Iron Tongue

In Bay Area, California, Big Macs are $7.49

Here's a screenshot of a McDonald's menu near me in California. This is the reason why MickyD's revenue is dropping. It was once a place a family of four could grab a quick & cheap meal. Nowadays, a family making US$100,000 can no longer afford to eat there.

One of them actually knows how to throw kicks and punches. Heck, people will pay to see this! I see a new source of revenue if someone would build an indoor venue for, say five-on-five ladyboy fights! At least everybody would be paid for getting their effeminate arses kicked.

Yep. This kind of murder is to settle a sick & dark fantasy that this guy has had for a long time. It certainly wasn't a case of " Hey, what's that dangly thing you've got there... oh I think I'll murder you for tricking me!" Kudos to the Thai Police on this one, they caught this guy before he got away.

Perhaps this African gentleman is capable of more "reach" than average Farangs?

Nope. It wouldn't work that way. IF Russian-speaking Thais can be found as tour guides, they'd be paid less than these Russians. There wouldn't be too many opportunities for Russian-speaking Thais beyond tourism, and don't assume that Thai business owners to naturally think of fairly compensating their employees.

You were what ~11 years old and you were judging an organization that you had not taken part in to be "a tad too Nazi". Sure.

You think? So the accusation that he kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach because she was sitting on a stairway would happen to every foreigner in Thailand?

Strangely enough, a new e-scooter rental shop has popped-up at the exact same location! It's operated by children of the local police Captain, and named "DLEAM".

Maybe he crawled into a hole somewhere to bleed-out and remove himself from being stain on society. Or more likely, it was a superficial wound that was "self repairable". He's likely used to treating knife wounds. That really is not a lot of blood, especially since his heart is pumping from a fight. If a stab made it to his heart, liver, even lung, likely would have collapsed rather quickly.

Really? Perhaps you should review the dissolution of democratic rights rights in the EU. Simply expressing disagreement with the govt can now earn jailtime and national censorship. Or you don't think what's happening in the UK, Germany, and France counts? And you aren't aware of how democracy is alive in the US? Didn't Trump just get (re)elected and sworn-in as President "47?

Hey, when the Viagra kicks-in, you use it while you've got it!

You are soooo wrong. Here are some facts about the effects of THC: First of all, THC causes paranoia. Paranoia= psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution, irrational distrust, impairment, insanity, and homicidal tendency. When ISIS and other terrorist groups go on a massacre or suicide bombing, they first get wasted on hashish to create the "mood". In fact, the word "assassin" comes from Hassasin, smokers of hashish. They were the original cult of killers out of Persia who regularly used murder as their primary political tool against Arabs, Turks, and Christians.

Yeah, I can see that happening. We've got idiots negligently shooting themselves on livestreams in the US nowadays, so I have no doubt morons in Thailand are capable of similar stupidity.

I can top that, I WAS Agent Orange!

This story smells. Nobody, not even a Brit, would play "solo" Russian Roulette, especially by pointing it at his own forehead where he can see into at least 4 of the revolver's chambers to scan if they're empty. Either it was a really, really incorrect attempt at suicide, or more likely, attempted murder by the Lithuanian or someone else. I'm glad to read in this article that the police will be checking the roommate to look for gunshot residue.

It is. Probably ethnic Chinese refugee ejected from Vietnam during the "Boat People" crisis and settled in Kowloon. And those tats makes him a Japanese Yakuza enforcer, probably at war with the Hong Kong Triads. Do the Thais only know "mafia" for every criminal?

Depends on how you look in a bikini.

No sponge, make him clean all of the paint off using only his face.

30 is really late to start as a Muay Thai boxer. He never had a chance for his system to toughen up like a lifetime of training would have. A kick to the right could have damaged or outright stopped his liver. If that shuts down from trauma, he'd never recover. A shame.

I've spent considerable time in Cambodia starting from my NGO work in the early 2000's. The reason why Cambodians may speak "better" English is because they had to start from scratch after the Khmer Rouge were defeated, and everyone was motivated about education and re-joining the world. You will also note that Cambodians will speak "better" Chinese and Japanese.

Some of you guys will put your willies into anything!

Former? I'd say that Yamaguchi is still Yakuza.

He bit a woman on the lip? That's aggravated assault, or even sexual assault. I don't know Thai criminal law, but there must be some equivalency for these attacks.

No biggie. These tourists are a blight anywhere they visit because of their behavior. And they barely spend any money outside of their tour packages and linked shopping trips. Good riddance! Besides, if all those gambling centers do get built, tens of millions of new Chinese will visit, and actually be willing to drop tens of billions of baht at the tables. And they won't even leave the casinos, preferring to sleep at their casino hotel rooms, and eat at the casino's Chinese restaurants. The only time they'll go outside is to get in a taxi for the airport back to China.