Thakkar

I came because the grass looked greener. Now that I'm here, the grass looks greener elsewhere. Damned grass keeps shifting.

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Smart enough to scam her out of a million baht, but dumb enough to leave her locked in a room, with access to a phone.

Maybe his smartness just comes and goes, like pain from an old war wound.

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Who is to blame here ? The Indian wearing too much gold ,serves him right. Being drunk in charge of carrying gold and being pi$$ed , could be . Thai yoofs again living on mugging folk whist living on a minimum wage ? He should of chosen somewhere else to spend his Rupees other than Pattaya. Not Samui or Phuket of course same-same but different.

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Yeah, they really *should* charge the Indian for being drunk and walking alone carrying cash thus inducing criminal behavior from gangsters. Just as they should jail rape victims for not covering themselves up head to toe.

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While I support a higher minimum wage, I completely disagree with this article's premise. It expresses a muddled view. A minimum wage and a wage cap are two very different things and any linkage is tenuous. A higher wage at the bottom does not necessarily have to take anything away from the top earners. One can only come to such a conclusion by ignoring the crucial factor of productivity improvements.

It is also wrong-headed to look at the effects on individual companies rather than the entire economy.

Furthermore, the article provides no data on the effects of the previous minimum wage hike. Did it lead to wage-pulled inflation or overall increase in unemployment? Did it improve productivity, or increase investment in automation? Without data, there can be no informed debate, just mindless, disjointed prognostications, as in the article.

The curious thing is that even under conditions of virtually full employment, a substantial size of the workforce is earning just subsistence wages. When you are earning so little and another job with such wages is easily had, where's the incentive to work your best? From the employers' side, when workers can be had so cheaply, where's the incentive to invest in better training or higher automation? This squeeze from both ends explains the lack of productivity growth.

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To improved.Songkran, replace all the water in those buckets with rose petals.

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Think before posting; think twice before deleting...

Do you often bite your tongue on this forum and delete posts you have drafted

- for fear of being embroiled in a bickerfest with half-wits and neanderthals

- for fear of moderation, and the iron-fisted boot of petty conformity

- to avoid having a thread in your recent postings page, and rereading the same offensive drivel?

You'll be grateful to know that I do

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Having read many of your posts, I must say your self censoring skills are commendable. If I had a modicum of those skills, I'd be only half the smartass that I appear to be on these forums..

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Stirring up The General, who has the power of Article 44. Tsk, tsk.

This fortune teller has some massive crystal balls.

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Especially in Thailand where you have to take your sandals off when you go to a house.

Also my feet don't pick up all the dirt of the road.

"Also my feet don't pick up all the dirt of the road."

No, but your socks do, plus they would get sodden during the rains or if you trek though sewers in your wanderings. Bare feet (in sandals) can be wiped or rinsed off in a worst case scenario before entering the house. Socks would just smear it around or release the encapsulated odor of your feet and the sheep who sacrificed it's coat to make your Argyles ... no matter how trendy the salesman told you that you'd look.

I'm the cool guy on the right. Control yourselves, ladies.

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Nobody has ever been 'cured' from a mental illness.

You would have better luck trying to 'cure' Gays into becoming 'straight'. It isn't going to work. People are who they are. And if a person steps outside the boundries of what is acceptable to a society, they've crossed the line.

Lock her up.

I don't hinkt "gayness" is anything like mental illness. It's like saying having a limp is like being blond.

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I won't give my opinion anymore, you know why... Too dangerous.

Opinions are NOT like a*holes; you can shove a Peace and Order-maintaining Officer's truncheon up the latter.

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Get off my lawn and stop pestering me with surveys.

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Only one photo actually gets sent to immigration. The other three end up in the 7-Eleven girls' wallets.

Or on dartboards--depending on hansumness

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Here's something The Moral Promotion Centre could work on. There is certainly no moral grounds, especially in the Buddhist context, but even from the New Testament point of view, for the Sate to take a life as punishment.

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For those who would like to visit, The Moral Promotion Centre is located between The Centre for Safe Driving and The Centre for Responsible Drinking.

You are welcome.

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Momofuku Ando, the inventer of Instant noodles, lived into his nineties. He said in an interview that he ate his instant noodles every day.

I knew those things will kill you--eventually.

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Obviously the Devil put it there to fool us, or God to test our faith, or some idiot pranksters from The Community College of Arizona just to f* with those self-important pricks from Arizona State U.

Just my theory.

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Michael Lewis' Liars Poker was published in the early Eighties. In it he described how investment banks intentionally "blew up" their clients, if it meant that would make money for themselves.

This M.O. should've been widely known since then but miraculously, the banks have been able to get away with the same M.O. for decades since.

Reading this thread, I'm gratified that the general skepticism we should have had since the early Eighties is now finally widespread.

Having said that, there is a trend of competitive devaluation going on, and surely Thailand will join the fray. I doubt though that the movements will be substantial as all sides seem cognizant of the the dangers of an all-out currency war.

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As reported in the article, this is the purpose of the DNA test:

The test was intended to dispel public suspicion that the border police might be involved in the murder

And perhaps the only purpose of reopening the case?

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I don't understand. Was he arrested for performing a bad parody, or for making empty threats?

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*empty because his gun couldn't possibly have held enough bullets to fully carry out his threat.

I think there should be a scale inside the toilet bowls and users, upon leaving, should be charged in proportion to the weight of their deposits. The exit door only opens upon insertion of correct amount! All major credit cards and Apple Pay should be accepted.

That would be fair.

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Something a little more like this.

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Clearly, you are ex-Special Forces CIA Navy Seal Black-ops Space Ranger Knight of the Round Table . Due to your excellent camouflaging, all I see is foliage in that photo.

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The OP poses a question. But I have a better one: with all of the U.S. currency I am holding, where can I buy some of that sweet stuff he is smoking?

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Is your partner faithful?

If she is faithful to her boyfriend by not having nookie with me, does that count?

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