Jonathan Swift

Why do I think that most merchants will not miss the Israelis? Nature abhors a vacuum. Seems obvious that without a group of troublemakers ruining things for others you will get an influx of more of the better quality tourists in their place. Relatively speaking, but better a bunch of deadbeat begpacker barefoot hippies who at least know how to behave.

Let me 'splain something. Get your dictionary out. Anti Israeli sentiments based on their behavior have nothing to do with anti semitism, and it's an insult to Jewish people everywhere for you and every other ignorant person to throw such a hateful term around willy nilly when it doesn't apply. Israeli is a nationality. Has nothing to do with whether someone practices Judaism, or is ethnically Jewish. Israeli is a nationality, not a race, not a religion, not an ethnic group. Anyone can become an Israeli citizen. Suppose you and your friends got drunk and made trouble all the time in some bar somewhere, so people from your country got banned. The only thing you could call that is prejudice, and it's prejudice based on behavior, with the only solution to controlling your bad behavior is to ban the lot of you. It's like punishing the whole classroom because one kid won't own up to his behavior. It's not anti catholic, anti Christian, anti Muslim, anti Buddhist, or anything of the sort. It is not based on hate or bigotry. It is based on bad behavior. I know this will be hard for you to wrap your mind around, being that this is no doubt one of your favorite imaginary causes (meaning your own complaining, I don't mean that anti semitism isn't a real problem) to bellow about, so feel free to take a few days off and maybe take a crash course in world history and the history of racism. I should mention that I come from a country where the ugliest forms of racism and religious persecution are common, and I know exactly what it is and what it isn't. But education is hard work, innit? Easier just to bellow nonsensically at the top of your lungs. But don't kid yourself, your nonsense is not seen as anything BUT nonsense. Enjoy your bellowing.

This all being based on a highly addictive substance, with lots of profits involved, two reasons why nothing will change. Same reason cigarettes are still around. It's why you will never stop illegal drugs, ever. Never have, never will. Me and my silly common sense once thought that vapes would help cut down the far worse problem of cigarette smoke (including the problem of secondhand smoke). But what I see is that smokers are not motivated to switch. At least here. They don't care. Sometimes I almost think that cigarette smokers come here just because they can get away with smoking everywhere that they can't in their home countries. Tobacco companies are evil. Cigarette smokers who disregard others are pigs. When I was a kid and a teenager both my parents and most of their friends smoked and there were no anti smoking laws, but it was simple common courtesy for someone to ask someone nearby if they minded if they smoked. And nobody ever smoked around people who were eating, except maybe stinky local bars. Common courtesy. Nobody ever does that here.

But men do? In case anyone wants to actually educate themselves on the topic, studies show: (From "Sex difference in alcoholism: Who is at a greater risk for development of alcoholic complication?") "Epidemiological evidence suggests that nearly 20% of adult males have alcohol abuse or suffer from alcoholism-related complications. On the other hand, only about 5–6% of adult females are alcoholic or abuse alcohol on the regular basis (Devaud et al., 1999). In general, women tend to consume less alcohol than men and appear to be less likely to manifest certain risk factors for alcohol use and health problems. Nonetheless, women receive greater social and health sanctions for drinking while alcohol and alcoholism may counter desirable feminine traits (e.g., nurturing). Moreover, women are less likely to display characteristics associated with excessive drinking including aggressiveness, drinking to alleviate distress, behavioral undercontrol, sensation-seeking and antisociality", In other words, men have been found to behave much more badly when drunk than women overall. Duh. Source below: (Reading level first year college) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0024320510002432?via%3Dihub

Yeah, dɑmn that Tesla that those commies drove to my house and left there. They forced me to drive it at gunpoint. Had a nice holiday trip. Now I have to put up with the hardship of a free state of the art car instead of enjoying beat up old transit buses and my ricketty bicycle. At least they're fast enough to outrun all those deranged lefty zombies.

As is usual for this publication, you will hear a peanut gallery of commenters with lists of criticisms that make you wonder why they're even here in the first place, but in my 9 years of going there for 1 week holidays I've found it to be a wonderful, peaceful, beautiful place. As to English speakers, it likely depends where you are. I haven't had any problems. Same with spicy food. you can ask for what you want, or look at the food and spot the red chili bits floating around.

Certain types of mental illness sufferers are very hard to treat as far as them staying on meds. Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder are two which, because when they on medications they think they're OK enough to go off of the, then when they go off them and become symptomatic, it's because they're once again delusional that they don't go back one. That's one scenario that I've witnessed personally, and I also have a friend whose son is in the same boat.

Your ignorance and lack of humanity are qualities just as bad as anything this guy did, because you know you're doing it, whereas this guy probably had no control over himself due to mental illness. Regardless of that, he didn't deserve the death penalty for simply harassing people. You disgust me and all decent people, who know better than to judge. .Please leave Thailand, no one will miss you. No major loss. Move on.

Knife for suicide is not the usual, but depending on his mental state, not a big surprise. But for this to be murder especially in that locale, unless it's unrelated, that's a question. The part about the guard dogs suggests that no one would have gotten close enough. But who knows. I have a mental illness which I manage, so these things are very sad. I don't have a Thai partner, I often wonder how a Thai person would respond to mine, would they be capable of understanding my ups and downs, though they are not particularly severe. RIP.

I think what he meant to say was "All British [or any other citizen of the world] who drink to excess are known for excessive alcohol consumption". Hope that fixes it.

"Influencer"/"digital creator"/"content creator" = self cenetred loser with no identifiable skills or any particular value to the human race.

"He was caught at Heathrow Airport after surveillance by Thai police" which means he was being watched in Thailand and would likely have been captured here, but it was easier to follow him to the plane using documents and have the Brits waiting for him, rather than deal with the complications of extradition proceedings.

Filipino, Philippines.

Isn't there still a 60 day tourist visa available through your home country? It's been a while but that's what I used to use.

What you see here by now are mostly people arguing and squabbling over their political leanings back and forth, without directly addressing the heart of your question. I'm betting there are a lot of Brits and a few others who have never lived in either the US or Russia. From my experience Brits love to corner anyone for an argument. Fundamentally Russia has a history in recent times of waging war against its neighbors and seizing territory, as such posing a direct threat to nearby countries and therefore threatening NATO and its signature countries, one being the US. Russia has fought proxy wars all over the middle east long before the US - Iraq/Afghanistan and long after. China has posed no such actual threat, it hasn't participated in all out war since Korea, and to a smaller extent Vietnam.