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Only 16 of the many many mass shootings since 1982 have been committed with illegally obtained weapons, the rest were all legally obtained. https://www.statista.com/statistics/476461/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-legality-of-shooters-weapons/

I agree, I never liked the look of the stone benches, these look better. And from the picture they are clearly in a recessed shaded area and also have umbrellas. If they are out in the open it doesn't matter what material they are made from because no one is sitting in direct Bangkok sun anyway. It's refreshing to finally see a post with a normal perspective.

Erm, oh dear.

Wow. I mean, wow. Nobody has "ripped" anything out of anywhere. Some ugly stone benches were covered in stainless steel. That's it. It is an incredibly minor thing but it leads to a massive rant about everything. Wow. You are obviously not a happy man, but pretty impressive mountain making out of a tiny molehill. Obviously if you owned the old Hemingways and were offered tens of millions of pounds for the land you would have said no because it is a nice building, well done you. Benjasiri, albeit not the biggest park in the world, is right next to Phrom Pong BTS in the middle of Sukhumvit. Benjakiti and the fantastic new Forest Park are right slap bang in the middle of central Bangkok connected to the MRT. Lumpini is right in the heart of the city too and accessible by MRT and BTS (or the heaving concrete train system as you might call it). Rama IX park and Nong Bon lake are central for East Bangkokians and are next to the yellow line monorail. Chatuchak park couldn't be closer to the MRT or BTS and indeed has a station right at the entrance. Honestly not sure what you are talking about, you just wanted a good old negative rant about everything because that is what people like you do. A reminder: the OP was about a resurfacing of some park benches.

Righy ho. A metallurgist has spoken! AN is really full of experts, we are so lucky.

Do you understand what a majority is?

Who actually cares? No idea why some grown adults are so sensitive over stupid emojis, it baffles me.

Er............what the heck are you on about? You've completely lost me.

This thread should be held up as a perfect example of the monotonous, boring, and extremely predictable negativity from all the usual suspects. I think it would be helpful if AN just autopopulated the first few replies at the end of the article. "Floods, brown envelopes, Bangkok will be underwater, Chinese companies / Chinese servants, submarines". It would save you lot a lot of bother, although I realise it it would severely impact your quality of life. But maybe you can answer this - how many times has the MRT flooded in the 20 years it has been running? How many times has the underground section of the ARL flooded in the 14 years it has been running? How many times have all the underground tunnels for electricity and communications flooded?

Looks to me like they are in a shaded area, and there are umbrellas. Not sure what the fuss is about really.

Whatever floats your boat.

Man ridicules a poster for posting a BBC link because the "BBC is biased". Same man then posts a Daily Mail article. Absolutely hilarious, you just made my day.

Never ever had a problem getting something repaired or replaced under warranty, ever.

Yes, and you said: "Meanwhile the people paying the taxes to pay for it are struggling to make ends meet. Veterans are living on the streets. Lefties, selling out their own citizens. Nothing new." ....implying it is the "lefties" who are responsible for the disastrous mess the tories left the country in.

You are hilarious. You're either a troll or just the most blinkered right winger I've ever come across. You do know the Tories were in power for the last 14 years, right? Or are you saying that in the five days since they took power Labour have kicked veterans out on to the street? Were all these veterans living in gold plated houses and drinking champagne less than a week ago? Their 14 year period of living the highlife has come to a sudden end, poor vets. Deluded.

Shock horror - consumers getting better value for money, what an awful concept. I would rather pay more for an ICE and line the pockets of the legacy manufacturers who are rinsing you and me. What an odd outlook you have. How much profit are they taking from each sale? Huge amounts. My last two ICEV purchases were 3.3m and 2.4m baht. I feel sick knowing I now could have got a top line Seal Prformance for 1.59m baht and it would cream my current car in almost all respects. For what I would get with a Seal vs what I would get with my 3.3m or 2.4m baht cars just makes me feel stupid. Performance obviously is worlds apart, but technology and interior spec is also worlds apart. The Seal wasn't a thing when I bought those cars, it was an ICEV world, but my how things change. Shame that some dinosaur thinkers can't change with it and you harp on about your overpriced, old technology, poorly built rubbish (I own two of these overpriced machines). I also bought a stupid Honda for my wife (and kids) for 1.1m. A Dolphin would urinate all over it and is half the price. An Atto would cream it and is two thirds the price. You may be happy paying over the odds for old technology vehicles but I am not.

Yeah, his Chinese wife chose not to work for the Chinese car factories that didn't exist and instead went to work for the Japanese ones that have existed for decades. China bad.

Utter nonsense. Sentenced to life with a minimum of 20 years. Sorry that doesn't fit with your silly "Britain is soft on Muslims for fear of being called racist" narrative. Pathetic.

You obviously don't speak to many Thais then. In Bangkok at least EVs are everywhere.

Why wouldn't they? Do you think the Japanese operate their factories as a charity?

Yes, I have been looking in to this, thank you, good advice.

Hiarious. How are auto gates more (or less) dystopian than being stamped in or out except for not wasting a bit of paper in your passport? The back-end is exactly the same: the IO takes your passport from you, places it in a scanner, your info is read, then you have fingerprints and photo taken for the automated biometric checks. If all checks out he gives you an irrelevant and pointless stamp then hands your passport back. With auto gates you enter your passport directly in to the scanner yourself, you have your fingerprints and photo taken for the automatic biometric check. If all checks out the gates open and off you go. Tell me how that is somehow dystopian - doing the exact same thing, but in a quicker and more efficient manner. Honestly you guys who deliberately make your life more inconvenient because of imagined and paranoid reasons are hilarious.

The front end reminds me of a Mitsubishi Triton........and that is not a good thing to be reminded of. I know pickups are workhorses and people don't necessarily care about the looks (I mean people are buying Cybertrucks), but for me I would prefer one that isn't ugly.

Really? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/28/two-british-teenagers-killed-parasailing-rhodes-greece-say-authorities

One for @ExpatOilWorker to add to his compilation.