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Applying different prices for people based on skin color or nationality is quite simply racist and/or nationalistic. The two are dangerously similar.

It's a black and white issue when it come to the definition. Now, the other crap that goes along with it is debatable.

I know that I personally don't like people who live in Hong Kong but think they know what's going on all over Thailand.

I also don't like it when people say stupid statements like, "...this is a different country". What a load and what a lame excuse for being racist. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the definition of racism.

1. People who stop their car or truck in the middle of the road, turn on their flashers, and go shopping.

2. People who don't have the common decency to wait in line.

All spiders have venom. They are venomous, not poisonous.

There are no seriously venomous spider here.

On another note, I got stung in the inner thigh by a huge hornet yesterday. Man, it still hurts almost as bad as when it first happened. Too bad it wasn't a spider. ;-)

I suspect a lot of people are going to get angry at what I am about to say, but here it is.

If you wish enlightenment, how would you go about it?

What would you give up to become enlightened?

Or what would you have to gain to become enlightened?

If you can not answer the questions as to what you would give up or attain to become enlightened, then perhaps you need to lose or gain nothing to become enlightened?

Therefore, perhaps you are already enlightened.

Your perception is in error.

Correct your perception, and you may find the enlightenment you already have.

Excellent points! I also think that a person can go in and out of enlightenment. Nirvana is not a place where once you reach it, you stay there in other words.

It's a state of non-attachment which, when recognized, is often lost. Relax and it comes easier. If you have a strong desire to become 'enlightened', you make it harder for yourself. The desire not to desire is one of the strongest desires.

I feel that one could possibly reach it by following various 'paths', but it can also be reached by clearing the mind and realizing that many of man's customs and rituals drive you away from the source of your human-ness. What does it mean to be human? Who am "I" devoid of all socio-cultural influences? Breaking down these barriers (be it via the four Noble Truths or the Eight-Fold Path) is a step in the right direction.

"Also in Narathiwat, some 500 angry villagers burst into a local elementary school and took 11 teachers hostage for three hours."

It seems like every time something happens that the locals down there don't like, they form a MOB. You can read this same thing all over Thailand. In other words, the police arrest someone and the villagers form a mob and storm the police station and/or demand that the criminals be released.

Do the authorities usually bow down to mob rule? Do they go after mob participants later?

This is very barbaric behavior. And, of course, the acts of cowards. Why do we never read about one-on-one fights?

At a more advanced level, there is the abolishment of the concept of a self.... of a personal identity. The self is tied directly to desire. All desire eminates from the perception of a personal identity.

In this light, the four nobel truths and the eight-fold path are like putting legs on a snake.

Enlightenment is achieved by taking away, not by adding.

Sounds like Puppet/Caretaker Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai is shaking babies and kissing hands.

Aren't there more pressing issues to deal with?

Teaching religion can only lead to trouble. It draws a line on the ground separating them from us.

Why not simply make all of the school better... you know, like having English teachers who can actually speak English. Doh!

Remember when they tried to ban the Life of Brian

Now the D code

really

maybe they need to put pasties on the rude bits and get on with it

Blessed are the cheese makers.

Look. I-- I'd had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, 'That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.'

For that he was stoned... I wish I was stoned.

I am sick of the incessant winging that goes on in this forum. It appears that any opportunity some ppl get to whine about Thais and Thailand they all jump in. Where I come from there is a saying ‘If you don’t like it, there is a boat in the morning’. I presume most of the whiners actually chose to live here, so either shut the f### up or find somewhere else to whine about. I chose to live here and love it for the people, the places, the food and the life style.

Nuff said

If there is something here you don't like, then simply don't read it. Obviously there are many here who find problems within Thai culture, politics, etc. Thailand has problems just like everywhere else in the world.

"Whinning" is often the product of concern. I for one would not whine about anything if I DIDN'T CARE. I for one left the US because of having the religious beliefs of other rammed down my throat. I came from the Bible Belt. I would hate to see Thailand turn into a theocracy. I applaud the censors for NOT cutting the film. I care about freedom of speech both here and abroad.

So, either shut the f### up or stop reading... ######, that's a pretty easy choice isn't it. Get a life.

Isn't it nice that we live in a world where everyone has to bow down to the desires of religion. First a cartoon causes riots and death and now the Christians are trying to tell people what they can watch.

Thanks to organized religion, we're still in the Dark Ages.

This movie is FICTION, just like the Bible. If you don't like it, don't go see it.

I'm thinking about moving my company from being based in Phuket to being based in Phang Nga Town. I would like for all of my employees to move with me, but I don't think my office manager would move.

