cmjl

Social media has a lot to answer for

RIP young man

12 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Burn in situ like they do up north...

Just what's needed,smoke particulates/smog/pollution and the risk of fire spreading,would spraying with Neem oil be a more natural and less hazardous answer

It takes a brave person to commit suicide,he/she may see no other way out

RIP

We used to travel in Northern Thailand for a couple of months each year,usually in January and February,after the last time we were there when the pollution was so bad we couldn't breathe properly we aren't in a hurry to go back.

39 minutes ago, IamNoone88 said:

If they stop letting in the bad guys in the fisrt place, then it would far better for all of us.

How do 'you' define the bad guys,nobody is going to admit that they are going to misbehave

The hypocrisy of people who are demonstrating for various causes(cults)often beggars belief,they have their rose coloured spectacles on and have 'ticked the box' which seems,in their eyes ,to justify every irresponsible act,reckless prank and malicious vandalism that they get up to,if these people can't see that their actions have consequences they deserve everything that happens to them and if that includes losing their jobs so be it.

15 hours ago, bigupandchill said:

Diesel is up there among the worst pollutants - it disperses slowly in air and is highly toxic. Putting the price up to reduce it's use would help, but would also increase inflation.

I was told that the particulates from petrol vehicles are finer so go further into the lungs than diesel particulates but why just blame diesel vehicles,the whole of Thailand is one huge mass of pollution especially in the North and until those in charge make it their business to enforce burning and emission laws nothing will change.

21 hours ago, rwill said:

My neighbor gets paid 500 baht per cow to stick his hand inside of them for artificial insemination.  He took me with him one time to see what he does.  First he would stick his hand inside the bung hole to clean it out.  Would get to about elbow depth.  I'm not sure why he had to do that but it said it made the insemination work better.

A biology/artificial insemination lesson! You forgot to add that after sticking his arm up the rectum he would then introduce into the vulva a hollow metal rod with a straw of semen in the end and the tube then covered with a plastic sleeve,the right hand helps guide the rod through the cervix and when it's through the plunger in the tube is pushed in which then sends the semen into the fallopian tubes after which you hope that the animal becomes pregnant - I know,not very satisfying for the female!

There's an old saying 'it's not what you've got it's how you use it'

10 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

So cities and states are lying about crime to help Joe Biden?

 

Sounds like Conspiracy Theory to me.

Did I say that? What I said was that most politicians use terminological inexactitudes to suit their own ends and it doesn't matter whether they're Democrats or Republicans in the US (the same thing also applies to the rest of the western world)

1 hour ago, candide said:

Despite what Trump and Fox News are claiming,  statistics are showing a declining crime trend in the U.S.

 

Violent crime is dropping fast in the U.S. — even if Americans don't believe it

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/1229891045/police-crime-baltimore-san-francisco-minneapolis-murder-statistics#:~:text=In cities big and small,own analysis of public data.

 

Crime in America is down, rudely interfering with GOP narrative that it's out of control

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2023/12/20/crime-murder-violence-down-biden-fox-news/71974355007/

 

There are lies,damn lies and statistics,politicians are trying to tell everyone that crime is down(just like unemployment),if crime isn't reported the numbers go down,numbers are always fiddled to suit the agenda of the ruling party.

As far as I'm aware,the Oct 7th atrocities were the worst massacre of Jews since Hitler's regime,it seems to me that as Hamas have decided that all Jews must die they are in the same bracket as Hitlers lot. Those who are defending Hamas should ask themselves how they would feel if their children had been at that music festival on Oct. 7th and had been raped and mutilated.

Having said that 'two wrongs do not make a right' BUT that needs give and take on both sides and at the moment it's not likely to happen.

40 minutes ago, steevjee said:

Witch hunt ...  LOL  The bloke is full on CORRUPT and has no idea of how to run a country, Biden is admittedly too old but at least he has political know how, Trump is seen as a complete clown by 90% of the outside world but you Yanks are so Xenophobic you just cant see it, either way you'll get a dud but Biden is by far the better dud.

But who is pulling Biden's strings because you can bet your bottom dollar that Biden is the puppet.

Like most politicians worldwide there are a lot of smoke and mirrors employed in the Biden/Trump fiasco.

What is even worse is that,in a country the size of America there is no-one able to put up enough money (or daft enough) to beat two elderly blokes with question marks hanging over their morals.

The grass is (always)greener on the other side of the fence except when you get in the other side you find it isn't,it seems as though the West is on a path of self destruction and I suspect that it won't matter where you try to settle you won't be happy.

7 hours ago, Etaoin Shrdlu said:

"Riyan mentioned that his parents were “supportive” of his decision to move...."

 

In other words, they gave him an ultimatum.

Not necessarily,they could be footing the bill for his sojourn in Thailand

13 hours ago, Hokeus said:

Is that a foot disease?

Only if your foot is in your mouth

41 minutes ago, khunpin said:

Good. Ban that criminal from coming back to Thailand! 

The Brits don't want him back!

The American has presumably flown into Thailand at some point therefore his luggage must have been through at least one lot of scanners so how come,on his way out of Phuket does a scanning machine find one cartridge in his luggage,it doesn't make sense.