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9 hours ago, bangrak said:

'oxo', in 1947, 'oxo' was in Europe a powerfull beef concentrate (until components had to be listed on the label, and it showed there was about no beef in it...) cheaply 'giving strength' to the poor working class (mixed with boiling water). It is still sold, and, maybe, you had it pure, an overdose... to be able to write such stuff.

That's very good bangrak--thank you for the history of oxo---

However I do think you may have missed my point a little, This line

"if the lady really believes in what she stands for-- then go to jail, the world would be on your side."

Ergo -: the lady does not believe what she says she stands for , but after many promises to her deluded followers that she would stay and fight, she would rather give the government 30 million in bail money and go live in luxury in Dubai.

The people I listed took the harder more principled  stance, than the run-away Yingluck and her brother.

56 minutes ago, Tofer said:

It's called commitment, hard work and guts, not luck!

Yes it seems that the harder you work---the luckier you seem to get.....

No its not so binjalin..she was jailed and put into solitary confinement in 2003, as in most of these cases the UN and other government's put pressure on for her release... the home jail was for 15 years. So yes lots of comparison to the lady who decided to run.

11 minutes ago, binjalin said:

there and there were rumours of something 'happening

yes.. well I do not have your contacts obviously, so I dont know of all the mysterious rumours --but killing a political prisoner is usually a step much to far. Even the south African government wouldn't contemplate it with Mandela. And he was quite a lot more of a pain than Yingluck, who essentially, as most people recognise,  is just her brothers puppet.

As you probably know when her brother done a runner, he left his lawyers with the mess & they were jailed because of it. Jail time..according to them was quite an easy experience  1 to a cell their meals brought in etc...its not quite the same life as the village bag snatcher.

Were not talking about a hugh sentence here--- if the lady really believes in what she stands for--(like her counter part in Burma) then go to jail, the world would be on your side. Her brother only got 2 years---he is possibly thinking he may have made the wrong move now in legging it.

Just a few who stayed---- and went on to be the leaders & written in history

Aung San Suu

Mahatma Gandhi

Benazir Bhutto

Lech Walesa

Nelson Mandela

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The country is also ranked ninth in terms of tourist arrivals, with 32.6 million visitors or an 8.9 percent surge. 

Can any of you Thai bashers actually read the figures... its saying exactly what TOT has been saying all along...nearly 33 million visitors.......talk about blinded by stupidity.

On 8/28/2017 at 10:13 PM, chickenslegs said:

Oh, and just to add. ThaiVisa is a great source of news and other information, but it does seem to attract a lot of negative posters and Thai bashers.

Oh surly not Chickenslegs................

9 minutes ago, HooHaa said:

seems reasonable to me,  nobody comes to the beach to drink.

I think you should have the option HooHaa... I really like the Asian way of going to the beach, take the family & friends, sit under cover, read the paper, eat some food play some board games, have a beer , while the kids run down to the water etc..in Oz I never stayed more than an hour at the beach.

Such a small cost for a nice day out.......

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They cant sell booze but you can take your own, it gets a bit silly.

That country really has come along leaps & bounds..(no I dont want to live there) When I was deciding where to retire late 90s.... I done 2 months in most neighbouring countries & PI --I decided to write Cambodia off as a dead lost after just a month there, it was still quite scary at that time. I said to a friend that was travelling with me---"Lets head for Vietnam--if we come back here in 15-20 years it might be liveable" but the money just poured in, mainly from Japan, & every-time I went for a visit, every-time I was more surprised.

Yes the wealth isn't being distributed evenly.....So what's new.

Infrastructure has really improved --it was so basic years ago, all they were selling was young bodies...I was there for the first department store opening 2008-9 I think.....funny no one had seen "The amazing Magic moving stairs"  they would walk up to the escalator and stop in horror at it moving.

Such nice friendly people--hope it does well...

Took the pic from another site---saw the $1 girls around a lot--everything they sold was $1, no one wanted to deal in their money--they sold bracelets that they had sat & made under candle light the night before.

An Asian girl...27 ..would look younger...with farang age ??

