BangkokReady

Should students reading textbooks really be included? Is it self-reported? "I spend ten hours a day reading textbooks for school/university" seems like it doesn't really reflect "Thai reading habits", since they have to read those books, and might not really be giving them a thorough read or spending the whole time reading. You could have five people, one of whom is a student, and four might do no reading at all, but it averages out at each reading for two hours a day. Including students skews the figures massively. I'd like to see the same stats but without a group whose job is basically to read textbooks all day.

@GoatWhich channel was this on? Could easily mention the channel or provide a screen shot. The only reason Facebook links aren't allowed is because not everyone can access the, IIRC. Otherwise, this is a factual claim without evidence, which I believe is against forum rules.

Doesn't look like it. I think that guy was lying anyway. He has mental problems, along with an axe to grind against the British, and a lot of other people.

Folsom Prison Blues is quite catchy. Not very romantic, though.

More lies from the deluded fantasist... 🙄

If you follow it, your posts will be a lot clearer. If you just make up your own meanings, then they will continue to be ambiguous and unclear. It's up to you. 🤷‍♂️

Unfortunately, very few people would likely support this. Police, public, pretty much everyone enjoys the lawlessness of Thailand.

And only 11% of offenders were even summoned. Presumably the rest had removed their licence plates to avoid being identified.

I believe it means something along the lines of "party time". Given some of the responses on here, calling for various punishments, including death, I think you need to make your sarcasm a little more clear. I recommend the "/s" to you for this purpose.

One of the more chilling elements of Thai culture. The belief that if you don't like your life, simply end it and you'll get a new one, giving life little value for some.

Unfortunately, you can find yourself in trouble even if you don't start it and you end up having to defend yourself. You need to be prepared to think ahead and get yourself out of any potential argument or confrontation.

That doesn't really matter when you're talking about law and punishment. Otherwise anyone who did anything ever would have to be treated the same.

Also, he supposedly boasted of connections and the police initially threatened to charge the Thai. Something like that.

So, he should be punished by the law, punished in terms of having his life ripped apart, and then the final punishment should be to have the exact same act committed against him by the aggrieved party? A kind of a "if a foreigner commits an act of aggression towards a Thai, the punishment must be three times greater than the crime" thing? Seems a little disproportionate.

What if he's having some sort of mental breakdown? Can't he seek help and then remain? Shouldn't he only be deported if he posed some sort of threat to others? Perhaps you were joking?

You might want to look up what "defecation" means before you speak shockingly incorrectly about it any further. The article you have linked talks about people urinating in public, not defecating. Sorry to spoil your moment of imagining that you were spoiling my factual spoiling of your original moment which you got so very wrong.

Naked and with poop on his body? I don't think anyone would be angry enough to want to fight someone in that condition.

It's quite well known that people allow children to defecate in public in China. It is not the same in Britain. As much as you hate it, this new development does not change either of those things. Sorry to spoil your moment.

As much as it is not a pleasant thing to witness, anyone who thinks that this somehow means that foreigners routinely defecate in the street and then wash themselves in nearby fountains, has to be a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic themselves. Obviously the guy was caught incredibly short, has mental health issues, or, more likely, both.

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As I said... 🤷‍♂️

Is it climate deaths that they are actually concerned about?

Someone might think they are deserving of some sort of physical assault. Correct.

Welsh people are British. As are Scottish people. 🤦‍♂️