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How can there be national prosperity with 36 trillion of debt and interest payments using up most of the tax revenues, to me it looks like disaster whoever is in charge.

No need to wait, 2,500 years ago Buddha showed there is 'no self'

Yes I suppose it was, it was just my reaction to the ridiculous situation these people put themselves in, it's something Monty Python could have thought up, let's all strip down to our underwear, take drugs and get pissed and see what happens. What could happen is that someone falls from a balcony or dies from a mixture of drugs and alcohol and his friends and family are shocked saying what a loss, how could this happen, he was such a wonderful person.

Not in my underwear but otherwise I'd have nothing to fear.

So that's what a gay scene looks like, they don't look the least bit happy.

He was worried about getting sacked, I think he's just about nailed that.

Rather funny but you had to be there.

Never, my life is OK.

The assailant who brought the gunman down was heard to shout "Greetings from Sheffield"

Not in Isaan, kids everywhere.

Be fair, she doesn't make them wear a yellow star....yet

Who won the boat race last year?

No, in bed by 11pm. At least your alternative wouldn't cause him to be shot in the stomach. I'm not turning my back on reality, having raised and am still raising teenagers I know how difficult control is, my 17 year old son is always on his computer talking with his international friends across several time zones, this means he is talking away until 1 or 2 am despite having school the next day but I set limits and he knows there will be arguments when I catch him, I'm just thankful that at least I know where he is.

Why is a 14 year old out in the early hours of the morning, shouldn't the police also be looking at the parents?

She's planning for her future.....and it doesn't include you.

Brake failure.......even the police use that excuse now.

If you still have good health and sufficient income just about everything is better in old age, ones state of mind is also important of course. Realizing that 'I am' refers to conscious awareness , not the body mind complex and your innate connection to all things comes later in life when one has more time for spirituality and you no longer have the pressures of the daily grind. Old age is freedom. I'm 76 and love it.

Just another day another nutter.

Then you should be consequential and leave because they wont change for you.

Their country their choice, for all the chaos here I still prefer to live here than in my adopted country Germany with their strict obedience to law and order or my home country where you can be arrested for upsetting someone online. Chaos has a charm of its own, one just has to know its unwritten rules and be willing to accept the consequences, banging on the table saying they should be like farangs is hopeless.....and I like them the way they are.

If you are you are entitled to fail at trying to alter Thai society within your lifetime......but be careful not to tread on anyone's toes, it could end badly, more than one has come a cropper for trying to end corruption or trying to change the political arena. Societies systems and customs grow biologically, Thailand has lots of good laws in its books but if they aren't accepted by the people they are pointless, have you never seen policemen directing traffic in front of a school so that 12 year old kids without helmets can drive their motorbikes out of the school yard? It becomes accepted behaviour when the people say its OK, laughable to think a falang can change anything and why should they, they are here by choice.

yes, he's dead.

You adjust to the society you live in and accept it for what it is, are you going to end corruption? change the school system? change the driving habits? It's not your country.

only worry about things you can change....Marcus Aurelius.

Whatever.