Enoon

Slums are just under-utilised real estate to Srettha.

Even if there were humans there, they would be humans whose previously "impious" existence justly condemned them to live this life in miserable squalor.

It's not just him......that is the way their planet works.

4 hours ago, Pouatchee said:

 

let me try to get this straight. by trying to do the right thing mfp is being accused of being elitist, and thaksin who has had killed perhaps hundreds in his shoot first dont ask questions later is playing the persecuted?

 

damn, mfp is being cornered at every turn. catch 22 here... whatever they do they are wrong. this shows even more how puke thai needs to be eradicated

PBS attacking MFP because MFP criticised Thaksins selectively preferential treatment as a "born-again" member of the elite.

Thaksin has been rehabilitated and welcomed into the ruling clique/elite "team", so naturally PBS, being its instrument, is attacking MFP.

PBS criticising MFP for not celebrating the return and release of the "politically persecuted" turncoat........Thaksin.

PBS meanwhile ignoring those still unjustly subject to persecution/imprisonment/censure/exile because of their continuing opposition to the elite........you will not read a single word of support for them from PBS.

1 hour ago, bob smith said:

Over the last few days I have been asked by a few locals what kind of visa I have, given that I can speak Thai and have been here a long time.

 

it left me with quite a weird feeling.

 

What business is it of theirs what visa I am on?

when you see a foreigner in the UK, USA or wherever that can speak English, do you ask them what visa they have?

do you even care?

 

It seems that many Thais don’t like the fact that people can speak their language and stay here long term,

their line of questioning seems to be rather investigative, trying to figure out if one is on overstay.

 

I personally think the Chinafication of Thailand is now almost complete,

there are cctv cameras on every corner and now there are members of the public doing the states work.

 

It is becoming increasingly Orwellian out there.

 

bob.

"It is becoming increasingly Orwellian out there"

More likely it's just that your delusions have started to become paranoid.

Looking forward to your post saying that the "questioners" have started communicating to you via the plumbing system in you household.

Schizophrenia is not about "split personality"......it about delusions, paranoia, hallucinations and detachment from reality.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354443

Good luck.

Forensic need to check out the handbag her MIL used on the day.

Maybe someone should also find how much the the husband had the deceased insured for.

"Piccolo".....is that a Sicilian name?

Related news:  Mushroom murders in Australia.

2 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Harpoon has never been launched from deck mounted torpedo launch tubes.

From surface ships they are always launched from either twin, 2x2 or quad canister launchers in ALL the navies that have installed them!

Please see the 2x2 harpoon launchers on the upper deck of HTMS Sukhothai!

 

I didn't say they were launched from torpedo tubes.....I just said they were tube launched.

I blanked out the fact that Simon43 used the word "torpedo" and actually thought you used the words "torpedo tube" because you didn't know the correct terminology!

👍

12 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

Since when was Harpoon launched from a surface based torpedo tube?

They have been tube launched from ships since they were first designed and manufactured.

Air launching came later.

7 hours ago, simon43 said:

Presumably the US doesn't want the Harpoon torpedo technology to fall into enemy (that means China!) hands ..

........or the British made "Stingray" anti submarine torpedos.

Nice of the US to do that favour for the UK.

No mention yet of the recovery of the Italian manufactured "Aspide" AAMs.

All the munitions will come up:

"The Thai government initially pledged to raise the wreck, but the project proved to be too expensive. Instead, it has opted to recover further remains from the site and remove the ship's weapons, munitions and sensitive materials." 

https://maritime-executive.com/article/u-s-navy-helps-thailand-with-partial-salvage-of-sunken-warship

6 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

How can anyone harvest sugar cane after burning it? 

Only the leaves burn off. 

https://www.sierraclub.org/florida/sugar-field-burning

https://stopsugarburning.org/

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

Guess they won't have much time for party.

Likely participating in that salvage operation for the sunken Thai Navy ship.

(that's the only current news about US navy and Thailand)

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1320541-thai-us-mission-launched-to-find-remains-of-missing-htms-sukhothai-crew/

 

Cobra Gold starts this Tuesday.

The salvage Op has been tacked onto that:

The Royal Thai Navy last month suspended bidding for the salvage mission after the Joint US Military Advisory Group Thailand (Jusmag Thai) offered to help investigate the sinking and salvaging of armaments on board............The Royal Thai Navy and the United States Navy will jointly carry out a limited recovery mission on the HTMS Sukhothai. This joint mission will be conducted under Cobra Gold 2024,” the US Embassy in Bangkok said in a statement."

US support operations for CG itself started last Tuesday in Sattahip, this posted yesterday:

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/913653/2024-cobra-gold-port-operations

14 hours ago, henrik2000 said:

Hello, what do you think about Thai people and their smartphones?

 

1. How did did smartphones change the country since circa 2007?
2. Do people in other Southeast Asian countries have a similar relationship to their smartphones, like in the Philippines, Vietnam etc.?
3. Do people in Western countries have a similar relationship tp smartphones like Thai people?
4. What changes brought the advent of mobile data, selfie-ism?

 

Irrelevant small personal experiences:

 

1. Upcountry, but not in the big cities, at least once a week I enter a shop or restaurant where staff is so absorbed with their smartphones that they don't notice me at all. I am hardwired to not interrupt people having important business, so I just walk back out and they never know I was there. Also some streetside taxi drivers lose my business that way. When cycling small town roahat shop assistantsds, i often see motorcyclists parked in the middle of nowhere, staring at their phones.
2. The reception at The Hot Springs is in a closed box with a closed, sliding window. I look through the window and see a lady immersed in her phone, naturally not seeing me. Now I have to overcome my discretion and knock hardly on the window pane. She looks up irritatedly, slides the window open, all the while looking at her phone, not at me. I have to tell her my wishes while she is looking and tapping at her phone, never looking at me. Another lady guides me to the booked place, walking “blindly” while constantly looking down at her phone. I don't dare to ask any question.
3. I was intimate with a high flying, very well earning + living Thai lady manager whose TWO phones rang and plang constantly, also on her hours and days off (she was never off really). Asked if she might want to turn off or at least mute her TWO phones during sex, she gave me a very annoyed look as if I seriously let her down.

