Marco51

...and the US way ...and Israeli if in occupied territory....aah no, that were not dogs....

just don't cut hair, pretend you are a lawyer or rent out "de puttytat..."

Visit your nearest consulate or if close the embassy and have them authenticate it. If several pages , they will be tackered together on an upper edge and corner stamped so it cannot be hampered with. Then there will (normally) be your governments stamp at the end . No real need for a local "lawyer".....yes, I know , there are also the good ones.

Aaaah , great times, just like America ; criminals run politics and decide what democracy and human rights mean, bloody horror and action movies are standard and good for kids while tits are absolutely taboo, a vibrator is only allowed in the car seat and porn is forbidden and threatened with jail terms and anything except vanilla sex considered abnormal(reminds one of Franco's catholic Spain). Not to forget the legal establishments of 24 hour hotels for a quick sandwich in literally every block , known only to the locals. The high birth rate with underage girls speaks for itself . No worries, there are still a few sqm left somewhere on the planet.

Of course gambling is everywhere, especially in SEA which seems to have an affection more than other areas of the planet. Fine, no problem except that most of SEA countries also have a double standard moral code which pushes amongst other vices that occur wanted or not in to the illegal and dark corners. And of course gambling should be legalised under the motto "if you cannot beat them join them" because illegal gambling and the siblings black money, mafias, corruption and criminality are rampant . The suspicion that keeping it illegal is profiting only said mafias, corrupt law enforcement and the money laundering armies of the corrupt is at hand and should definately be looked at more closely when deciding on legalising . The catch on the other hand as seen in many countries with legal gambling is the lack or real control as companies or individuals interested in running these establishments are in most cases the colourful legal arm of said corrupt or mafiose corporates and individuals. So in order to establish a much needed legal gambling industry to profit an always ailing social state a rigorous regulation and control must be introduced and kept up. And that is where I have my doubts here in Thailand if even in much more organised and less "laisser faire" countries-putting it nicely- are utterly failing in that aspect................an ethics commission perhaps?

hey Trump, what time is it? 1950 and counting backwards?

aaah yes, the Morrison faction of " as long as we are making money who gives a <deleted>, god bless"................

...or he might suffer from lead poisoning and no one ever finds the source of the metal...............

......" take 2 aspirins, have a lie down , if it doesn't go away do come back.................. for more aspirins........."

Follow the US lead............

China has for years tried to "introduce" a sort of tourist police in all major countries where their brainwashed citizens -especially students) go en masse and might learn the meaning of free speech and forced occupation of foreign land in other than mandarin and quite possibly speak to the abominable and uninfluenced locals. This is a camouflage for the communist secret police spying and having a stranglehold on chinese nationals abroad or their families in China, mainly Uighurs and Tibetans from the occupied territories but also chinese artists and actual thinking people. In several EU countries this has been the subject to diplomatic conflicts and consequenses. Thailand of course -it might not realise this- is after the de facto fall of Laos and Cambodia the next in line and any type of 5th column supported by the CCP and the colaborators here. Be very afraid. For further info, please do read Clive Hamilton/ Mareike Ohlberg : Hidden hand and Frank Dikoetter : China after Mao and Sterling Seagrave : Lords of the Rim. Enjoy the goose bumps.

In the bible belt , right. And who lives there voluntarily? Right again. It seems there are also very strict laws down there where wasp sheriffs rule that gets people arrested for carrying a bottle of beer from 1 province into another. Imagine how the local squirrels would love that, a goldmine.

they'd have to learn the rules themselves first, then teach them at driving school -along with right of way at intersections(there is a common misunderstanding that the cheekiest is first) and quite possibly take away mobile phones if caught LINE'ing on bikes and in traffic...........that will boost the mobile sales if nothing else.

yep....and we all got sand in to the gearbox, that's parts of growing up............40 years ago one could find a 5km lonely stretch of beach in Portugal , took you 1/2 hour by VW bus to even get there behind the dunes, you'd spread the blanket, uncorked the vinho verde and started to love your girlfriend . Lo and behold, the locals must have been dug in like Fremen in Dune just to pop up at the top of the dunes the second you checked the oil..............but no, nobody shot pics, screamed bloody traditional portuguese catholicism or even called the ACAB for a rip-off, so what?! Give 'em a good time while we were having a better one.

The Chinese designed plague changed the whole world, yes.....................

East Turkestan or as the occupying Han maoist empire calls it Xinjiang, is actually a separate country, independant until the Chinese noticed "it has always been China, just like Tibet, most of the Pacific and and and...", ethnically NOT chinese, language very very different, not even same language family, and a long history of it's own, including an Indo-Iranian part that goes back min. 3500 years. An estimated 2 Million of them are currently in concentration camps for wearing beards, praying in public, standing on street corners or just looking suspicious, then working as slaves in the Chinese run cotton industry or at a VW factory in Xinjiang, a fact VW does not like published. Their flag is a bright blue with a white halfmoon and their language and ethnicity a turkmen-kasach origin. And if caught illegal or semilegal in Thailand they get deported to commie China where in general they are sooner or later sentenced to death for ....hmmm, usually being Uighur is enough. Maybe not if they wave the little red book .

Trying hard to remove all that made Bangkok charming and unique and all that made one feel freer that elsewhere will not turn it into a new organised and fair Singapore. The corruption, the pigheadedness, the xenophobia, the pollution and dysfunctions, taxi and meth criminality and bureaucracy especially for expats remain and will always................now simply without charm compensation.................soon all bargirls will be banned to brothels and taxed (never forget the mulah!) , CCTV will be stuck to every corner including automatic reports to the Chinese embassy and China will demand more market for casinos and cars (with automatic reports back to the embassy) and triads and dumped bads, sorry, goods, and and and......

CHIANG MAI ??? How long have you been here. Just give it a week until the floods have dried out and the mud is dust for a first taste, then wait for December and the succeeding months.................enjoy AQI up to 600 ......................does wonders for one's COPD or bronchitis.

.....every parliament on the planet, just in most they have already got so used to the "material" they are letting out uncontrolled that it does not make news headlines, actually I wonder if..................................naw, can't be...........

the last I heard on that was that the rather substantial reduction of the 360% tax and duty on wine (being the preferred liquid of the foreign devil......and a certain x-PM - if over 100k/bottle) would go out the window right away...........well 1) right away is not really translatable and 2) the supermarkets will have a say in the end price. They do it in all western countries, raising all consumer prices way beyond the inflation rate and forgetting to lower them again when inflation is down. Oh what joy to be a neoliberal capitalist today, licence to print money and we all buy the paper and ink and provide the labour too.

...........Happy Ending..............?

No, surely not.

Chinese? Because if European or Yank the article would say. If he uses a public or hotel toilet the deed would land more or less in the same spot, only later because it has to wind it's way through the canalisation. A clear Monopoly playing card: "Do not go past the sewage clearance plant, go straight to the pipes and out to sea".

Probably a Palestinian whose house and facilities have been bombed because Hamas was hiding in the toilet.......oooops, was only his kids, but who cares, right?!