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A golden opportunity for what?

A lot of those "toddlers" where killed with a knife. The guy went in to the rooms where they were sleeping and slit their throats. Brutal. Should knifes be made illegal?

That would actually lead to a huge surge in illegal gun purchases. The prices of "legally purchased" pistols and revolvers are about 5 times the price in the US, and rifles and shotguns are about 3 times as much. A handgun or rifle purchased on the black market is more like parity with US prices or cheaper. So the government calls for a 3 month amnesty, everyone who can not afford a gun gets a black market gun, and then registers it. ???? Let me take a SWAG at why Thaksin is recommending this. It floods Thailand with weapons and then with a push from certain Western deep state actors, Thailand has a violent "Color Revolution" and Thaksin come riding to the rescue? Just saying. My guess is that the cop who went on a murder spree probably had a registered handgun. It's not a good idea. It puts guns in the hands of people who would not otherwise be able to afford them or who would rather not get busted with illegal, unregistered firearms. Keeping the laws as they stand creates a deterrent to arming people who know little about the proper use and safety of guns in general.

Climbing over the fence = "Your free to go in?" Really? ????

Just like in Ukraine. Just saying......

???? By the way. The killer slit the throat of most of the kids with a knife. So, will there be more checkpoints to stem the flow of knives?

There were so many "favorite scenes" out of Dr Stangelove. If I gotta pick one? Major Kong ridin' "the bomb."

Of course, if some guy is s**t-faced drunk as goes on a murder spree, well, everything is just hunky-dory. No call to outlaw Thai whiskey and alcohol as the 'connected' booze monopoly is simply too powerful. But blame a mass-murder's killing spree on cannabis. Ridiculous. The Thaksin led ‘Pheu Thai’ was all onboard for extra-judicial executions of anyone accused of dealing drugs back in Thakin's regime. That should tell you everything you need to know.

His best bet is to just pass out free bottles of 'whitening cream' to the cops.

You've just listed the reasons I'd never buy a condo.

"Conclusion SARS-CoV-2+ participants initiating nasal irrigation were over 8 times less likely to be hospitalized than the national rate." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01455613221123737

What about people who don't have "Covid shots?"

Wondering which countries are open for border runs and what difficulty there may be re-entering the Thailand?

Ahhh, they clamped his wheel. Good enough.

The Thai elites will kill the goose laying golden eggs. For sure for sure. Just wait.

Hummm. Slave labor. I thought that was a human right's violation. But who cares?

A tow truck would have been a wiser choice.

Are 'visa runs' to surrounding countries now viable for those who used to obtains their visas in that manner?

Duplicate systems are waste, fraud, and abuse. NSA already has that capability. Just use their resources.

Check it out yourself. There is no single direction. Right now major weather pattern come East to West. Local patterns vary significantly. https://weather.tmd.go.th/lmpLoop.php https://zoom.earth/#view=7.6,102.6,4z/map=live

I've got a great idea! Just don't go to Pattaya. We have a nice park by a river out here is rural nowhereville. You can buy a beer or Thai whiskey, and sit around, drink, and shoot the breeze. And no cops, well, unless the cop is drinking with you. Off duty, of course. They should post on the TAT Pattaya brochures: Come to Pattaya - Just don't have fun!

My guess is that most of Asia will weather the economic storm much better than the EU and UK. A EU without a source of natural gas is cooked (well, not cooked as it has no cooking gas). US LGN isn't saving the EU. Not this year for sure. Probably not next. By then? After the public takes to the streets after this winter's thaw, their may not be an EU. It's much better to be in SE Asia. Rural is even better. You can live on a shoestring if you have to.

Pains the issue. Not the heart attack. Most expat I know would want to go to the best coronary clinic in Thailand. Once over 70, just accept it. Have a good Living Will drawn up by a lawyer. Now that I'm thinking about it, I may put my lawyer on a retainer to act on my behalf in case a hospital tries to treat me outside the the bounds of the Living Will.

If he goes back the the UK, the NHS will put him on an 'end of life pathway.' That is, if he can find a bed in an NHS facility. As a 70 year old all I can say is that he should have thought this out way before this. 77 imho is the span of a good life. He should get his affairs in order and seek to check out as painlessly as possible. Heck, 70 is a good life span. I just want to be relatively comfortable before I go. No asking family in the US to 'save me.' My chosen family is here. I'll die here. But, best of luck to Mr. John.

I always use the public urinals marked with an 'X.' They're the cleanest! <laughs>