Patong2021

You know what it means. What's your point? Trying to get a rise out people?

What infrastructure and where will you put the infrastructure? The city is packed solid. How is transportation the solution? The BTS is running at near capacity. They can't put more trains safely into circulation. There are many buses, but they are slowed down because of the large numbers of private vehicles.

Pain the backside law. When I am shopping for my groceries, it is idiotic that I cannot purchase a bottle of wine at 3 pm. If there is a concern that young people are drinking, then age check them when they purchase.

Airlines don't just dump fuel. It's expensive. Prior to reducing the fuel load, the pilots will run through their checklists and communicate with their command center. Unless it is an emergency, they will take the time to try and work it out. Then, they will consider a fuel dump. The aircraft must be positioned to allow a safe dump. The B777-300 ER can remove fuel at a rate of 2500kg per minute. This would mean that at least an hour would be needed to work through the full fuel load. There would also need to be measures taken on the ground to be set up for the aircraft. A broken landing gear can result in a crash that closes runways, so the airport was most likely trying to clear as many flights to minimize a disruption if a runway was closed. Also, the airline may have been reluctant to cancel the flight. It is expensive to put a full plane up in hotels and a lot of hotels want money up front from Russia first. The Russian government is notorious for late payment and trying to negotiate discounts after the fact. Even the best airlines need time to arrange for the arrival of hundreds of angry pax. Immigration would have been needed to be alerted and on standby. What technical issues? This is unlikely to be anything related to the B777. Rather it is most likely maintenance and a failure to replace parts. DEI has nothing to do with this as the aircraft has been in operation for 6 years. If there had been a defect, it would have been identified by now, because the aircraft would have undergone a heavy maintenance inspection at 18-24 months. Not at all. How many B777 have you inspected? What is the history of lanfing gear defects on the B777? Heroux Devtek which manufactured the landing gear has one of the best quality assurance records in the industry. Fuel dumps are intended to allow for evaporation.

Congatulations for being the first logical comment. No one bothered to look into the reasons why she did this and what her background was. State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky’s is 36 years old.. She states that she had been considering this for a few years and was finalized by Trump’s election. She says this announcement was to highlight the concerns women have about the restrictions on access to contraception that Trump's administration has said it will implement. She had no desire to create a larger family at age 36. How is she an extremist? At age 36 do you believe iut is a good idea that she keep producing offspring? As women age, the likelihood of a defective fetus increases. Autism, cognitive impairments are more in the children of older parents. Yes she did. She was doing this to draw attention to the difficulties that women have in accessing birth control including. termoination of pregnancy. The concern is that some state governments wish to reduce access to birth control. At age 36, it is best if she stops having kids.

No it does not. The majority of tourists are from China, Malaysia and India and understand the restrictions. 5 days without alcohol in a year are hardly deal breakers. Yes, some western and north Asian tourists get annoyed. The smart visitors will stock up if they need alcohol. They are allowed to consume during the. holidays. So what if the sex tourists are annoyed? It is not like they are going anywhere else. They are in Thailand because it is all they can afford.

No one is being punished, unless you are an alcoholic addicted to the drug and need to consume it a tacky bar. You can still drink at home or with your friends at your homes. Nope. It is pathetic that some elderly foreigners are up in arms because the crappy bars won't be open for a few days. Get real. No one goes for a cocktail at the crappy beer bars. Those places wouldn't know how to make a decent cocktail if their lives depended on it. My experience has been that the major hotels will still be discretely serving cocktails and some of the private clubs which cater to the discerning Asians will be serving alcohol. The crappy beer bar/brothels with their uncomfortable plastic chairs and filthy tables will have to stop. It will give some of the staff a much needed chance to rest and maybe get treated for their STIs.

