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The volume of the music is really annoying and makes it difficult to understand the commentary.

This report is going to get as many posts as the ladyboy one did yesterday. Ha ha ha .........sex and booze.

Well it wont reduce consumption of either. For the poor it will simply mean less money on the table for food for the children whilst Dad still smokes his tabs and drinks whiskey.

Well if it is on imported alcohol only it will make no difference to the poor. They only drink local beer and rice whisky they make themselves

According to the Kinsey Report on human sexuality nobody is purely hetero or homo sexual. We are all just sexual. If sexuality can be defined as a straight line with pure hetero at one end and homo at the other then we all appear somewhere along the line but nobody at either end. What happens to straight men when they go to prison? They all get into other guys. At least most western prisons give out condoms to the inmates. Every guy I know "fiddled around" with his mates when he was a teenager. When straight guys meet a lady boy it simply allows them to explore their true feelings because they can justify it by the guy looking like a girl. Anyway how many guys haven't experienced their girl friend's finger up their a..s

If there is a fire at DJ Station in Silom there will be 100 deaths.

I was diagnosed with glaucome by B.....d hospital. They did laser surgery to fix it. I had to go back for 1 monthly check-ups for a year, then 2 monthly then 3 monthly. 3500 baht each time. I returned to Australia and went for my next 3 monthly check. The eye specialist there siad none of the check-ups were necessary. Laser fixes it - end of story. I had been ripped off for untold thousands of baht. Do not trust Thai hospitals.

"Thai Education" is an oxymoron same as bitter sweet or army intelligence.

I made a fake profile on gay romeo looking for sex without condoms, as a way to measure the level of unsafe sex amongst gays in Thailand. My alter ego has had hundreds of acceptances.

Why is it that only we non-Thai people are able to see and understand the problems with the Thai education system?

Students are not encouraged to read. They are not allowed to ask questions of their teachers. They have to learn things by rote. Corruption is rife throughout the system. They buy their degrees very often. Students who do not qualify for entry to uni bribe their way in or get in anyway because of who their family is.

A young friend is attending Bangkok University. He complains that the 35 students in one class cannot understand the lecturer, who is Thai, but teaching in English language. I told him to tell her- "No no," he said "We must respect her." - "Well explain it to uni administration."- "Oh no we I cannot. If she knows it was me she will fail me." Well go with a deputation from all the students. - "Impossible, they all have Thai culture. We cannot."

Now what will happen here is this. Some students knowing they will fail because they cannot understand the lesson will offer her a bribe to pass them. On the other hand, she will know they are not doing very well and many will fail. She will lose face so she will pass them even though they do not know their work.

And anyway most teachers cannot pass their own tests according to the polls.

KarenBrave you are obviously a new arrival in Thailand. You will change your opinions after 7 years here like me.

Please ......don't embarrass yourself.

Seven years is less than a quarter of the time I've been living here

No embarrassment here. It is not a competition to see who is here the longest. Take your blinkers off.

Why suspicious?

People that have an aneurysm (a weakness in a vital artery) can die at any time in their life.

Why suspicious? I think because things of this type seem to happen so very much more in Thailand than in the rest of the world. Sure, it could have been an unfortunate, unknown preexisting medical condition. But highly unlikely.

No, the same everywhere. All over the world people die unexpectedly, from pre existing conditions, from accidents, etc. But whenever this happens here people come with all kind of cover up suspicions.

KarenBrave you are obviously a new arrival in Thailand. You will change your opinions after 7 years here like me.

The victim is believed to have fallen into the water while fishing at the time of his death, police said.

I don't have to tell you all what I am thinking.

Same same. 99% of China, Japanese & Australia PMs don't speak good English if at all. It fact, most have worst English than YS. Yet they are SUPER powers.

Maybe in next PM acceptance citeria, Candidates should required to have a TOEIC 550 cert; just like in many semi-govt companies like PTT & TG.

WOW I am a citizen of a super power now, and I think all of Australia's PM's speak reasonably.

