jasreeve17

I've tried a few Thai wines, they were sweet ones from central areas; Saraburi, Korat etc. Just dessert wines really and totally disgusting.

I got a couple of decent wines from Emporium on a buy 1 get 1 free basis (French table wines worth about 1 euro, very hit and miss), but still over 500 baht each.

When I visit the relatives in Spain I pick up local wines at between 1 and 2 euros each which are very drinkable. I would have brought some back next time but with the heavy duties imposed and recent clampdowns, I don't think I'll bother. I'll stick to the Chang Draft (in bottles), a very nice new beer and only 38 baht for a big bottle.

(I'm still searching out the local shop that has 3 for 100 baht - not found it yet)

I'm not always a cheap charlie, I do like a nice Kruge...

Please bear with me and forgive my horrible english. No just kidding I ran it through an online dutch-english translator. The guy is a convicted felon. Commiting multiple robberies, fraude, abuse, drug related activities and even participating in a criminal organisation. What a coincidence. Also you (we) here only the dutch side of the story. Wait example. Its happening in the case of natalee holloway too. Dr. Phil is abusing his power to influence people into believing that its the dutch governments fault on how things goes. Hes twisting things, telling half truths and the people buy it.

Same same goes for our media. What do we hear? Machiel Kuyt is innocent, he didnt have coke, thailand is corrupt, its thailands fault. Do we hear hes a convicted fellon? Do we hear interviews with the thai people working on the case?

The article you quoted of the Dutch crime-fighter Peter R. de Vries is an old article and was discussed just 1 hour ago in a Dutch TV-program about the case of Machiel Kuijt.

The content of that article appear to be NOT TRUE and as a matter of fact the Dutch lawyer of Machiel Kuijt (a top-lawyer) explained that last year, BECAUSE of that particular article by De Vries, the family asked and RECEIVED an OFFICIAL declaration of the Dutch Government (Foreign and Justice department) by means of the Amsterdam Mayor Mr. Cohen, that Machiel Kuijt does NOT HAVE or HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD in The Netherlands AND THEREFORE IS NOT A 'CONVICTED FELON' as you describe it.

Please do not write things you have not researched and which are completely false.

Apart from that the content of said article has NOTHING, but NOTHING to do with the case in Thailand.

LaoPo

If you read the article by De Vries he does not say that Kuijt is a 'convicted felon' or that he had a criminal record. What he does say is that Kuijt is a known person by the police for numerous things since 1984(records before that were probably not kept because he was a minor), but never mentions being convicted. (maybe, just like in Thailand, he always had somebody else to take the fall or have them carry the drugs?)

What his article tried to point out is that he was and is a man of dubious character. The press, his family&lawyer etc. at the time were portraying him as a kind of saint who had never ever done anything wrong or harmed anybody and therefore IS innocent, Thailand was a terrible country for convicting him etc etc.

As he says in his article this does not mean Kuijt is guilty in Thailand, but people should be aware of his dubious past instead of some poor guy who was just over there who was wrongly convicted. His past and his ex-gf with drugs will make most people think a liitle different to the case, and that is exactly what his family and lawyer did not want anybody to do and made him out to be a saint who was just over there visiting his children.

As to the question if he's guilty or not? Only he can tell for sure....as for the rest of us....don't get involved with drugs or people who deal drugs in Thailand

Questioning his character is one thing. The rulings from a court of law are quite another.

This thread is about injustice, due to a legal system that has seemingly convicted a man with no evidence. This case is an example of a legal system being seen not to work within legal parameters that work elsewhere in the World - including other "similar" Asian countries.

The key evidence of "he must have known" would not be acceptable in any other country that claims to have a respectable legal system. Whether that country has harsh penalties on drungs or not (Singapore / Malaysia) is irrelevant, because we are discussing the evidence, not the sentencing structure.

Your last paragraph "only he can tell for sure" is also irrelevant. The court of law is burdened to prove this fact.

To the author; Thank you for this interesting thread.

Hello,

I want to spend a week, over the New Year, in ChiangMai.

I'm getting older and fatter and thus thought that a little bit of exercise and culture up North may be a nice way to relax this year.

I've never been up there before (lived in Bangkok for three years) and am seeking a little advice, please:-

1) Any suggestions as to Thai boxing camps. (close to town and accom would be great)

2) Where would be a nice place to relax around town? Not KaoSan travllerish, not Pattsexish, not Suk longtermerish. Maybe a few drinks amongst a few foreigners who don't have dreadlocks and whose primary concern isn't getting sex.

3) With only a couple of days to see the sights, what would you suggest as a "crash course"?

Many thanks,

Jason

Sorry to be so pedantic on this wonderful sunny morn. I have seen the term 'western farang', is there such a thing as an 'eastern farang'?

A farang is a white person.

Or a French person. Would Tierry Henry, Patrick Vierra, etc etc be Farangs? Mongolians are the Whietest people I've ever seen. Are they Farangs?

[sorry, wrong thread]

As far as casual sex goes, if I'm with someone new and gorgeous, I don't think about anything except how beautiful they are and how lucky I am to be inside them, but after I have been having relations with them for a long time, I start having progressively dirtier fantasies about them doing filthier and filthier things until, eventually, I'm bored and just not sexually interested in them any more.

If it is someone that I'm not very attracted to, I start with the dirty fantasies immediately!

Same here.

Ulysses G and Colonel_Mustard clearly have the correct answer to the question. Adding thoughts of Margaret Thatcher or Auntie Gert if it's the former situation, and thoughts of Monica Bellucci if it's the latter (for length of argasm control).

I got stuck in an elevator in Singapore in the 1970's for over 3 hours. It seems that these elevators were designated either for even or odd numbered floors only even though they all were capable of stopping at all floors. Singapore got around this by stationing a little Indian fellow in each elevator. I climbed aboard at the lobby floor to go to an even numbered floor along with another gentleman and three female office workers. When the other gentle man pushed a button for an ODD numbered floor, the Indian elevator monitor hit the emergency stop button and chastised the rule breaker. After he finished his lecture, he attempted to restart the elevator. Needless to say it would not restart and we spent the next 3 hours waiting for rescue. Only in Singapore

Only in Singapore or in Siam Square - pick an odd or even lift, if you are mistaken the "little Thai fellow", stationed in the elevator, will inform you so.

Elevator story - Singapore 1970's. Thailand 2006.

Airport story - Singapore 1970's. Thailand 2006.