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10 minutes ago, PatThaiM said:

The Irish can identify with being under colonial control.

It was illegal to fly an IRA flag a few decades ago.

Doesn't mean they can ignore the law of the land. No one is above the law, even spotty little herberts in a rap group. "Kneecap" for chrisakes. I'm sure they mean it as the verb as opposed to the noun. It was a popular form of punishment during "the troubles".

Similar in the UK. Hardly surprising when all the mainstream media are just to the left of Mao Tse-tung.

Loads of Aussies, hoards of Chinese and a South Korean guy with a gun arrested. No mention of Brits. Remember this next time a one gets plastered and has a punch up. 

8 hours ago, thesetat said:

In the US. If you are drunk driving, you get arrested and taken to jail and your car gets towed away into storage until you can pay to get it out. That is a daily fee compounded to store your car at an impound yard which can be very expensive if you are unable to get out of jail for your offenses. 

Thailand seeks to take and sell your car for this? I do not see how they can do this, especially when you might not own the car and simply loaned it to someone who drove and drank without your knowledge. 

Thailand needs to follow suit with laws that protect the legal drivers. Arrest those and confiscate their vehicles for driving without a license or for drunk driving or even reckless or careless driving. But they also need to prosecute those people as well. not just ask for an envelope hidden from cameras. 

It did mention that in the report. Said that if the offender borrowed the car, then the owner could claim it back under certain conditions. I suppose if you lent your car to someone you knew was going on the lash or was a repeat offender, then you wouldn't be able to claim it back.

200 ? That's one hell of a lot of squats. Even when young and very fit in the army, I couldn't have managed that many in a single session. I'm all for teachers and parents using discipline, but that many squats is ridiculous. No wonder it caused injury. 

30 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

Is this just the start of something in the UK?? I wonder?

Being that NI is part of the UK, then yes it is. I think what you mean is "Will it spread to the mainland?"

10 hours ago, baansgr said:

I've noticed a huge rise in violent crime and entitled attitudes amongst mostly foreigners. The weed shops and ease of visas has attracted the scum of The Earth and are the 2 main reasons for the switch. Violence on a daily basis in Phuket & Pattaya. You only have to look on Tik tok and twitter to see all these Ibiza rejects and Nazis posting their bile and hate while being off their heads on dope...with 1,000s of followers of the same ilk being bombarded with the idea anything goes, what can you expect

"Upon arrival, officers encountered 22 male individuals claiming to be of Cambodian, Burmese and Karen ethnic origin." 

"Ibiza rejects and Nazis"? I didn't realise that Ibiza was such a big draw for Cambodians, Burmese and karen Nazi tourists. 

On 6/3/2025 at 11:16 AM, smedly said:

encouraging this lawless behavior tells a lot about you 

 

the police should been called and let them deal with it lawfully

Correct. It won't be long before some foreign drunken guy is going to be kicked to death for saying or doing something fairly trivial against a local. They were using that guys head as a football.

22 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Please see this thread re vaccine availability.

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1362237-covid-vaccines-for-children-where/

 

Note that the newest vaccine is not available anywhere in Thailand, and in many places the available vaccines are several generations (vaccine generations) old.

 

BPH has vaccine but I do not know which version. 

 

The current strain is unusually infectious (more so than the already very infectious earlier strains) but also unusually mild in most cases. If you test positive nothing other than symptomatic treatment and isolating at home is needed unless you have specific risk factors. If you do have the latter, Paxlovid might be advised but I have no current info on its availability. Other antivirals more readily available don't do much to be frank.

I recovered from Covid about two weeks back. I wouldn't describe it as unusually mild, it was easily as severe as my worst dose of flu in the UK. Temperature, headache, sore throat, raking cough, shortness of breath and aching joints. Laid me out for about 10 days, wasn't able to do any work around the house. Was either laid on the bed trying to read, or sitting at my computer (didn't have much enthusiasm to do either). Never been so pleased to see the back of an illness. 

I don't know how long my natural immunity will last, but I'll certainly be looking to have a jab at the start of the next wet season. I wouldn't like to have to go through the experience again.

