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The photo of the Yoga studio featured in this article seems to be coming right out from a novel of the Marquis de Sade and his "special chambers"

Except for a few (like construction workers or have to sweat it out hard to make a living), It is appalling how fat the Thais have gotten in the past decade.

As mentioned in a previous comment. just keep it short time, no sleeping in.

Sure there is. But they don't specifically go abroad to indulge in their sick behaviour like so many foreign teachers.

Too many of these sick bas****s occupying the "English teacher" position in this country and surroundings.

So that guy wants to play Medieval/Hundred years war style with a cross bow alright....Well, let's give him that then...Multiple execution choices in those days : Beheading / Hung, strung and quartered / impalement / Burning / crushing / boiled to death... etc...

Hummm...alright...in the meantime Paris welcomed more then 30M overseas tourists in the same year. Go figure...

ok, but the title is silly. It has nothing to do with new night time hours, which began on december 15th. The 26.4 M tourists number wasn't made between the 15th and 20th....Just get the facts right here, writer...

The video is quite hilarious. Amazing how easy the Thai officers behave with the guy. He does deserve a hefty fine and some jail time though, just for the fact of driving drunk. Fun stops once you run over a kid on a bicycle or other.

Quote " stricter control over the sale of alcoholic beverages to individuals under 18 and urged citizens to plan their drinking responsibly ". This amounts to asking a fish to climb a tree. And on the other hand they decide to open bars etc...until 6am for the new year's eve (which i have nothing against in itself) which "slightly" increases the drinking window for many giving them enough time and solid ethanol blood levels to pass out at the wheel....Well, it seems that the guys at the head of this country, who are supposed to drive it diligently and responsibly for the sake of its citizens, have already passed out at the wheel of power a long time ago. ah but yeah...I forgot...they can afford good sober drivers in comfortable mega vans...

This amount is really small for a prime minister over a whole career . As mentioned in previous comments, He certainly has much more (offshore accounts among other things..)

Sarah Connor?

i honestly do not care if they extend the venues closure time to 4am or not. But i don't think that these two extra hours of opening time will change anything at all in terms of tourism. In many countries (Europe at least), venues can close way past that time and stay open until the crack of dawn.. they just need to purchase the right license. If they really want to boost tourism, they might want to look somewhere else, like revamping/renovating their urban infrastructures and clean up huge chunks of their coastline/beaches which is downright terrible (dirty, full of plastics and so on..and so on...). Also, Thailand is not a cheap place anymore at all . If you are looking for magical tropical havens with cheaper prices and "cool" people...Thailand lags far behind...PS : i have been living/working in Thailand since 2011 (Bangkok). Things and people/mentalities have totally changed in just 12 years. But still a nice place to live 🙂

Been there too...These days are gone since quite a while now..Times, people, society as a whole changed.

That is exactly what i do. I'm in a happy relationship since many years already, but no marriage (i made irt clear since the beginning). No hassle ????

Sir, I doubt anyone can have sex with "any" 18yo Thai woman . 99.9% would most probably tell you to <deleted> off.

I have two teenage daughters. Reading some of the creepy comments in this forum about how difficult it is not to be "aroused" by "these young things" makes me sick. 16yo might not be pedophilia by definition, but a 28 yo full grown adult man, a teacher, having his way with a 16yo student is abject, borderline psychopathic and predatory. It's appalling the number of spineless perverts that come to this country (or many others), often-times as teachers of some sort (near his 'fish pond"). If this were to happen to one of my daughters, not sure he would even make it to the police station. I do not wish him well. Good day to you all.

i am not against marijuana. The only thing that bothers me is the fact that when people smoke it in public places (streets etc...outdoor areas), you have no choice sometimes but to breath in a smoke you don't want to inhale (same goes with cigarettes). And non-smokers have no say. Just shut up and inhale.

Intersting. Well noted ????

Yeah it sucks, but Not sure where the scam is either. These women are adults. They took the decision to give him the money and that's it. No crime here

The original article in The Thaiger states that he would be sentenced to two years in prison and a hefty fine. He would be deported after sentencing. For the prison sentence, I find that truly unnecessary, harsh and exaggerated. Just send him back home and enough...

....Living and working in Bangkok for 10 years now (yes, with a work permit ????....) . As much as i enjoy the city, Bangkok is certainly not the place i would go to or recommend if i were a digital nomad. Plenty of waaaaay cheaper and gazillion times more stunning places to go.

Oh really. Well i guess they all have their own whimsical ways to conduct surveys. last week,s resullts were Portugal (A Survey Reveals Portugal as the Best Country For Digital Nomads (timeout.com)) Portugal actually opened the world’s first digital nomad village on February 1, 2021, on the Maderia Islands. For anyone who has visited portugal a few times, i am not surprised. Gorgeous place, very nice people and a great way of life at a very moderate cost.

These guys should rather go to the french riviera. A plethora of nudist beaches to choose from (and a lot of "libertinage" action going on behind the rocks and Mediterranean bushes). ( ps : by the way< some of these beaches and sea fronts are paradise, can easily equal or surpass many Thailand beaches in terms of natural beauty and cleanliness. A must try) A little "AVANT-GOUT" HERE : Adeptes du naturisme, voici les 14 plages où se baigner tout nu dans le Var - Var-Matin (varmatin.com)

Wrong. Atypical is the right word. But the 99.9% of expats or tourists that don't act that way at all just don't make the news...(the one tree that hides the forest metaphor ...)