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SUB LAW. So no more than the crew compliment of a Chinese sub allowed to ride in the back? Sounds like a good PLAN.

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How generous of the Sri Lankan ex President! Now he can enjoy a law-abiding happy ending here, complete with with absolutely no 90 day reports like the rest of us stupid plebs. We can tell we're stupid plebs because we get robbed by our home countries -rather than rob them- which would be the perfect solution to fund our lavish retirement in Kalaland. If we were smart and generous to the Thai Government just like him, our lives would be amazing! ????????????????

That was just a ruse to get him into her cockpit.

Can't be arsed wading thru a thread bloated with immature incel commentary. But immigration do clearly use electronic data inputs at every expat touchpoint even though they cling to their love of oversized and overused, stamps, so if one was missing, it can be reconciled electronically. With that being said, maybe it's time find another thread to pointlessly bicker on while your beer ice dilutes. ????

NZ were given a referendum. The only country in the world so far, who narrowly voted NOT to legalize it. They have an incredible craft beer, and also world class wine reputation, so it's a real mystery why they would pass up all the well-researched benefits, by a slim majority. That's democracy tho. I haven't used since I've been back in NZ, but have seen people do so in public. Most jobs also claim they randomly drug test in a "lottery" system. While I agree that adults should use with responsibility, I think this goes too far, and much more impairment reasearch needed vs alcohol, which is well understood. I also hear weed now costs MORE than a comparative amount of Meth in NZ! But I don't know how true that claim is either. The wonderful craft beer here costs slightly MORE than imported craft beer does when bought from a bar in Chiang Mai, in Thailand, I know that's very hard to believe, but this is the crazy downside to a population of just 5 million (BKK alone has at least DOUBLE that!) and NZ stuffers a net greater OUTFLOW of citizens every year. Despite its' reputation as a paradise on earth. Now I think I know why!

As a teenager I was gaga for the slightly cross-eyed brunette, Chrissy played by Paula Wilcox, in the British comedy "Man about the House". Imported to the US as "Three's Company". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_About_the_House?wprov=sfla1

Reminds me when... The sons of a Thai politician shot an off-duty cop in a disco over the usual nightclub drunken BS, with dozens of witnesses, just one of their infamous acts of senseless un-avenged violence, they're free to this day. I can't link to the story because the website is not approved here due to other content on that site that the Thai authorities deem harmful to the image of Thailand and the Institution.

Exactly! In Pattaya she's not your girl she's just your turn.????

Fun with a dick called Jane. ????

Jobless Australian Hell's Angels yukkin it up and importing violence and crime in Pattaya on the vast criminal proceeds of the ya ice (meth) the BiB and AFP and AQUIS and Border Force utterly failed to intercept! Let's have some reality reporting, not some beach bimbo from Australian 60 minutes doing Mekonhg gunboat rides in a flak jacket and bucket sized issue helmet crapping on about the "evils" of the drug trade. The evil is in pointless prohibition. Which financed the hells angels vacay, and does less than zero to address any of the problems prohibition created in the first place! Your home and car insurance is through the roof because 3% of the addicted, usually identified as childhood abuse victims who got into addiction to cope, are denied a cheap legal fix by a wicked global law. Created by psycopaths (who often do drugs themselves!) deciding, based on bad science and moral panic, what other adults can or cannot consume. Then spending trillons to enrich cartels and criminalise the rest of the responsibly using population for simply wanting some diversion from the tedium and negative effects of alcohol, and their mostly dreary lives.

It will never be controlled. Until the government control it. People are using this drug everywhere, that's why she had 30 freaking kilos of it in one delivery! So where are all the toothless addicted? The Whermacht defeated Europe and almost took Russia on ya ice, so where were all the addicted troops? It's used to this day by special ops in certain approved and medically supervised situations. Time to wake up and smell the vapour. Legalise, tax, control -and win/end the failed drug war. Simple.

Just saying, Japanese is insanely good value here compared to the west or Japan. But to keep As n topic, there are many many quality local burger outlets. Think: The Dukes (Chiang Mai & Phuket) or Daniel Thaiger (BKK) the comparitive cost and burger quality make Mick Dee's look like the global garbagefest it is.

Don't look back and play the regret game, because today (2022) you're as young fit and healthy as you'll ever be! And tomorrow you're a day closer to returning to star-dust. Die comfortably broke! You can't take it with you, so use it tonight!

Thailand thinks it can still play off both sides. If things get any hotter, and because Xi is on a mission from Mao, things will boil over eventually. It will happen sooner if, as is likely, widespread middle class dissent grows at home, he'll need a big distraction to divert their anger. Then Thailand will have some serious recalibration coming. At some point, China being China, will try to strong arm something out of the Generals, it will be outside the scope of the usual easily conceded graft, and having rimmed the dragons cloaca for so long, they will be up <deleted> creek without a paddle. God help Thialand then. Right now, given they are avowed Royalists, Vietnam era, and current American allies, what the hell are they thinking playing top gun with China?

