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5 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:Who's driving this guy....'cos it ain"t Prayut
3 hours ago, baboon said:Aren't they from rival army factions?
2 hours ago, scorecard said:Possible he's driving himself.
Refer back to his now deceased father's nasty and violent reputation, yearn for power and his arrogant attitude. In the coup of 2001, 200 young unarmed civilians shot down without hesitation by terrified troops under the command of gen. sunthorn (this guys father), gen suchinda, another nasty character, and gen narong, another nasty gen who immediately after the coup occupied all his time on getting a Thai out of service train steam engine and carriages moved to his farm because he liked trains. I like that train, move it to my farm, now!
Immediately after the incident of 200 young unarmed men shot down and killed, their bodies were whisked away on trucks and have never been found. No fully conclusive investigation ever completed, because nobody game enough to conduct/complete an investigation.
Seems to me guy has already displayed his arrogance and very possibly sees because of his father that he is untouchable and entitled. And sees that Thai folks should just do as they are told.
There are two rival factions - both equally unconcerned with whatever the people may want, and neither in the slightest bit interested in the democratic process.
The faction in power at present owes its allegiance to a very old man. This faction's leader wishes to succeed this old man in his extremely influential position. On the face of it he is impeccably qualified to so do, however...
The second faction is growing ever more powerful. It owes its allegiance to a younger man - a "new kid" on this particular block. Their star is rising, and it may be too late for the present team leader to realise his ambition. The new faction, as Scorecard points out, is even more ruthless than the present team. The Thais know this, that is why they (political players and the ordinary people) are steering well clear.
Redeployments within the Bangkok Army Garrison (the only part of the army which really matters) may be worth considering.
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So, when is the coup?
We've had the "I'm a simple soldier who doesn't understand" bit.
Next he will deny that he is going to stage a coup.
Then he will, reluctantly, take over - for the good of the people of course!
When do you reckon? April?
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49 minutes ago, bluesofa said:
Perhaps they'd been dragged through a hedge backwards by an irate taxi driver?
As the father of a teenage daughter, I can assure you that is a look which can, literally, take hours to create!
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2 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:Perhaps they realized that the woman may not be mentally competent.
It strikes me that she seems quite mentally competent. At aged 18, she has decided to make an audacious escape from a country which imposes restrictions on women which would have been regarded as draconian in the dark ages. She managed to do so - which arguably requires considerable mental competence. Australia was probably chosen by her because it was somewhere she thought she could get to. amd apparemtly she had some contacts there. However she was held (for whatever reason - we will probably never know why) at Bangkok; she was lucky that the UNHCR reached her before her father and brother did. She was lucky that Canada offered her refuge.
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6 hours ago, poohy said:
In Dudley we both clarify and simplify this term to....... Man in a frock!
Which works quite well until a Scotsman turns up in his best kit!
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6 hours ago, steve187 said:
what are the actual regulations
I don't know.
Incidentally, I saw the shell of a Mk1 Cortina in a garage here last year. Now, if one was to bring in all the bits needed to fix it up, say 20 kilos at a time, every time you went back to the UK, you could probably get it up and running before he gets an answer...
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2 hours ago, howbri said:Build the <deleted>' wall Donald. BUILD THE WALL and stop the invasions. Who cares what the marxists say!
It really is extraordinary to think that this chap (howbri) considers that I (and a very great number who think like me) are "Marxists"!
It would be fascinating to watch him froth at the mouth whilst typing this garbage!
It is this sort of manic perversion of logic and reason which led to some classic statements like "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" in earlier times.
I have spent time in the USA. I really liked many of the people I worked with there (military). Some began to understand my British sense of humour, one or two even managed to make a passable cup of tea, but "Marxist"? Ye Gods and little fishes"!
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I should imagine any tourists staying at the Bangkok Montien Riverside hotel would have been less than impressed with a paramilitary display outside their bedroom windows at 1 am!
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I understand, (from the BBC) that Mr. Trump has now denied ever saying that Mexico will pay for the wall!
I have got into the habit of looking at the "World News" forum every morning, to see what he has done next. It rarely disappoints! He really is the gift which keeps giving!
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1 hour ago, wendyfromoz said:
is this guy ok upstairs?
If we can use a marvelous Australian simile, which I heard quite recently: "There are a few kangaroos loose in the paddock."
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8 minutes ago, mikebell said:
Now he has a direct line to God? Will he pray for a favourable Election result?
No need, that one is already sorted.
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12 hours ago, Lamkyong said:
similar to King Canute ?? oh sorry that was a failure oh well just folklore myth
Yes, except Canute had his throne placed before the incoming tide to prove, to a bunch of sycophants who thought that he was all-powerful, that he was, in fact, human and did not have such powers. However...
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Red to red and black to black,
Switch it on and stand well back!
My brother in law (he with the 27 piece hammer set) is an electrician.
He mended the washing machine. I swear that the water was live - collars and cuffs cleaned up a treat though.
I wouldn't trust him to change the batteries in a torch...
