BangkokReady

Well, she still bought her way into power. It's well established that her and her brother followed this route. How did the yellows manage to manufacture the rice pledging/vote buying scheme? How did they fool independent news services and academia? Curious to know how they managed this level of global control...

They were paid to vote for her. Do some research.

Given the fact that Yingluck bought her way into power, that seems a little hypocritical.

Literally just wrote the same thing. The original article is in Thai, so I'm wondering if there's a slight translation error.

Sacked and let go are the same thing. Is this a translation issue? Can anyone explain what the original Thai is?

I think the opposite is true.

How do you imagine Thai society functioning if just the police force was "made proper"? Presumably "fixing" the police would mean an end to any corruption that they facilitate. Do you think the Thai populace would be happy with that? How long would it take for people and businesses to adapt? Of particular interest would be how the Thai people would deal with suddenly facing the consequences of their actions and being lumbered with considerable fines, criminal records that leave them unable to work, and the loss of many people's driving licences almost instantly. ????

True. The "don't get involved with other people's business" attitude so common in Thailand is not solely about being chilled out. It's to protect people from liability, blame and psychopaths.

No, but what he is saying is "I don't think you would have any protection now, let alone after two, three or four doses". I do. He doesn't. ????‍♂️

Obviously, yes, they have. I'm not sure how you don't know that. Have you simply avoided all news and media platforms for the past two years? What are you talking about? There were clinical trials before the vaccines were used and there is "real world data" that shows they are having a positive effect and protecting people from the covid viruses.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. Vaccines have been shown to reduce the chance of catching the virus, reduce the symptoms and reduce the chance of dying. Surely that is self explaining that they work?

Are you saying that vaccines do not provide any protection against covid?

The antiwhatevers reduce over time so, potentially, after a certain amount of time has elapsed since your last dose of vaccine, you might not have enough protection for people to consider you to be adequately protected.

I have no suggestions, but you have my absolute sympathy. It's looks awful. I think people just have a completely different idea about what is acceptable or good workmanship in Thailand. I guess the lack of critical thinking, apathy, aversion to criticism, potential for anyone to blow their top over the slightest perceived insult, etc., lead to very poor workmanship being tolerated. I don't know how anyone can look at what is in your pictures and think that that is OK. I hope there is a way that you can fix it and maintain your familial bridges. If it wasn't fixable, I would be thinking about ways to cover it up. Some sort of shelf with an overhang, a valance that hangs down and covers the horror, pictures, sachets, towel rails, etc..

Probably more like "Fully vaccinated with the last jab being within X months". That seems more practical.

Totally unacceptable, especially when you consider that all women want is a nice man that treats them right and don't care about money or status in the slightest! ???? (Hopefully my sarcasm wasn't too subtle there.)

Perhaps they just didn't have enough money to complete the purchase? The very fact that there were issues once they got to the husband's country suggests he did not have enough money to maintain the relationship. Or were they rich but argued over whose job it was to take out the trash?

Is that to protect the women from foreign men or protect the local men from competition?

This should be a colon, not a hyphen, right? I.e. "Pattaya: In a cautious..."

Very odd wording. Sounds like it was still an accident, but one that was caused by negligence. If it wasn't murder and she didn't fall accidentally, then someone else must have caused her to fall from the boat through their negligence. This sounds quite tricky to prove. If they were all drinking and she went to the end of the boat to relive herself, then someone swerved the boat and she fell out, they must have known that there was a risk to people falling out but ignored that risk.

How about every country adds on a covid premium to travel, then agrees to take care of any tourist who needs treatment during their holiday?

With no Chinese market, they should be targeting their cores customers, their bread and butter tourists, mongers and backpackers. Remove almost all restrictions and firmly instruct immigration to be very relaxed about who they let into the country. Get some money coming in!

I'm not so sure. I know what you mean, there are certainly examples of what you say, but I'm thinking in this case there is a certain amount of jealousy and considered ownership leading to "if I can't have you, no one will". The arrangement to "not date anyone else who would embarrass either of us" was probably proposed by him and agreed to by her under duress just to get away from him and he likely made it so vague that any relationship she had after him would breach the agreement.

Sensible dad. Unfortunately many see it as reasonable to kill someone simply because they made them face the consequences of their actions. And they apparently see that as more important than being around to support their wife and raise their child. Even if he hadn't missed and was still alive, he would be facing at least some time in prison. Definitely worth it for being asked to leave a restaurant...

Sounds like she had the right idea. Shame she wasn't cautious enough to move away. I wonder if he forced her into making this declaration...