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2 hours ago, Just Weird said:

Do you have any justification for your claim/question?

He is a Thai and probably from the upper echelons of Thai society plus his lips are moving so a fair assumption he is a bit dim or spouting porkies.....

Blimey a person with the strength of their convictions to go up against the elite you don't see that very often in LoS, shocked and pleasantly surprised though there will probably be one of the cheerleaders along shortly to put us right....

More piss and vinegar with absolutely zero substance, the only thing he really takes serious is the silencing of his opponents he couldn't care less about the peasants.... 

The word 'megalomaniac' springs to mind every time this hypocrite moves his lips

So much for stamping on corruption and nepotism and bringing happiness and stability to the masses.....

4 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

 

Better yet  Vocal,   your choice of deciding what is the correct humor..  

 

You lost the seas a long time ago and apparently you have an issue with that.

 

That post to which I replied was fully  beyond idiotic.

 

You possibly think it was appropriate and I am the idiot. 

 

Up to you.

Talk about reinforcing the stereotype!

4 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

 

Not nice..

 

It all boils down to  the king of the hill at any given moment.      The UK was a master of the world  for  a long time  and now that as I clearly posted with  a link  is a thing of the past.       Brits do not want to see it.   I get that..

 

The USA will fall and another country will rise.      I hope  the  downfall of  the USA  can happen without the use of hydrogen  weapons.     It is beyond the control of anyone other than the  POTUSA how he will respond.

 

There are  a lot of horrible weapons  laying around in  silos.    The USA has a bunch  of them.

 

Bitter people better start hoping  about what the future holds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bloody hell! I bet you are a bundle of laughs to be around, this all started started with a bit of anti Brit ribbing and ends in thermo nuclear war talk about an over reaction....

1 hour ago, watcharacters said:

 

 

 

 

I didn't bother to read your post after I saw this statement:  "Apparently some Americans were yearning for a reunion with Great Britain and received the following response from a high ranking official of the United Kingdom".

 

 

Do you think a person of reasonable intelligence should read the crap you post without any validation whatsoever?

 

Do you know how to post a link?    If so please do so when posting

 

I think you can do better than that if you give it a try.

Oh dear....

I think this is the crux of the problem as some people just don't have any semblance of a sense of humour (humor for the grammatically challenged...)

16 minutes ago, JAG said:

The Thais had, and participated in, free elections, four times since the turn of the century. On each occasion enthusiastically, and on each occasion producing a clear, no emphatic, decision as to which political faction they wished to govern the country. Thailand throughout this period had a constitution and supporting entities that functioned as the rudimentary checks and balances, that much is demonstrated by the fact that both Thaksin and Yingluck, when challenged by extra parliamentary opposition, both did the constitutional and democratic thing and "went to the country" - called a general election. A minority, both in terms of numbers and the area of the country they represent responded by engineering a coup, on both occasions. Preventing democracy from being exercised.

Thailand had democratic government. Far from perfect in many ways, yet essentially conducted in accordance with a constitution which was supported by the people, and gave them far more democratic rights and personal and political freedoms than now.

 

That apart, stating that they are not ready for democracy, and only will be when certain parameters which you, or a body which meets your approval decide have been met is as I said arrogant. You and others who make this claim are effectively taking it upon yourselves to decide at which point the nation's people can be permitted to decide their own government. Something which they have practiced themselves before, on several occasions

 

You describe, quite accurately, the corrosive effects of the way in which society and it's education and control is manipulated and directed by the small "elite" who have subverted politics, government and its institutions to seize and retain power. You fail to consider that those actions can only be reversed, institutions freed from corrupt patronage and constitutional checks and balances (which exist on paper) allowed to operate and develop by a sustained period of democratic government. It may well take several generations to reach a state which can be described as "satisfactory", but it will never, never, never happen whilst an elite controlled junta is in power.

 

If it is not allowed, and junta government, either open or cloaked by the provisions now being implemented, continues, then eventually it will get very messy. I don't want to see that, I would far rather live with raucous political arguement, conflict if you like, as long as the principle of electing the government is established. That is the loadstone from which everything else in a democratic society springs. If the government is chosen other than by universal suffrage, however benevolent, fair minded, far sighted and wise it may be (not terms which could be applied to the present regime) then it is not democratic. I believe in democracy. So I believe do the majority of Thais.

Spot on!!!!

Unfortunately there are a few on here who put their own sense of entitlement above the basic rights of the Thai people and their arrogance completely blinds them to that fact. More scary there are also a few on here who have spouted so much crap about the little general and his band of merry men that they cannot admit that they got it completely wrong....

3 hours ago, greenchair said:

Emergency vehicles have been traditionally red around the world. The reason is, it stands out and is recognised internationally as emergency vehicle. 

Let's face it, they added the extra hours but the real goal was to change to lemon yellow. 

Just shows how childish and sneaky some people are. 

Red? maybe in the US but certainly not in the UK and most of Europe....

8 minutes ago, hkt83100 said:

Are you sure he speaks 498 languages?

Not sure about the other languages but he is certainly fluent in <deleted>....

Need to get myself signed up for this fellas other words of wisdom........

Honestly though <deleted>!!! talk about stating the obvious, don't really need to be an astrologer to work out lots of people are going to die on thai roads today, tomorrow, next week next month or next year

Retarded habits no training and a completely ineffective plod make that an absolute given every single day.....

edited to give an  early RIP for all the other meaningless  dead and damaged people that will happen  this weekend and every other day due to complete lack of giving a shit from the RTP and other assorted cretins in charge.....

