Saladin

OK, she got off the hook this time but she is definitely responsible for global warming, the war in Syria, and any shortcomings of the current military government.

I am not remotely religious but games like this are just stirring up trouble, as if we don't have enough religious strife already in the world.

Trump should distance himself from ALL fascist thugs including those from the Middle East, and not just American White Supremacists  and Nazis

Into the cooking pot

On 9/7/2017 at 4:23 PM, elektrified said:

Why even bother with Thannon Nimmanhaemin? I only step foot in the area perhaps 4 times a year. Never anywhere to park. Easy to avoid. No?

Not if you live in Nimman

Dear Mr Governor, development of the Nimmanhaemin area is proceeding at a frenetic pace. In nearly every Soi there are new condo blocks, shops and restaurants going up like mushrooms. In Nimmanhaemin Road three new hotels will have opened during 2017. This is the most vibrant and upmarket area in all Chiang Mai, and Council rates and taxes must be flowing into government coffers like monsoon rains.

Why then are the footpaths/sidewalks the worst in Chiang Mai? The 500 metre stretch from Soi 6 to Huaykeow Road cannot be navigated without the risk of injury on the road from kamikaze bike riders. It is littered with obstructions that include parked motorbikes, advertising signs embedded in the concrete, unused telephone boxes, dead trees, tables and chairs set up by roadside food vendors, bags of rubbish, concrete blocks, etc., and the new McDonalds is one of the worst offenders. A fixture was recently removed from outside the big 7/11 near Soi 6, leaving the supporting bolts exposed. I expected to see the bolts cut off before the footpath was patched up but instead they were left in place and entombed in a 15 cm mound of concrete.

This eyesore cannot have gone unnoticed by affluent local Thai residents and those who frequent the area. And it is certainly noticed by the thousands of Chinese tourists who patrol Nimmanhaemin Road every day. Who needs to go trekking when they have Nimmanhaemin Road? What will they tell people when they get back home?

So where is the money sir? This disgrace can only be as the result of the sheer incompetence of civic authorities, lack of accountability, or straight out corruption. May I respectfully ask that you please ask whoever ended up with the loot to return sufficient of it to at least fix the footpaths.

Mister Prayut - the people democratically elected Thaksin  - they didn't elect you.

Perfectly normal as it was in the West until fairly recently, when the widespread use of computers by Big Brother created a proliferation of government paper pushers costing $billions, complicating daily life, and producing nothing.

8 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

There is a lot of tough talk, I hate the phrase but this is real 'keyboard warrior' gold...  

 

.... I'm loving the 'social vigilante' aspect of guys who are dumb enough to walk around with this sense of righteousness when they judge others not to have taken their required degree of responsibility to have moved their 50% out of the way.... Almost as if these buffoons are walking around looking for the problem rather than being part of the solution by simply doing what everyone else does... as another, far more mentally balanced poster put it... ducking & weaving, avoiding contact and simply fitting in with society.

 

 

 

 

Richard, I am afraid that your meek and mild complacency is part of the problem, not the solution.

On 9/6/2017 at 9:52 AM, Jingthing said:

Yes,  the antifungal pills have liver toxicity issues. I'd have to be more desperate than I am now to consider that. 

But you only need take them for a day or two

The young Chinese tourists are the worst for this. I now do not deviate if they are blocking the footpath fixed on their phones. I make a point of continuing on my course and push through if there are several of them or gently bump an individual, not aggressively but just to wake them up.

I was told by usually reliable sources that he and Yingluck had eloped

I had the problem many years ago and was treating it with all sorts of ointments and powders for several weeks without success - they just aggravated it. Then a doctor diagnosed it as fungal tinea and prescribed some tablets (I don't remember what) and it cleared up within a day.

What a disappointing  fizzog Aung San Suu Kyi has proved to be after all those years. It seems that nothing has changed in Burma.

Unbelievable - Thailand is hardly a sexually repressed society. What sort of creatures does this village produce.

I am not suggesting that Hua Hin should put in lots of go go bars but that's the only way it will ever compete with Pattaya for tourist numbers

Obvious accident

To be on the safe side why don't you vary the value of the deposits each time so as not to create a pattern that search engines can find and keep them below $10,000.

Without naming anybody, questions in my mind 'are laws that are put into effect under an illegitimate government in any country (overthrow of a democratically elected government) considered legal under international law? Can a future democratically elected government just declare any such laws null and void?'

Sure - if they put in lots of go-go bars

I would like to see the US shoot down any missiles that fly over South Korea or Japan which would really send a message to Fat Boy. That they don't, indicates to me that the technology is not reliable enough to achieve success.

If I was Yingluck I would have done a runner too, given that her offsider got 42 years in the can, which is a sentence you wouldn't even get for mass murder in the West.

The trial is over. Today was just supposed to be for the Court to deliver its verdict. Why does it need to be postponed for a month?

I always saw Turkey as the big hope of rapprochement between Islam and the rest of the world, the enlightened Ataturk being one of my heroes. I appreciated how and why the cancer of religion was kept firmly under control

by  responsible governments. Then along came Erdogan The Spoiler, who has set Turkey and its goals back by decades. Despite the fact that the Turkish Intelligence agencies were apparently taken completely by surprise by the failed coup attempt against him, 50,000 people have subsequently been detained. This arrogant dictator must go ASAP so that Turkey can get back on track.

I see Miss Universes every hour or so in Thailand. After four years pf living here the natural beauty and charm of Thai women never ceases to amaze me.