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It boggles the mind how anyone can think that a foreigner would get preferential treatment in Thailand. I guess only foreigners really know how they can be treated.

What do you plan to do when you find him?

For foreigners who don't like other foreigners, apparently.

Obviously with a responsible adult who would care for her basic needs and keep her safe. That's pretty much the minimum anyone under 18 should expect. The fact that she was allowed to live in a way other than this is evidence of multiple people letting her down.

Off topic? How? Someone said the monk is solely to blame. I said other people could have helped the girl in the article at some point. How is that off topic? How is what I said Thai bashing? Is Thai bashing simply saying something negative about some aspect of Thailand? She's not even homeless! And how would that change anything? If a 14 year old girl is living alone, something has gone wrong somewhere.

I think the slight difference with Thailand is that the monks often have a known long history of law breaking. I'm not saying churches never covered anything up, but it isn't like career criminals head there for a bit of R&R.

In "Down and out in Paris and London" (1933) George Orwell explains that in very poor households, mothers would share beds with daughters, while fathers would share beds with sons. The reason for this was that if male and female siblings shared a bed, they believed it would lead to incest. Not sure how true that is. ????‍♂️

If a 14 year old is living alone in rented accommodation, it's safe to say that multiple people have failed her, probably even Thai society as a whole.

We've all known since the beginning that Western carried covid is more dangerous, more numerous and more contagious than Thai/Asian carried covid, even where the variant is identical. That's (racist) virology 101.

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Certainly sounds like hassle. He just wasn't too bothered by the hassle, this time.

Incredible. "Becoming more conservative as you get older" is about being more socially conservative, not becoming more fond of the "conservative party". What a waste of an article. ????

I'm not sure what your point is. If it was a Pit Bull, it probably would have been worse, and the fact that a non-Pit Bull dog can catch rabies, go crazy, and bite a load of people, does not stop Pit Bulls from being more dangerous. People will, of course, discuss how dangerous it is to have street dogs roaming the street generally (even non-Pit Bulls), but that won't lead to pages of argument as it doesn't trigger Pit Bull appreciators who believe them to be no more dangerous than a Labrador.

Absolutely. I didn't say it was necessarily a justification for people playing loud music and terrorising others.

?? I thought that was an interesting turn of phrase also. Based on the meanings of the words, she was "spreading out over a large area in an untidy or irregular way" "without realizing or being aware of [her] actions". So, it's possible, but a very odd thing to point out. Perhaps they were going for "sprawled out unconscious".

Presumably, once you return home you register. Doctor, voter's register, and so on.

I don't believe you. When I searched, the results show many results that explain, psychologically/physiologically, why listening to loud music is pleasurable.

It did, but they were marred by straight bananas, unfettered immigration and an overall lack of parliamentary sovereignty. (/s)

You want them to, but they won't.

Hasn't that been the case pretty much all along with the vaccine? I'm mystified as to why you would single out Faucci when saying something that is common knowledge.

Or they wisely waited until at the least the vaccine rolled out and the disease became less lethal. There was no "We thought lockdowns helped but now we realised they don't", because they definitely did.

I'm not in any hurry to go there. I've been to Krabi. Beaches are nice, but they don't sound like the nicest parts of Thailand. They actually sound like the worst.

And will probably end in a similar way if it does.

Actually, the protests were tolerated mostly, only escalating into teargassing when they refused to disperse. Also only the leaders were arrested.

A pretty strong message of instructing Thais not to trust other Thais. Seems to be at odds with the general narrative taught in schools.