Bkk Brian

Ok you'll need a lot with over 6,000 visitors daily to the White house. I would suggest no, its not ok for the president and other officials/staffers to have long queues to enter their own workplace or for official visitors.

Great, install cocaine detectors and address all the other risks you highlighted, then with all the new measures in place prepare for very long queues for all officials and staffers to get into work and for visitors to face even longer queues. This was a small bag of cocaine, they have security footage, its likely they should find the culprit.

Yes of course. Its up to you if you want to click on the links to the facts contained in the source

Pretty sure a bomb no matter how small has metal elements that the detectors would pick up. So what do you suggest to avoid small bags of coke which is what this topic is about?

Unless you do a full body and cavity search of all visitors including staffers and guests then I'm not sure this can be avoided. A small white bag can be very easily concealed.

That comes with direct source links as to how that opinion was formed.

That's where we differ, my opinion is based on having lived in Phuket for 17 or 18 years and confirmed by the topic we are debating in. In Total, 64 Deaths in 4 Months From Phuket Road Accidents So I will leave it there

That's good, I never claimed Phuket was the worst in Thailand. I was responding to your claims and links.

Next time you provide links to back up your opinions try to match them up. Goodbye

These are specific claims Your new link and new claim that I am wrong also fails to address the statistics to prove those claims, did you even read it. Its regarding tourists only, this topic is about all road deaths in Phuket. "The sample size of this study comprised of 400 foreign tourists from Chiang Mai, Thailand with accidentally sampling. It was conducted through face to face interview survey of foreign tourists with a total population of 2,902,139 persons in 2016"

Petty.....lol. You made specific claims then tried to back them up with links that failed to do so. Try again.

Your first link shows deaths over Songkran with Bangkok, Nakhon Sawan and Phitsanuloke have the highest death toll, at three each. Your second link to a topic is not cited and an opinion piece with no supporting links. So again what statistics are you claiming for this post?

Statistics to prove your claims?

Ridden motorbikes in Phuket. Didn't find it that bad. The roads are ok. I disagree as does the topic of this thread

Did your friend die in Phuket? Do you have much experience of driving in Phuket? Here's another great friend I had in Phuket, who I worked with and who died and yes he had a helmet on, my family was at his house the day before. Scots DJ Paul Norris killed in Thailand crash https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-25712331

You do know that they are also reported in local news and through personal friends. I have also attended 4 funerals for those who died by the way.

Did I say I did?

What makes you think I was not there to witness any of them? What makes you think defensive driving would have stopped a death when the driver is stuck in a traffic jam and is then hit from behind, smashed into from a nut that was going to fast to stop? Yes I have been there and so unfortunately has my daughter.

Oh victim blaming. A lame excuse for those that die at the hands of others irresponsibility and have followed every defense measure. Yes I have also seen it and I do 2 - 3 hours driving a day in Phuket on the School runs and other destinations

Best fireworks display so far, good clip of a Russian rocket storage blown to pieces. Screenshot and link. Pointless rendering the full twitter link display as you need to have signed up to twitter to view. If you have an account then click the link. https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1676512131125063680

Update on the Philadelphia mass shooting, he's been arrested and named. The suspect accused of killing five people – including a 15-year-old boy – in a shooting in Philadelphia on Monday night had a previous gun conviction and was carrying a “ghost gun” the night of the shooting, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told CNN on Wednesday. Kimbrady Carriker, 40, is set to be arraigned Wednesday on murder charges, according to the district attorney’s office. Carriker is also facing charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and simple assault, among others. The shooting was a “random, premeditated deliberate killing carried out with an assault rifle,” Krasner told CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/05/us/philadelphia-shooting-wednesday/index.html Meanwhile another one just announced. 3 people were killed and 6 others injured at a Fourth of July block party in Shreveport, Louisiana Three people are dead and at least six are injured following a shooting just before midnight on Tuesday, according to information provided to CNN affiliate KSLA by Shreveport officials. It was difficult to get to the victims due to the amount of vehicles at the scene, according to information from police released to KSLA. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/05/us/shreveport-shooting-block-party/index.html

Lighten up, it was found in a storage facility routinely used by White House staff and guests to store mobile phones. They are checking cctv and a full investigation is ongoing. Patience, they will announce results when they have them. In the mean time rest assured the secret service is not hiding things otherwise we would not have known about it.

You've got that the wrong way round, they had no lapse, the speeding or drunk drivers who hit them were at fault.

Musk's actions have consequences. Google Search Showing 50% Fewer Twitter URLs After Twitter Blocked Unregistered Users On Friday afternoon, Twitter decided to block unregistered, signed-out users, from seeing public tweets. That meant that for Google's normal crawling purposes, it was unable to see some of these tweets. It seems that Google now has about 52% fewer Twitter URLs in its index today than it had on Friday, just a few days later. https://www.seroundtable.com/twitter-google-search-drop-35648.html

Great, tell that to those who kept to the speed limit and were fully aware of the dangers of the road, then through no fault of their own are no longer here. Oh wait, you can't. I personally know of 4 here in Phuket. Yes Sh!t happens.