Guitar God

What makes you think that? The cops have video evidence he was in the area at the time, and he confessed.

Like I said, what could they offer an innocent person to confess to murder?

"Here's 1m baht. Lie and say you did it, oh, and you'll be executed by a firing squad next week, are you cool with that ?

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Why am I not suprised a Burmese man got pulled in and forced to confess? This stinks of a set up. The international pressure on the police meant this was going to happen.

I wish I'd know this before I ordered toilets for our house. At least I got the ones that are smooth on the outsides of the base instead of the ones where you have crevices and crannies on the sides of the base and you can see the outline of the "S" trap.

So much cynicism here. There are loads of unsolved murder cases in all of your home countries and I don't see any threads complaining about the UK "Keystone cops".

Natalie Holloway (sp?) the US student who was murdered many years ago and the police there and in the Netherlands don't have a clue.

The police in Koh Tao are investigating a crime, they went down the wrong path a couple times but they kept investigating and now they have someone in custody who confessed.

What kind of deal are they going to make to an innocent person who confesses to rape and multiple murder who will be executed if found guilty. How could they coerce someone to confess, what could they threat to do that's worse than a firing squad ? Unless the accused is a serial confessor to crimes he didn't commit, I'd tend to believe his confession.

Wait for the "DNT" (sic) tests and other forensic work to cone in before you posit your own complicated conspiracy theories, unless you don't mind being told "I told you so" by the other people here.

Wish I had the camera contract for Thailand.

It's a good example of the futility of the drug war.

If they can't keep them out of prisons, how can they keep them out of the country?

I have a Nolan modular with 2 vents and sun visor inside the visor and a Nolan 3/4 helmet. I hit the pavement hard with the 3/4 and didn't get a scratch on me or even get a headache. Without it I would have been dead or brain damaged.

I see no good reason why not to wear a helmet.

This should have been translated into Thai a long time ago.

I have an LG DVD HD recorder that wasn't region free. I searched on the internet and found a site with codes to unlock DVD players. I entered a number, hit enter and it now plays anything and everything.

If you find one you like, search online to see if there is an unlock code listed anywhere.

On the Zenith, the "Enema Cleansing" function feels like someone's trying (unsuccessfully) to ram a hot knitting needle up your anal aperture, even at the lowest water force setting. Tried it once, that was enough. It's the only button I warn visitors not to touch.

Thanks for the links. I'll contact Toto to see if they can direct me to a dealer.

On the other site, the Clean Butt Bidet Spa CB-7500R looks identical to the Zenith I have at another house, except for the remote and the fact it's a lot more expensive than the one I got in Europe.

I noticed that the Clean Butt Bidet Spa CB-7500R has been superseded by the Brondell Swash 1000 Premium Bidet. The CB-7500R itself replaced the old Assmaster 5000.

I should have bought one when I was in Tokyo, I can't find them anywhere in Thailand. When I ask at home improvement stores or the plumber working on our house they look at me like I'm asking for a time machine or a vial or unicorn tears.

Has anyone found a place in Thailand, preferably in the Northeast, to buy a good quality toilet seat with adjustable sprayers, heated water and warm air ass dryer?

Home Pro has a very basic one, cold water, no adjustment and no dryer and it looks like it would last a week before it fell apart. I think the display model was broken before it was even ever used.

I've had one at my place in Europe for 5 years and never had a problem with it.

As mentioned above, solar heating of water will reduce your consumption. That technology is more efficient now than photovoltaic cells. My new house has LED lights everywhere we can use them, more efficient and they can be dimmed and last for years. Fan palms are good for shading the 2nd story. Clumping giant bamboo will provide shade for the west side of our house. I wish Thailand would do more to encourage the use of alternate energy sources, we've sure got enough sunlight here.

I think the simple answer is that you'd need a bit more than the largest system (5.88kw) because your average monthly bill is 4500 and their ad, which I'm assuming are based on the average price per Kwh, and the ad says it will save you 4200 a month.

The 5880w setup plus an extra set of 5x280w panels and grid-tie should net you a 0 baht p/m bill.

The pay-back time may be long but in my opinion it's worth it to have no electric bill for the life of the house. If you sell the house, it's going to be worth more so the math isn't just a matter of initial cost vs savings per month.

There's other things when building or making improvements on a home than just ROI. What's the ROI on my 160k carport? What's the ROI on my higher ceilings, what's the ROI on my pool?

Spending 300k now is peanuts to never see an electric bill for the rest of my life. I'd rather have it paid up front while I have extra money and not have to worry in 10 years that I don't have an extra 5ka month for energy bills.

Except for repairs and moo baan tax I can live there for free, I have a big enough garden to keep me in veggies and Mrs.God in som tam to be almost completely self-sufficient. Ikke som fornuftig?

Bangkok bank offered me a whole life insurance policy where you pay 600k a year for 7 years (4.2M total), they give me back 80k every year and at the end of the 7 years they give me 3.7 M back.

All the while I have a 4M life insurance that increases every other year after 7 years to 5M or 6M.

Seems like a pretty good deal to me. Beats the hell out of 1.1% pa interest in a fixed account.

Where did you read that the man was sodomized?

I still suspect this was a gang rape. Reports said there was semen in two of the woman's cavities and one of the man's.

Surely by now they now how many different DNA profiles there are in those 3 samples?

A Thai tool was the murder weapon?

Someone drowned or tried to drown the man before he was hacked?

Wearing a helmet saved my life twice.

