Emster23

good news with luck the Thais might clean up the mess the US made of this wonderful country during there RnR visits way back.

Any nonsensical excuse for yet another anti-America bash will do, eh. Trollin' trollin, trollin'--keep them doggies trollin' . . . .

The origins of Pattaya have been discussed repeatedly ad nauseam w/ testimonials from countless witnesses. Do a forum search for the full monty. The conclusion is always the same: sadly, the good ol' US of A can't claim credit for the development of Pattaya's unique wonderfulness.

"Don't bother me with facts: I've already got my opinions" is phrase I came up with years ago, applies here. America does plenty wrong, just don't blame us for things we didn't do, okay?

Studies show that on average, a Thai person earns Bt25,405 a month

Really ?

Think many people think all Thais are poor.. often to feel better about themselves. I know plenty people making 20K plus. Not everyone is poor and the 40k farang pension is not a lot here.

Average is a poor measure without knowing distribution. If I make 1,000,000 a month and you make 1,000, you now average 500,500 baht. Feel any richer? Headline was something of a "Duh" moment. Replace "red" with "debt" (which is meaning of "red"): Also, flavor that debt is like flood waters over which people don't have any control.

"The school of life has a high tuition, but some fools will learn in no other" -Ben Franklin. All first suggestions will not work (Cops? Courts?). Trying to "out" her could lead to defamation suit and cost him more (remember even if TRUE if damages image of another, you will lose). Rational thing might just be to budget how much you can afford to be scammed each month and stick to it. It will happen: sometimes small, sometimes (try) big. Goes with the territory, like sweat and bad sidewalks.

Now that army have gotten fingers on the police rivals, er force, another layer of bureaucrazy has been added to the food chain, so of course costs will go up. So many mouths to feed. Hard these days for a dishonest person to make a living. Bring back that old time corruption they probably hope.

The bite is worse than the bark. I am sure the new enforcers of the law are going after same sorts of criminals on other end of political spectrum.

RIP. there are worse places to die, despite opinion of Pattaya haters.

Name one and then a dozen better places And I bet you can..

Syria. Pakistan. There's two. Of course there are better places, but I wasn't suggesting better places. Limited income, limited choices.

I assume all electrical wiring here is faulty and out to kill me. One reason I wear rubber sandals even in condo. I wish it were shocking the near total lack of concern about basic safety standards, but this kind of "accident" is so common here. I hope not to get "shocked" like these two unfortunates were. RIP.

this whole affair was clearly just to skim off tea money, nothing to do with educating the kids (typical in education ministry). Along same lines as those bomb detectors. No idea what to use them for, no intensive training of teachers on how to use them and integrate into lessons, seems no actual specs on what these shoud be able to do, and of course no quality control. For those that still happen to be operative, plus is that kid can play games while teacher is droning on, reading from some book, brooking no questions or discussion.

What a heel to talk about lost soles! This is a trick question, right? Admit you are out after curfew? Then if they get bored can come by and pick you up? I don't think so. Even paranoids can have real enemies....

If they end projects like high speed rail, worthless tablets for schools, other world rice scheme, then it may be all worth it.

Need to get basics taught before going for the fancy stuff. Trying to build on sand otherwise. I was astounded at how little my gf had learned in Thai schools. They need problem solving, thinking skills and teachers who know something, aren't afraid of students who ask questions.... etc etc.

Power corrupts. Welcome to the new order. Lots like the old order.

Really sad. RIP. That said, it reminds me of WC Field's movie

henpecking wife: "you'll probably drown in a vat of whiskey!"

WC: "Death, where is thy sting?"

Judging from the number of threads regarding this topic that have popped up in the past hour, it's clear that this social network intended for uneducated people is only popular with Thai people

Clearly you prove that uneducated people also don't use facebook. Such a blanket statement from ignorance.

Let's here it for the coup! Able to cut through bothersome red tape, no need to deal with those self serving elected folks, do what they want for whatever reason they want. And hurrah for the banks stepping in with the money (or am I wrong there? Thought there was some article about them bidding for the loans?) Whatever, point is there is now a government in charge that gets things done! Those that don't like it can just leave If they are not Thai anyway.

Saw Donovan at U of Oregon way back in 68, with Pau Horn. Good concert. His music has stood test of time, might even sound better now (have his greatest hits cd). John Lennon was quite taken with him, and fact he didn't need whole band behind him, this around era the bunch went off to India. I wasn't a huge fan, but I'd love to see him.

on a related art subject, am I only one with big problems getting TV to load? Other sites running just fine...

Coals to New Castle etc. How about next time they put a wire on her (and GPS anklet) and follow her to her drop spot. Seems could get a better harvest, someone up the food chain.

Any word about boosting curfew to 11? That seems to be a rumor going around. Official announcement would be nice. Have gf coming in from Bangkok after work on Friday night, usually gets to Pats about 10...

Here's a real pipe dream: police actually are transformed into a legit arm of government, well trained, not corrupt etc. This new honest force for law then goes after the corruption in military and succeeds. Ha! May I suggest books by John Burdett "Bangkok 8" etc. In every book there is the competition between police and army over who gets bigger slice of corruption pie.

They not say anything about the weapons found in Khon Kaen from red shirts to be used in terrorist attack in Khon Kaen? The weapons found at Aksa road at the Red shirt rall y ? And the US and other countries will support this and recognize this government in exile .?I thought Thailand had already 2 years a government in exile in Dubai nothing news this

That may be one way of putting it. Another way might be they are patriots trying to restore (flawed) democracy over military dictatorship (that is what it is now). American revolution was started by folks with weapons, deemed traitors by British (don't think label terrorist was used back then).