Some arsehat in our building is dumping their dogs <deleted> in the enclosed poolside rain gutters at floor level. If we (the other residents) catch them, we'll rub their nose in it! PSA: Please don't do this to an actual puppy -adult human trash only!????

I couldn't afford to live in the UK! At least not in the lifestyle to which I am now accustomed. Only the Royals and Russians have maids in the UK. ????????

In Kalaland the correct answer is always: Joe Falang.

Okay but B200 difference? What's that in real money $5.70 rounded up! Kind of proves the point that penny pinching in Thailand is not even worth the effort of doing the math! Dudes are paying business class fares to get here in economy seats these days, then they're getting on a bus ride jet lagged and bone-locked, with goats and chickens tied on the roof? It makes no sense!????

I've done the cheapola thing too, then I started to wing with a youngish hotshot lawyer, and once we shared a leather-ensconsed beer-sipping ride with feel-good rock blasting, there's just no way I'd go back to the ride-hopping baht bus nonsense. For starters, there's always some aggro with at least one of the bottom-feeder drivers, or you get crammed into a minibus forced to sit with with a smelly dude who looks like an Iranian terrorist being driven by a stressed out quota driven speed freak at the wheel. A private car may cost the same as tonight's girlfriend, but both are still chump change in Thailand. Long live two-week millionaires!????????

So was the Red Bull brat. You're trolling. We're done.

Quite right! As always, This is Thailand. Where there's rule of law, the media would have cameras poking in the Captain's face as "breaking news". Let's be honest, the "enraged netizens" were probably xenophobic trolls for the most part. He broke the law, but so do every one of us who've ever engaged the services of the local demimondaines. And have you ever seen a "laws not to break in Thailand" blog that has ever included "whatever you do, leave the marine and wildlife in peace."? I haven't! It's all useless garbage like: "Don't do drugs on pain of the BKK Hilton!" (but there are drugs openly advertised on Koh Lanta, Full moon etc.) and another useless rule: "Don't go commando, or drive shirtless?" I should be arrested on sight daily for not wearing y-fronts???? So, I'm on his side because Thai law, and most netizens, are cray-cray.???? No doubt the poster who went off on a massive rant earlier, could probably do with a relaxing illegal "massage" but can't afford one, poor thing! ????

Seems to be more flak directed at this tourist than the officials who allowed Mountain B to remain open and it's grifting owner to finagle his way out of a jail cell. Thialand has its priorities properly up the ying-yang.

I'm sorry to hear this. I have a sister who is a total waste of oxygen too, but she's just a victim of a system that fails every one of us. Prohibition is not solving the problem, it created it! And makes it ever worse. I'm not saying give a free pass to criminal behaviour as a result of drug use, far from it! Unregulated doses account for a lot of the craziness. Legal pharmacy doses would eliminate a lot of these incidents. I'm saying the way we fail to control illicit drugs in the same way we control the sale and distribution of legal drugs like alcohol, is the exact point at which criminality and tragedy get a foothold.

Why not just legalise, regulate and tax all drugs? Only 3% of users of ANY substance become problem users, so therefore, the government revenue from legally taxed and government (not cartel) controlled drugs, could more than cover the cost to just give these problem people clean free doses, and rehab, if they want it. This has been the successful model in Portugal for over 20 years. Portugal went from EU worst case, to best case in the drug challenge tables. Crime, HIV, and even drug use all DROPPED! Decrimmed drugs reduced disease and crime, how interesting! Therefore, they won the drug war by not fighting it anymore! Meanwhile UK and US are sinking into Mexico style cartel lawlessness, with pre-teen drug couriers everywhere. Thailand seizes truck loads of drugs, how much more gets thru. And also, once the warlords wise up to Pegasus software, almost all of those trucks will no longer be intercepted. The demand dictates supply, and if demand is already so great, where are the millions of deranged addicts at? Millions using, and once in a while, in a land of 64 million people, one or two go crazy, hardly something to panic about then! Drugs as the ultimate evil? It's all a big lie. Looks like "tough on drugs" has failed, again and again, as the bodies of ordinary people's kids, and crime stats, pile higher. Those in denial, can and will persist down a path of punishment being the answer. And stories like this will continue. This was after all, a decent man's son. He couldn't have been a complete wrong 'un, he once had a job! So don't be a heartless dick, he could easily have been your boy or mine! So because of drug prohibition, we have a growing crises, not because drugs and problematic users exist. But because society has allowed project fear to dictate how the problem is dealt with, even as Portugal has proved it is better for society to make peace with drugs and drug users, over an entire generational experience. But the prohibition-brainwashed world still don't want to know. RIP someones child, the latest victim of the war on drugs.