BKKBrit

9 hours ago, johng said:

Isn't that a job restricted to Thai only ??????

Read the story.... Slowly 

4 minutes ago, Thechook said:

The thai should have been immeadiately arrested for this serious assault on an elderly person.  The police did absolutely nothing and displayed the attitude, its just a farang no harm done or law broken.  Soi dogs get more action from police and shows where farangs sit on the scale.  The attacker would be looking at a mandatory 2 years in aust for this unprovoked attack.  Hopefully a simple sorry and a wai to the police wont be his punishment 

Do try and keep up....

Amazing how, even with the new footage showing the farang getting out his car with a knife - after being forced to stop by the Thai (after being side-swiped by the farang), then being run over by the old fart that TVF folks are still defending the Aussie. Truly mind-blowing. 

I bet you have heaps of Thai friends that respect you. 

12 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

This will have all the people defending the farang eating humble pie. Just goes to show there are 2 sides to every story.

 

No chance! You should know the TVF commentator mentality...they're always right and this country and it's people are permanently flawed. Yet they continue to visit / live here but hold court from their bedsit or bar-beer stool.

8 minutes ago, kcpattaya said:

I find the worst part of it that it happens right in front of many innocent school kids.
Great example how grown-ups can't control their "emotions"...
Not to mention the cowardly punch by the Thai thug.

So..it's ok for the mentally-challenged farang to take out a knife and smash the windows of the car of the jewellry shop owner - with his wife and infant in the car? That's ok, is it? You need to do a little more viewing of the realities of what happened. 

They were made for each other. The Aussie needs to go home if he can't handle it here and feels the need to carry a large knife and smash someone's car windows with it. I'd have dropped him the moment he did that. 

So 2019 at the earliest and then there will be another 'incident' that requires them to again review the issue of unity and on it goes ad-nauseam. 

I think he's the bee's knees  He just says what we're all thinking. And in this context, it was explained he was referring to the Daesh bodies that have been booby-trapped that are the impediment to moving in. 

Feckless comes to mind. 

Proof that money doesn't buy taste. 

1 minute ago, ratcatcher said:

Aluminium aircraft bodies do that, best kept indoors away from the rain.

Umm...no.

Aluminum corrodes but it does not rust. Rust refers only to iron and steel corrosion.Aluminum is actually very prone to corrosion. However, aluminum corrosion is aluminum oxide, a very hard material that actually protects the aluminum from further corrosion.

The airline was famous for a nano-second.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/17/pc-air-transgender-flight-attendants

15 minutes ago, RayHaas said:

I think you referring to the spanish guy. He is already been jailed I think

 It was a Brit and a South African - Abel Caldeira and Brit Miles Turner. They seem to be on the run still. 

And what of the two guys on the motorbike that fled back to Cambodia. Have they been found, too? 

1 hour ago, rak sa_ngop said:

Best solution would be to go to one of those electronic fix-it places where they have stacks of out-of-date equipment and buy an old dvd player that still works for all zones.

Yes I had the same problem, the 2 Sony players I bought years ago are all zones, but the latest one I bought is only good for Asian discs. I had to repair one of my old players just to play my BBC discs!

There's an idea. Thanks! 

4 hours ago, ignis said:

Years ago had the same problem. [My UK DVD stopped working one day] DVD's would not play on the Thai replacement machine so put them in PC's  DVD worked fine..  saved on PC and put on another DVD which played fine on my Thai DVD..

 

Another option ..  'Only Fools & Horses' is on 'UK Turks Playlist'  if you have Kodi

oh dear....that had crossed my mind but with 22 DVDs and however many Gigabytes that would translate too.....*sigh* Thanks for the heads' up!

Bought a huge stack of BBC original DVDs in the UK last week only to find out they won't play on either of my two DVD players here in BKK. One Samsung and one cheap little Compro which I bought at Big C a couple of years ago. Called both companies and both said it is 'illegal' to change the PAL zones even though the content is legal and they wouldn't help.  I can't find any of my two machines listed on those 'hack a DVD player' site so my question is - does anyone know of some little enterprise at say Panthip Plaza who can change the zones?

Many thanks! I was busting to watch Only Fools & Horses but I am feeling the fool for not thinking about this possible conflict. 

oops! Lol

14 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Greed or desperation?  It could take months to liquidate enough assets to repatriate an injured party- if ever.  

 

By which time the kid could be dead if he's not getting treated appropriately (if at all) because the hospital wants payment guaranteed before they do anything beyond appearing to be trying to keep him breathing.  And that doesn't even start to consider the long term prospects if he needs reconstructive surgery before things start mending crooked.  Any delay could be catastrophic.

 

Ok; let's say it takes months. But in reality, it doesn't. But let's say that it does take months. Do you think she would then reimburse all those strangers that donated? I am prepared to wager 'No'. 

As much as I feel sorry for the kid, it was an accident. What is beginning to get on my nerves is this immediate rush to seek financial aid from strangers when, and in this case, they look middle-class and will have assets - including a home and probably a car or two. 

Further, they can't be impoverished if the lad has been travelling on and off in Asia for 2 years plus now.

If she'd said she'd sold the car, disposed of liquid assets, cashed in her savings account etc etc, then I'd have some compassion and drop a few quid into the box. But this smacks of greed. 
 

3 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

How much sin sot did he pay?

Jeesh....one good / nice story of the day and you have to debase it. 

1 hour ago, steve187 said:

This is Thailand (TiT) i'm sure there is lots of room for you in your home country to walk the footpaths at will, airlines leave everyday.

 

people complain about immigrants wanting to change their adopted country, now non immigrants want to do it.

Spot on. So many of these TV posters moan endlessly about Thailand and why 'can't it and the people do things as we do at home'; yet...they're the first to bitch about immigration in their home country ruining things and bleating on about how immigrants don't integrate. 

2 hours ago, cunningstunt said:

Food carts in side sois cause total chaos. There is barely enough room for 2 lanes and they show up and you have one lane!

Lucky I live next to a bts and don't put up with it.

I'll bet quite a good proportion of Thai life gets on your tits by the sounds of it. 

15 hours ago, scorecard said:

 

Big yawn.

 

And your statement isn't correct, check the real facts...

Love it when respondents make statements like this without even giving just ONE example of the 'facts' you refer to. Why even bother?