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I wonder, if whilst he is there, I mean, I am building this model railway (to the utter mystification of wife and daughter) and there are a few bits and pieces I can't get over here...
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14 minutes ago, KiwiKiwi said:
Perhaps the word you are looking for is 'incompetent'. Pathetic is OK, but 'pathetic' implies unusual, whereas, for this lot, pathetic is the new normal.
Well maybe, although there again it could be argued that incompetent has been the norm for a long time!
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1 hour ago, webfact said:Thai Rath said he was livid that the tourists had chosen to bring shame on his patch and damage the image of tourism in Petchaburi.
Perhaps rather more damage has been done to the image of tourism by showing the damaged and tatty state of his semi derelict "tourist attraction".
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21 minutes ago, nahkit said:
So they're not allowed to ask for him back then?
Of course they can ask for him back. Given the circumstances I have outlined no one should be surprised if they are refused. Turning up mob handed to demand he is handed over, within 3 days, but forgetting (or not bothering) to bring a lawyer, well that is just beyond silly, it's pathetic.
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15 minutes ago, simoh1490 said:
. In terms of the economic fundamentals, THB is pretty much where it deserves to be, I fully expect it to strengthen to under 40 against GBP inside a few years and to 35 inside 10 years.
An interesting prediction. Have you taken into account the very likely political upheavals over the next 10 years.
I'm no financial expert (goodness knows) but if your prediction predicates the current political status quo continuing for the next decade, then I think you may be overoptimistic. The likely widespread discontent amongst much of the population if that is the case will make the country extremely unattractive to investment and business, I would suggest.
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1 minute ago, z42 said:I simply can't envisage what his asylum requeat papers would say. How could this crook possibly fit the bill?
If he gets in Germany needs to have a serious word with itself. Idiots like this deserve to be rotting in jail and no place else
It's very simple: a gang of high ranking policemen (including the national police chief) turn up demanding to interrogate him, insisting that he is handed over within three days. They are from a junta government, with a record of suspicious death in custody of people who were close to the establishment and fell foul of it. That should be enough, no matter what he is accused of/has done.
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8 minutes ago, Chang_paarp said:
This bloke will still be in Germany when the election happens.
A good way of putting it!
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25 minutes ago, Cadbury said:
Yes indeed; like a lot of others my comments are certainly driven by my dislike for this junta military government and it's self appointed leader. No debate about that.
I am rewarded that I have touched a nerve and that your sensitivity causes you respond to such criticism. ?. I call that a win.
I urge all junta lovers to try to accept some reality of what is happening to the people outside the big metropolis of Bangkok.
There are people outside of Bangkok?
Gracious me, whatever do they do?
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1 hour ago, Eligius said:
Some folks have got fiery, masculine warrior blood coursing through their veins in the face of injustice.
Golly, I thought for a moment you were talking about our glorious lean mean steely eyed leaders...
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2 hours ago, chrisinth said:I've done that as well but it wasn't the sand, it was those darned cigarette butts.............................
Should have put them out before you started...
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1 hour ago, Artisi said:Ugly frog-kisser
Hey, I seem to recall that frog was reasonably "Hamsun" as frogs go....
Unless of course.
- silly me!
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2 minutes ago, The Deerhunter said:
Ah yes. The brainwashed member speaks. Please do not speculate on my preferences.
If you don't want people to speculate on your preferences, then perhaps you should avoid putting forward controversial opinions?
We still, on this forum, have a significant degree of freedom of speech. Does that irk you?
Incidentally, "brainwashed member" is intended as irony...
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19 minutes ago, The Deerhunter said:So, who put her at "number one on the party list?" The party (in other words, big brother) or the people of Thailand? Where was her experience in politics? In fact where even was her experience in business except as a family appointed manager in a family business? (er, Big brother again?) She was an absentee manager, frequently on overseas shopping trips, who never even attended meetings of a board she was chair of. And as for her behaviour when advised that people were rorting the rice scheme (designed by Big Brother)................ Look I know she is rich and very attractive. That doesn't make her an effective manager or P.M. Or even tactful at flirting disgracefully with the POTUS. Bimbo: See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com noun, plural bim. a foolish, stupid, or inept person. a man or fellow, often a disreputable or contemptible one. an attractive but stupid young woman, especially one with loose morals.
Feel better now you've got that off your chest I hope...
2 minutes ago, Eligius said:Yingluck a bimbo.
Well, I will say one thing: if forced to choose, I'd rather have this country run by a basically benign bimbo than a freedom-smashing monster!
Of course, the Thai people had the opportunity to make that choice snatched away from them. Something which "Deerhunter" is obviously quite relaxed about, after all, it may have produced a government and a bimbo, sorry, I meant Prime Minister, of which he did not approve, and what sort of democracy would that be?
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10 hours ago, bluesofa said:
Rather an unfortunate choice of words there by the headline writer.
A long time ago, in a distant galaxy I had an old BMW 1602.
When it went, well, phew, it went like nothing on earth.
I did have to push it quite often though!
Happy days...
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13 hours ago, webfact said:
According to Charas, when relevant parties can provide good schools in all provinces of Thailand, “tea-money problems” in the educational sector will automatically end.
It is widely known that some parents have tried to offer “tea money” to Thailand’s top schools in a bid to have their children enrolled there.
