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I have to say I have no problem with Thai girls wearing pyjamas at all. I also have no problem with tourist girls choosing to go braless.

In fact they should be encouraged to do so for their own good.

Do your own thing and not what you think is expected of you.

Short answer : No people on Thai Visa are not racist by any definition of the word.

Long Answer: If England are playing Italy in the World Cup Final, you would expect all the English to align themselves with their National team and all the Italians to do the same. Now lets say the World Cup Final was held in Bangkok and the stadium was not to the usual standard and the fans had problems getting to and from the stadium and made compaints on a publically accesible forum. No one would accuse the fans of any nationality of racism, this in short is what can be confused as racism in Thai Visa. It is an over self promotion of one nationality while picking flaws in their new host country way of doing things.

Thai food tastes really good compared to fish and chips.

This statement is not racism, it a personal view but some people could take offence to it, it is not the place of every human being on the planet to be agents of the offended.

Under International Law, here are the rules.

Once you are in the international area of an airport, port or border crossing, but not crossed into another territory then you are are still classified as being in the country of last depart.

For example you board a plane in the UK and fly to Dubai, you then board another plane and fly to Thailand, until you admitted by visa into Thailand, technically you are still in Dubai.

Another example for clarity, you leave the London Heathrow on a direct flight to BKK. You are subject to British Law until you admitted legally to Thailand, then you are subject to Thai Law. If you are declined admission, then you are to be returned to your country that you departed from, such as the UK.

When leaving Thailand, the country of last depart is Thailand, therefore you are subject to Thai Law, until you lawfully admitted to your destination.

With regard to duty free, this is of the discretion of the country of last depart (most countries offer duty free), but this doesnt mean you are in a no mans land.

if you depart BKK and land at London Heathrow with 50kg of Heroine, then the law enforcement of that country can lawfully detain you once you enter their airspace and make you subject to their laws.

According to international law, you cannot ask for asylum until you reach the border of the country you arrive at, in the case of UK, USA and Austrailia to my knowledge their are official border lines which is the point you present your passport. Technically, another country cannot enforce their laws to this border line if landed by plane, but as far as I am aware this has never been tested.

For instance, lets say you boarded an Emirates flight from Dubai to Manchester and on the plane you became intoxicated, when the plane lands at Manchester, technically you are subject to Dubai law, which forbids intoxication in public, but become unenforceable in UK airpspace which belongs to the UK. The UK authorities cannot arrest you for drunk and disordily until you reach the customs point where you provide your passport. They could if they wanted cross the border and arrest you and detain you as you are in their airspace, although I doubt the CPS would be willing to proscecute, except for serious offences as the legal rammifications would be significant.

If a baby is board mid flight or at any airport the parents have the right to register the birth at either the country of departure, transit or destination.

I hope this rather long winded answer satifies your curiosity.

From the Wiki article "The asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye".

Nothing to see unless the astronomers have it wrong and it hits us.

It may visible in the upper atmosphere, just as a VERY LAGER shooting star. Shooting stars are small meteroites that constantly bombard the earth every day. A 60 meter astroid could cause significant damage especially if it hit the sea. A Tsuinami would be created with huge displacement. It would make the Tsunami of 2004 look timid. If it hit land the result could be earthquakes, tremors and if it hit a population center, total death.