realfunster

Thank you AOT. I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across a smoking room in the new satellite terminal a few months back, not very well signposted at the time but it is there.

As I commented on yet another child drowning last week - just look yet again at the dangerous pond design used. Good swimmer or not, for a wet dog or person getting out of that PVC lined pool with steep and slippery sides is going to be a problem. Fatigue sets in and under you go. I wish they would launch a public service announcement with some basic (non-expensive) guidance on how not to make your water retention pond a complete deathtrap for both people and animals...put in stepped (or at least non vertical) sides when digging, have a safety line anchored somewhere etc etc.

You are aware that neither Airbus nor Boeing actually manufacture the engines that sit on their airframes ?

Well then, you may be interested in recent news (from a well known Thai language news site with an English version) that has CCTV of her and her husband illegally entering an Italian man’s condo, roughing him up, tying him up and forcing him to transfer GBP 25k.

Talk about deflection off the topic… I am delighted to hear this news, they should never have been taken captive in the first place. Assuming all goes to plan, they are very lucky to be making it back in one piece.

Wonderful. With the subsidised free public transport in BKK and acquiring masks to handle the air quality issues, enough government budget to provide xx% as defensible benefits to the power brokers. Reduce government and nationalise where possible, get the pigs away from the trough.

Yes, and I wonder how many of those actually switched from cars or were they just taking advantage of the free ride ? You would expect more of the latter ..?

Latter point - agreed. First point - how about some public advice on how not to construct ponds that are effectively deathtraps e.g putting in a stepped banking?

Oh FFS, just get rid of the damn thing. Total waste of time, resources and money. One step forward in suspending TM6 last year, now two steps back.

Hmm - seems odd, the turkeys are voting for Christmas ? Things must be bad.

Hmm - wouldn't agree with this, I work in a professional field and the standard is OK but reasonably below Europe. That shouldn't really be too surprising. Reasons ? A fairly weak educational system and wider systemic issues. I've had some shockers with both dentists and doctors here in Thailand. Thankfully nothing that has cost my health (yet) but certainly some money and time. At face value, parts of Thailand, especially Bangkok, are actually reasonably well developed in terms of infrastructure and technology but if you scratch beneath the surface.... Not meant to be negative but factual, Thailand is what it is - a developing country with all the pros and cons that entails.

Yawn - bored of whining Dems on here and the internet in general. You were up against Satan reincarnated (in your mind) and still couldn't win - how useless does that make you. You'd be better advised to take a long, hard look in the mirror and rationally assess why you lost to Beezlebub. When doing this exercise, try hard to avoid apportioning any blame to the "ignorance and stupidity of voters" and concentrate on self-analysis.

For those adding confused emoticons, I’ll spell it out.. We have a major nationwide air quality issue and our de facto leader is paying more attention to meeting with supermodels. Geddit ?

Genuine question - did you see if the water quality has improved ? I was once a fairly regular weekend day trip visitor from Bangkok but at some stage (say 5+ years ago) the sea was just consistently awful ( I mean really bad) for 1-2 years and we voted with our feet and never went back....

As I write this, this is the first topic on the Thailand News page. The 2nd topic is "Thaksin to discuss global path for Thai models with Naomi Campbell" Says it all doesn't it really...