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Yes, in fact, it is the owner that should have been poisoned. That would have solved the problem for now and in the future.

Unlikely. Much more likely that the dog owner had a ridiculous number of dogs and the owner did not keep them contained. Like the guy who lives here:

That's classified as "He got what he came around."

"This was the seventh case of one of her dogs being poisoned." I wonder if she is getting the message. It is a nasty business poisoning dogs, but sometimes that's the only way you can deal with them when the owner is irresponsible and the dogs are harassing people, killing chickens and otherwise misbehaving. I have never understood anybody needing ten dogs -- or even three.

There is a very good possibility that the farang picked up the bottle and waited, and waited, and waited to pay, then just said phuck it and left. That doesn't justify the theft. But I have certainly been there and done that -- with the waiting game -- not the theft.

Tesco? there is no more Tesco Lotus. Lotus has become a part of the Great CP Farm to Table Monopoly.

Only a fool would! Not me. I stay as far as possible from the government. Visa, driver license, that's it. Enough.

I am quite the opposite after 15 years here. The driving is the number one thing I absolutely love. I used to get so many tickets back in my home country, not for unsafe behavior mind you, but simply for violations with no connection to safety. Such as coming up to a stop sign where you can see miles in every direction with no traffic so you roll on through. TICKET!!! Here, just don't hurt anybody else and you can do pretty much as you wish. You can run red lights where there is no conflicting traffic, you can drive as fast as you wish, you can even drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid having to drive 2km to the next U-turn! If one does get a ticket from one of those tax assessing cameras, just toss it in the trash! I love this atmosphere of personal responsibility and freedom. You are free to make your own decisions, but if you hurt someone, you are responsible. I simply cannot understand why foreigners come here and observe rational driving for the first time in their lives and think it is "unfriendly." There are rude drivers everywhere, but I have found that the great lion's share Thai drivers are polite, helpful and courteous. Much more so than where I came from. I absolutely love this aspect of Thailand an hope it never changes.

I love it! Love this so much. After Prayut's and the military's big purge trying to eradicate every Thaksin stem and root, they might be back! Comedy doesn't get any better than this! Bravo Paetongtarn! Love your red shirt!!! Way to rub their noses in it!

Every time that happens to me, I just smile back and walk away without a word, leaving the basket of half-checked goods behind me. He who has the last laugh . . .

Well that is one way to deep six the proposed bill to break the alcohol monopoly!!!

Nonsense. Training matters, but the breed has a lot to do with temperament. You apparently do not know much about dogs and should probably not own one. Nor should you be offering your speculative advice.

Why do I have a feeling that RimLicker will bump this one?

Putin obviously does not care for his stranded citizens. If he did, he would order Aeroflot to take whatever round about route was needed to evacuate stranded Russian tourists around the world. They are stranded through no fault of their own. But they MUST take responsibility for their leader. I hope they have brains enough to remember that their war criminal abandoned them.

She probably has a dick. Another "Bonus" surprise.

Backpackers have always made up the lion's share of the Thai tourism market's GDP. the idea of replacing millions of small spenders with a few big spenders is and always has been a silly pipe dream. Why would a super well heeled individual want to visit Thailand more than once just to see it? It is the backpackers that return again and again that have always provided the most revenue (and the most jobs). There are much better places for the rich to vacation. Some of you are probably thinking, "Well what about the easy sex here?" My answer to that is that if you are well-heeled, you never have to go looking for sex unless you are a total social misfit. This ain't no Monte Carlo and it never will be.

Russia could certainly use the business right about now. They'd probably offer up a pretty deep discount, and unlike America, they'd have no problems with the kickbacks either.

For <deleted>'s sakes!! Who is the enemy? Neither Burma nor Cambodia has anything with which to fight. Vietnam and China would clean up Thailand in a half a day. So where is the threat that needs defense? Or is this about kickbacks to the Thai Military Bank accounts in the Cayman Islands? Just asking.

It is simple enough. If the girl actually loves him, they can elope and move on. So, I'd meet with the "negotiators," make my best offer. If no agreement, get up and leave=, then elope. But one has to have balls and few Thais do. When I got married, I paid 2 million and my father-in-law handed it all back. it was just for show. And it did look good, all those bundles of new 1,000 baht notes stacked on a big plate. He did that for both his daughters. He had some pride and felt no need to sell them.

Absolutely!!! I do not give a flying F about covid, it is what garyk mentions above that I warn all my friends about. That is the risk; that is the danger. Not covid. Covid is nothing compared to the greed driven abuse by the authorities and their cronies. Anybody that comes here so long as these abuses continue is a fool and deserves everything he or she gets.

The Russians haven't changed much in over 300 years. I am currently reading a history of The Romanovs, a dynasty of Russian tsars. Here is a excerpt describing Tsar Peter the Great's visit to England (and this is the aristocracy!): "On 11 January 1698, Peter arrived in London where he visited King William III at Kensington Palace, watched Parliament in session and picked up an English actress, Laetitia Cross, who became his courtesan for the rest of the trip. Renting Sayes Court, John Evelyn’s immaculate house in Deptford, he treated it like a Jolly Company clubhouse. He had never seen a wheelbarrow, so he organized wheelbarrow races that soon destroyed the garden’s trimmed topiary, while indoors the Russians used the paintings for target practice, the furniture for firewood and the curtains as lavatory paper. Feather beds and sheets ‘were ripped apart as if by wild animals’."

It's quite easy. Many who have not yet booked have cancelled. Anything is possible in Thailand!

How about a "PayPal waahh waahhh" cry? Would you accept that one?

Wise is a good one.

"The conflict in Ukraine is multi-faceted and Rooster does not profess to have any answers. " Ha, ha, ha, of course he professes to have no answers. After all, a Rooster has a bird brain!