UbonRatch

This is one of the engines that will drive some of New Orleans drainage pumps.

I hope that thing's water-proof, after all that fine procurement and investment!

I wondered why my red Ferrari has a big dent under the front left-side of the fender.

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt at this point.

No!

Amsterdam must be earning a packet giving false advice leading to false answers!

they taste nice with garlik and fava beans snif snif snif

Should have washed it down with a nice Chianti.

That's what Tyson did, with his coalition of tigers.

Bruno was in the corner, and the Ref said, "Why are you hiding in the corner, Bruno?"

Bruno said, "Cos my Thai teacher told me to stand here!"

Lets see a classroom of 4 yo said she did it. If you remember 4yo aren't prone to lying yet, very easy to get the truth out of them with even the smallest of push. So we have a criminal offense witnessed by 30 eye witnesses, in a public place. Ahhhh how could you 'check further into the matter?' Fire her sadistic butt, bring her up on assault charges, then hand her over to the parents. Perhaps her 'good deeds passport' should be revoked?

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Absolutely correct. 4 year olds are not prone to lying. Lying is learnt, by example, primarily at the age of six. Proven psychology. Proven psychiatry.

Dr Robert Winston made an excellent BBC docu about such.

"We already put her on probation.."

"HER"?!! Jesus wept.

You think, therefore, that women are not as agressive or as voilent as men?

Ever see a pack of lionesses at work?

Pride

My apologies. I meant 'coalition'.

Why not have 'male' only carriages:

Female only carriages:

And proof of marriage and children carriages?

End of.

Any other have to fit in to their allocated legal sex!

Well, they are trying. At least they didn't take a "mai bpen rai" attitude.

Amazing how much some of the posters here whine and criticize and never have any ideas for solutions themselves.

But they've been trying for year upon year since B.E. 1576 Tom.

LocalD was right in his observation. In fact, in my experience, female police officers are more corrupt than the males, because they use their sex (not literally) !

Poor tyke. That woman is not a teacher, and hardly a human. Allow her to stand before the parents and explain why she had to result to such barbarity.

Actually she's not. Suarez was seen arriving at Suvarnabhumi last week, with a new teaching post in prospect.

"We already put her on probation.."

"HER"?!! Jesus wept.

You think, therefore, that women are not as agressive or as voilent as men?

Ever see a pack of lionesses at work?

Maybe they could use us farang? It's all our fault, after all. Close the bars for 2 days, and make us drink the excess water. Then we only have to report every 89 days.

Incentive, or what?

How to quantify " contribute 3 per cent of their incomes"?

If they are so poor, now govt want to take away another 3%?

If want for free forget it. 3% contribution is little to receveive much more than 25% back per month when working age is passed.

You must have a happiness GPA of 2.1 out of 4.0 ?

Please explain to me this happiness mark out of 4.0 of which I know sweet FA about.

Judging from the photo in the OP, it looks like the reservoirs are in the wrong place.

Edit: As long as they are all outside of BKK all is ok. Alledgedly.

Since when has it been Hi-Tech to fly a remote-controlled plane or helicopter. <deleted>Sakes, I was doing this 40 years ago.

Hi-Tech my ass.

But not equipped with FPV. Plus this thing i electric and much quieter than the petrol-run dinosaurs you flew.

You didn't wait, did you? Assumptions, as often.

News just in:

9,074 sacked by Thai Airways.

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Thais, just like other nationalities, all have great expectations. No forward planning, just "I want it and I want it now".

Tomorrow never comes.

No sympathy from me. want everything but don't want to work for just give me give me.

You got any kids?

"The Bank of Thailand (BOT) has reported that the total household debt now stands at 9.79 trillion baht or 82.3 percent of the country’s GDP, which is a rather worrying statistic."

I'd like to know why that's a worrying statistic. Most Western countries average circa 80% also. In fact, most Scandinavian countries top 90%, with Finland often crossing the 100% boundary.

Inability to pay back is the stat that matters most, and we've all maintained that all the borrowing to get the new Isuzu etc. would blow up. Here it comes, and it's been coming for many years. lending by banks will simply further crucify the banks, and thus the economy. Time to buy all the gold you can!

"Meanwhile, in Udon Thani Province, officials have organized a meeting with the van service operators on the new regulations. The vans operating in the province are running under different service contracts, the officials said, adding that a majority of them agree with the new regulations which aim to eliminate extortion by local influential figures in the long term."

