rattlesnake

Quite the contrary. They are the modern blasphemers.

Your sophism was expected. I know lots of people, several of them with families, who were given the choice of getting jabbed or losing their job and effectively becoming homeless. What you describe is active coercion. What I describe is passive coercion. Both are equally deleterious.

Please explain your suggested link between Warp Speed and vaccine mandates.

The only dictatorship I remember in recent years was when the people were forced to inject themselves with a dubious substance, under the guise of Covid, in order to be able to enjoy basic freedoms. The name of the dictator in charge at that time was Joe Biden.

Indeed. A statement such as this one would not have been accepted just a year ago. Now it is. We have come a long way in terms of general awareness. The Overton window is shifting.

I was at Suvarnabhumi airport earlier this week and I have never seen so many people cough. Hundreds of people. Sickness everywhere. Failing immune systems.

Never vaxxed, never had Covid, let that sink in. Healthy people don't generate a single cent for the pharmaceutical cartel, that is why they are demonised.

The Overton window is shifting as planned. First, there is no evidence of DNA in the vaccines. Now, well actually there is DNA but there is no reason to think that it alters a person's DNA or causes cancer. The next step will be, "well, okay, it does alter the DNA, but in no harmful way". Then "well maybe it is a bit harmful, but less harmful than catching Covid". Then, "well, maybe it does cause cancer in some rare cases" etc.

You clearly have it all sussed out, including my BMI. I am humbled by your clairvoyance.

Plenty of sugar in McDonald's "food"… among other things. In any case, I have seen overweight Thai people in villages where there is no fast food outlet in a 100 km radius. But there is a lady who drives by every day selling coffee. I ordered an iced tea once and watched her make it. 1, 2, 3, 4 tablespoons of white sugar… I have also noticed that people have gained weight since Covid, no doubt because they are eating less protein and more carbohydrates as it is cheaper, which leads to weight gain. Ultimately, sugar is always the culprit… as well as additives which disrupt the metabolism.

No worries. This is an extraordinary event in any case. I think both possibilities (mistake and tip) are valid, and I would tend to favour the former, I'm just making the point that the latter is not preposterous either IMO.

"This facet of the discussion seems ridiculous because it is..." What would be ridiculous would be to bicker about something neither of us knows about. I am certainly not going there. I gave my insight based on my previous professional experience with high tippers and responded to the poster who said "no sane person will willing give that much as a tip, no matter how generous they are", which is an incorrect statement.

There are not that many options in Bkk for a business guy who maybe comes out of a meeting late and needs to get to the airport. What I am saying is that there is a population segment for which 1,000 euros is like 10 baht to you and I… but missing a plane (and most likely another meeting) is out of the question. I know how these guys think and talk. Maybe he said "I will give you 1,000 euros" while driving but the driver didn't understand. Or maybe it is something completely different… but as I told the poster I initially responded to, yes, there are guys who give such tips.

Maybe, maybe not. You'd have to be very dumb to hand out 1,000 euros by mistake. Statement by the driver from the Thaiger article: “At first, I didn’t want to accept them because they’re unfamiliar to me and I was afraid of getting scammed.” Which implies they discussed it and it wasn't a split second thing.

True, but the poster I responded to stated that nobody gives such tips. That is incorrect. There is a segment of the population for which these are secondary things and what they want is to get from A to B without disruption. I don't know if this was the case with the guy in that taxi, but it is certainly a possibility.

Both!

Anything they wanted and not missing their flight was high on the list.

I worked with high-end clients a couple of decades ago and 500-1,000 euro tips were standard.

Same here, those things should be banned.

In theory yes, if for medical reasons. My son needs nose surgery for medical reasons too and we were told it will be covered.

Since the 2006 election, under international law, Hamas is a political organisation with an armed wing, not a terrorist organisation.

100 kmph seems fast for Sukhumvit. What bike do you drive?

Bloody nutcase.

In both recent cases, the individuals were arrested in the Phuket airport departure hall (for one of them, it is specified that it was the international one) by the immigration police. My first thought is that they must prefer to arrest them there than at a previous stage, possibly to avoid delays or cause a stir, or maybe to give them time to alert and deploy the appropriate team (I doubt the guy stamping passports in his booth can just step out and arrest a guy). And once you're in the departure hall, it's not like you're going anywhere so it's probably more convenient to make arrests there. Hopefully there will be more details about this, but I don't see why it would just be a Phuket thing.

It wasn't, but seems to be now, if Phuket is doing it, one can reasonably expect other airports to follow suit.