fasteddie

2 hours ago, wealthychef said:

 

OMG I go so crazy over idiotic climate denialism.  Off topic though.  Still, come on, really?  

Is it off topic though? surely if you're gullible enough to believe the Agenda 21 driven AGW scam then maybe you can be convinced that breathing out whatever cocktail of whatever from e-gigs mixed with the Co2 is also somehow managing to compete with the Sun in driving climate change.

58 minutes ago, CGW said:

Quite! so much more pleasurable to be sat by the roadside, breathing the fumes and talking in breaks between the "roar" of unregulated exhaust noise from the cars, trucks & motorcycles, surrounded by discarded garbage

For eating there is no better place in the world than Singapore & if your budget is up to it pretty good night life also.

The cost of housing is bloody ridiculous though!

Orft to Singers with you then my lad, bye bye

54 minutes ago, CGW said:

Quite! so much more pleasurable to be sat by the roadside, breathing the fumes and talking in breaks between the "roar" of unregulated exhaust noise from the cars, trucks & motorcycles, surrounded by discarded garbage

For eating there is no better place in the world than Singapore & if your budget is up to it pretty good night life also.

The cost of housing is bloody ridiculous though!

Orft to Singers with you then my lad, bye bye

8 hours ago, overherebc said:

So does a baked bean fart but I don't like sitting in the middle of it.

???

Wrong again, farts linger vapour doesn't.

31 minutes ago, Seismic said:

"Besides the growing health concerns over e-cigarettes". The only concerns over health have been raised by people and organisations directly connected to the Tobacco industry. Even there some tobacco companies are now quietly buying up Vaping companies (not to close them down, but to profit from them as their own products become more and more proscribed. It is now generally accepted worldwide that E-cigs are significantly less harmful than tobacco products, however like anti-vaxxers and climate sceptics there are always a few nutjobs who will go against science for personal gain or attention.

I was just about to give you a like until your last inane statement, if you're not aware of the dangers of vaccinations and the very obvious climate scam you need to do some research.

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

Walked behind one guy who had one stuck in his gob and had to stop to let him get further ahead so I could then see where I was going. It brought to mind the old Navy movies when the order ' make smoke' was issued. 

Why do the user love to produce those huge volumes of the 'smoke'?

Just askin'

 

It's not smoke it's vapour and dissipates rapidly.

1 hour ago, Thian said:

What's wrong with that picture? Looks perfect to me, good floor, no soidogs/cats/rats...they all speak english, perfect.

 

Today i got scammed in Arno's steakhouse in EMquartier...i ordered a double burger 2x200 gram of meat but got 2x75 gram of meat...had to pay for the 200 gram burgers though...I hope Arno reads it, i've seen his pic and will ask him about it one day when i meet him.

If that's perfect for you, why did you ever come to Thailand? p.s. love soi dogs and always feed them.

1 hour ago, Pdaz said:

Singapore went through this years ago. The Thai Govt should follow their example and provide Govt administered open air food centers. Then they could do away with the ramshackle vendors and hawkers. Nobody would lose their living and it could help to prevent corruption and backhanders.

Rent and utilities at a set price and easy for hygiene inspections etc.

 

OMG no, the last thing we need is another sterile city like Singers, Thailand is unique and that's why lots of people love it, just look at that picture, YIKES!

https://www.facebook.com/fanstuga/videos/1321446784587251/

8 hours ago, jonclark said:

Absolutely, But corruption in Thailand is as endemic as ice in your beer, its the proverbial grease that makes the cogs of power turn.  Remove the ice and the beer becomes unpalatable and flat, remove corruption and things will grind to a halt. That is just the way it works. 

 

The aim was to raise the living standards of the poor, those who have been overlooked for so many years by the ruling classes - lest we forget they too have been happily skimming from the top for many, many decades without any moral qualms whatsoever over the  guilt or innocence of their actions, cause that' show it works here. - in itself she was right to pursue that policy which was effectively a large agricultural subsidy. The principle was subsiding the cost of the rice so farmers got a better price. Certainly not unique and a well proven way to rack up huge losses to the taxpayer. In the EU, CAP accounts for somewhere in the region of 30% of the entire annual EU budget. UK farms get somewhere like $300 per hectare for cultivated land. Agricultural subsidies are a great way to lose money...but they keep farmers viable and happy(ish).

