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14 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

It's easier to catch rats than this guy.

That's because this guy is a rat on Red Bull, and it's given him wings.  

(And a rat with wings is a bat).

The cyclotron will be used to manufacture isotopes used in Single-Proton Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron-Emission Tomography (PET), which are imaging techniques for various body functions used in medicine, including monitoring cancer, brain function, and heart and infectious diseases.  Thailand already produces some PET isotopes locally, but all SPECT ones are currently imported.  I trust the bashers on here will put their health where their mouths are, and turn down any medical treatment making use of Thai made isotopes both here and elsewhere in the region once production and export are up and running.

She's probably hiding in parliament.  It's the last place anyone would think of finding her.

"Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is, I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not. Why not? - because you're not!' "

Douglas Adams.

http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/

5 hours ago, tomyummer said:

Named 'ET' after the movie character? How endearingly, insultingly....Thai.

They wanted to call her "And", but thought that it sounded better in French.

12 hours ago, AGareth2 said:

clock?

soon there will be a doll!

A glove puppet.  Indistinguishable from the real thing.

More seriously, if Scotland were to become independent, and remain an EU member, would we see the same concern about a hard or soft border between it and the UK from the EU?  Probably not, because the EU would have no points to score off of that.

Make Northern Ireland a separate, independent country and EU member.  Anyone in England, Wales or Scotland who wants independence from the UK, and to remain in the EU, can move there. Anyone currently in Northern Ireland who wants to remain in the UK can move to one of the empty houses in Scotland.  Rename Northern Ireland "Sturgeonland" to remove the Irish hold on it and everyone's happy.

7 hours ago, harada said:

What's this big round thing.

(Man on left, pointing) "There, see? You've lost your deposit, and we're not going to give your passport back till you pay an extra USD1,000"

(KJU) "That dent was already there when I got it!  This is the last time I rent an H bomb in Pattaya!"

1 hour ago, Silurian said:

 

Just follow the money.

 

Deutsche Bank was caught being a part of a Russian money-laundering scheme. Deutsche Bank was the only bank to loan to Donny John after his series of bankruptcies. 

 

The Donny John's Taj Mahal casino was frequently visited by top Russian mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov and other Brooklyn mobsters associated with the Russian mafia.

 

Russian-born Felix Sater (Donny John's real-estate adviser) was accused of being a co-conspirator in a $40 million fraud and money laundering scheme involving the Mafia. Donny John worked with Sater and the Bayrock Group on several real estate projects.

 

More and more evidence being found daily just sheds light on the Russian ties into Donny John's past and present. 

 

You've really got to wonder why someone with his shady background would want to be president?  He must have surely known that his past would be gone over with a fine toothed comb and, to mix metaphors, it doesn't take too much rummaging in the closet to find the skeletons.  In fact, the closet appears to be overflowing with them to such an extent that the surplus are lounging about the White House, helping themselves to the drinks cabinet, making phone calls to Moscow, and topping up the swamp that is gradually taking over the South Lawn.  Is it stupidity?  Arrogance? A lust for power that over-rides self preservation?  Or a mix of all three?

11 hours ago, chang50 said:

They'll never see it the people who are prepared to destroy their home countries economy and their personal finances living abroad to satisfy deeply ingrained prejudices (in many cases).

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

You know the difference between unstable and ill? Seems you have let Kim evolve from one to the other.

It's actually the other way around.  They've gone from Kim Jong ill to Kim Jong un-stable

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He said he reminded Boonsong that they were both only “clerks” with no knowledge of the ins and outs of the stories behind the scenes.

That always works well when used as your main defence case...

5 minutes ago, DoctorG said:

Well, it is a little unclear if the chickens actually left the country because nobody seems to know how or where they departed.

Whatever happened, fowl play was involved.

2 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:

 

More of a Black Sabbath guy probably. Anyone got any chickens??

None left.  They just fled the country.

41 minutes ago, webfact said:

At a news conference with visiting Finnish President Sauli Niinisto

The Finnish president and the soon to be finished president.

We don't want these foreigners coming over and taking our culture.  We have very little of it left as it is.

