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You would think that after they invented the toilet, they would know how to use the thing !!!

Was that not the Indus Valley Civilization?

Seriously?

That totally went past me, I guess.

Not trying to take a p!$$ here- I honestly wasn't aware.

I wasn't either until today but do I suspect this has had a play in the Ministriies rape crackdown plans.

I honestly suspect they don't have a clue either and that this is not about rape or anything...and it will not even be enforced.

It is about tea- money, the RTP can get from some club - or hotel - owners...and that's it!

Otherwise, maybe they should try sex- ed and promote that fact, that women are not 2nd - class citizens.

They would have been well aware of the One Billion Rising flash mob last womens day at Siam Square. They don't want public protest at the moment and they have the sister group of V-day planning another even larger protest in Bangkok in less than one months time.

So THAI is in trouble is it..?? I wonder why...

Return flight, BKK > London

THAI - 48,000 THB

BA - 33,000 THB

All Others - 28,000 - 32,000 THB

D'uh! Work it out people!

According to this, http://blog.rome2rio.com/2013/01/02/170779446/ , Thai is cheaper on average per km than BA and is in the middle worldwide. It also shows them as cheaper than the Middle Eastern operators who are generally far cheaper than Thai and I think this is quite telling of the problem. Although Thai is competitively priced, in practice the other airlines undercut them through brokers. Thai really need to learn the game if they want the flights to London.

The Golden Toilet is part of the sculpture -- it isn't a functional toilet (if I read the article correctly). And all Thai National parks are racist -- Ferang now pay 10 times what Thais pay, or pay a fee where Thais pay none -- like at the Royal Palace in BKK and this Sculptured Temple..

The toilets are fully functional and open for use by visitors. The issue was over some misplaces used toilet paper not the fact that the toilets were used at all. Who would make a non functioning toilet and what for?

Has anyone actually been to their public toilets? Are they golden? It would seem to me that the toilet that got pooped is not the same as where the average Joe goes to take a dump.

Can anyone answer this?

That is the toilet pictured in the article. Notice the golden colour? White temple is white.

Just curious, are there more rapes on Valentines Day in the west?

Anyone know?

No, see above. It is not that there are more rapes on Valentines in the West, it is that in the West Valentines day has become a day of remembrance for rape victims and a day of raising awareness of rape and violence towards women.

Seriously?

That totally went past me, I guess.

Not trying to take a p!$$ here- I honestly wasn't aware.

I wasn't either until today but do I suspect this has had a play in the Ministriies rape crackdown plans.

I'd rather see Gauguin up there in the top 10 value slots, than some of the painters who are usually there (who I think are lacking in talent) like Picasso and Warhol. Warhol once went to visit Salvadore Dali, when Dali was hosting a dinner party at a ritzy NY restaurant. There were about 14 people seated at the table. Warhol came in and presented Dali with one of his paintings. Dali put the painting flat on the floor, stood over it and peed on it, saying nothing. Everyone laughed, including Warhol.

Is there any truth to that at all? The only similar incident I know of involved Dali but not Picasso and not Dali's own piss but that of an ocelot.

In a gallery, Dali was looking at a 17th Century engraving when one of his pet ocelots peed on it. Dali exclaimed, "A nuisance of Dali's can only increase their value." Allegedly he was correct and the owner put the price up by 50%. http://www.robertwernick.com/articles/Dali_Lives.htm

This story seems now to have slipped into the realms of urban legends. Who knows, perhaps Picasso was added due to his penchant for using urine in his paintings or indeed for painting people pissing?

Just curious, are there more rapes on Valentines Day in the west?

Anyone know?

No, see above. It is not that there are more rapes on Valentines in the West, it is that in the West Valentines day has become a day of remembrance for rape victims and a day of raising awareness of rape and violence towards women.

V-day has been tackling violence against women since 1998; using valentines day to raise awareness. Perhaps the Ministry has misinterpreted this and taken it as the worldwide day of rape crackdowns.

