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1 hour ago, lee68 said:

The speed camera in Doi saket will make a fortune,all the cars and busses fly down that hill!

 

The only'  problem ' with speed cameras, as reported by the BIB in Khon Kaen after last Songkran,  is the amount of people who ignore the written demand for payment and aren't pursued.

The warning signs and cameras have limited value even as a deterrent.

Just now, kannot said:

A  minor technicality

Overcoming adversity are Mr. Baboon's middle names.

Baboon, Baboon he's our man, if he can't do it nobody can.

Mind you he's not part of the forum IN Crowd.

Ho Ho Ho little Prayuth and what would you like for Christmas ?

Your two front teeth look ok so do you need two of something else ?

Well, are they soldiers as was previously suggested or is that a state secret ?

Just now, geronimo said:

While I do admire his winning attitude, the fact that his name is not on the list, somehow tells me he is out of the frame. Just an observation, mind.

Anything, and I mean anything,  is possible on this forum !

2 minutes ago, baboon said:

Post what you like but I reckon I can still win this one...

And why not Mr. Baboon as if ever anyone deserved it U D' Man.

Just look how well respected you really are and don't need wall to wall arse licking posts that have fouled up this thread ad nauseam

Why do so many people, including me, cringe when they hear the word ' crackdown ' ?

Perhaps we're so used to knowing what it doesn't mean rather than what it does.

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

I'm another who was brought up on 'Quo two-chord-hits, another icon from our youth gone

 

Our youth may be gone but thankfully the memories as supplied by groups like Status Quo will always be with us.

21 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Admiral Saksit Cherdboonmuang said yesterday in his capacity as chair of the National Legislative Assembly’s (NLA) ad-hoc committee on how to fight the deeply-entrenched patronage system.

 

 

Guessing the irony is lost on him?

 

(wondering how he got appointed to the NLA? election? merit?)

 

 

I'm sure the irony will be lost on him as he's a person of privilege, of entitlement so he and those like him talk of rules to affect others not themselves.

It's difficult to say much without sounding heart hearted but the media doesn't help any feeling of good will with their sob story, fluff pieces which ignore the truth and are so slanted.

Last week the BBC did a report on some who had survived tragedy and interviewed one in Britain, the story ended with the presenter saying " putting aside the legality or otherwise how these migrants get into the country. "

That's right, don't let the fact that people enter a country(ies) illegally etc get in the way of a tear jerker.

What the BBC and others don't seem to realise they're just fueling resentment not evoking sympathy.

Don't they read the news otherwise they'd know that everything's under control and the junta knows exactly who is trying to hack etc. ?

Of course it's always necessary to have an extension of the ' bogeyman ' requirement to justify oppressive action and in this case total control of the Internet etc.

My landlord's an army major and recently took up cycling so bought all the appropriate gear and became to the complete Lance Armstrong lookalike.

I've seen him out and about but the thing is he only rides a short distance before stopping to talk to everyone and anyone in order he can be seen and he takes masses of selfies in appropriate poses.

It's a wonderful system where one of the first things a student learns is not to ask the teacher questions because that's a challenge to their authority and / or a suggestion they're not a good teacher because  the student didn't understand the first time.

The result is the student because ' marked ' and suffers accordingly.

Mother, the ONLY bread winner in the family !

She says the BIB will not press on and investigate because the suspects are foreigners so nothing to do with it being too much trouble, no incentive etc. ?

11 hours ago, seahorse said:

Calm down. He's not going to take your favourite drug away. He's saying not to promote the consumption of alcohol. That seems to leave it up to the individual as to whether to drink or not.

As long as the law is applied fairly I don't see the problem. There is too much alcohol consumption.

World Health Organization report on alcohol

 

Thailand is a country with a Buddhist tradition. The fifth precept tells us not to be heedless of others. Intoxication leads to heedlessness. When we're intoxicated, we do not think clearly and our moral judgments are hampered.

Thailand's Buddhist tradition is very flexible.

8 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

 

I must be missing something (a common occurrence) but where does it say that he only put in 15 minutes for the week ? I got the muddled impression he played table tennis for 15 minutes. He could have run a marathon an hour later for all we know from the original post.

IF he'd run a marathon you can rest assured we'd all know about it from the banner headlines.

What's all this pussyfooting about with ' try to explain, make them understand ' etc.

Why don't these tough, battle hardened military men give it the good old fashioned

' You don't need to understand just do as you're told ' !

11 hours ago, PeeJay1959 said:

Not sure where a Python would keep its ID card

In their carry bag, crocodile skin of course.

9 minutes ago, baboon said:

Or find work in journalism slavishly reproducing government press releases...

Ah, the truth, the whole truth and nothing like the truth. 

A motto to live by.

Just now, baboon said:

"He warned the attackers, who he described as mostly youths, that it was not worth losing their futures if caught and punished."

 

What futures?

 

They might not be allowed to join the army, rise to the top, make lots of money and stage a coup.

Isn't that what every young man dreams of ?   ?

Just look at all the social media entries they'll miss out on.

Doesn't he know that the staple of the social media is photos of food, coffee, beer in bottles, beer in glasses etc. ?

Is this on his hit list too as photos of friends enjoying a beer much constitute encouragement, well in his sad little world anyway. 

1 hour ago, smedly said:

so just to be clear, are you saying this is a bad idea ?

 

I actually think it is excellent

No it is a good idea but as usual application and implementation are another question entirely.

A German lady interviewed on television said Merkel was a great humanitarian and was right a year ago to announce her open door policy because who could know this sort of thing would happen ?

With all that was going on last year and before that this sort of thing was a great possibility but wasn't taken account of.

Not a case of being wise after the event but more being aware and cautious before.

8 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Hard to imagine stricter controls on the media, they already outlawed telling the truth.

BUT they do tell the truth only it's the approved and squeaky clean version and not the misleading, insulting, subversive nonsense those nasty foreign sources deliver.