jaywalker

"A carnival ride collapsed..."

I take it that there is no Thai version of: "Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey".

The brakes failed.

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I tried to teach them many, many times the uses of a torque wrench, as part of my job.

Example: Rebuilding a 6.2 liter truck diesel engine........USE a torque wrench.....Pffff Farang! No need!

The entire concept made them look at me like I had corn growing out of my ears.

Head gasket leaked = water in the combustion chamber = bent piston rod = starting all over again from scratch..... = "Please Sir, you are clever. Show me torque wrench?"

Try explaining a torque-resistant nut to them (it's tapered on one end as well as slightly oval shaped = it DOES NOT get loose with out extreme, deliberate effort)..... Nah, these nuts from Somchai's shop will be just fine.

I tell them, that yes, it will indeed work for a few months, and then it will fall apart.......I get more blank stares.

I gave up on trying, and I tried off & on for a decade. This was all with the RTA too..... that pillar of society.

Is this the man that said immediately before he lead a military coup, that he would not stage a military coup?

The same chap. I also vaguely recall something about not becoming Prime Minister?

But then I may have misheard, what with all the excitement about lottery ticket prices and deckchairs in Phuket...

....and bicycle lanes.

Ahh, the obnoxious quality rhetoric again.

Come again once your "equality movement" has gotten rid of all the persistent traditional perspectives about unfounded expectations and entitlement. Such as, including but not limited to...having to be proposed by a man, getting their dates paid for, not getting hit because vagina, lady's first, not be held accountable and whatever more nonesense we have.

It is _really_ difficult to treat people as equals when they can't carry themselves for shit and whine about everything and everybody. Work hard, earn yourself some respect and get where you want to go. Nothing is stopping you to become head of the state, CEO of whatever, starting a business or cleaning the sewers. Expect...it requires time, effort, dedication, thick skin and being able to handle pressure and criticism among many other things.

If you get your CEO whatever job through a quota (or being promoted because your best buddie etc) and not through dedicated work, there is no amount of "equality movement" you can produce that will stop making me look down on you if you got your position through bribes, laws, entitlement or whatever "non genuine" way. Exceptions obviously apply and are aimed at men just as much as for women.

And then, of course, it doesn't help you when feminism these days goes apeshit crazy. Censorship left and right, redefining words as they please, false accusations without repercussion, guilty until proven innocent but still have your life ruined either way, getting people fired for jokes....and all because of your feels. <deleted>. Right. Off.

Oh yea, and the oppressive patriarchy of course, because reasons.

As far as the article goes, nothing new to read here besides the "paternity leave"....which leaves the question....PAID leave though? Unfortunately one needs to even inquire such a thing these days.

Grow up and become an adult.

Once you have managed that, earn yourself some respect.

Then educate your face about those "male privileges" your supposedly don't have while not recognizing the ones you actually _do_ have more than men.

We shall talk again then.

Goddamn these topics get me riled up.

Could you imagine being married to the 'woman' in this article?

I'd rather listen to rap music all day or get hot needles shoved under my toenails.

I'd wager that the reason she's pissed off at the world has everything to do with her attitude, and nothing to do with her gender.

Same with people of color who cannot accept the fact that "I don't care what color you are".

They just make it all up in their minds, and the bleeding hearts (who cannot think) run with the idea.

It's perverse.

Lot s of countries have this worrying trend happening, Australia has gun control , that hasn't stopped gun related crime and murder on a weekly basis , it possibly only slows down the effect, there is a high degree of knifings being used as a weapon of choice in OZ also, so , you eliminate one another comes along.....................

"... there is a high degree of knifings being used as a weapon of choice in OZ also, so , you eliminate one another comes along......"

Yes, but it's more difficult to slaughter 50 school children with a knife than an assault rifle, right?

A sword works pretty good.

Kids.. sword? yeah 50 would take no time at all if one wanted to do it.

It's a sickening thought, but, could be done without gunpowder.

I know the video below is fiction, but it's based on fact.

The Romans ruled the known world with knives.

Don't worry ISIS. It's just a Thai style 'Crackdown'.

Give it 3 or 4 days & you can carry on as usual.

It's bleeding heart liberalism.

I have never, and never would discriminate based on gender (or race), yet some folks think that everybody does.

It's perverse.

I once worked with a black guy that was as lazy as the day is long. I didn't like him and made no secret about that fact.

He called me prejudiced.

I told him "Hell yeah! I'm as prejudiced as they get against lazy people like you!"

He never said that again.

This is a Banana Republic inaugural address.

So you mean on this day the Police are actually doing their job, and on other days ?

Here's what they do on other days.

