Trentham

I'm an Aussie and the first time I went to the United States I was asked several times "How come I could speak English so well?"

Fake Rolex watches, fake Versace. Why not fake temples.

I watched this show. His facial expressions and demeanor certainly did not leave one feeling he was sincere. But the really scary part of the show was the interview with the grandson of Stalin. He insisted that Stalin was a good man of the people, Russia's father, and told the viewers that nearly all Russians believed that.

Living in Thailand sure opens one's eyes to local prejudices... this isn't about sexual orientation, it's about discriminating against rich farangs! Have they even tried offering more baht? Buyer beware when in a "business" environment without any regulations.

But on the flip side, why are these characters buying designer pets when the shelters are putting down soi dogs? The orphanages here are overflowing and it would be so easy to go and pick up one of the million babies that are just looking for someone to love them!

Be careful "Dirty" your sexism is showing!

Why do you not suggest that straight couples also adopt soi dogs instead of producing designer babies as well.

My comment was about this story involving this particular couple. But let me clear the air and state that ALL couples need to really look inside themselves when deciding on the use of a surrogate - with all the children out there needing love, forcing another into existence is, IMHO, selfish.

I also thought about commenting on the other post, but decided best not to feed the bridge dwellers. Seriously, all the scientific proof is out there in psychology and sociology journals, guess it's easier to listen to someone's interpretation of a 4000 year old book (that's been edited more times than anyone can remember)? In today's age of free and easily accessible information, it's mind boggling the number of people that choose to be ignorant.

It's not ignorance. It's called an opinion. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, not just the liberal PC brigade.

I presume you are a real teacher. You should know then that an opinion based on lack of knowledge or lack of intelligence is still IGNORANCE.

Living in Thailand sure opens one's eyes to local prejudices... this isn't about sexual orientation, it's about discriminating against rich farangs! Have they even tried offering more baht? Buyer beware when in a "business" environment without any regulations.

But on the flip side, why are these characters buying designer pets when the shelters are putting down soi dogs? The orphanages here are overflowing and it would be so easy to go and pick up one of the million babies that are just looking for someone to love them!

Be careful "Dirty" your sexism is showing!

Why do you not suggest that straight couples also adopt soi dogs instead of producing designer babies as well.

Surely the weight of a 100 nautical mile wall would only worsen the problem.

People that still call Thailand los.

Of course they do............

LO Suicides

LO stupidity

LO selfishness

Yep i can relate to that, I've told the TGF I'm not buying a car when i eventually move there.

So you want to use buses, minivans and motorcycle taxis do you? You won't live any longer.

Millions of Blacks, Gays and Gypsies, disabled people and people with mental issues died alongside the Jews in the ovens and gas chambers. But in the dozens of movies I have seen regarding the holocaust no mention of those others has ever been made. WHY? because the Jews own Hollywood. They want to wring their hands and tell how they suffered and do not care or ever mention the others who also suffered.

Native Americans, Australian Aborigines, South American tribes, Eastern European peoples, the list is endless, have also suffered as horrifically under various despots but who cares???

It is always the JEWS, JEWS, JEWS.

I don't think the people of Ukraine or the rest of the nations of the former USSR have recovered the 70 million they lost as a result of the Bolchevick revolution and its aftermath. Perhaps Hollywood will get around to making a movie or two about this?

I wonder if Hollywood could make a movie of the decimation of the Australian Aboriginal people too.

When was the last time a southern Baptist beheaded another?

When was the last time a southern Baptist planted a bomb anywhere?

When was the last time a southern Baptist destroyed a passenger plane in flight?

Need I go on to dispell your ridiculous post?

Islamic radicals are driving the Islamic world. The silent majority are immaterial.

They are subtle. they spout their rhetoric and incite others to action.

The suspected killer, she added, "isn't a Muslim in my opinion."

Bull****. Your "suspected killer" IS the modern face of Islam.

You and the one person who clicked like so far are part of the reason terrorists [ not Muslims] want to kill us.

