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27 minutes ago, JAZZDOG said:

I must be from an alternate universe. If you are an immigrant from another country it goes without saying you need to carry and produce paperwork verifying you are legal. It also is required to understand and abide by the laws and terms of your visa . That's the deal from the jump, it is what you agreed to when you entered the country. If you no longer wish to abide to the agreement you made when you entered Thailand there are many international airports from which you can depart. I can't even understand the point you are trying to make. It's almost like reasoning with a 5 year old.

i could have applied for thai citizenship years ago. never bothered as don't want to be thai. you think that you should produce paperwork on the street? in 20 years not once have i been asked. keep photos of passport page and visa on phone but never been asked to produce. if they ever did, i would probably leave

**well use that as an excuse to leave with my mrs who can't accept that HCMC is soon to be home ; )

4 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:

 Having said this, I did hear a story (i.e. told by a friend of a friend etc.) about a guy who was bitten by a (genuine) soi dog whilst running past a soi dog 'pack'.

 

The story was told with a laugh, 'cos the guy hated dogs, and had previously kicked a couple of the dogs that had approached him, hoping for food. 

you realize the dogs don't forget. example. i went with my brother in law and a load of mates to smoke some weed in had sairee beach. when we left there was a crack and we realized we'd ran over a dog that was sleeping under the car. the other dogs went crazy jumping over the car and chased us most of the way back home. that was a no go area for a few months. at least in that car anyway.

2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Yes, the odds for that must be out of the world. He should buy a lottery ticket.

 

In 36 years in Thailand I have been bitten once by a dog and once scratched by a cat. Went for shots each time. How the hell do you get bitten 6 times in a year? 

555, i found that strange too. in nearly 20 years not once have i been bitten. i've been barked at and followed and was worried that i might get bitten but never been bitten. taken cats off my car but they never scratched me. 6 times in a year seems strange to me

5 minutes ago, metisdead said:

An off topic post containing an aberrant miss spelling of Thaksin's name has been removed.  

 

A quote only post and a reply has been removed. 

i had to google aberrant as never heard that word before and i went to private school. might hit them up for a refund ; )

a few years ago i was living in bkk and used to have a few drinks at a local bar each afternoon. on the opposite side of the road they had a serious rat problem. they were everywhere. the thai bloke who owns the restaurant decided to poison them. you could see these rats could hardly move and the pack of soi dogs were onto them in no time and eating them. within a few days they kept finding dead dogs. i said to the owner. the dogs are eating your poisoned rats and are all dying. he was devastated. around 10 dogs dead within a week

2 minutes ago, Sapporillo said:

You had it right, up until your last sentence, because that's the essence of the war on drugs: consuming drugs is a harmless activity, it's the prohibition which creates the problem (makes victims) in the first place, not the users. 

maybe. i actually stopped any illegal drugs after a run in with the BIB here when i was a kid. prior to that i did take coke sometimes in the uk until i saw a documentary about how that crap had got to me and the victims that likely suffered for it. prohibition is one argument that i understand but i also understand why lot's of drugs are illegal. it's kind of weird being in HCMC where i have friends that moved there from thailand and they just smoke weed in bars and out on the street in full view of the police. police just don't care over there. imagine smoking a joint out on the street in most places in thailand, 100% the BIB will want money

7 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

I hope people see this video before commet this young boy are lucky I not was there I have beat him up 

OMG I am angry 

sure you would and for sure you'd have ended up getting the shit kicked out of you by the moto taxis and other general passers by unless your thai is very good and can explain why you decided to attack the young guy but i doubt you'd have the chance

9 hours ago, wotsdermatter said:

Spaying/neutering an animal, be it a cat or dog, does not prevent the animal from having rabies.  The man should have had the rabies shots.  It only takes one a month for three months and is a painless way to stop getting such a debilitating disease.  In most western countries an animal suspected of having rabies is usually sent to a veterinary university where it is euthanised and a post-mortem is conducted.  If no university is nearby, then the task of killing the animal is given to a vet and then the head is removed and sent away for diagnosis. See it done a few times in England and Canada.  No need for a zone of any size to be enforced. 

 

 Contradictory to what Dr. Surin says, it usually takes 2-8 weeks for any symptoms to show in a person who has been bitten or scratched by an infected animal although there are always exceptions.  Children are different and can have much earlier signs.  Anybody feeding the soi dogs, etc., could be asking for trouble.

i thought the UK was rabies free. heard something about bats getting through the tunnel from france though. not sure if there was any truth in that

that's just for the taiwanese call centre scammers

you don't need to mention your dual nationality. just get an METV using your british passport from the London embassy(by post if not in London) then play it by ear once here. if you are going to stay for a couple of years maybe do a thai language course and get an education visa or just carry on with tourists visas. there's a few options but the METV would be best to start i think

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

The mayor's brother; 3 million in gold; CCTV cameras that work; a trail Stevie Wonder could have followed; of course Pattaya police moved quickly.  Now if it was a common assault of eight Thais beating up a an expat pensioner, they'd barely show a flicker of interest.

you know that's not true. i hardly ever go to pattaya so don't know it too well but i'm fairly certain the police wouldn't put up with pensioners being bashed up by gangs of locals for no reason. this guy didn't think through his robbery that's why he was easily caught

14 hours ago, seancbk said:

Might be time to move to the UK.

 

Britain is the world’s largest producer of legal cannabis, a new report from the United Nations has revealed. 

Ninety five tonnes of marijuana was produced in the UK in 2016 for medicinal and scientific use, accounting for 44.9 per cent of the world total, its International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) found. 

