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Well there won’t be any shortage of Space Cadets to send out where no Thai has gone before. Just reassign assorted Government Ministers to Inactive Positions!

4 hours ago, ChakaKhan said:

may I have a peanut dear sir?...penny for the poor Guv'ner????   

Oh, go peel me a grape!

3 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Yes, it is sad that the 'government' seems to encourage yellow shirts to violence so that the police can respond in kind.

Quit a few yellow shirt protests have become violent andd the police do nothing.

Similar to the charade in ‘76. Clear bias, but a facade of deniability. Water canons fired on protesters, as long as not wearing yellow. Do they really think this is not seen.

On 8/9/2020 at 3:48 PM, colinneil said:

11 hours ago, Grumpy one said:

Who is going to train the Thai trainers? 

I have been riding 500cc and up for 50 years. France licensed me to moto 1,800 cc no questions asked, with just a USA bike liscence. But some 28 year old kid with merit badges will have to train me after I ride up on my Harley???  Bet yah the kids never cold kick started a 1200cc stroker.

3 hours ago, AbeNormal said:

I would not like to be a foreigner in Phuket over the coming months, they will not be well received

We how come those who are already here don’t notice a crazed stalking of our every moves by all Thais .

8 minutes ago, J Town said:

I believe Pence will soon be grounded as well. He was in close contact with plenty of spreaders.

Depends if he is the top or the bottom!

October Surprise!

but I am not surprised

Dawn broke over Marblehead.

19 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Limits the market already .. how many people can take a mth in one hit from their vacation allowance and then spend nearly half of it indoors .. 

well it sounds like restricted to a ‘walled community’ type hotel.
Yes they can go out, but not mingle with natives or with other guests closely. Staff stuck with them.

test in, test out 

Wax on, wax off

Not ideal, but something.
If you can get away, chill at the pool and eat good food it’s doable.
 

It depends on the cost of the hotels getting the nod. 6,900 a night for 14 nights ain’t gonna fly, but 2,000 a night likely will.

I just booked a Bangkok hotel that normally is 7,000+ a night for 2,200 and am happy to go.

2 hours ago, Bim Smith said:

They need the 60 billion to prop up the bht

Give the big banks 500 billion for 0.01 interest.

Borrow it back for 2% interest.

Banks happy, tax payers not so much.

And when the current protesters figure out this scam, the streets will fill even more.

Such a colossal misjudgment.

“...allowed to travel in the island with special wristbands, which would show that they are not infected by the virus...“

What! They won’t be branding them with ThaiSmile logos?

Even made CNN. No this is not going away fast

18 hours ago, colinneil said:

Surely it should have read a fully doctored report will be submitted.

Not a fully Dentisted report?

Different day, same old ...

15 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

don't blame them a bit -  when you look at the irresponsible actions and predictable outcomes of dealing with the virus in other countries foreigners have Thais concerned and if other nations hadn't of acted so stupid there would probably be reduced fear..  

Well other than the fact all foreigners  who could run in this race are already IN THAILAND, so are ;

a) Healthy because they are not exposed to those people in other countries

b) Mostly in compliance with Thailand’s working anti-Covid actions. If not without some grumbling.

c) If you haven’t left and returned, so how can you have the disease? Returning Thais are the only cases happening in country. None are foreigners presently in Thailand.

d) Blaming ‘dirty foreigners’ like the Dep Pm / Heath Minister has repeatedly tried, doesn’t mean they have COVID, it just plays well politically, since ‘no one else is every as good as a Thai’ including their blood relatives living in the surrounding countries.
 

So they must be spreading the disease ‘since no thai would do that’. Of course trump certainly plays into their hands to make this attitude seem logical to some.
 

Sociological Country Building in a crossroads culture usually must be pointedly nationalistic, long after that ‘ubër nationalism’ is no longer needed to create one new people from many others. Can’t back down or seem unpatriotic, etc.
 

The race committee is just reacting to the political winds and isolationist Instincts of the political class that either can not go against the nationalist undertow, or delight in using it for controlling power.

On 8/3/2020 at 12:16 AM, Albert Zweistein said:

If not he gets sacked !

Sacked beats dead.

But the owners lose their ship.

they should no better but of course they don’t.

Well it is a cockup.

All I know is that I will

NEVER buy a Red Bull product, ever.

if the upset public boycotted Red Bull en-mass and made it clear to papa Red Bull, he would stop protecting his deadly boychick with such fervor. 

23 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

If they were found on Koh Taen that ferry was on the way to khanom or really of course. Koh Taen is fairly big island 20 min south of Samui. 

Not necessarily. The wind was blowing so that a SW headed boat going with the seas would float that way and currents would pull a guy in life jacket in that direction. He also swam towards the island when he saw it.

Looking at this video.

One moment

he is driving in a perfect straight line. At moderate speed, no wobbles or weaving at 

The next

he is very quickly going off the back  and never moved again.

Does not look like a impaired guy dropping his phone or bobbling his bike and then falling off. Looks He was taken off by some force.

A wire? No, but a ‘police riot gun style‘ air shotgun ‘projectile beanbag’ in the face or upper chest comes to mind.
 

Doesn’t leave wounds inconsistent with falling from a bike. Usually used in riot control of people standing, add their force of moving towards it.

Bobs your dead uncle. Sadly.