Who are "us" you talk about ... ? Please dont include me with your red lefties - These traitors are the reason Europe soon is a Dead-zone with civil-war ...

Now you guys have to make up your minds. Am I a Fascist or a Red Lefty?

Somebody was shot and wounded with a gun in US! I am shocked and speechless (nearly) how something like this could possibly happen.

These ignorant anti-gun morons only ever come out of the woodwork when someone gets shot in America.

30 people gunned down on a beach in Tunisia - not one peep out of the anti-gun fascists about Tunisia's gun laws. Certainly, lots of "Let's not get carried away with Islamaphobia" is mentioned. But no one even realized a single person lawfully carrying a gun on the beach at that time could have stopped this shooter early and saved dozens of lives.

The fact is, the anti-gun nutters are clearly racist.

Only when the shooter is white do we hear this guns are evil propoganda BS.

Muslim shooter, silence

Black shooter, silence.

Shooting occuring outside of the US, silence.

The only people opposed to Americans lawfully owning guns, are anti-American racists.

ARE YOU FOR REAL??? I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU JUST WROTE.

You must be what they call a "REDNECK".

I suspect you've been brainswashed by CNN and US media.

Where were you when 12 French people were shot dead by Muslim gunmen, was anyone calling for stricter French Guns laws then?

Have we heard anyone asking for Tunisia to ban guns? What about Syrian gun laws? Or Mexican gun laws? Gun crimes in those countries are ok, right? But lets punish those law abiding citizens that own guns in America instead.

The only time racist fascists like you ever talk about guns are evil, so let's ban them, is when it happens in America. And even then, if it's black killing blacks you close your eyes or blame it on whites for turning blacks into criminals.

I stand by what I said. One person on that beach in Tunisia with a gun could have saved dozens of lives. The fact that one person was shot in SF, does not mean lawful owners should not have the right to defend their lives.

Call me a redneck if you want, but I ain't no hypocrite.

Keep on writing, the world would be laughing at you if you were not such a sad specimen of humanity. Have you read about the Australian shooting tragedy at Port Arthur and what PM John Howard did after that? The results have been outstanding.

You have revealed your own racism, not mine by your mention of Black Americans and also revealed your own dislike of then with your own fascist comment.

And for the way you have deduced that I am a fascist by reading my 3 little sentences defies belief and once again exposes your true racist and fascist nature.

Only as much as Breivik is the face of modern Christianity.

Ridiculous . Breivik is a man-bites-dog example that is rejected by Christians. There is nothing in the New Testament that would justify his act nor in the life example of Jesus. Any abuses in Christianity came centuries after the death of Jesus. In contrast the prophet Mohammad led more than 150 wars of aggression and what were essentially pirate raids where victims were murdered, enslaved, forced to convert to Islam and robbed of their women and possessions. There is absolutely no comparison in Christianity. The holy books of Islam are replete with hundreds of verses urging violent jihad violence against infidels such as this:

Quran (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" ( No reasonable person would interpret this to mean a spiritual struggle.)

Brevick was mentally ill with no support by Christians; whereas IS and violent jihadists have considerable support in the Muzz world that has been revealed in numerous MSM polling. Recently 16% of French citizens voiced there sympathy for IS in polls reported by Newsweek Magazine. Obviously this support is from the Muzz community in France. Polls in the Muslim world and in the West of muslims reveal high levels of support for terrorism; as it conforms to the teaching of their religion.

"There is absolutely no comparison in Christianity." My God [no pun intended] just have a look at the antics of America's Southern Baptists.

The suspected killer, she added, "isn't a Muslim in my opinion."

Bull****. Your "suspected killer" IS the modern face of Islam.

You and the one person who clicked like so far are part of the reason terrorists [ not Muslims] want to kill us.

Somebody was shot and wounded with a gun in US! I am shocked and speechless (nearly) how something like this could possibly happen.

