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One of my old friends, a quiet man,married with two grown up sons, served in Kenya in the 1950s against the Mau Mau. Just once, he told me what his troop did when they went into a supposedly Mau Mau village, and which I will not repeat here. I would suggest that when armies are exposed to eyeball to eyeball clashes, civilisation goes out of the window to some extent. Especially when you don't know who your enemy is. I am not making excuses but condemn Governments and leaders who encouraged these atrocities but just trying to visualise the troop's on the grounds state of mind. Sadly I am sure many of them went into a killing frenzy. I am also sure that various nations and their cultures act more or less violently than others.

My husband is always going for me, i don't need to go myself. He just takes my passport, his ID and i think he takes the marriage certificate as well - not sure. Anyway, you do not need to go yourself.

Maybe Immigration would be more amenable because he is a Thai man and you a mere woman in their eyes.

How did the BIB come to the conclusion that he died due to work or love? Is this another one of their 'shoot from the lip' guesses?

Don't tough any hairy caterpillars! They sting like mad and it lasts for some time.

Must be a hell of a work to find the U Boot.......

Unless they checked this website.... all about U Boots

Perhaps you should google the book title

The ideal woman in Nazi Germany was expected to be a good mother and had white skin, blond hair, blue eyes and delicate features. And a black mustache!

My first ever "ride" was in a potato field many years ago..............memories

Not my first but in Germany surrounded by potato plants infested with Colorado beetles.

It looks like the gang have had their chips!

When you get 'hit and missed' and argue, you know it will end in tears. A sad short marriage. She will live with it forever. RIP.

If my memory serves me right wasn't a certain absconded Prime Ministers' son let off from paying what was considered the correct amount of tax ?I wonder if that will be investigated again?

Did they travel on a trunk road? A good proof reader?

Yeah all those 60+ beer gut falangs drinking and smoking in the streets do look like true athletes.

Pontius, you are pontificating!

Gold medal in ping pong?

“rude, insolent, insulting, impolite, impertinent, unpolished, gross, unpleasant and downright impudent”. But other than that, he is not a bad bloke.

The report I read was that he said the fight was fixed and implied that the gamblers ran the rigging?

That's eggcellent and eggciting news.

You must be yoking.

Is it just me, or has the level of bizarre nonsensical statements emanating from the Thai authorities exploded since the supposed leap into a new realm of happiness a few months back? It's like the "think before you speak" meme has been abolished in Thai officialdom.

I don't think 'Think before you speak" has ever applied to Thailand.

Dragged to the one in central opposite fortune town this week, I don't eat meat but even if I did I would actually expect the food to be cooked for me in a restaurant. Overpriced but full of people, how do they get away with it? The staff sing an awful song at one point, went to s&p while they got through it.

Seriously, you left the restaurant for a short period because of a song they sang? Was it the happy birthday song?

Not the happy birthday song. At MK, they make the entire staff do dance routines to their corporate theme song

The food is about as good as the singing

The Morning Glory they're talking about here is not the mis-translated morning glory ("booa bok") that appears on a lot of Thai menus that are in English. The true Morning Glory's seeds actually contain a chemical compound that is very similar to LSD and they give the same psychedelic effect to those who eat them.

I would imagine that a few posters will be searching for some seeds to prove your statement.

Philistines! When my nephew got stung by jellyfish the locals advised us to apply the juice of crushed morning glory. It worked.

I thought it was the courts that decided whether they will be found guilty of the crime. It would seem that the prison governor has made his decision already? The Thai justice system?

How will they prove that they have been offered a bribe? Or won't they need to? The latter I should think. This going to open a whole bag of worms

So now we have sunk so low that we have to pay the police for being honest.

Life's not much fun is it.