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The "to" is redundant here, as it says "former" self made man. The title literally suggests he went from being a former self-made man (not a current self-made man) to sleeping in a gas station.

This is quite a negative response. You do understand he isn't British, right?

I don't think closing half the schools in Thailand would be a good idea.

Do you think they weren't aware of what was happening prior to this? It's certainly well known. They don't make any effort to hide it and everyone knows it is happening. If they were really bothered about what Hank and Gunther were up to, they could have easily found out and stopped it at any time.

Aren't most of these people unable to obtain a visa legally though?

And Western pensioners without proper funds. Apparently viewed as being indistinguishable by many TV users... ????

They are acting accordingly, but Thai style. They're trying to show how bad foreigners are precisely because it has been made clear how reliant they are on their money.

Did it have two Ns by any chance?

Hmmm... Not a particularly good start.

School uniforms are good and have many benefits.

Yeah, I would have thought that a lawyer would be a little sharper on the law and interpreting them. The article also has the following: So if you have a school name on your uniform but you don't intent or try to mislead someone you're still guilty simply because the school name is there? And without the school name you couldn't possibly be trying to pass yourself off as a student? Something not right there.

I'm kidding. It's a bit from Seinfeld. It doesn't even make sense as a reply to you, I just wanted to say it.

The problem is that tattoos are generally like a fashion accessory, often acquired with the idea that they complement the persons body and make them look more sexually attractive. A tattoo that once looked sexy, snaked around a man's bulging shoulder or bicep or peeking out from some part of a woman's slender figure, becomes almost a mockery; a haunting reminder if what time can do to a young and attractive body. Then you have the fashion angle. A tattoo that looks good on a young body, might not look so good on an aged body. And of course a faded and sagging tattoo looks good on no one. Whether they look right at the time or not, there seems to be reasonable grounds for getting them removed before you get too old.

It's trendy these days to throw isms and phobias about when you don't like what someone has said. It saves having to make any real kind of argument against your opponent. If you can successfully label something as sexist, misogynistic, racist, homophobic, etc., then it's just wrong and bad.

Oh yeah? Well, the jerk store called. They're running out of you!

I think the "primitive" suggests a belief that is perhaps somewhat archaic and anti science, sort of like believing in magic, luck etc.. The difference would be the Thai person wearing an amulet and believing that it will keep them safe, or surviving a near fatal car accident and believing it was down to the amulet or blessing that their car received, and a Westerner wearing a cross and simply seeing it as a sign of their religion. The difference seems fairly clear to me, although it's a subjective judgement.

Sure, tell your new Thai friends how you consider go-go bars and ping-pong shows to be a rich part of Thai culture...

I see a big clash coming in the future. If kids keep getting worse, then eventually "Thainess" is going to slip away. I wonder what the tipping point will be...

I'm not so sure. If tourism gets back to normal and the government has money to subsidise everything again, people will probably stop worrying. The whole democracy thing seemed to go away pretty quickly. The household debt thing looks a lot more serious. I wonder if Tony has any plans for that. Maybe harder to address because he can't blame the government and would actually have to blame the people? A tricky issue for a populist.

Almost certainly not. A lot of people love to use it to try to block any kind of comparison. Whataboutism: "the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue." So generally it means that someone is simply bringing up something bad to deflect something else, or make it seem less bad. Clearly this isn't the case here, as the post being replied to is making some sort of "the time or resources would be better spent elsewhere, either in going after worse immigrants or homegrown criminals" suggestion. If the comment was more on the theme of "Yeah, well Thai people do bad <deleted> too", then it might be whataboutism. But it wasn't.

Misogyny or: "saying anything even slightly negative or critical about women".

"Shoot to stop the threat." Most people that criticise police shootings have no clue about a violent or armed situation. Many say things like "fire a warning shot" or "just shoot them in the arm", which are both completely ridiculous.

Don't you get a towel to lay on?

Yeah, it really is. You might not mind if your wife or daughter is forced to share a bathroom or a changing room with a person who has a penis. You might not think women have a right to choose not to do so. You might even not care if vulnerable young people with body image issues are convinced to have life ruining operations only to go on to regret them when they are older. However, luckily, some people do care.

I wonder how they get genocide from this. Unless we are always talking about trans people, unless there is a trans character in every story, a trans actor in every show, a trans person present in every group that holds a position of power, all trans people will die?