These ignorant anti-gun morons only ever come out of the woodwork when someone gets shot in America.

30 people gunned down on a beach in Tunisia - not one peep out of the anti-gun fascists about Tunisia's gun laws. Certainly, lots of "Let's not get carried away with Islamaphobia" is mentioned. But no one even realized a single person lawfully carrying a gun on the beach at that time could have stopped this shooter early and saved dozens of lives.

The fact is, the anti-gun nutters are clearly racist.

Only when the shooter is white do we hear this guns are evil propoganda BS.

Muslim shooter, silence

Black shooter, silence.

Shooting occuring outside of the US, silence.

The only people opposed to Americans lawfully owning guns, are anti-American racists.

ARE YOU FOR REAL??? I CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU JUST WROTE.

You must be what they call a "REDNECK".

"The students said that in civilised countries, freedom of expression was a major premise of education."

In civilised countries, thinking and learning are the major premises of education.

If teachers and students do not have freedom of expression then good education is impossible.

Why are you being so picky??? They said it was "a" not "the" major premise.

This is good stuff '

There are more than enough unfortunate children waiting in orphanages all over the world to get the chance of finding loving foster parents. Take one of them as your child!!!

At some point kids want to know their true biological parents, so what they gonna tell those surrogate kids? Something like this? "It was a business you know - your biological mom carried you out just to make some extra cash but did not have any bond with you, letting alone love you? By the way, we have no idea who she was, where she lives and are also not allowed to check up on that... Oh, before I forgot - I am not your real dad, neither is Joe, your other dad... Your bio dad was a anonymous donor, I'm sorry!"

This is important and the response seems to be ' don't worry, it'll be ok'..... so blasé with predicting a kids feelings in the future.

Gays need to accept, 1) their union doesn't allow for the production of natural offspring

2) When it comes to kid raising, we don't know if there any negative outcomes to two blokes or two girls raising a kid, maybe being romantic in front of the kid, bullying at schools etc.

3)Purchasing children IS NOT THE <deleted> CORRECT ANSWER

All you poor bewildered creatures who want gays to adopt cannot get past your sexist natures to understand that the same applies to straight people. Why do you not tell them to stop procreating and adopt also????

You are all completely ignorant of the calling of nature, to follow what our genes demand, that is to have children. Many gay people use their own sperm to use with a surrogate mother.

I know a lesbian couple who, 26 years ago, used a gay friends sperm who wa..ed in the next room and then used a turkey baster to deliver it. The child born from that is now a straight well adjusted young man, a real hit with the girls, is well aware of his origins and would not have it any other way. He says that if they went to so much effort to have him then he knows he is really wanted and loved by his 2 mothers.

There has been quite a bit of research done already on the children raised by gay and lesbian couples that shows they do not suffer any detrimental effects any more than kids from straight unions. GET OVER YOUR FEAR OF THE TRUTH AND DO SOME SERIOUS READING ABOUT THE SUBJECT. Don't go looking in Catholic or Southern Baptist type websites. Look for scientific research.

And finally - grow up and get a life and get over all your prejudices.

I totally disagree with same sex couples bringing up children. The child is reared in an unusual environment whatever the gays might like to make out.

Oh you holier than thou sexist. My father was STRAIGHT and I watched him beat and rape my mother. I saw him throw my 2 year old brother against a wardrobe. Then he deserted us and left us penniless.

And you think straights can raise kids better than gays. Think again.

I don't think anything matches it for being an overpriced vanity purchase, no.

Oh I'm going head to head with that comment

Very true, the Mac is overpriced if you compare it to a similar Windows machine. I really have to swallow hard before I coughed up the cash. But, what you get for your money will be the most trouble free piece of hardware you have ever bought.

I'm a nerd, and on some level liked the downloading drivers, editing registries, re-imaging hard drives. But after experiencing the flawlessness of the mac, you get what you pay for.

