1 minute ago, bignok said:

Bogan is common. Gronk I dont know. Maybe 5 people in Townsville use it.

I quite often hear slang words from the north of England, Scotland etc that I've never heard before, and I'm 58????

Just now, bignok said:

Did you hear the term gronk?

No, but there were probably lots of other Ozzie slang words that I never heard too.

 

1 minute ago, bignok said:

Looks like a surname.

It must be a very common surname. Maybe it's a regional thing?

 

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

Not an Aussie term. Yobbo, drongo, bogan, westy, skeg are.

Here's a recent report from Oz????

7. Gold Coast, QLD - Gronk ordered to pay $10k in compensation for drunkenly bashing men outside kebab shop after State of Origin.

2 minutes ago, stoner said:

where did you hear this dumb shhhh

 

no one has died i think it the thing you are always told. put down the reefer step away from the grinder. 

I would never smoke it, although I have a few times in the past (I gave up smoking tobacco 3 years ago). One good thing to be said for it is that it makes me sleep. It would have to be eaten in the future.

I've often heard people say such things when they're trying to make a case for it's legalisation. They're all peace-loving hippies, apparently!

1 minute ago, bignok said:

Gronk? Never heard of it

I look at a page on Facebook called "S*** Towns Of Australia", quite often there will be a report of a "Gronk" doing unspeakable things in public in Port Pirie (Which usually heads the list of the most s*** towns). Some of it is quite funny too!????

Just now, steven100 said:

crikey blue '   what a flamin gallah,  kangaroo loose in the top paddock for sure, a tinny too many and an overdosed pot head blue ' fair crack of the whip sheila.

3 minutes ago, arick said:

Come on the stuff isn't that strong.  I would hate to see him smoking in British Columbia 

He can't possibly have been smoking that stuff?! We're told that in the history of humanity no person has ever caused any problem whatsoever after smoking pot!

Well done that man! I think the previous longest overstay that I had heard about was 12 years.

18 hours ago, KannikaP said:

pissed?

No crash helmet?

RIP

He has a new nickname "Eileen".????

6 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There have been very few death sentences carried within the past decade. So, why are they now discussing this, but only for foreigners? 

 

I happen to support the death sentence, when the crime is heinous, and when there are witnesses and sufficient evidence. Why keep them alive? Certain crimes are essentially a self revocation of the right to consume oxygen. But, can DNA evidence and the courts be trusted here? 

 

In fact, Thailand does allow the death penalty, but it is rarely applied. 

 

The federation said the kingdom would have achieved the status of "de facto abolitionist" had it not carried out any executions before August 24, 2019 — which would have represented 10 years after the last death sentences were carried out.

 

https://www.dw.com/en/thailand-carries-out-first-execution-since-2009/a-44285913

 

Thailand has never executed a farang anyway. It will be commuted to life imprisonment, then they serve 8 years in a Thai prison, before being transferred to a prison in their home country.

9 hours ago, Gold Star said:

As grisly as it was dumb.

He might as well have dropped the bag off at the police station instead of the dump.

Everyone here knows that their Thai garbage is picked over many times for recyclables, and anything of value by scavengers before being burned. 

Well, at least he'll have the rest of his life to think about it cooking inside a sweltering Thai prison.

Apparently The Mob used to dump bodies in the garbage dump just outside NYC?

Just guessing that there was a money-angle to this crime?

1 minute ago, dddave said:

Yes. Maybe 3 years ago.  Another dismemberment as well.  Stuffed the victim into a freezer.

I think it was 7 years ago, 2016, when I still lived there.

1 hour ago, bignok said:

Drugs enhance your existing personality.

Not the case with cocaine!?

3 minutes ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Yes, he got the death penalty from the 2016 Chao Praya body parts murder, but got commuted to life by royal pardon on the 68th b/day of the King.

 

Yes, thanks, I thought it was around that time.

Just now, bignok said:

You hating on Spanish? Murders happen daily

I never said anything of the sort. I'm not "hating on" anyone.

Wasn't a Spanish guy convicted of a similar crime in Bangkok some years ago?

5 hours ago, Gknrd said:

Ahhh, Nigerian mafia. Let into the country.  Motorcycle gangs. Raise the retirement limit to 3 million baht. Lets get rid of these gangs...

 Nah, you just give an "agent" 20k Baht p a, no need 800k Baht.????

3 hours ago, soalbundy said:

That's only 3 weeks plus public holidays, in Germany I got 6 weeks plus public holidays. Standards vary according to where you live.

That's actually 4 weeks and 1 day of holiday, if you take into account that a working week is 5 days. 

I worked in Germany for a short while. One thing I noticed was that there was NO WAY that you were gonna get (most) Germans working on a Sunday. 

Many years ago I had a Thai girlfriend who was a hotel receptionist. Besides public holidays she was only given 6 days per annum as holiday days to take whenever she wanted. (In my current job in the UK I get public holidays + 21 days when I want them). 

5 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Can someone explain to me how you can tell they are Russian, or any nationality unless in conversation with them.

 

We were on Phuket this year, and I saw/met one couple.  Only knew they was Russian, as the Aussie at the pool asked him where he was from.  

 

Although, with that observation, I can honestly say, more than 33% of the int'l tourist I met on Phuket were Russian.

 

Talked with 1 Iranian, 1 Aussie couple, and 1 Russian couple.

 

Since I'm an expat, wife/Thai, we don't count as int'l tourist.

 

So I can honestly say Phuket is being overrun with Iranians, Aussies & Russians ????

My old Swedish friend and I used to try guessing where farang were from, just by looking (and listening) Socks & sandals "probably British" ????

I found the hardest to be eastern Europeans due to their unintelligible languages! ????????

3 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

"that stuff" ?  more than a whiff of sour grapes to be sure

None whatsoever...

Been there, seen it, done it, bought loads of T-shirts.

1 minute ago, Bday Prang said:

its just age catching up with you, coupled with sour grapes

No sour grapes at all when the libido has been disappearing anyway. For the last 5 years that I lived in Thailand I never bothered with that stuff.