Who cares. Sick of hearing about it. You don't hear about anyone else gets berated or "targeted" there just this crowd. They seem to keep bringing up on a regular basis lest you forget. Someone screams anti-semitic and everyone is expected to cower or apologize. Btw, Semitic is not Hebrew, it is anyone from the Levant region of the Mediterranean, historically that includes Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and oh yea, Arabs. Like I said who cares there are more important things to concern ourselves with.

It's about hatred against Jews. That is the definition of antisemitic. Pretty much the only people who rant on about not accepting the established definition of antisemitic (SPECIFICALLY about hatred against JEWS) have issues with Jews and wish there wasn't a word for hatred against Jews. Well it's (hatred against Jews) something that exists as has for thousands of years including multiple genocides against Jews so a word for something so serious is needed. If you don't want to hear about hatred against Jews ... tough cookies, move to another topic instead of posting about it. Would that work?

Actually the definition is about hatred of Semites, a group which includes Arabs.

As I have said before the term no go embraces many different parts of UK life now.

When I go in to a supermarket in Norfolk and buy some chicken there is no way I tell if it is halal or not.

The reason being that most chicken in the UK is now halal for the benefit of the minority who eat it.

This from the Spectator.

The Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday have revealed that were all eating halal meat all the time, wherever we go as a consequence of big business making pragmatic decisions and not bothering to tell us about them. Chicken and lamb bought from your local

supermarket will most probably be halal-slaughtered but this is also true of the meals you order from those untermensch staples such as Dominos Pizza, Pizza Hut, Nandos and Subway. Not to mention Wembley Stadium. And the less obviously untermensch venues of Ascot, Goodwood and Epsom. It wouldnt surprise me if next week they discovered that the food at Buck

House and Glyndebourne was halal. In other words, whether we like it or not, we are conforming to Islamic strictures in the food we eat; we are subsuming ourselves to the wishes of a tiny minority of our population.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/6319003/i-refuse-to-buy-meat-from-supermarkets-until-they-ban-halal-slaughter/

On 5 March 2008, an amendment was passed to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 which abolished the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel in England and Wales.

That allows me to say what I like about god or religion in public,without fear of prosecution.

I could drive a truck hoarding around Luton plastered with a cartoon showing Jesus on the cross with some witty remark underneath and no one would bat an eyelid.

Try that with a cartoon of Mohamed welcoming IS terrorists as they chop some more heads off for him and plod will have me inside in seconds if they can battle through the riots.

There we have it. No go Britain 2015

You missed out the bit where the old blasphemy laws were replaced with the Racial and Religious Hatred Act of 2006.

One of my biggest regrets was going to this place.

Those animals should be living full lives in the national parks, not dosed up for pictures with tourists. I hope this place is shut down for good.

THey can't EVER be released into the wild!

True, but that is no reason for them to be drugged up as play things for ignorant tourists.

I used to go there years ago when there was only a couple of tigers, strangely nobody said anything. Seems to me as though it's the usual jealousy game, probably end up in China on someones dinner table.......... Sad........

It is not strange that nobody said anything back then because there was apparently nothing untoward going on, they had just taken in a couple of rescued tigers. That changed when they mysteriously obtained 1/3 of Thailands believed wild tiger population and since, many people have said something. Nothing to do with jealousy and everything to do with their concern for the animals.

AS I keep saying, there is no point building a railway to Nong Khai if there is nothing to join to in Laos. This is stupid, pie in the sky planning. At least wait until Laos have agreed a deal with China too.

The Laos part of the project was aproved in 2012 but their lender will not release the money until the Thai side receives their funding. So you see, it is not Thailand who needs to wait for Laos but, actually it is Thailand who are holding the whole project back.

Any links to support that? My understanding is that the cost will bankrupt Laos.

This is while Thailand is still thinking and not release the money, to risky maybe not enough benefits for Thailand.

Thailands delay is more due to the political instability of the past couple of years than them being unaware of the advantages.