You are relying on your own bias. My best friend while in Thai military service, was in contact with insurgents. He does remarkably better as a human than you as he doesn't hate all muslims, despite having been at risk. So what if someone is in the IDF. The team which was deployed to assist in the fires in California all served in the IDF. Everyone is expected to serve, Their IDF duties range from social workers, to IT specialists, to combat units, to mechanics, to hospital workers, to morgue duties, to cafeteria work. What nonsense. The claims of large numbers of Isrtaelis comes from westerners who have their own bias. The Thai data does not support your claim. There are not even enough Israelis to generate the issues that you claim. You are projecting your own bias. The funny part is that you can't even put together a coherent expression of hate. You say the resort you stayed in was complaining about Israelis and then you come up with a statement that the rafting company was asking if you know where these people came from. Surely, if Israelis were all that evil, the Thais would know. Why were there Israelis at your resort? Most of the problems with the Israelis are with the 18-25 year old males, many of whom have never traveled before and are of lower socio economic backgrounds. They typically do not go to resorts because they can't afford them and often stay at Israeli secured lodgings which are places run by Israeli friendly Thais. You are not fooling anyone who knows Thailand. Pai, like Patong and Pattaya and much of Koh Samui is motivated by money. The Thais don't care who the customer is as long as they can turn a profit. If that wasn't the case, the Russians wouldn't have a run of the house in Phuket. I doubt very much that the locals are going to confide in you. They tell you what you want to hear, just as the bar girls tell the losers in their bars how hansum they are.

What is to rationalize? She went on her own to a storm swollen stream, took off her clothes and went for a swim. She would not be the first foreigner to have done that, nor the first to have tragically drowned. Adult Thais do not swim naked, nor do they swim in storm surged water, and they do not do it alone. Had she respected local customs, she might very well still be alive today. It was a death by misadventure, like so many of the young Europeans who persih in Thailand because of their personal choices. I am not victim blaming. Rather, her tragic death illustrates how some foreigners behave. If you don't like this example, how about the Europeans who posed naked at the Ayuthaya historic religious site, offending millions of Thais. As I recall, they were not deported.

Don't count them out. Sometimes a bit of time in the wilderness does wonders for politicians. Learn from Churchill. In 1997 PM John Major was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labour Party led by Tony Blair, achieving a 179-seat majority and a total of 419 seats. The Tories were assumed to have been wiped out then too.

Really? A great many US citizens are offended when they see protestors wearing Hezbollah and Hamas attire. There are even hats worn by some with sickening slogans on them. I believe that there is a propasal from some of the more vocal MAGA congressional members to sanction people wearing attire.

I've watched the usual hate spew in the comments and few of them are rational or based on fact. The anti Israel sentiment is foreigner based. The anti Israeli grafitti and vandalism is coming from westerners, and French nationals of North African extraction. This thread shows the bias that some westerners hold. The Gulf arabs don't do grafitti in Thailand. The Iranians don't waste their time on petty vandalism either. The Thais don't perceive the Israelis any worse than other foreigners. Don't tell me that the typical Thai can differentiate between a Russian and Israeli or even a German. My own friends cannot. The Israelis who are in the Pai area are like most of the other foreigners: Dirty, low class and without much money. One dirty farang is the same as any other to a Thai, and rightly so. Yes, 3 idiots made a commotion. Unlike the Russians or the Europeans who do similar, they were fined and deported. The holier than thou ignorance of the miserable elderly white Europeans and knuckle dragging Australians , who collectively seem to illogically hate anyone who is younger and not of their ethnic background would be funny save for the fact that they are circulating in Thailand making life miserable for everyone they interact with. The next time a Swiss nutter sets his dogs on people, or an english drunk has a vehicle crash injuring innocent people, be sure to bring your nooses and pitchforks. Deal with the reality, that Thailand is a destination for a lower socio economic demographic. If it wasn't, Patong and Pattaya would have been shuttered long ago. Pai would have been a ghost town by now. Nothing has changed much in Pai since the Autralians got jammed up for heroin, or the Canadian hippie was shot dead by the drunk cop. Anyone remember them? Does anyone even remember the recent tragedy with the young Belgian woman, found naked and dead last September after it was presumed she went swimming in the nude. Had she shown some respect for local custom of staying clothed while bathing, perhaps she would not have perished in Pai. And I hate to break it to the bigots, but Thais have a much better understanding of Israel than they do of Europe or the Americas because almost 40,000 Thais now rotate in and out of Israel for work. They go for a year, or more and come back, with money, despite all the negative comments made by westerners to the contrary. Only Canada and Hungary take in agricrultural workers from Thailand like Israel, and their numbers are seasonal and below 2,000 each.