I personally like Mr. Thaksin, it was under his leadership Thailand looked to be going forward with a lot of farangs ploughing money into Thailand, i know for a fact the tourism industry went through a 'Boom' time whilst he was in power and i was never short of work here (i work within the travel and tourism industry) but now for the past 3/4 years i have struggled to find any work, and tourism no matter which figures you read, is definitely down and i mean way down !

So Thaksin was slightly corrupt....erm excuse me, but which government is not? Someone on TV.com quoted 'he stole the Thai's money' isn't that what all governments do?

I for one look forward to his return to his beloved country, it wasn't so long ago he returned to an absolute heroes welcome with the media and the people cheering him as he walked out of the airport? it was live on most tv channels here as well.

Good luck Thailand **Comments removed**

Who are you, for God's sake???

Try doing an internet search for Thai inventions. There is only one man who ever invented anything in Thailand and guess who he is.

Corruption is good...where else can you pay off a cop right on the spot for violating a traffice law. U gotta love that.

Often it is paying off the cop for a traffic law you didn't violate

Perhaps Thai Buddhists can stop using the Christian cross in their tattoos and also stop wearing jewellery made with the cross. I have often heard Thais complain about Westerners using the Buddha image for decoration in their homes or on their bodies at the very time they are using the cross.OH and by the way, it is Thai Buddhists doing the tattooing or selling the images for decoration.

Price of KFC in Bangkok about 130 baht

Price is KFC in New Zealand 140 Baht

Wages for staff in New Zealand $13 hour = 290 baht an hour

Wages for staff in Bangkok 27 baht an hour

KFC, restaurant brands in New Zealand still make a profit when they pay 10 times more in wages than thailand and charge the same price

Also the chicken is no doubt sourced cheaper here too

I am a capitalist but when I see the disgusting super profits these businessmen make while paying their staff nothing so they can buy their latest merc to show their friends

it makes me want to be a socialist

Same goes for McD.

As long as their is cheap supply of labour in Thailand the chinese will continue to make massive profits

Point well-made.

I've always taken notice how I pay the same price for KFC chicken here as in the west. But shocked that employees here make less than 10% of KFC wages in the west.

Some fat cat is pocketing a huge profit margin on the backs of hapless employees who can barely afford the cheapest of BKK's dormitories and transportation beyond the "red bus."

Yes, capitalism at its worst.

Wages for staff in New Zealand $13 hour = 290 baht an hour

Wages for staff in Bangkok 27 baht an hour

KFC, restaurant brands in New Zealand still make a profit when they pay 10 times more in wages than thailand and charge the same price

Also the chicken is no doubt sourced cheaper here too

Sounds fair enough to me. Every Thai I know only does one tenth the work of a farang.

My mouth has dropped open. My jaw is working up and down.............it is just that the words won't come out.

And farang claim that Thais aren't smart?

Well 4 different Thai doctors were treating me for acid reflux disease for the last 3 years at a modern hospital near Silom which caters to farang. I even went to the emergency department in the middle of the night on 2 occasions with very severe pain and was put on drips to control it. A few months ago I came home to Australia for a visit and went to the doctor here. Within 2 weeks he discovered I have cancer in my pancreas. The Thai doctors could not find that in more than 2 years. Thai doctors, through not doing the required tests, may have cost me my life.

What bulls**t. If ,for example 1% of people are peodophiles. that makes 1% of gays and 1% of straights peodophiles. Since there are about 15 times the amount of straights in the world it makes straight peodophiles the majority. Get your facts right.

If 95% of male peds rape exclusively boys - I don't care if they are Catholic priests - they are **ing gay. get it?

I agree with what you just wrote. BUT you originally implied that 50% of peodophiles are gay. That is not true and a slur on gay people generally. What you said is sexist. Studies show that peodiphilia occurs with equal percentages in both straight and gay people. With that in mind, please go and re-read my first comment to you.

I cannot be bothered replying to you again. Your brain seems to be incapable of understanding a simple concept. you are befuddled by your sexism.