darksidedog

I'd say the driver of the car deserved all the beating he got after deliberately driving his car on top of the guy on the bike.

Ambitious plan? Hmmm! I can think of a few other adjectives that are more appropriate than ambitious. Wild, loony, insane, laughable etc.

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

Quarantines are killing Thailand’s tourism industry

You think? I mean really? Wow! What an epiphany that must have been when they worked it out?

I'm caught in two minds over what is going on here. You would expect the numbers to be coming down as they keep mass testing but they aren't. I suspect that the Myanmar workers have been packed in wherever they are, unable to distance themselves from others, so slowly but surely they are giving it to each other, which if correct means it won't slow down until everyone of them has got it.

Around the country apart from that one area it seems better, though while I saw proactive mass testing in Pattaya a few weeks back, no one seems to know how much is going on nationwide right now.

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

Talk News Online called it a grim accident.

Extremely grim. You can only hope that he was killed by the impact.

5 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

In response to the order from Minister Chalermchai Sri-on, the Department of Agricultural Extension is campaigning against field burning and demonstrating environment-friendly ways to handle farm waste.

Hang on? Two days ago we were told it was being banned and huge fines for burning fields and now it is a promotional campaign?

I applaud the environmentally friendly suggestions, though I suspect there aren't enough machines in the country to supply all the farmers, so don't expect that smog to go away any time soon.

Just now, Skallywag said:

Ahh marriage bliss, maybe he should get busy and find a 3rd Thai wife, or better yet dump his second wife and live as all men should, FREE !!! ???? 

Having been there twice myself, I assure you I am in no rush to take on number 3, even if it is supposed to be a lucky number. 

Totally agree, look after family, never dump on them, especially if you can't even admit to your actions. If you can't acknowledge what you have done, you have to ask if your actions are truly not shameful, why you can't do so?

10 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I would have to ask why the son didn't go to college.

I think the fairest way to sum that up would be that while he has manners and will graft hard, he was never going to be designing rockets. The mutual recognition of that and a bit of pressure to get a job saw him try to earn his way from just before he was 18.

If she says she hasn't got the money to pay the fines, simply lob her in jail where it will be reduced by 500 Baht a day. By the time she gets out she will have a bit more respect for the rules. Its just damn lucky that she hasn't killed anyone yet.

I suspect the true number of those in dire financial straits, far beyond what "poverty" means is a lot more than 1.5 million.

The government has spent lots of money on military hardware, which would have been much better spent right now on its financially distressed people.

Once again different immigration offices issuing different stories. I swear the word coordination is just not understood here.

For long term expats, who have not traveled anywhere, this makes absolutely no sense.

Sad as it is to say, no one should be surprised to hear such news, as we all know that it is absolutely all around us, going on night and day. Every official who can graft some coin is doing so.

The only surprise in the matter is that "some" of those at the trough have been actually been called out. Must have been really going for it, or not passing enough along and upward.

It is so endemic in making the wheels go around that it is difficult to know how to begin to break the cycle.

There is a significant difference between an alchohol ban "from" midnight, to one "after" midnight.

My first thought was that it was a ban, not a timing issue and thought "here we go!, every Governor will follow suit like dominoes."

It appears an emergency stock up is not yet necessary.

That doesn't look good. The flightradar tracker shows it climbing steadily, then banking 90 degrees right and pretty much straight down. Thats not engine failure, its catastrophic loss of flight controls, as in something major fell off or seriously malfunctioned. Not good news for Boeing.

I RIP those on board in advance, because I doubt anyone could survive an impact of that velocity.

Oh dear! I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall to watch his reaction when he found out.

Unsurprisingly, a number of troll posts and replies have had to be removed.

Warnings will follow if you keep it up.

I agree with the OP. Chang was my regular beer until they changed it. I could not believe how awful the new weaker beer was and haven't drunk any since. At the time I actually did write to Chang asking them how they could do something so dumb to take a winning formula and change it to garbage, but of course, never received a reply.

18 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

I agree with the watershed and I'm pretty sure that the face melting scene (which lasts a few minutes) would give my 9-year-old nightmares.

While I agree with you about a watershed time, you have to pause and reflect that 9 year olds back then didn't seem to be adversely affected, so what is it about now?

Are the kids softer or have we become over protective? Or has one led to the other?

I remember as a young teenager seeing a very scary film at the movies (The Fog circa 1970's) and being a bit spooked cycling home through foggy country lanes after, late at night.

Two red eyes appeared in the fog and for a moment I nearly poo'ed myself. Stopped pedaling and debated a prompt U-turn. Then the reversing lights came on and I realised it was a car, not my nemesis!

Relief? Oh, you bet. Nearly fell off the bike laughing after.

The cartoons the kids watch have shocking levels of violence, so this omission, which I agree with an earlier poster, was one of the best bits in the movie, is disappointing.

I think kids understand movie/reality better than we adults sometimes think.

Those machines look like they are well past their sell by date.

Being Thailand you have to wonder if this ancient stuff has been lobbed forward to divert attention away from the newer models undoubtedly out there, while allowing those in power to claim a victory.