Perhaps, but one certainly needs markets to sell products and suppliers who will sell critical raw materials. Do not under estimate the Chinese. They can sustian long term pain. US nationals are chronic complainers. They riot when Popeye's runs out of chicken. The US is picking fights with everyone and it cannopt go it alone. Are you He did not win by a landslide. He did not even receive a majority of votes cast. Are you intentionally wrong or are you really this ignorant of the vote result?

Have you been in some US cities like Philadelphia where the zombies walk? Or rural towns in in West Virginia and Kentucky ravaged by Hillbilly Heroin? Druggies rob and steal and kill to get their fix.

75%+ of the. Panama canal workforce came from The majority of the workers on the Panama Canal came from the West Indies, including Barbados, Jamaica, Grenada, Martinique, and Trinidad. 90%+ of deaths were these people. Your logic holds that their homelands can lay claim to the canal. Panama exists as a nation because it gained its independence in 1821 from Spain. It then joined with other states to form a greater Columbian Republic under the great Simon de Bolivar. Panama then split from Columbia The USA was involved because it sought to act as a colonial power. The USA has no right to meddle in Latin America. The USA is not in charge. All that the USA is doing is to force the world to look away from purchasing US products and to become more self reliant.

Nope. Recent illustrations; Britney Spears, Wendy Williams, Amanda Bynes , Brian Wilson (Beachboys), and Michael Oher (a dead wringer for Kanye). There has to be someone who cares, and right now, Kanye is being exploited by his entouragem, who need him free so they can earn their money. Maybe not full fledged members of the party, but most certainly encouraged to be affiliates and supporters. In the past the German Nazis were supported by the Grand Mullah of Jerusalem who sent his muslim militia to fight for the nazis. Iran currently funds extemist right wing groups with the intent of causing civil disorder.

Cocaine is a deadly addictive drug. The people laughing off the legalization are not prepared for the tens of thosuands of zombies that would be created.

The USA has no legal basis to take over the canal. Long before the US could gain control of the canal, it might very well be destroyed. I don't think the US population has the stomach to take the casualties that would occur if the USA occupied Panama. More importantly, invading Panama would require a declaration of war and it is unlikely Congress would authorize it. The USA risks a guerrilla war in Latin America. No US citizen would be safe.

You have not though this through, nor have you addressed the central issue of why it is the USA's sole obligation to care for people in a far off region, a region which does not support the USA's national interests. The US government is there to act in the best interest of its citizens. Currently, the USA has a massive deficit. It also has a financial obligation to its own citizens. In order to maintain the generous social assistance network in the USA, it has to be funded. The USA can't keep borrowing to fund its social services disbursements. You are free to criticize the USA. Good for you. Now please direct your anger at your own nation and region and demand that it pay more for people who don't care about you. Thailand has its nose up China's backside. Now it can ask China to provide the vast sums of foreign aid that the USA, Japan and other western nations provide. The USA was at its breaking point. It can't keep giving, because it doesn't have the money to give. The small group of taxpayers who pay for much of this spending don't want to fund it anymore. They want the money to go to repairing collapsing infrastructure and poorvpeople in the USA.

She was previously deported and has come back. Non compliance with the. immigration rules after a previous incident is a serious offence. Add to that the circumstantial allegation that she is a prostitute and it doesn't look good. My guess is that she has pissed off a Russian pimp and the Russians aren't helping as a means of teaching her a lesson.

Again, I ask, why it is the USA's responsibility? Yes, Musk is an evil man, but that is a side issue. Where is it either the legal or moral obligation to care for people who have no relationship to the USA and in a country that has hitched its wagon to the Chinese choo choo train.

They are having a field day becaus eof the presence of the pimply faced kids who have destroyed any semblance of security for the government's IT systems.

It is unfortunate. However, please explain why the USA is responsible for paying for the medical care for these people? China is a major presence in the region. Where is its aid money? What about India, Iran , Russia and the Gulf states? They too have many of their people in the area, more so than the USA, so they should be. contributing.

Nice troll. Everyone knows that the Apple products are most resistant to Russian and Chionese spying.

He will be colour coordinated.