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So how many on here immediately blamed the Thai without being bothered to read the complete story in the OP link? It would certainly appear that this wasn't the Fin first encounter with this shop owner in a negative way....coming back and demanding cheaper beer price and then telling her F you etc is generally not going to end well for anyone. It's not rocket science whether in Thailand or anywhere else that if you repeatedly insult a shop owner that sooner or later somebody is gonna kick your butt....he was lucky he wasn't in USA or they would most likely have shot him.

and for 99% most often your long shots will not finish in the $$.

When you are on your death bed looking back on your life do you think you will wish you had been more "normal" and likely lived near where you were born, got married, had kids, got divorced, worked in a semi dead end job for decades, then in older age lived on social security, hope your kids turned out decent, etc.....or would you prefer to look back and say I did what i wanted to do and glad i did not allow "normal" people to tell me what my version of life should be. One person's "normal" is another person's boring. In the end the person that is most happy or unhappy with how you led your life is likely you...or in those famous words of wisdom of so many Thai people, "up to you".

Absolutely. A first year law student would understand that judges should and do recuse themselves all the time when there is even the appearance of a conflict. The govt forms that Thomas was unwilling or unable to fill out are filled out by thousands of government employees every year who don't have law degrees but somehow are able to understand and fill out the required information. Thomas is crooked as a stick and dumb as a bucket of mud. What a great combination for a life time appointee of the supreme court of the USA. Has a single republican called for him to resign or at least be investigated ? Seems to say that republicans believe no one is above the law if they happen to be a republican. Surprise surprise.

Apparently the Russians must enjoy it as they are taking over phuket.

nobody has ever said that having some common sense gun laws like banning ar 15 types , requiring background checks and red flag laws will magically stop all gun killings...but if it saves a bunch of lives why would anyone be against that? in fact all the polls show huge majorities of citizens want these measures...i guess a lot of people didn't like seatbelt laws which have saved thousands upon thousands of lives....per your "logic" we should just say there is zero that can be done to save lives......NRA talking points to get you to buy MORE guns...they don't give a crap how many people die, it's all about the green.

Yes he has certainly claimed over and over and over that he is very very very rich....so most people with an IQ in triple digits might wonder well why is he always begging us poor folk to send him our money? Why do his companies stiff workers and vendors over and over? Why does it appear that he is constantly trying to cheat on his taxes? He reminds me of the TV preachers who live in mansions and fly in private jets and beg for more $$ in "jesus name". We used to call these people grifters and conmen....then we had one in the white house where he was called president. But just like the TV conmen he never seems to run out of victims waiting to be scammed yet again.

And how many home invaders have been killed by ar 15 compared to how many innocent people killed by idiots with ar 15 that never ever should be allowed to buy a weapon of war?? If u really want to kill a home invader your best weapon is likely a 12 gauge shotgun as it would be almost impossible to miss.

Que the fund raising emails to the brain dead NRA bunch from the greatest grifter and con man ever....I hear he may want some new gold plated toilets and even though he is very very very rich he would prefer to use the $$ of his Maga morons.

T should declare himself the greatest grifter and conman ever, give himself a trophy, and move to N Korea and continue his love affair with his bromance dictator Kim....

no worries....bible beaters, republicans, NRA, and delusional people know all they need is thoughts and prayers and no more mass slaughters

The supreme court is too busy grifting $$, lavish vacations, private jets, real estate and lying about roe v wade positions etc to worry about such trivial separation of church and state matters...if u want help from Supremes recommend you provide some lavish vacations or similar to get their attention.

And Clarence apparently thinks that crow just happened to decide that he wanted to be best of buddies with him and hang out together for decades and that it had zero to do with him being a supreme court justice? I guess Crow just needed more friends and couldn't find any to hang with him on his yachts and private jets and then one day he just happened to meet ole Clarence and thought now there is one charming dude...no idea what he does for a living but lets be buddies.....how fast would those invites disappear if ole Clarence ruled the opposite way that Crow prefers on any number of decisions? If indeed Clarence was that dumb and naïve, not to mention crooked, he has no business anywhere near the court.

I gave up beef in Thailand long ago....just not worth it. Chicken and pork are the name of the game in LOS and IMO few people do those two better than the Thais.

Just imagine if it were a liberal judge....fox news and maga heads would go 24/7 screaming for immediate impeachment and their heads would explode. Of course they would allow charles manson to stay on as if he is gone then the dems would get to pick the next one....unless of course repubs block that as they did before.......amazing bunch of hypocrites law and order my rear end.

truly sad isn't it...i remember watching his confirmation hearings long ago and I had no doubt that he should never ever have been confirmed....now we have clarence and a couple recently confirmed that flat out lied re their position on roe v wade to get confirmed...it's all on tape. Lifetime appointments obviously enbolden them to thumb their nose at the entire judiciary system and the American public...must feel not so great to be a low level guy sitting in prison for taking bribes and get to see the top judges do worse with zero problems.

Amazing silence from the house and senate and other federal judges nationwide....how sad that in their silence they tacitly send the message that Thomas atrocious lack of any moral awareness is ok with them. Any first year law student would know that acceptable norms for all judges is to avoid even the suggestion/appearance of conflict of interest. This behavior over a 20 ++ year span is beyond belief and needs to be stopped with a resignation or impeachment now.

Everything he has done since birth was PERFECT.....how do i know that? Why because he has told everyone that and we all know that he would never ever tell a lie, be a conman, a grifter, a rapist, a tax fraud, a coup plotter.....how do we know this? Because he has told us this. ...and I understand that Santos has verified all of the claims personally.

Well he does have to provide ten tons of evidence to partially overcome the gallons of kool aide that enables trumpers to see no evil hear no evil....and even that probably will not convince the hard core that the emperor is a con man grifter with no clothes...

I don't think Jack Smith is a guy you want to mess with if you are playing games with financial reporting, fund raising, valuations, tax reporting, etc. Remember what took Al Capone down was tax charges. Like Capone donnie and his army of lawyers and accountants have not demonstrated that they are real great at telling the truth about financial matters, and unlike the he said, she said stuff there is most likely a very long paper trail of docs/filings/report forms, tax returns, etc that Mr. Smith is pouring through. Juries just love to see the paperwork and don't much like folks who brag constantly about how hugely rich they are and they scam their supporters and cheat on their taxes by millions.

i know $$ important but i also remember few years back lot of bars etc had no arabs, no this and that signs on their doors....also not sure the average bar gal given a choice would choose to go with some of these guys rather than other guys....and of course we have all heard the stories of indians trying to share one drink or one girl among several...no idea if true but most thai folks probably would not much like that....also lots of reports of airbnb and hotels renting a room and suddenly 6 people staying there......just saying that my guess is that most thai people might wish that the mix being promoted were a bit different but it is what TAT seems to be intent on....

hopefully a few judges with some gonads will slap he and his lawyers with some sanctions for his frivolous suits...otherwise there is no doubt that he will sue everyone under the sun and then try and drag it all out for a decade or until he kicks the bucket....it is what he has done over and over all his life and will continue to do so until there are consequences. Pence and Meadows could likely end it all if they actually testify and not cower in the corner like the cowards that they so far have been. I would guess that is one of t's biggest fears in spite of all the bravado.

It is hard to imagine how Saudis and their culture fit with Thai culture.... Thailand wants to lure Russians, Chinese, Saudis and Indians as dominant tourists. Wonder what the Thai people think about that mix?

But a snout that actually got elected by the Thai people and not installed by tanks rolling through the streets in a coup and then installed HIS cronies to run their version of corruption.