NoMoonLogistics

False premise. Evidence; USA getting its arse shot up by every "piss ant" country it has taken on for the past 75 years. Lol, even Cambodia has whipped thier bloated sad arse. "Superior weaponry", for sure. No brains, no stomach for casualties, zero understanding of either thier enemies or the country the are fighing in - and always fighting a different style of war other than the one needed to win. Look at thier shocking record and let that sink in. USA proves - definitively - that military might is NOT the deciding factor. Thier famed military/industrial complex should be renamed from the Merchants of Death >> to the Merchants of Defeat.

Wow. An airport taxi driver saying this is the quietest tourist season for years. Take photograph. Call the Guiness Book of Records. By my reckoning, that is exactly 624 million Thai taxi drivers that have said exactly the same thing since Portugese explorer Duate Fernadez first heard the words on his visit to Ayatthaya in 1511. 1 million a year - singing in chorus - for 624 years. Wow. Who would have thought that Thai taxi drivers could ever be so reliable - about anything?

Given the hypocracy that is deeply embedded in the DNA of both the UN and US foreign policy, it would not surprise me if they declared war on Thailand and Cambodia if they did not end the fighting.

I can trumpet from the rooftops all i like.. "I have ZERO tolerence for gluten" But that doesn't make it true. In fact it is total BS.

"Apart from these, he's as clean as a whistle. 🙂 " Ahhh... so my favourate old Aussie smack head finally got clean? Methadone? or cold turkey and 30 Narcotics Anonamous meetings in 30 days? Remember foks - never loose hope for your junkie friends. Miracles do happen and one day >> look see >> next thing you know they are deputy PM. There, but by the grace of God (/or the region's biggest Mafia), go I.

If you are still there Simon - thanks heaps for that!! I have just been googling around looking to ID the "black, long white-tipped tailed bird that i (very poorly) photographed this afternoon in a coastal State Forest on Koh Kood. This R-t treepie is definitely it. Nb Nb We need a real birder - or 3 - down here to start putting together a species list for the island. I am hopeless outside my easy, out in the open, wader and coastal species. Thanks again, i might check out this thread/topic here. 'Recently come over from the Cambodian coast.

Anybody reading this thread is a pervert. These beauty pagents are very sick stuff. 'Darknet material. How was ever allowed to go global? I mean, it would be nearly as bad as seeing your daughter pop up in a porn vid, for her to enter one of these dog and pony shows. And if your son ever married a contestant you would immediately have to shoot him in the head >> for stupidity >> and to save him from a lifetime of worry and woe. I am 72, happily married, never been a sexpat or a bar goer >> but give me a good honest, down to earth pole dancer rather than one if these fake "objects" any old day of the week. Worse than a pair of plastic tits.

Flock me. Bow down. We have a Real Man in our presence. Dripping with a lifetime of spilled blood, no less. Ohh... how the women must swoon at a Real Man who slaughters (defenceless, fully restrained) animals for a living.

Well, thanks for that fascinating glimpse inside your (mean spirited) imagination.

Yes, the flu has gone viral because this is a filthy country, ridden with slums and poeple who don't care about the food that they eat. Yeah right. You blew your toxic opinion right out of the water when you stated that the flu is "all over Europe too".

Thailand could raise it's ICE force just with all the wannabe National Tourist Policy makers here. "They should ban her" They should ban him" "Anyone who (perfectly legally) stays here cheaper than me" "Anyone with a lifestyle different to mine >> Ban Them!!" Bunch of crusty old wannabe policemen without a happy life of thier own looking out at the big wide wonderful world thru thier narrow mean little eyes.

Hey, you cant blame her for looking all grandmothery and out of place despite wearing the late-teenager bell bottoms and leather jacket. She missed her authentic "ditsy rich Thai daughter doing the obligatory gap year or bachelors degree in old England" years when made to play act PM for her dad during her youth instead.

I like it here. It's just like back home. The gaols are full but not one single banker or bishop or business leader is in there.

Everbody hates us. Why? We are the ones chosen by God. Didn't you know? we are also the alltime "World's Biggest Victims". Poor me. We do whatever the <deleted> we want to - because we are so special... and so hard done by. So anything we do is ok. You know very well that our country is sactified by God and hence your lowly "national soveriegnty" means nothing to us. How could it? I can't figure it out.... why TF does everbody hate us?

