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I know what is ridiculous. Expecting Thai massage ladies to stop calling out 'massage' 🤦‍♂️

I've only been to Vietnam a couple of times, and only to HCMC. I didn't feel the same sense of freedom in Vn that you get in Thailand, especially around the nightlife where I was told (by locals) the bars could be raided any time by police wanting to crack down hard on fun. I was strongly advised not to get caught up in a raid! Maybe it's different these days, and the authorities are more relaxed over there? Or maybe I need to venture further than HCMC.

Why move to another country and wait 10 years hoping the natives will change their ways, and behave the way YOU want them to behave? Just remember, you chose Thailand, Thailand didn't choose you. P.S. I assume your username is meant to be irony? You don't sound like a happy camper 🙂

Do you believe Iran should be trusted to continue with their nuclear program? Given their track record of backing multiple terror groups around the ME, do you think the Iranian regime would hesitate to use nuclear weapons against Israel? I dread the thought of all out war, but I'd rather see it now with 'conventional' weapons than waiting for Iran to launch nukes at Israel. Now that really would be the end game! Iran has long maintained that its nuclear programme is for peaceful, civilian purposes only. This week, the watchdog's board of governors formally declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years. An earlier IAEA report said Iran had enriched uranium to 60% purity, near weapons grade, to potentially make nine nuclear bombs. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdj9vj8glg2o

If it's true that he suffered with Epilepsy, it's possible he could've had a fit during or after his cab ride to Pattaya and bashed his head. Excessive alcohol can trigger a fit. As to why he ended up near Pattaya, maybe his two friends wouldn't leave a boring BKK nightclub and this fella was desperate for the full on Pattaya experience. An hour's journey wouldn't deter a man on that mission full of booze. In my younger days I often disappeared on nights out because I didn't want to be where my mates wanted to stay, and I couldn't be bothered to discuss it.

Absolutely. He's more likely to survive in a Thai hospital than under the so called 'care' of the NHS in the UK.

Yep, these wind farms and all the fields full of solar panels are destroying biodiversity - they're not environmentally friendly at all. Same as this rush to build millions of new houses to accommodate the population swell from immigration. Concreting over more countryside. The same people calling for more houses, more wind farms and more solar farms also call themselves environmentalists 🤦‍♂️ You couldn't make it up

Are gay war heros excluded from Remembrance Sunday etc? Maybe you think gay war heros should be celebrated separately. Bit divisive that...

A country's leader can either appease the left (like the UK does) and accept the risk to it's citizens by allowing people in from from these trouble zones. Or they can introduce measures to reduce the risk to it's citizens, and face the wrath of the left. I would prefer my country's leader to do the latter. Unfortunately I'm from the UK.

I disagree. A country's leader can either appease the left (like the UK does) and accept the increased risk from some individuals from these countries. Or they can take drastic measures to reduce the risk for all of it's citizens, knowing they'll face the wrath of the left (throwing around the racist card etc.). I know which I prefer.

No, the Rwanda plan was delayed by human rights activists and lawyers, and then scrapped by Labour. It wasn't a perfect plan but it was already deterring illegal migrants even before being implemented. What is a better deterrent - the threat of being sent to Rwanda, or the 'threat' of being put up in a UK hotel? Have boat crossing increased since the Rwanda plan was scrapped?

Is that the law that will have failed asylum seekers transferred to a third country? These bogus asylum claimants get years of rejections and appeals before they are deemed to be failed asylum seekers. This law will not deter the boat people. To deter the boat people we need a law that would remove illegal migrants immediately. The Rwanda plan started to deter illegals entering Britain (remember how Ireland were cursing the UK because the illegals were going there instead?). Even though the Rwanda plan never got off the ground, the risk of being sent to a third country was a deterrent. Since Labour removed that deterrent we've seen record breaking numbers crossing the Channel.

I agree. The two men are probably arrogant tw@ts who have made a nuisance of themselves since arriving in Phuket, and have probably slapped women before. I assume that's what you mean...

Maybe it's the cumulative effect after years of seeing drunk idiots with a superiority complex look down on them, and abuse and sh@g their women. It only takes one incident to make them finally snap. I've never been attacked by Thai men, but that's because I'm respectful to the locals, even when I'm drunk. And I don't slap bar girls.

So do you think this improves Thailand's reputation? A country that previously had some of the toughest drug laws is now a magnet for pot heads, and is becoming THE place to smuggle weed from. If you think that's good for a country's global image you must be smoking something.