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1 hour ago, harleyclarkey said:

Delighted to see your reference to Churchill... a vile genocidal lunatic who was responsible for the deaths of many millions of starving Bengals, a racist, an advocate for poison gas, anti Semetic just some of the man's contributions.

For me, an Irishman,  his role in deploying the vicious, murdering thugs called the Black and Tans in Ireland is equally unforgivable. Roving murder squads, random beating, house burnings were some of their tools of their vile trade.

Yes, good old Churchill a shining example of Britishness. Regretf,continued to this day by certain members of the English establishment.  

Indeed. I grew up with the British propaganda regarding Ireland. It was great as I grew older to get a better and more honest perspective from Irish people and media outside the UK. They didn't say "the troubles" they spoke of war.

Thanks for reading.

Rooster 

29 minutes ago, rumak said:

You were doing OK until you got to that ridiculous statement .    There are now plenty of women in high if not top positions in the world .    If anything,  they are more power hungry and crazy than the men.   Or,  maybe just EQUALLY corrupt and arrogant .    here here !

 

Clinton,  Merkel,  Ardern, Freeland,  .......... and many many more.........

I was actually referring to women in high office in religious organizations. There don't seem to be many of those.

Good to see you back commenting Rumak....where have you been hiding?

Rooster

On 6/29/2022 at 6:41 PM, GarryP said:

I'm only 59 and doing that. Turn on my laptop to search for something and then can't remember what I was going to search for. 2 or 3 hours later I recall what it was and do the search. Called my dad the other day and mentioned it. He laughed and said that's normal. What he forgets is that he's nearly 91.    

Try Scrabble for neuron repair. Though perhaps not against me.

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20 minutes ago, fdimike said:

What a total load of horse, chicken, cow & sheep manure.  ????

All of which are absolutely excellent for the roses. 

Thanks for reading, I think.

Rooster

10 hours ago, jvs said:

Welcome to Thighland!

"Comedian" Tom O'Connor on his quiz show once asked: What is the capital of Thighland? 

The Sun on a story about one of Diana's suitors on a boat off a southern Thai island said "it happened in Phuket (pronounced fuket)".

True stories! 

Thanks for reading.

Rooster 

50 minutes ago, kidneyw said:

Liked the accompanying photos with the piece.

Thanks, one or two posters liked the pictures in the last two "Rooster investigates" weeks so the editor and I decided to continue with them for this and future editions. 

Thanks for reading.

Rooster 

2 hours ago, head bender said:

5555 Beckenham is no where near Sw19. I had to lauff.

 

It's a 2 quid trip on a tram these days, always been very close ????

Rooster 

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

what is the botanical name ??

Nobbus erectus in Latin or samwanus kheng markus in Thai, Phayao dialect.

Rooster 

3 hours ago, howlee101 said:

Words have specific meaning.  The post headlines (in all caps) says "SHOULD", the first paragraph says "must", then later on "recommended".  

 

But the last sentence "Thus it was deemed not fake news though it appeared not to be a stipulation of boarding a flight."....

If you read the article you will see that the translator is quite rightly confused by the AFN Center  on this, hence the differing vocabulary used. 

12 minutes ago, Jenkins9039 said:

No, hence i'm asking 

Read Rooster's The Week That Was column that came out Saturday for guidance in the matter. Search and ye shall find. 

Rooster

22 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

tl;dr

Though Lemsta; Did Reply.

Thanks for replying,

Rooster

7 hours ago, toofarnorth said:

...............a spare thesaurus , I thought they all died out along with Brontosarus and Diplodocus.

Actually what I have by my work desk is Roger Mellie's Profanisaurus.

Comes in very handy when I translate something about the latest police bribe scandal over sex shows and I need an alternative to a hackneyed phrase like beef curtains.

Thanks for reading.

Rooster (direct descendant of dinosaurs)

10 minutes ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

XYZ-PDQ

Nice! But do you really think I went out in those shorts. I'm a Bangkokian, we wear long pants and shirts with collars. And we always avoid flying without a license. I'm not some kind of Pattaya ruffian, you know ????.

Thanks for reading.

Rooster 

2 hours ago, Dumbfounded said:

Nice article Rooster but can you please check something? I thought they announced that thais could grow 6 plants each but also limited the growing to 10 plants per household. I think there's a bit of confusion surrounding this. A lot of people seem to think that every thai can now grow 10 plants each but I interpreted it to mean that if there was 2,3,4 or more thais in the same household that the limit for them is 10 plants in total. Cheers

Oh yes you may we'll be right. The story I did on AN was the one juxtaposing Uncle's don't try it edict with the ten per household thing. The source story didn't specify exactly what this was but your assessment there makes sense. They'd be trying to stop a large scale grow at a premises just because loads of people were registered as living there. As we know there are big players in this that want to control large scale ops. But I will check to be sure next time the 6vs10 is mentioned.

Thanks for the positivity and ta for reading.

Rooster 

2 hours ago, Elkski said:

Any gals impressed with the size of your trophy?

Anyone stroke your amulet?  

Did wifey partake before the party?

All I found was the reverse of 'gals'. I didn't even get my mullet stroked. And what happens between my wife and me remains in Vegas. 

Thanks for reading.

Rooster 

6 hours ago, Freed1948 said:

Was that another attempt at humour?

Humor; please get with the spelling program 

Rooster

1 hour ago, Noah K said:

Oooh daddy mun, I think you mean spliff

 

Oh, but it was rather spiffing.

Rooster 

13 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

I knew Trink and might hence suggest, that the author tries to develop his own style rather than carbon-copy, rather poorly, Trink. Latter, from New York, was a left-over dinosaur; his professional "death" started, when "Bangkok World" (the evening edition of Bangkok Post) was no longer published. He then had a page in Bangkok Post's Saturday edition, where the Nite Owl reported and, over time, his column got smaller and smaller. But then - who gave it a hoot? A thing of the past and like most movie remakes, never as good as the original, despite more modern technologies etc. 

"Carbon-copy, rather poorly"????

I suggest you wash your mouth out with a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew.

'nuff said.

Rooster

20 minutes ago, Arthur Mullard said:

Don't forget Rooster that the readership is wide and it means a lot to those who are some distance away....

Yes, I'll bear that in mind.

Thanks for reading.

Rooster

2 hours ago, Sir Dude said:

Well, you can now toss in all the muppets that get high on weed and decide to drive too... figures are only going to go up. It's not the weed or alcohol at fault, it's the muppets.

Can you please quote these figures you talk about. Or is it just a residual Reefer Madness showing thru?

Rooster

On 6/24/2022 at 4:23 PM, cardinalblue said:

Do Thai drivers have one for the road?

No, that have one for the thanon.

Rooster