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I walked up ono of those tall pinnacle things in Guilin on a whim without even a bottle of water taking two steps at a time, thinking, " It doesn't look that high" Was totally <deleted> less than halfway up. Made it to the top though. No idea how many steps.

Voyage from Singapore to England by boat. Go on a long famous train journey.

Okay, I'll take this opportunity to count up the countries I have been to. 1. America 2. Canada 3. Mexico 4. England 5. Wales 6. Scotland 7. Republic of Ireland 8. Northern Ireland 9. France 10. Spain 11. Portugal 12. Italy 13. Greece 14. India 15. Nepal 16. Thailand 17. Cambodia 18. Laos 19. Vietnam 20. Malaysia 21. Singapore 22. Indonesia 23. China I don't actually feel that well traveled. Though I have completely lost the desire to travel any more.

Ok, so it sounds like we agree: getting into dangerous situations is part of job ????

There are loads of Indian restaurants over at the Ratchaprarop area near Baiyoke hotel. Popular area for Indian tourists. Also, there's a Little India neighborhood I think near Sam Yan or Sam Yot

Amritsr is excellent (Soi 22 and Soi 11) They even give you a heavy water goblet so you can feel like a medieval lord. That said, I think Al Hussein on Soi 3/1 is just as good and better value. It's not strictly Indian though, but they do have an Indian menu.

Which places did you like the best?

I see Pattaya isn't on the list. Tut Tut. Get down to Pattaya.

It definitely is. Arresting dangerous people is exactly what the police are there to do. It comes with the job. 100% Being a police officer is a dangerous job and if the worst thing they face is a guy with a skateboard, then I reckon it was a good day. "Deploy all units! He has a skateboard! I repeat, he has a skateboard. I think we might need the SWAT team for this one." ????

Thaivisa can be wild sometimes can't it. Keyboard warriors: give me blood! That wasn't entertaining or satisfying enough!

It's an occupational hazard that should be expected and they are trained to deal with, armed & equiped to deal with, and should be able to handle professionally like these fine officers in the video did.

It truly is a phenomenon, the number of immature farang on here that idolize Thai thugs and village justice.........in particular when it's against another foreigner, which seems to be especially gratifying and entertaining.

Well, he's in his early-mid 60s now. Is that a boomer? I think so. In any case, the Thai girls love him throwing his cash around on them, yet I am sure he knows greater hardship than they do.

Precisely my point

Well, the Thai cops are not afraid of a kid with a toy. The British cops just arrested an autistic kid for saying the word, "lesbian" There you go. Such high standards

The guy was pathetic and they treated him as such. No need for anything else.

What is this driveling? The officers treated him as the low threat he was.

How thick is a skateboard? It isn't a lump of anything.

There's nothing heavy about a skateboard. They treated him according to the low threat he is. They exhibited good judgement

It wasn't a crowbar, it was a toy. They knew they were in control. They acted like professional men, officers of the law. Props to them.

Please... The police treated him perfectly. An angry kid with a toy. They were never in danger.

Yeah, but they certainly knew poverty in their childhood. Their adulthood was certainly easier than the generation nowadays, particularly regarding buying a home

"My place or yours?" doesn't really count, buddy .

I dunno. My dad is a boomer. He grew up in a family with 9 siblings in (what was once) a slum area with no indoor toilets. He didn't even have long trousers til he was 12 (living in a bitterly cold part of Europe). Surely that's harder than a lot of Isaan people's lives, no? Don't most boomers know poverty? The economy was not that great in the West back in those days, nor was sanitation, infrastructure, healthcare etc. etc. Christ, my mate lost almost all his siblings to Diphtheria, like 6 of them. Boomers know hard times. A sick buffalo ain't the greatest hardship.

By "looking down on them" do you mean: buying them drinks, giving them tips, buying them gifts, marrying them, buying them a car, taking care of their family, building them a house, and allowing themselves -naively - to be fleeced of everything by the cunning of the poor village girl?