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29 minutes ago, Presnock said:

Americans come in every shape color nationality - only the American Indian can claim to be original, the rest of us are immigrant stained.

Not so.

An American is someone who has come to the US, and adopted its way of life.

Some immigrant newcomers appear simply keep their own ways of life.

Thus the distinction...

12 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

These things are terrible, real men smoke real ciggies !

These real men all started using this drug when they were stupid and had a bad judgment.

Well, in other words, when they were in their teens that is.

And now that their judgment got better, they cannot stop.

In other words, they got themselves addicted to one of the most addictive drug in the world.

It is known now that if a manufacturer would like NOW to introduce a new product in the market, named tobacco, they would be prevented from doing it.

Vaping is now using in some places the free pass that tobacco manufacturers have enjoyed for decades...

On 4/18/2024 at 7:35 AM, Harsh Jones said:

That's a shame. For many men living in total squalor , the drug business is profitable enough to give them purpose. The govt should just turn a blind eye. Drug prohibition is pure madness brought on by the US anyway.

 

Now the govt ruined 14722 lives. And they have to pay to charge and incarcerate them. For what ?

One might argue that these people had already ruined their lives.

In our previous generation back home, people knew nothing about drugs, and were able to develop a purpose.

There are pressures now to go back to laws that criminalizes these drugs, because of the failure following de-criminalization. Just made society worse. Downtown used to be such a nice place to go shopping, go to cafes, restaurants, and fresh fruit market.

Now some people are just moving out, since it has become too dangerous an area.

There is a reason for that... Addicts and sellers on the streets, and homeless people roaming the streets, as they spent all they had on drugs.

On 8/12/2009 at 3:46 AM, hackerthai said:

Here is what I found I SPA in Thalang, They say it is Reverse Osmosis, does anyone drink this water and have input?

I want to reduce plastic use so prefer not to use individual bottles.

Thank you.

S.P.A. is a large factory which has been established over 8 years, controlled and managed with the standard of GMP. (Good Manufacturing Practices) as well as HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point).

S.P.A drinking water, produced by good natural water resources uses Reverse Osmosis Filter System and is pasteurized by Ozonation System which are globally acceptable.

S.P.A. Co., Ltd produces and distributes S.P.A. drinking water including efficiently produces drinking water under your name and logo.

Certificates

 

• GMP from Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Public Health
• 5 star OTOP of the Year 2004 from One Tambol One Product Program

Acceptable by the evaluation of the Program of Production standard system management

 

• GMP, HACCP from National Food Institutes
• GNP, HACCP, HALLAL from the Institute of Thai Science and Technology Research

Every drop of S.P.A. drinking water is quality.

S.P.A. clear 18 liter bottles is the best water I could find in Phuket.

As I am always skeptical of the products in Thailand, as responsibility is not a big concern here, what I have seen in markets, and so on...

So I made a makeshift test of bottled water, short of going through looking for a laboratory to analyze the water.

So this test consisted merely of obtaining a sample of water used by my neighbors, and the water that I was using, and water collected from various sources. I did test large 18 liter water bottles, white and clear ones.

Then I would put a cup or so of water in my kitchen blender, and I would run the blender for about 10 seconds.

Surprising results as they were.

I will attach a few pictures of the blender jar, which shows residue on the sides, with various concentrations, for all the water tested, except for water from two sources:

S.P.A. and Nestle commercial bottled water available in most stores. I would think that some other bottled water would also show good results.

But I also tested bottled water from Bangkok hospital, these bottles offered free to people visiting the hospital. Results not very good. I even showed to a doctor the pictures that I will share here, suggesting that it might be good for the hospital to analyze this water in some laboratory. I do not know if they cared...

The inside of the blender jar is covered with a residue, is it plastic, one would wonder at first.... With S.P.A. water, the blender jar remains clear after blending.

So S.P.A., yes.....

If it is based on faith, stay away from it.

Be it any religion, or any amulet....

1 hour ago, Smokin Joe said:

 

You should start reading Thai language news instead of only reading English language news.

You are not into humorous posts now are you...

Getting sick and tired of these news focusing again and again on Foreigners.

Focus on Thais giving free helmets for a change....

3 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

It's not about low levels of alc and not about other people. It's just to point out that you should not drive under influence of alc. I'm very sure in your home country they wouldn't smile if you caused an accident, by saying you got only low level of alc? 

What makes you think that in Thailand it doesn't matter?😳

Please read and try to understand what I wrote.

I did not write that DUI did not matter in Thailand.

I wrote that just about every other dangerous and reckless driving does not seem to matter in Thailand.

My home country would of course act in cases of DUI, but would also act in cases of other traffic laws violations....

11 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

It depends how you define scam.

It's 100 baht, not 10 000 baht.

Is it fair that you were born in a western country where you can afford to fly to thailand 3 times a year and a baht bus driver makes a pittance?

