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13 hours ago, keysersoze276 said:

Welcome to the danger zone. If our ladyboys or motorbike taxi drivers don’t bash your head in on a 10:1 street brawl, our drunken motorists will mow you down. If you manage to escape that, you run the immigration gauntlet. 
 

We’ll pick your pocket, and bones clean. Then zip you up in a body bag so fast that you’ll think you went blind!

 Whilst that may happen, it certainly doesn't happen in most of Thailand.

Do you have any proof of what you claim?

16 minutes ago, MangoKorat said:

A popular and common opinion - but not one I agree with.  I can't say what else happened but in the video, it was the bouncer that started the violence.  Thai bouncers need to learn that their job is not to attack people, its to stop disturbances.

 

There is no doubt that this man was an idiot but it goes with the territory. Venues that sell alcohol should expect drunken idiots and deal with them appropriately. Any one of those kicks and punches could have killed the idiot - would you be saying he deserved it if he died?

 

I don't know about Thailand but people have been killed and seriously injured by bouncers in the UK - which is why the trade is now regulated and bouncers have to be licenced.

The problem with a video is that it is a glimpse of time only. Unless the video started before the incident and kept running before, during and after the video, nobody will know what lead up to the incident and what happened afterwards.

4 hours ago, grain said:

He shouldn't be getting anything, not a brass razoo, he shouldn't even be called "prince" any more. 

I agree and I am a Brit pensioner living in Thailand.

3 hours ago, Luuk Chaai said:

Eggs US decreased 2.69 USD/DOZEN or 46.38% since the beginning of 2025,

 

What has that got to do with a protest in London?

On 4/13/2025 at 5:43 AM, SiSePuede419 said:

Time for your fortnite dose of k again?

 

You sound depressed. 😃

 

No, Israel nuking Iran even with Russia tossing a few duds won't kill everyone. 

 

A global nuclear war would be catastrophic and could kill hundreds of millions (or more), it's highly improbable that it would literally end all human life. 

 

And are you willing to let Trump take that chance.

Let us make an assumption that it will end up as a full scale nuclear war and that most of the people are dying or dead. Not only nuclear, but biological and chemical warfare also.

However there will be nuclear safe shelters for certain people to escape into. But how many people will make the shelter and how long will they have to stay there. Take any number you like for the people inside the shelter.

How much food will you store away to feed that number of people 3 times a day?

How much clean water will you store for the same number of people?

Where will you send all the waste water from the toilets and showers?

Where will you store all the trash?

How much fuel will you store to run the generators to keep the shelter running?

Most importantly, how many years  would you be willing to live underground?

Now the war is over after a number of years, and you are one of the survivors. You leave the shelter and find what?

A devastated world with polluted land so you can't grow food, the rivers and the seas are polluted, so you can't even eat the fish, There will be no undamaged roads and the only vehicles will be the ones in the shelter. There won't be any fuel left anyway, nor will there be any gas or electricity to pump the non-existent fuel.

There will be no government, no police, no hospitals, no military etc as they will all have vanished. There may be money in the banks, jewels and gold in the shops simply because you can't eat them. There will be no food, water or even beer because they will have been taken in the first few days

There may even be surviving humans, if they (and you) are unlucky, but I don't think that you would want to meet them.

I will ask you again, are you really willing to let Trump take that chance.

3 hours ago, Henk Langeweg said:

No need for free Denture for this piece of ....

A man has died and this is the best you can come up with.

You are a very sick person.

On 4/10/2025 at 8:09 AM, koolkarl said:

Only one side reports the truth.

And which side would that be?

On 4/9/2025 at 9:54 PM, NedR69 said:

F ‘em.  Let God sort them out.

Those adversaries are known to hide and operate in bakeries, hospitals, churches, schools, and other locations.

Really? And where does your information come from?

I ask, because as usual, for many posters don't bother or more likely cannot post a link as there are no verifiable links to post.

4 hours ago, phetphet said:

That likely means Trump will really start applying pressure on Ukraine to sign his one sided minerals and oil deal.

But that also means that the Ukraine is in a far stronger bargaining position vs the USA. The Ukraine doesn't HAVE to sell to the USA. OTOH it also makes the Ukraine more valuable to Russia.

This is the big problem when the lunatics who are currently running the asylum have no concept or real idea of what they are doing.

2 hours ago, cdemundo said:

"Some religions permit you to be evil all your life, but one quick confession on your death bed and all is forgiven and you can go to heaven."

 

How dare you slander "the one true" church like this.

I believe it needs to be a lengthy confession.

Additionally, high probability of a penance of saying 10 "Our Fathers" and 10 "Hail Marys".

And, as precondition to all of this, having a truly contrite heart.

So not really so trivial.

 

 

 

Who says it is the one true church?

This is the whole problem with religion across the world.  Each religion claims to be the one true religion, and that their god is the one true god. Who decides what is true?

You, mw, somebody else, some unknown god who many people pray to but who never listens and never speaks to anybody.

I gave up on religion decades ago when I realised that.

You are more than welcome to believe in something that doesn't exist nut please don; push that stuff on to anybody else, especially onto children who know nothing different.

If you want people to believe you, lay out the proof. Find people who have died and come back to life and can prove it.

