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S#it happens when you're drunk. 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

She said she eats there all the time - and wondered what would be done about it.

What's for afters?

Rat cake, rat sorbet, rat pudding, or strawberry tart.

Strawberry tart?

Well, it's got *some* rat in it.

'Ow much?

Three. Rather a lot, really.

Well, I''ll have a slice without so much rat in it.

The rescue teams primarily work for the valuables they can lift off accident victims.  That's why there are turf wars.  The rescue transport fees are minuscule and must be divided among that team, whereas they can enrich themselves individually as freelancers by stealing.  I have personally experienced this and know other accident victims who have as well.  

14 hours ago, manarak said:

hmm. I was tempted to comment that the american was a nutcase, but in the video you see the Thai put his fist on the american's chest, looks like he is trying to teach the guy a lesson.

difficult to say if this attack was provoked or not.

Agreed, and that's the first thing I noticed.  One has to ask why the airport police didn't interrogate the Thai hotel worker as to why he had his fist on the American's chest at the start of the CCTV footage.  Obviously they saw a quick and financially beneficial ending should they skew their interrogation and extract money from the foreigner.  Not saying the American didn't overreact, just questioning the obvious bias of the police in their techniques.

1 hour ago, janclaes47 said:

Clinton's infidelity happened while he was in office, Trumps suspected infidelity happened decades before he was elected.

This is only tangentially related to Trump.  Cohen told the press he took out a home line of credit loan to pay Daniels $130,000.  Trump said he knew nothing about the payment.  Mueller probably had Cohen's bank loan application in his files and which required Cohen to state the purpose of the loan.  Cohen lied as to the purpose of the loan, so will be charged with bank fraud.  Also, he wired the money to Daniels' lawyer and that becomes wire fraud.  The payment may have been an FEC violation as an undeclared campaign contribution.

Cohen has assets, including real estate holdings and taxi medallions, that far exceed the amount he could have earned as his work as a lawyer.  He is being investigated by the US Attorney in SDNY for laundering Russian oligarch money.  If he has communications and documents that relate to Trump-Russia, such as the efforts to put together a Trump Tower Moscow deal with Felix Sater, that evidence is going to be turned over to Mueller.  Poor Trump, but this is what happens when you bring a Russian-styled mafia gang into your campaign and into the White House.

Mueller only had a small part in this.  Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen's business dealings.  He was laundering Russian money into real estate investments.  He owns assets way beyond what he would have earned as an attorney.  It's no surprise that Trump saying the money to pay Daniels came from Cohen led to the warrant, because Cohen was spreading around Russian money like a drunken sailor.  Trump better hope that there's nothing connecting him to Cohen's money, otherwise Mueller just proved his case against Trump.

40 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Good lawyer! He just showed how to make nothing out of a case. Both same bad. Case closed.

No, that's the Thai way and it condones poor driving habits which are the primary reason for Thailand to have the worst traffic safety record in the world.

The pickup truck driver is at fault.  He violated the right-of-way of the motorcyclist.  The motorcyclist was forced to take emergency action which appears to be laying down his bike, but he might have braked and the wet road surface caused his bike to go down.  Either way, the pickup driver's negligence is the proximate cause of the collision, and I see little or no  fault on the part of the motorcyclist, and certainly not a 50-50 case.

27 minutes ago, Emmess said:

Definitely staged. Just a cheap gimmick to make Thai taxi drivers look bad. 

I assume you're being sarcastic.  That's an awful lot of people to be involved in your conspiracy theory.  I think most Bangkokians are aware how the taxi drivers cherry-pick fares they can scam during large rainstorms.