JonnyF

Indeed. It seems buried in every "bitten by PitBull" headline is a sentence along the lines of "Somchai was beating the PitBull with an iron rod, something he had done for many years". If you are stupid enough to "discipline" dogs using violence, you deserve to be bitten.

You want to ban Pit Bulls because some retarded drunk son attacked his mother with a Buddha statue? I think you might be barking up the wrong tree. It sounds like these Pit Bulls need protecting from the family, not the other way around.

Indeed. He was recently claiming his son died there as well. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12113639/Biden-raises-eyebrows-claiming-late-son-Beau-passed-away-brain-cancer-died-Iraq.html I'm really not sure how this can be allowed to continue.

Nothing more than a meaningless deflection from the very serious story of the President's mental decline.

Well, fortunately Jesse isn't the President of the United States.

Oh come on... give him a break - he can't remember everything. I do hope Joe is delegating the sending of weapons to Ukraine to someone mentally competent though. Otherwise someone in a Baghdad post office is going to get one hell of a surprise when the truck with the ballistic missiles turns up ????.

I saw your comments on NDT testing. You are proving my point. Even highly regulated industries like cycling have catastrophic failures with carbon fibre. The fact that you have already charged, tried and convicted a dead man so soon after his death speaks volumes. The sub could have hit metal that fell or was thrown from one of the many ships that still use that busy shipping lane. You have no idea what really happened. There has been no investigation. No conclusion. No charges against the remaining people involved in the business. Judge jury and executioner of a recently deceased man who cannot defend himself. Think about that for a moment. Why? I think we both know....

Exactly. Should the CEO of these companies go to jail because one of his/her bicycles failed? One would assume the bicycle industry is regulated yet these things still happen. Even a proponent of safety over innovation like yourself still rides these carbon fibre bikes knowing they can, in certain circumstances collapse. These people did the same, knowing they could die. And die they did. It can happen when you take huge risks like deep sea exploration in one off, experimental vehicles. That's why they had to sign a waiver that mentioned death 3 times on the first page. And sign it they did, hence they knew the risks (unless they didn't read it which again is their responsibility). They are not his victims. 4 of the 5 are grown adults who chose to take a very risky mission to the bottom of the ocean in an experimental vehicle after signing a waiver. If they didn't know that carbon fibre was a poor choice for the vehicle that is their responsibility to find out and then make an informed decision. Not unlike when I take a ride in a Jeepney in Philippines I know that they are not made from the ideal materials under strict QC and design laws, but I still hop on and hope for the best knowing I could die in the event of a crash. I'm not a victim of the Jeepney designer if I die in a Jeepney, I simply took an unnecessary risk and got unlucky. Nobody forced them onto the vehicle at gunpoint, quite the opposite they paid 250k USD each. The only one you could argue was a victim was the teenager, but if he IS a victim then he is a victim of his father's poor judgement and pressure to go, not a victim of Rush.

Good advice. Play the slow game. Get yourselves established before taking on contentious issues. No point needlessly ruffling feathers until you've got your feet well and truly under the table.

I wouldn't overthink it, they certainly don't. I think they do it because everyone else in that environment does it. It's a bit of short term excitement getting it done as well. Quite a few get them on the lower stomach to cover the stretch marks after child birth as well. No great thought goes into it and some of the tattoos are truly awful. I know one really pretty girl in her late 30's who is covered in them (both forearms, full back piece) and she openly said to me that she hates them and wishes she didn't have them. She said she's really embarrassed when her young niece asks what they are and has to try to cover them when she visits family. Personally I don't mind them and rarely give it a second thought but I do think it's a shame sometimes when you see a beautiful girl with perfect, smooth skin and a huge blob of badly done ink, especially when it's a skull or something.

I would disagree. The jail appears to have succeeded. Epstein is gone, a couple of Britons (Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew) have been hung out to dry while all the powerful individuals (Clinton, Gates etc.) who visited Epstein island and travelled on the Lolita Express have discreetly exited stage left. Job's a good 'un.

They've been lying about Hunter for years. Why stop now?

Ridiculous to blame weed when he'd also taken Meth. It's well known that weed has a calming effect. The only thing I want to murder after a smoke is a cheese sandwich.

I don't need to be an expert on amputation to know that Oscar Pistorius only has one leg.

I wouldn't be so sure. It's still a paid job for someone if you didn't do it. You are effectively taking the work of a Thai Arborist. My farm is not a commercial farm, it's a hobby farm. It's basically a house with a very, very large garden and lots of fruit trees in said "garden". And what if the work that I am doing is not work (farming), but simply gardening. I would simply be pruning a tree in my garden, same as the guy with a 4 x 4 metre lawn in his 2 up 2 down house in the Moo Bahn. Ultimately it's Thailand so how this is all interpreted would come down to whether you had irritated the wrong people. Checking people in at a hotel is a totally different ball game.

No proven evidence of gross dereliction of safety. They could have been struck by an underwater object for all we know. The risks were spelled out in the waiver that they signed. The risk of death was mentioned 3 times on the first page. They signed it. Why do you always need a 'victim'? Such a strange mentality. Good to see you can predict the outcome of future trials that will never take place. A handy skill to have. No proven evidence that he killed someone with his recklessness. This wouldn't have anything to do with his links to the Republicans by any chance would it? ???? https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/the-left-says-stockton-rush-deserves-to-die-for-backing-gop/

Well done Thailand. Hope this strengthens the Baht.

Her decision kind of gives the game away ????.

So you are saying that because subs already exist, innovation stops? So presumably you would have stopped innovating aircraft around about this time? They knew the risks, they were intelligent people who signed the waiver. Death was mentioned 3 times on the very first page.

Of course, when trips to the titanic in subs are commercially available to millions of people per year we will need regulations on the industry. But we are talking about the innovation stage here. You own post stated "Safety vs innovation". If you stifle it we will never reach the point that air travel is at today. These guys knew the risks, they basically "took one for the team" so that in the future people will be able to travel safely in a regulated industry.

Why are you quoting estimates that are 3 months old? It's already been established that the UK did better than forecasts predicted (surprise, surprise!!) Facts are, as of today the Eurozone is in recession and the UK isn't. So it would appear that leaving the EU was not the catastrophe it was portrayed to be (surprise, surprise!!) Must be tough being proved wrong.

I think the electorate are well aware that he is incompetent and mentally declining. However, he is not Trump. That's enough for many. That's the pathetic state of US politics. The same reason otherwise seemingly logical people on this forum pretend that there is nothing amiss. No wrongdoings. No mental decline. He only trips over because people keep putting things where he is about to walk etc. ???? A very sad state of affairs for a once great country.

The Thai Labour Department. All work paid or unpaid requires a work permit. Cutting a tree down is work. It's known as being an Arborist.

Let's see how the appeal goes, if there is one. For now, I am sure she is more than capable of reaching a logical decision. No need to get over excited.

I'm sure the judge had all the relevant information at her disposal when she reached her conclusion. No need for hyperbole here.