Old Croc

Have to be unlucky. On monday I was sitting outside on the veranda watching the rain when lightning struck the road about 20- 30 meters away. The noise and shock was massive and my body was tingling and shaking for some seconds afterwards. We had a violent storm the day before which damaged buildings, flattened crops, brought down trees and snapped off 2 concrete electricity poles near our property. Loei Province.

It's hard to keep up, there's a backlog of incidents that need highlighting.

One of the consequences of a country invading,conquering and plundering other weaker nations in the past is the intergration of those peoples into their citizenry in modern times, There's something like 5m French citizens and residents with origins in North Africa. Not all from the colonies are beautiful maidens from Reunion Island.

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Hahaha. If he's training in martial arts his gym needs to be converted to a yoga and wellness center for their gross incompentence.

Great advice for normal thinking people considering retirement in a country other than their own. Completely wasted on idiots who can't even remember the name of their hotel and think their workplace and other people should be their personal entertainment venues and directors.

Felt it near Dan Sai. Loei. Had just sat down in a lazyboy and it kept rocking and shaking in weird directions. My wife didn't feel a thing.

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Used to take allipurinol (zyloprim), but still had attacks which I countered by increasing colchocin until it caused the runs, which stopped attacks. As stated in Thailand everyone has a tendancy to flap their wings when they find out you have gout, but chicken is no higher in purines than most other meats Lists are available on line giving purine levels for most types of food. Avoid the high level ones. My Uric acid level was 9 when I started taking febuxostat (Uloric) it nows sits around 4. Much more expensive than alipuinol, but for many considerably better.

I've lived here for 15 years, never started a fight in my life. I am a month shy of my 77th birthday. However, I can recognise there are many silly old farts here without identifying myself,or you, as one.

In my experience people nearly always exaggerate (or downplay) their version of an event particularly when talking with the media. There is much more to this than the Brits have revealed in their sympathy seeking interviews. I don't know what happened or who started the physicality, although it's clear how it ended. You don't have to look far into Pattaya or Patong news videos to find silly old farts starting fights with bouncers or whatever. It rarely ends well. There's no doubt the other couple went way too far in the altercation. They admitted blame and paid compensation. They didn't mention it, but presumably the old couple accepted some payment after the police took their cut. The Thai legal system is based on English Common Law but with their own versions built in. Many crimes and disputes are settled with agreed compensation without resorting to charges and courts. It generally works well for both parties. That charges were leveled at the old couple suggests they were more involved in the initial dispute than they admit. It doesn't indicate a corrupt breakdown of the Thai legal system. The couple were never going to be jailed, that was part of their sympathy seeking version. The Thai supreme court recently ruled that leases can only be for a 30 year period, any extension has to be renogotiated after that time. This will have upset many people all over Thailand particularly so in the HH region where many developers have been hawking 90 year leases.

Shackling of prisoners was common in Thai prisons until quite recently. It's still done with dangerous prisoners in the US. In the UK it's more of a sexual practise than crime punishment These guys entered illegally, were involved in drug running and attempted escape and were stupid enough to do doughnuts in a car thereby attracting attention to themselves. When they started singing I bet the cops wished they also had gags.

Why dont you declare your love and obscesion on his YT comments page and not cause many here to vomit in their mouth?

Soi Ta-Iad in Phuket is well known as the Fight and Fitness street because of its many gyms and training centers for martial arts devotees. Tough guys, some of whom dont necessarily stay on the right side of the law, and others who use roids, etc., flock there from all over the planet to train. Many would be reluctant to approach a naked nut case there because of the chance they may think you're looking for trouble.

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