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Unfortunately you're probably right, but people have to at least try. The alternative - one day - will be armed uprising. Many young men here in Isaan have done their military training as willy-nilly conscripts.

Practically impossible. The voting system is so complex - voting for PM & for party & for your electorate & for constitutional change that noone understands - that probably 70% of the population have little idea what they're doing & in any case just follow whatever the local authority figure tells them to do.

Wait for major disturbances along the Cambodian border ...

Vote for me! Vote for ME! I need the money.

This is more the 'party party' kind of party.

How to make enemies and not influence people.

Yes, watch out, Thailand! He's coming to a brothel near you.

I notice on sites such as YouTube and Facebook that AI is often used by people whose written English is weak. The results are often laughably bad. Unfortunate puns a specialty.

You think you've got a problem! I can't even understand the title of this item.

Um, well to me it suggests an expectation that safety will not improve.

Good.

(Yawn) Polyandry is practiced in many countries, particularly the Himalayas (because of limited land availability).

One thing at least seems certain: If you don't elect a government prepared to shake up the system, offend some people and introduce real changes ('education system' anyone?) - no doubt making some mistakes along the way, then nothing will change and supercilious criminals will continue to rule the country.

Trying to please everyone ends up pleasing noone.

I'm warning my family. Headless chooks getting ready.

It may seem silly to you now, but back in 2010/2011 Thaksin's Party was the only party available for poverty-stricken people to vote for. They remembered the (few) good things he had done for the peasants of Isaan some 10 years earlier. This year - just as over the last couple of elections - they will be voting in increasing numbers for what is now called The People's Party.

Variations on that theme have been around for a long time. The villagers in my home village in Phanom Dong Rak are well used to the concept. And my b/f says that when he was a conscript in the Army back when we first met the officers told the boys to vote for the Conservatives of the day but "We Issan boys aren't stupid, we knew to vote for Thaksin."

Spain has more in common with Thailand than I thought.

I gather the company's practically bankrupt anyway, so no compo on offer & no chance of better performance. Several hundred people due - or should be - for charges of criminal negligence, contractual deficiencies, financial malfeasance on a massive scale, and just about any other criminality you can think of. Looking forward to the proceedings ...

Tell that to Putin!

I think you'll find he received the same official welcome in central Beijing, just like every other head of government or head of state.

Start a bushfire on a dry hot day and you never know how it'll finish.

Perhaps he learned some lessons and has moved on. His current performance would suggest so. Different job, different skill sets required.

Oh dear! What a loss to mankind (if not to humankind).

Sad.