BusyB

I disagree. Back in 2003 ahead of my first visit I bought what was called a 'Lonely Planet'. It was all in there in the 3rd or 4th chapter long before serious Internet and Facebook, Thai Visa.com etc. Long before I even set my first foot down on the ground in Don Muang airport I knew about K-bars which is why I've never been in one. (LP also told me about the bridge across to the railway, where I took the train to Ayuthaya for 9 baht. Spent 3 days there marveling at night markets, boat trips, temples, elephants and dragon boat races with a side trip to Lop Buri. An absolutely enchanting way to enter Thailand - probably still is for newbies. Then I moved on to CM for 3 weeks where I didn't scud around K-bars.) Anyway to try leaving any venue without paying is asking for a good kicking. Call the police who will at least help you 'negotiate' the price down. But pay you must.

The putinisation of the US continues apace.

I'll pass.

Nail, hammer, head, are the words that come to my mind. Lawrence O'Donnel's 'The Last Word' on You Tube is similarly if more acerbically dead on target.

And that's before they tell you about their exploits in The Regiment 😄

The whole country and system desperately ripe for genuine root and branch reform but the people still with a 19th century mindset and bellies still too full of junk food.

It stretches credibility like a well chewed piece of bubble gum ....

Strikes me that 'prayers' aren't much use when this 'god' entity allows that kind of thing to happen in his club houses.

Reminds me a bit of Ali G.

Doubt it. 77m of them recently said they want it even madder and badder ...

Of course not: 'Labour' won a 146 seat majority on barely 34% of the national vote.

Wouldn't the entire RTP have to be locked up then 😄 ...?

They do tweak the Covid shots.

Nothing good happens after midnight anywhere in the world. In Pattaya after 10pm. After dark on Beach Road. 🤣

It must be awful. I feel your pain.