greenfox

lovely weather!

5 minutes of walking outside from 8am-8pm will result in most people's clothes sticking to them with sweat.

Summer in Western Europe is, for the most part, lovely weather, Thailand, not really no, unless you just need to lie still and vegetate.

No way.

How boring would that be after day 3.

Never mind after day 365.

lovely weather!

5 minutes of walking outside from 8am-8pm will result in most people's clothes sticking to them with sweat.

Summer in Western Europe is, for the most part, lovely weather, Thailand, not really no, unless you just need to lie still and vegetate.

Where do you go the other 6 - 7 months of the year?

We're typically in either Japan, Thailand or England. Not based on climate at the time.

lovely weather!

5 minutes of walking outside from 8am-8pm will result in most people's clothes sticking to them with sweat.

Summer in Western Europe is, for the most part, lovely weather, Thailand, not really no, unless you just need to lie still and vegetate.

Live streaming.

Should be landing at 11pm Thai time.

The longer I lived here the less and less I had with (non-overseas educated) Thais and Thai society.

We live in a private village, the only Thais there are decent overseas educated Thais.

Our social scene is mainly Western expats and Western educated Asians. We have very little in common with Thai raised and 'educated' people.

Really the only Thais (raised and educated here) we have contact with are employed to serve us.

We take advantage of the good things, and have very little time or want for participating in Thai culture or society, or being around Thai raised and 'educated' people.

Works for us. mightn't work for others. That's the beauty of the World, we're all different, learn what works best for you and run with it.

You really come off as a snob!

Yes, I probably do.

Should I apologize or something?

Sharky has balls all right, big ones, but, the police messed up, he's doing what all innocent people should do, fight to clear your name..

There's ways to fight and way's to fight.

Due to stupidity, he only knows his way.

And this is one he's going to lose.

Does he honestly think he is going to have the RTP return a million in cash and 1KG of gold and then live happily ever after pimping out his 500b girls.

How much do these poor souls go for anyway? 10k a head? 100k a head?

Times 258. And the Thais lost these valuable commodities....

The people had been detained for illegally entering the country, and it is believed they may have fled.

Fled. Sold. What's the difference.

Damn.

Luxury cars.

Luxury car documents.

Billions of baht.

Billions of baht's worth of rice.

Immigration detainees.

It's amazing what goes missing here.

Time to ask the magic hole in the ground in Udon Thani where they have gone to.

If I was an older gentleman, I would be more interested in looking into basing oneself in Laos, more than Thailand.

Nice set of released photos here......

https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/sets/72157638315605535/

seems to be covered in some sort of fine particle matter. not something you would expect of something zooming through space at a zillion kph. something that small also would have little gravity associated with it so further how do the particles stick and further where do they come from in such quantity.

You do know there's no wind, don't you?

I was going to say, that I presume there would have to be atmosphere for it to fly through in order for stuff to be blown off it. In deep space there is nothing to cause friction or whatever as it is a hard vacuum.

"In interstellar space, the density is about one atom per cubic meter. If you are in, say, the Orion nebula, the density is higher: about 10 atoms per cubic centi-meter or about 10^7 atoms per cubic meter. It's interesting to note that even this is much emptier than any vacuum made by humans."

Make no mistake. In 25 years China will rule the World.

At 72 years old, I hope I'm here to see it.

Unless you're Han Chinese, you probably won't want to.

Is that too much too hope for?

Yes.

I would suspect there is money involved. Either missing, not being shared, or being demanded.

Should take about 7 hours to go from the main craft to landing on the comet. So about 10:30pm (very estimated time) Thai time for the landing.

Come on...I've seen plenty of cars wrapped around trees...driver young,white, drunk

Offcourse you see that kind off things everywhere, but worse as in Thailand, i have never seen before.

In Holland there are living 16 million people and every year 570 killed in traffic.

Here it is not only the irresponsible or drunk driver. It's also the quality of the roads.

