EastSaxCol

What about all the homeless turnips?

Don't exactly know why , but amidst some of the typical lack of compassion tripe one encounters on TV this at least made me chuckle.

Fantastic - it reminds me of the Steven Fry quote about Sainsburys - "The best thing is it keeps the scum out of Waitrose"

Not to mention those chavs who play cricket for England with the Waitrose logo.

Yep, and another one bites the dust.

Giving us farangs the name and tag we deserve, thnx mate!!!!

Except he's not farang but khon dam. Still don't let knowledge of Thailand get in the way of ignorance.DOH

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Although the point is the same, I thought I was replying to someone else who mentioned returning to his "scum environment", or some similar bigotry .

Teach them American , they'll find it all far simpler to learn.

Cant wait for vacation.. are we still going to Ho Chi Minh city....

Brit-Cum English Teacher <deleted>, who says vacation instead of holiday ? Country - dogs (n more ways than one).

Elephant penis on toast anyone..??

Yummy!

Even if the subject warranted a witty quip that still wouldn't be funny.

She said that she and her husband were too poor to get proper treatment for their son ...

That's the bit that saddened me.

Apart from that, "Arnold Layne don't do it again"

I guess that a splinter train is in fact a sprinter train. Are we falang or farang?

French mate, hope that helps.

And their still floating the Mickey Mouse currency we know as the baht. :jap:

Selfishly speaking as one who remembers £1 = 60 + tbt , I only wish that were true.

This is a quite laughable opinion piece. Let's start with the claim in the first "shock and awe" that "no country in the world would allow its second airport to be inundated like this." As if losing a major airport to shutdown might be a major security breach. The author makes this claim, despite the fact that Suvarnibhumi airport was kidnapped by a political group known as PAD and shutdown with a "sit in/camp in" from September 26 , 2008 to December 5, 2008, plus a disputed number of days to do a security check, check out equipment and cleanup. The government and the military just standing by watching. It is totally bewildering how a The Nation opinion piece could slip by the editors with this frivolous and preposterous claim.

Since The Nation doesn't publish bios of its opinion writers, one can only wonder about this one. The writer goes on to list several additional "shock and awes", a characterization that he or she probably lifted and plagiarized from the USA's use of that expression in the opening salvos of bombing Iraq during Bush II. The expression shock and awe is typically used in a military context to reflect utter military rapid dominance. For example, something like the 2 AM 2006 military coup, which abrogated the existing Thai constitution, and filled the streets with tanks, might be "stretched" into referring to it as "shock and awe", if the author was looking around for some Thai illustration. It is unfathomable that this The Nation opinion piece would refer to any, let alone all, of these ten incidents of shock and awe as such. Again, on the basis of this type of preposterous writing and utilization of expressions without understanding their meaning is bottom feeding journalism at its worst.

Spot on. To say the author plagiarised the expression "Shock and Awe" is a little unfair as it is in common usage now but it is, however, a criminal misuse of the expression. It is, overall, a lazy, insipid opinion piece.

Not so much a plagiarised expression - more a cliche to be fair. And a pretty sensationalist one at that. Just proving that Thailand and its people continues to consider itself universe-centric. Less "shock and horror" more bothered and bewildered.

I was at Colchester on Thursday to see the U21's 5-0 drubbing of Iceland. As enjoyable an evening's entertainment as it was , there was no surprise at the score and what should be expected really. However, I recommend reading the below...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2060133/Martin-Samuel-Our-boys-united-moving-noble-gesture.html

my reply was where i am from, it floods every year, sometimes twice a year, and we get massive bushfires too.. so to me, its normal

I'm sure that you are quite toughened to these things. But do you have the same things which are worrying me - the consequence of a poor sewerage system , compounded by years of almost callous human pollution ?

Without excusing anything that has gone on here, a similar thing happened in Brisbane. They let Wivenhoe dam get higher and higher and decided way too late that they needed to let some water out. And Wivenhoe was built specifically for flood mitigation. The so called experts then let it get so full it actually exacerbated the problem.