6 hours ago, tropo said:

There are no improvements visible in Pattaya. People (Thai) are sourer than ever... but I live IN Pattaya, so what would I know. I certainly don't make assumptions about other places I don't know anything about. I don't understand why Thai people in Pattaya are becoming less pleasant than usual, but it could well be because there are fewer drunk "european" tourists walking around. LOL

 

The comment about "drunk European men walking around with no shirts" is absurd. Apart from the fact it's a beach resort, the military government hasn't made walking around Pattaya with no shirts and/or drunk illegal, so the only reason you'll see less of them is that there are fewer tourists of nationalities you obviously dislike. There are certainly far fewer Russians around these days, but that has nothing to do with Prayut. Perhaps you included Russians in your "european men walking around with no shirts" group? Fortunately for you, there has been a major increase in Chinese, Indian and Middle Eastern tourists to compensate for the fewer "european ' tourists. They don't normally walk around shirtless, so you will probably enjoy their company more.

 

New Immigration hassles are no improvement for thousands of perfectly legal expats. By increasing the number of ridiculous "hoops" they have to jump through, all they are doing is making them feel unwelcome and many are leaving. That could be another reason why people like you notice fewer shirtless Farang around Pattaya. I haven't noticed much difference as the change has been gradual and ongoing for many years, starting well before the 2014 coup.

 

I have noticed more rogue cops after cash payments on the streets. This wasn't expected as we all thought police corruption was going to be stamped out. It was all talk.

 

 

 

 

Well said!

As stated many times before the present rulers have only enriched themselves and their cronies, they have done the sum total of fucj all to sort out the country or heal any rifts

Amusing to hear the anti democracy people on here (Steven I am speaking about you and a few other cretins...) try to justify a blatant power grab at the end of a barrel of a gun when the instigators have failed massively in their stated aims, gets clearer every time they speak as to what they really think....

26 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

First Direct has no problem sending debit cards and credit card to Thailand at my home address other UK banks are useless.

First Direct are very good Nat West on the other hand....

50 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Please do not bring shame to the noodle shops, at least they know what they are doing !!

You are correct, I would like to offer a sincere apology to all the noodle stall workers out there as you plainly are experts in your field and do a sterling service to the nation!

I am now stuck as to just who other than toad face and the other members of the ruling elite are indeed as inept as the current master of the trough....

2 hours ago, stephen tracy said:

Agree with everything you say except the pat about Prayuth being a general. He is only a general in name. He likes to play at being a "soldier" but he's not really a soldier, just another corrupt part of the establishment that used his status as a senior military figure to amass enormous wealth.  And then go on to prosecute others for doing the same,

Absolutely correct!

The sheer hypocrisy is staggering and every time he opens his mouth about just about anything he proves he is a dimwit and totally unfit to run anything more complicated than a noodle stall

I think it was Churchill who said 'better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt' or words to that effect, the glorious leader could learn from that but his arrogance and lack of common sense or a moral compass means he wont....

Really glad I am not Thai....

3 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Yes agree, except your last sentence. Yes it will hurt, yes it will be messy, yes there will be mass casualties, but at the end of it all, I hope the country will be in a better place. And there will never be another coup allowed. Ever again.

Hope you are right!

Hypocrites and liars day is it?

Sad that there is absolutely nothing being done by any of the so called grown up's in LoS that will curb the daily death toll

Unfortunately you can't really expect much as the people in charge are as thick as mince too and blatantly incapable of anything other than comments on twerking or talking to frogs, scary really.....

Scary that this guy is in charge of anything,  leader of a country you say?.............shee!!!!!

42 minutes ago, Odysseus123 said:

I am very sure that nationalist fervour and xenophobia directed towards "the others" can be ratcheted up a few more notches as a means of distraction, before that happens.

 

That is a stock standard historical response in these situations.

 

Be careful what you wish for.

Ain't wishing for anything but the only way this can end  is messy, the little general and his minions have ensured this by their actions.....

We have a country ruled by retards who have been told they are superior to their countrymen from birth, no education or scruples needed they just believe they have  a god given right to be at the head of the trough....

9 hours ago, JoePai said:

Can anyone say how she actually got the job in the first place  ?

Wife of a general isn't she.....

Looks like the glorious leader is making absolutely certain there can never be a return to any semblance of democracy

He has absolutely guaranteed that the interests of the hi-so are paramount no matter what the serfs vote on, problem is with things like this there is only one way to get back power and that entails blood and bullets, I have a feeling that when the peasants wake up there is going to be a reckoning that will destroy the country....

What a talented man the little general is, no wonder he and his family have managed to accrue such great wealth on such modest salaries....

5 hours ago, rkidlad said:

One man with all this power and authority - if only they had a word in the English language for this kind of person. 

This works pretty well I think...

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The nation’s anti-corruption organisation gave itself the top marks among five independent groups in its integrity and transparency assessment report released on Thursday.

 

Well who'd have thunk it........

Obviously have zero shame or integrity but hey it is only for consumption by the serf's and when there is such an effective un-education system in place it may well fool a few....

24 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Welcome to the family. You're a made man now............well, for a bit. 

Great analogy that but personally I think the mafia is less corrupt and has a much better moral compass...

Time for him to join his benefactors in green and get on with the important work of a bit more personal enrichment before the sand runs out....