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All the fun of a one-legged race. Except it's hard to tell which leg will get up.

So, the implication is that Thailand has only just discovered the concept of sniffer dogs? And, as suggested above, so many soi dogs everywhere looking for gainful employment!

Not me particularly. But I suggest than many of those who whine & grizzle about exchange rates are themselves consumers of products imported in to Thailand. And, judged by the whining that goes on, they don't make the connection between the 2.

Um, does that make sense? Solution: Try a smaller size!!!

I hope all those Westerners praying for a lower baht are prepared for the consequent inflation in prices, particularly of things that Westerners love to buy.

Here in Prasat Surin the price is still 60 or 70฿ but I give him 100.

What I notice in a status/face-obsessed culture is the sheer speed with which a problem caused by the other party is turned - in 1 second - in to a problem caused by you. Swivelling on the head of a pin. I think they are trained in this valuable skill from the earliest age. Perhaps too there are classes for learning this skill in early schooling?

Poor (rich) boys. First time out of the cage they live in. Out of control (literally).

Let's look on the bright side: The first meeting between the Watchman and Sleepy Joe should be fun to watch. Very peaceful, I should imagine. All decisions made in advance (as they always are anyway) and a very satisfying encounter. Outcomes: Relations between the two great democracies strengthened. Chinese worried.

Go where the locals go, not where the tourists & the rich people go. PS: The locals won't be on Google.

Appoint your brother. Double the profits.

No help for Aussies here. The AUD suffers from much the same (Chinese) issues as the ฿.

If you're MFP every time you fart you'll be up before the Constitutional Court.

Mmmm, well we can always hope.

All my friends are in Oz. I don't have any fake ones.

No, your statistics are still wrong. 25% of the total number of crossings produces 44% of accidents. What's strange to me is the phrase 'unauthorised crossing' which I would understand to refer to a person or people crossing the rail lines illegally. But no, it seems to refer to the railway lines themselves at that place (in which case who authorized the rail lines there?), or alternatively it refers to the pathway or roadway that crosses the rail lines at that point (in which case who authorized the sealed road we see in the photo above?).

Mmmm, on the right track as to the present, but his analysis of the past is perhaps a little too rapturous when it comes to Thaksin & his successor parties ...

The basic information has been all over this site and the Bangkok Post and The Nation for the last 3 months.

I expect that (1) MFP will vote for Srettha as the least bad of the options and they can't abstain because of the appalling example set by the Senators in the 1st round, but (2) in any case he won't become PM.

Lelak! Lelak!, Children. Even dinosaurs have a sense of humour.

You're ignoring the probability that many of those who voted for PTP - particularly in Isaan - thought they were voting for a reformist party who would look after the poor of Thailand. The more compromises they make with the dinosaurs and near-dinosaurs to gain power, the more they betray those voter expectations.

So, never having been to Malaysia, I wonder what happens when I arrive with partner at a hotel, no watch in our possession (we are homosexual not gay). In Thailand (at a hotel where we are not known), Singapore, Cambodia & Vietnam, the routine is much the same: - Ahem cough cough, will that be 1 bed or 2 , Sir? - One thank you, King size. - Very well, Sir. Same in KL?

Yes, from opposition MFP will be in a position of strength and, with the learning curve from the last 3 months, well-placed for the next round next year or following. I'm looking forward to it.

I'm an MFP supporter but I think many of the commentaries here and on other OPs are mistaken in assuming that the processes that would follow an election in The Wunnerful West where NOONE won a majority (ie 50% +1 of the seats in the Lower House) would be much different from here - all parties jostling for position, largest party gets first try, if that doesn't work 2nd party gets a go ... Of course the Senate issue is different here but that's mostly a problem in appointing a PM, not in daily governance. So what happens in The Wunnerful West when it turns out that NOONE can form a majority government? The new Parliament is dissolved and the pollies go back to the electors for a 2nd round of voting. And that is what should happen here now. My main point is that all the stuff about MFP being done down despite them 'winning the election' is nonsense. They won the largest number of seats of any party in the Lower House but not a majority. I hope they'll win a clear majority when the next election is held.

Thanks, have taken a copy for use at an appropriate moment. ????