"He also said he didn’t think this would really increase the travel expenses for the tourists, as most of the Chinese motorists who drove their cars into Thailand are from the middle class and could afford the insurance premium."

Translation = You no Thai. You have big money. Must to pay. You give me now!

I doubt it would be a leap of faith if they decided that everybody should drive on the right side of the road in Thailand.

They do it all the time now.

Getting them to adhere to one side or the other would be a major feat.

This is great news for the USD. Things such as this will perpetuate the Breton-Woods Accords a little longer.

The USD will not be the world's reserve currency forever.

The end is nigh, but moves like this just keep kicking the can down the road and add more puss to a festering worldwide boil that will explode like Krakatoa....And then it will reset into a system of gold backed currency.

Somehow, once again, the math does not add up here at TVF.

1,000 hrs per year = 19.178 hours per week, but he says the max is 34 hours per week, which is 1,768 hours per year .

See my signature line...

There is more male toilets in my local Home Pro than there is in the Domestic baggage claim area....

...and if more than 2 or 3 planes arrive at the same time, it's a real "capacity issue".

Please resolve.

Amen brother.

The toilets at the Mo Chit (no pun intended) bus terminal are 4 times as big as those at Swampy.

Can't see wild tigers being much use in the countryside.

Specially if you live in a village and one eats your kid.

Some large predators are better off dead, or only alive in captivity.

Must be a wind-up. You can't possibly believe this

I guess lions and tigers and bears are necessary, but I don't want to live around them.

Actually, my house in Florida has many bears that visit.

They are a pain in the ass at night, getting into everything edible (dog food/cow food/horse food plus they attack the garbage can)

Would you like your kids to live in Lion country?

I once saw a video of an Amazonian Indian lady where her 2 year old kid got taken by an anaconda snake.

I have seen some traumatizing videos before, and that is the only one I wish I could un-watch.

The kid was there one minute, being a kid and the next, he was a victim of a large snake and gone forever, destined for a snake's intestine.

I don't like that.

I'm shaving my head, getting some of those KungFu lookin' robes and getting a Lamborghini Aventador.

Quit it! You make my ribs hurt!

Thanks.

You'd think somebody with a say in gov't had died & had to be replaced like Antonin Scalia in the US.

Why is the Little General With The Sad Puppy Dog Eyes poking his nose into this?

Interesting point. She must be Khmer to have a chest like that.

It is enormous now that I looked at the picture.

Yes, she's an old lady but I have never seen a rack like that before in Thailand.

Might as well put yellow stars on all Jews, then.

That one has already been done to death

I'm not Jewish, but I fail to see where tarring everyone with the same feather could ever be done to death.

Poor choice of words on your part too.

I was having sex before I was 18 with girls less than 18 that were quite willing to participate.

Luckily I had the brains to use a rubber, otherwise I could be on this list.

Most folks think the B2 are innocent.

Most folks think these Uighur guys are guilty.

I fall into both categories.

I still do not think ANYBODY's lawyer should be threatened with defamation of the police.

It's a defense lawyer's JOB to destroy the police.

If a defense lawyer is not allowed to attack every single flaw (in a very inept police force that paid themselves a reward for 'catching') these guys,..........There will never be any hope for any defendant ever.

I think the guy is guilty.

I think his lawyer should be able to defend him too as best can.

His lawyer might be right. He might be full of shit up to his ears, but he should not be threatened with defamation.

Torture is a small price to pay to uncover more details about Muslims who want to kill discriminatory. Perfect answer by the police. The world will be a better place without Islam.

Nonsense.

Torture finds what it wants to find.

It is the use of violence to extract results.

It has nothing to do with finding the truth.

The world would be a better place without the scum who use torture.

the perception that we in the west live a good life in the west is as a result of all the seemingly barbaric behavior eg torture that our governments had to employ to keep us safe. The world will be a better place when scum stop killing innocent people. And those scum have to made an example of and treated anyway that will result in apprehension of more scum. Your ignorance is bliss and is to be commended but it is far from reality.

Scum are scum because of what they do.

Those terrorist scum who torture and kill are evil.

So are the authorities who do the same thing.

You can't fight evil by doing evil.

There is no difference, the claim 'we are doing it for what is right' is the cry of both sides.

Ignorance is the defence of such tactics.

Ultimately torture is used to obtain what the torturer wants to hear.

Truth and facts are not required when such goals are set.

Wake up.

I pretty much kept my mouth shut on the B2 trial, BUT I'd wager that a lot of folks that want to 'Hang the Muslims' (trust me, I would too...if found guilty), are the same ones praising the RTP in this case.....same ones that slammed the RTP as corrupt and incompetent in the B2 case,

I'm still, mainly pissed off that the defense lawyer, poor guy, that got the case slapped into his lap, 99% sure he did not want it, tries to do his job, and gets threatened with defamation??????????????

