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This is starting to become reminiscent of Red Guards actions in 2010.

I sincerely hope we are NOT headed down the same road!

Anti-corruption movements having little effect, survey finds

I hope they didn't pay too much for this survey report,.. I could have told them that for FREE!

Navy Seals,.. Undercover black ops??

Great job guys the whole 3 of you getting caught by the keystone cops!!!

This entire BKK shut down is a joke.

The police and the army are complicit in this,... they've virtually handed over the rule of the city to Suthep's PDRC group,...and all at the appointed hour on the appointed day. That should speak volumes about what's going on behind the scenes!

A positive would have to be the alternate solutions to the city's traffic problems. Rather amazing how it has cleared the streets and encouraged use of public transport.

"In Thailand, you can be too Hansum"

Yes,.. I know,,... and that's why I stay home and don't go out so much!

"I admit that we're not the majority voice, that we are not the voice of the whole nation. But no revolution is ever carried out by the majority," said Thirayuth.

Something never acknowledged by the obsessive, maniacal fringe. The strategy is not to reason, present an alternative, work for change but rather to bully, threaten and intimidate. It won't work

Well it won't work in terms of it being anything of a democratically sensible solution but then that's not the nature of a revolution.

In that regard I'd say that Thirayuth made a valid point even though I agree with your sentiment that ultimately that's not going to provide a practical solution for the political and governmental challenges facing Thailand.

"They have weapon, he said."

I don't think so,... Mark would never say something like that,.. he'd say "They have weapons" !

This is a crock of <deleted>!

What needs changing is the policies of the dept of education and all the protocols and pedagogical systems in place that keep the students of this country in a retrograde learning environment!

Give Thai teachers better training and give school dept heads more autonomy and license to work with foreign teachers in a more constructive and consultative manner instead of enforcing hen pecking command and control upon foreign teachers that can see what needs to be done and changed but are forced to tow the party line because that's the way it is and always has been!

More cheap talk and chest beating by the higher ups to justify their own existence and massage their egos by placing false blame and false cause.

EPIC FAIL,... go back and try again!

"to protect democracy which belongs to the people."

Well it would belong to the people if the government didn't hijack it and do as they pleased whilst running roughshod over the people and the democratic laws they are meant to uphold..... and this applies in western democratic countries was well,- it's endemic!

Natalie tour bus spotted on dangerous Phuket hill. It won't happen again, says tour firm

a spokesperson added ...we're willing to go over the top to ensure that this is the last time this will ever happen!

"The police have left. I have no idea where they are"

Oh,... I can help with that one,.. I saw a bunch of them this morning on the corner of the Superhighway and Festival shopping center Chiangmai stopping motorcyclists who were breaking the law!

This isn't unigue to Thailand. British troops did the same during the IRA troubles and I've seen it in Australia.

Yeah,... in Australia they're known as Federal coppers but I reckon they're dead giveaways with their arrogant swaggers and the pairing off of them into Starsky & Hutch lookalikes!

This is starting to remind me of the movie "Good Morning Vietnam",.... "will the enemy pleeeeaase start wearing clearly definable colors so that we can know who they are,.. and please don't pick colors that clash as we'll have enough trouble on our hands with all the fighting"

Q. When is a coup not a coup?

A. When the army blend in with the protesters!

I wonder if they'll try to camouflage the tanks and armored trucks as ice cream delivery vans?

hope this dumbass gets the maximum sentence.

Yes indeed,.. 500 baht fine and a slap on the wrist!

"Suthep said last night that there was no negotiation with the caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

"He said she now has one choice, to step down and leave the country."

If she goes north, do you have the balls to take your protests there?

She isn't going anywhere, fool. Though she may setup her government there, with or w/o a "coup" of various kinds occuring.

"If she goes north, do you have the balls to take your protests there?"

...oh please don't put suggestions in his mind. Things are nice and peaceful up here in CM and that's just the way we like it thanks!

actually,.. my wife spotted Yingluck and what appeared to be a couple of family members at the shopping mall a week or so ago. No crowds or protesters around,.. just a few people muttering "isn't that YL?" as she got closer to the checkouts.

She had a couple of minders with them on walkie talkies so it would appear that security had the situation covered.

Apart from that,.. just another Hi-So out for a bit of shopping (groceries this time).

Democrats to charge PM Yingluck with election fraud

... 2 and a half years too late!

What would you do if there is no Thai Visa Forum?

Get more work done!

The trouble is that most Thais tend to think that their junk furniture is a thing of beauty.

We looked at a house recently where the owner told us delightedly that he had a house for sale in a nice part of CM.

He described it as big and spacious with a great garden and close to everything.

The way he described it I was expecting to see a brand new house with mod cons and manicured garden.

When we arrived it was about 10 to 15 years old. Had been empty for a year, the garden full of meter high weeds and the inside full of cobwebs, dirt, some rising damp, flaking paint, missing hot water units in showers,.. and the kitchen which he said he'd had specially put in was an empty add on room at the back with no benches and just a tap sticking out of the wall. It was 12kmlm to the nearest shopping center and about 3klms off the beaten track.

Here's the thing though,.. after showing us around it with a delighted look on his face he turned to my wife and said "Suay Mai?" (beautiful yes?) at which I was almost flabbergasted. He truly thought he was showing us something that we'd be falling in love with at first sight.

It had potential but realistically he was asking at least 700,000 baht more than it was worth given all the work that needed doing but try telling him that!

I wouldn't in a pink fit attempt to ever show a property like that and expect a favorable result.

Goodness only know how their minds work with such things!

Love how everyone throws around the "D" word (Democracy). And none of them know the true meaning of it.

Including those in the "democratic" west who are living under totaltiatrian and dictatorial rule as free slaves to debt and the unconstitutional laws that have been methodically introduced over recent times and thus only offering a pale illusion of democracy when really its an autocratic fascist system under which they live!

True democratic government in this world is something that is virtually nonexistent. It is an illusion created by the elite to keep the masses happy and keep them voting in legion after legion of self interested and power wielding nutjobs that really only care for their own power and the control that goes with it.

"The number of Chinese tourists visiting the resort island of Phuket will plunge 40 percent in January, the president of the Tourism Council of Thailand, Piyaman Tejapaibul, told reporters yesterday."

Well I suppose that means a jump in prices for everything in Phuket during January once the "customers down - prices up" policy is applied!

If Supongdeth's story is correct with regards to the deceased having threatened him and approached with a weapon then it couldn't be murder as it was not a premeditated cold blood killing. It surely would have to be defined as a manslaughter?

That's if his story is valid and there was no ulterior premeditated motive.

For the most part this topic is irrelevant, most houses and apartments are only wired with 2 core. So you can fit a 3 pin socket change plugs to your hearts content but you are not getting any earthing. The houses do not have earthing, you would need to have the building rewired with 3 core and an 'earth spike' fitted outside. Just an observation, not trying to flame or antagonize.

That is a good point and one which home purchasers and renters need to be aware of when moving in and setting up home.

However,.. its not a mute topic at all when the OP is referring to the fact that big ticket appliances are not being shipped with standard three point pins as they should be.

Anyone plugging in an appliance into a wall that only has a 2 pin plate is asking for trouble.

At the very least, a good precaution is to have a tip switch box fitted to compensate for bad wiring configurations.

Yep,.. we had the same with the brand new dishwasher. The electrician got a shock from it when setting it up for us.

We had to put our own 3 pin earth plug on it as the standard Thai was a 2 pin and most unsafe.

Amazing Shocking Thailand!

"D-Day" for Suthep???