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Can't imagine there was one person didn't believe you.

Poor little round boy was just a seat warmer after all.

A coup to oust a coup, that'd be a novelty.

My Thai missus won't go outside without an umbrella if there's the slightest bit of rain. Says it gives her a headache! My stepdaughter's the opposite, she uses an umbrella when it's sunny. RIP the father and I hope his daughters have a speedy recovery.

I'm married to a Thai lady and have an adopted daughter so not racist against Thais. However, in my opinion, I think that for some reason they have very little common sense and that adult Thais are like children in the body of a grown up. I can't come to any alternative conclusion. Talking of adults with the minds of children, I have to pay immigration a visit this afternoon.

"Where are all the trillionaire Indians and Arabs who were going to save the tourist industry? Oh more hot air out of TAT." In Pattaya, but hardly trillionaires.

Sad, but I'm not even slightly surprised.

This whole country's run on corruption. It's a fact of life which everyone who comes to stay should realise in a short space of time. If you want an easy life here, you have to comply with the system. I actually prefer it to too much law and order like there is in the UK. If you want to buck the system here, you will either end up disappointed, deported, or dead, depending on how much you rock the boat and whose boat you choose to rock.

It is if you're married to one.

Some people just deserve to be put to death, especially those who murder innocent kids. However, I suppose the leftards will have their way and get it commuted to life imprisonment. She'll be another burden for the taxpayer and will be free to kill again when she gets paroled.

I don't. I finished my time in 1971 so missed out on a pension by four years.

I'm ex army, eleven years man and boy. The last village I lived in here had a walt who was supposedly an ex sergeant in the SAS. They're never just troopers are they? In fact one guy I worked with in the UK claimed to have been the youngest sergeant major in the SAS which would've put him at about 15 when he achieved that rank. The thing is, this guy in my village knew that I was ex army, but still persisted with his story even though it was obvious from our conversations that he knew beggar-all about the army. He was in his 70s at the time so he'd been ex SAS in his own mind for so many years that he probably thought of it as fact.

Only my opinion, but drug takers are mentally ill by their own choosing and if brought down by a stun gun, then they have only themselves to blame. "Mentally ill" seems to be an excuse for too many misdemeanors these days.

I think that now Indian men are coming here in large numbers, it's wise to have a large deterrent and 200,000 baht is just that. They don't like parting with their brass.

I don't know, but during my four years living and working in Delhi, my blonde daughter was groped several times, always in crowds so you couldn't pick out the perpetrator. She was thirteen years of age. She was with me or another adult each time, I wouldn't allow her out on her own. At least the Chinese seem to keep their hands to themselves.

I've been inappropriately touched several times by women on Walking Street but never thought of complaining. If I had the fuzz would undoubtedly have laughed at me. That was back in the good old days, the street is quite respectable now by comparison.

Many years ago in the early 1960s when I was a British soldier in the island state, I remember having many a "ding-dong" with the local taxi drivers trying to get them to use their meters. That was in the days when all Singaporeans knew my name, "John".

"Glad I live far away from that part of LoS." Wouldn't say that Rayong is the hub of traffic accidents. The odd time I passed through it looked fairly quiet. Don't you farang over in the jungle have cars?

Without being able to envisage who should have been where and when, I can't comment on who was at fault for the accident. All I can say is that it should be illegal for three people too be riding the same motorbike. However, in this country who knows. All I do know is that the Aussie will be found to be responsible. Legally, here a car never comes of best in this sort of situation. RIP to the poor young'ns killed, having three daughters of my own, I can't imagine what their poor parents are going through.

Well after the OP, it only took two posts for a "If you don't like it here go back to your home country". The German guy seems to be one beer short of a six-pack.

Maybe the horn was broken and the van had childproof locks activated.

I was eating inside an open-fronted restaurant recently when someone sitting at a table just outside lit up a tobacco cigarette. The breeze was blowing the smoke to my table and it sent me into a coughing fit. The rest of my meal was wasted. I'd have had no problem with someone vaping. They ought to be thinking not just of the smokers, but those who are getting their smoke involuntarily.

Be difficult to find a sane Russian. Remember the cold war? They seem to be able to churn out plenty of these crazies.

Sounds like my type of condo. The one I stayed in at Jomtien, it was nothing to see a dozen pairs of sandals outside some doors and the noise at weekends was horrendous. Also, forget about bagging a sunbed at the pool, they were all gone first thing and parking spaces were difficult to find. I moved to a house in the end.

I was at Bang Saray beach a few weeks back when a gang of what must have been twenty to thirty kids on motorbikes rode along shouting and singing. I swear the oldest among them couldn't have been more than twelve and there looked to be several not more than seven or eight. Strangest sight I've ever seen, like a mini Hell's Angels.