FriscoKid

Alcohol and cigarettes kill people. Those are alright though, right?

After three years and nearly 10,000 weed shops popping up like magic mushrooms in a field of cow dung, are we really supposed to believe they’re suddenly going to crack down on recreational use? Please. This is pure political theatre, optics of the highest order and a bit of smoke and mirrors so the government can pretend it’s cleaning house without actually lifting a finger. The free-for-all will carry on exactly as it has, just now with an extra sprinkle of bureaucracy for show and a bit of extra dosh for the local medical practitioners to write out medical use scripts to foreigners with chronic headaches 24/7. Picture it: hundreds of foreigners being dragged off every week for puffing a joint, while neon-lit dispensaries are slinging bags of “medical grade” to anyone who wants it like it’s a cannabis carnival. What are they going to say to CNN? “Come to Thailand: Land of Smiles and Surprise Drug Raids”? It would be a PR catastrophe. Tourism’s already taken a nosedive thanks to higher travel costs, a big drop in value for money (compared to the beach resorts of Vietnam and the Philippines), and general safety concerns over travel to Thailand. Start arresting foreigners over something you’ve openly made legally available for the last 3 years, and you might as well roll out a new slogan: “Amazing Thailand: Now with Bonus Handcuffs!” - It would be the nail in the coffin for Thai tourism.

I thought your hiatus from AN might help fix your verbal diarrhea problem and reduce the high level of drivel you pump out. No such luck though.

OMG, this is next-level, pure 9-11 WTC style genius. The ultimate Trojan Jet, custom built in hell’s finest aerospace lab by Iranian engineers with a grudge, a flash drive full of Stuxnet code, and a uranium paperweight on the cockpit dashboard for good luck. They said they’d assassinate him, and instead of going the old-fashioned route filled with C4, they’ve gift-wrapped him a $400 million flying time bomb courtesy of their golf buddies in Qatar. And he took it. Smiling. Waddled right up the steps like it was a golden chariot sent by Jesus himself. Fast-forward to 36,000 feet and boom, the engines suddenly forget to engine. Total systems failure. No alarms. No warnings. Right out of Putin's Prigozhin playbook. Just a MAGA missile nosediving into the annals of history. The black box? Squeaky clean. Probably last recorded “Diet Coke, please” and then eternal static. The official story? Mechanical malfunction. Thoughts and prayers. Cue flags at half mast and Facebook grandmas in tears. Meanwhile, halfway across the world, the mullahs are on their sixth round of champagne and doing the conga around a burning effigy of Mar-a-Lago. Qatar’s playing dumb like they didn’t just hand over the deadliest gift since the Greeks rolled up with a wooden horse. And his supporters? Eating it up like it’s gospel. Swallowed the bait, choked on the hook, and now clapping like trained seals at the funeral. You want poetic justice? Try a man who spent four years dodging every legal consequence imaginable, only to get flattened by a gift jet from the very people his fans think he’s tough on. To his own peril, mate. You couldn’t write this as fiction, nobody would even believe it.

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Wow, thank you, Professor Obvious. Here I was, worried about people getting scammed, but you’ve reminded us all that unless it’s a full-blown cult with a spoon glued to their forehead, it’s not worth mentioning. Truly heroic how you wade into every post to remind the peasants not to overreact. We’d all be lost without your fearless campaign to downplay absolutely everything.

I don't know where Thais go to smoke. That wasn't my point. I was only saying that they smoke more than the tourists do. But if you're a tourist, where are you going to smoke it if not close to the area where you bought it from? You can't go back to your hotel room and smoke it. So what are your options? Also, there is no smoking of anything allowed in restaurants in Thailand.

You giving it your best go for the AN idiot award are you?

The local consumption of weed in Thailand surely outnumbers the amount of weed consumed by all the weed tourists combined, and by a large margin.

Everybody seems to be missing the key point. Breathing used to be free. You weren't required to put some uncomfortable piece of rubber on your nose when you go to bed or when you exercise. According to the company's ad on Instagram, we're just not getting enough oxygen at all without one of these things strapped to our faces.

