Iron Tongue

There's one more option. Offer to buy the place. If you are so used to the place, and if you can afford to, make an offer.

30% drop. Is this cumulative? If 2 more Chinese citizens get abducted for slave labor in Myanmar, would there be a combined drop of 90% in total vacationers from China? Just wondering.

Where's the story? Is anybody even a little bit surprised that money can buy privileges in prison? If I had to do time in a prison, the first thing I would do is to find the right people to pay-off for safety, better accommodations, and better food. Who wouldn't? The second thing I'd have done is get this symbol tattooed on my backside.

"...what kind of company...?" Your question is sooo shady. You definitely need to talk to accountants and lawyers specializing in whatever you are trying to do.

Those local restaurants should hire some trannys to corner them in an alley and kick their arses. They already have plenty of experience in trashing drunk Farangs for free.

Good lord! You've gone absolutely native! Several gin and tonics (the ones with real quinine) should settle your fever until you're thinking right again!

What would a renewed visa policy have done to prevent these kinds of fights? I didn't see anything harsher than some slap punches. Both sides were just basic drunken tourists with alcohol-fed bravado. If they were actually criminal elements, they'd know how to punch.

Give it up. There is physical evidence left on the moon in the form of RetroReflectors. These are mirrors left on the moon's surface that Earth-based lasers use to calculate the exact distance between Earth and Moon. Currently there are 6 working ones left by the USA, Soviet Union, and India. Yes, even India. These reflectors have even been used to bounce laser light back to Earth.

Six men, six kilos of weed. Obvious it's for personal use only. These tourists are being railroaded!

Yeah, I'd pay 500 baht to play. But why does the title say "scam"? Perhaps the use of silicone?

I have a guess. Could it have been ...drugs?

Haven't done any in decades, and now the coke in the US is likely adulterated with fentanyl to boost dealer profits. Has fentanyl hit the drug scene in Thailand yet?

Are you in a high risk group? If not, perhaps you can take a pre-screen test with a stool sample? These are becoming more accurate as they check for DNA changes & blood which look for cancerous or pre-cancerous changes. So you have to poop into a bucket, but it's done at home and a lot more dignified than the colonoscopy cleansing ritual & then having a probe shoved-up your backside. There is even a newer test using a CT scanner, but I don't know if it's available in Thailand yet.

Great. Thailand and Philippines tourism pact. Casinos to draw the very best kinds of people (all from China obviously). Do they also want to exchange bargirls?

You really need to find something else to do, or are you seeing yourself as a Tireless Champion of Justice? 7-11 employees are poorly paid people who probably hate their jobs. Why would they bother to overcharge you so to enrich 7-11? They are responsible for balancing receipts to payments at the end of their shift. Or you are saying that they overcharge you, and then dip their hands into the till to steal that loot when nobody is watching? Perhaps you aren't aware that 7-11s trust their employees less than customers and watch for thieving employees? While I do not doubt that thievery may happen, but only as much as employees do in other shops, but they probably get caught faster.

Sure, but that didn't happen, did it? The van did hit that lady. Besides, if it was travelling at a safe & legal speed, you can swerve all you want and still not roll the vehicle. Vans have very low centers of gravity.

It is being realized that the Cybertrucks are killing machines. Rather than plastic and crumple zones, this is an all steel truck that will crush and tear apart any other vehicle it may hit on the road. Of course humans would be pulped by one. I almost bought one actually, put down my deposit and waited my turn, but I came to the realization that I did not need a US$120,000 pickup that was too huge for daily travel. It being bullet proof and very survivable in crashes still are selling points to me though.

Of course remote work for entire departments isn't efficient. As for "enough working places" the Federal Govt has hundreds of office buildings throughout the US, where the largest group of employees are the maintenance & cleaning staff. ...and just announced today, Federal workers are demanding 32-hour work weeks while keeping their full salaries and benefits. The US can likely save billions++ by firing these "empty seats" and selling off the excess real estate.

Hitting a little old lady and bicycle wouldn't be enough to flip a large vehicle like that van, unless excessive speeding was involved.

I suspect that his diving quals may have been exaggerated by a bit. If he was already a certified Master Diver (50 dives), I don't know of any additional diving quals that someone could get so quickly, let alone 2. As a certified Master Diver, the next step would have been pursuing his DiveMaster cert, which would have required at least 10 more dives and a lot of time & training. I think he very likely rushed his ocean dives before he was ready and got himself killed, perhaps even a heart attack.

Tall, thin, blonde, he's going to be popular in prison. He may even grow to understand why people don't like having their backsides "tapped" by strangers.

Spare set of eyebrows. The man is Turkish after all.

24 hours without booze, oh my! That sure is a good reason to get one's blood-alcohol level up the day before! Mathematically, your body metabolizes alcohol at a rate of 0.016% per hour. This means that one should just prep themselves by getting their BAC up to at least 0.384% by 5PM when the ban begins! Then everyone could easily "ride that buzz" during the 24-hour ban.

Until you know the difference between Ireland and the UK, perhaps you should shut the H up and not broadcast your ignorance.

Yep. Wooden shingles, actually called shake, have been banned for at least 3 decades. Those tiles are made from terra cotta and newer concrete-steel composites. But we have all these genius' commenting on things they know absolutely shi* about. In the real world, there isn't much that can be done when a FIRESTORM with flames up to 80' high and over 1000°F sweeps through a neighborhood. Did anyone notice the melted cars? Separately, wood framing is an excellent material for building houses as they "breathe" with the weather and expand or contract as necessary. Wood frames bolted to concrete foundations are also the best design to flex and handle settling as well as earthquakes. In Europe, wooden framed homes have lasted 500-years and longer. So much for the AseanNow brain trust.