Bangkok Barry

No-one is born an ass hole. How someone turns out depends on how the absence of a father is compensated for. Some are raised well with values and responsibility taught, others are allowed to do as they want with little guidance or discipline.

I don't really have any idea how society has become so violent. I'm in my 70s and, as far as I know with there being no social media and far less access to news media then, it was nothing like this in the last century. In the UK the stabbings are mostly confined to a certain ethnic group which, more than the 'native' Brits and due to cultural differences tend to often not have a father figure around. It might be the same in Thailand. So many don't have a father around, nor even a mother as they are too busy elsewhere to raise their own child and that task is passed on to grandparents who might struggle to even care of themselves, let alone a kid. Apart from that and in the west, with older folk I wonder how much irresponsibility was born out of the 60s anything goes attitude.

It isn't his law. It's an old one resurrected by the Thaksin government.

Historians rank Trump as worst president How could they not.

If you drive responsibly your car does not end up like that. It just doesn't.

Welcome to the future. Cash used to work every time and no-one sneaked a dollar or so from your wallet every minute. Now you have to watch your account like a hawk and take precautions not to have your account drained. It's called progress.

We've got 35 or 36 forecast in my area of Kalasin Province for at least the next 10 days. About average.

Different kind of heat in Australia. I've been comfortable wearing a jacket in 40 degrees, and I'd sometimes go outside to stand in 43 degrees. Just move slowly, but the low humidity means it isn't too uncomfortable.

Being by the sea raises humidity, doesn't it?

And a sense of responsibility rather than worshiping the baht.

And now a Buddhist day approaches - again - where all alcohol sales are banned whether you are Buddhist or not. And then they'll be an alcohol ban if they ever have have elections again (is there any point?) when even non-voters are banned from buying a beer. The redeeming feature is that so many ignore laws they don't agree with that any bans make little difference.

Maybe it's because I'm an old fart, but I can't understand why anyone would pay good money (not in this case though) and go through pain to get a tattoo that they can't see.

Did you only read the headline? She didn't. She went to the studio as a tattoo model for the artist and received the service for free.

Same old same old. We'll be reading similar reports in five, 10, 20 years from now, as we have over the last five, 10, 20 years.

Just typical Thaiger reporting.

I thought that life was sacred in Buddhism, yet Thailand must be among the most dangerous places in the world outside of a war zone. Every day there are reports of violence and death, often over nothing at all.

Along come plenty of indignant posts as if the plan to end the restriction has been abandoned. It hasn't. Liquor Policy Committee drops plan to extend liquor sale hours, for now The deputy prime minister assured them that the committee will not yet make any decision. Absolutely nothing has been decided. The DPM smiled at his constituents, said what they wanted to hear. Exactly the same as AN posters who in turn read what they wanted to read in order to protest, not what was actually written.

I don't remember anyone being arrested for it. I might be wrong.

Good match last night.

I don't know what the MU forum is. But if you are 'censored' by admin they email you and message you why, and you have to acknowledge your guilt before they let you back.

Okay. Get back to us with any personal experience you have of that. I and we would be interested to know, I'm sure.

Actually, this site proves the point. I had a reasonable comment removed because future discussions might have gone over the rules. If it was about the Royal Family then I wouldn't be surprised. But name me anything else that is off-limits. Certainly nothing to do with the government or any official body such as Thailand's largest criminal organisation. Daily comments on here.

I worked in Dubai for two weeks a year for 30 years and once discussed their attire with a colleague who is there full-time, and he says they can actually recognise each other if they meet in a mall. I also wondered how they eat, and saw in a Doha hotel restaurant one briefly lifting her veil, stuffing something into her mouth and quickly lowering her curtain again. A very strange way to live. I must say that the Arab men I have encountered there are polite to an extreme, like the Japanese. One gave up his stool for me in a fitness club bar. Imagine a Thai doing that for a foreigner. On that subject, I'm not a spring chicken and have never once been offered a seat on the BTS or MRT despite decades in Bangkok. I was in Singapore for two days and was offered a seat three times. If I had to rank Singaporeans, Arabs and even educated Indians with Thais for politeness, Thais would come fourth. Too much Me First in Thai culture.

I don't believe the punishment for killing a cop is up for negotiation. Do you?

I don't think so. This very site disproves what you say, and FB ignores protests about anything the Thai elite don't like, as brushing off the occasional threat by an outraged government to block FB in Thailand proves.