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After playing silly buggers at sea the Indian ship will re-dock at BKK for the crew to retrieve their stolen gold necklaces and get a complimentary HIV test.

Sub-standard products in a Chinese owned warehouse.....who would have guessed that.

They're investors

"Well it was a nice day out except for the standing in line bit and listening to bull$hit, otherwise it was a good laugh."

He wasn't on a spiritual path, more on a Vodka spirit path.

He can promise what he likes, by 2050 he will have retired.

Personally I think that their crystal ball is a fake one from China.

Sure, I always run away in panic when I see a policeman, they were up to no good.

Or drink, their world is put to rights on a bar stool.

A bear of little brain, as Winnie the Pooh would say. He certainly hasn't been doing his 'stout exercises'.

You can get your throat cut for writing like that.

Yes but not accidents. When my 16 year old son goes on school trips an extra insurance has to be paid to the school for instance. When he did a 12 day training course with the army, same thing, an insurance was part of the package.

These days one never knows.

That's not the way insurance works, out of your hypothetical 1 million tourists not even 0,01% would need hospital treatment for an accident and I think this insurance would only be for accidents, for an illness you would need your normal travel insurance. Your wife's '50 Baht system' only covers illness, not accidents. I think this move is positive why look down on any improvement that the government tries to make for tourists, there seems to be a system of damned if they do, damned if they don't here.

We can only hope he wasn't the one who started it

Somebody had an urgent case of gangrene.

Dangling wire snags Pattaya motorbike taxi driver by the neck.

Actually there is more slavery today than ever before so apparently it could be seen by some as ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

Power has a allure all of its own, always and everywhere. It has a special quality in Thailand, open, transparent, without shame, it has an amoral endearing charm about it.

From rags to riches in the west (for some) may have been true once but times have changed, in Europe and America most people live from pay cheque to pay cheque, rents have become almost unaffordable let alone buying a house. The amount of wealth has already been carved up and the greater part belongs to very few, the majority can scramble for the left over crumbs. This is why politics is becoming so extreme, people are starting to vote for extreme left or extreme right, any demagogue who will promise to clear away the swamp seems better than the status quo, there is no room for discourse any more. Politically Thailand's constraints are more open, there is no shame and so no need for the grey Eminence in the shadows who really control. Wealth disparity in Thailand is no different except that the people in general seem happier than those in the west. As for debt, that is usually a choice, although in America especially, many are having to use their credit cards at 20% interest just for basics whereas in Thailand it is for commodities, like a motorbike or a smart phone, the basics are mostly taken care of. Wealth disparity in the whole world is huge, it doesn't matter where one lives. History has shown that when it gets too great the guillotine gets erected or dictatorships in the guise of communism sweeps through the land compounding the misery. We live in interesting times.

Silly schemes abound in the West as well. You get 'raped' as a working person in the West. You can't pillage from the poor they haven't got anything to take. Every 3 months, what a grind.

Be realistic, the world's citizens are pragmatic and don't give a $hit.

So, a history of drug taking and mental illness and was still able to get a license as a taxi driver.

His visa extension is under consideration.

It's just a phase he's going through. My cousins son presented him with a credit card bill of 9,000 pounds and asked him to clear it for him, he lives in his own house that my cousin bought for him......entitlement issues.