BangkokReady

I suppose we cannot begrudge his success too much. Thailand is the hub of weird White guys finding some modicum of success which they might not be able to achieve back home, after all.

It really sucks for the sort of stragglers of the older generation. Family came first for them, but now those families they helped are forgetting about them and doing their own thing. Part of the "me generation". I'm sure there will be a rude awaking for them when they get older and they need someone.

They spend the Songkran holiday alone all year? I doubt that somehow.

My guess would be because it's a foreign guy who can speak Thai. It makes it kind of interesting because it generates intrigue. Who is the foreign guy? Why is he in Thailand? How come he can speak Thai? What is his connection to the Thai man? Do they know each other, or are they strangers? Did the Thai man do anything bad to the foreign man, or is this completely unprovoked? Is that foreign man a danger to the Thai man, or is the Thai man a danger to the foreign man? How will the situation resolve itself?

Their response should be interesting. Perhaps their response will be similar to Boris Johnson and his lies about 350 million pounds a week going to the EU. "We meant that in would be a nice idea if we could give you 10,000 Baht each."

You think Thaksin would have simply stepped aside? He has never been particularly democratic.

Not that anyone is doing that, but while human's are individuals, they still basically follow the same patterns of development (unless they have some developmental problem). To suggest otherwise would be absurd.

The "many" has nothing to do with the "people", they are separate. If you had said something specific like "people who generalise need to stop", then that would not have been a generalisation. But you didn't, you said "if people would stop generalising", which is a generalisation. You don't say which people need to stop generalising, therefore it is a generalisation.

What makes you think it's his photo?

You said "if people stopped generalising". Not everyone generalises. To say "people" is a generalisation.

Strange things started happening long before he got this doll.

Returning to her spiritual home... ????

Isn't this a generalisation?

Very sad but completely avoidable. Many cultures would view riding the wrong way on a road as making an accident inevitable, but in Thailand it is normal. Many probably feel it's the fault of the driver for not seeing him. A very difficult issue to address as a result.

Very unlikely that she plunged three stories straight down with no injuries. Perhaps there were awnings etc. that broke her fall.

I think they mean "a person who owns it", rather than "someone who wants to own it". It's a wild boar, not a pet.

Exciting Songkran activities: Spend the next seven days pretending there's been a global apocalypse and stay indoors as much as possible; with any trip outside being planned with military precision to avoid drunk drivers and knobheads with water.

And the ones inside probably weren't wearing seatbelts.

Isn't it the Buddhist new year? ????

I was going to say the same. Probably they want to wait and see if there is a way that they don't have to do anything first. It might all be a misunderstanding.

The problem is that it is a lot easier to have a peasant's revolt when it is the case that the middle/upper class are exploiting the working class. What you have in Thailand is everyone at it at all levels. Thai people would essentially have to revolt against themselves. Many Thai people complain, but the change that would need to be brought about to address these problems would be change that many Thais would not want to see, as it would make things more difficult for them as well. Possibly things might change as the current youth matures, but it seems that cheating, copying, no-fail, and no consequences are still pretty popular in schools.

Surely if demand is simply going back to what it was, then the price should go back to what it was? What is the other factor? Greed?

Now your signature finally makes sense... ???? "If you find yourself at the end of your tether, tie a knot and hang on."

I guess that's one positive thing. At least in Thailand the "toxic boy" is quite popular. He could still be an absolute mess in his head though. Lots of absolute lunatics are still a hit with the ladies (possibly even because they're lunatics), and "popular kids" are often screwed up inside. And what seems like a "cool kid" to his peers, might be a person heading towards complete disaster. The mess, the lying and stealing, the lack of success at school, could all do with being turned around. I suppose it all depends on how much effort you want to make. But don't forget, he might be in the younger one's life for a very long time, so it might be worth doing just to help him.

Part of being in the military was security. As the Security NCO of many a unit, it was my enjoyment to find people like you that did not do the job and hang them. As to insurance I take it that you do not come here very often nor have noticed the number of Brits that are crying the blues because their insurance does not cover what they THOUGHT it did. As to a will, the fact that your lawyer is doing what you are paying him to do should make you happy. I am sure while you don't GAFF the people that you leave things to will be very thankful. You seem to have either quoted me by mistake or confused me with the OP.