Thingamabob

The atmosphere in Mexico City reminds me of Bangkok. Friendly, fun-loving people, entertaining night life, warm weather, warm women.

Tourism up or tourism down ? Conflicting reports/headlines all over the media.

Appalling behaviour. Mustafa ? Hardly a typical European/Belgian name. He looks like somebody from the middle east. Anyway, locate him, fine him and jail him, and then deport him with a permanent ban ensuring he never returns to Thailand again.

Ridiculous over-statement. It wasn't that much of an incident.

A small man acting the way he thinks a big man would behave. Utterly pathetic.

'Psychosocial factors' ? I don't think so. Just a bit of fun. If we all agreed with each other all the time life would be rather dull.

Very rare in Thailand. Is there something about you that Thais don't want to be seen to be associating with ?

Oh dear ! Sleepless nights and endless worries ahead. I may never recover.

Way too early to judge the current US Presidency. Also, living in East Asia and travelling widely around the world, I'm not aware that the US has become a 'laughing stock'.

Most decent people would try to avoid hitting any animal on the road. In this case, however, it is not entirely clear how trying to avoid a cat would result in so much damage. The result of the police tests will be interesting.

Aged 83, a Brit, and living permanently in Thailand since 1993, I voted in the last UK election. The fact that we now, at last, have been granted the right to vote gives us a little more clout but not, I fear, enough to change the UK government's position on frozen pensions. We have tried for years to get our pensions unfrozen. I once was a member of a delegation to the House of Commons on this issue, but all we got were nice words but no action whatsoever. Grossly unfair, but that's the way it is I'm afraid.

Aged 83, a Brit, and living permanently in Thailand since 1993, I voted in the last UK election. The fact that we now, at last, have been granted the right to vote gives us a little more clout but not, I fear, enough to change the UK government's position on frozen pensions. We have tried for years to get our pensions unfrozen. I once was a member of a delegation to the House of Commons on this issue, but all we got were nice words but no action whatsoever. Grossly unfair, but that's the way it is I'm afraid.

....and yet the current Thai govt wants increasing numbers of Chinese tourists.

It wasn't when I took the test in 1958. Sign of the times in which we now live.

Most decent people would try to avoid hitting any animal on the road. In this case, however, it is not entirely clear how trying to avoid a cat would result in so much damage. The result of the police tests will be interesting.

This killer would likely get the death penalty in earlier times. However, given his brutal murder of a Thai, his chances of surviving in a Thai jail are remote.

The purpose of life for most of the species on Earth is to avoid death for as long as is possible.

It will, eventually. By the time it happens all life on Earth will have already ceased due to extreme levels of heat.

We find the service in Foodland stores in Bangkok to be excellent, The Foodland staff are very helpful and very polite, and the stores have a wide range of products, many of them up-market brands.

A truly pathetic piece from, surprise, surprise, the New York Times.

Sad that the Western powers colluded in the deaths of Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Muammar Gadhafi of Libya, both of whom were committed to overthrowing the regime in Iran.

Smart move. It was indeed way over the top on Talk Radio.

Married to my Thai wife since 1990. Almost every day we joke about something. Thais generally enjoy a good laugh.

Too many people taking over land historically inhabited by wild life.

I wish her well but I fear, as she is a foreigner, her business plans will run into all manner of bureaucratic hurdles the like of which she will never have previously experienced.