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Isn't online gambling illegal? Maybe "give us a cut or well arrest you"? And "and well bash you and your kid" for good measure?

20%. That's quite a cut.

Probably very true. Smith has attempted to put across a squeaky clean image throughout his career and his attitude towards his wife appears to be quite "feminist". And what does he get for his niceguy image and simpish pandering? An unfaithful and rapidly aging woman who has zero respect for him. Worse than that, it has all been played out very publicly. Smith's image is in tatters and this last ditch attempt to prove he was "the man" had the exact opposite effect. They say that most anger is projection, so yeah, Rock's joke at the expense of Smith's wife probably felt like he was saying "You're Will Goddam Smith. Look how low you have become. Look how old and ugly your lying cheating wife is. You're stuck with her and she hates you and treats you like dirt and everybody knows it."

As he should be. Totally unacceptable behaviour.

Yet on this occasion Black people appear to be trying to hush the thing up. Makes you wonder if the reason we don't hear about Black on Black violence is because White people don't care or because Black people don't want it discussed.

How does he behave like an idiot, and why does that mean he deserves to have his belongings stolen?

How would I be able to identify them? And why is does that prove or disprove anything? Someone that knows them might recognise them and the video might help them find them again or prove that they did it. Besides, it doesn't really matter whether we can or not, the fact is that someone recording a video of the person you are considering stealing from might make you reconsider whether to go through with it, which was my original point.

Not smashing it and no longer needed so not really evidence. Another great headline. ????

A great start. Let's do the same to the bikes.

The lady boy goes straight for the clasp. Perhaps she does other things to distract the guy, but if someone immediately grabs your necklace you would think that you would notice. Also it's fairly clear he is recording, so it seems a little foolish to try to rob him. Not sure it's a chain worth stealing either.

I think, at least in the case of cheaters, access and consequences could put them off back home. Coming to Thailand, they probably find that access to women is a lot easier, along with the ability to keep it quite. Depending on their relationship there may also be lesser consequences and their partner may even be OK with it. The attitude to cheating seems to be that it is tolerated a lot more here. And, of course, the above could specifically attract cheaters/philanderers to Thailand. ????

This whole topic is highly subjective, so what is morally right to one person is not to another. We could say that morals are linked to religion, or we might suppose that religion is informed by morals, or that each evolved and shaped each other over time. (It's fairly clear that a lot of religion is about trying to make people live a good life and treat each other with some level of respect and kindness.) We could also suggest that as people moved from living in tribes and solving their problems by smashing each others heads in, it was only natural that some sort of laws or rules of how we should treat each other to get along and survive and prosper as a community. (And, of course, religion, laws and morals are fairly intertwined, with religion and law only relatively recently being separated in the West.) There is of course the "golden rule", do unto others as you would have done unto you. I think most people, even the immoral ones, know there are ways that they would like themselves to be treated and it seems that even without religion, there's a chance that people would come to the conclusion "if I don't want X to happen to me then perhaps I shouldn't do X to anyone else". I suppose the problem here is that "immoral people" would simply ensure that no one found out about them doing X, hence religion has the element of "God is watching you all the time".

Based on what is reported on this forum, I sometimes wonder if we're in the wrong country to hope to expect this.

This is one of the most annoying things about cultures obsessed with "face", the fact that the reality doesn't matter, only what people think matters. So people can be broke as long as they can pretend they are rich, or can be absolute scumbags as long as they can pretend to be good. The thing is, this pretence actually leads to a lower quality of life for everyone involved. The whole "I should do something that is bad for me so that people will think something good about me" is maddening.

Why does it sound like the writer is experiencing some joy or amusement at the fact that this guy is the victim of a crime?

This helps to illustrate my point above. I won't give my opinion, but there are three "metrics" here that different people would probably make different judgements about your level of "quality", financial success, physical appearance and, I guess, cultural habits (not exactly sure what to classify that as). What about morals? Are you trustworthy? Would you help someone without being asked to do so? Do you have empathy for those worse off than you? Would you cheat on your wife or have sex with another mans wife, or try to?

Interesting idea to think about. Obviously it depends on what each individual person values or considers high quality. I can think of ways that I am high quality and ways that I am not. I can think of people who would value my facets that I consider to be high quality, and I can think of people that would ignore them and think that other features (or lack thereof) would make me low quality. It seems likely that a man looking for a reliable and trustworthy friend to have an interesting conversation with might find a certain man to be high quality, while a woman who is looking for a high status guy who can provide a certain level of material wealth might find a guy who is kind, intelligent, humble and honest to be a low quality guy if his wallet is empty. At the end of the day, it is pretty hard to change once you get to a certain point in life. It's probably best to not compare yourself to others, but try and be "the best you you can be" and "compare yourself to who you were yesterday not what someone else is today". A little cliched, but they sound good to me. ????‍♂️

The problem is that drinking and driving is completely acceptable behaviour in Thailand. Even if they made it unacceptable behaviour, unacceptable behaviour is tolerated the majority of the time and the idea of proper law enforcement or consequences for doing something illegal/immoral isn't really a thing. Like with most issue legal in Thailand, it would take a complete change in attitudes across the whole population. I'm not sure this is even possible without a grass roots change where the future generations are educated differently and the "mai bpen rai" attitude is adjusted or removed.

Disgusting. Did anything come of the teachers that gang raped student(s) in the school in Mukdahan? The one where they then threatened the family and some of the other teachers defended them for doing it?

Or what is described in the article?

And that's 70% of people have had two doses of a vaccine so far. With Sinovac and the need for boosters, it is unlikely that the number of people protected against the current or future variants is anywhere near 70%.

Nah, people want to get back to normal as quickly as possible. Most people hate working remotely and want to get back to the office. It just works better for everyone. Also, hardly anyone really cares about sustainability or eco-blah-blah enough to actually change anything about their holidays. Even the advent of the internet, which has changed so much about our lives, holidays have remained relatively unchanged. Go somewhere nice, relax, eat, drink, do fun things. All that has changed is that people can organise their holidays more easily and share it on social media. Filler article.

How many breasts do Thai women have? ????

They don't care and felt no need to do anything about it. Now that an organisation has got involved, they feel the have to do something.

They probably meant it was like being burnt alive (to death), but remaining alive.