I'm not looking to cheat her out of money, but I also don't want to pay her six months severence pay if she decides not to move with us. She makes 25,000 Baht per month, so six months severence pay would be a healthy chunk of money.

Any thoughts/comments?

Thanks....

does anyone know of any companies in Phuket that do rust prevention on automobiles? Something like Ziebart...

Thanks

I'd like to get my truck some protection from rust. Do any of you know if there is a Ziebart shop or equivalent in Phuket?

Thanks...

So what sort of physical damage would one of these bad boys do to someone? Any permanent damage potential?

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Oh for Christ's f#%$(%$# sake you *&&^%%*&^ get off of the ^#^$# soapbox and let folks talk. If I want to read a censored bit, I'll pick up a Post.

Take me off of this forum. I don't wanna play any longer.

Looks like hitting & KILLING is the only solution for thai to close the issues with foreginers....Srini,Tokyo.

And, notice how every time it's in a cowardly manner... stabbed in the back, beat up by a gang, shot an unarmed person, etc. Thai men sure are tough guys. Why don't they simply use muay Thai?

Another deadline? Oh my buddah haven't they learned from the last million deadlines they set???

Thailand can become the HUB for deadlines!!

IMHO You should not be building anything in a National Park.

Well, normally I would be 100% behind you except for the fact that I basically keep one of the national parks' bungalow operations in business. They would close down if it wasn't for me.

The walkways are made of bamboo and are in constant need of repair. People have been hurt several times due to this. I want to rebuilt them in wood (farmed trees) and jazz up the shoddy bungalows. I am willing to pay the national park to use my own bungalows or pay them to fix up their bungalows.

I want to incorporate solar power and more eco-friendly means of dealing with trash. I will market the hel_l out of this. My clients are backpackers. They pay an average of US$120 per night. I want them to have a safe place to eat and sleep when they're not out in the jungle with me.

Now, with this info in mind, what are your thoughts? Be aware that others have built in the park and they built the same cheap crap that the park system did.

OK, I just got my original plans shot down over the phone....

I want to build some truly eco-friendly floating bungalows in Khao Sok. I spend around a million baht per year there and I want to offer my guests better/safer rooms. Adding to this, I want to make them self-sustainable, you know, solar panels and other greenie cool stuff.

How does one get permission to build on national park grounds? $, drugs, sex Just kidding.

Could there be some sort of a partnership set up whereby I build the goods and we share the profit?

Any advice is very welcomed.

We're talking about a 'hooker' here,not some old lady whose just been mugged...

My guess is he wanted to impress the girl and whoever else was in the vicintiy

Gee, how can you say for sure that she was a hooker? Does that give two boys the right to assault her?

If she is a hooker as you say, is she one because she has no alternatives? Is she a hooker voluntarily or is she being forced into it? Hookers are people too.

There are some cases where one should try to assist someone who might be in for a beating or worse. We don't know the facts, yet many here seem to have strong opinions.

Yes, let's all sit back and let the little Thai cowards beat up girls, tourists and whomever they want. It's painfully obvious that Thai men only fight if they have overwhelming odds.

Getting involved is a sign of compassion, something that seems to be a bit of a myth in this country.

And yet they'll give money to a Thai national with a fraction of the qualifications as us bread eaters... go figure.

The Emerald Cave is Trang's James Bond Island. It's crowded, noisy and the government put a stupid sign on the beach telling everyone how beautiful the place is. It was more beautiful without the stupid sign, which of course, has some very bad spelling.

The coral around Ko Kradan has been trampled to death by tourists and fishermen. The only bungalows on Ko Kradan are run by a racist.

Ko Ngai is expensive and the coral is all but gone.

I guess that compared to non-tropical destinations it's nice, but it has been devastated over the past decade. The sand is still white and the water is still blue, but that's the only thing left worth seeing.

It sure seems like the powers that be don't want to have tourists visit this place. Everytime you turn around, there's a new story about tourists being murdered, abused, raped, thrown in jail, yada, yada, yada.

LOS - Laughing's Over Siam

You guys haven't ever seen live standup have you?

Laugh along with the Thais and show you're a good sport. If you haven't enough sense of humour go to a boat show or something.

cv

Sorry cdnvic, some of us get tired of being material for racist jokes. And, you don't have to be at a club to be made fun of... or something.

"Little to do with Islam, just plain hooliganism."

Wait a minute, now all of the hooligans are going to be pissed off!

Praise be to all hooligans far and wide.