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It must have been the general's turn on the ' Come Up With A Fanciful Idea ' roster.

2 minutes ago, HoboKay said:

So we'd get better performance from the officers after the blessing?

Hold on, that's asking a lot of just one blessing !

Just as well he didn't mean to hit her or he may have had both wrists smacked.

A monk is in very close proximity to a woman and Thais are shocked etc.

A very senior monk is accused of all sorts of things and his outraged supporters blockade the temple and refuse the authorities access to arrest him ! 

After Mahasarakham I'll bet it is and I won't bother explaining why.

They can all jump on the bandwagon and have their say but we all know only one person will call the shots.

Years back my ex-gf was invited to the home of one of her former uni classmates to celebrate him joining the monk hood.

I discreetly asked what would make a young man give up his good job, lifestyle etc to become a monk but the gf just laughed and said " it's only for A Month ! "

1 hour ago, Baerboxer said:

 

I understood, maybe wrongly, from the article, that they chartered the plane and crew from Thai. And kept it on the ground ready to bring them back.

 

The costs look "interesting" especially the food & drink (how many went and did they eat all meals on the plane while they were there?) and the catchall "management costs.

 

Same same  but different. Deja vu.

Remember during major protests when the YL govt was in post and the ' war room ' was opened it was reported that Chalerm and Tarit were ordering in food and wine from a five star hotel etc ?

Some things never change and when the public are paying it's ' fill your boots ' !

Another example of a total lack of accountability and don't they know it !

14 hours ago, Scotwight said:

What is election fraud in Thailand?  

Whatever who is in power at the time says it is I would think and as ever enforcement will be highly selective.

Wouldn't it be nice to see footage of one of the boys having a ' Chalerm Moment ' as in the time in Hong Kong when he was pulled back from being hit by a car due to an excess of ear medicine ?

Of course whoever posted it would find themselves No. 1 on Thailand's Most Wanted List.

So 38 officials but how many were genuinely officials or officials in name only ?

Shortly after taking power didn't the PM order this sort of thing be stopped so why did this cost so much and I think we know the answer.

Just now, z42 said:

You know its got to be rotten if BS meister Sanserm won't even try and spin it in some incredulous way. This Prawit guy is a joke also, another Thai delegate who has no experience in international affairs, am almost certain can speak / understand no English, and who just appears to be nothing more than an empty suit

Suit empty.

Wallet not so much.

3 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

"To make a good first impression, the airport is offering gifts of souvenirs"

 

Golden spittoons?

And foot baths, basins.

2 minutes ago, Eligius said:

It doesn't matter in the slightest if even 50 or 100 political parties 'joined together' to oppose The System: The System would just sneer in their face and do what it is empowered to do anyway. As another astute poster commented, the sword here is mightier than the pen.

 

It's therefore time that we all faced up to the harsh and horrendous fact that Democracy is dead, buried and burnt, and not even the smoke from its fire is any longer visible.

It must be difficult to form any sort of coalition as everyone wants to be the top dog.

Yes there have been govt coalitions in the past but the smaller parties joined only to get whatever crumbs they could pick up otherwise they wouldn't feature anywhere.

43 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Could they not have flown for free on the national carrier?

Not confident about using THAI or something to hide, maybe the composition of ' his team ' so start with ?

Just now, Rorri said:

I then to put Thai "experts" into a catagory of their own.

An absolute must !   

Look at the figures in the last paragraph especially each visitor spending approx Bt 50,000 per trip.

Only a couple of days ago the PM was on about ' zero baht ' tourism and how LoS made nothing out of them.

More examples of facts and figures being tailored to suit the needs of the day ?

Speeding, overloading and reckless driving on the roads and ditto on the waterways which s hardly surprising.

Any special instructions for idiot politicians plowing through flooded areas on a jet ski ?

How was such a backlog accumulated, officials on a ' go slow ' and sometimes deliberately so ?

I suppose there's a way to speed things up then later the ownership mess will start all over again with disputed papers etc at the heart of it.

As soon as I read, see or hear the word ' expert ' ... !

19 minutes ago, Xircal said:

As expected an overwhelming vote NO: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37528325

 

Good for them too.

Unfortunately the percentage of voters didn't reach the legal requirement in Hungary which will be seized on by Brussels no doubt but there's no denying the strong feelings.

I suspect people everywhere are just fed up with voting.

" We will be transparent in government. "

Apart from anything else people in power, no matter who, have that feeling of entitlement so there's nothing to explain.

4 minutes ago, candide said:

They found out that "Thai Researchers in Community Happiness" did not look very serious, so they call it Superpoll now.

http://superpollthailand.net/our-networks

:)

Yes changing the name will certainly add more credibility to their findings !    

He had no intention of staging a coup and look what happened.

A general election will be held as planned next year, maybe, and there will always be a convenient excuse available for any postponent.

Anyway the things are going it seems a election result will mean nothing as those and such as those see fit.

2 hours ago, impulse said:

 

And I also think some people are confused by the fact that they only get intrusive after you've pretty much settled here.  

 

Unlike our own governments who will know a Thai's underwear size before they're even allowed on the plane.

I can only speak about the British govt and while they may know about someone's underwear before they board the plane they also have a habit of ' mislaying ' new arrivals.

About eighteen months to two years ago the Home Office admitted there was something like 180,000 people who'd arrived on all sorts of visas and they had no idea where they were. Once in the country that seemed to be it more or less and there's little hope of tracing them.

Incidentally the Home Secretary of the day is now PM who had a habit of wriggling out of a mess or two by managing to blame others.