JayClay

Nobody said it had to be somewhere in the EU.

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Of course they did. Because finding god is pretty much a requirement of being in AA. And the group will not allow you to proclaim that you're cured unless you also claim that you've given in to a higher spirit. If you believe that the only person who determines your destiny is yourself then you, by definition, cannot be 'cured' at AA. It's like me saying "look how well I've done cutting back drinking, as now I smoke weed most nights instead of having a drink". In neither case have you cured your ailment; just replaced one dependency with another, hopefully less harmful, one.

Mars bars have been getting smaller all around the world, but they have always been significantly smaller in Thailand than I've seen anywhere else. As for why they're hard to find... I guess it's because they're popular and sell out quickly. Retail shops here don't appear to have cottoned on to the concept of doubling up orders for their bigger sellers.... they just seem to order the same amount of everything and wait for all the products in a range to get low on stock before reordering.

Do you have any stats to back that claim up? I really don't count the ramblings of a cult cofounder as a reliable source.

Assuming MFP haven't been dissolved by the next election...

Can somebody please explain the pun in this headline? It seems to have been lost on me.

Oh 4FS... Why does everything that ever happens here have to be seen in the context of how it affects the image of Thai people. I've never seen media from any other country that is so fragile about how they appear to outsiders. And this public holding of a birthday party to try and proove the contraray to the rest of the world (most of who don't even know where Thailand is, never mind have an option on the people of the country) is just as creepy, if not more so. It actually suggests that they really don't understand the problem at all.

Yea I suspected that the comment I replied to was horse carp. Congratulations on quitting, by the way.

So never has an alcoholic athiest recovered???

Hardly. Hardcore alcoholics drink from the moment they wait up. I doubt most of them make it much past 10pm, nevermind 4am!

But there is no compromise position here. It's not like he was standing on a position of abolishing the monarchy, which could then be watered down to "okay let's talk about the lesse majest rules". The reforms he campaigned on are so minor that there's nowhere to go with regards to negotiating. If it was a party in a stronger position, with a healthy backing of the senetors, then sure... compromise away. But for somebody in Pita's position, losing the support of his only ally (in the form of the voting public) is an unwise strategy that would give him the position of PM in name only. And his party would be destroyed in the next election, if not sooner.

Yes. You've made yourself perfectly clear.

It's nice to know what you find mildly acceptable. However you have, unsurprisingly, completely missed the point of the post you quoted, which was pointing out to somebody that it was the daughter who said it, not the mother.

Oh, right. That makes it okay then.

Maybe. Maybe not. He's clearly got the public on his side. How the public react if/when he doesn't get his way will determine his destiny. Compromising on this issue and losing the support of the public would most likely weaken him to the point that he would be a lame duck prime minister. It would empower the senetors to vote against every peice of legislation proposed potentially paralysing the government.

"My daughter told me about her. She said her teacher is stupid and should go back to the jungle" Is it clear enough yet?? ????

It's easy to blame others when others are indeed to blame. The poor layout of the form is bad enough, but allowing the form to be submitted when required information is missing? Totally unforgivable.

what is your point?

You don't deem the term "she should go back to the jungle" as racist?

Did she want to go home by herself, of her own accord? Or was she inviting you to take her to her home town? There's a big difference.

I fully agree. Further more, if you don't believe the referendum was run in a fair manner, and also hold the belief that the thresholds were reasonable, you can't then use your argument that "the Thai public voted for the constitution so they need to accep it"

Just to be clear.... none of the behaviour outlined in your original post is out of the ordinary or any way close to obsessive. If all they're doing is asking if they will see you tomorrow, and sending you some messages on Line then there is nothing you need to do.

60/40 is a margin of 20 points. I'd class that as big. But I come from a 52/48 land so anything looks big to me. I don't recall seeing that TV show or any article referencing it. If he did say it, which he may well have done, I doubt anybody believed it. Otherwise the referendum options should have been worded as "Use new constitution proposal" and "Revert to the old constitution". It wasn't worded that way, however. It was a "yes/no" vote on the new constitution only.

There was a public referendum which won by a fairly large margin but with a couple of caveats. Firstly, many of the educated public were basically of the view that they have to either accept the proposal, or never get a general election. Secondly there were reports (I don't know how credibile they were) of polling offices with helpful military personnel showing people how to vote. You know, escorting them to the ballot box, showing them how to make their vote (in particular, pointing out which box to tick)