tonyjimmac

Has this man actually been found guilty/confessed? Or is it accusations and allegations?

I think you mean 'fewer' expatriates. "Less" is incorrect in this context. Pleas watch your grammar and maybe invest in a copy of 'Fowler's English Usage'.

Why is "The Mouth" capped up? Is it a place name or something? You're getting as bad as the Trump with his illiterate use of upper case...

I really think the girls and boys on the check-outs at our local Tesco Lotus must have been trained never to use one plastic bag but as many as possible. I have seen three or four bags used for fewer than a dozen small items. No wonder the ditches lining every country lane and road are knee deep in discarded plastic...

The 21st century will belong to China just as the 19th century was "owned" by the British and French and the 20th by the USA.

Pidgin Mick? Or maybe you are writing in pigeon English...

I think Mr Bolshaw should take a long hard look at himself. If he's so concerned about Thai people only speaking Thai in their own country. If he intends visiting the country perhaps he should snap out of his laziness make the effort to learn at least a little Thai... If he is from the UK then his extreme stupidity is no surprise. The UK is now visited by hundreds of thousands tourists. I doubt any of them ever get an answer in their own language.

In this day and age is 62 really considered  'old'? Back home in Britain he still has three years of working  to put in before he can claim a pension. In this 21st century surely 62 is the new 42!

Please note there is no such word as "Laotian". The correct word is simply "Laos" as in "Lao people on line..."

Each morning as I fire up the laptop to scan the daily papers in the UK and some of the rest of the world I feel a little happier in the tranquility and relative sanity of my village home in remotest Isaan, After more than three years here I have no wish to go anywhere, least of all back to the UK, where apparently because I consider myself a citizen of the world I am - according the the current PM - "a citizen of nowhere..." Neither to the US. In both countries so-called western democracy is clearly in terminal decline. The expats who complain most are the ones who even after several years here speak not one word of the language nor have the slightest interest in the culture of the country. They should fulfill their wish and leave pronto - and good riddance.

Surely an ambassador's job is to represent the interests of his government to the government of the host country.

Looking after tourists, ex pats etc is the remit of the consulate.

There is never any excuse for this kind of behaviour by anybody. It is immature, uncivilised and, I'm afraid. all too typical of this type of self-evidently low quality visitor. Why these people are admitted to the country in the first place is baffling. One look at them - beer bellied, shaven headed thugs - and surely any immigration officer should think twice before stamping their passports. They clearly do not have the intelligence to understand they are in another country and another culture. If they did and knew how to handle the situation in a way appropriate to the culture of the country then this ugly incident might never have occurred. One hopes they are apprehended and made an example of.

Surely the phone companies have always been able to track the whereabouts of their sim cards, whether the phone is switched on or off?

All this reminds me of arriving as a crew member aboard at Atlantic liner in the early 1960s. Before being allowed ashore we had to be photographed, have our finger prints taken (quite roughly I remember) and complete a form that included the laughable question - "Do you intend to overthrow the government of the USA?" Of course all those lively Liverpool lads put "yes". I don't recall anyone being refused shore leave as a result!

From Sweden? Adrian Moody and Robin Haye sound more like Brits to me. Their behaviour too would seem more Brit than that of orderly Swedes.

Right up there at the top, thanks. I'm as happy as a sandbag far away from the 'nanny' states of Northern Europe and all their fingure-wagging hypocrisies...

All these "surveys" are statistical rubbish. I lived in DK for more than a dozen years in the 70s and can safely say it it the country where most people 'say' they are happy. Danes love to conform and comply with the prescribed consensus and will answer these idiotic questions in they way they believe is expected of them. Complete nonsense....

Fine sentiments, nicely expressed - thanks Khaosai....

I think Mr Prayuth's Thai translators have long since given up translating and now simply tell their boss what he wants to hear...

Quite right too... She should think herself lucky to have got off so lightly. Her passport is NOT her property but that of Her Majesty's government and as such ultimately the property of the Queen herself. In Thailand any insult, which this most certainly was, to ANY royalty can, and has been, interpreted as 'lese majeste', which under Article 22 of Thai law is punishable by up to five years for each offence. That could I suppose, given the Thai courts' propensity for literal interpretation, have meant five years for each page!

Passports remain the property of the government of the issuing country. In the case of the UK that technically means the document is the property of HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH the second. That little nuggest should scare the proverbial out of any Thai cop. As I understand it technically within the Kingdom insulting anybody's royalty is by implication seen as an insult to His Majesty.

Complaisant? Surely they must mean either complacent or compliant.

anyone know where you can purchase a beach/pool umbrella in Pattaya/Jomtien