill knows by heart won't alter the simple fact that since WWII - and especially since the Vietnam War - US foreign policy has been an ongoing disaster. America's military fiascos need to be protested against by everyone who is appalled by the senseless slaughter of non-combatants that they inevitably result in.
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Thailand’s plan to extend Songkran raises eyebrows and 5.1 billion baht in soft power bid
Just another tourism booster from the usual suspects. Hopefully it will be scotched before it becomes a ghastly reality.
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Fugitive German National Apprehended for Child Abuse Charges
No, only if you don't report within 24 hours.
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Meet the New Swedish Ambassador to Thailand
What will her main duties be? Thailand and Sweden seem to be polar opposites in every conceivable sense of the term. Sex tourism is the only obvious nexus. Swedish "men" coming and Thai "brides" going. Anyway, best of luck Anna.
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Endangered gaur sighted in northern Thailand after 37-year absence
So did I. It looks like they're preying on each other out there in the bush.
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Biden approval rating among Democrats drops to lowest of presidency: Gallup
H.L. Mencken nailed it down a long time ago: "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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Halloween - do you believe in ghosts?
TIT... you can check-out any time you want, but you can never leave.
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Visa exemptions for China and Kazakhstan nationals start on September 25
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Thailand shakes up golden visa scheme, hikes prices by up to 500 per cent
Retirement visa. Marriage visa. Get old soon or get a Thai wife. Problems with immigration sorted. Other problems just beginning.
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Thaksin helicoptered to Police Hospital at 3am after feeling ill says Department of Corrections
Don't kid yourself, Srettha is just another sock-puppet of the Shinawatra Clan.
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Thaksin helicoptered to Police Hospital at 3am after feeling ill says Department of Corrections
In another thread on Thaksin it was said that if he was in a prison cell too long there was a good chance of him being "epsteined". I'd say it would be more likely in a hospital.
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Thaksin helicoptered to Police Hospital at 3am after feeling ill says Department of Corrections
In recent candid photos he looks ghastly. Definitely has health issues. Maybe that prompted his return.
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Travis King: US soldier entered N Korea because of 'discrimination in US Army', Pyongyang claims
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Red Shirts in Korat Gather to Welcome Thaksin at Don Mueang Airport
...or an example of Karl Marx's perceptive observation that "History repeats itself first as tragedy then as farce."