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Call me stupid, but I've tried a couple of famous Soviet writers and found them to be incredibly boring. Never seeming to get to the point. Give me a good modern novel any day.

The only change that I want them to make is to allow the sale of alcohol early morning so that I can buy my booze at the main supermarket along with the groceries early on. It's really annoying when I know that my favourite tipple is within reach, but I have to settle for something else at my local shop later on.

I saw a Thai woman doing the same opposite Dongtan Beach in Jomtien at 1030 in the morning and she appeared to be a sober beach vendor. Also, on most days of the week, you're likely to pass a Thai guy having a squirt by the side of the road. I've also seen several guys at various times peeing opposite my house and outside my back gate. However, I think this particular woman should have found a more secluded spot to have a sprinkle.

I get a sore ring cycling once around the golf course perimeter, so long distance stuff isn't for me.

Being that I see and read examples of misandry on an almost daily basis, I don't think men ought to be ashamed of being misogynistic, it tends to even things up a bit. Also, call me old-fashioned (I'm nearly 80 yoa), but as someone who never feels 100% comfortable in a car being driven by a woman, I'd much prefer it if the person flying my aircraft was male.

I disagree. In your house you allow your family a certain amount of leeway for their transgressions, but if a visitor came and got out of order, especially of the violent sort, you'd turf them out on their ear. Similar situation here, visitors are expected to exhibit good behaviour in a country where they are guests, whereas locals are as a rule shown a bit more leniency.

The Thai woman is 8 months pregnant and the Russian kicked her in the groin twice, as well as giving her a load of verbal abuse. She should be jailed for violence and then deported imho.

Going by the angry expression I see on the face of every Russian I encounter here, I'd say that most of them are capable of replicating the actions of this hellcat.

I don't mind tattoos, although if I had my time over again I wouldn't repeat. What really disgusts me is those awful nose rings. Must be hell trying to blow your hooter. They make people look like they should be tethered to a post.

Yeh, we have a bit of catching up to do 🙂 We've been knocked off our pedestal!

I've often wondered that myself, there seems to be a "take it or leave it" attitude among a lot of local businesses.

In my 17 years of driving my car here I've been stopped and fined 200 baht each time on made up violations. Each time I gave them a wry smile, paid up and got on my way. What's the point in causing a scene for a couple of hundred baht? Even if these guys hadn't been speeding and all over the road, they had no motorbike licence so were breaking the law. Why risk a barney with a copper resulting in possible jail time over paying a small fine?

We all get seen off by the Thai fuzz at some time or other, it's part of living here. Why didn't they just smile, wai and cough up the couple of hundred baht tea money? Whatever the cops did, it's never a good idea to physically grapple with them and make them lose face by nicking their gun. I should imagine there'll be long jail sentences awaiting these two and I for one will applaud.

I'm the same. I'm a whisky man and I try to save my first drink until around 9pm, but if my pouring arm gets a bit heavy between then and bedtime around midnight, then I suffer the next day. I'm 80 yoa in June and am trying to resign myself to the fact that this is only going to get worse.

My 50-odd year old Thai missus is the same. She also dyes her hair in the shower and as you'd expect, the tile grout ends up the same shade of black.

I'd have volunteered to do the job, with pleasure. In my opinion, anything that bites, stings, poisons or eats you should be put down. At least make these dangerous breeds illegal, in fact all breeds wandering around the streets unsupervised should be dealt with. That goes for the horrible creatures around my community which have owners (some are farang), which wander around messing on my outside grass verge, barking half the night, chasing motorbikes and intimidating pedestrians.

You're lucky he didn't drop a nut on you.

These days it would be very unusual to see a person's ethnicity mentioned in the news, especially if that person had committed a crime and it would help to find them.

You can fly under the radar for doing most things here, offering violence to locals will cause a sihtstorm, as the Swissies have discovered. These idiots were very fortunate that there wasn't a crowd of motorbike taxi riders or doormen around to dish out some Thai instant justice. Just being offhand with someone can cause that lot to kick off.

Correct! I tend not to venture out between 12 - 22nd unless early morning or after dark and keep away from Pattaya City Centre. But there again, Songkran lost it's magic for me on the first and last one I attended in 2007.

I resemble that remark! Us Brits have been quiet lately.

Full of factories, no entertainment, the town of a million traffic lights. No thanks! I'll remain just outside of Pattaya.

That has my vote.

The Swiss are always "eccentric", the ones I've met here anyway. I don't mind, keeps the heat off us Brits.

Have you tried doing a reboot?