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Bangkok Barry

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Everything posted by Bangkok Barry

  1. Today's regular and daily male wimp kills ex story.
  2. Out of the frying pan! When did he return? They didn't. Australia generally has an honest police force and they don't have to be bribed to do their job.
  3. But whenever I compare Singapore with Thailand I always get comments that Singapore is sooo boring, with everyone behaving and obeying the law. Thailand's anarchy and total disregard (and enforcement) of the law is so much more appeaing to them.
  4. Why not share it with the police and do some good? Maybe she can't afford the RTP 'motivation fee'. When my friend's house was robbed and his SUV was taken the fee to get them to do their job was 100,000 baht. He didn't pay and soon after left this cesspit to return to Australia, with his Thai wife only too happen to leave with him.
  5. Not the Thai way though, is it. Thai culture regards respect as a right, no matter whether the person in question is an abuser (read school teacher) or involved in corrupt practises (read everyone else).
  6. Just doing his job. I've often wondered how lawyers can defend someone who is obviously guilty, Strange way to earn a living, and completely without morals.
  7. You think she's innocent and everything has been made up? Witnesses have lied?
  8. Someone give Suwankesorn a dictionary, as he obviously needs one. No-one is plotting to overthrow anyone or anything.
  9. Surprisingly. Observably. Interestingly. Intriguingly. Someone's been using, utilizing, employing their thesaurus
  10. At least she didn't experience what a security guard suffered some years ago on Rama 4 Road in Bangkok. A military man double-parked outside a building, the security man said he couldn't do that, so the military man shot him.
  11. It's what people do. They appear to be born with the desire to inflict cruelty upon others as school bullying is rife in any country. They are too young to have learned it from adults. Humans instinctively hate other humans but most, fortunately grow out of it. Those who don't find any excuse for their aggressive behaviour, whether it is racism or religion or anything else they can find. Most are not like that, but they aren't the problem. The problem is those who are. We're a very primitive species.
  12. Another sign that the world has gone PC mad. He touched her hand and that is sexual harassment? And invited her to his room to discuss his itinerary. No doubt a very nice room for someone of his stature, with a business seating area. Wasn't long ago in the UK that a woman accused an office colleague of smiling at her without permission as part of her harassment case against him.
  13. So you know how many would have died if not for vaccines and masks? Are you suggesting they made little or no difference?
  14. Weather forecasting - the only job in the world where you can get it wrong every day and still keep your job. Everyone just expects it.
  15. It's a direct result of the rigid class system that exists in Thailand, something my native UK managed to largely eradicate around 100 years ago. It's why so many in a uniform or position of 'power' make life as difficult as possible for those they deal with, as the uniform gives them the imagined freedom to do whatever they want and to kick back against their otherwise lowly position on the social ladder. The abused becomes the abuser. It's a way of fighting back against the system. And because every Thai from a very young age is taught their place on the social rung, and everyone is looked down upon by someone, frustration and resentment builds and builds, and suddenly they 'do a Popeye' - That's all I can takes, I can't takes no more - and they reach for the can of spinach. Or, in Thailand, the nearest gun or machete. Thai society is like a volcano about to explode, and it doesn't take much to send some over the edge and commit violence, even kill, over the smallest thing.
  16. I demand that they set up a committee to determine if they're innocent or not?
  17. But if you bothered to read the link..... After an unsuccessful negotiation with the suspect police officers had to charge the man and make him wear pants before transporting him to the Pattaya station.
  18. And far more common in Thailand than, say, Singapore or Malaysia. Thailand has long attracted the bottom of the barrel. Many reasons for that.
  19. I just Googled the definition: to deal or trade in something illegal. Okay. but offering a girl for sex in a cafe isn't the generally accepted definition is it, which is transporting people across borders illegally. Using it in a case like this trivializes the offence of real trafficking.
  20. That is attempted murder, and all too common in the Land of Smiles.
  21. Providing under-age girls for sex isn't trafficking. It's providing under-age girls for sex.

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