In a bid! It is the only way. My daughter has just started in M1. Although quite satisfied with the fee paying RC school she was at, I looked at the two prestigious government secondary schools. Well resourced, well equipped, plenty of foreign teachers, large classes (35+) and it was made quite clear that north of 30 K would be needed to get her in. That was before all the extras for English programs and so on.
She is staying where she is, where she is happy, the classes are around 30, and the fees are ThB8 K a semester.
A friend of mine has a brother who is the principal of a secondary school. She tells me that he reckons that the first month of the me academic year is worth ThB 180 K to him...
Untill this is stopped (it won't be of course) government education is going nowhere.
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29 minutes ago, Nice Boyd said:
Do you really think they are going to spend money on education, lol and educate that low paid labor pool in Isaan, please
Off topic I know (although there again it is a topic about government spending money) there is plenty of money allocated to education. It's just that most of it is soaked up by a massive micromanaging beaurocracy (or openly embezzled) before it gets anywhere near the schools.
Come to think of it, buying satellites...
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56 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:
Must be shedding tears due to the extremely poor turnout of only a few hundreds. Even less than the student activists turnout and less than half of the FFP party attendees. Expecting this party of lizards to be crushed in the election.
If it looks likely that an election result will be unfavorable to him and his party he has a long list of tried and tested antics to stop the election
After all it worked last time...
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"We will leave no stone unturned to track down Yingluck Shinewatra and bring her back to Thailand"
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So, in response to the "clamouring of the masses..."
Any clues there as to how the next government may be formed?
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2 hours ago, coulson said:
If this were really the case you'd think he would have got out the old nikes and dusted off the whistle for a walk around Bangkok a couple weeks ago.
Not short of cash at present.
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18 minutes ago, baboon said:
...sitting in his hollowed out volcano, stroking a purring white cat with a diamond collar...
19 minutes ago, baboon said:...sitting in his hollowed out volcano, stroking a purring white cat with a diamond collar...
Why should he be wearing a diamond collar, I mean I know he is a snappy dresser, and the photos which I have seen do suggest that his taste in interior decor leans towards the vulgar, but I really can't see him in a diamond collar! His sister with a diamond necklace perhaps, but not him...
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48 minutes ago, observer90210 said:I am not commenting on if they are guilty or not.
The point here is that Interpol has become a corrupt institution that is the bellboy of the powerful global powers and can tend to snob the smaller nations and close an eye on the rich and powerful, like many other places in the world after all.
A certain number of private multinational corporations officially contribute to Interpol's annual budget.
Where is the neutrality and independance of Interpol ? One could have legitimate doubt.
With the corporate connections of the Shinavatra's, there is very little hope that Interpol or any western country will cooperate on, this issue or any other regarding fugitives with strong white collar connections.
24 minutes ago, jayboy said:Complete bilge.
Perhaps there is some truth - it would certainly explain why Thailand is being treated as if it was being run by a tin pot military junta, which had seized power to forestall an election, and was headed up by a pair of comic opera general's who would be more at home in a soap opera set in 19 century Ruritania...
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9 hours ago, KhunFred said:
They are not above kidnapping to achieve their ends. I assume the Shins have adequate security.
1 hour ago, davehowden said:How would the UK government know where she lives, the UK does not use ID Cards, TM30's or 90 Day Reports do they ?
I should imagine that the UK authorities know where she is, and keep a fairly close eye on her. One can never discount an attempt to "bring her back", although the mind boggles at how they might try to do so...
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8 hours ago, transam said:I must assume that LOS does not have a "Secret Service"....
Oh but they do, Transam, they do....
Somchai Bond sighed, and straightened his Gucci ¾ length cargo pants, slipping out of his John Lobb flip flops. This mission to London was going to be tough, but “P” had said it was vital for the happiness of the nation. He had even intimated that, if successful, there might be a new hi-so watch in it for him; after all, hadn't his sidekick, also (confusingly) known as “P” got a few that he might need to get rid off?. He motioned to the waitress, and ordered another Mekong Soda to go with his somtam – shaken not stirred. The waitress was new, and hadn't understood his first order – shaking the somtam had caused some problems in the kitchen!
Outside his vintage supercharged “Thailand Tuk Tuk” glinted in the evening sun. The extra chrome lighting bars, with the random flashing green blue and violet lights (designed to confuse pursuing agents of evil), caught the last rays. True it had lost some of its lustre, (and quite a lot of its power) since he had tried to emulate James Bond's Lotus by driving it underwater in the khlong. The top had come off the 2T oil tank, and it had emulsified leading to significant performance problems. Never mind, if he managed to track down “Y”, and find out just what she had been shopping for, maybe “P” would authorise “Q” to issue him that special Isuzu pick up he had been working on!
It was a good thing, he mused as the girl returned with his freshly shaken Mekong Soda, froth all over her face and hair, that he had paid attention to that old Farang teacher back when he was in P5, otherwise he wouldn't have known what all those initials meant...
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Germany declines to hand fugitive monk over to Thai police
in Thailand News
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Well I would rather have thought a Thai lawyer, who could liaise with his German counterparts and explain legal issues to assorted senior rozzers. German language is admittedly unlikely, English would probably suffice as a "lingua Franca"