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Riders around here are smarties. They know their noggins are hard and dense, but their wrists and elbows are weak and delicate.

Imagine being trapped on a boat with a thousand retired ex-pats. Always the same crowd in speedos at the pool drunk by 8am, and always the same Chinese retirees at the shrimp buffet. The only question is, will it by you on the promenade shaking your cane yelling "git off muh poop deck!"

But do they? Pickup driver was passing a car parked in the street on the wrong side with that driver appearing to be fetching vittles from a moto-sidecar, at the same time an oncoming scooter was moving into the center of the lane to pass the parked car. Pickup driver would have been focused on that. He's got plenty of valid excuses, doesn't even have to resort to brake failure or micro-sleep. We don't even know if he was speeding........that's just the headline.

So..........you're saying the responsible father DIDN'T leave his four-year-old child unattended beside a busy street? Oh, wait.......he DID. Daddy needs to be prosecuted for child abuse and reckless endangerment leading to serious injury or death. Hopefully he can share a jail cell with the hit-n-run pickup driver, and both of them can ponder their life choices. Although truthfully, the pickup driver may have been texting and unaware he'd hit a child, so there's that. When the police eventually locate him, if there's no serious damage to his 2-ton vehicle, a glancing blow might not have made enough noise to be heard over the stereo.

Partially, yes. But I'd rewrite it to apportion a big helping of blame to the inattentive parent(s) neglecting a four-year-old, allowing him to play in a busy street.

To be fair, when the OP says he bought from a "tent," one assumes the worst, that being the small lot on the outskirts of town selling cleaned up beaters, literally "polished turds." We all read the stories of lot mechanics filling springs with tennis balls to fix the transmission, JB-welding cracked transmission cases, and repairing rusted out frames with duck tape and spray paint. They'll make all sorts of promises, but once it drives off the lot, it's the buyer's problem.

I speculated based on the OP Not 100% sure on the number of guests, but I get 15 adults and some kids from the OP's rant, each adult ordering a coffee, and assumed an average 50 baht for a coffee. Unknown number of waters at 10-15 baht per bottle. So there's my guesstimate for about 750 baht minimum. Pretty decent haul for a small shop. If the staff had to clean up a mess, well, that's their job. Better that than spending the day facebooking and tikkytokking. Not really sure why it matters, though. It's a coffee shop. The Chinese bought some coffees. If they ate food not available from the shop, so what? The employees and management apparently had no problem with it.

Tent guys are just resellers, basically flipping cars. They may have a one-bay shop in the back for quick fixes and minor repairs. Wouldn't expect them to have a qualified tech on hand. If the light wasn't on when you when you went to see them, nothing they could do if they didn't have a scanner. No telling if they had one and found a fault and didn't want to tell you. Find a neutral party dealership or repair shop to scan your engine. Ask around for a recommended garage.

Not likely to get the results you want. Tents sellers don't have a reputation for selling quality vehicles. The warranty was for 10k, you've driven nearly 10k. Would it be worth your while to pursue the matter? What year/make/model/km's, and how much was it?

Not supported? They bought 15 coffees and some waters, right? 750 baht minimum spend. I wonder if the Chinese are on WeChat right now, complaining about the "Laowai" that took up an entire table at a coffee shop for several hours and only bought one lousy coffee? How rude!

Does it, though? We don't really know for sure. Could be that energy is eternal.

C'mon, the big guy gave us the important rules. Don't eat shrimp or wear mixed fabrics. And kill some witches.

In many areas that's still standard practice. No point in the wait staff being dainty about wiping the tables, since the guests are already throwing bones and scraps on the floor during the meal. I suppose it's more efficient that way, as then they can rake everything up all at once. It took a while to get used to the banquet manners..........eat a bit, drink some baijiu, smoke, order next course..........lather, rinse, repeat.

You must have misunderstood. It was in plain English. The sign said "no outside food or drinks." So your Chinese friends brought their food and drinks........INside.

It's a culture thing. China overpopulates their restaurants with service workers. Normal practice in fast food joints is to leave the debris on the tables for staff to remove. Not all that different from the practice here. Over half the local patrons at KFC and McD don't clear their tables either.

Excellent. You've made a positive claim, thus it is up to you to provide supporting evidence. I've googled the poop out of "atomic leprechaun" and come up empty aside from some dude using that handle on Youtube. So how about you define the qualities of atomic leprechauns and provide their physical characteristics and then detail the appropriate testing methods to confirm their existence. Oh, wait, I think I found it! I'll test for "Pink Hearts, Orange Stars, Yellow Moons, and Green Clovers!”

Well, okay then! I can't "prove" that it's impossible for atomic leprechauns to fart magical skittles into existence which blossom into fully-formed universes, each with a unique bar code from Wal-Mart with guaranteed low, low prices. It must be possible................'cause science.

Not sufficient evidence to support this claim.

Parasites and worms exist in the real world. You'd have to show some evidence of "spirits" before claiming they have the ability to hop between bodies.

Well, of course not. Neither does heaven. We were playing what if. Might as well have asked what I'd say if I came face to face with Bigfoot, or Elvis' alien clone, or a One-Eyed, One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater.

You're the one with all knowledge. You know all that was, and all that ever will be. You designed the universe. Out of all the possibilities, you specifically chose the one where I'd be an atheist. So don't blame me. It's your plan. If anyone deserves to burn in hell, it's the guy that allegedly genocided an entire planet. Who does that? What were the sloths and the giraffes and the baby otters guilty of?

Nazis of Vietnam?

Like this? Argument less about one boy drawing an ancient buddhist symbol, more about the boy drawing it on another boy. News article gets more interest this way.

Can stop reading right here. Of course there's an in-between. It's called "dying." Looks like somebody graduated bottom of their class.

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