But heaven and hell for which religion?

Christians only, is the Christian one divided between each  separate division of Christians, Catholic, Protestant. Orthodox etc, Buddhists (all variants), Hindus, Sikhs Moslems etc or one for all religions, or a separate one for each different religion?

How far back does this "Heaven and Hades go? To the Vikings. or further back into the pagan times. What about religion that worshipped animals?

It is very easy to claim something like that as no proof is necessary and nobody can prove that you are right or wrong. There will always be people who are willing to believe you.

Some religions permit you to be evil all your life, but one quick confession on your death bed and all is forgiven and you can go to heaven.

Really?

1 hour ago, Oliver Holzerfilled said:

OP could be a CCP troll or is as gullible as Spidermike when it comes to parroting CCP talking points.  Or maybe just not very smart.  In any event I don't see how the world is now "stunned" when the news came out the middle of last year.  Noted at the time  "The paper does not say what stage the missile is at, or if it has undergone testing."

Anyone citing jasondeegan.com as a source should be summarily considered unserious.

 

And so could you or anybody else.

3 hours ago, emptypockets said:

A link to the WWF about climate change....really!! That bunch of freeloaders rely on the gullible for funding.

Instead of complaining about the link, simply prove that the link is wrong and incorrect, but don't forget to supply the verifiable links. That should be easy for you.

2 hours ago, bunnydrops said:

OK, here you go

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIHkxpUz2dI/

 

No one ignored it!

Instagram is a verifiable news reporting source?

It seems as though this court case is a double edged sword.

https://www.gbnews.com/royal/prince-harry-tax-latest-duke-of-sussex-us-update

He has no job in the UK and AFAIK, he has no income, other than his Army pension which is also taxable. If he owns property then he will pay local council taxes. If it is rented out, he will pay tax on that income as well.

However as he lives in the USA, the IRS will tax his worldwide income. It also seems as though, if he has any money left over from paying his legal bills. the IRS will tax him on that as well.

All he had/has to do is hire his own bodyguards, both in the UK and the USA and none of this would have happened.

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and IMHO he still believes that he is far more important than the average person in the UK, and therefore still believes that he has more rights than anybody else, at the UK taxpayers expense.

Hopefully one day he will wake up and realise how important he really is to the UK, but perhaps not.

1 hour ago, BusyB said:

 

Actually Move Forward inherited the crisis. But PT benefited/help inveigle the soft putsch which denied them their election victory and they got banned.

 

That's also the answer to the poster who asked if they'll ever change or change in time. The last time that came close they massacred their own people. Now they camouflage things a bit better.

 

Thailand is a kind of Myanmar Lite.

I must have missed the bit where the Move Forward party were elected and formed the government.

Granted that they won more seats than any other party, but not enough seats to form a government, and if they formed the government they would be in power and running the country now.

However they could NOT form a government or even a coalition government, so after a period of trying, the party with the next highest number of seats (in this case, the PTP) was given the opportunity, who could and have formed a coalition government and now run the country.

As the MFP are not in power, how could they have inherited the problem?

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

Well the Fx markets don't seem to agree with him. Back in 1997, the Baht collapsed and at one stage you could get over 100 THB/GBP. Today you're lucky to get 44.

And back in 1993, long before Thaksin came to power you were lucky to get 38 THB/GBP.

You can't even blame blame Thaksin for the Tom Yam Gung crisis, as he wasn't in power then either.

He won the election and the downside of winning was sorting out that mess. PTP and Thaksin inherited this crisis as well.

3 hours ago, rough diamond said:

Unfortunately that is so. But when "normal" people do that only their immediate family suffer, NOT the rest of the world!

 

BUT he is on my ignore list, so I only see his posts if somebody answers him.

1 hour ago, riclag said:

The leftist new fascination , Assassination Culture.

Routh  who is Dem supporter and a attempted Assassin , went to Ukraine hoping to purchase weaponry.

Its in their DNA , the leftist ! A few dog whistling speeches of lets take it to 

the streets and their off to the races.

Just a matter of time before the dream team puts everything together! Lone wolf or ….

 

Why would he bother to go to the Ukraine and face all the problems of importing a 

weapon when it is easier and cheaper to buy the same item in the USA, cheaper and with no hassle of importing a weapon?

It would have saved him the airfare and he would have had a better choice.

7 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

An incredible amount of heartless expats on this thread. You would probably not change your opinion if the woman were a relative of yours. As far as I am concerned, you have no business using up valuable oxygen.

But nobody cares what your opinion is.

If you break the laws of any country and get caught, then you should accept the punishment given by that country.

I can understand 1 or 2 days overstay, but 207 days is NOT a silly mistake.

AFAIR when you enter the country your passport is stamped with the number of days, you are allowed to stay. There are ways to extend the time, IF you wish to stay longer.

If she were a relative of mine and staying with me I would have explained the rules to her. If she wanted to stay longer but couldn't be bothered to do anything about it, I would have turned her in earlier than the 207 days.

I have friends from the EU and the UK who come out every year and they go back earlier or on time.

So WHY should she be an exception?

I have NO sympathy for her as it is her own fault. Nobody forced her to overstay.