I am living in a industrial area full of trucks. They destroy all roads. Very often you can not speak of a road anymore, but a little bit of road between all the holes. In between the trucks there are cars and motornikes pushed away by crazy truckdrivers who know that the others are at risk so they drive ass hell.

There was a case in Lampang a few years ago.

A truck side swiped a pick-up truck, then tried to escape (hit and run).

The truck hit a set of lights and took out all the scooters and bikes waiting at the front. There were about 15 scooterists dead. Mostly nurses and students as the local college had just finished and a hospital had just had it's shift change. He then tried to run from that and hit another vehicle.

It didn't make the main news at all, just some Thai boards.

I suspect there was village justice administrated. Perhaps he was Burmese.

The only piece left on the web about it is:

http://www.chiangmai-mail.com/366/news.shtml#hd13

the Thai forums and their photos of 10+ crushed scooters and riders under the truck was sobering

I like how they remove the seatbelts from public vehicles.

Putting on a seatbelt does two things.

• Makes the driver lose face as it is a criticism - that his driving isn't good and he might crash.

• Actually preempts and causes accidents through some magic stuff stupid Westerners don't understand.

There really is very little hope for them.

Many Thais seem to exist in a state of challengement.

Others are a challenge to them. Their ego and face is at stake.

Somebody overtakes them, they suffer loss of ego and face, a loss of manliness. They have been challenged. They must win.

Their programmed society allows for very little expression of negative emotions. Getting behind the wheel where they are invisible allows for their release. They can bully, deride and get a sense of power by endangering others and making them move out of their way, they can belittle other men, they can release their anger.

It all adds up to a very dangerous driving culture.

The accident rate will drop when the police get some training in traffic regulation, when the police have a desire to do the job for which they are paid to do, when those that have no wish to work are got rid of, when Thai's and not falangs want change. They could start with the useless policemen who are supposedly directing traffic on the 118 Doi Saket to Chiang Mai road,

I disagree that enforcement of rules will change the behaviour, in any meaningful way. It would require one traffic cop per 10 meters of road.

The mindset of the people must change, for changes to happen.

Thais don't do changes of mindset, it indicates that they were doing things incorrectly to begin with. too much for their ego to accept.

Sadly, I have to agree with this statement. No one should underestimate the significance of ego AND arrogance in this regard. Dozens upon dozens of times I have had to walk away fuming with anger from arguments with Thai friends and rellies over road safety, driving skills and road craft - and the wierd thing is that most of the arguments revolve around simple common sense, not rocket science or metaphysical concepts.

Edit: wierd, wried, wired, WEIRD -- aha! Got it!

yup.

If they are doing something stupid, and it is seen by others, to stop doing it and change incurs a loss of face greater than being seen to do something stupid, so they continue.

Make no mistake. In 25 years China will rule the World.

The accident rate will drop when the police get some training in traffic regulation, when the police have a desire to do the job for which they are paid to do, when those that have no wish to work are got rid of, when Thai's and not falangs want change. They could start with the useless policemen who are supposedly directing traffic on the 118 Doi Saket to Chiang Mai road,

I disagree that enforcement of rules will change the behaviour, in any meaningful way. It would require one traffic cop per 10 meters of road.

The mindset of the people must change, for changes to happen.

Thais don't do changes of mindset, it indicates that they were doing things incorrectly to begin with. too much for their ego to accept.

It is all in China's interest.

Deep sea port and industrial estates at Dewei in Burma, into Thailand via the new Nam Ron border, then train up to Kunming in China. China benefits greatly. So does Thailand.

I was on my big bike last month, stopped at a junction.

Local on a scooter jumped the lights and started dancing (wiggling) his scooter in victory.

Hilux came around the bend and almost took him out, the scooter was ran in to the kerb. He pulled out from behind it and started his dancing again. I suppose to show that it meant nothing to him.

You seriously have to wonder at the mental state of some of these people.