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4 hours ago, colinneil said:

Penpat was charged with theft during the hours of darkness.

What difference does it make daylight or darkness?

Theft is theft no matter what time of day or night it is.

Well done that man, most people would not have held on to the scumbag.

Not worth the risk of maybe getting knifed for bravery and a few baht. 

I have a New Zealand bank account and live in Thailand. When I need to uplift money from my New Zealand account I withdraw the money from any ATM machine with my New Zealand ATM card. Maximum withdrawal is 20,000 Baht at a time, fee is 200 Baht.

On 3/02/2017 at 7:13 PM, the guest said:

Remember, Thailand has the 2nd most dangerous roads in the world.

Why blame the roads?  Let's spell it out:  Thailand is in second place as far as having the world's WORST DRIVERS is concerned! 

The contractor must have counted on drivers wearing amulets.

5 hours ago, sanukjim said:

This is a very large King Cobra> They can grow up to 18 feet They normally eat only other snakes (mainly other cobras) so if the are found near your house then that means that your area has a huge snake problem.

Snakes are not a problem unless they are the poisonous kind.

6 hours ago, robertthesculptor said:

Really in these photos I don't think cobra...likely a constrictor...but I could be wrong.

No, it is definitely a king cobra, which looks quite different from an ordinary cobra.

6 hours ago, Saladin said:

All snakes should be in the zoo or on the menu

I have wild snakes  of various kinds on my property and I love them being there! 

2 hours ago, clockman said:

And also the impending death of Thai tourism.?

More like the impending death of humankind due to global vaccination programmes, geoengineering (chemtrail aerosol spraying), GMO food, fluoride added to water, school milk, table salt and tooth paste, etc.,  in order to drastically reduce the world population. The dead whales are the proverbial canary in the coalmine. Unfortunately most people are oblivious to what is going on.  

16 hours ago, ezzra said:

 

About high time that all those foreigners vying for teaching jobs in Thailand

will be  thoroughly vetted and closely looked at, as many of them are of dubious

and questionable characters and using Thailand as a place for their less than

honorable intentions....

"Some posters cautioned that it was likely that the man she went with had not actually been offered a job at all and the job idea was just a ruse to gain her confidence."

He may not have had a job offer at all, so why jump to conclusions?

On 21/02/2017 at 4:52 PM, darksidedog said:

A needless and very sad death, brought to us by bad taste reporting.

I, along with I suspect most people posting, have on various occasions, been so unbelievably drunk that I have crashed out in some unusual places and poses, with little or no memory in the morning.

Yet some seem to think his demise a good opportunity for jokes in as poor taste as the photo.

Let he who is without sin, and in this case, never been blind drunk, throw the first stone.

I have been drunk enough to throw up a few times, but I have never been blotto! 

6 hours ago, Lingba said:

No because they aren't actually police in the way we understand what police are supposed to be...these guys in brown uniforms are only trained to stop helmetless motor bike riders...that's it!...They aren't trained to work on the same level as police in the western world...all they do is put on a uniform and then walk around feeling like they are important and feel like they should be respected above everyone else

".these guys in brown uniforms are only trained to stop helmetless motor bike riders.."

And they usually don't even enforce that.

3 hours ago, esprit said:

Ultimately all dogs are pack animals and the fact that many are domesticated and have been since before Egyptian times,  does not do away with their natural instincts.  Dogs will be loving and loyal for years but just assume after say 5 years your two dogs or whatever no longer get fed and looked after -  what do you think they will do roam the rice fields or Sois begging for a handout or do you not think that perhaps they will revert to their basic hunting instincts and both look for food together ? That is when they become dangerous to us, but for them it is a natural instinct.

I agree. In New Zealand it is quite a common occurrence that when a few dogs get together they will maul and kill an entire flock of sheep, due to their pack instincts kicking in.

1 hour ago, claffey said:

I think that many expats look at this issue with western tinted glasses. Yes, the lakorns are shockingly bad but they actually do reflect society here where violence, sex, domestic violence, rape etc occur on a daily basis. Do they help to perpetuate those issues or do they help to raise them and get people talking about them?!!

 

In the UK people also have trashy soap operas such as Eastenders, Coronation Street etc that also highlight issues in society. The storylines are just as bad. And these soaps revolve around a pub. The Queen Vic, The Rovers Return and The Woolpack to name a few! Do they highlight or promote the issue of alcohol in the UK? The acting is also shockingly bad but I have to admit the sound effects are better!!

