Jeremy50

That video with it's dreadful teary music and obsequious fawning participants was hard to watch, I just wanted to punch the guy. Go home the lot of you, and get a life.

It's not difficult to spot the unsafe buses, they are the ones painted like a Japanese manga cartoon, are about 30 feet high, look, and are, top heavy, and have the rigidity and road handling capability of a giant wet sponge. Often to be seen leaning one way or the other, depending on the weight of people and luggage on the top deck.

Put them all down, what are they waiting for?

Yet it's perfectly legal to inhale car exhaust, or smoke from the burning and decimated forests. 

Land a teaching job, then make a mad dash for the nearest motorcycle shop, it's what these guys do. There's one just moved in to my building, 23 years old, never ridden a bike before, and there he is riding off to Tesco, no helmet, trying to figure out which buttons to press. Madness.  Walk, drive, cycle, but NOT the motorcycle. Those sugarcane trucks  are a menace, but move very slowly.

I hope the man makes a successful recovery.

It's not just the young guys, driving to Bangkok the other day, some old westerner comes past me in the fast lane on a scooter doing 120+, no helmet, hair not blowing as he was bald, followed him with difficulty for 10 k, where he did a high speed u-turn, just missing oncoming traffic.

Good for them, healthy and enjoyable. Outdoor sex also has an added 'frisson' of danger, and is fun for onlookers too. Now watch all the 'kill joys' running about and getting all red in the face and sweaty under the collar in their indignation.  

Evil and beyond contempt. Lock them all up, and liquidate all their assets, down to the last flip flop.

Foreigners are only barely tolerated in this country, if you think otherwise you are only kidding yourself. 

Pretty much tells you all you need to know about the place, and the kind of desultory service you will receive. 

Don't dive into shallow water. Amazing how people expect everyone to pick up the tab for their stupidity nowadays. 

It's a popular pastime among young thrill seekers.Youtube is chocker with it.  Why not? Life's supposed to be lived, not eked away in fearful mediocrity, on a slow-speed merry-go-round of mundaneness. 

It only takes a quick look around just about anywhere in Thailand to see that Thais care very little for the environment. Exploited countryside festooned with rubbish, filthy beaches, rivers clogged with detritus, and dirty and ugly towns. If you are looking for a pristine environment, there are fortunately many places where this still exists. My personal favourites are deepest rural France, some American states,  parts of South Africa, the shires of England, and the Scottish highlands and Islands. Pristine air too.

7 minutes ago, sniper said:

You sound like a sympatiser of this Dutchman

Why do you say that? Were they 11/12 or 17/18? There's a huge difference in implication. The boys rented the location, sounds like they were young adults, it could easily just have been a baited trap, with the cops waiting around the corner.

Terrible reporting. If average temperatures were 43, that would mean daily highs of 50+, in which case many people would die. It is likely to be the same temperature that it always is at this time of the year, average 30-33, highs 37-40. And it's not 'summer', it's the dry season.  The terms summer and winter apply to the climate in temperate zones, not tropical, or sub-tropical.

57 minutes ago, pokerface1 said:

Seem like tourists are just turning a blind eye to seeing the rubbish as they just keep on coming to Thailand in record numbers. So I suppose the rubbish in their own countries is just as bad or worse.

Why else would they keep coming back?

Because most of them are sheep-like in their mindless travel  ignorance, brainwashed and hood-winked by all the glossy brochure hogwash about 'idyllic beaches, mystic temples in the sleepy dusk, gentle country folk ambling down quiet lanes with buffalo carts, a cooling zephyr stirring tall palms into a swaying languorous motion, as cocktails are sipped on the teak veranda, and the lazy tropical sun slips contentedly over the distant hazy horizon.'