Bangkok Barry

54 minutes ago, RobU said:

Once again Barry losing face is an Asian concept and the only person promoting the concept in this exchange is you 😂. I don't give a toss about 'losing face' I am English. 

You clearly have adopted the losing face concept - it isn't exclusively Asian - as I cannot imagine anyone on this site or anywhere else insisting - insisting as you do - that a fine of four billion baht should be imposed. That is what you said, and you can't/won't back down and admit you didn't intend it to be four billion.

A mature person would admit they hadn't thought it through before posting but, instead, you dig in and lock down on it. I know it, and so do you. If you truly believe someone should be fined four billion baht for filming an erotic video which no-one reported seeing happen, then you're an idiot. But I'm guessing you aren't. You're just being obstinate about this and only making yourself look like an idiot, rather than admit you made a mistake. Not a great idea. Childish, actually. Just like an Asian insisting Sunday is Saturday. Exactly the same. 

6 minutes ago, RobU said:

Why am I digging a hole Barry? I think it would be great if she and her boyfriend were fined 4,000,000,000 baht it would certainly be a massive deterrent to others planning on doing something similar and she would highly likely make no profit from her actions which she will now

Okay. I suppose you'd lose face by not knowing you were asking for a four billion baht fine, so now you have to say it's justified. Deeper and deeper....

1 hour ago, RobU said:

No because it was performed and filmed in a totally inappropriate public space and the fine is far too small it will not prevent anyone from.doing the same thing again

And how many saw it being filmed? How do you know it wasn't done discretely in a quiet area? After all, no-one saw it and complained then, did they. But for you, they should be fined 2000 baht for each of the two million views. That marks you as an idiot, in my book. Other opinions may vary. Such as yours, of course. You think it is perfectly rational to fine someone four billion - billion - baht. Maybe you didn't bother checking the math before making such a stupid statement.

Long straight road, daylight, dry - and still too difficult for some to handle.

4 hours ago, webfact said:

along with his unwillingness to open his door for ventilation,

Okay. Why?

I'd re-post this, but I might be threatened with deportation for showing Thailand in a bad light.

18 hours ago, Upnotover said:

I also end up with some scrubbing out of some parts, normally the dates.  It would be a piece of cake to change the format to something more out of this century but that's unlikely to happen until the next.  I also wonder why anything is in Thai at all, 99% of people filling the form can't read Thai and one would hope that 90% of the immigration folks can read enough English to know hat has been declared.  But, take it easy and we always get there in the end.  

Indeed. A school child could design a better form. And why is it also in Thai? The only people who complete it are foreigners, and the immigration officers surely understand English as most of the people they deal with are foreigners who don't understand Thai. On, wait... 

It would be interesting to see their reaction if someone who is proficient in Thai completed the form in Thai, wouldn't it. No no mista, cannot! 😄

There are TWO cable breaks, one in the Red Sea and one close to Singapore. There is a delay in fixing the Red Sea one because the area isn't safe. My own experience is that streams are fine until Europe wakes up, and then a good VPN is needed. How reliable that is varies, I guess related to the number of people now forced to use the alternative routes which might become overloaded. I've used several countries in Europe. If one isn't good, then I try another. For UK stuff I've been advised by my IPTV service not to use the UK servers.

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

"Before her death, she had shrewdly disabled the CCTV to record her final moments"

 

That's very suspicious 

Yes. Why would she do that, instead of leaving it on to show beyond any doubt that it was suicide rather than murder? 

8 hours ago, webfact said:

The dead birds have been distributed amongst the locals for food, as a measure to handle the loss.

Yet again we have people reading only the headline and then asking questions which are answered if they bothered to actually read the report. Weird.

3 hours ago, RobU said:

What should happen is she should be fined 2000 baht for each instance of it being viewed or upticked on only fans.

Why?

8 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Global temperature is increasing.

 

 

By a degree or two. Can you feel the difference in a degree or two?

20 minutes ago, Presnock said:

 

 

well

 

 

Expats seem to like the immigration system in the PI better than that here - tax too maybe, there is an expat forum - google "expat forum Philippines"

I have a Thai wife. Makes a difference.

16 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

In Thailand, publicly criticising something or someone can be illegal IF someone takes offence and decides to file Defamation charges... 

 

The 'public statements' or 'Videos' can be 100% factual and true...  all that has to be proven is the 'intent to public bring someones name into disrepute'.... 

 

...  that's one the key issues with one of Thailands most abominable laws which protects those acting in the wrong or illegally.

 

 

The key here is that you said someone. This person did not, as far as I know, criticise a person or business, but the less savoury aspects of the culture. He touched a nerve, as every Thai is raised from birth to believe that everything about their country is perfect, and when someone comes along from overseas and says that, actually, it isn't as perfect as you have been brainwashed to believe, it's like the emperor's new clothes being shown as fake.

And I believe that is why the authorities don't like us long-stayers here. We speak the truth instead of turning a blind eye, and that is a no-no here. Of course, every Thai knows that their country isn't the paradise they are told it is. They are fully aware of the things that are wrong, but instead of doing anything to fix it they go into denial. And that is exactly why things change so slowly here, if at all. If you deny there is a problem, then no-one is going to fix it.

My experience this year in Kalasin Province is that the heat, 40+, has been relentless, with no 'cooler' periods of mid 30s, for the past 4-6 weeks. and that is something I've not experienced in my 27 years here. The good news is that my regional forecast shows it will be getting a little cooler this week. We'll see. The wife has been off at the rocket festival this weekend which is supposed to mark the beginning of the soggy season.

Maybe the rockets worked..... 😃

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Yes.

It's not even close to normal but wondering if this is the new normal. 

With weather, there is no 'normal'. Some years are hotter than others, some wetter than others, some winters are colder than others. Everywhere. A couple of years ago it was so hot in Europe that 70,000 died, last year not so.

And that is why I take global warming with a large pinch of salt. Climate doesn't change to a 'new normal' at the click of a finger, but over hundreds or thousands of years. There have been ice ages and drought throughout history, and long, long before we came to hurry things along. The Earth and nature are infinitely more powerful and resilient than us and will still be going though climatic cycles long after we have killed ourselves off in one way or another.

40 minutes ago, John Drake said:

 

Some of them are admitting to crimes that have nothing to do with general opinions about Thailand. If someone makes a youtube video about their building and operating a bar while restricted from doing so on a tourist visa, then they are going to get arrested. The same if someone brags about bribing authorities and the police about owning land and property. Same if someone goes on video and talks about coercing sexual favors from a young boy. If someone does these things, they are going to get in trouble. 

Those things you list are illegal activities. Criticising something is not. There's an obvious difference. At least there is unless you're in Thailand.