 

But are Thais and their phones something extraordinary? Or just like anybody else around the globe, including you and me?

The modifier in Thailand is the way that shop assistants, receptionists and other similar occupations are "managed ".

If they were not looking at phones they would be asleep on folded arms at their counters/desks or any other convenient lodgement.

Other than that I expect pretty much the same behaviour pretty much anywhere in the developed world.

2018:

"I've been on Facebook since 2012 and WhatsApp since 2015":

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-44170881

2 hours ago, rudi49jr said:

If those are not Christian values, then why do so many evangelicals support Trump? His bible seems to contain the exact opposite of what the evangelicals claim they believe in.
 

I wasn’t aware that I was being Christianophobic. I have no problems with Christians, used to be one myself. As long as they leave other people be, they can believe in anything they want, as far as I’m concerned.
 

I was just trying to point out the enormous hypocrisy of the evangelical movement. Claiming to be Christians, yet supporting a guy who is anything but Christian.

You might be find these articles interesting:

https://ash.harvard.edu/christian-zionism-religious-right-and-donald-trump-history’s-role-contemporary-politics

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-right-worships-donald-trump-915381/

**** you FTI.

8 hours ago, jeffandgop said:

Just tried to make a reservation for end of March to do my EOS.  My current extension expires near the end of April.  All reservation dates in February, March, April and May were "not available".....is the online reservation system now not operating?

I have only managed to book an appointment online once at my local IO.......for a Covid Extension in early '22.

I tried to book about a month ahead late last year for 30 day ext and nothing was available for 3 months (I didn't bother looking any further forward than that)

I experimented with trying to book for all the other varieties of appointment and got the same result.

When I actually "walked-in" on the day I wanted the place was very quiet (it usually is) and I breezed through.

Got the same results when I was looking to book another 30 day this year.

I guess that system is broken at my branch.

I will confidently walk-in again next week.

2 hours ago, ezzra said:

What is new? anti semitism alway been and will be in the world in that or this capacity and locations,

Jews are the scapegoat of every bitter and lost person who have to hate and blame someone,

today it's about Gaza, tomorrow it will be about some other reasons, so nothing much new here...

It hasn't always been in the world.

It only emerged in Pharaonic Egypt, gave birth to the Exodus, but then vanished until it appeared again in Medieval Europe.

Whatever misfortune befell them between those periods was the result of their rebellion against Imperial rule in the Ancient/Classical world.......they suffered as did other rebellious subject peoples/tribes.

Jews in Pharaonic Egypt and Jews in Medieval Europe both flourished, and then became outcast, for more or less the same intertwined reasons that other ethnocentric minority groups have......for as long as Jews have.

A few years ago the UN had the Rohingya as the most persecuted people in the world.

23 minutes ago, flyingtlger said:

Thailand: Land of Smiles or Land of Violence; LOS or LOV?

As far as homicide goes it has a murder rate higher than the UK but lower than the US. Much lower than Colombia, but not nearly as low as Monaco.

If one sought to make quick comparisons this interactive world map is handy:

https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/murder-rate-by-country

6 hours ago, Enoon said:

RTAF currently operates 36 F-16s.

https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/2024-world-air-forces-directory/156008.article

 

"The Royal Thai Air Force plans to acquire 12 new fighter jets — either the US F-16 or the Swedish Gripen — to replace an aging fleet"

 

??

 

 

The grand total of F-16s in the RTAF is 36 single seaters and 14 dual seat trainers (trainers can be operated as combat aircraft).  Gripens... 7 fighters and 4 trainers (also fightable), 30 single seat F-5s and 3 trainer F-5s

And they are to be replaced.......REPLACED.....that's what it says in the article, by 12 aircraft?

What's going on?

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16 hours ago, Wobblybob said:

People hate Clarkson because he speaks the truth and that won't do in our liberal PC society. He's a Yorkshireman, what do you expect! 🤔

The article paints a picture of contradiction between him being liked for his "outspoken honesty" and disliked for his "boorish bigotry".

There is no contradiction.......the boorish and bigoted (and there are a lot of them about) love his boorish bigotry, which in their thuggish, narrow, ugly consciousness translates as "the truth".

The evidence for that is clear, judging by the entirely predictable chorus of approval from contributors to this thread.

They are precisely why I avoid English expats in Thailand.

16 hours ago, Wobblybob said:

People hate Clarkson because he speaks the truth and that won't do in our liberal PC society. He's a Yorkshireman, what do you expect! 🤔

The article paints a picture of contradiction between him being liked for his "outspoken honesty" and disliked for his "boorish bigotry".

There is no contradiction.......the boorish and bigoted (and there are a lot of them about) love his boorish bigotry, which in their thuggish, narrow, ugly consciousness translates as "the truth".

The evidence for that is clear, judging by the entirely predictable chorus of approval from contributors to this thread.

They are precisely why I avoid English expats in Thailand.

RTAF currently operates 36 F-16s.

https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/2024-world-air-forces-directory/156008.article

"The Royal Thai Air Force plans to acquire 12 new fighter jets — either the US F-16 or the Swedish Gripen — to replace an aging fleet"

??