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I think he is right and wrong.

Right about the irritatingly overdosed number of gay people on TV.

Wrong, very wrong indeed about the HIV accusation.

Of course they drew a blank.

Don't think there is anybody in Thailand expecting anything else.

Maybe he is in Dubai?

1 hour ago, shady86 said:

He doesn't deserve another chance to be in society.

Right!

But he certainly deserves a lifelong time in some kind of hard labour prison.

2 hours ago, khwaibah said:

BULL SHYT. Thats what computers are for. Come out of the dark ages.

All info they want is in the passport.

Printed, and indigital form.

The info on the TM6 is superflous.

2 hours ago, BasalBanality said:

Is there a demand for Moroccan women amongst the local or visiting Johns?

I see it as a response to the Moroccan men forcing European girls in prostitution.

2 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Just when you thought the incompetence was being worked on, an incident like this comes along and shows that these folks just never learn. Flying long haul and having a queue anything more than 20-30 minutes is just not acceptable.

It seems to me, reading about problems on many other airports with security and passport control, the blame should be laid somewhere else.

The mostly islamic induced niceties, ask for more and better checks on passengers.

And the softly, softly approach from authorities due to PC, does not help reducing the threats.

I am afraid the spending of expats living in Thailand is undervalued.

Say 500,000 expats, spending an average of 50,000 baht per month, is per year 300,000,000,000 baht.

Your idea the expat community alone is occupying 90% of the time of the immigration police is rather beside the truth.

The expat community is taking in not yet 10% of the immigration's time.

And is paying for it.

It has been said by a provincial governor that every expat brings a job or two for the local community.

And face it, what the TAT says is not really trustworthy, is it?

I was told that there are around a million expats living in Thailand, around 35% are not too effluent, and some weeding out is going on.

The rest is bringing too much into the country to loose them.

A fact very well known by the authorities.

2 hours ago, taipan1949 said:

I lasted 33 years in Thailand and finally just had enough of the filthy Pattaya sewer they call a beach, garbage all over the streets and nobody picks it up. I have moved to the Philippines where other than Manila the country is clean and beautiful. A school full of kids walked by my house the other day and my wife told me they were cruising their jurisdiction area picking up whatever garbage they could find, and I can tell you there was not much to pick up. The authorities teach pride in your city and country from when the kids are just small.

My friend tells me if her daughter's fail the English language tests, and fail again after further instruction, they will have to do the same year again.

13 hours ago, dunroaming said:

They are not going to do anything to jeopardise their relationship with China and have wisely decided to shun anything coming from the Trump administration. 

Wisely?

10 hours ago, janclaes47 said:

 

And that shows that the  credibility of Thai banks is fake, because repossessed buildings are added to the balance sheet as assets.

And you think Western banks are any better?

Wake up!

Banks are sometimes called legalised criminal institutions, and I guess there might be some truth in that.

17 minutes ago, Cleveland said:

Was thinking only 4 on 1 was pretty mild by usual Thai standards.

 

Is there any other country in Asia where the foreigner is so despised, both by the locals and by the government?

Try to remember who is running this country and their feelings about gwailoos.

54 minutes ago, darksidedog said:

Whatever the provocation, four on to one is pretty shitty, though about appropriate for Thais, who rarely want to engage in a one on one, but the stomping on the fella when he is on the ground and the fight is clearly over just takes the piss. If he had got a bit of a slap for being a dick that would be fair enough, but the level of force used here was excessive, so I hope they find the four and the court helps them understand this.

I guess what came before was four Thai heroes "playing" with the foreigner on the road, road rage like, following him to the shop, and then abusing and threatening the foreigner who attacked then.

The four heroes then attacked the foreigner, knowing fairly well this act of heroism will not be punished.

And knowing fairly well if the foreigner would have won, more heroes would come to help, and eventually the foreigner would shoulder all the blame.

4 hours ago, tonray said:

There is a contingent of teens who hang out by Bueng Kaen Nakhon early evening, smoking weed and pounding beers...I usually would get the hell out of there when they started to congregate as they looked like a crew who could start some serious trouble.

They can, they will.

4 hours ago, Chris Lawrence said:

Article 44 would merge the agencies.

 

Then let the Chinese work the problem out if the do the Panama Canal through Thailand.

 

Malaysia worked out their problem a few years back, but do Thai's have good dialogue with their neighbours? They are the ones to seek advice from or the contractors.

 

The water problem starts in the north and flows down to Bangkok. It all needs to be done with dams in the north for dry season. 

Dams for the dry season?

Really?

I think overflow areas, basins, river expansion slots and more of those solutions will help more in the rainy season.

However, the biggest problem is the simple fact the ground doesn't hold water enough because of deforestation.

Planting of millions of trees might help.

A Finn named Hussein?

A bank giving away something?

For free?

2 hours ago, mark131v said:

Enforced.....No

 

Steps taken.....None

 

More hot air from the self appointed expert on everything and another wasted opportunity to actually do something constructive for the country rather than personal enrichment.... 

You mean the former governments?

The S- ones?

There was I thinking there was a speed limit in Thailand?

90 on the highways, 60 in town?

Of course the police should do their job, do they?

2 hours ago, Kinnock said:

Nice angle for the photo.  Trying to figure out where it was taken from?  Top of MBK?

 

As for the name ...... as it's inspired by Lotus flowers, how about "Lota Walkway" as in 'Tesco Lota"?

Rotas, sir, rotas.

2 hours ago, DM07 said:

Always good to see, that this country gets its priorities right!

Now go and arrest some "pretties"!

Priorities, Sir, priorities.

And now for some elderly bridge players.

More and more I wonder about the Justice system in Thailand.

The police gives fines, ok, but isn't there some kind of judicial power behind that?

On this case the court sets her free, and now the police chief has to decide?

2 hours ago, missoura said:

Hopefully, the sidewalk police will come to P-lok.

It is possible to stay on the sidewalk while passing the parked car and all the poles.

So no complaints please.

1 hour ago, Cadbury said:

I wonder what PM Prayut will have to say about this shameful achievement. Expect to hear a flow of pompous grandiloquence interspersed with some hurrumphing, blaming and finger wagging. 

Like all his PM's before he can't do anything about this.

The deathwish, probably, is ingrained into the Thai psyche, how to get it out baffles everybody.

4 hours ago, darksidedog said:

The thing I find unfathomable is that a country so widely known for its sex industry, is so concerned about pretending it isn't there. Thailand is so obsessed with being the pure and beautiful place it wants to be, that they have become totally blind to reality. Hence legalising something that "doesn't exist" could be problematic, to say the least.

Well, there you are.

The difference between "face" and "honour".

Face is a system to ignore the truth, to pretend what you see is not there, to uphold lies.

Honour is the mostly the opposite.

Forget the idea it might ever change, the powerful can't change a moral compass thousands of years old.

32 minutes ago, smedly said:

so being amaturistic is not bending over and taking the nonsense that is currently be spewed from the EU negotiating team lol

 

waken up and smell the cheese, the UK is jumping from a sinking ship - just as well we kept our own currency or leaving would not be possible. Yes the Stupid British, lets wait and see how the EU gets on without them lol

 

Not long to wait.

No, the Europhiles think the British are amateuristic, exactly what Britain wants the EU to believe.

I sincerely hope The Netherlands will follow the British example.