Well that one can be worked out within itself, and within a nutshell ! 'Local officials' and 'extortion' being the keywords.

I have, in fact I write about it. You know as well as I do that Singapore and Malaysia are eons ahead... and Burma and Cambodia have pretty much caught up Thailand. Laos is not too far behind. There is also much less corruption in Singapore and Malaysia, and they both speak pretty fluent English.

I can't work out your point. .. ???

Singapore speaks English, but there was a reason they moved the Asian secretariat out - because a tiny, first-world city state is hugely un-representative and in fact unable to provide the bodies needed for the civil service of an Asean HQ. Malaysia is certainly not aeons ahead, but it speaks English and has less corruption. That's one country. That's the end of the good news. And just for fun, I bet I can come up with two inconvenient little problems about Malaysia for each one you mention for Thailand. That is, both of them are very easy to criticise, but there's nothing above them.

The claim that Cambodia and Burma have "caught up" to Thailand, I don't get YOUR point. Caught up in what way? Cambodia is far more corrupt than Thailand and suffers the current Thai sickness that ;all the corruption is focussed in one place. At least Thai corruption will start to spread around again after Gen. Sarit leaves the scene, but Cambodia is simply caught up in it. Burma is still decades behind in every department, and "corruption" doesn't begin to describe the economic depravity of that poor country. They have no infrastructure, no civil service depth.

Vietnam will be an economic power one day but corruption is far more ingrained and government directed than Thailand. Their civil service system and legal system are complete messes. I presume you're using Laos as the comedy spot in your otherwise serious post.

You forgot to mention those English speaking paragons, Brunei and the Philippines. Is there a problem with them TOO, hmmm?

The fact is that when you put all the requirements together, there's no standout. Not only that but Thailand is in the top tier.

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You're welcome to believe Thailand is in the top tier. That's true. But it is not the eschelon of the ASEAN member states, and it's far from it. Being in a tier is as much as 'being in a queue'. You make many statements, or deliver opinions, yet you corroborate nothing with facts and figures.

As for Burma, run by a junta, what exactly is Thailand currently? Is there any difference between 'foreigners' now flocking to Myanmar beaches and that of Thailand? Brunie's first language is Malay. Malaysia's is Malay also, and Thailand's is Thai, of course. Singapore's is English. Does that make anything clearer, with regards to Thailand being a viable option to be the HQ of ASEAN?

Economic depravity can be measured in many ways. Are you willing to lay down that you don't see, or have not seen, as much depravity in Thailand as that of Myanmar? Civil rights issues maybe, depravity is on the same level.

ASEAN's intent is to become viable worldwide, as a financial player in international business - as a group of member states, may I add.

Call to Singapore: "Good Morning, how may I help sir?"

Call to Thailand: "Mai kao jai.". der der deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer.

Yep, you're right. Thailand should be the head of ASEAN.

Thailand as the hub of the AEC !

That should go down well with other more stable, successful, less corrupt etc members and who can also use English as a lingua franca.

Have you had a look at the Asean membership?

I have, in fact I write about it. You know as well as I do that Singapore and Malaysia are eons ahead... and Burma and Cambodia have pretty much caught up Thailand. Laos is not too far behind. There is also much less corruption in Singapore and Malaysia, and they both speak pretty fluent English.

I can't work out your point. .. ???

Thailand is back? Where did it go? It maybe back from the brink, but I doubt that, very much.

I wonder if in history there's ever been a time when a country has been so bankrupt that the receivers have had to step in and shut it down?

Is this what we are witnessing?

And yet many Farang still say Thai education system no good, and Thai student stupid.

Partly because most Thais can't use the verbs to be (look at your own writing).

Partly because most Thais always assume that all of us from the West are the same (Farang).

Partly because most Thais assume all westerns speak the same language, eat the same food and like the same things.

Partly because you insist in thinking that Thailand is a well developed country that has a great educational system.

The is only one verb 'to be'. That is the verb 'to be'. There are verb forms of 'to be', once conjugation commences.

Also, we: insist, insist on, insist that or insist upon. There is no 'insist in'.

Now look at your own writing, and leave the Thai alone! At least he communicates well, and writes comparatively well. Do you happen to write Thai well? I very much doubt it.

Time for a bit of Dhamma, mai na?

Communication is key, and not writing like Shakespeare.