Can anyone say banana republic?

It's ludicrous to the extreme.

Depends entirely on which country in the world the 17 year old boy and the 15 year old girl are. Or in which state of the union, even...... These laws are arbitrary - only the religious puritans claim absolute certainty of knowledge.

My Dad was 19 & Mom was 16 when they got married.

They made it 51 years together when Dad died at 70.

Mom is 79 now.

Had 5 kids.

Pops was an outstanding fella. We were never rich but never poor.

Mom (to me) still has the mind of a 16 year old. She has made the 6 hour road trip to where I am now 25 times at least, and gets lost every time.

Dad sure did love Mom to be able to put up with her is all I can say.

I'm probably not alone in saying that my Mom drives me nuts.

Now, I tell ya what, the FIRST thing I do when I see bubbling gases in water, is try to see if it will burn.

Same as when I see a pair of scissors, I just want to pick them up and run.

When I see a fan, I have this burning desire to stick my hand in it.

This video should be used to show Thai folks the dangers of methane gases.

I mean this as an insult to the idiots telling people not to set water on fire, not to Thai folks in general.

I'm glad to see that these checkpoints actually catch a few bad guys once in a while.

Well done, Pattaya Police.

Doesn't necessarily need to be a "bad guy" just because

he conceals a weapon in his car or happens to have a

small quantity of drugs for personal consumption. In fact,

I would guess that at any given moment, there are loads

of otherwise law abiding folk in this fair country doing

exactly the same thing. He just got caught

Are you serious? Yeah, we all go around with guns and drugs

I have driven all over Florida with a loaded Smith & Wesson .38 in my glove compartment.

I have also had a stick or two of weed on me at times.

My gun was completely legal.

I never got caught with a small amount of personal use weed.

This guy was just unlucky in that he had both at the same time and got caught at an idiotic 'checkpoint'.

The article does not mention whether his weapon was legal or not, but I suppose the two together would automatically make it illegal.

Random searches seem to be fine for socialists/fascists/communists, but the cops in Nanny State Florida (20 years ago) at least needed a reason to stop me.

It was dark and my tag light had burned out = he had a reason to pull me over.

Cop asked me if I had any weapons in the car.

I said "Yes, there's a loaded .38 in the glove box".

He was cool about it...somewhat...called for backup & asked me to step out.

He pulled it out and unloaded it, as his Sgt arrived.

Dispatch came back with NOTHING wrong about me or my license.

He insisted on reloading it (told him no problem I'd take care of that).

He said "No, I'm going to put it right back the way I found it", and he did.

He reloaded it, put it back into the holster, and back into the glove box.

He gave me a verbal warning about my tag light.

Today they'd probably tackle me and release the hounds.

Sorry, but i dont get this.The guy is a /or said to be a Muslim radical.He maybe/.is guilty of planting a bomb killing people.If the man is a Muslim radical,wouldnt he be wanting to die and go to Paradise,see Allah,claim his 72 virgin's? etc.So, knowing that he could get the death penalty(which as a radical muslim he would accept,because they are not afraid and want to die)Why would he deny that he is guilty.Surely he would want to be a martyr for Islam,one of the glorious.But he claims he was tortured,by admitting his guilt he would have avoided torture.(unless the bib want to hurt him anyway for doing what he did)

Can someone please (in simple wording) explain to me how this works 'cos i'm a bit confused.

I'm pretty sure one look at Susan Boyle put a big dent that idea of blowing oneself up and going off to meet 72 women like her.

She's a hero!

Its funny how every criminal is playing the torture card. I believe the thai police on this one.

The Thai cops can't find their asses with both hands.

There is absolutely a 50/50 chance this guy is guilty/innocent......but I'm sure he'll be found guilty.

They found bomb making equipment in his residence. Why would someone rent a house in a shit part of neighborhood where there is no nightlife action nearby? This guy is one of the people responsible for getting bunch of innocent people killed.

I say he deserves to be tortured.

They also found lots of dubious evidence in the B2 case.

If the guy is guilty, let the evidence prove the case.

As for what I believe, yeah, he's probably a low life scum bag that should be hung/dragged to the nearest tree.

As for what the facts and evidence say.... I could be wrong, which is why I believe in a strong defense.

If the guy was beaten into a confession, that's wrong.

I he's lying about the torture, that's wrong.

My main problem is with his lawyer being openly threatened with defamation against the police for trying to do his job.

It's LUDICROUS!