23 hours ago, MaskLover2025 said:

Exactly - these figures do not justify the seemingly endless hysteria around covid in Thailand. There are at least several articles daily about covid, all accompanied by ridiculous imagery designed to inculcate fear and anxiety into an already psychologically broken populace. The fact this relentless hysteria is so effective in moulding the behaviour of Thai people speaks volumes about what kind of society it is.

Well I've just recovered from it and it put me on my back for about 10 days. Easily as bad as the worst dose of flu I've had. If I hadn't been retired, I'd have had to have taken that time off work. There may be "hysteria", but it's reducing the country's work force while it rages on. I managed to survive through the previous epidemics (I had 3 jabs), but it got me this time.

8 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

Oh dear, I guess Keir Rodney Starmer won't be welcome then, having locked up multiple Brits for lengthy sentences for questioning his immigration policy on FaceBook. 

 

Who's he going to send in his place? Lammy? Rayner? I can't imagine Trump/Vance tolerating those fools for too long.  

 

Good to see The GOP standing up for freedom of speech. It's refreshing. We need someone to stand up to Labour's well established position on it, summed up beautifully by Idi Amin. 

 

 

 

Thought for an awful moment that Lammy had been made Chief of the Defence Staff !

On 5/27/2025 at 8:40 AM, HappyExpat57 said:

My only personal experience with an Indian was living on a cruise ship as a sound technician, sharing a room with one. He was the nastiest, filthiest human I've ever been that close to. He would blow his nose on the shower curtain, and I walked in on him beating his meat once - didn't phase him a bit, just kept on stroking. I talked to the supervisor who understood and got me assigned to a different room. I know you can't judge an entire race on one experience, but it certainly seems to fit their general description.

I lived and worked in Delhi for four years and once outside the compound where I lived, it was constant stress. I ended up only going out if absolutely necessary. Also the "curry run" between there and the UK was a nightmare especially when you had to use the toilet. When my tour was up it was a blessed relief. I vowed never to visit there again. Unfortunately it has come to me, both in the UK and Thailand.

On 5/26/2025 at 6:48 PM, rucus7 said:

Yes, if you are in Thailand on an O-type visa and plan to stay in a province other than your registered address for more than 48 hours, you must report your new address to the immigration office. This is a requirement under the 90-day reporting rule. The 90-day reporting rule requires all foreigners with an O-type visa to report to the immigration office within 90 days of their arrival in Thailand and again every 90 days thereafter. 

 

Here's a more detailed explanation: 

 

• 90-day Reporting:

  You are required to report your registered address to the immigration office every 90 days. This helps them keep track of your location and ensures you are not residing illegally.
• Address Change:

  If you plan to stay in a different province for more than 48 hours, you must report your new address to the immigration office. This ensures that your records are accurate and that you are complying with the reporting requirements.
• Failure to Report:

  Failure to report your address change within 90 days can result in penalties, such as fines or deportation.

   

  This came as a suprise to me. I went for dental work. Stayed in a hotel.

Depends on the office. Jomtien only require you to report in after you've been out of the country. However, your first 90 day report after being out of province will have to be done in person, they won't process it online. This was my experience a few months back when I had a short break in Ayutthaya. However, as I say, it depends on the office. Best phone them.

This isn't the west madam, you won't be indulged here like you would over there.

21 hours ago, JonnyF said:

Just recovered from it myself. Caught it in BKK.

 

Really bad cough, sore throat (painful to swallow), fever, shivering, aching body, bad headache, nasal congestion.

 

Symptoms were bad for 4 days, then moderate for 4 days. I just took Tylenol and cough mixture, plus a nasal inhaler. 

Same here. It was brought into the house by a little girl who visited a few times after attending school for the day. The wife and I rarely go anywhere. I live 30 minutes outside of Pattaya. My Covid was easily as bad as the worst bout of flu I've ever had and the symptoms were more or less identical. 

13 hours ago, Social Media said:

 

Satire on Trial: How a Three-Minute Placard Sparked an Eight-Month Legal Ordeal

 

A Jewish counter-protester who dared to mock Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a hand-drawn cartoon has finally been cleared, ending what he calls a “distressing” eight-month saga that exposed “two-tier policing in action”.

