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11 hours ago, observer90210 said:

and of course as you know better, please honour your humble readers with your more detailed enlightment on how things work in LOS?

Brown envelopes of cash paid to the BiB.

7 hours ago, LALes said:

Now, how about going after the loud bikes roaring down Jomtien Beach Rd. after 2 AM.  

Or put in some more speed bumps to cool their jets.

They should install sound activated clotheslines.

5 hours ago, DM07 said:

"...as one of the top "100 Greatest Thinkers of Thailand" ...."

That implies, that there are at least 100 great thinkers in Thailand!?

I guess, the visionary that is Prayut, is among those?!

He's Brother Number One.

Rasputin, Jim Jones, David Koresh. etc...

I think that this lady "Tink too mutt".

4 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

A lizard in the house, a cobra in the car,

a log with a mouse, and a monkey in a bar,

they all bring us riches the very next day,

that's why in Thailand we're gonna stay!

 

But a van and a sword, a taxi and a gun,

a monk who acts a lord, and a cop who acts non,

they all bring us tears of anger and pain,

and leave us feeling it's all in vain.

 

 

Don't forget the talking dog.

The guy in the red jumpsuit with the helmet looks like he'd loaded for bear...err lizards.

Just now, jenifer d said:

couldn't have said it much better myself re prohibition, etc;

i myself have done everything except using needles,

got clean of all except pot & booze via the act of moving here 7 1/2 years ago

For sure I'm terrified of any and all drug laws, and they do dissuade me, I guess, but I have no desire to take them in the first place.

8 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

I think most drugs should be legalised, the war on drugs has been lost.

 

I think the jury is still out on the "gateway drug" thing with cannabis though.

 

I had a cousin and a friend who died from heroin & methadone use, they both got started on cannabis. Then again, I've had a smoke maybe 7 times in my life and never tried anything else.

 

I think drugs are like booze (my poison), they affect different people in different ways.

I used to smoke a J with my coffee for breakfast when I was 18 - 20.

I've smoked crack, snorted coke, took LSD.

I was over it all by the time I was 22 or 23.

Didn't touch any of it till about 3 years ago & my grown nephew (18 year old) whipped out a joint.

Two puffs and I was ready for bed!

Weed was hardly a gateway drug for me, but I had to experiment a bit.

Another nephew got on crystal meth when he was young. He's almost 40 now, but stayed wacked out till he was 30.

I can't speak for crystal meth or heroin, but simply making something illegal certainly isn't going to cure the problem, which was demonstrated by the USA's Prohibition in the 1920's. It just created more drunks and a WHOLE LOT more criminals.

12 hours ago, onthesoi said:

 

I think it says more about the people that believe these silly fabrications....

 

This all started from a question asked by a journalist to the Thai PM, who responded by saying he wouldn't do anything because it was popular and it was up to other people( like the media etc) to speak to her if it bothered them.

 

Anyone who says Thailand doesn't have a free press should look no further than these relentless, mocking, nonsense articles about the Thai government coming from the thai media.

Didn't General Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy say that "If a woman is beautiful, she should not wear a bikini" on the Koh Tao tragedy?

Besides, Lumyai is wearing shorts and a sports bra.

Hardly a "bikini".

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

obsession. he wants to wear that bikini bottom... on his head.

Me too!

Yes, this large crowd are gathered to hear the "talking dog" and hoping they get some winning lottery numbers from the pooch.

Why don't they stick undercover officers in the maniacal mini-vans?

I mis-read the headline at first and saw "Woman bites dog" LOL.

Aah...The endless soidog problem. Bitten on the way into a hospital...

3 minutes ago, gk10002000 said:

a man can't hold the elephant under water, but he can pressure the ears and sensitive points, and the animal learns to not disobey or it gets punished.  Sometimes of course the animal has had enough and it reacts violently

My heart bleeds.

2 hours ago, madusa said:

You keep your fingernails very short? You don't carry a penknife in your bag or backpack?

If your fingernails crack while trying to open the  seals then you are short of calcium and magnesium. Your nails should be able to crack the seal, strong fingernails. 

 

More like short of interest in fiddling w/ the aggravating things.

I've stabbed a few water bottles to get at the contents.

I usually hand it to the female & let her do it.

I don't carry bags nor backpacks (unless you count that night I carried one home from the Thermae at 0400 hrs, 18 years ago.

2 hours ago, IDP1 said:

My dog loves to swim too. But I don't jump on him or hold him submerged under water. This is the difference between swimming and water boarding, and it's disgusting.

Some folks get offended/disgusted at everything I suppose.

Can you read the elephant's mind?

For all you or I know, he might be enjoying every minute of it.

Kinda like this dog appears to be doing.

Elephants and dogs can be trained, but you'll be hard pressed to force either to do anything they don't enjoy doing.

How, exactly, can a man hold an elephant under water?

They should start using this picture for pretty much all BIB photo op's.

I say it's great news!

I know that when I'm hung over, with a raging thirst in the tropical heat, trying to get those little seals undone is a nightmare!

I have a Golden Retriever that LOVES to swim.

Many animals like to swim. I do.

14 hours ago, YetAnother said:

more and more and more attempts to control

From an unrelated article, but it applies here.

In 1483, just as Johannes Gutenberg’s new moveable type printing press was spreading across Europe, Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire issued a staunch decree banning the machine from his realm.

At the time the Ottoman Empire was the dominant superpower in the world, having conquered most of the Middle East, North Africa, and southeastern Europe.

But Bayezid was afraid of the new technology.

He and his advisors felt that the printing press would too easily allow information and new ideas to spread across his empire.

And they believed this would threaten their control and offend the religious establishment.

So not only did Bayezid ban the printing press, he imposed the death penalty upon anyone caught using one.

The Ottoman Empire remained so closed off to new ideas, in fact, that the only western book to be imported and translated for the next 3 centuries was a medical text on the treatment of syphilis.

Needless to say the Ottoman Empire did not remain the world’s dominant superpower for long.

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19 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Now imagine what it looks like in a Chinese submarine after one year in Thai possession 

I saw one of their military trucks where the steering linkage was held together with an old fan belt once.

Good on the moto taxi dude!

Most every single one I've ever met are really nice guys.

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Who else recalls this one?

"Fly Tipping" is a new phrase to me??? How about illegal dumping?

Thought maybe it was like "cow tipping".

Forgive me, but I'm from Florida.