I'm not an Apple fanboy, I still have Windows laptops, Android phones (don't own an iphone), but the Mac Air as a piece of hardware and software may well be overpriced, but it's as solid as anything you are ever going to buy, and probably outlive 2x any windows hardware you buy

The Mac is also the product of exploited workers and a company without ethics and as the Chicog said, "an overpriced vanity purchase".

Intersting , that is 1000 years before Christ is said to have been born.

It is often better to be quiet than to expose lack of knowledge. Reread....this reference was to the time of King David. Yes, Old Testament, long before the time of Jesus so....your point is?

How up yourself you are wwest5828. You should keep you mouth shut [or break your one typing finger] instead of trying to put someone down. All the guy wrote was that it was "interesting".

I guess that if the posters of this article were hoping for comment from the expat intelligentsia they should have woven into the story something about drinking beer in the ancient Middle East and a bit about depictions of beautiful girls on amphora of antiquity.

Being in the possession of a couple of 3000 year old pots, I find the story fascinating.

I think there is a typo in the headline. Year should read "day".

The Australian government is in for the money. I had to laugh when they executed the 2 Australians in Indonesia and the firm message that PM send to Indonesia.

After the bodies was shipped back to Australia business is normal but the only factor was that the Indonesians said Australia can stick their aid in their ass.

Don't know really what to say about Australia but they don't fit in any region.

I agree with your first 2 sentences except that I never laughed during that sad period. What sickened me was the Indonesian ambassador offering his condolences to the families the very next day after killing those 2 guys.

As for where we fit, well we allow the world to fit in here. See the following http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-24/study-reveals-refugees-boosting-nhill-economy/6417620 . Melbourne is the second largest Greek city in the world but even so we have more Italians than Greeks. Oz is a highly successful multicultural country where it really works.

Most people love and accept all the countless nationalities that go there to live. It is mostly the press beating up stories [half of it owned by right wing Rupert Murdoch] and a right wing Liberal [only in name] government which is stirring up hatred against Muslims to try to stay in power.

Julie Bishop, the foreign minister who is doing a deal with Thailand is a part of that government. As an Aussie I am embarrassed and ashamed of of that.

But don't give up on us. Most Aussies are laid back, easy going people who accept others from all over the world. After all, 25% of us were born in another country and most of the rest of us have foreign parents or grandparents from somewhere else. I am in fact a "First Fleeter".

The only true Australians are the aboriginal people and I acknowledge that although I am white, I was born and raised on the land of the Dja Dja Wurrung people

Oz is a highly successful multicultural country where it really works.

Totally disagree

We used to be a multinational country with one culture that people aspired to be part of and embraced

Multiculturalism has destroyed that thanks to Keating and Australia is rapidly becoming a second world country economically and socially.

You poor thing. They don't let you out much do they.

Trentham, arrive in Australia with no passport by boat & expect to be locked up, you put your child on that boat at your peril. Australia now has clinics for diseases that were eradicated. Arrive in Australia as a genuine refugee & not economic refugee you wouldn't care if you were on Manus island, if you weren't being bombed or murdered, you were safe, you'd be eternally grateful. Not complaining about everything & wanting the host country to change to suit you.

I was referring to the kids being locked up which is causing enormous psychological damage to them.

It seems you are just another heartless Liberal voter trying to make lame excuses for their breaking of international law and locking kids away.

As for this - Australia now has clinics for diseases that were eradicated. - bit of nonsense, it just reveals your true racism.

So what is the alternative?

BTW never voted Liberal in my life.

I don't know what the alternative is but we should not lock up little kids. Europe is also struggling with this question. Just look at the recent tragedies there. We should also not send any of them, adult or child, to Cambodia which is run by that monster dictator, Hun Sen.

Did you know that Australia paid, I think $40,000,000 to Cambodia to make that deal? With the corruption in that country you can just imagine whose pockets it ended up in.

AND does not that payment make Australia a party in the human trafficking business?????????

I used to vote for Menzies and Fraser. But I would spit on Abbott. There were some good labor men as well.