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  1. I always absolutely love it, when you post your pictures. The more, the better. What I find most amazing is, even though "my" village is 150 kilometers away, both location and people look absolutely identical. I would not have wondered if somebody told me, that your house or your farm were just up the road right in my village; alas, Ban Dung is the other side of Udon, while I spend my Thailand-time in Nong Bua Lamphu. But it really is eerie. In any case, I use your posts as a welcome "if only I could be there right now" moment, while I slave away here in Europe, until my well-earned time in Isaan comes around.
  2. The mind boggles why people would do this, in a foreign country, with a jail system known to be quite uncomfortable. I can understand crimes of passion or crimes of opportunity, but this was obviously planned -- over a motorcycle worth less than 10,000 euro. Why?! At least he did not kick anybody...
  3. My condolences to his family, may he rest in peace. During my first years in Thailand, his column was a weekly mainstay for me, even though I was not actually in Bangkok or Pattaya at the time. This was right before arrival of the internet, possibly the reason to why it gave such a strong feeling of belonging to some kind of "expat community" he informed us all about. I am sad to hear of his passing, another small facet of my own life during my youth gone from the world.
  4. A sturdy stick, dogs know what it is from sight. Also making a hitting or throwing motion, even with an empty hand, will make them flee. However, if there are several of them, they will remember and the clever ones will try to get you from the back. If it is always the same dogs, and the owner in the village is known, having him chat with you friendly in sight of the dogs will also make them remember that you are 'part of the allowed circle'. With street dogs, this option obviously does not exist.
  5. Indeed, the original poster voiced so many horrible opinions in one post, it can only be a wind-up in this enlightened day and age: 1) taking agency away from women for their life decisions 2) ageism; weirdly against only the males (why would they be less capable?) 3) body shaming; even if outer appearance would not be optimal, are they lesser people for it? 4) being born in Italy makes the OP somehow wiser, so he can give advice to the natives? That is rank with post-colonialism I think, the OP can only be a troll post, persiflaging all the bad opinions we all have left behind. I think such a post does not deserve of the "respect" this person orders us to have of him.
  6. Still, the decision of a consenting adult. Her body, her decision, is it not? This at least was what feminism fought hard for during the last 50 years.
  7. What a weird thing to say. Are you telling us that women of a young or any age do not have agency to decide what is best for them? You make it sound as if they need a mentor to guide them through life, and basically a slave to their waning reproductive system. I thought we have left this world view in the 1970s.
  8. I am German and I was completely unaware of it. So I would not put too much weight on it, that some person in the UK also does know nothing of this. Interesting tidbit from the wikipedia article, 'transsexual' as an expression is actually a German invention, the concept a German definition. I wonder how man transsexuals know that they are basically a category framed during the Weimar Republic.
  9. It is those same locals who make the really big amounts of money that can be earned in a concentrated amusement mile. Property prices for those who own are astronomic. Nobody would want to change that. But this is not just Bangkok: as many city planners around the world have found, better to have the 'amusement zone' concentrated, than a noisy bar here or a loud disco there. Also much easier to police, as this is for obvious reasons also always a crime hotspot (maybe this will change one day, if weed instead of alcohol would become the preferred drug in usage).
  10. Is your 'grow up' also hypothetical, partially joking? You are quite the joker, it seems. If not, let it then be known as fact, that with my wording "another one who doesn't know" I must have been very obviously joking in the same way as you, as *everybody* knows this already, no? Or are you maybe also one of those pesky adolescents? Good that we cleared that up, like the future mature adults we both likely will be.
  11. To sit for years in IDC, on top of whatever conviction he gets, until he somehow gets the money he did not have before to pay for a flight extremely inflated in price? What kind of sense does that make?
  12. Not having the money for a flight back and trying to achieve a deportation will probably lead to the worst possible outcome for anybody. Western embassies will not help, if you are convicted of a violent act, besides consular assictance during your time in IDC (however long that will take, I heard of literally years). And this is what Ubonjoe wrote about this: https://aseannow.com/topic/1095179-who-pays-when-your-deported/
  13. Another one who does not know how deportation works. The flight back home is not free, quite the opposite.
  14. Ouch! It would be interesting, who really backs Phuket Peninsula Estate Co. and the 100 Rai of beachfront land they acquired (and are seemingly about to loose completely). One thing is for sure, it is unlikely to just be their director, Pimphan Surintarangkul, who has doen little but play golf if one looks up the name. Either way, steaming * has hit the fan and is about to fly around. Latest now it really does not matter any more, if the Swiss man can settle with the doctor.
  15. I am not sure I understand the outrage. LSD is not a drug with a high addiction potential like Ya Ba. For example, there are forms of LSD that are currently (still) legal in Germany (1v-LSD); they are a biological precursor, which means, that they are converted in the body after consumption to the regular LSD-25. There are shops where you can buy it openly, or you get it sent by post. On a quick assumption, this would be a fairly easy way to also have it arrive in Thailand, if not carried right in luggage. 75 sheets is merely the size of a small paper notepad, and it is an odorless drug, so basically zero risk of attracting any attention during transport. On top of it, if it is not actual LSD-25 but one of the pre-drugs, I would be unsure if it is even on the list of forbidden substances in Thailand; you need a fairly good laboratory to determine this. I guess the court case will tell us. I am a lot less sure about the 25 extacy pills, but even if one counts 5 months of dealing activity, this is a fairly small amount he finally got caught with. They also would have quite the small volume and fit in a tiny plastic bag, so to me this still sounds like somebody who brought a stash with him to finance his holiday. Quite stupid, sure, but hardly the crime of the century or a major dealer by any imagination. This is something where I would guess that Thai police is much more knowledgeable and that dealing with recognizable "pills" was what got this guy caught.
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