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Not sure how they came to the total of 250,000. I wonder if they asked people, "Are you a prostitute?"

No one has mentioned how 300 Baht would help improve tourism. How will such a small amount per person actually be seen in terms of returns? Actually, if tourists were given 300 Baht on entry, that money may help Thailand more. Imagine when word gets out. "The Thais are giving away 300 Baht at the airport on entry! Let's go!" "How much is that?" "Who cares? What other country is giving us beer money to go?"

Trump 2024, 2028, 2032?

I didn't vote for him but hope he recovers.

You missed the point. It is the same racialist drivel today as it was then.

Trying watching the films Hurricane (2018) and Squadron 303 (2019) where they were castigated for speaking Polish together and we're racially discriminated against by the British. In the good old days...

Seems like he can't handle his booze.

Don't tell the electorate....

I may have missed some news - have there been deaths at American universities? I do remember students protesting the Vietnam war. Three students shot dead in Ohio (CSNY). Were the protesters wrong in hindsight? I think young people have always protested. They still do.

Back in the good old days... We were grateful for their help.

Freedom, to speak, protest whatever, is in the Constitution. If kids want to take the Palestinian side, let them. The more debate the better. Only violence should be excluded.

The country is England. Its language is called English. Not British. Great Britain contains the countries of Wales and Scotland too, which have their own languages but use English for convenience, so there is no British English. Received Pronunciation (RP) is the only British accent that has no specific geographical correlate: it is not possible, on hearing someone speak RP, to know which part of the United Kingdom he or she comes from. There are variations of English, like regional dialects. American is a variation of English. The dialect regions of the United States are most clearly marked along the Atlantic littoral, where the earlier settlements were made. Three dialects can be defined: Northern, Midland, and Southern. Each has its subdialects. As such, American English is just a variation of English, the same as in Canada, Australia and so on.

Intriguing how the police think he is linked to a gambling site. Does the site list its shareholders? Does it reveal how it divides profits? Is the site owner a close friend of Big Joke? Is there a video of Big Joke receiving a package outside the offices of BNK Master? Or could it be an accusation without evidence?

Thoughts and prayers. A good guy with a gun etc.

Global warming, or just Thailand warming?

Free Assange.

Don't arm the British Bobby. So what if they can't shoot a bad guy dead with 60 bullets? Most bobbies are trained to avoid conflict not act like cowboys.

I'm sure Thais buy stuff from abroad more than westerners here. Will they tax books? Of course. Hardly anyone here reads.

Must admit that with temperatures into the 40s I would not like to force the ordinary policeman to wander up and down the side of the Central World. Maybe make the fines large enough to make taxi and tuktuk drivers think twice.

In this heat the incident could have led to some dead passengers. Lucky they were rescued in time

Coincidentally, I visited Ban Khun Thiam yesterday and enjoyed cycling there. Expanding it will provide people with exercise and fresh air. The number of restaurants had gotten out of hand, but further inland.

A bit misleading.

Still trying to work out what antisemantic is.

As they say, the Orange One will get his day in court and the prosecution will lay its evidence out for the jury to decide. Innocent until proven guilty!

Agree. Everyone here knows that the will of the people is meaningless and doesn't count in the presidential election. My main point simply being that 3m (2.5%) more people voted for Hilary than Trump. This just goes to show that she was more popular than him. (A little known fact is that in every single case where someone won the electoral college vote but lost the popular vote, he was a Republican.) But yes, I totally agree, the electoral college system does mean those 3m voters were a bunch of losers and don't count.