Off topic, but I come from Wivenhoe, Nr Colchester. Amazing that I didn' t know before there was a Wivenhoe in Aus.

As for mention Pattaya disappearing into the sea in another post ... well , there are those who wouldn't think that such a bad thing.

My way of keeping abreast of , and understanding, what is a frighteningly confusing situation for many.

Colchester United 4 Notts County 2

But for a couple of bad misses and some very good saves from County goalkeeper Stewart Nelson , the U's should have gone in at half time

at least 3-0 up, such was our dominance. The second half begun much in the same way as the first half ended with the U's bossing the match. Anthony Wordsworth made it 1-0 just after the restart with Sodje equalising 10 minutes later. But further goals from Antonio,Henderson and Odejayi sealed the victory. A late consolation goal came for County in extra time via a Heath own goal.

I don't know too many people in the UK or US who know much about the history of other countries unless it was related to their own history.

To be fair, a large chunk of the world's history was at one time subject to British colonialism. So I reckon that the British have a fair idea about the history of a lot of countries - including two that border with Thailand.

Prince William and Prince Harry......

Ah yes. Well remembered.

Ironic that it should be in the Daily Mail which itself had pages full of anti-Jewish sentiment when the East End of London saw quite a large influx of Jewish immigrants.

As for those kids in Chiang Mai , nothing there to be concerned about. Anyway wasn't the Catholic church implicated in Nazism as I remember ?

A woman suffering a broken leg is hardly a bloody tragedy as the headline would suggest.

Many of these elephants were trained for jobs in logging but have since been made 'redundant'. They are dependant on humans and I dont believe they could easily be released into the wild.

A better solution needs to be found for these animals.

There is another solution ... elephant sanctuaries. Like the one just outside of Lampang - albeit that when I visited some years ago they did give elephant rides.

But whilst there is no other employment for those involved in the exploitation of these beasts , then things like this will happen.

That's what puts me off flying with them. Think that I'll stick with the - albeit uninspiring - tried and tested EVA Air.

Scunthorpe United 1 ColU 1

Can't help but get the impression that the U's scraped a draw rather than battled for one. Still on course for mid-table mediocrity though.

ColU 4 Oldham 1

From the first attack when the U's scored ,they completely outplayed the opposition. Even the Oldham goal, a penalty which 100% definitely wasn't, might have given Oldham some hope - but forlorn and short-lived it was against a U's team that were impressive in every area on the pitch. Days like today don't come around very often, when you can say that your team beat poor opposition only because they were made to look that way.

Yes it really is outlandish that the great white God-man not be allowed in on a red carpet and allowed to stay for as long as they want. The gall of these little brown third world peasants!

I think the term is developing world, of which Thailand is not one. Semi-feudal maybe, but not 'third world". So I think your jaundice comments inappropriate on many levels, Richard.

I follow a lower league team simply because, as EastSaxCol suggests, PL teams don't represent clubs and districts now so much as "brands", and the kind of money that goes into clubs like Man City and Chelsea destroys any remaining authenticity the teams may have had. The connection between the players and administrators on the on hand and the local supporter and his wife is now wafer thin.

Yes, I very much agree with this. I cannot envisage myself ever being caught up again in the arrogance of bigger clubs, and sadly often their supporters as well. I'm very happy supporting my little local side with it's friendliness and personal acquaintances. As you say, it's all about buying success nowadays From Blackburn in the early 90's, through to Chelsea and Manchester City now , brings substance to the old Beatle's lyric about not being able to buy love. I love little ColU despite realistically never ever going to achieve anything but perhaps a short foray into the Championship again, or a reasonable Cup run. I remember in the death knells of my affiliation to West Ham during a pre-season game at Ipswich, turning to my mate as the players warmed up and saying "I have absolutely nothing in common with this lot". I have nothing at all left now, not even a passing interest, and as far as football is concerned couldn't be happier.