 

Yinglucks downfall, imo, was she also wasn't experienced enough to be PM - before she was PM she was a complete political novice with no experience whatsoever - kinda like Trump. As such she was entirely dependent on those around her for advice and support and when all and sundry jumped on the bandwagon to get their nose in the trough of corruption, well that was her undoing coupled with the establishments dislike of those pesky outsiders taking a bigger slice of the corruption pie than they were able to.

 

In 5, 10,  15 years down the line it will be a new name..more corruption from a failed subsidy policy and the same old machinations. 

 

Anyway, I'm off to put some ice in my beer now. Enjoy.   

 

 

Fair comment except for "ice in your beer"? gross, unless you like watery beer

9 hours ago, halloween said:

More obfuscation (and brown-nosing) Eric? Removing Boonsong didn't stop the ongoing deals, did it? It didn't stop her favourite dodgy rice dealer from filling his pockets, and if he ever decides to talk about who he was paying kickbacks to, you're going to have your work cut out for you.

Supreme Court does not involve juries, and an 8-1 decision leaves little doubt of guilt

Ha Ha, that's a good one, it's as if you believe there is any kind of justice in Thailand, you have been there haven't you?

Wouldn't want to go to Pattaya or Miami thanks, but I'm no jetsetter Lol

2 hours ago, Thian said:

When the farmers didn't get paid many commited suicide...after that they came to BKK to protest and that moment the army took over.

Many? a few more like, that aint thousands.

2 hours ago, bangrak said:

This is not sympathy, this is blind love, turning into rage. Don't know why the 'moderators' tolerated this outburst of yours. Must be there really is freedom of opinion in Thailand after all...

P.S.: Don't you have any good friend, who could advise you to consult?

Truth hurts?

16 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

She wasn't negligent in overseeing a scheme that cost the country $8 billion?

If every politician in the world was jailed for failed expensive policies there wouldn't be too many left. It was a government policy that failed mainly due to the banks refusing to bankroll it on the orders of Prem, the real force for evil in Thailand.

18 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

But what does reconciliation mean?

 I've asked you and others several times before but never ever one answer.

 

So please share your version of what reconciliation means; the process and what would the expected tangible result be.

 

And please don't suggest forgiveness or amnesty, which IMHO would in this country, just encourage more corruption, cronism, violence etc.,

 

My version of reconciliation is everybody respecting the law and everybody respecting each other regardless of political flavor, etc., etc.  

 

"My version of reconciliation is everybody respecting the law and everybody respecting each other regardless of political flavor, etc., etc.".....exactly, that's what he said, "it was never on the cards".

27 minutes ago, moegreen said:

Combined Thalksin and yingluck killed thousands of Thais.

Excuse me, how did Yingluck kill thousands of Thais?

18 minutes ago, Artisi said:

No loss. 

 

Only to the majority of voters in Thailand.

No surprise but no less outrageous, what a sad country Thailand has become.

" Your Thai friend is correct - second hand smoke can cause cancer."

Sir Richard Doll, the man credited with making the connection between smoking and lung cancer, when asked how he would feel about being in a room full of smokers, replied "the effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small it doesn't worry me".

10 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

One drug leads to another and that is how its been for years, they start on low level then when that high is not enough another drugs is used in the end they murder just for a fix, so many good lives taken by druggies who always say its the drugs fault not theirs. pretty sad when someone has to used drugs to to have a happy life, they just do not have it in them to stand on their own two feet and make life happy, just have to do it the easy way.

 

There are legal drugs for medical use so who needs the weed.

And those "legal" drugs have killed many many people over the years, weed has never killed anybody. "wakeupplease", "living in the real world"...oh how so ironic

16 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

 

That's what dozens (hundreds?) of people smarter than you and me have thought, later wondering how it could have happened to them...

There you go again, speaking for everybody else, don't judge others by your own shortcomings.