NeoDinosaw

12 hours ago, milys said:

<deleted> is 47th place something to brag about...?

There are about  130-150 (not sure of the number now) universities in UK alone.  so 47th in the world is better than 100 universities in UK. How would you describe these 100 UK universities ?

5 hours ago, xtrnuno41 said:

new animal species: flying jelly fish

If it were to be a weather balloon with a computer on board, would the owner not has noticed it was missing ?

4 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

Apparently it shows some bouncers attacking some tourists.

is there a link to the video anywhere ?

14 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Oh yes we do ????

Oh no you don't !

6 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:

Is there still any product the Chinese haven't stolen/copied/back-engineered yet? I'm surprised they seem to have so much difficulty copying that MTU engine.

 

I recall that classical story of a U.S. manufacturer (and copyright owner) of a particular communications chipset filing an international lawsuit against a Chinese company a couple of decades ago for having stolen their design and flooding the market with dirt cheap copies of the chipset.

 

The plaintiff showed the court that even the English-language technical information leaflet the Chinese supplied with their copies featured EXAC TLY THE SAME word misspellings the original manufacturer had deliberately scattered throughout the text.

 

But the Chinese company's lawyers argued that those exact same misspellings had appeared "by sheer coincidence" and were therefore NOT admissible as proof that their client had stolen and copied the design.

 

The court dismissed the case.

which court was this ?

1 hour ago, shackleton said:

It has to better than getting blasted with spray guns buckets of water plus powder and paste ????

Sounds a  more sensible way to Celebrate to me anyway ????

I enjoyed the spray guns, powder and paste. It was fun - and refreshing break from the heat.  Why bother coming to Thailand if you just want to stay at home and dink with your friends ?

8 hours ago, actonion said:

They're as rotten  as the people they lock  up..

It may well be that the people who they lock up are innocent...........

2 hours ago, sandyf said:

If you are in possession of all the facts regarding the importation of the vaccine deliveries you may be right, somehow I doubt it.

 

In an interview with the BBC World Service, Mr Brown said the uneven distribution of Covid vaccines "is one of the greatest policy failures of our times" and had been caused by wealthy countries hoarding and stockpiling vaccines.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59761537

Is Mr Brown the husband of Mrs Brown from Ireland with all those children ?

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

While I don't recall any fellow pupil dying from the institutional bullying at my private secondary school, if expulsion were the result all second, third, fourth and fifth years would have been gone.

However my first year was the last in which it was permitted. Prefects were still allowed to beat juniors with a sand shoe, and I don't know when that ended.

those were the good ol' days.  Educational standards have nose-dived since physical punishment was banned in schools ????   Now kids going to university in UK can hardly write English or do simple maths ............

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

And the puerile pasteurization of the culture of not helping anyone. 

it's good for the milk though !

2 hours ago, Katipo said:

Will this train leave from the new Bang Su station? Any idea of the journey times/speeds?

Local drone enthusiast provides monthly updates on the progress of the constriction of the new dual track rail line !

with all the new constriction maybe the journey time will increase !!

3 hours ago, robblok said:

Id say banish the UK English and go full US English, its spoken by more people and makes a lot more sense to cater to those people instead of a minority.

English is the language of English people.  People in America used to speak English until they became independent and went downhill on everything - even managing to get a President ever more obnoxious than Boris the Great of England  (who was born in the US!)

12 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Thailand 36, UK 17?

How T F did that happen? Lol

Boris the Great brought freedom and liberty to His people by getting Brexit done ????

16 hours ago, UKPaul67 said:

 We all know the forced insurance will not cover asymmetric. So IMO people will not decide to go under those new rules.

 

Are  they talking about asymmetic bars like gymnasts use in competitions ?

3 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I think you mean 'staunch'

maybe she stinks ...............

7 hours ago, SmokeandIce said:

 Too quick to blame the farang and the security guards.

who else could be blamed ?

10 hours ago, mikebell said:

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

I could write it in French but don't know how to do the accents.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose      (I think)

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Love the way the USA is the root of all problems, amazing.

I don't love them for it !!

22 hours ago, Letseng said:

Why can't Russian government fly them out? Thai airspace isn't closed to flights from Russia.

Since Thailand does not have a border with Russia - there a presumably other countries whose air-space needs to be crossed.  I guess it will be easy enough to get permission from China .......

1 hour ago, hughrection said:

Is incels your word for this month?

 

You are using it quite a lot. ????

maybe I need to know what this word (inels) means ...........

On 3/12/2022 at 1:31 AM, realfunster said:

Blimey, was it constructed from gold ? Happy to see the US are still doing well financially.

The price would make me think that, even allowing for an extravagant build quality, there must be some serious hardware tucked away inside.

Interesting strategic move, I assume this is is a display of soft power to certain groups in Thailand, and...not in Thailand.

 

This coming from a jealous Brit - we sold our beautiful Embassy in Bangkok for some pocket money and to make room for a shopping mall. 

 

 

We also sold the beautiful consulate in Chiang Mai for pea-nuts  and, allegedly, the buyer did not hand over all the money ....

On 3/11/2022 at 7:27 PM, ukrules said:

 

 

If it's a consulate at all then that's not its main use.

Back in the 1970's the US had a seismic station on Doi Suthep to monitor Chinese nuclear tests. It was linked to the Consulate by a special high quality 'phone' line.  This wire fetched a lot of money on the (black) market, so very often two men on ladders would quickly cut a section off between two posts at night and disappear.  There was a special unit deployed to mend the line.  Those were the good ol' days !

12 hours ago, khunPer said:

What about stranded Ukrainians..?

How many Ukranian tourists are stranded in Thailand ?

15 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Remember the Cuba crises? The USA threatened with nuclear arms if the Russia didn't remove their base from Cuba.

The USA is 200 years at war non stop, what does that tell you? My country is bad too.

I remember the Cuban missile crisis. The US threatened to kick ass if the missile bases were set up.  The Russians backed off and war was avoided.

Now that US was dreaming of having missiles based on Russia's front door, the Russian threatened to give Ukraine a kicking if they didn't back-off.

The ever-expanding 'free-world' did not back off   .........   Now the West is surprised that the sh*t has hit the fan.

16 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Worked in WW2, no reason why it wouldn't work now.

 

And thailand is not neutral, they're just appeasing Russia, at least until it "looks" bad.

 

 

Thailand was not neutral in WW2