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"Maybe he’ll write a touching song about it with catchy lyrics and call it “Bye, Bye Corona, Bye, Bye” and get Prawit to link arms and lead the chorus." I honestly can not think of a more vomit inducing "footline" to finish off your column this week - you should have omitted the bit about the fat lady singing, and let people's imagionation run riot with that motley crew basking in the "footlights"!

"Still, I am sure immigration or the TAT will arrive with a nice bunch of flowers for a photo opportunity !" Or arrest him for being on overstay - nothing would surprise me here! I heard last week of someone being fined for overstay because they "self quarantined" due to having a positive Covid test but no symptoms, therefore no hospital/medical records to back up their story. (Maybe false news because I "heard it through the grapevine" but as I say - nothing would surprise me here!)

"i don't buy the spirits beer thing drunk is drunk." I did say I knew a couple of "Jekkyl and Hyde" type characters that were fine if they stuck to beer, but they changed completely once they drank spirits. One of them in particular would fight with his own shadow if he had a couple of gins, but if he stuck to beer he was one of the most affable people you could meet, but you'll just have to take my word for it!

You are sure on your soap box today Rob! Somebody jumps a red light and it's the other person's fault for not getting out of the way quickly enough? Sheesh!

Most people that drink alcohol are sensible people, but obviously there are exceptions. Some people that drink beer are fine, but let them loose on the spirits and it's like Jekkyl and Hyde - I personally know of a couple like that. On the other hand, lots of people that take yabba are at best unpredictable, and how many end up in court bleating "It wasn't my fault, I was on drugs and need help". You do hear it occasionally from a drunk/alcoholic, but not often.

Just stoking the fire, massa!

It was only the police who said he "appeared to be heavily intoxicated" - they probably don't know the difference!

A person doesn't have to be dead to be the victim of somebody's disregard for human life - and your sarcastic comment about "paying attention" would imply that the same has been said to you by your teachers many times, probably explains why you are easily confused!

"Thai rarely attack unless provoked" How do you define "provoked"? If talking loudly at 4 am is provocation, then you're probably right. (Because none of the othet neighbours interviewed said anything about loud music being played) And we also know that Thais are often the masters of over reaction due to the importance attached to "losing face". I have read many times of people being severely injured or even killed for the most trivial of reasons - i.e. getting shot for parking in somebody else's "regular" parking space, as I mentioned yesterday. However, I think (without knowing the details) that the answers to your questions are yes, yes, and yes in that order!

Correct - sounds like another bigoted tee totaller that would like to blame the incident on alcohol rather than the perpetrator of the crime!

P.S. Go read the thread again - his mate isn't!!!

Get with it! ???? - TV was renamed well before Omicron appeared!

"Thais warned! You can't use your phone while driving even when stopped in traffic or at the lights" I'm a farang so does that mean the rules don't apply to me? ???? Or does it mean that they haven't quite worked out how much the fines will be?

"there is no spike deletion at the 69-70 position." Glad they included the figure 70 or the wags on here would have had a field day!

Have you seen the farce that masquerades as a "Driving Test" here in Thailand? I don't know about anywhere else, but where I live it is conducted in what can only be decribed as a converted car park, and many people that pass have never actually driven on a main road!!!

All too often we hear the old excuse "It wasn't my fault - I was high on drugs - I need help". Not just in Thailand, but many of the so called developed Western world countries (especially the nanny state where I come from) have this breed of "person" (and I use the term loosely) who seem to think that they can use drugs as an excuse for their intolerable behaviour once they are caught and brought to book for it. Nobody forced them to stick a needle in their arm, and nobody forced them to act so irresponsibly with a total lack of respect for others, and the law, so it's not help they need - it's giving them the type of "education" they deserve that they need that may deter them from reoffending!

Not in Pattaya, but I had to go 8 (EIGHT!) times one year to get my extension!

Queueing for what? Visas? Or reentry permits? ????

A couple of years ago I read on here of a guy getting shot because he parked in another guy's "regular" parking spot!

"That isn't a scythe - this is a scythe" (Slightly amended quote by Paul Hogan aka "Crocodile Dundee")

Very suitable at this sad time.

???? Brilliant idea! I come from quite near the Isle of Man and one thing I miss about my old "stomping ground" are the Manx kippers!

"Police work is not about appearances, but measured by performance" Not what I've heard - hence:- ????

Going by your spelling ability I would tend to agree!