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I have often witnessed Russian (men mainly) being very arrogant, loud and intimidating towards Thai people when negotiating..I see it as very disrespectful..just my opinion....I guess ..other nationalities are also guilty of this behaviour, but generally it is Russians who I have seen doing it with monotonous regularity

Naturaly they will clash, both have been conditioned in entirely different ways, the perfect relationship. One is direct and abbrassive, the other evasive and polite....

Seems to be alot of anti russian sentiment in these posts.

I feel it is the direct nature of russians that many other people have difficulty with.

Much of the world has been conditioned to be serpentine and may be confronted by the direct approach.

I personaly prefer the no nonsense direct approach, saves alot time, is less heady and more grounded.

The North Koreans have become the center of the world...dictating to the US the movies they are allowed to watch...hacking into US computer systems and exposing emails...threats to others if they do not give-in to the great Pork-sausage leader and do his bidding...they are feeling so full of themselves at the moment...all that money put into missiles and rockets...as the population is living at near starvation...has begun to pay dividends...they should be so proud...

Agree that north korea is the nightmare state, but who isnt wasting a sh*t load of money on military? And how do you know they hacked sony, because the US told you?

Terrorism, the universal excuse to finance military and plunder the resorces of less developed nations.

How often do they do rescues?

Russia needs to start destroying terrorist organizations. The civilized word would be very pleased; sanctions would be lifted; and the Russians would become our brothers.

Maybe they just dont go in for all that terrorist baloney, that are intelligent people you know.

Im sure when you get to know them, like anyone - most Russians are lovely people.

However - when on vacation in Thailand, they can be pretty dreadful. I can't say I'll miss seeing more Russians in Thailand.

What i heard from many Thai peopole that they don´t like Russians because they are rude people.

Rude or straight up?

I like putin, one of the few countries that blocked GM crops, russians may be difficult to deal with sometimes but it seems to pay off....

Ah, there IS a God after all...... Now if he could just sink the yuan as well.....

Then you'll need to barricade your appartment and carry a gun because there's going to be alot of crime around when that happens...

Hard times has fallen all over the world due to the economic situation.

Hope things change in the near future, because it's not good either for Pattaya or any other city in the world.

Change to what? Continued plundering of world resorces, I dont think so.

Time to get real the party's over....

This doesn't make sense. China has trillions in US$ reserves. If the US$ crashes, China will pay big. China is not stupid.

It's all interconnected, every economy influences the whole, why waste 98% of ones energy in competition. Could put it to much better use.

Now that's audacity!

Which leg is he pulling?

White house probabably did the hacking to inflame public opinion, business as usual, war is profitable.

Well done, now where is the remaining 98 tonnes?

Might be just the ticket for thailand, one could almost say karmic.

Pointless taxing the rich, just causes inflation...

That's not all they're signing....

So, was the 4yo dropped on the side of the road? or put in the care of an adult? or a responsible person?

In my job (taxi driver for disabled people) we have a duty of care to ensure the passenger is left in the care of a responsible person. To this end I had to sit with a customer for 20 minutes outside the basketball on Saturday as her carer was late arriving.

Society's getting a bit padded isn't it? What happen to the days of being chased by lions and tigers? This put real blood in our veins, gave us character and improved our dna strands....

Seems a sure fire way to get the whole country to live in fear and turn on the man.

And yet, there are many thousands of morons whom adore and love those barbarians and

wilfully and willingly joined them and give their life for them.. go figure what a warped , crazy

world we live in...

And there are other morons who supply them with arms to fight the Syrian government.

Exactly, and who might they be?

"Therefore, for the sake of the country, he urged the media to prevent false information from spreading."

Who decides what is false information and what is investigative journalism or reporting people's fears?

Whatever pirate has the most cannons...

The PM has at least show the Thai population one thing. You don't have to be very smart to be a Thai PM.

If he realised how much of a fool he looks in the eyes of the unadjusted, rest of the world, he may be embarrassed with himself. Then again, maybe not!

Still more brains than the one who preceded him- she took the cake as the most airheaded 'leader' ever! Couldn't even give a speech in her native nor second language, didn't show for meetings, read from scripts.... didn't make any decisions. One like her makes anybody after her look better! He's an army guy so you can't expect more than standard army mindset. At least he realized its more than an arrogant pony show of dress up and fake smiles.

Well naturaly she wont square up to the job, she was only there to deliver her brothers speeches, like most other polies, only this one closer to home....

The western world has more indirect approach to coersion.

It's all the same in end, every country has it's own style of oppression, and they all have a way of impressing to themselves that they are free. Besides countries don't really exist anymore, borders are only maintained to give people some pseudo sense of identity, but they are only distractions from the deeper issues concerning large corporations. Who really knows who is rigging what judging by what they are told in media? It may only be a way of steering market trends....