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Suphon, a 47-year-old motorbike taxi driver, voiced his frustration: “We can’t force customers to wear shared helmets. If we do, they just walk away or don’t take the ride. We lose income either way,” he explained. Suphon and fellow drivers feel the 2,000 baht fine is excessive under the current economic conditions. If he winds up in an accident and the rider gets killed, I'd wager that would really hurt his "profits"

Yea, and Trump says shining a black light up your butt will cure Covid 19 as well as a good dose of intravenous Clorox Bleach. Flushes that Covid right out!

Just read through many posts. It's quite amazing how ignorant most of them are. HIV benign? you ferkin' kidding? It's killed millions across the globe since 1985 or therabouts. HIV risk of transmission less than 1% unprotected? BS, it depends a lot on who is receiving what type of sex NOT your sexual preference. People skeptical of the CDC and well established studies. Most of you nutters should get tested right away. Wow, just unbelievable the complete lack of awareness and knowledge of the disease. Some complete idiot stating circumcision is the way to avoid HIV transmission? Where do these people come from? I can't figure it out. My hopes that many of the posts are just trolls, but I fear not.

This incident is very revealing as to how Thailand is quite crude in many respects compared to Japan, Singapore and Korea. A Thai citizen, basically clueless as to the cultural differences ( probably never being educated about them) conducts himself in just the same manner as he would at home. Thailand: Public urination: for the most part accepted. Bribery of the boys in brown: very common practice Singapore Public urination: well known legal offense Bribery of police: well known legal offense

Something that you might want to relay onto your "people". Don't surf to close to the edge. Make sure they understand that they could fall off!

Hey, just wondering, since you seem to be so well informed, how thick is the flat earth we are living on?

June thinks Ward may have upset the Beave

I thought some people would home in on this. I deleted it because I thought that would happen, but if you don't know below is here career profile. You want to focus on dogging Kamala Harris instead of what else I wrote? She's got an extremely respectable and quite significant public service career starting years ago. Don't you know that? Deputy District Attorney, Alameda County District Attorney's Office (1990-1998) Managing Attorney, Career Criminal Unit, San Francisco District Attorney's Office (1998-2000) Chief of the Community and Neighborhood Division, San Francisco City Attorney's Office (2000-2003) District Attorney of San Francisco (2004-2011) Attorney General of California (2011-2017) U.S. Senator from California (2017-2021) Vice President of the United States (2021-Present) I'm from the Bay Area and the place hosts some of the brightest and most forward thinking people on the planet.

I'm old enough to actually remember hearing Nixon speak. Republican Presidents along the way have not been the brightest IMHO, but compared to Trump they sound geniuses. I was not a Reagan fan or fan of Bush Sr. and Jr. But these men were much more equipped to be diplomats although their agenda was questionable to me in many cases. IMHO, among all the Presidents I've known Trump has got to be the least articulate, least diplomatic President. He's obviously not much of a humanitarian, unleashes the most absurd rhetoric almost daily and is seems primarily concerned with himself, how he looks (at least in his own mind) and serving his own fragile ego. (for instance the TACO back and forth press conference) Just unbelievable how modern propaganda techniques combined with the power of social media and it's algorithms tune programing to those susceptible to his subtle message of hate, intolerance, fear, protectionism, bigotry and the like. He's gained favor by stoking the fears and hate in others and giving them scapegoats to blame for what they think is lacking in their lives. (Immigrants and the radical left he says) His supporters appear to have embraced being victims that actually think he has their best interest in mind. One can only hope and pray (if they have a God in their lives) that something will happen to change him in a radical and transforming way. Something to help him understand the errors of his ways and do a reversal of sorts.

Here's an anagram of a phrase that I don't think we'd ever catch you saying. Punks Crust, Mu Can you guess what that phrase might be?

We're not "grumpy" .. just too many youngsters running around that get upset at the slightest mention of them being entitled, participation trophy laden, under educated brats.

Pretty soon the only reporter's he'll have left will be from the Green Acres High School Bugle. He keeps trying to kick out the "nasty" ones. Poor Donald, can't answer the hard questions there mate?

