Iron Tongue

Buy some bolts of raw silk, then go to a tailor and get custom boxers made to your size.  All you need to do is to provide a sample pair of boxers.

Just make sure you check out the first one he makes for quality assurance.

Well, you are 62 and doesn't sound like you've ever studied MA before.  One big issue with real MAs, whether grappling or full contact, is that you'll do a lot of falling.

At your age, it's too late to learn how to properly fall, as your bone structure has not been built-up, and you don't have the flexibility & reflexes.

To put it bluntly, if you fall a lot, especially with a sparring partner landing on you, you'll break bones -wrist, ankle, hip, injure your spine, or worse, you'll hit your head and die.  Yes, die.

If you want to learn an applicable martial art, I suggest something like cane-fighting where you learn to beat on people with a cane (or umbrella), including learn control techniques, and throws.

Whatever happened, it was not random and has to do with somebody owing money.

3 hours ago, mikebell said:

Only two?  Are Thai men getting braver or was the Chinese tourist tiny?

Sucker punches work very well, especially on a drunk.

Strange, most Asian guys on vacation usually keep their valuables in that ugly manpurse they wear in front - like in his photo above.  I usually see them gripping it tighter than a granny grips her handbag whenever a "insert minority here" walks by her on a bus.

So how did any Ladyboy manage to 'pickpicket' this guy when his valuables were in his manpurse, and he was sitting across from his buddy?

Mental illness exists everywhere.  In some countries, such as Thailand, government provided mental healthcare is very minimal and the mentally ill are expected to be cared-for by their families.

But since the mentally ill have easy access to alcohol and drugs, it only exacerbates the problem, often to the point where families can no-longer care for them and have to throw them out into the street.

And this leads to the OP's observations in this thread.

Sure, blame it on the Koreans, but we all know who the real blame should go to.  He started this mess.

And the bug eyes as well!

I've always wondered what made Hamas hate the Thais so much that they bothered to kill 21 and kidnap another 14-30.  They were just farm laborers.

Were they jealous because the Thais took jobs that Palestinians used to work?

I suppose they eventually figured-out that Thai laborers don't have much clout in the eyes of international negotiators.

On 11/6/2023 at 7:26 PM, webfact said:

Police and rescuers from the Poh Teck Tung Foundation arrived at the scene and discovered that the dead man was a foreigner. The man was wearing a black T-shirt, long black trousers and trainers.

 

Due to the company’s rules and conditions at the dock, rescuers were unable to recover the body there. They had to drag the body to the Bang Kajao Nork temple dock and retrieve it.

I know most of you guys can read, but some of y'all need to work on comprehension.

Everything seems to have been done correctly.  The discoverer contacted police and rescue.  It was they who decided to move the body to where it was easier to retrieve from the waters.  I don't know how long the body has been in the water, but if it was bloated, retrieval in one piece has to be carefully managed.

-Or did you complainers worry that all the fingerprints, footprints, blood splatters, and DNA samples would be disturbed a the body in the river was moved?

2000baht = USD $56.

Is it really worth the effort?

On 11/2/2023 at 10:39 PM, Will B Good said:

.......and he's Thai not Chinese?.....Wow!

Of course this guy is not the real boss.  

How many criminal empires are run out of the Boss' personal residence?

This guy is just the "face" of the organization, who is paid very well to provide protection while the real Boss is somewhere in Macau or Taipei.

3 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

 

That's what made me post the question, there doesn't seem to be any detailed info on that part.

I think it's purposely left that way to allow police to have more leeway based-on the circumstances.

In English laws, there's the concept of "intent" which is used to determine whether you are simply carrying a chef knife to go work at a restaurant, or to murder a crazy 'ex'.  

I've always carried a knife when I travel, and before 9/11, I walked right onto airplanes with them.  I've even carried a Thai e-Nep when trekking the forests without getting a 2nd glance.

Thai laws don't define clearly what a "weapon" is, so police have a lot of discretion when they encounter Farangs with blades.  Just don't be acting like an @ss and you'll probably be allowed to continue carrying one.

Worst case, only carry what you're willing to surrender, and don't argue over a fine if you get one.

Plenty of Vitamin C in tomatoes and broccoli.

Get Vitamin D from egg yolks, fish oil, soy, pork, and mushrooms ,- let's hear someone whine that they can't find any in Thailand.

Gingers need sunscreen.

OK makes sense if it was explosives packed-into an extinguisher.

But did throwing a 50-lb extinguisher into a fountain/pond keep it from exploding?