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Now for 90 day reports. My duuuuh. It's not April 1st.

Love how the MSM paints the afd as "anti-migrant". A more realistic term for them would be "pro-German". A minor difference I'll grant you, but a significant one.

You don't get a peep from MSM regarding Thailand staunch anti-immigrant stance. Germany and the German people of the right to expect the government to 'control the flow'.

That's an everyday occurrence on Thai roads, hence the well-earned "Second Most Dangerous Roads in The World" title holding moniker.

If you don't drive in complete defense mode, you'll eventually get hit by some aggressive Thai driver. I figure that at least 30% of the drivers on the road are highly aggressive, with another 50% being moderately aggressive. 10% are simply clueless leaving 10% who actually drive somewhat sanely. What a sad state of affairs Thailand.

Very Japanese. Big public apologies. But really. What damage did a group of skinney-dipping Japanese men do in the middle of the night?

Could be true. But, diplomatic immunity. So sad, too bad. Maybe some british philanthropist will anonymously donate money to cover the hospital cost. Or not.....

But then again, the motorcyclist could be 100% in the wrong. Try defensive driving Thailand!

I'll go along with everything that has been said so far about Dr Chadathip.

Don't know about Kris, but I trust Elektrified's judgement.

Not sure that I'd go the 'no anesthesia' route, even if it's purely psychological.

That's like an article I read many years ago about a dentist who put a clothes-pin on his patient's ear and assured them that the drill wouldn't hurt. Flash to a picture of a happy kid in the dentist chair with a clothes-pin on his ear as the dentist, with drill in hand, hovered above him. That approach would last approximately 5 seconds with me.

I always find it fascinating how confident Thai dentists are that they won't hurt you. "Trust me!" Yeah right. I've now gone through 6 local clinics and approximately 8 dentists. Out of those 8, I've quit 2 for sub-par work and 6 for hurting me. My dentist in the US and both of his periodontal techs routinely administered anesthetics, and in 14 years of being a patient in his clinic, no staff member every hurt me during dental procedures. That tells me that dental anesthesiology isn't rocket science, but is a simply decision and conviction to keep your patients out of pain. The average Thai dentist simply doesn't care to keep you out of pain, imho.

Now may Dad...different story. He was another individual who would forego the anesthetic and endure the pain because he didn't like the 'numb' feeling afterward. God...<shiver>!

Maybe CMU students doing field work for a project. I wouldn't give it too much thought.

My ex-wife used to open my mail & when l confronted her about it, there was a blazing row.

She considered it her right to do so.

Just like she considered it her right to spend ALL our money & send some to the Philippines for her family & got very snaky when l reined her in.

lt took me two years to find out her true character & l would have left her if we hadn't had a little baby.

l only stayed with her because of the kids(yes we had more!).

"Marry in haste- reflex/regret at leisure"

Never make that mistake again.

My ex-wife used to open my mail & when l confronted her about it, there was a blazing row.

...as there should be. Your business is your own. Any women or man who feels that it is their 'right' to check their significant others emails has, imho, some serious issues in more than one department.

How does one turn one's self into one's self. Very confusing.

Ahhh, No.

Noisy, rude Russian just moved in above. What to do?

Do the exact same thing you'd do if a 'noisy, rude' America, or Thai, or Chinese, or African, or Afgani, or Indian, or Pakistani, or Israeli, or German moved in above. It's not like I've never had this same problem living in an apartment in the West. The offending occupant's nation of birth has about zero to do with anything. Rude and impolite transcends international borders.

You're welcome. Glad I could assist!

(I wonder if there is a Russian forum somewhere where some guy is complaining, "Cranky, overly-critical Yank living in apartment below"?) Hummm.

"[P]roactively raise the public awareness of Thai employees' values as skilled and competent workers..."

That already sounds like a nice line of propaganda.

Slow day on the news desk. The air is always unhealthy in CM this time of year.

The government are basically just salesmen trying to convince people to buy an overpriced, dodgy product.

Considering that most people are as savvy as a box of hammers, it won't be a hard sell. It never is.

The problem with karma...

One day the world is your oyster,

The next???

I remember my pet chicken named "cluck". She was part of our family and every evening I would take cluck for a walk and she would go "cluck cluck cluck" out of sheer happiness. I certainly miss cluck a lot.....

Mom! Dad! Where's Cluck???

Ohhh noooo!

Ahhh, Monkey Business?

Heello,

A relationship is based on mutual trust.

If you don't trust her then leave her.

It's better than always asking yourself where she is, what she does and who is with her. And if you check her phone or her handbag, it's sure that the storm will start in your brain.

Trust works until it doesn't. When it doesn't, then what?

Same with control. Control works until it doesn't. We know what controllers do.

I don't trust, nor do I control. I have none of the problems of a 'Truster' or a 'Controller'.

Nope, I don't care what she gets up to.

I don't own her.

If she wants a bf, new husband, gik ...... up to her.

MaeJoMTB and I are on the same page.

All my Ex's had flings. I divorced all three of the American wives. I refused to divorce the current wife. I told her to have fun and notify me when the new BF got old. It took about 3 months. At her age, nobody is gonna take care of her. She knows it; I know it. Now post-menopausal, and having had her hormones kick the wind out of her sails, we're on the same page too. Romantic love is for kids in order to get them to procreate, and it's that 'romantic' love that causes the jealousy problems. Like I said previously: "I don't feed that dog". Compassion and mutual caring is a better route for us 'over-the-hill' types. We complement each other, and for all the friction and sparks in the relationship, we're better off together than apart. Oh, and it's nobodies business but mine on how I manage my relationship. Sail your own ships; I'll sail mine.

I don't and never have.

All my significant others have and do, since the inception of the cell phone. It creates nothing but problems, especially considering that I'm not dumb enough to call my mia noi and giks using my cell phone. (Just kidding, no mia nois or giks. More trouble than they are worth, because they would feel a need to check my phone too.)

Jealousy is a bitch. I don't feed that dog.

Yes.

I'm sure that all of those critical of the couple and their parents were complete saints in there teen years, just as I'm sure that all my promiscuous Christian friends in high school are now extolling the virtues of chastity to the youth in their congregation. If those guys <and gals>, and those like them were consistent, i.e., chaste in high school, I could understand. But they weren't. They were young, dumb, and.....<nevermind>. I have a problem with hypocrisy. However, for those Ops who walked their current talk as youths? By all means, carry on.

My opinion? If you choose to have sex in public or on a public venue (think, social media), regardless of your age, expect to be criticized and possibly filmed. And the parents? Good luck getting traction in that lawsuit. Where does that precedent go? You film a bus crash and the bus company sues you for giving/selling the footage to a news agency? But who knows...enough envelops under the table...TIT.

<In the BIB screen room>: "Somchai, go back to 1:55 on the tape and roll it again. I need to investigate the position angle of the crime scene again."