The world has gone full retard now. They have convinced humanity that they now need to buy a gadget to attach to their nose just to breathe air. What's next? A fart modulator? A tariff every time you nut in the shower? Looks like another Logan Paul scam venture. https://instagram.com/p/DIwAlNtgyhH/ https://aerium.ink

It is all done by touch and feel. You better get onboard fast!

Why do you always make the stupidest posts throughout any topic?

The cantaloupe’s turned into a flavourless chew toy, pineapple tastes like it’s given up on life, papaya smells like a bell-end unless it’s the fancy Holland kind, and the rose apples are like biting into a soggy cloud, nothing but overpriced water in the shape of fruit.

You are still the weirdest stalker troll I have ever seen, Susan.

Must say, the guava scene in Thailand has seriously leveled up though since I first landed here. Back then, guavas were dark green, like oversized jawbreakers, loaded with seeds, and with all the flavor of a damp sponge. It was like chewing on a horse’s hoof and wondering if this was some kind of local prank. Then came the seedless revolution, suddenly they were oddly shaped, weirdly light, and actually sweet. Game changer. But now, we’re in the era of the pink guava takeover, and I’m fully on board. I like to let them go borderline feral, keep them till the skin starts getting those suspicious brown freckles. The texture goes a bit rubbery, sure, but the flavor? Absolute sweet and sour explosion. Like fruit that’s been to therapy and found its purpose.

I’ve been in Thailand longer, but I swear the fruit just isn’t what it used to be. Half the time it tastes like it gave up on life before it even ripened. You either get a rock-hard guava that could break a window or a mango that’s already halfway to compost. Is it just me, or are they shipping all the good stuff overseas where they can charge triple and leave us here in the LOS with the rejects?

I use a combination of ChatGPT and Grok and spend much less time reading stuff on websites in general. Not because of the spam or the garbage necessarily, but just because it's faster and more comprehensive. But I still do use search engines if I'm trying to locate photos or news articles. DuckDuckGo is good. No ads and no tracking. The only thing I don't like about it is the new articles they give you in the search results are typically from news sites, but then they have been republished or aggregated on MSN. I prefer the actual news website and not going onto MSN so, if I'm searching for news, I still normally go onto Google because it provides direct news website links,. But that's about all I use it for. Even before the chat bots came along, I rarely went onto Google, mostly just DuckDuckGo.

I think those balls have already been well in motion since Trump took office. The UK, France and Germany have already stepped up.

It’s hard to disagree. To me, it’s just spam-packing — pushing out content that nobody really wants or needs, but finding ways to shove it in people’s faces anyway. It’s the kind of junk you get in your inbox that either gets caught by a spam filter or makes you hit unsubscribe the moment you see it. I think we’ve reached a point where, if someone genuinely wants to buy something, there are countless ways to find it online without needing constant content pushing products at them. It’s just force-fed advertising, and it’s completely unnecessary. But as you said, if there’s a way to make a buck from it, then people will do it. It still beats having a real job. Just not exactly the kind of thing that’s going to impress anyone if you bring it up at a dinner party. They will probably even consider you an Internet pest for hire.

Go onto YouTube and search for "digital nomad koh phangan" - It seems to be the mecca for it in Thailand. A low-budget, laptop-packer's paradise. I recall about a year or two ago, one of the news channels, perhaps BBC, did a small video piece on it, but I can't locate the clip now on YouTube.

You'll also hear the Millennials who do this schlock refer to it as online-gigs, side hustles, working remotely, location-independent professional, telecommuter, global freelancer, etc, but in my opinion, unless they're really employed by a company, have a steady flow of incoming paid assignments, or they really are running some form of their own business with an active customer base, then I would say most of them are just living on Hopium.

Sh*t, you've been a troll on this site since 2013, that's longer than tits on a bull, mate.

Congratulations, at least half on-topic, for once.