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The evidence suggests they apparently aren't in the least interested.

The number of Christmases you probably or statistically have left is also a sobering one, when compared to the number you already had ... 🫣

It always has been ...🤣

I wasn't disputing that or your personal rejection of drugs, or even the rights or wrongs of drug consumption. I was merely pointing out that in fact they have a widespread acceptance.throughout societies across the globe. They are factually a multi billion market in most developed countries which says something about their social acceptance - considering they are actually illegal and are being consumed by normally law abiding citizens. For most they are fun. Like some enjoy a few drinks occasionally. The derelict heroin addict is as representative of the issue as the derelict alcoholic is of whisky distillation. And both those cases are actually public health issues, not criminal ones.

Messrs Dunning and Kruger having another grand ball on this thread.

Many also confuse entertainment with news.

A vegan sex change?

Most civilised countries have a massive, thriving, black market for drugs worth billions. Internationally probably trillions. You may look down on drugs and you're welcome to. But the reality is that tens of millions take them, from construction sites and bog cleaners to parliament and the aristocracy. So they're hardly looked down on. They're simply illegal. Alcohol is openly praised and celebrated despite all the damage it does. Looked down on only by usually prudulent curtain twitchers with the smell of vestries and hymn books about them. Though they also look down on drugs.

Looks like hard work to me. Easier to get a job. Should have stayed in the temple.

There's a whole debate about drugs etc. But ya sure gotta be a moron to get involved in dealing/importing/exporting in Thailand - or anywhere else in SEA. They don't do lenient here. They hang people for smaller quantities in Singapore..

Trafficked? Then blackmailed? Maybe the shooter was her trafficker? Strikes me that prices in India in hotels like that aren't going to be any better than in Thailand so why do it. I'm also interested in what drove her to Rajahstan of all places. Weird. Hope we see the follow up to this story.

'Fraid not ;D Although there was one scene in that film (which I saw in Pattaya on the wide screen): When the bad guy hops out of his chopper with his gang and they start off up the glen towards the showdown with the other fictitious character, I was catapulted back to late teens Army days in the 70s, when I spent a lot of time spread out like that as part of a section patrolling up the glen. The POV in the film was an unreal experience that really jolted me.

Exactly. What's the beef? Thailand shows that the 'third gender' functions quite well without all the ructions of sticks-in-the-mud who can't adapt to changing times and societies. I can still remember the uproar in the 60s about men wearing long hair. Nothing is permanent, nothing is certain, everything is constantly changing. Those unable to adapt to that (and there's always a ledger of excuses for not adapting) will be miserable, unhappy and resentful until they do. Some saddos sadly never do. Mx. Jesus wept!

Higlander and James Bond are fictitious characters. Like Hannibal Lecter.

Only a matter of time till a drunken dispute over 50 baht results in a corpse or two. Just like the poorest Thais we read about here. Happens all over the world. If this is all true the guy needs to get home and get a job and stop stretching things out like chewing gum until tragedy strikes. If he's not even capable of getting a foothold to start out from back home, then he certainly won't survive in SEA. A sea of tears is all that awaits him here.