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Ha ha - you're all Brits

It's an illness of the mind - and no number of pitchfork yielders such as many of the commentators here, or extreme treatment of the teacher as they suggest, will ever safeguard children in future. In fact it will drive the sick minded further into secrecy instead of confessing the tendencies and getting help before it's too late. People of that illness need to be encouraged to get real about their issue, admit it and get treatment. Same as paranoid schizophrenics - locking some up after the event doesn't stop the rest going on murderous rampages (witness the current case in U.K. where the guy did admit to police and go to seek help but didn't get it and then killed 3.) Society needs to work with the realities that these illnesses exist and do what it take to prevent rather than only crudely punish after the event.

So the epitome of corruption in Thailand, - a man who no one had voted for but becomes prime minister - now lectures the nation on the need to eradicate corruption.

The Scout Act !!!! ? Lese scouteste

I'm Brit - 67 y.o. He's Thai, - 40 y.o. - lived in UK for 17 years and Brit citizen. We civil partnered in UK this month - small affair - registry office and 9 UK based Brit and Thais guests. His parents are in Isan, Thailand. They are both well off - both pensioned school teachers, plenty land, two houses and a forestry business. The parents feel that Sin Sod is appropriate - in order to feel that our union is completed. The minimum amount mentioned by him is Bt1 million. Financially that probably is of more consequence to me that his parents. Do I need to do this?

What he is saying is that Brexit was not properly done, in reference to the shilly-shallying antics, half in / half out compromises and dithering by the UK parliament and judges in not implementing what the majority voted for.

Largest party vote and number of seats in the elected house. How else would you have it? Keep the old guard as a matter of course???

But the consequences should be humane!!

I meant gratitude for cheap electricity in Thailand !! - Not for my writing - I'm not that vain lol

Sorry - don't know about "Regency" The point of the alcohol advertising legislation in Thailand and other countries is not to stop adults destroying their lives or limit their freedoms but to restrict the exposure of children to the advertising. The laws are often very specific about how and where the adverts can be made: for example only on tv after the evening time-shed (9pm in UK), not in cinemas showing juvenile rated movies or other public scenarios. This guy posted in Facebook which is available to everyone all the time - and I think that is where he fell foul. Basically he's an idiot if he doesn't know he should post on a restricted adult zone instead of at all times of day to everyone on Facebook.

The point of the alcohol advertising legislation in Thailand and other countries is not to stop adults destroying their lives or limit their freedoms but to restrict the exposure of children to the advertising. The laws are often very specific about how and where the adverts can be made: for example only on tv after the evening time-shed (9pm in UK), not in cinemas showing juvenile rated movies or other public scenarios. This guy posted in Facebook which is available to everyone all the time - and I think that is where he fell foul. Basically he's an idiot if he doesn't know he should post on a restricted adult zone instead of at all times of day to everyone on Facebook.

Thailand's alcohol advertising laws and penalties for breach of them are not at all out of step or overdone. In UK the penalty is an unlimited fine or imprisonment not exceeding two years. Seems most if not all posts here are against the legislation. Could there be a bias of alchies or at least heavy drinkers here living in ignorance or denial of the harm the stuff does to individuals, families and society.

Many thanks for all this Nigel - I'm much better informed now.

Not true that "it is about the same in the 'west'". In UK it is about 50p / kWh. And in Thailand it is about 10p.

Gratitude

In my case, I'm trying to understand what it is about market and commercial structures in UK that make it 5 times as expensive to the end consumer than in Thailand when the fuels cost the same at source. I suspect profit and tax taken at every interface in the supply chain. The Thailand model seems massively more efficient - so worth trying to understand it. No?

There is no difference between a belt and a cord in his pants when it come to this sort of calamity. Whichever, it should have been taken off him at entry to custody. - Standard good procedure everywhere. Why flame someone on such a detailed irrelevancy?

Brian - is this verifiably true? Asking to understand - not to challenge. Please could you provide reference to any statute or ordinance requiring this.

Not change in rate in Sathorn, Bangkok. Usage and cost lines are the same. By the way, the kWh unit cost in Thailand is about 20% of the UK cost - yes, a fifth.

In UK, passport office strapped and sealed my old passport to the back of the new one in order to keep continuing. Ideas and permits alive.

My theory is that the UK price is way higher than most countries (even in Europe) because the supply chain has been sliced into so many separate stages and markets - all run by private entities (raw fuel supply, generation, grid distribution, retail supply) and all making profits along the way and then with 20% tax on the final retail consumers. Countries like Thailand (as far as I know) have kept that whole chain in government hands as natural monopoly. In my view that's the correct way of managing anything that is critical infrastructure fundamental to security of the economy and wellbeing or people - not slicing out profit and tax at four stages within the supply.

I compared my UK and Thailand domestic electricity kWh prices for Dec22 to Feb23. The UK rate was about 500% (yes 5 times) the Thailand rate. 50p vs 10p. Thailand as a net importer of oil, gas and coal is subject to the same basic global market pricing. So it seems that either the UK has some highly inefficient structures in its energy delivery model or Thailand has a huge price bomb overdue to explode.

Although I always ensure my insurance covers what I need and comply With the small print, I have a worrying habit of taking motosai taxis in Bangkok when there's a jam or I'm late. There's usually never a helmet available or one that fits poorly or is missing internal parts. It would be quite a job to explain that away on event of accident. As a long stayer each year, I reckon I should take my own crash helmet In Thailand when I visit next time.

There is so much rubbish written in response to this article. I'm speaking from recent experience when I say that: - Thai government hospitals are far better than UK NHS in time, and care quality (I recently had a major heart issue) and the costs are very low; - good UK travel insurance policies covering medical and accident events are fully available - also for long stay and including various sports as options; - the documentation requirements to support claims are thorough but not arduous. If they were slack the premiums would be sky high; The issue is that these UK travellers who end up in trouble either can't or don't read - and some intelligence and self management is needed of which the "after-the-event crowd-finding" idiots seem to be totally bereft. The article out to be about how poor the UK education system now is in world rankings - and the huge number of dummies that produces who think they can rove the world with ignorance and impunity.

Not really - clearly religiously prejudiced. There are scores of other asylum seekers in the same situation, families with children split and separately detained for years in appalling conditions. They are left to rot because they are not "nice and Christian".