The UK is also the largest exporter of the drug, with 2.1 tonnes exported in 2016 – roughly 70 per cent of the world’s total, the report stated.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cannabis-legal-uk-worlds-largest-producer-marijuana-weed-un-body-findings-a8243921.html

most of that is GW pharma. they have huge crops on MOD land in kent. 

i hear most of the stuff for sale on the streets come from vietnamese gangs who rent out properties and turn them into crop houses nowadays

4 hours ago, johng said:

In the yearly Cobra Gold threads on here it's often stated that the Thai "special forces" are "on par" with their western counterparts.

 

I for one won't be "messing" with any of them !

 

 

thai "special forces" "on par" with european and yank forces? doubt that very much. but i won't be messing with anyone either ; )

3 minutes ago, connda said:

If they are busting call centers, then good for them. 

which call centres? the chinese/taiwanese ones whilst still harboring the scum that run boiler rooms from here?

19 hours ago, dfdgfdfdgs said:

It's quite simple.  You do what is right and not what is wrong, and pay no consequence to what is legal and illegal.  Legal things are often wrong, and illegal things are often right.  All the crimes you mentioned have victims and therefore are wrong.  Smoking a plant has no victim and is therefore not wrong, irrespective of what a bunch of silly men in wigs decided (do they have wigs here?).

smoking a plant has no victim. ok then. what about the vietnamese illegal immigrant that's made to look after the crop in places like the UK who ends up in the slammer and without any money from the guys in vietnam who own the crop? 

**think thats a victim mate

3 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

It is nto true that abortion is altogerher illegal in Thailand.

 

It is legal under certain circumstances, inlcuding any that in the docto'r judgment put the mental or physical health of the mother in jeopardy.

 

There is no specific provision for abortion on the basis of fetal deformity but it is widely done, in fact women with pregnancies that test positive for things like thalassemia (disease, not trait) are encouraged to abort.

 

And yes, the implicit assumption here is that the family would have opted to abort had they known. Which will indeed create problems for the child if he comes to understand this.

 

While in a  situation of missing limbs, the only option is to abort or continue the pregnancy, there are many problems which can be addressed while the fetus is still in the womb and there have been great advances in fetal surgery. Hence accurate assessment is important.

 

To have missed the absence of limbs indicates that the ultrasound was either not well interpreted or done too early to give much information. The pre-natal screening was indeed inadequate.

doctor has spoken

1 minute ago, KKr said:

No, I am not, figure having to read the whole forum.

And, in polite English, I said I do not want to discuss the subject whether Abortion should be allowed. Lawmakers did, and they made a decision.
If you do not like the decision, because as you stated a child has a right to live (even if it is not a life), do not use the opportunity.

(teenage) girls that got knocked up, rape victims, drug addicts, people with hereditary diseases, and people that cannot afford to raise a child and others may use the opportunity.
That is up to them, and not up to you. 

Thank you very much.

good argument and some valid points especially rape victims. but i will still say a kid has a right to live in the same way i think an adult should have the right to choose when to die.

4 minutes ago, KKr said:

Well, I am not going to get drawn into a discussion whether the interruption of pregnancies is acceptable or not. Thailand thinks it is, and many other countries do as well.
Let's stop the discussion there, 
before this becomes a discussion about choosing between reasonable judgement and dogma.
 

are you a moderator? no. so i'll ignore your request

1 minute ago, GarryP said:

I had a daughter with severe disabilities. She was unable to walk or talk or do anything for herself.  Do you think that if I had known in advance, I would still have agreed for my wife to go through with the birth? As I said, I understand the parents too.  Unfortunately, sometimes, you don't get the choice.    

sorry to hear that. are you saying you'd have aborted her given the chance? too sensitive a subject. no need to answer

Just now, orchidfan said:

Hong Kong's MTR is always packed to capacity with special door staff to manage loading and stop the push when the carriage is full. And I mean Full. Can barely look at your mobile phone!

But they have long trains and they run ever couple of minutes. .

The Airport Express is dedicated to that operation on a separate line AND the fare is so high that normal commuters wouldn't bother with it.

( like the Airport Express from Heathrow ).

usually takes a London underground operator at least 3 times to leave a platform during rush hours as need the electric circuit that shows all doors are closed to move the train. people just cram in and someone has to get off. BKK is no where in comparison to the overcrowding on London trains and tubes

2 minutes ago, GarryP said:

That is how I read it too. If they had known they would have aborted. Poor kid to grow up knowing that if his parents had known, he would not have been born in the first place. Having said that, I can understand the parents too.  

i have a cousin who's got downs syndrome. they reckoned he'd live to 25 max. still going strong and one of the happiest guys i've ever known, now mid 40's. relevant? yes. the kid has a right to choose for himself and science and technology changes day by day.

5 minutes ago, nahkit said:

Is that the polite word for aborted?

yes. pretty much and there are legal abortion clinics here but whatever you do, don't shoot a soi dog for getting too close and aggressive 555 : )

5 minutes ago, whaleboneman said:

Has anyone been electrocuted stepping on or off the airport link? Not sure what you think the danger would be.

i have no idea about who has or hasn't been killed on the airport link which i have never personally used. what i can say is that overhead cables are still dangerous. usually i think the power at stations is reduced more so than on track. they take the power on enter and exit but hardly any voltage at the station

On 3/13/2018 at 1:39 PM, NonthaburiBear said:

She's not my cup of tea for sure. my gf is thai, university student and i see quite alot of her friends which i say around 8-9, ..yea i know each of his own...if you like that kind of type(Natt) you need to dig deeper into Bkk nightlife ( not Khaosan),its way much better than her...and i dont do that anymore.

you enjoy that mate. those were the days. you'll end up marrying her though ; )