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Drunk Driver Kills Traffic Policeman at Bangkok Charity Event
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
My guess is most long-term residents have got into a taxi where the driver is blitzed on alcohol. Do they get very bored with the job? Or what? -
Thai-Brit apprehended for drug-induced car rampage in Pattaya
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
What the heck is going on this month? -
Thai-Brit apprehended for drug-induced car rampage in Pattaya
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Pattaya News
What the f- is going on this month? -
Frozen pension policy turns British expat's dream into a nightmare
eumenades replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Yes. And hardly any knowledge of the basics in economics. -
Yes. Hungary and Czechoslovakia too. And what was the 'former glory'? All satellite countries remember best is the oppression.
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Phuket Hospital Appeals for Respectful Conduct from Russian Patients
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
A lot of this stuff just weirds me out. I spent a week on a Russian ship and got on well with all of them. But, for some reason, Thailand seems to get the worst of them. -
Phuket Hospital Appeals for Respectful Conduct from Russian Patients
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
As Clockwork Orange droogs will tell'em! -
Phuket Hospital Appeals for Respectful Conduct from Russian Patients
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
Fine. Time for some 're-acculturation'. -
Phuket Hospital Appeals for Respectful Conduct from Russian Patients
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
Ditto. -
Phuket Hospital Appeals for Respectful Conduct from Russian Patients
eumenades replied to webfact's topic in Phuket News
It is a pity I am not around in these situations. (I am 6ft tall and weight best part of 200 lbs.) The Russians need to understand that Thailand is a culture based on 'kreng jai' (politeness) and cooperation. Anybody here in for some 'total immersion'? -
Best answer, so far.
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A lot of the mods went to college and studied marketing, no doubt. (Let's see if this one gets through.) My apologies to the Testosterone Sundowners, but this stuff gets analysis in contemporary sociology. And it is worth reading. "The individual is thus both a receiver and transmitter of current values dominated by a multi-million pound advertising industry, itself embedded within a corporate media structure and governed by an indiscernible few. Those at the top have vested interests in the propagation of preferred consumption lifestyles—i.e. those which guarantee increased spending and profits in a ‘work and spend’ culture where consumption is the driving wheel of an economy which, in turn, benefits those with the most power and control. 1 Yet personal values and self-esteem are managed by the advertising industry which now, through its financial force majeure, determines news coverage and program content in the US nationwide media, ironically insisting ‘freedom of choice’ still being regulated by ‘consumer sovereignty’. But these assertions are misleading, as we shall see." from : Consumerism: seduction via the current media - book chapter John Graham Wilson. https://www.academia.edu/34010793/Consumerism_seduction_via_the_current_media_book_chapter
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Just substitute 'Ukraine' for 'Vietnam' and share some happy memories!
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Ah! "recieved at Laksi (Bangok International Mail sorting office)" So, that's where we go to sort our mail from officials with their feet on the desks eating look-chins!
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French national apprehended in Bangkok on kidnap charge
eumenades replied to snoop1130's topic in Bangkok News
Sounds like one of those crumby airport bookshop novels. -
Postal reception in Bangkok is pretty lousy. I have a large envelope from the UK posted 17th January still in transition. But where?
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"Testosterone fading into the sunset." I love that phrase. Especially when it was always a substitute for reading books or dopamine.
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Or she can stay with her family and have her dad saying, "Get married. Get a job," selling t-shirts for 6,000 baht a month.
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Russia : Any old-timer anti-war activists out there?
eumenades replied to eumenades's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
High times! -
Russia : Any old-timer anti-war activists out there?
eumenades replied to eumenades's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
You need a lot of balls to stand up to Putin and it is too dangerous to do it in Russia. But there are many tuning in to alternative media. And now, even the mothers are asking Putin, "What the hell do you want my boy for?" A snowball effect? Here's hoping. "Don't speak too soon while the wheels' still in spin." -
Russia : Any old-timer anti-war activists out there?
eumenades replied to eumenades's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Great story! -
Russia : Any old-timer anti-war activists out there?
eumenades replied to eumenades's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Actually, many needed to get a job. -
Russia : Any old-timer anti-war activists out there?
eumenades replied to eumenades's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Substance for a video?