I had one minor accident when not wearing a helmet, 18cm radial skull fracture and concussion put me in the hospital for a week and I lost my olfactory sense. Had two worse accident when wearing a helmet, higher speed, harder impact and slammed my head into the ground at speed and didn't even get a headache, broke six other bones the last time though.

There is an assumption here that wearing a helmet prevents death from motorcycle accidents. Is that a valid assumption?

Theoretical pseudo science?

Colorado legalizes cannabis and within 6 months, crime drops 10%, violent crime drops by 5%. Deaths by opiate painkiller ODs are down 25% and the state has collected $30 million in taxes and between 10,000 and 15,000 new jobs were created.

2005 Portugal legalized all drugs, hard drug use and OD rates are one of the lowest in Europe.

In the 70's The Netherlands decriminalized marijuana and hash and allowed their controlled sale. Marijuana use among teens is about half the rate of prohibitionist countries like the US, France and Sweden. Meth use is practically unheard of, as are narcotic OD's. They do have a high rate of MDMA use though.

Not theory, facts and all these countries are right here on earth.

Some people use dangerous drugs because safer, bulkier alternatives aren't available. When cannabis use rises, alcohol and hard drug use decreases. There are many reliable references on the internet with results of these studies. Take away the allure of illegal drugs and interest in using them decreases. Make safer drugs available at places that deal only in those drugs and people are no longer exposed to criminal dealers who push coke, ya ba, heroin, meth etc. on them.

Back in the 80's, comedian Sam Kinison said (yelled actually) as a joke " Give us back our pot and we'll stop smoking crack". Funniest part of the joke was that he turned out to be right.

Legalize, regulate quality and apply taxes. Safer for the user and financially beneficial for the state. Let's get our class A drugs back to the high standard their category implies, instead of the badly manufactured rubbish the off duty coppers are pushing nowadays.

You obviously haven't had to deal with on a daily basis, or have seem the scourge that class A drugs are on Thai society.

The deaths, the destroyed lives and the huge negative impact on Thai society and the economy are very real!

Please take your theoretical pseudo science and leave it on Mars, cause it don't work on earth

My impression of the post was that it was someone, who happened to be a lawyer, giving advice about changes in adherence to existing rules to help people avoid annoyance and complications. I doubt many people here hire attorneys to get married. It's not like it was a shameless plug or anything.

I got married here in February at Bangrak and they told us not to bring witnesses.

I wonder who will go on record of being the first Californian busted for possession of a single use plastic bag?

Usually it's the contents, not the container that cause the legal problems.

People usually plan to go grocery shopping, it's not that hard to plan to bring a bag. It seems wasteful to use a bag for a few minutes then throw it away. 7-11 automatically starts putting everything in bags whether you want it or not, can of pop, bottle of water, ready to eat pizza slice..

A customs broker I use in Europe can hold imported goods without me paying any duty until I remove it. It's held where it's physically in the country but technically not there tax wise.

What I don't understand is why a company would spend millions speculating on cars they don't have buyers for and have them sit for (16) years when most of those cars have none or a short wait list and the could take orders and sell when the have a buyer.

Why is imported property that is subject to tarrif duties/import taxes allowed to be stored in private warehouses instead of a government customs facilities where there would (theoretically) be assurances of adequate security and accountability? For the average person in Thailand purchasing property that is imported there is very specified handling of the property by customs to assure collection of taxes before release. Thailand needs to reform whatever deficiences there are that allowed these supercars (and no doubt similar high value properties) to disappear as quick as it writes blank checks for budget expendictures.

I'm looking forward to it because I just smashed my iPhone 5 and it's irreparable and I need a new one to restore my data to so I don't have to keep using my old iPhone 4s which is missing recent phone numbers, photos, conversations, notes etc.

I've never owned any Apple laptops or desktops but my iPhone is the closest thing I have to magic. Navigation, spoken translation and recognition, dictation, currency exchange, banking, song identification, agenda, remote viewing of all my ip security cameras, home control, plus all the standard phone/text features.

A while ago cinemas used to have glassed-in crying rooms in the back of the theater so when mom thought her 6 month old baby would enjoy watching The Unsinkable Molly Brown as much as she did and it cried instead, she could move to the soundproofed room so as not to spoil the cinematic experience for the people who paid their $3.75.

Airlines on the other hand let babies fly for free and move them to bulkhead seats, directly behind first class or business class so the people who paid $4000 for a lie-flat bed do they could sleep can enjoy the crying too.

I was on a 12 hour flight from AMS to Bangkok and in the middle if the night, some guy from coach decided that walking through business class was the best thing to do to help quiet his screaming baby.

To all you who fly with infants and toddlers: Please stop doing it!

Isn't there a lovely boat trip from OZ to BKk?

So yes OP, there is an ignore feature here. In your settings, under "Manage ignore prefs".

I had a friend on FB who would post about current weather, health updates, bowel movements, grocery list and especially, every bit of bad luck she had, in excruciatingly long comments. It took minutes more just to scroll through my timeline because of her.

I clicked "don't show on timeline" and it's saved me loads of time and annoyance. If I'm bored I can always go to her page and read what I missed.

Just ignore these people who don´t understand irony. We need to approach life with a bit of a smile and a big sense of humor. Those who doeasn´t get that, is probably people you have to stay away from.

My life philophosy is cencentrated in 3 sentences:

1: Stay away from people who doesn´t like to joke

!: Stay away from people who doesn´t like a good meal and a drink.

2:Stay away from people who hate animals.

:-)

4.Stay away from the intake of jet engines and wood chippers or anything radioactive.