mfd101

Think back to the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and on and on ... Fashions come & go, sometimes with remarkable speed. Mostly they're harmless, just foolish. Others however ...

Who are the major owners?

I wonder what a police general (no. 😎 has to do with the price of fish.

Trying to be practical for most of us: Eat mostly your own cooked meals at home and cook with OLIVE oil (and best only with the high-quality ie expensive brands).

Not that you'ld notice, but come back in 50 years and we'll have a better idea (assuming the advancing Gulf of Thailand hadn't already made any answer redundant).

So who's going to audit the auditors?

Plenty of tossers 365 days of the year. Just not water tossers.

It's never too late for more study tours and more envelopes. The only way to get it done in the lifetime of most of us here on AN is to hand the whole project to the Chinese & just tell them to get on with it without let or hindrance.

So what would appropriate punishment be (apart from: Strung up by his balls for 3 weeks)? I'm thinking: - 10 years in prison without bail or early release, for attempted murder - loss of d/l for life, DIC - ฿1 million compensation tbpaid to the injured old man & his wife - ineligibility for life to any government employment, elected or otherwise.

Ditto. Just coming up to the 15 years mark. Have passed thru Melbin once on a trip to take my b/f to NZ to visit family. No wish ever to return, for either visit or stay. But I still read the Oz every day and take an interest in the politics of comfortable mediocrity.

Cultural change is the key expression. I can't speak about all Thais because I don't know enough but what I notice here amongst the Khmer peasants and in my own family is great reluctance ever to accept responsibility when something goes wrong. Even just in the house, some minor mishap and - even though it was clearly b/f's fault - in the space of quarter of a second it will turn out that it was my fault. Only if I get angry and show it will b/f giggle to display contrition but without actually admitting that it was his fault ... Spread that across a whole culture, daily reinforced by Buddhist passivity & autocratic politics, and you get what we see on the roads.

Every year Songkran gets bigger & better. Woops, worse.

If Usofa is clever (which it obviously isn't under the current idiot leadership , but arguably hasn't been for most of this century) and if its friends & clients (eg Oz) are clever, then everyone can eat their cake & have it. That is, they can enjoy polite and useful & profitable relations with the growing new world power while maintaining their traditional friendly and profitable relations with the old. But currently that's a long shot ...

There's a new boss in town. We're going to have to get used to it. Meantime the former boss is organising his suicide.

China climbing steadily up the mountain. Usofa slipping ever faster down the mudslide. Even Oz is scratching its collective head.

The locals who assemble, distribute & sell the vehicles presumably get paid ... As to the bigger picture, I guess we just have to get used to Chinese energy & technical & manufacturing capability that outdistances the rest of the world including most of The West. When Thailand pulls its collective finger out, maybe it too could enjoy the benefits of hard work + brain power.

No. Do you have any evidence for that claim? (What others might or might not do or say is their business. I am responsible for my behaviour not others'.)

The man-child is learning that temper tantrums don't usually go down well with Mumsie.

How not to deal with China.

Not sure I understand what a 'zero-dollar investment' is. ? (I had understood for example that many vehicles on the road in Thailand - of many brands - are at least assembled - but not manufactured? - in Thailand.)

Nice use of the passive to suggest no responsibility. Just one of those things ...

Or p'raps it was a Korean ladyboy.

Fruitcakes, Fascists F/wits & Farouts ... Usofa seems to have an overdose of sociopaths of all kinds.

Pat answer but looking at a photo is subjective too. Same eyes, same brain as looking in a mirror. No, not the same eyes & not the same brain at all. The psychology of the two is quite different. The photo is still & frozen (at least in a pre-AI world). You have no control over it. It is at least potentially 'public' and it can be used against you. The mirror gives you control or the illusion of it. You can move & adjust to your heart's content. You can show off, adorn or hide whatever bits you like. And it is private, just between you and mirror mirror on the wall. It is 'yours'.