"North Korea fires multiple short-range projectiles into sea" 

Kim throwing his toys out of the pram when someone kicked sand in his face on the beach.

On ‎25‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 1:44 PM, Jingthing said:

The sleazeball conman serial lying potus

If you have one fault on the Trump threads, it's all this beating about the bush. Why not just come out and directly say what you think of him?

It's only been 4 hours.  If they head out to Don Muang, she's probably still standing in line at immigration.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Amphai, a 54-year-old rice farmer in Nonthaburi’s Sai Noi district, said that during the time of the Yingluck government she could earn a lot of money from selling rice. At that time, due to the pledging scheme, the price was as high as Bt15,000 per tonne and she could expand her field up to 150 rai (24 hectares).

Given that the average farm size in the Northeast is 2.4 hectares, this woman is hardly one of the poor rural folk who we are told were targeted for this scheme.  Given that she appears to be struggling with her 24 hectares, it is no wonder that the owner of a 2.4 hectare plot is in bad shape.  The problem is, a small family owned plot that was quite enough to feed the family, with some left over for bartering for other goods, back in the not so long ago days of buffalo power and no electricity / motor bikes / pick up trucks, and which has been divided up between the kids and grandkids into ever smaller ones since then, is never going to produce enough rice to be a viable source of income in this consumer age.  Unless the government educate the people to move into other jobs, the country will continue to be held hostage, if that's not too strong a term, by this group whose votes determine the balance of power.

On ‎20‎/‎08‎/‎2017 at 8:27 PM, stevenl said:

She just strikes me as a lady who would love the glamorous part of the presidency. But so far that seems to be cut short, so I think she will be disappointed with that.

She's put up with a president who's cut short, so she's probably used to being disappointed.

4 hours ago, spiderorchid said:

I doubt that is true. You are the first person to mention this and I was around when UK citizens had to

apply to join the military in the 60's. In fact the more I recall, the more ludicrous your claims are. I knew

so many UK citizens that fought in Vietnam, many were begging to join, the Aus army did not need

 non citizen pommy layabouts to conscript. I served with former paras, Black Watch, Household Guards

and more in the Aus Army. They all volunteered. Show me evidence of one UK citizen conscripted

into the Aus army just because he happened to be visiting.

I suppose all Canadian, Indian, Rhodesian (as it was then) and so on were conscripted as well.

Glad to see some evidence 

"Non-naturalised immigrants living in Australia who were not from the United Kingdom were not required to register when the national service scheme was introduced (in 1964), in keeping with Regular Army regulations which did not allow non-British immigrants to enlist unless they intended to be naturalised...

...Cabinet endorsed the proposal that non-British subjects 'ordinarily resident' in Australia were liable for national service. The decision, made on 4 April 1966, was not publicly announced until 10 August that year, giving the Government four months to consult with relevant foreign governments. The decision came into force in January 1967...

...Non-British subjects (but not British ones) were permitted to leave Australia rather than be called up... 

... If a male visitor to Australia were twenty years of age and in Australia for more than eleven months after 1 January 1967, he had to prove that he was not 'ordinarily resident' in Australia and establish temporary visitor status before being exempted from national service"

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/viet_app

5 minutes ago, Bill Miller said:

No. it was being done manually. You can tell from the way the scene bobbles up and down when switching the POV... not a "steady cam". Merely switching screens would not do that, nor show a panning effect. These effects are caused by manual (joystick) movement of the camera.
How do I know? Among my thousand and one occupations you can include videography of weddings, filming a few commercial spots, and endless boring hours monitoring as a Pinkerton security stiff. 

To me it looks like they are playing back a recording of 4 different fixed camera feeds on a screen.  Someone is recording that screen using a phone, and is zooming back and forth between the camera aimed at the counter, in the green border, and the one at the door.  The cameras in each of the 4 locations on the screen don't move.  The scene at the counter continues to the left of the screen when the phone is turned to the scene at the door, on the right of the screen, and vice versa. 

"Greater Bangkok buses get English characters"

My first thought was they were going to employ smock clad people to sit on the buses, chewing on a straw and saying "ooh aah", in between drinking cider and complaining about the weather.