Katatonica

I'm British, looks British to me. I'd take bets on Scouse or Manchester.. Was clearly staggering too.

Paul Warburg, independent political Journalist; China Spotlight - for this one at least and Dr Russel Razzaque, British psychiatrist with an interest in international politics:

Taxi and minibus drivers generally.

You find the terms he used offensive? Why is that? Poop and pee are words for infants as he said, whom are unlikely to be on this forum.

Pattaya and Patong in this case, bad behaviour being in either one often. equating the whole of Phuket with Patong isn't exactly rational. On the other hand, general news about Pattaya and Phuket is because of the sheer volume of tourism and foreign residents. So now you know.

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?