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Thank you. At least Samui is not on the danger list.

The craziest thing that I have seen on a motorbike was two smallish pool tables balanced between the driver and the passenger. One table legs facing forward, the other with legs facing backwards. Second prize was two motorbikes with the each driver holding the end of a 15 - 20 foot bamboo pole with a blade. Used for cutting fruit from trees. They were turning right at some traffic lights. The first guy got through on green. The second guy at the back didn't. The cars did not see the pole and shot off as they normally do when the lights change. Carnage.

Dingbat probably put the cones in the wrong place.

Sadly, this trafficking of young girls is not unusual. A very good friend of mine found out that her daughter (14 years old) was being offered for sale as a virgin, by the girl's own grandmother. My friend took the daughter away from the grandmother and moved to another province.

https://aseannow.com/topic/1354505-dogs-bark-brings-rescuers-to-5m-king-cobra-under-car-bonnet/

The good old Thai election system. Any excuse to avoid making a decision and possibly upsetting an 'influential' person or three.

If you want to rent my planes, then you take the pilots as well. They have the relevant experience. If something should happen to the plane, replacing it would be a time consuming process these days. This is the very reason as to why airlines are resorting to wet-leases. Manufacturers cannot build planes quickly enough.

What integrity? There is none in Thai politics, especially at the senatorial level.

Compared to the 9 Burmese found in a the cab of one pick up truck, this is luxury level people smuggling.

That is not what I would call a 'luxury' condo.

9 illegal immigrants sitting in a truck 9 illegal immigrants sitting in a truck and the police pulled them over and said 'your out of luck' There are no illegal immigrants in that goddam truck. (to the tune of 10 green bottles?)

Sun has been there for two years already. This may be the drone footage that caused the upset. https://www.msn.com/en-us/pets-and-animals/wildlife/rescuers-plan-to-save-lonely-elephant-stranded-on-island-for-two-years/vi-AA1ANZPP

This is sooo true. I ride a bike wherever I go in Thailand (except Bangkok). Also in Vietnam and Laos. Chiang Mai and Phuket drivers, to an extent, are pretty respectful to the road rules and bikes, but everywhere else, forget the rules. When guests tell me that they want to rent scooters, I warn them of this scenario along the lines of 'when you are riding the scooter, you must assume that everyone else in a vehicle is trying to kill you'.

No it doesn't. It highlights one nasty neighbour who probably does not like dogs. Dogs bark regularly near my place. Always, when a 'stranger' is in the area. That stranger can be a person, another dog, a snake or whatever. 25 years of living here, doors and windows always open, safe because barking dogs keep it that way.

Sadly, this is quite common in some schools. My wife was a kindergarten teacher for many years and she often had to reprimand the teaching assistants for doing things like this. Mind you, some Thai parents were worse. One even gave my wife a rolled up, taped newspaper when he brought his daughter into school on the first day of term. He said to my wife 'if she is naughty, hit her with this'. My wife binned the paper.

Disgusting attitude. How about respecting life?

The sad thing is that many folk think that vaping is safe.

I do not understand why so many folk think that vaping and smoking cigarettes are the same. OK. With both, you suck in crap and stuff up your lungs. Both contain nicotine. https://vapingadvisor.com/learn/nicotine-cigarette-vs-vape/ There the similarity ends. The manufacture of cigarettes is controlled and taxed. There is zero control and tax on what people in a back street garage put into the vape liquid. Many products sold for vaping contain drugs.

It is estimated that by 2024, 21,000 workers had died on the project, and at least 20,000 indigenous people have been relocated. An estimated 100,000 people have been reported as 'disappeared'. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/21000-workers-reported-to-have-died-while-building-saudi-arabias-the-line-385614/ But hey - the people who devised the scheme are mega rich so no one cares

Unfortunately, it is the law. Also, smoking (of anything) in parliament and other government premises is banned.

Thailand is not moving forward for the majority of the Thais who live in poverty (or near poverty) at the bottom of the food chain. The majority of these 'major infrastructure projects' tend to only help those with money, or those in Bangkok. The population of Bangkok is projected to increase to just over 11 million people this year. The population of Thailand is estimated at 77.1 million people. Bangkok is not Thailand, but it is the only bit that the politicians look after.

No surprises there.

Not many MP's in the government parties would pass that test.

What? It needed a further inspection to see the cloth? He was discovered at 20:00, emergency people were not called until 23:00 but the police did not come until 10:00 Why the delays? Definitely something fishy. The more excuses that the officials make, the more dodgy it sounds. As for yesterday's comment from the justice minister re the woman/transgender prisoner in the next cell having a period......... This one is very confusing. Mind you, I am not to upset that this bad cop is no longer with us.

I am glad that she survived. Many who fall at the waterfalls do not. Well done to the rescuers.