Katatonica

Rubbish. He just made up the deficit numbers anyway, pure fabrication.. There is no such thing as a trade deficit between a small country and one as large as the USA. It is a big market, they are not, simple fact. USA cannot sell a lot of goods to a small country because it doesn't have the population, but t he reverse is true. To try to equalise that situation is ludicrous.

The only thing Trump craves is to feed his need for attention, nothing else matters, worldwide slump or American recession, he doesn't care. He didn't get enough attention as a child so now it's 'look at what I can do.' Let's face it, everyone's talking about Trumpanomics.

Right. To which marine classification society standards?

How likely is it they allow smoking? On a petrol powered wooden hulled craft carrying several hundred litres of petrol/gasoline. How leakproof were the fuel tanks, fittings, hoses, too? And the tank fume vent locations..?

That was the highest building in Bangkok from 2016-8, King Power Mahanakorn, was wondering about it - spend a few weeks in a hotel right next door a couple of years ago. It has 200 units of Ritz-Carlton Residences in it, up to $17 million USD. Going to be a lot of peed off rich Thais there.

Why on earth would you think condo buyers have a choice between buying a property and living amongst poor people, thievery and meth heads??

They should of course be denigrated and if necessary for security, arrested. What else? They are either fools or supporters of pure evil.

You've seriously never seen a Thai asleep on the pavement? And how many Thai men go to Europe? Hefty fine? What for? He wasn't hurting anyone either, just sleepy.. Before you ask, no, I have never done that, but live and let live, he's on holiday.

I had crippling sciatica, that I'd had for years, almost fixed with one massage at a place in Bang Tao, Phuket. Prior to that an ex-England Rugby team physiotherapist had completely failed to help at all by massage nor acupuncture in a lot of expensive sessions. A few more Thai massage sessions and it's absolutely cured. Not a twinge in well over a decade. It certainly can work if done by someone who knows what they're doing.

There is an existing certification system for properly anatomically, pressure point etc trained massage practitioners.

Or he was just determined to overtake the motorbike he starts to pass on the corner, in the video. It probably passed him earlier which annoyed him. I do not see any brake lights on the bus going into the corner, or at all. The bikers were lucky to stop in time.

I think that's only when the word 'bar' is in their job description though. The other 99.9% are not at all.

That would have been the army. I witnessed a shootout on the streets by some bank robbers, from the army, in the early 90's in Manila: scary place. We were locked in the guest house when I got there, steel cage round it, never seen anything like that before. It's nowhere near like that now though.

Maybe not from those ones.. Pretty ruthless way of sending a message to the rest though.

You can buy a Grab outfit online.. just sayin

High chance they were given little choice in the endeavour by the organisers, who will never be caught.

Knew a guy once back in the 90's who was in a Northern border town, Mai Hong Son or Pai maybe and a friendly Thai with a 4x4 asked if he wanted to join for a trip into the hills. Next thing he knows there's Burmese loading kilos of smack onto the jeep and he realises he's the fall guy for a cross-border smuggling trip. Terrified. Last I heard he was run over and killed by a minibus in Bangkok..

Easily done with a telescope though.

That's a little ridiculous isn't it? We can see the whole planet from anything in space and there's of lot of stuff with cameras up there nowadays. Not to mention aircraft and those 'rare expeditions'. Antarctica was mapped hundreds of years ago, long before we even had aircraft, never mind spacecraft. The Piri Reis map which shows Antarctica was made from many much earlier maps and the Arctic is just ice, you can pretty much sail through it nowadays. And no, I didn't infer it was a disc at all, it's plainly an imperfect sphere and anyone who tries to argue otherwise is plainly daft. Explain the completely standard nature of nautical miles and area and their relationship to compass direction. If the earth is flat then North is a long straight line thousands of miles long, as are the other cardinal points. There are only two poles and they are plainly just discrete points. there is no East or west pole but on a flat earth they would be the end of the world. I've sailed over most of the ocean bits and can assure you there is no end in any direction.

From the bridge of a ship you can see about 12 miles, depending how high it is. If the earth was flat you could see everything in every direction provided there wasn't something in the way of your line of sight. Why can't you see the Himalayas for instance, from everywhere on earth? Because they're over the horizon unless you're close to them. You can also travel in any direction for roughly 24k miles, i.e. the CIRCUMFERENCE of the earth and end up in the same place you started from, which is hardly possible on a disc. Why don't we head about people and things disappearing of the edge all the time? What would happen to them? And how come cats haven't pushed everything off the edge by now?

The Solong did not make a single course correction for hundreds of miles, just auto-following another route so if they did intend to hit the tanker it was a magical bit of navigation especially as there were at least half a dozen other vessels at the same anchorage. More than likely the watch keepers fell asleep, although they would have had a compulsory alarm system to regularly wake them up, if not deactivated. The captain could well have been off-watch and elsewhere in the accommodation although the responsibility is ultimately his. Any other theory such as deliberate sabotage is extremely unlikely.

I flew on AirAsia and Scoot (Singapore Air's budget line) in the last week and power bank charging was banned during take-off and landing only.

The only restaurants in either country you refer to that insist on customers paying before getting their drinks or food are food courts, and that's the same as Thailand.

Don't think so. Maybe it's a bit frowned on very recently but we used to have a pub lunch quite often in the UK. Business lunches on expenses could get pretty boozy for senior executives down.

Anyone normally can, I had no idea bars couldn't sell alcohol between 2 and 5pm as all bars I'e ever been to in Phuket, Bangkok, etc do sell it. The problem is that supermarkets and 7-11s do not. So if you happen to be doing your weekly shop and want a few beers or a bottle of wine and forget about the rather irrational regulation it's really annoying, you have to make anther trip later on. Same if you get invited to a friend's place for an afternoon pool party and can't arrive with a bottle. Just inconvenient and actually exacerbates alcoholism if anything as people end up keeping more in their fridge than one would normally.. Plus at the airports - 2-5pm you can't grab a can from the 7-11 at 35-60 baht or whatever, but you can still buy from the restaurants and takeaways at 250 baht.. ludicrous.