Donnie Brasco

When I was living in Germany, there was a lot of English men there too. Maybe that was because of German women? Or are there so many Thai women in Germany now that that swings it? Oddly, it was similar in Holland, France, Austria and Singapore.

As a Brit who has lived in several different countries the first thing I would point out is that the fact that English is the 'Lingua Franca' (love that phrase...) of the expat, you might be surprised to learn that here in Hua Hin the landscape is dominated by Swedes and Norwegians, most of whom are pretty well fluent in English. In other words, if you are simply relying on the fact that an expat speaks English and drinks beer, then your sample is probably pretty unreliable.

Essentially, this entire thesis is patronising in the extreme. Add to that, bile from the w*nkers who pa(troll) these threads just looking to have a go at the English (you now who you are) and, well, get a life!

I would put "moonah" on the OP referring to men from the UK (pop. 60 "ODD" million) as opposed to the Billions of anglophones elsewhere on the globe.

We love the English. They're really fun to watch when they drink too much.

More of this is needed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zRxSp7t20&list=UUJgaZdTGZBeNT25Sw4dYlCQ I also have a thought. People get confused between the difference hating of all Muslims and hating scum who use Islam as an excuse for their murder lust, Instead of labelling these murderers as Islamic radicals or whatever they should be re-labelled as "invading tribes" and take the word Islam or Muslim out of the equation. Deal with invading tribes according to the situation. it doesn't matter who the tribe is or what their excuse is, just deal with it appropriately. Nobody likes invading tribes and by taking any mention of religion out of the frame then there can't be confusion and whitewashing people with broad strokes!,

Well yeah, of course.

Yep-er. Let's really nail all those invading tribes.

Let's DEAL WITH THEM.

Unless they're (like) from . . . . . (cough, cough)

Well France has allowed the scum of the world to stand on it's soil and now the scum are spilling French blood on that same soil. Will France do something now?

How can the French govt know which of its citizens are going to turn to scum?

Or are you just claiming all members of one faith are scum.

Nah, doubt any one could be that bigoted.

From the BBC today

"Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, also condemned the attack - believed to be in response to cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

"Nothing is more immoral, offensive and insulting against our beloved Prophet than such a callous act of murder," he said.

A group of 15 UK imams released a statement saying "cold-blooded murder such as this is the antithesis of Islam and its tenets".

There was an equally outright condemnation from one of the leading centres of Sunni Islamic teaching in Egypt yesterday.

Yes these killers are scum.

However they are not representative of any faith.

Empty words. They made similar statements when Lee Rigby was slaughtered in Woolwich. Because they speak these words we're supposed to believe them? How about these words then? He spoke them so they must be true, right? He speaks for ALL Muslims, he says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9suuordxY

Yeah sure, Alwyn

Isn't it kinda special on TV when you can commingle all the anti-Islamic stuff together and then a few minutes later parge it with a rendering of hatred based subtexts ?

I guess that's because it's become so mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful to hate Islamic people.

But hey, thanks for all your exquisitely banal observations and perceptions.

This is almost as productive as "the Piece Process".

Tree huggers like you make me laugh. Condemn anti-islamic feeling and jump on the anti-semitic bandwagon with glee. I say anti-semitic but that's not the correct word even though it's the word mostly used, even by Jews. But I digress. What do you have to say about the fact that Paris' largest synagogue has had to close for the first time since WW2 due to threats from the Islamic community? Nothing I guess as that is not relevant as it's the Islamic community? Muslims make up somewhere in the range of 20% of the World population yet account for 95% of the World news. Can you show me any news from around the World involving violence and slaughter that doesn't involve people from the religion of peace? Are you even aware that Boko Haram slaughtered over 2000 Christians yesterday? Anyway, thanks for your input and incisive commentary.

Thanks for your opinions, your stats, your racist hatred of Islamic people in general.

I can't even be @r$T to flag it.

As you well know, factual, ***FACTUAL*** responses to all your questions will get me booted.

Well France has allowed the scum of the world to stand on it's soil and now the scum are spilling French blood on that same soil. Will France do something now?

How can the French govt know which of its citizens are going to turn to scum?

Or are you just claiming all members of one faith are scum.

Nah, doubt any one could be that bigoted.

From the BBC today

"Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, also condemned the attack - believed to be in response to cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

"Nothing is more immoral, offensive and insulting against our beloved Prophet than such a callous act of murder," he said.

