John Drake

Everything that the establishment feared Thaksin would do, he is now achieving with their help.

Never escalate the situation, especially if you are determined to do a chimp out.

Khaosod identified him as a "Western man."

Depends on the situation, but if the man put his hands on her and physically coerced her in any way, then he should have been arrested. And that is precisely what this sounds like:

Good point about the showers. I take a shower every time I come back from going somewhere or, of course, from working out in the yard. It refreshes you for at least 30 minutes to sometimes an hour.

The more technology makes it possible to surveil, the more laws that will be enacted to take advantage of the surveillance. The noose gets ever tighter. Everywhere. Did the camera just catch you buying beer, when you could have bought organic vegetables? Bad for your health! You now need to pay a higher health tax.

Try and rent a house. Don't get stuck in a condo. I'd feel like I'm in prison in a condo. I have a large two story house in the western suburbs of Bangkok. Leading off from my office is a large second story verandah that is 14m deep and covers the face of the house lengthwise. Easy to take a break and enjoy outside, with a fan if necessary. Good to go work in the backyard and trim trees, bushes, and pull weeds. I don't even run the aircon until after 10pm at night, and I set it at 31 (highest my Mitsubishi will go). Get yourself acclimated. You will not do that sitting inside your condo. Walk, move around. You'll feel better about yourself and your environment. Don't lock yourself in.

Prayuth was better.

Thaiger had/has its own forum. But it was a disaster. They had hair trigger bans and heavy censorship. It was far, far worse than AN ever was at its depths a couple of years ago.

Wasn't there a plan to put one in every village a couple of years ago?

Names of assailants, except for minors, are routine in all journalism. Do you think the person who attacked is a 13 year old.

Because the names of assailants are part of the basic news story. Know the name of the doctor kicker, don't we? The cop who ran over the woman eye specialist? The Swiss who beat up a Thai woman in a grocery store. It's basic journalism. Not to mention that knowing who he is could bring additional witnesses or people who may have had a run in with him in the past. Why would you not want to know his name?

Prayuth was better.

Wish we knew the name of "the German."

Didn't Srettha say he wants a special "Muay Thai Visa"? So more of these aggressive martial arts thugs, many more, will be on their way?

Chinese eating Thais out of their own durian. Literally. And since increasingly Chinese are buying out crops directly from farms, with no middlemen, Thais may soon no longer be able to buy durians at any price.

What happened to the electricity discount Srettha promised last month. Just got my electric bill. Highest in eight years.

Just watched the first episode of The Sympathizer. Quite good, surprisingly. I say surprisingly because I didn't like the book at all. But this episode is well done. There is the usual contemporary photography that somehow manages to make even SE Asia look somewhat gloomy outside, when it's so bright here during the exterior filming season that you usually need an umbrella or even a tent to shoot. IMDb says some exteriors shot in Thailand. Don't know where. But overall, effective atmosphere that captures Saigon in 1975.

Hah. Iran and its proxies do that about once a week already.

I've been hearing about an Iranian youth revolt since the 1990s. Most of them are in late middle age now. At least. Somehow, the revolution never happens. Either the government is more than capable of always beating them down, or the "modern youth" eventually age into comfortable defenders of the status quo.

There is this from wiki. I don't know how accurate wiki is, but here it is anyway: And it was an annex that was hit, not the embassy itself. Inside were Iranian generals who had planned October 7.

Sure hope one of those Iranian missiles doesn't get through and accidentally destroy the Dome of the Rock.

It looks to me he is wearing biege shorts. Not naked. But otherwise a disgrace.

There is a video, which the Swiss doctor kicker took himself.

A sudden attack of diarrhea doesn't care if you're 20m or 2m away. You have no choice. Eight pages into this story, and we still don't know anything about the man's condition and what prompted him to do what he did. I cannot imagine anyone would willingly humiliate themselves like this.