I watched Coronation Street including Ena Sharples in black and white in 1960, but haven't watched it since!

4 hours ago, impulse said:

Good news.  TV's have an off button.  

We don't have a TV because when we stayed with my Thai wife's father while our house was being built, the TV was on all the time, much of the time with the soaps, which even the Thai refer to as nam nao - dirty water. .The soaps featuring ghosts are in my opinion the worst.

I decided against having a TV in the house. My wife and I have a laptop each. My wife loves to watch comedies, doesn't bother with soaps. I couldn't stand TV. Apart from the very odd good programme, it's in my opinion like pumping mental sewage into ones home and a complete waste of one's time and life. TV programming is also designed to dumb down the population, and not just in Thailand.

13 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

it's not just foreigners. my friends here are pretty much exclusively bangkok born and bred and boy do some of them look down on their issan cousins. it's part of the hierarchical society.

 

 

True. The darker the skin colour. the more they are looked down upon and the lighter the skin, the more hi-so a person is assumed to be. 

30 minutes ago, elgordo38 said:

I think for 400 baht it gives one some moaning rights. Nice toilets etc. should not be an option. Personally I have not set a foot  in a park and have no intention of doing so. To make it affordable for the Thai's sounds like some kind of subsidy are we not supposedly all equal. Cancel 1 submarines and spend it on the parks. Get your priorities straight. 

"..are we not supposedly all equal?" 

Yes, but as George Orwell put it, some are more equal than others. 

29 minutes ago, flyingdoc said:

Definitely false economy !

I agree, They should in my pinion double it, to 8oo Baht, to make it worthwhile for farang to moan about being fleeced.

6 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Well 1 thing Minister you won't be getting 400 baht from this little black duck or any foreign tourists that visit me !

Would you by any chance hail from Scotland? 

1 hour ago, SuwadeeS said:

That could be so easy. Don't they see it?

One Baht tax of everything unhealthy in one big pot only that.

 

Alcohol, cigarettes, gasoline, sugar etc.

It would renew everz minute enough money to set up all.

 

There would even be enough money to pay the old poor generation a small pension to survive.

Thai who don't get a government pension are paid 600 Baht a month from the age of 60.

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

 

Bestiality is as old as time it self, and there's nothing new here, people in remote

area have often resorted to such activities with all kind of live stock,

( not withstanding doing it with people who resembles animals )...... 

Is this better or worse than having it off with one's sister, an act some also engage in, especially in remote areas. I  know of a case in rural Switzerland where a brother and his sister had a baby together, which is of course incest. 

On 1/03/2017 at 7:59 AM, Don Mega said:

My Makita  table saw cuts straight.

From Japan I assume.

On 1/03/2017 at 9:40 AM, klauskunkel said:

Hey now, Pattaya is not filthy or stinky. Instead it is a world-class resort!

And that's that.

Yes, full of natural wonders.

On 15/02/2017 at 5:51 AM, Thechook said:

Serious crimes like arresting farangs for playing Bridge and sleeping with prostitutes.  

Or feeding fish.

On 1/03/2017 at 4:32 AM, Raymonddiaz said:

the living ones are the worst so let's check the robots, they might be better than the body and fleshed cops.

And less prone to corruption.

On 1/03/2017 at 6:54 AM, Scott said:

The mix of vaccines between the various strains of virus was not adequate to give protection for a lot of people in the US, this past year.   It is somewhat a guess as to what strains will emerge, but it is based on scientific studies.   This year the CDC got it wrong.   It does provide protection, but was less effective.   Since Thailand knows this, they may be able to correct the mix of strains to give better immunity.  

One would in my opinion have to be mentally challenged to get a flu shot, or any type of vaccine for that matter, for oneself or one's children, because there is NO scientific evidence that vaccines prevent infectious diseases, or save lives.

The truth is that vaccines don't prevent, but promote ill-health, which is the real reason why these poison injections are being pushed. Taking a flu shot for five years in a row furthermore carries a ten-fold increased risk of Alzheimer's.

What's wrong with getting the flu anyway? Having the flu gives the immune system the opportunity for a work-out, so it's all good. Flu symptoms are in any case a side-effect of the  flu vaccine, so why bother?  .

http://www.vaccinationinformationnetwork.com/dr-blaylock-vaccine-program-based-upon-nonsense-fear-fairy-tales/