A group of 15 UK imams released a statement saying "cold-blooded murder such as this is the antithesis of Islam and its tenets".

There was an equally outright condemnation from one of the leading centres of Sunni Islamic teaching in Egypt yesterday.

Yes these killers are scum.

However they are not representative of any faith.

Empty words. They made similar statements when Lee Rigby was slaughtered in Woolwich. Because they speak these words we're supposed to believe them? How about these words then? He spoke them so they must be true, right? He speaks for ALL Muslims, he says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe9suuordxY

Yeah sure, Alwyn

Isn't it kinda special on TV when you can commingle all the anti-Islamic stuff together and then a few minutes later parge it with a rendering of hatred based subtexts ?

I guess that's because it's become so mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful to hate Islamic people.

But hey, thanks for all your exquisitely banal observations and perceptions.

This is almost as productive as "the Piece Process".

They can show interest all they like, the closest they'll get is to come over and watch the Chinese assemble the train set.

Aw c'mon Ratcatcher. They're just doing their best "Tony Blair" to keep up the side, wot ?

"Tony Blair" is, um, rhyming Hoorah pheqerhed Henry slang.

Sprhedly-to-Thinleigh-on-Thames

Cucumber sandwich ?

Chip butty, then ?

See how much fun we're all having ? . . . . . . And . . . . . (Hey) we're not even touching :-))

2 people killed and over 20 injured.

Watch that video.

Watch the trajectory. Line it up with the gun smoke and the impact onto the concrete/stone footpath.

Open your eyes.

Clearly that shot missed the cops head but he was already gunned down moments earlier.

Dead? I don't know.

Gunned down but not dead. He's very clearly moving around n'est-ce pas?

He's very much alive in that sequence.

(I'm just telling you what you can see for yourself)

2 people killed and over 20 injured.

Watch that video.

Watch the trajectory. Line it up with the gun smoke and the impact onto the concrete/stone footpath.

Open your eyes.

Clearly that shot missed the cops head but he was already gunned down moments earlier.

Dead? I don't know.

That was reported as a head shot.

See what I mean ??

Sloppy sloppy

As one US politician said; "not all muslims are terrorists,but right now all terrorists are muslims . About sums it up.! Lets face it,they hate us,no matter how many sympathetic words they utter 'after the event'

Not true.

You bought it because it rolled out nice and parallel.

If you have any friends or acquaintances who know the military or have ever attended a war college in their country you wouldn't be so quick on the draw.

Every state pulls this stuff.

Yea. Like the Twin Towers in New York. All planned out by Bush, right?

Why would you say that ?

On what evidence would be basing THAT ?

I mean really, there hasn't ever even been a real procedural investigation and assembly of all the evidence.

So how could you ever accuse anyone ?

Oh. Hehehehe, I get it. That's sarcasm.

You're using sarcasm as a rhetorical tool.

How quaint.

2 people killed and over 20 injured.

Watch that video.

Watch the trajectory. Line it up with the gun smoke and the impact onto the concrete/stone footpath.

Open your eyes.

Open your eyes!!

This is happening as we type.

All part of the bigger conspiracy of course!!

Forum rules prevent me from saying what I really want to get off my chest.......................

Easy, easy old chap.

We agree here.

Look at that video please. Frame by frame. No impact to the cops head. No blood/brain splatter. Puff of gun smoke and mark on the footpath.

They are all there.

AND they can all be digitally analyzed.

2 people killed and over 20 injured.

Watch that video.

Watch the trajectory. Line it up with the gun smoke and the impact onto the concrete/stone footpath.

Open your eyes.

As one US politician said; "not all muslims are terrorists,but right now all terrorists are muslims . About sums it up.! Lets face it,they hate us,no matter how many sympathetic words they utter 'after the event'

Not true.

You bought it because it rolled out nice and parallel.

If you have any friends or acquaintances who know the military or have ever attended a war college in their country you wouldn't be so quick on the draw.

Every state pulls this stuff.

Well France has allowed the scum of the world to stand on it's soil and now the scum are spilling French blood on that same soil. Will France do something now?

Sure they will.

Depending on the domestic political climate France should do a proper investigation. Note that these highly trained professional assassins dropped ID cards at the scene.