Is it still a scam?

 

Scam or theft. Pick one...

Neither has any merit whatsoever....

At Bangkok Hospital in Phuket, in 2022, cataract operation, all included, 115,000 bahts, one eye.

12 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

 

 

in the article: "File photo for reference only. Courtesy of Google"

Might as well show from Google the body of another person as well, who also died on the road, ideally in this same decade.

Should be easy to find an archived picture of a dead person on a street. Just to make the news more complete, and help us understand what exactly happened.

Next time maybe...

In the US, this would be considered 'cleansing'.

On 4/24/2024 at 5:38 AM, HappyExpat57 said:

Fox News isn't a news organization in any true sense of the word. They've suffered nearly $1 billion USD loss in a single lawsuit due to admitting they are liars and more are coming.

 

Anyone who really believes their garbage has a few screws loose.

"a few screws loose.''

Just about the whole world love to believe in just about anything repeated often enough, and all believe that their 'screws' are firmly tightened.

Not only coming from Fox News.

"Sent on behalf of:

-The 2.2 billion of Christians

-The 1.5 billion of Muslims

-The 488 million de Buddhists

-The one billion of believers in Hinduism -

-the 28 million believers in Sikhism

-the 13 million believers in Judaism

-the 104 million believers in Shinto -

-The 4 million believers in Jainism

-and lesser known religions 

-without forgetting the 189 members of the Flat Earth Society

14 minutes ago, jaywalker2 said:

I don't think the principle of "never hit a woman" applies in Thailand.

I would think that most foreigners would consider giving back a man's 'slap', so that this woman would consider the fact that men are stronger.

And you may be right, most Thai men would simply not even consider to slap back.

Cultural traits take over their instinctive reaction....

1 hour ago, Goat said:

No helmet.

No sympathy.

Most likely his injuries would have been less "critical" if he had followed basic safety guidelines.

No helmet does not imply automatic guilt.

Now he is certainly not looking for 'sympathy', but certainly for justice.

He was certainly careless, to follow what most motorbike drivers do here. Even If that does make him partly responsible for his injuries, he would still be entitled to justice.

Not only in a scenario where the victim would be a member of your own family.

Sympathy.... When someone feels a little emotional pinch at the sight of the oncoming accident...

11 minutes ago, JCauto said:

 

LOL! What bizarro Canada did you live in?

I detect a rather fragile specimen of masculinity! But don't worry, there's help available. For a mere $18,000 (US that is, not CDN), YOU TOO could be an ALPHA MALE! I know that's what you're really expressing here. I happen to be a Canadian man, but I'm so tuff that I don't need to take a course to be the Alpha that you so badly wish you were. It's so weird though, once I ascended to the Alpha level I didn't completely lose respect for women or have my knuckles start dragging on the ground. Perhaps dis is a Quebecois thing? You come to Canada to cut down da tree and play da hockey Andre? So tuff you are!

But just in case you're masquerading as an Alpha and are in fact just another limp-wristed ladyman, here's where you can address those issues:
 

 

Well, even if you start with a lie, the fake 'LOL', there, while you throw vitriol.

At least it gave you a chance to insert a confusing and unrelated video, that you were waiting to share I presume...

And I see that English is obviously not your first language.

Would you be Russian, or perhaps Arabian. Just curious..

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

It's the culture. No different really to a pack of wild dogs. And such violence is always there bubbling just under the surface, waiting like a volcano to explode.

Yes the culture.....

A culture where kids are forced to show respect to elders, rather than simply showed how to be friendly.

A culture where people teach their children that adults are more worthy than them, you have to 'wai' to adults.

Seems to me that when these kids grow up, they want to show that now, they are 'grown-ups', but ill equipped to do so based on their upbringing.

And they do not want to fail in showing that they are now strong. Even if it takes 5 of them to show their newly-acquired manhood...

There is something real nasty that has been embedded in the mind of these people....

Not seen in my culture. Anyone has another cause to effect reasoning for this behavior that we see here....

Just trying to seduce her....

Casanova was not in his list of 'how to' teacher....

Oh, a man from Canada that is...

No more such a thing as a Canadian man.

Surprised he/she is not wearing a burka, like they wear now in Canadian stores.

Would have made him/her more beautiful as a start....

Well how about that.....

In possession of a technology to measure blood alcohol level, but they always forget at the station any hand held speed radar. Pulling over a vehicle for speeding might be construed as a denial of freedom...

I was under the impression that any police officer being promoted to a higher level, promotion paid for or not, was promoted under the condition that this individual would do just about nothing to change the culture and ways of policing here.

So I was wrong so it appears...

2 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

I eat loads of carbs fruit and sugar, fit, slim and healthy, blood tests good, its the western fatty junk food that's the problem

What do you man by 'sugar'.

Refined white sugar?.

Or carbs and sweet fruit, which are not the problem.