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20 minutes ago, nigelforbes said:

Violence against foreigners and violence by and against locals/other asians are very different. I'd walk the streets of Thailand day or night without worry, not so the UK, especially London.

Agree.  From what I read a out foreigners getting attacked here I. Thailand it seems the vast number of cases is down to the influence of drugs or alcohol and usually late at night in a bar area and the foreigner is acring aggressive and starting the altercation from their behaviour.  

I have lived here nearly 20 years and socialise mostly with Thai locals and never encounter a problem.  However in the UK I have been in bad situations many times die to drink idiots getting aggressive and looking for a fight.  Also muggings and knife crime are far far more common I the UK than here. 

Between 2 am and 3am. I dont go out partying either.  I am naturally a night owl

  I get up 930 to 10am. 

2 hours ago, ozimoron said:

Arboreal animals are more likely to be squirrels from what I read. Shrews will climb low trees but tend to be mainly terrestrial I think. These run along power lines. I'm waiting for someone who knows to give it's Linnaeus name. It could be one of several species but there seems to be a common species around Pattaya. Until recently there was a large tree in Bukhao soi 15 next door to Grand Ave where an adult pair lived but the tree was cut down.

So get a photo of it for us to see, as you say the photo you posted is not the animal you saw, right? 

BTW tree shrews are mostly aboreal and one of the thing they are commonly seen doing is running along phone wires.  

The most common squirrel to see here in build up areas is the variable squirrel

  As you can guess by the name it varies a lot in colour from black to almost white and all shades between.  It's much larger than the tree shrew...so maybe that is what you are seeing.  But it does have a bushy tail, similar to the America grey squirrel. They also make loud barking kind of call. 

OP your photo is a tree shrew not a squirrel.  You van tell by the long snout and long mouth. 

It's a northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri). 

They vary in colour.  They do eat fruit and also insects etc.  

On 12/18/2022 at 4:10 PM, Postmaster said:

Lacrimas  CM  what about the pollution and the smokey atmosphere from the burning fields, CM not the best City in my opinion but I not put up another candidate except to say that anyone with a chest condition should give CM

a wide birth.  Far better to live by the Sea. Not all resorts are polluted.

No pollution in CM yet.  Have you been looking at the data for this year or are you just guessing?  

Bangkok has worst air pollution now. 

2 hours ago, n00dle said:

Because it is a given.

 

Everyone who has ever died, died of heart failure.

No..not if they tested positive for Covid.   Then they died of covid..

What?  What is this rubbish?  Is it even written in English?  The headline does not even make sense!  

9 minutes ago, prophet01 said:

Watched this morning as another flying rat landed on the mesh. It stood there for a minute presumably sussing out the mesh and spikes, realised it couldn't perch so also sodded off.

 

Most satisfying to watch.

Better quality entertainment than Thai TV for certain....

Does the UK buy much oil from Russia? 

Netting.  Also make sure there is no food for them to eat to attract them. 

No need to be cruel to them.  

21 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

And in other news.... France has banned alpine skiing...  the snow is too slippery state authorities... 

 

 

And soon its illegal for people to walk down stairs as they might fall down them. 

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I hear you but a lot of Thais involved in their tourism miss them.

Because these Chinese package tour tourists required the least effort to take care of, were easy to rip off with overpriced attractions and food, and did not complain as they were used to worse in their own country. 

Those  businesses that miss them should not have forgotten the (usually) higher spending farangs and other nationalities.  Instead they saw an easy quick money spinner. 

It even turned out they were worse off as a lot of the profits were going into Chinese tour companies and back to China, rather than local Thai tourist  usonesses. 

7 minutes ago, superal said:

Under the E.U rules the UK had to abide in allowing criminals into the country . New laws have succeeded in deporting at least 1700 criminals from the UK . This was only possible because of Brexit and being free from the crazy E.U. laws . Many more criminals are being searched for .

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-foreign-criminals-and-illegal-migrants-removed 

 

This alone is one example of why Brexit was a good move unless you are a supporter of foreign criminals .

What rubbish.  Where does it say that the EU forced the UK to accept Convicted criminals in that link? 

Find the EU law that said the UK had to accept foreign criminals plz. 

9 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

To keep it factual , there has only been two leaders selected since Brexit and just one of them was the "wrong " choice .

    Its just Truss and Sunak who have been selected for the UK leadership since Brexit  and just Truss can be considered to have been the wrong choice as Sunak seems to be doing quite well .

  So its not "several" times , its *once* 

Since brexit you think there has only been 2 prime ministers? 

10 hours ago, Bredbury Blue said:

Funny how not hearing/seeing koels or coucals, now I can't stop hearing/seeing them around the house.

 

The wife was singing to me a kiddies song in thai about koels putting their eggs in other birds nests, so seems its a fact thais grow up with.

 

Yes. I know that song. It is true though...parasites lol. 

1 minute ago, DrJack54 said:

Always felt that there are lot of nutters on AseanNow.

This thread confirms that. 

And this guy can get the medal lol.