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Like the Duke 200 and its pricing. I predict a promo price of 390k baht.

The queue of rich-kid Thai 17 year olds will be around the block.

Looks like it would suddenly transform, stand up and run away.

I'll take mine in all orange thanks.

Oh land of the free

How to stay in Thailand long term?

After 3 years of consecutive Non-Imm Visas/Extensions apply for PR.

Bring lots of money.

And the money? Bet that doesn't reappear.

It's been released on bail.

Looks like mafia. I think the BiB will be polite in discussing just who he is and who he is doing business with before deciding whether it will be the the token 500b fine, beaten with clubs, or tied to a chair with a car battery attached to the gonnads.

Oh man, he's cooked.

A transfer to police station 10km as punishment awaits. *shudder*

Some officials will have big new s-classes to drive to the temple to release some fish and turtles with their family.

Schadenfreude is taking joy in the misery of others; taking joy in what you think is or should be the misery of others is something I have only ever encountered on this website.

I think in the west it's also known as Gloating. Yes we often hear on this site in Thai, "Som nam na" or if someone gets ripped off: "You were stupid you deserved it" now what satisfaction does someone get out of a mindless statement like that?

Schadenfreude means something different to the example you gave.

For example we were in T-shirt stall in a market. The wife was browsing, I said how about that one, the I love my DJ t-shirt. Quick as a flash the other Thai woman there looked up and grabbed it. Held it up in front of us and her for about 30 seconds looking over it, then with the biggest smile you could imagine bought it in front of us.

Schadenfreude, makes me laugh more than anything else, what a pitiful people.

So the OP moved here at age 25, and is now aged 57.

During which time he has learned to:

Be far more tolerant of others.

understand that the moment is everything.

Accept certain things.

Seeing the good in everything.

Enjoy whatever life I have, irrespective.

I would say that 100% of 57 years olds have learned all that and much more compared to when they were 25 years old.

Country has nothing to do with it.

Cultural, Buddhist paradise.

As for team money.

I'm sure the legal proceeds will be shared around a little for all the extra work and not just flow instantly upwards.

Everyone happy, they have the national coverage of them towing away cars. Time for some black label and a new 18 yr old mia noi.

My wife told me they used to burn these drugs in public. Now they don't.

So I'm assuming they are providing a safe passage and gaining promotion (and money!) at the same time? Thats a win win.

How much were hundreds of Thais caught paying to cheat on the Police Entrance Exam last year paying again? 300,000 baht right.

For a job that starts at 8,000 b p/m

Teachers were caught too, cheating on their entrance exams.

Don't ever forget what sort of society and people we are dealing with.

When I ask someone "do you have a boyfriend?" And they reply น่าเกลียด ?

'Two thousand baht.'

Just looking at those photos in the OP I can see how much it is helping the over crowded road.

I drove along by Kaset today and all the no parking signs were up on the pavement. No one was parking. So it was full of stopped taxis with their engines running, vendors had their stalls out there, etc.

most English teachers I know havent washed their bikes in about a year, and when I ask when they last changed their oil, look amazed like its some form of black magic....and dont even suggest checking the tire pressure, their brains may explode.

Come on dude, that's no way to talk about LL.

If that was Detol it might just start to clean the scum off.

Why do they bother having courts here?

As a multi billion $ business?

In a similar vein I have put in some shelving in my tiny little mancave/workshop which involved drilling into the concrete walls.

I was just buying masonry drill bits from the local mom and pop store as I could not be bothered to trek over the brightside and they were cheap at 20b a pop but they only lasted 4 holes till they were <deleted>.

did 3 trips/walks to buy more over the course of an afternoon mumbling about the cheap crap that fails....4th trip/walk old matey says "No Hab"..... Iam like FARKKKKK I dont wanna have to go to Home Pro to buy some then he tells me he has some in the same size but are expensive (80b)........ anywho I grab 2 of them and the first one drilled more holes than the 3 other cheap cheap ones I earlier purchased and looks like it has never been used.....

Go figure.

There's a simple saying: buy expensive, cry only once.

They can't even compute preventative maintenance of their heads by putting on a helmet, what hope is there of them maintaining bits of metal they can't even see.

I like when they're driving with one hand so the other one can block the Sun from their eyes..... how many decades does it take of doing that before one realizes there is a better way.

My God, the realization that one isn't held in the highest respect or even liked very much.

The shock.

Don't they know what you Westerners have done for us little brown people!

My God, the realization that some foreigners understand the insulting langauge some Thais are addressing them with.

Yet still they're here, paying Thais a salary to live with them. They must have very deep self-esteem issues.

Yet they have enough money for pink furry dice and gold pizza-cutter rims.

Some Thais' attitudes to motorcycle maintenance

If it isn't completely broken, don't spend a single baht on it. No new oil, no new brake pads, no new filters, no new tires until they split.

When it breaks, patch it up and sell it.

My God, the realization that one isn't held in the highest respect or even liked very much.

The shock.

Don't they know what you Westerners have done for us little brown people!