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24 minutes ago, brianthainess said:

Another GUN another day. Until there is a real clamp down on guns this will continue unabated. Should be 2yr min. mandatory jail for having an illegal gun and the same for legal guns used or waved around without good reason. 

At least half of our village would be in jail, really! Astonishing how many homes have illegally held weapons here.

23 hours ago, topt said:

From the link -

Forgive my ignorance of CCTV set ups but why would you need so many servers?

You don't, either something was lost in translation or the journalist had little clue about the subject they were reporting.

18 hours ago, vivananahuahin said:

I will contact the Cabinet of the Transport Ministry to claim, i am a heart patient and cannot flight anymore, they received a medical certificate, the bank process was busy and after 1 month u turn, not able to pay back they give me 3 months credit account, no way i go further.

Try contacting the Thai Office of Consumer Protection, they maybe able to help you with a refund.

11 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

A voluntary military service will not have conscription. He will gradually phased out conscription to voluntary military service. Challenging reform for abolishing conscription which was introduced since 1905. 

All that's been outlined so far is a reduction of conscription quotas, no figures at all that I can find. Saying they'll be moving to a voluntary system next April, as in the article linked, is fanciful at best.

5 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

The deadline for transition to a voluntary military service system by April 2024 was indicated by the Defence Minister. My advise to K Arun is to ask the right man. 

https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230904125047634

Only a reduction in conscripted numbers, not an end to conscription itself.

"His parents, a renowned doctor specializing in mental health, and a renowned physician, remain uninvolved in his criminal actions."

Turning a blind eye should never be labeled as 'univolved'.

3 minutes ago, MCos said:

Pretty tough when 75yo blokes are employed as security guards 

Youngsters won't do it and when a Thai state pension is only 600 bht a month oldies have to find work somewhere.

5 hours ago, Henryford said:

The car was on its side in shallow water. Hard to believe he couldn't just open the door to get out.

Maybe he was knocked out somehow and drowned. This is what happened to a guy near us a couple of years ago. Flipped his car into less than a foot of water and drowned after getting knocked unconscious.

What?! Nothing about Thai being a Lingua Franca? That won't go down at all well with the rabid nationalists.

Good job, smuggling is definitely an occupation reserved for Thais.

3 hours ago, ezzra said:

Is it worth it Thailand, for the whole world to see the farce, debacle and shame you have brought on yourselves for the sake of ONE man? how can you ever look in the face of the world's community knowing you have sold your values and pride for the sake of one corrupt person?

Well the Thai elite didn't give a <deleted> about Thailand's image after the army rigged the system and took power these last 9 and a bit years so why should anyone care about a returning leader of a party that won many more seats than any of the previous mob?

1 hour ago, JBChiangRai said:

125,600 baht per classroom, sounds about right....

A large classroom could easily require 2 or 3 ac's. Use proper industrial units and throw in a decent maintenance contract and it doesn't seem that inflated.

<deleted> me, how much longer will this farce continue?

3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Was that a Freudian slip?    ????????????????

I just couldn't help myself.

2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Alcoholic Father and a Son with mental health issues, who refused any help. Something/someone was bound to snap at some point.

Nailed it.

"...expressed concerns over the scrapping of mandatory conscription"

I bet they did as this is a fantastic source of income for the higher ups. Many of those who don't want to serve their time are allowed to go home as long as they don't take any pay which is then passed on to their superiors.

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

You may not like my point of view, but Big Tu actually did something good for the country by stopping the escalating Red vs. Yellow conflict.

So how is disenfranchising millions of voters and trashing the economy except for an elite few billionaires good?