AS I keep saying, there is no point building a railway to Nong Khai if there is nothing to join to in Laos. This is stupid, pie in the sky planning. At least wait until Laos have agreed a deal with China too.

The Laos part of the project was aproved in 2012 but their lender will not release the money until the Thai side receives their funding. So you see, it is not Thailand who needs to wait for Laos but, actually it is Thailand who are holding the whole project back.

Any links to support that? My understanding is that the cost will bankrupt Laos.

Sorry, I was actually a bit out of date. The 2012 aggreement had it's funds held until China pulled out altogether. They have now come to a new agreement.

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/railway-project-10062014181543.html

Am I correct in saying that when they state assets, they don't include spouses and other family members?

No, you are wrong, it must include assets of spouse and minor children.

AS I keep saying, there is no point building a railway to Nong Khai if there is nothing to join to in Laos. This is stupid, pie in the sky planning. At least wait until Laos have agreed a deal with China too.

The Laos part of the project was aproved in 2012 but their lender will not release the money until the Thai side receives their funding. So you see, it is not Thailand who needs to wait for Laos but, actually it is Thailand who are holding the whole project back.

Barely worth growing rice these days so don't really understand why so many do it for so little return.

The obvious worth is the rice. Can you understand why people grow their own vegetables rather than just go to Tesco?

I will start to plant vegetables again in my garden behind the house like my grandmother and my mother did, but not to save money.

I like to eating healthy things not conterminated bull$hit with a lot of pesticides, insecticides, funghicides and to much fertilizer and almost no taste.

Which is the very same reason many Thais continue to grow their own rice even though there is a very low financial reward, because they can be assured of the quality. My family do not sell any of their rice, they give it to family and eat it, it is really not that much work to cultivate 20 rai of rice but it feeds the whole extended family and we can all feel comfortable that no chemicals have been used.

Hopefully all working in the field and not only a handful and the rest appears only to the thanksgiving party and asking for their cut like it is often happend, unfortunately.

Unfotunately there's only a handfull who can and obviously those who can't don't need to ask so its not exactly the same as you feared but same same. But it really isn't that much work, Luke if you broke it down into how much work for one years rice for one person I find it encouraging that it actually takes so little.

Barely worth growing rice these days so don't really understand why so many do it for so little return.

The obvious worth is the rice. Can you understand why people grow their own vegetables rather than just go to Tesco?

I will start to plant vegetables again in my garden behind the house like my grandmother and my mother did, but not to save money.

I like to eating healthy things not conterminated bull$hit with a lot of pesticides, insecticides, funghicides and to much fertilizer and almost no taste.

Which is the very same reason many Thais continue to grow their own rice even though there is a very low financial reward, because they can be assured of the quality. My family do not sell any of their rice, they give it to family and eat it, it is really not that much work to cultivate 20 rai of rice but it feeds the whole extended family and we can all feel comfortable that no chemicals have been used.

Under Swedish law he hasn't committed a crime.

They were tried in the district court of Stockholm and found guilty. What are you talking about?

Grow potatoes,rice needs to much water

And potatoes need cool weather, there are not so many places you can grow potatoes and in those that you can only in the winter between the rice crops.

Barely worth growing rice these days so don't really understand why so many do it for so little return.

The obvious worth is the rice. Can you understand why people grow their own vegetables rather than just go to Tesco?

There is a reason why they are called RICE Farmers. Care to guess what that reason is? Another question is "What will they do if the did not plant rice?"

They are not advising farmers not to grow rice, they are advising them not to grow an off season crop. Rice farmers can grow a variety of off season crops in their rice field, it does not have to be rice, for instance many grow tapioca.

Article 44 in Thailand sounds like a tool used by Hitler and the Nazis to enforce national socialism, Nazism and its agenda. Also very similar to Augusto Pinochet in Argentina, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and many others

Similar also to George Bush declaring a state of emergency and doing away with the constitution.