 

The Londoner, who has asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons, spent fewer than three minutes on 20 September holding a sign that pictured Nasrallah clutching a pager above the words “beep, beep, beep” – a nod to Israel’s 1997 “Operation Grim Beeper”, in which explosives hidden in communications devices killed dozens of Hezbollah fighters. He was standing in Swiss Cottage alongside a multi-faith group protesting a larger pro-Palestinian march.

 

 

Police did not arrest him that day, but when he returned to the same spot a week later two vans and six officers arrived. They searched his home – even, he says, rifling through his partner’s underwear drawer – then held him overnight at Islington police station and charged him under the Public Order Act with racially or religiously aggravated harassment. “It beggars belief that police could think this placard might offend supporters of Hezbollah,” he told The Telegraph. “If Hezbollah sympathisers were really present, why weren’t they facing terror charges instead of me?”

 

Interview footage shows an officer pressing him: “Do you think that showing this image to persons protesting who are clearly pro-Hezbollah and anti-Israel would stir up racial hatred further than it is already?” His lawyer, Carl Woolf, replied incredulously, “Are you saying there were pro-Hezbollah people there? It is a proscribed terrorist organisation.”

 

The incident fuelled accusations that the Metropolitan Police are harsher on pro-Israel speech than on overt support for extremist causes. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp called it “two-tier policing in action”, adding that officers “sometimes turn a blind eye when confronted with protesters calling for jihad, yet over-police at other times. The law should be applied equally to all – that is not what happened here.”

 

Peers echoed the criticism. Lord Walney, a former government extremism adviser, said intervening “on the side of supporters of a proscribed terrorist organisation is grotesque” and urged the Met to apologise if the man’s account is upheld. Lord Austin, previously investigated for labelling Hamas “Islamists” online, remarked, “It beggars belief that someone would be arrested and charged because a sign might upset supporters of Islamist terrorists, rather than action being taken against the terror supporters themselves.”

 

Confronted with the video, the Met later insisted the interviewing officer had “misspoke” by describing demonstrators as pro-Hezbollah when she meant pro-Palestinian, and promised to “reflect on the CPS decision” to drop the case. Prosecutors finally abandoned proceedings on 10 May, citing insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. The counter-protester learned the news with relief: “I didn’t realise how relieved I was until I heard I wasn’t going to court.”

 

His ordeal comes amid wider concern about anti-Semitic hate and police tactics since Hamas’s 7 October attacks. The same September afternoon, a pro-Palestinian activist was filmed near the Israeli ambassador’s home shouting “I love the 7th of October.” He was arrested under terrorism legislation but never charged; Scotland Yard says it is still contesting that decision with the Crown Prosecution Service.

 

For the Jewish protester, the takeaway is grim: “The Met are still out of their depth policing the hate marches we’ve seen week in, week out. Political satire shouldn’t land you in a cell.” Yet, with the case closed, he hopes at least one lesson is clear: mocking a terrorist is not a crime in Britain.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Telegraph  2025-05-26

 

 

Ask the Iranian "Banana Man". I've lost count of the times he's been arrested for displaying a sign saying "Hamas are Terrorists". Maybe the BBC complained.

8 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Jealous? Im Manchester United, not a barely human Scouser.

You seen a citizen journalist videoing in Manchester these days? They all go to Liverpool for a break.

10 hours ago, Yagoda said:

They make me want to vomit. Celebrating council house rat eating, hubcap stealing, giro loving Scousers. Barf barf barf.

 

 

You forgot "commies". I'm a Scouser by the way. 

22 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

I know there are a lot of far-right Western supporters on this forum. So how do you feel about Thailand being so clearly far-right? Thai people first, immigration strictly limited, restrictive residency and citizenship laws, no support for migrants, asylum seekers etc. This must be a dream country for those complaining about the West going down the drain!

Further right the better as far as I'm concerned, but I've seen nothing to convince me that this country is far right. I'm convinced the UK id far left, but I think Thailand is slightly right-leaning at most.