One has turned himself into police WITH 18 witnesses who say he was attending classes at the time.

What's going on here ?

One has turned himself into police WITH 18 witnesses who say he was attending classes at the time.

Have clearly studied the Koh Tao case, Lex Nomsod........................

A typical Thai Visa blurt.

Stop it.

You'd obviously prefer otherwise

HOWEVER

There needs to be a proper investigation.

Well France has allowed the scum of the world to stand on it's soil and now the scum are spilling French blood on that same soil. Will France do something now?

Of course they will!! They will ask "como se va" as more arrive and take advantage of political correctness gone mad!

"Comment ca va" maybe... not sure why they would speak in Spanish. They are French, after all. [Though perhaps people in the UK have a hard time telling the difference].

And before you go off the classic PC rant, don't forget that Charlie Hebdo was about as un-PC as you get (and was considered an national institution for this). Moreover, France banned the wearing of hijab in schools and the wearing of burqas in public. Not very PC, eh?

Might France's GEneral Assembly TWO to ONE vote in SUPPORT of Palestinian statehood not have something to do with this ?????

Well France has allowed the scum of the world to stand on it's soil and now the scum are spilling French blood on that same soil. Will France do something now?

Sure they will.

Depending on the domestic political climate France should do a proper investigation. Note that these highly trained professional assassins dropped ID cards at the scene.

One has turned himself into police WITH 18 witnesses who say he was attending classes at the time.

What's going on here ?

Well France has allowed the scum of the world to stand on it's soil and now the scum are spilling French blood on that same soil. Will France do something now?

How can the French govt know which of its citizens are going to turn to scum?

Or are you just claiming all members of one faith are scum.

Nah, doubt any one could be that bigoted.

From the BBC today

"Dr Shuja Shafi, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, also condemned the attack - believed to be in response to cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

"Nothing is more immoral, offensive and insulting against our beloved Prophet than such a callous act of murder," he said.

A group of 15 UK imams released a statement saying "cold-blooded murder such as this is the antithesis of Islam and its tenets".

There was an equally outright condemnation from one of the leading centres of Sunni Islamic teaching in Egypt yesterday.

Yes these killers are scum.

However they are not representative of any faith.

Qui bono ?

Anyone know how a nurse in Buriram gets 400,000 baht in the 1st place??

Saves 5000 THB per month for six or seven years ?

We used to call this "her life's savings".

Very very sad.

Buddy of mine was "airlifted" back to Sydney from a local private hospital after some creepy skin-stretcher threw a tantrum because the guys family had refused to sign off on a plastic surgery procedure.

The charged his family for SIX first class seats.

What's going on here ????????

Gillian Barre "SYNDROME" can be stabilized and medicated.

The guy could travel back coach.

40k gbp in 5 days?

Where is he being attended to?

He is obviously in a private hospital where the intensive care room costs approx 2000GBP/night, then there are the very expensive drugs he will require, the ventilator and other equipment costs and doctors fees. So this cost does not surprise me.

I have been in plenty of private hospitals in Thailand. I think this number might be a little overstated.

If he was in a private hospital in the USA he might be stretching it.

Priced like a Maine lobster in a NYC restaurant.

A pay-as-you-go medical jurisdiction is the absolute WORST environment in which to get a diagnosis.

The, um, dark side of "medical tourism."

This thread is hilarious.

I don't care if you do it. I just want to make the point that not every guy does.

You made that point weeks ago. Posting it over and over again, in post after post, thread after thread, and implying that everyone that does is a loser, puts it into obsessive-compulsive territory.

It's all the trips up the soi with no saddle on the seat pole that has affected him. He will eventually save up and have the seat pole removed from his intestines and start posting with something normal.....eventually.

A cunningly simplistic innovation involving a silicon prosthetic and some Crazy Glue this seat pole thing has already been sorted to accommodate any needs that may arise.

Thread reactions, post, comments and attempts at humor comprise fascinating parallels to current geopolitical realities most anywhere else on the globe.

Thank you Donnie, at last some words of wisdom !

Gallows humour for some, cover for appalling ignorance for others, fear and good old fashioned footwear swoggling as well.

Gets 'em to sleep, I guess.

Thanks mikemac.

Lord knows I bin tryin' for years.

Thread reactions, post, comments and attempts at humor comprise fascinating parallels to current geopolitical realities most anywhere else on the globe.