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I'd prefer to wait and see whether there'll be a credible investigation or not. You may not want to bother.

I won't bother because its never going to happen.

So you admit to being a man with a closed mind? Shame on you.

I'd prefer to wait and see whether there'll be a credible investigation or not. You may not want to bother.

Some HiSo Thai obviously has shares in a hard drive company. There's going to be lots of them needed to store all that data...

I've watched pretty much all the major events (as well as most of the non-major ones), and I did watch the gymnastics.

What I can say is... He Kexin is an amazing athlete

I did know about this controversy too about her age. She probably is just 14, which makes her performances that bit better for me Great athlete.

and.. Beth Tweddle should have won a medal, I'm not a judge, but to me her performance was easily worth a gold medal, better than anyone I saw.

no rants from me though.

ps. from UK

You don't understand gymnastics if you say that, being underage gives an unfair advantage, they have more flexibility. What you admired was most likely a cheating performance. In Greece, the Americans had some underage probable gold medal winners and they followed the rules and didn't get those golds. Is China so special they get to make up their own rules?

No but they should be accorded the same rights that we crow about in the west. No-one has yet been found guilty of being underage. Until they are, they are entitled to be considered the winner.

Internet Explorer has a set of files (index.dat) that aren't removed by clearing the cache. A progam called 'Spider' will remove these files.

You speak as geeks. The vast vast majority of people who use the web aren't and I suspect a large chunk of them would welcome easily accessible privacy facilities built into their default browser.

The man who set us on our road to freedom is dead:

Obituary

where is bambina when needed... a post op transgender lady veterinarian.... as far as im concerned, she is a she...

Has she left for the Netherlands yet?

We should listen to bighearted boy Obama on how to deal with terrorists...

Let's sit down and talk to them.

It worked with the IRA when they all finally decided to stop killing each other and sort it out like grown-ups.

I have a farang friend in Chiang Mai who regularly opens fixed rate short term accounts with both the Bangkok Bank and the Thai Military Bank. He also claims back the withholding tax back from the tax man every year.

if you've got nothing to hide whats the problem

That is what apologists of totalitarianism always say.

Spot on!

Maybe the paying field is opening up for youngsters though.

Mister Freud I presume?

This brings us back to an old favorite topic you might wish to refer to here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Hear-Word-Fa...p;hl=derogatory

a troll-infested, multiple-deleted post mercifully closed thread is an "old favorite?"

Mercy.... please show mercy... 162 posts, 2500 views... This one has also achieved its sought-after cult classic status... to go down forever in eternity as an "old favorite"

At least it's not a poll

You'd be better off buying a sofa

You might want to consider the MSI Wind (for those in the UK available as the Advent 4211 from PC Wolrd and £50 cheaper than the Wind). 10" screen, decent size keyboard, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, XP Home, WiFi, Bluetooth, Webcam & Mic built in. A lovely bit of kit. Quick review here.

Thais are people that know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

I think Oscar got there before you...

I realize the audience for this movie is Thai people and Thai people can and will make any kinds of movies they want, and watch any kinds of movies they want. However, I have to ask, will movies like Hanuman create more hatred and violence against farangs from Thais?

Have you actually suffered any hatred and violence from Thais? Do you any other farangs who have (apart from those sufficiently drunk and/or stupid to bring it upon themselves)?

No, not violence but in some cases threats of violence, but alot of stupid stereotyping though and definitely surly unwelcome behavior. I can't know what people are thinking, so how to comment on the hatred question. Come to think of it, I have experienced what could be characterized as hatred (anti farang cursing) when I don't behave in the exact stereotypical way that the Thai person expects me to behave based on their stupid preconception about how every farang should behave. Anyway, what difference would it make anyway? One person?

What you have written is a description of the treatment of outsiders in practically every country in the world. The fact that many people react to the stereotypes that they've been fed isn't confined to Thailand.

You ask whether Hanuman will create more hatred and violence against farangs from Thais. Do you have any evidence that hatred and violence of farangs is widespread in Thailand now (apart from the idiotic tendency that I mentioned above)?

I realize the audience for this movie is Thai people and Thai people can and will make any kinds of movies they want, and watch any kinds of movies they want. However, I have to ask, will movies like Hanuman create more hatred and violence against farangs from Thais?

Have you actually suffered any hatred and violence from Thais? Do you any other farangs who have (apart from those sufficiently drunk and/or stupid to bring it upon themselves)?

The reason that Thais want to know how old you are, how much you earn and your marital status is so that they can place you within the Thai world view. The same thing goes on all over the world - the only difference is the criteria that are used.

I have an Advent 4211 (the UK version of the Wind and £50 cheaper!). It's an excellent machine. The 10" screen is just the right size and allows for a decent size keyboard. 80GB hard drive and XP Home. Battery life is a little poor but aftermarket batteries are being designed.Brilliant!

Castrati didn't have women's voices - they had boy's voices with a range of 3 to 4 octaves with the power of a man's voicebox.

What you could do to be 'awkward' is what some people did when we were looking to buy a property in the UK some years ago.

But he isn't looking to buy a property in the UK - he's trying to escape a rental in Thailand. Being 'awkward' in Thailand can have far more severe consequences than it can in the UK. The best thing he (and you) can do is to stop importing your western assumptions into Thailand. They don't work - they aren't relevant.

Good luck Bambi. Have you got somewhere to live?

There seems to be some sort of biological basis for romantic love.

I haven't seen a TV in the UK in the past 10 years that wasn't capable of displaying both PAL and NTSC and that applies to the cheap-as-chips ones, not just the quality brands.