You beat me to it! LOL. Well pretty much sums it up.

Trump doesn't have long before he loses complete credibility with those who have tried to hang on in this first 4 months of his second term. Even Wall Street is starting to know how to play his unpredictable and uninformed quick actions. Executive orders $.05 a piece!! His TACO approach to tariffs shows just how little this guy really understands global trade and commerce. Financial analysts and investors began using "TACO" as shorthand to describe this predictable cycle, allowing them to anticipate market rebounds after a tariff threat was announced. While Trump himself has rejected the term, insisting his actions are part of a negotiation strategy, the acronym gained traction on Wall Street to describe his often volatile and unpredictable approach to trade. Yep Trump always chickens out.

Unless one is wearing a completely sealed mask the effectiveness of wearing those common surgical masks that everyone wears is mostly for protecting others from you. During COVID-19, wearing a common surgical mask offers both protection to the wearer and protection to others, but it is generally considered to be more effective at protecting others

Quality and Cleanliness? How about EXISTENCE of Helmets provided by Motorbike taxi's. In Bangkok, you'll rarely see a motorbike taxi offering a helmet to passengers.

LOL, Dude are you "winning"? Cause, you know, your hero thinks that's what it's all about right?

Most can be fairly certain God is the last thing on this man's mind. If God were, he would be saying and doing things quite differently. Everyone can tell by the way this man talks and acts that he knows no God nor act's much like anyone who has a God in their life. We can only pray that he might actually come to know God and start living by spiritual principles rather than the superficial satisfaction of his need for Power, Social Recognition, Sex, Money and the like. It's quite obvious this man has serving himself in the front of his agenda. Not serving God.

No, that is what Fox news and all your Facebook and Youtube propaganda will tell you because they got your number buddy! Actually this is a perfect example of one branch of US Government holding the other in check. Do you know how US government works? Three branches were setup by founding fathers to hold each other in check. This is the US government working as it should and holding a cowboy loose cannon of a President in check.

You actually think Canadian leaders make decisions based on watching mainstream media? They actually have conversations with the guy don't you know? They all now who they guy is mainly by his actions over the years and interactions with their heads of state and diplomats. They think he's a joke and a loose cannon wielding too much power with very little knowledge. He takes a lot of cues from his so called "cabinet" and those people have some really strange ideas about how the USA should get along in the Global community It doesn't take anyone with a good head on their shoulders to understand just how ill-informed, sophomoric and under educated Trump is. The notion that the entirety of Canada could be state is completely unrealistic, ludicrous. I will never happen. It is next to impossible. It's all hot air and the MAGA group Trump Fan boys just eat up his simple minded BS and ideas.

It all boils down to four simple words. You not have money! Someone getting caught on a dine and ditch is funny in any language 🤣

I had rarely visited Soi 6 when living in Pattya, but when I did, the shear numbers of Indians there was a big turn off. Why you might ask? Looking at the large number of Indian punters I'd ask myself. Do you really want to go where that guy has been? Simple answer: hell no. Especially when hanging out in a bar or two with Indian men they always makes you aware that their attitude toward hygiene (daily showering and regularly washing clothes etc) is very bad. They most always reek. Makes you wonder just how much they think about STD's etc. I don't have anything against Indian people, but when it comes to messing around with women that they've been with (and most of you punters too) I don't want em' Steer clear. Makes me nauseous thinking about all the crumby punters these girls have been with.

What other past Visa classes are getting "hassled" trying to enter Visa Free? Like if someone had a marriage visa in the past and is trying to enter visa free? Marriage? Retirement? Investor? Multiple Entry in the past?

Somehow you've been fooled into thinking that "winning" is a function of Government? WTF? You are kidding right? Man, they got you hooked on the MAGA conspiracy train. Mid terms are coming. Dems will take a house for sure with the moves this clown has been making.

A bit thick yea? Kind of a "dim bulb"? Willing to say ANYTHING in the moment without any backbone to do what he says. Just terrible. He won't be gone soon enough. Mid term elections won't come soon enough. At least cut the legs out from underneath him by getting the democrats back into control of at least one of the houses of congress.