Arthur Mullard

Has anyone played "China spotting" in Bangkok...... great fun..... I could go on but better not.

LOL.... I do sympathise with that but to clarify (IMO) the naturally sweet smelling Moroccan et al you find often on the continent, as compared with that overpowering SKUNK in and around London... repulsive. It was never like that back in the day. In fairness skunk I have not caught a whiff of, in Thailand.

Is the Thai bank option as secure as the Singapore one?

Yes but how (to kill themselves) in this instance? An overdose. Otherwise they'd be a bloody mess involving a gun.. a razor... a hose pipe connected to the exhaust (!!!!)...

But wouldn't you go home... he's got a caring family after all...

Other than an overdose though? The other listed methods leave an airtight explanation. Wouldn't they appear in the news report surely and why not if not?

Did you say "in those days"..................... ????

Most people won't know that in the T&Cs of flight bookings not so long ago (summer 2022) restricted travellers (native) leaving THAT country to 3 categories: business; education; work! Six months ago "tourists" had to apply for a special pass to go to HK or Macao. Imagine! Poor f***ers.

One wonders thinking about it... the move by the wealthy Chinese to (desperately) get their money out, with Thai real estate being a key target, and the extreme longterm aims of Chinese to effectively renounce their citizenship in order to keep their money safe from the CCP (through bearing children with Thai citizenship), perhaps there will be more on the forthcoming agenda than tourism and trade deals? The above was recently publicised on YouTube under China buying up real estate in Thailand BTW.

I would argue that there is a more than general sense a lot will hang on this meeting for "desperate backed-into-a-corner" Xi...

And don't forget those police stations.....

Indeed ????

The Emperors were the educated elite weren't they ????

Very well said

You went so far but could've taken your very believable scenario to the next level... DOES China influence Thai elections with any kind of leverage?? Myself and a friend were thinking yes. What came to my mind was the former colony to Algeria who continued to pull the strings and said explicitly in the 1990s that a fundamental Muslim state bordering France would not be tolerated - and they were a former colony! If indeed China leverages election influence over Thailand wouldn't there be some awareness among critiques or exposé??

Some truth in that I would agree - and add that a number of factors explain it IMO ranging from the Thais themselves especially school heads and their academic credentials... the range of quality of teachers... the range of nationalities among teachers... and probably from top down at a government level, entrenched old cultural ways that are stuck in traditional thinking.

First class entertainment though ????

BTW.... have you seen those fish in the klong lately.... ????

Well Trump would certainly agree with that but then he's facing jail... plus all those gracious Remainers who lost the Brexit vote?

Christ how gullible these people are....

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With respect there's only one nation on earth we all default to seeing such an incident - and it's not Korean. I know there are decent Chinese folks - but you gotta admit the cliché is here for us all to see, so I would say there's a lot of ignorance in the majority of that nation.

Perhaps he should've been. What if the 1st officer took a sudden hit to the head or anywhere for that matter?

100% judging by the sound of him.... all the better for Sino-Thai relations???????? ????... or he is so utterly restricted back home that the sight of enforcement which he expects to escape from brings out the worst!

Funny ????