Bangkok Barry

And it's pretty much up to the individual whether they consider 400,000 baht as insignificant, surely.

That applies to just about everything in Thailand. Road deaths, hanging wires etc. Thailand - Hub of apathy.

Yaa! Thailan nummer one.

You haven't said what you want to use it for. Unless it's for something heavily graphic-related then you can probably find a new, basic but perfectly adequate, PC for not much more than 10,000. You might consider that is a decent price to pay to end banging your head against a wall.

I haven't read of a motorcyclist driving into a lorry since - oh - yesterday?

All part of the culture Thais are so proud of in their self-proclaimed greatest country on Earth.

Just more criminals protected by the law.

So, get another job which pays better. They don't, because being in a tight brown uniform entitles them to 'bonus payments'.

Wasn't the head of the Thailand Anti-Corruption Office charged with corruption? There really is no hope.

The death penalty for being involved with bribery. Really?

Isn't this similar to the automated phone answer systems that have people tearing their hair out in frustration? No human interaction, no-one to contact in the case of an inadequate answer? The world continues to go into reverse.

So you think that his illegal activity should be ignored? No action taken because he's a politician? That makes you and he part of what makes America weak and a source of despair at what a one great country has become.

Yes third world countries like Thailand arrest and prosecute there former leaders, He'll even France has... You completely ignored the inconvenient questions I raised. Funny.

You think he's innocent of all charges even before anything has been heard in court? Or do you think that as he's a politician he should be above the law? THAT would be 3rd world tactics.

Sounds like a fine and sensible lad. Good on him. Expecting anyone to do anything though is surely wishful thinking.

I don't want to seem impolite or disrespectful, but so is the hours of chanting they do, which people actually pay them for while not understanding a word of it. It's a strange culture.

Agreed. But Thailand never, ever does simple. I am convinced that in some dark corner of a government building there is a specialist unit that dreams up how many ways it can make a simple task as difficult as possible so that those dealing with their 'victims' can feel important.

I think the rubbish came from your side................... your empathy was obvious. I think you need to brush up on your comprehension skills, rather than read something I didn't even hint at into what I wrote. I'll repeat it for you so you might understand it second time round: I questioned how they were a danger to society, and caused losses to Thailand. I didn't dispute that they should be arrested. I questioned the reasons given.

They're a bit slow off the mark if it's taken all this time to track down this pair, and even then it needed a tip off. Just think how many they could have killed in that time.

So are you saying that support law breaking? Where do you draw your line - overstay, robbery, rape and murder? Where do you read that I support lawbreaking? I was questioning the reasons given to justify arrest. Why didn't they just say they were arrested for breaking the law by overstaying, rather than spouting complete rubbish.

I was out for an hour today, and lost count after 30 of Thais breaking traffic laws in various ways. Encouraging people to spy on and report on their neighbours is what happened/happens in hardline communist dictatorships.

Did any reporter ask in what way they are a danger to the public, and how spending money and supporting Thai businesses leads to losses for the country? No. I thought not.

Just imagine as this spreads how dictatorial it will be. If it doesn't like your question then it refuses to give a factual answer. Instant censorship. How wonderful. China and Russia will love it. Try asking how many Russians have been killed after Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Or how many have died in China's internment camps.

Despite.... Hmm? Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response: "A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: * Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. * You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of <deleted>. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: 'My God… what… have… I… created? If being a <deleted> was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

Can someone point out to Trump that charges against him are nothing to do with politics, but with his alleged criminal activity. He doesn't appear to understand that.