JAG

20 minutes ago, mokwit said:

AGAIN: Please give us a profile of YOUR OWN demographic, I am sure many on this board would like to know what kind of farang you are.

Well from his recent "torrent" we can construe that he is fit, slim with flowing locks, does not drink or smoke, suffers from no disease, and is well enough insured to have no need of the government health system (in which foreigners pay for treatment.). He is obviously deeply immersed in Thai culture, and presumably, as he seems to abhor both ladyboys and women asexual (perhaps an assumption too far there!). He speaks the language fluently, is unaffected by indigestion and has no interest in football. As for race and age, a bit more difficult to judge, but probably white, well educated (although he does have some issues with syntax) and since he seems to despise many of the afflictions which come with age presumably younger than most on here...

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54 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

Enough with the faux indignation.  I think everybody here knows full well there is a lot of truth in what I wrote. It's been described adnauseum on these forums. If you and others want to pretend the shoe-string budget, anti-social, maladjusted, overweight, refusing to learn Thai, problem drinker, uninsured with chronic medical problems guy on a retirement visa doesn't exist, knock yourselves out.

Nothing faux about it. I said that I agreed with your  description. I just find it intriguing, and rather distasteful that you consider you can judge others, and more so that you appear to look forward to them being excluded.

3 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

LOL. All the cheering from the bleachers about Thailand rounding up and deporting non-whites. You think the powers that be look any more favorably on the decrepit white pensioner demographic? Pray tell, please tell me you're not so delusional as to imagine your skin color automatically confers 'quality tourist' standing? Certainly not if you're one of the shoestring budget, heavy drinking, rude, unfriendly, easily irritated, poorly educated, obese, government hospital burdening, bar haunting Caucasian layabouts I have the misfortune to cross paths with from time to time.

 

Thailand seems to be doing everything it can to dismantle the sex industry. Unable to find a young wife in a bar, won't plenty of guys find Thailand less attractive as a retirement haven? Ever think that may be part of the government's plan to get rid of the Cheap Charlie economic refugee retirees and help restore 'Thainess' to boot? So guess what, you might not be part of the government's grand vision for the future either. A few tweaks to the retirement visa program, and you could find yourself on the receiving end of the persona non grata treatment sooner than you imagine. So enjoy the gloating while it lasts. 

Whilst I concur that there are some unappealing individuals amongst the "farang" community here, and whilst I am sure that you are an addonis like pillar of sobriety, moral rectitude and adequate wealth; might I say that I find your bigotry, arrogance and general contempt for others who fail to meet your high standards equaly unappealing.

Never mind, I'm off for a couple of beers, certain that I won't find you cruising the bars looking for a cheap shag!

Is the Thai Football Association undergoing or about to undergo an investigation?

20 minutes ago, tukkytuktuk said:

Who commited treason?

Possibly those (very) senior, military officers who, having sworn allegiance (which rather entails obeying) to a certain entity, then staged a coup to prevent an election which had been called by a warrant issued by that very entity?

7 hours ago, HHTel said:

And once again, people are constantly saying that Yingluk was ousted by the coup leaders.  She wasn't.  The courts unseated her prior to the coup.

Let us not leave it there, you are omitting a rather important bit of the "matrix"  The coup was mounted whilst an entirely legal and constitutional election was in progress. An election in which Yingluck was standing (again in accordance with the terms of the constitution) and an election which it was very likely she would win. Of course, it is pure conjecture whether she would have won that election, and thus be returned to power, but in pondering that perhaps we could consider the remarkably similar circumstances around the previous coup. Anyway, I am sure that you, as such a stickler for getting all the nuances surrounding the coup and Yingluck's "ousting" entirely accurate, will agree that it should be mentioned.

I hope this helps...

6 minutes ago, z42 said:

I have my doubts about an election taking place, I personally think we'll see huge clashes and protests before a real election. But this article is bang on the money, Prayuth and the other plastic generals alongside him are a living joke now.

If we ever see election campaigning where serious scrutiny could be placed on Prayuth's manifesto / aims in an open way I would cry laughing at his ability to actually debate stuff. He seriously has all the smarts of a plank of wood, almost anything political you can tell just goes straight over his head.. A truly pathetic and tragic figure, I wonder how long he'll be tolerated for yet as the wheels have (arguably) already come off

Playing with metaphors I know, but if the wheels are off (I don't think they are yet - at the wobbly stage perhaps) it will take a lot of force to move the car anywhere.

And like you, I think this is where it's headed...

1 hour ago, bangrak said:

'JAG', I guess I want, more than you, Thai people to choose their own ...MPs to vote in their own majority government, in a honest, transparent general election, void from vote rigging/buying, void from hardhanded influence on rural communities, North, East, South, central plains, everywhere! ...That while the PTP/UDD ...Shins' propagandists, who, maybe, I hope, do not realise that what they bring forward has nothing ado with 'democracy', at least in the way true democrats (from abroad) perceive it, and live according to the principles of(!) (quite hard work it is, with more duties and sacrifice than rights and leisure), but just the Thai shadow puppetry image the show-called-democracy in this country is about, call it 'Dems', call it the Shins' owned TRT/PPP/PTP (and UDD thugs) it is all about power and money, greed and corruption, NOT about 'the people', 'the people' it should be ALL about, in anything a bit close to starting building a 'democracy', don't you get it, really, you don't, do you? What a crying shame when you don't!

So you know better than the electorate - which completely confirms my point.

The electorate have consistently, repeatedly made a choice, time after time after time. But no, they cannot have their choice -its not your choice.

You talk of a "crying shame", your stance is contemptible.

23 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I am eligible to vote in 3 years. 

Well don't worry, it's unlikely that there will actually be an election before then...

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