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Defending yourself from within is better than being outside the sphere of influence.

I can agree with that, I have been in our village in Isaan for almost 20 years, everybody knows me, I'm a fixture in the village, I'm regarded as 'one of them' as far as being a village member is concerned but not as a member of Thai society.

That's no different to anywhere else, my father had an Egyptian business partner, a naturalized British citizen, he had been in the country for over 40 years and spoke English without an accent. He and my father were close friends. He was at our house for dinner one day and I was in the kitchen with my mother when we heard the two of them talking about business practices in different countries, they imported a lot, when the business partner said, 'we British........" my mother gave out a chuckle. She didn't consider him British although my family and his (wealthy) family had known each other socially for 10 years.

Like many may be addicted to drugs and can barely read or write.

It's probably where she works anyway.

The girls seem to be the only ones with any sense.

Brits do have a propensity for being in the news for all the wrong reasons.

What a coarse fellow.

Nothing to do with quality, it is untested in this environment, air intake and exhaust outlets will be standard, I can't understand the fuss.

The brat wont taunt him again, nothing wrong with a slap that caused no injury, it's possibly the first time he had been disciplined in his life.

You win some, you lose some. She has made somebody very happy, maybe completely changed someones life for the better, the causal flow of life is a mysterious thing.

Why 'low quality' engine? isn't it a copy of a successful German engine? The engineering process to produce it won't be much different from the Germans.

The guardian angels shirking again, how like them. God will have a get out clause, he was being mysterious.

eloquently put.

Normally you need economic growth to pay off the country's foreign debt. As the now deceased Bavarian minister president Strauss once said, "growth is not everything but without growth there is nothing". Children are the next generation to pay the pensions of the old, they will be the future service providers, fire brigade, police, doctors, nurses etc. Fewer people doesn't mean you need fewer services, fewer plumbers, fewer electricians, fewer road workers but it does mean there are less taxes to pay for all this. Less consumption means lower production numbers which in turn will cause prices to rise. An infrastructure made for 80 million people will fall apart if the numbers drop to 40 million. Old vulnerable people who have no children to help them will need more support from the state but where are the nurses and money to come from.....Sub-Saharan people, they are the only ones with a population growth.....I can just imagine the nashing of gums from the oldies then.

Makes their make-up run and causes the silicon to swell, makes them stink a bit as well

He's got some investments in Grimsby

That cleared up his sinuses.

To tell a lie is also a sin.

No change because it's all about money, the knuckledraggers bring in more money than old and middle aged eco tourists, not much profit in a round of herbal tea, kick out the filth and the locals will complain about loss of income. Stricter 'boots on the ground' policing to dissuade bad behaviour, not just retro acting after a crime has been committed could help somewhat but Thais should also look closer to home, some of this bad behaviour will have been caused by Thais themselves, rip offs and aggressive lady-boys invites violence.

No point in getting upset about politics, it's all swings and roundabouts. As Mark Twain once said, "If voting made any difference it wouldn't be allowed"

The knives are out in the den of thieves.

He didn't give the Abbot time to put on his amulet.

God as such didn't die, 'he' is just viewed more realistically as a field of consciousness which doesn't care about your beliefs while Marxism was just a reaction to the cruelty of rampant unrestricted capitalism supported by the church, even the ancient Sumerien civilization was more benevolent to its people than the West during the Victorian era. Even today 20% of the population in the UK is on or below the poverty level, chavs are made not born.

Considering the millions of tourists who come to Thailand each year the number of reports in the media about misbehaving idiots is percentage wise extremely small.