Purdey

Well done.

Maybe better to say whatever your parents' religion, so shall you be. Every child is born atheist.

People i know are working from home more and that seems to work. With Kpi goals in place it that is.

Park in Suan Rot Fai (Railway Park}. Inexpensive and can walk to the market.

I thought it was ilegal to cut someone's salary as a punishment? The labor court will be interested.

The casting couch is a long-known tradition in Hollywood going back to 1937. It does look like it isn't going to end soon.

How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one. - Richard Dawkins

Having driven motorcycles in London and Bangkok, I often think London is more dangerous because of the ridiculous speeds those London bikers reach accelerating in between traffic lights. Just a guess, but it looks doubtful the westerners who rent bikes here have ever ridden one before.

I just do not agree with blaming the woman, whose character you don't know, for her husband's philandering. He could just be selfish person who wants to think that a young woman finds him attractive (if we want to play the guessing game). I doubt anyone thinks of Thailand first as the answer to marriage problems. He could go to the pub, go to visit a mate or just go to another room and read a book. He is just asking to get ripped off for his hubris. I hope Julie screws him for everything. And no, I am not a woman.

It is good there are punishments when a higher-up is caught red-handed. Bhumjaithai Party is close to Thaksin so I guess that is another reason.

Am puzzled, why do people think they can hide in Thailand? Is it possible when hotels update the police who is staying, overstay or not? Passports are needed for so many things here. Renting a room without identity must be hard. I really don't understand how they expect to stay anonymous.

I feel sorry for her. It looks like she can't understand or absorb what is happening. So many balding, fat old wrinkled men come to Thailand and are taken in by Thai girls as young, or younger, than their granddaughters. Julie has been thrown on the scrapheap by someone who is her own age and perhaps because she just doesn't look like she did 48 years ago. She should hire a Thai detective to take incriminating pictures and clean out her old man's bank account (if she has access), sell the house and move into a flat. He deserves everything coming to him. ????

Prosecution Lawyer to fetus: "And were you at the scene of the crime?" Fetus: "Yes, but I was an unwilling accomplice." Lawyer: "But you don't deny being there?" Fetus: "No, but I didn't see anything." Lawyer: "How could you not see anything? You were right on the spot." Defense lawyer: "Objection Your Honor, he or she doesn't have eyes yet." Judge: "Sustained."

They should have an easy to remember team name. How about International Rescue?

I did not cry when my mother died. She had stopped suffering so I felt less upset than watching the cancer torture her. My father was buried and the thought of those worms burrowing into his body made me queasy. Dad came to Thailand once and there was a funeral we passed by with music playing and some dancing. He thought it was disrespectful too but I thought the person is dead and will be reborn so that is a reason for good cheer.

No, I mean the floaters appeared after the cataract operation. It was a surprise. I didn't know to expect it.

I thought MPs were immune from prosecution for whatever they said in parliament?

Had both eyes done at Rutnin near Asoke. Specialist eye hospital. Hated seeing those black dots floating around but don't need glasses for driving, only reading, now. Was very short sighted, now long sighted.

I see your point but I was thinking more about the overall numbers (defined as the result of Covid from early 2020 to early 2023) and not just the tail end. Overall, two countries with almost the same population size had very different results. With respect, I doubt anyone can call the number of deaths meaningless without some hard evidence to back it up. We must have evidence to place doubt on them. In Thailand the total deaths attributed to Covid was 33,902, while for UK it was 206,246. The UK had 24,341,615 cases while Thailand had 4,727,831. In each case you could double Thailand's statistics and still not reach the level of the UK. Seeing westerners proud of their refusal to wear masks, every health agency is still saying that wearing is better than not wearing. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/ https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/five-reasons-wear-mask-even-if-you-dont-have#:~:text=Since individuals who have not,wearer from COVID-19 transmission. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155516547/are-there-places-you-should-still-mask-in-forever-three-experts-weigh-in This Guardian articles explains why masks are still needed. Have a good day. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/09/the-inconvenience-of-covid-masks-are-better-than-the-alternative

It would be a good way to earn income, if only the violators were not able to sue the ones taking the photos for damaging their reputation (defamation). This is why car number plates are blurred out when one driver smashes into another. The RTP needs to assure people they cannot be taken to court on criminal charges for defaming someone's reputation.

Dissolving opposition parties has proven to be a lynchpin in the campaign plan of military-led parties.

This Coalition of Evil (c) is likely to have some unexpected consequences. 1. India has historically relied on Russia for much of its armaments. 2. China and India dislike each other (understatement). 3. Russia is going to owe China big time. 4. India may find itself piggy in the middle with very serious concerns.

Singapore airport is possible the standard by which all airports pass or fail. Have not been there for a few years but it is a pleasurable memory, unlike JFK where my Indian colleagues were dragged off for additional questioning because the Americans can't tell the difference between Indians and Arabs. I feel one of the issues that slow down incoming passengers in Bangkok is the time it takes for immigration to check and double check passports. That is the key to what makes Singapore a pleasure. They have computers to tell if a passenger is wanted for a something, yet in Bangkok they continue to flick back and forth, looking for goodness knows what. They ought to recognize a fake passport by scanning it, surely? To summarize, it is the human element that slows everything down, not the digital element.

It is interesting that Thai people are still wearing masks on the whole while westerners hold their heads up proudly without a mask. Then you look at the statistics for infections and deaths in say, the UK, a country with a similar population size and you think, that's not the example to follow. If Thais want to wear masks let them. I don't see them harming anyone. In the immortal words of Michael Gove in 2016, "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts." So the UK statistics prove.

There were hundreds of years of racism prior to the war. The Chinese, who were excused from the camps, were still "<deleted>" to Americans. Americans of Japanese descent volunteered to join up and were often sent on suicide missions. Germans had been one of the largest immigrant groups in the US but could not be distinguished by their features so evaded internment. Such a sad tale.