Yes she will get over it--but will you ? So many "Real Men" on here telling you how you should kick her to the curb--give her nothing etc.....after 18 years of living here, seen a lot of them sobbing into their beer--making a fool of themselves when she does find someone new, etc

Men play the typical “over it” role – they go out, they immediately find a new girl to hang with, they seem, by all accounts, perfectly fine. But how do guys actually react to breakups IRL?

Yes....We all have to live with the mistakes we make in life.

....I have to sleep with mine as well.......

Braking News--:  A Nigerian Prince has died & left his millions to a cat He tried to give away his fortune for years, but no one ever responded to his emails ......

So Merkel got 33%.....May got 42%..& both of them didn't get enough seats to rule... But its accepted that they will head the government. Its nothing unusual.

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Meanwhile with our cousins across the pond........It seems, some think its a disaster & the sky is falling, in that Trump who got a higher % than those 2...plus all the seats needed to rule is now  POTUS.........

Last time I was in Pataya this cute Issan teenager was showing me her state of the art phone in Soi 6, --(a gift of course) It's got everything, she boasted,  got-4g, wifi, big-gig memory, can search for everything , email tracking, this phone can do anything.

Really?  I replied. ---Can it find your father? .......

Apparently the new iPhone X  will be excellent value at about 50,000-60,000.

It’s the last phone you’ll ever going to need for the next eight months.....

Post office is the best way to transport--you have to remove mirrors, (or they will do it wrap them in bubble for you) they then take photos of the bike, note any marks etc.

Its a nice to be able to say something positive about a service in Thailand.... I have moved 3 bikes...found it a very professional service.

And Then we stopped.............

Look at him signing those forms in the Video...... just a minor detail they didn't think to make public,... that would have ruled out 90% of the worlds population, and may have alerted any school he was teaching at.......

Breaking news, Dwraf’s friend holds séance for him, but then runs off with all the takings.

....Small medium at large........

  I think my wife is also in to selling drugs, Just as I was going to work this morning the phone rang and when I answered it the bloke on the other end said “has that dope gone yet ?"

"Only Fools and Horses Work", an old cockney saying implying that if you're smart you'll find a way of making a living without resorting to hard graft. Only simpletons and dumb beasts would actually WORK for a living..............

What do I remember about the the Dwarf man who died..?

..........Very little........

My local 7-11always uses four checkouts.

Yes--what ever happened to the days of the old cream pie........

3 hours ago, connda said:

Source? 

Thanks Connda---Yes a post like this without a credible link ,really isn't worth posting, it will bring the very best of replies like-- .."See I told you there all more stupid than us clever farangs etc"

8 hours ago, inThailand said:

You don't need to see test scores to see the daily stupidly here. 

Was this the professor in his earlier work that you are quoting upside?..

Richard Lynn’s chart from IQ and Global Inequality. Richard Lynn is a hardcore racist, typical of most hereditarian IQ researchers.

Indeed, Lynn puts SE Asian IQ at 87 and considers them about the 4th most intelligent group on the planet, behind NE Asians, European Caucasians, and Eskimos. Lynn’s theory also presupposes a relationship between latitude and race. So we can’t have any smarties down there in the hot weather. They all have to come from frigid land, where their IQ’s got nice and refrigerated. Problem is that evidence shows that Central regions actually produce more geniuses than Northern or Southern regions.

In order to fit the facts into his dubious theory, Lynn plays a lot of games. He refuses to note that Southern Chinese are some of the smartest people on Earth – their IQ is thought to be ~105, or possibly higher. The Chinese provinces around Hong Kong have often produced some of the brightest Chinese cohorts in the land.

Further, we can’t have any real bright SE Asians either, for the same reasons as for the Southern Chinese, and also so as not to mess up his SE Asian IQ of 87...etc...etc

https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/southeast-asian-iq-scores/

After so much criticism of his work Richard Lynn was forced to go back and revise his IQ theories on a world bases, working with  Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish Professor of Political Science, who conducted IQ studies in more than 80 countries . He now places Asians as the top 6 highest IQ countries in the world.

A more up to date chart of his findings is here.. However all IQ theories must be interpreted with extreme caution.

https://iq-research.info/en/page/average-iq-by-country

I usually always buy my cars ..(only 3..) in BKK where, although you get a much better deal- test driving them is more like sitting in a car park. So If I am changing models, or just not certain, I would rent for a day. Most of the better rental firms have the model you want....500-800 baht for the day.