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7 hours ago, Credo said:
and lastly, becoming a mystery shopper.
'Retailer are desperate to check how their in-store customer service is and will employee you to shop and rate their service,' the tip sheet promised.
So anyone in a Coast Guard uniform turning up at a supermarket is going to get the red carpet treatment then - every cloud has a silver lining and all that...+
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I caught that on TV yesterday. I thought it was a particularly banal comedy soap opera - Best Beloved had the sound turned down so I didn't notice the absence of bells, whistles and comic hooters. The gurning policemen seemed to fit the bill...
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42 minutes ago, Rugon said:Really, and do you think there might be a lack of police if bribery is banned?
I'm not sure anyone would notice!
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1 hour ago, johnhw said:
Billions in nukes, ICBMs, stealth bombers and an invasion or two of neighbors would be more impressive for you?
I think your irony filters are stuck on high...
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12 minutes ago, akirasan said:Hello children, can you spell totalitarian?
No? We can't either, so we call it "peace and order"!
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13 hours ago, Lungstib said:
Correction: half a century. If people studied the generals performance in running an army they would see mistakes of the magnitude of buying fake golf ball detectors, aircraft carriers with no planes and unusable airships. Anyone that thinks leaving 'managers' like this to run a country is in cloud cuckoo land.
In fairness Lungstib, when they bought the aircraft carrier, it came with some airplanes. Old, knackered Spanish versions of the Harrier. A few of them even worked at the start but everyone was so excited about joining the big time in Naval leagues that they forgot to buy any spare parts. So pretty soon they were all worn out and broken...
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1 hour ago, Eligius said:Bloody pathetic. I despair!
Absolutely, bloody pathetic! All that money spent on kit, Generals galore, the brave defenders of the nation, and the best they can do is a 1951 vintage M41 "Walker Bulldog"!
I despair - a 60 year old panzer!
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2 minutes ago, mfd101 said:
I wasn't suggesting ANY of that. This is the C21st not the C19th.
I was merely suggesting that political & other leaders have a moral (non-partisan) duty to ensure that, to the extent possible, every voter is well-informed of issues, consequences & related facts so that the voters can make (one hopes) rational decisions BEFORE they vote. Something that was apparently NOT the case in the Brexit referendum.
1Who is to decide whether political & other leaders have failed to comply with that duty? And if it is decided that they have who decides, and by what means, to "qualify" an electoral result to reflect that?
You see, that is inevitably where such a practice will lead.
I. and I am sure a great many others thought long and hard and weighed up many of the issues, consequences & related facts before we cast our vote. We may not have come to the same conclusions as you did, that does not mean that out decisions were neither rational nor valid.
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17 hours ago, bendejo said:
What he's hoping for is mass demonstrations by his fans in support of him. He wants those poorly-educated (his words) who show up at his love rallies to take to the streets. I think it is they who should form a caravan and head down to Mexico City and demand money for the wall. Wasn't that the original plan, to get Mexico to pay?
But imagine, faced with a large crowd of white people with red necks attempting to cross into Mexico, the Mexican border guards respond by firing CS Gas across the border. That would be an intolerable act of unprovoked violence against the United States. Heaven knows what the response of the Trumpton Security Forces would be. The cynics amongst us would probably expect it would sooner or later involve assorted Dr Strangelove clones with buzz haircuts dropping vast quantities of bombs on empty desert from a great altitude...
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2 hours ago, mfd101 said:I should have thought that any half-intelligently run democracy requires the voters to have a clear knowledge and understanding of current issues BEFORE they vote so that the collective outcome can be at least half rational ...
Whoa!
The whole point of a democracy is that it is based on the universal franchise. That means that everyone has the vote, one person one vote. The only limitations should be age (18 in the UK), and possibly a few disbarred: in the UK prisoners serving a sentence after a conviction, members of the House of Lords and (I think) the insane. As soon as you introduce any subjective qualification, educational attainment. religious convictions, political views, race, income threshold, owning property, perceived intelligence, anything really, you no longer have a universal franchise, you no longer have a democracy.
To return to my first point, as soon as you start to rationalise that because someone disagrees with you they must be a fool, and too stupid to be entrusted with a vote (a not uncommon argument on this forum lately) you have ceased to practice democracy.
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2 minutes ago, dick dasterdly said:
Which is why many of us are still waiting for an explanation as to the "considerable amount of that was what we were contractually obliged to honour, no matter what the outcome of negotiations"....
Has anyone published how 39bn has been calculated??!
I agree that is has halved from the eu's opening gambit....., but there is still no explanation or calculations as to any money possibly owed!
Well there is Lord and Lady Kinnocks' pension pot to be maintained for a kick off...
How did the mantra go?
"To each according to his needs, from each according to his means."
Army chief claims opponents of election delay bent on creating troubles
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If the wheels come off, I think it will be localised. In Bangkok. That is where the money is, that is where the power is, that is the only place they are interested in. If it comes to a fight, the civilians who are not aligned will stay out of it.