Thingamabob

They don't have much choice.

Left UK finally in 1980. I make that 45 years, spent mainly in Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.

Your choice.

This has got to be a joke.

Eating animals is disgusting.

The reality is that the UK has been badly governed for generations. Two tier policing/sentencing is just a further indication that the downward slide in Britain is going from bad to worse. Very sad to see.

My first ever experience of Songkran was many years ago. I was walking on a pavement adjacent to Lumpini Park in Bangkok when a Thai lady wearing traditional Thai dress approached me and asked if she might speak with me. I agreed whereupon she sprinkled a small amount of water, from a bottle she was carrying, onto my right wrist and wished me a happy new year. It was a charming gesture, very far removed from today's antics. Other old timers will likely have similar memories.

Men watching a man dancing shirtless. Not an issue.

Not worth commenting until the terms are known.

I wonder if you were speaking Thai with a Lao/Issan accent. That would put off a lot of Thai women. Anyway, don't give up, keep trying.

Thailand has a large number of poor people. They need tourists who are prepared to spend money at their small businesses. Tourists with your attitude are not popular anywhere, and never have been.

The current government is failing Thailand on all fronts. It's ethical reputation abroad is poor, to say the least, while it's focus on China for trade is helping only a few Thaksin insiders.

Way too early to judge.

There are way too many people in the world putting a huge strain on services and natural resources. However we are continually being told to increase the birth rate in order to produce enough young people who can be taxed to provide funds for the care of the increasing numbers of elderly people. In other words we are either not willing, or not able, to come up with a solution to this problem other than to encourage world population to be forever increasing even though that will eventually lead to chaos.

A mature 26 year old would tell family and friends he intended to disappear for a while, thereby not causing concerns, and not wasting police/rescuers time. This 26 year old has a lot of growing up to do.

'..an overwhelmingly pro-Chinese national sentiment in Thailand..' ? Not in my experience.

...which holds Thailand back in many ways.

You have managed to totally distort the issue. It was not the schools circulating porn, it was the pupils. Next time engage brain before opening mouth.

I drank far more in my home country, the UK, than I have ever done in Thailand.

Thailand suffers from an elite who couldn't care less about how it's market manipulations affects poorer Thais, and a historical subservience to China which was only briefly interrupted from the 1950s through to the 1980s during which there were fears of a CPC inspired communist takeover.

Good question. When I was a kid at school in the late 1940s/early 1950s black and white, postcard size porn pics imported from France were widely circulated. The idea that youngsters have only recently become exposed to porn is nonsense.

So what ?

Britain is sliding further and further into becoming an islamic state under sharia law.

No.

2020, a very strange election to put it mildly.