Oh ffs. Get a life all you wannabe Thai immigration ministers. You fat yank fascist border policemen. You pathetic bloated-belly alcoholic sexually immature deviants >> and let others get on with living thier lives even if you don't know what that means for yourself.

Is this the start of a completely new trend for Thailand? No more pimping out thier daughters.

Smoke dope. Keep partying right thru the night. No point in getting up until 11 am. I like this bloke. When is he bringing back opium dens?

Here on the upper-Gulf islands and coastal belt It started regular raining in mid March. At least we got a relatively cool April period - shielded by heaps of cloud. One of the earliest starts to the rainy season i have seen in 20 years of sitting on my kayak in the locale. Heavy too - and storms not tapering off after the regular main "storm season" - ie, April, May, June. Now, it is forcast to continue. Don't get me wrong - i like battling head on into the raging SW monsoon on my toothpick of a boat. And dodging the lightning that tries every day to murder me personally is one of the main reasons i love being alive - but my plea to The Heavens >> Please.... blue sky, a cool NE breeze, and the surface of the sea looking like glass would be a verrry welcome change if you ever get out of this particularly foul mood you have been in for the past seven full months. Sometimes, occasionally, (just like my wife) - you weather Gods can be a downright bitch.

I didn't hold too much credence that there was very much in this whole saga. 'Just random political missiles firing over my head. It is Trumps denials that has 100% convinced me otherwise. Anyone who thinks Trumps barrage of BS sounds like the truth is either BS'ing themselves - or an idiot. Silver Lining; "It was the Radical Left wot done it" >> he gets a Political Comedy Alltime Gold Medal for this.

Ok, fine to the laughers. Same poeple who havn't won a war in 75 years because they never learn a thing. Carry on.

Hey Jim. This play with Thaksin has zero to do with being a ruthless dictator. (something i sideways acknowledged in my very last sentence) Whether easier or not because of that is totally irrelevant to hardball geo politics with your hostile nieighbour. It's a "look over there" argument. As a hardcore progressivist i don't make the mistake of conflation about these things. It is one of ways we liberals neuter ourselves. "Dictator! Dictator!" changes nothing. We have to be hardcore hardball realpoliticists - dare i say it - like that f##ker Hun Sen. (ps, good discussion, J, thanks)

Hey Aussie - you, and the cops and everyone else tried thier dardnest to lock me up and cancel my life >> for 52 years (but didn't succeed) Last time i visited Australia i went to the doctor and he 'scripted me marijuana. My 2nd generation fabulous family pharmacist filled it for me from his amazingly varied stock. I smiled when i waved it at my old friend the Kings Cross policeman when walking back to my hotel room. He grinned back. Do you really think i should have left my lifelong (child abuse iniated) PTSD untreated for 50 years because of YOUR ( and all the other f'er s like you) riddiculous USA intiated Drug War "lock em all up" ideology? #### off, "mate". (Ps, no - i did not mindlessly gobble down the 50 years endless succession of BigPharmas offerings for my ills - thank god - but i saw what happened to my friends that did)

You're not my friend any more. Ffs Thaksin may be political smart but Hun Sen has taken him for a joy ride. Once again. Thaksin actually thought deeply corrupt shared personal bussiness interests - ie, the Thai way - trumps hardcore national interest to a truly nationalist political leader like Hun Sen. Sucked in. Thaksin isn't a Nationalist - he is a 100% dedicated Shinawatraist whereas Hun Sen is a true political genious. (as well as all those other names we rightfully call him.)

Some facts >> Xi is dead set serious about slashing the waterfalls of yuan - and especially the yuan of currupt CCP officials - that flows out of China and into overseas casinos. Fact 2. Yes, ChInese criminals control many/most of the Cambodian and Myanmar casinos - but niether the Chinese government nor Xi Xi PingPongBalls does personally. You will never defeat your enemy if you beleve your own BS propaganda.

This patient is not going to cure itself - and i am not talking about Thaksin. Sadly, being a hardcore realist, my conclusion is that democray will never take hold here. And the combination of reverence to the Crown, Buddhist pacifism and the very effective organs of repression means a sucessful uprising is not realistically possible. I think we just have to get used it. ( << bitter words for a lifeling change-maker)