John Drake

I believe you're correct. Western men should tread carefully for the next few weeks. Smile in the stores, wait your turn in lines without complaining, and restrain yourself from making any ill considered gestures. That said, the guy is a goon and deserves everything coming to him, especially after he demonstrated that he thinks he's better than other people. That's what he thought, until he was revealed as just another thug with money.

Glad there is an option to vote for RFKjr instead of two old drooling idiots.

So China got the better of the deal.

The moment he touched her, following his threatening obscenity filled rant, he assaulted her. Dumb move. He has put his own head in the noose. No pity. About my second or third year here, the village crazy guy sat down in front of the gate to my house and wouldn't move. I couldn't get out. Amazingly, I sensed that knocking him over and pushing him out of the way just might cause more of a problem than it solved. I called my housekeeper and she and her daughter came and managed to move him away. Good thing I did, btw. Because although the guy was barefoot and looked like a bum, he is a member of a wealthy and influential family in the village. Occasionally, it happens, he gets out and goes for walks. He's still around. Has only camped out in front of my house once since then. Settled that one peacefully, too. Housekeeper called his family and they came and picked him up. Going apesh*t like Urs did is about as stupid an act as I can imagine.

Arrested.

The only person consistently uncovering illegal Chinese activity was Chuwit. And now he's gone out of the country to die. So China gets a free ride.

You're correct to take that attitude. I was wrong not to add that I think everyone should be able to continue on their existing visa/extension without changes being made to it. That should go for any immigration changes. It would be unfair to alter the requirements for people who have taken out visas in good faith that they meet all requirements--and that goes for additional extensions, too. Still, I think the change from 50 to 60 years old to match Thai retirement is a good idea. Why? Because I guess except for retired military relatively few people get sizable enough retirement money from things like SSA in the US, which doesn't kick until age 62 at the earliest. I don't know the retirement age for UKers and Australians, but if it's similar, that means they too would be among the people in Thailand on retirement visas needing to violate work restrictions in order simply to live here. Remember also that people under 60 have an advantage in that they can more easily find legitimate work and work permits.

The woman sitting to the right was launched from her seat. You can see it. The only way a body moves like that without force being applied is if Father Damien is in the room doing an exorcism.

Go look at Urs own video! He storms up to the woman, yelling GTF Outta here. Not an accident at all.

Might be a good idea if retirement visa/extensions were upped to a minimum of age 60 to match the Thai retirement age. While it still would have allowed the other Swiss to get through, this one, if it's an accurate report about age and visa, would have been stopped. Same thing with the bikers last year. Seems a lot of them were in the low 50s too. Just match it to the Thai age of retirement and make things work more cleanly.

Again, I'm more interested in how he got a retirement visa/extension at age 45, according to that Bangkok Post story. If the report is accurate, that is something to follow up on in relation to others in Phuket, especially Russians.

See "'Kicking' Swiss man in Phuket loses visa" in The Bangkok Post.

Can't provide a link because it's in the Bangkok Post update on the story. Next to last paragraph.

Well, he must have his ways. He's 45 years old and on a retirement visa/extension. How did that happen, when the age requirement is 50?

Thought there was a "crackdown" on this, especially as applied to property/house ownership about 8 years ago. Circling around, I guess.

Went to Lotus today and was extra careful. Sure enough, cart jam on the water and drinks aisles. Just waited for it to clear, as I usually do. Managed to get out of the store without assaulting and putting someone into the hospital.

I miss Thailand under Covid. The good ole days.

When I send a message via FB Messenger and FB refuses to send and has the link put in red. It's monitoring private messages. I've had things blocked like links to books on Goodreads, in addition to Z books. Why are they poking into my private messages. LINE doesn't do that.

Elon's X is dependable. Zuckerberg's FB is glitchy, plus they monitor your private messages in addition to your posts.

Or, even, if it's crowded, just turn your cart around and go the other way and come around.

Aisles in Tops and Foodland seem to be crowded like that. Not so much Lotus. I encounter a cart jam just about every time I go to these stores. I just stand there and wait for them to move. Not punching, shoving, or yelling. What was so important in this guy's life that he couldn't wait a few seconds or even a minute for the woman to move out of the way?

"Future food?" Does he mean bugs?

Might as well empty their brains into the garbage can.

I thought it was all teenage girls doing bad dancing.

How much was the corresponding increase in spending for imodium?