Jonathan Swift

Theoretically they probably could, as well as bring criminal defamation charges. But the blowback from that might make things exponentially worse, and maybe they know that. Are the creators residing in Thailand such that they could be brought to court? Also, the movie was informed by investigators from established Thai news organizations like the Thaiger, would they want to go after them as well? But it wouldn't surprise me if someone announced some kind of legal action, even if it was just sabre rattling

Yawn. Wake me when there's some real news. Like if it hits 38 B/1$ like last year. But what goes up comes down and vice versa. So what's inevitable is inevitable.

You do know that the general population is not composed of musclebound athletes, but rather people who simply eat more of the wrong kinds of foods and get too little regular exercise. So for every one Schwarzenegger there are 1000 obese sweaty Burts.

Did they die? Then they weren’t electrocuted. Electro-execute. Electrocute. To kill by electric shock. Were they electrically shocked? Yes. Not electrocuted. Does the writer have a firm grasp of English? Nope.

It's likely that the writer of the story or the mother either misspoke or were perhaps misinterpreting bleeding that was due to injury. These writers are not known for getting facts straight, let alone getting anything scientific or medical right. then there's translation.

Fake or not, it serves as food for thought for anyone BEFORE they find themselves in a similar dilemma. And as you must know, MANY have had lives ruined by conniving wives, and their families, lawyers, banks, and realtors. As to this forum, it's tabloid and has no aspirations beyond clickbait - it sells ads. Most of us know where to go for quality news content.

Doesn't much matter what we think, since this took place on Reddit and he's likely long gone by now. But remind me, what century are we living in? Sounds to me like it's her loss, that he even considered it before deciding shows him to have some character, and deciding no shows him to be sensible. If it were me I wouldn't do it - first, I have no need of an official sanction to validate an otherwise sincere relationship, so I'm not dying to get married. This is simply a roundabout way of buying a wife. Or not buying one. Just my OPINION: Thai people are just as obligated to recognize that I am not of their culture as I am to be aware of theirs. Feel sorry for the girl caught in the middle, but something tells me these in laws would be hell to deal with long term. Now, how long do they think they will have to wait before another sucker comes along and they get to try the same schtick?

BIFF!!!! BAM!!!!!! POWWWW!!!! OOFFF!!!!

You're missing a human psychology thing here. A person who is distraught and suicidal is not thinking rationally. The irrational mind is capable of anything. Your mistake is comparing this to ordinary people in ordinary circumstances.

Well deserved. I'm American, and they mostly deserve it. That's why I moved to Thailand.

Oh, you seem to know what you're talking about then. Fish out of water here.

A smack in the mouth doesn’t teach them anything. People like that don’t learn, it’s why they act that way in the first place, and why they have less and less teeth the older they get. How many misbehaving drunks remember why they got in trouble the night before?

They never learn because they don’t remember. And they don’t care. If they were capable of learning they wouldn’t behave that way in the first place

Thais like “us” just fine so long as we show respect and courtesy. Those two qualities go a long way

This is their sport. If they didn't have this, life would be unliveable. Best not to take them seriously. Drunks at your local pub.

You know what “banged” means in American slang, right? Your mate must have had a heII of a time for those 2 1/2 years!

If you choose not to be. Your choice. 5555

Are you a doctor? Because unless a person is deathly ill or fragile and elderly minor variations in outside temperature aren’t going to affect health one way or the other. The human body is not a battery, it is an engine which runs on fuel (glucose from carbohydrates). Energy comes from glucose/glycogen reserves, burned in the mitochondria of cells. . As long as you are healthy and not starving your body will maintain internal temperature and metabolism automatically, If you are hot you sweat, if you are cold you shiver, If you’re tired you sleep, no one needs to “conserve” energy due to simply “not feeling well” and outside temperature not being ideal. We have doctors who can diagnose and advise us if need be. As a matter of fact, “common sense” as well medical fact says that if you’re cold you should expend energy (not conserve it) because that creates heat. If you’re hot you slow down because expending less energy creates less heat. If you would like to learn more about metabolism in sickness and health I encourage you to enroll in medical school.

Annnndddd that's how free publicity works, folks

I wasn't aware that it was only Germans that get drunk and misbehave

earth shattering issues

Weed doesn't cause this kind of thing. In fact the opposite is true. Drunkenness does.

You're only racist if you cast aspersions and assign negative connotations generally and randomly toward isolated individuals of an ethnic group, because they belong to that group. Just because you've had bad experiences in China does not in and of itself justify malignant racism. then you've added another problem on top of the original one. I've seen racism against Blacks in the US rationalized similarly all of my 66 years, and it's ugly. Meanwhile I've run into more misbehaving British louts and blighters lately than any other group, with various other ethnicities also guilty, and very few Chinese by comparison. Granted, that's because of Covid, but fact nonetheless, and I'm not going to tar and feather any group because of it.

Bet he was drunk

The accent sounded Japanese to me