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1 hour ago, craigt3365 said:

Many on WS now spend no money.  Or very little.  Kinda like the red light district in Amsterdam.  Many walk by, few partake.

 

If they did it properly, it could be very successful.  I quit going to WS several years ago.  Just not my cup of tea.  I know many others who feel the same way.

 

Here's Bang Saray's walking street.  No go go bars.

https://www.mypattayacondo.com/bangsaray-walking-street/

 

And Chiang Mai's market.  Always busy with tourists.

http://www.embark.org/thailand/chiang-mai/culture/sunday-market

You would be very surprised how much money goes on in the Amsterdam district.

That said, the town government is trying to kill off the business.

And now the business goes underground.

4 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

To be fair, the current government are providing many towers for the poor.

Where are those towers then?

Well, that huge tower is exactly what Thailand need!

6 hours ago, Reigntax said:

Hardly a person with a history or desire of respecting the people. Although he and his offsider, the mad monk did hand out lead pellets to celebrate and maintain his appointed PM term.

Like another ex that had a cleaning party with "drug dealers"?

Which in my eyes, was much worse as reacting to looting, burning and killing.

Selective memory runs rampant.

1 hour ago, DLang said:

Of course.... the tracks were to blame.

 

Yes, probably so.

Planned speed and weight might be too much for the existing cant of the tracks.

Also, if one or more of the wheels have flat spots, derailment in a curve with the existing cant, can be to much.

Personally, I do think the railway employee spoke too early.

Accidents like these can happen anywhere, anytime, anyhow.

The reason why it happened need to be carefully researched.

2 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

A village of 180 and 40 of the men involved with the rape, well suspected of being

involved, what a disgusting village!

Geezer

Allegedly involved with rape.

Up till found guilty they are innocent.

And mind, it is all on the say so of the alleged victim.

14 hours ago, darksidedog said:

That will piss Prayut off no end. Thaksin is gone, Yingluck is gone, but big chunks of the population look forward to them coming back to take power once more. Now more than ever, I bet he wished he had won the popularity poll published earlier this week. All of his efforts look to be coming to nothing in the long run. And House Shinawatra will rise again. This saga is more intriguing than Game of Thrones!

Like the coming of the Messiah.

All seeming to forget both messiahs left the building and their underlings to accept the results of their doings.

Maybe big groups of the population see them as Messiah, but I guess a bigger group see them for what they really are.

This embracing of the leading class in Thailand of China and Chinese is disturbing at least and very dangerous in the long run for the real Thai people.

China is a one party state with no democracy at all, a country that is trying to control all countries around it, a country that still believes they are the middle kingdom, a country with no respect for human life at all, and foremost a country that in all its dealings has a strategic goal.

For China.

No self respecting country should have dealings with China while so many neighbouring countries have problems with that country.

Is there any relation between the alleged rapes months ago and the positive drug test today?

Or is it just something to hit two alleged culprits with in case nothing might be proven?

3 hours ago, dotpoom said:

I am with Bkk Bank...KBank and TMB....all use pin no's.

It did take some time, but now my KTC card uses a pin for every payment or ATM use, an lo and behold my picture is also on the card.

I had to contact the credit card company for both, pin an pic to get what I wanted.

On 8/5/2017 at 0:20 PM, over it said:

What did you expect when the education system is inept and the culture is, for the most part, lazy?

Then all those girls doing the same in highschools and universities in the Western world have the same background?

Just now, leeneeds said:

I saw an add on a window on petchaburi road business, for vagina tightening 

maybe this women needs to go pay visit 

Why?

You know her then?

3 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

 

" I really loved them long time- me so horny!"...

 

...might be a better quote.

Horny for money?

3 hours ago, JAG said:

What happened to this child is truly awful. A functioning police force would ensure that it did not go unpunished, and together with proper government agencies would go a long way to preventing it happening to others at risk.

It happens all over the world, and I suggest that Thais for the most part love and cherish their children as much as any other people on the planet.

The difference here is the incompetent police force and inadequate child protection systems...

The police would ensure?

The court maybe?

13 minutes ago, Mickmouse1 said:

Well most girls do have few FARANG BFs who send monthly payment for the love of their heart,each  thinking he is the Hero???

Of course each has been allocated a time for their visit which the woman ensure will not clash with the other idiots designated scheduled visit?

Some making well over 150k monthly.?

It remains to be seen if you can blame those con artist for taking the chances offered.

1 hour ago, champers said:

Does this mean they will catch the killers of Tony Kenway? Or the people behind the killings? Or not anybody at all?

Dream on.

The chance to weed out foreign owned competition?

2 hours ago, Thian said:

What's the purpose of this law?

 

I think it would be better if they forbid to sell untested babyfood products?? Remember what happened in China with poisonous baby-milkpowder?

Ahhhhhh........

China.......

Profit maximalisation and squeeze go hand in hand.

4 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Sympathy? I wonder if justice for the victim has crossed their small minds!

Or, in the case of a fabricated story by the alleged victim, what about sympathy for the accused, alleged, perpetrators?

The girls' story is rather strange.

4 hours ago, Thechook said:

40 rapists running around, but it's still safe.

Alleged rapists!

Everything needs some kind of proof.

An accusation alone is not enough.

Hopefully.

Fantasise all you like, about all those dirty Muslim men, unpunished.

Me, although I agree culturally it might all be possible, I start having doubts about the allegations made by the girl.

The thing is, there is no proof, and it's her word against many.

But it is all so glib.

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

What a crazy comment!!

My wife is 20 years younger than me, i am also paraplegic, my wife is not having it off with other men.

She spends every minute of every day with me when she is not at school.

Why do many farangs think like you? when they have no idea about other peoples relationships.

It is called experience.

Also not minding the face thing helps to see through lies.....

2 hours ago, Confuscious said:

 

Only in Thailand????

Time to grow up and get informed a little bit.

For example, in Muslim countries where the rape victim a stoned for adultery.

Or in England where many girls were raped by muslims serial wise and the police did nothing to stop it and tried everything to cover it up.

Or in Germany where muslims tend to harass women on a grand scale while the authorities do try to cover up all, several times.

So nothing new, common: Islam.

13 hours ago, halloween said:

They have just been arrested. Should they have been executed by the custody sergeant?

The kill-kill-kill brigade think so.

4 hours ago, LazySlipper said:

Damn!!! 

Lobotomies of most males would solve the problem.

 

That and castration. Where the hell do these horny fracks get their education?

 

Just happy I don't have a daughter here in Tland.

 

Disgusting!

Sorry, rape is not about sex, it is about power, really.

Before we all start bashing Thailand, please do some research about your own country, like some of us already did.

Very bad for your mental health, including finding out the false accusations and convictions.

6 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

 

No, you got let off on a technicality and the bureaucratic shuffle.

 

90 or so people dead and neither accountability nor responsibility.

 

I am speechless.

What about blaming the redshirts.

I seem to remember it were them starting to burn buildings, threatening people, shooting people.

I am speechless the redshirt culprits and leaders we're never brought to justice.

And speechless so many conveniently want to forget that part.