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They used to be a common sight around Pattaya and environs. Even here in Banchang.

According to a US Navy friend, the grunts messed up their "R&R" by posting pictures and vids of the revelry and bar-fines on social media, and got themselves banned.  ????

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A 54-year-old Thai man has told local Thai news outlet Khaosod about his ongoing marital relationship with a rubber doll. Mr Kim revealed that he paid ฿30,000 for the lifelike Japanese doll after he separated from his wife in 2011 and later experienced loneliness.

Ronery.?

Hope they find out the cause of this unfortunate lad's "injury" and death.

God only knows what his parents have been / are going through.. Horrendous.

1 hour ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Makes it very easy to setup people in a horrible way aside of the fact that a real junkie would always need 2 or more, unless dealers are always available and nearby.

Exactly. Anutin throwing a bone to the BIB to write their own checks for this BS law.

Where is the political will to go after the big producers and money launderers? ???? Oh, wait!

30 minutes ago, PremiumLane said:

And how were they suppose to know who her former husband was?  When the body was first identified as being from South East Asia they made appeals to embassies, but nothing came up.

 

They didn't know until the family came forward in 2019 to say their daughter was missing and they did DNA tests. Then they contacted the husband. 

 

It is really easy to look this case up and see the timeline of the investigation 

I was presuming she was in the UK on a visa sponsored by her husband. The same guy that fathered her two kids.

From the BBC article:

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A post-mortem carried out after she was found on 20 September 2004 failed to establish how she died.

There was no sign of violence and hypothermia was ruled out, but detectives could not answer two main questions; who she was or how she met her death.

Local people paid for her burial in the churchyard in Horton-in-Ribblesdale and she became known as The Lady of the Hills.

A cold case review was started in 2016 and scientific advances meant police were able to piece together a more detailed picture of who she was and came to the conclusion she had been killed.

Twelve year gap between the original post mortem, and "scientific advances" seems quite a long time.

Then another seven year gap for the UK cops to want to speak to her former husband.?

8 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

But, how can this be? Mask wearing has essentially been dismissed. What NEW evil monster will they invent to keep the boot on the necks of the populace?

Probably Climate Change, (or Climate Crisis!!!) to keep the state of panic going on..

Saving us, or saving the world: Problem-Reaction-Solution stylee.

The Monty Python team reformed to do a tour a few years ago, basically to support Cleese, who'd just lost the rest of his money to another gold-digger. (He really seems attracted to them ????).

He must be either senile or skint (possibly a combination of) to want to pish on the legend of Fawlty Towers, by re-making it. Hopefully, not for the box-ticking robots at the BBC, anyway.

1 hour ago, Eff1n2ret said:

Has anyone eaten at the Kantary in Banchang? 

Just had a flyer in the letterbox (well, it's nice to get anything in the letterbox these days) - Special Valentine's Day set menu dinner at their rooftop restaurant.

Several courses, not including booze except for "Sparkling Wine". I guess a commanding view of the Banchang Hospital, and romantic background noise from the traffic on Sukhumvit.

At 1200Baht per head plus (in the small print) 10% service charge plus VAT I'm not especially tempted.

 

Been there once. It had only recently opened, and they did do us a favour with the "quarantine" thing that only got rescinded here last year. (Last May. -They were an approved 'quarantine' hotel).

Food was okay, but the service was poor, tbh. Hopefully, they may have sorted that out by now.

If it's a "rooftop" setting, I'd rather to to the "Kameo" hotel in Rayong. The "California Steak" restaurant there is pretty good. Food, service, and price-wise.

If you have no major health issues, why worry, imo.

Your physical health can be influenced by mental state as much as anything. Carry on doing what you enjoy.

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Whilst the sale of these items seems quite open in Thai street stalls, some shops and markets, tourists may get a false sense of security about the lack of enforcement of the country’s vaping laws.

Yep, so easily available yet erm, illegal..

Another manufactured "grey area" for the clowns in brown to create revenue streams.

8 hours ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Do you think that songs about killing females are acceptable to be sung by Choirs and sports fans ?

   Stabbing to death his girlfriend is OK to sing about ? 

Using that metric, should we also ban all movies, operas, theatre, pantomime, etc., also?

Wash it down with a beer and stop worrying. It's a seasonal thing, and will improve soon.

On 1/31/2023 at 7:43 AM, bamnutsak said:

Anutin wanted to make it zero pills, but Thai legal experts advised him against that.

 

The meth problem here is GIGANTIC, rarely a week goes by without a bust of MILLIONS of pills. Yes, much of that is transhipment via Thailand for "export", but much falls off the truck and affects the local population.

 

How about stopping the shipment of precursors from Thailand to Maynamar?

 

How about arresting someone other than the vehicle driver?

 

Lowering the threshold from 15 to 2 seems rash, and not very well thought out.

 

 

 

They must be building a lot of new prisons..

Would be interesting to reveal just how many of Thailand's supposedly "top people" are invested in the drug trade.

Signs you've been in Thailand too long:

You keep coins in your ears.

The footprints on the toilet seat are yours.

You can fall asleep on top of a wall.

You can use the utterance "urrrghh" to signify 15 different things.

You point at things with your mouth.

Etc.

18 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Well, what was the lesson being taught? 

Slapstick comedy.?

50 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well I was cynical when it was reporting extremely low numbers, but that is not the case now, we are getting numbers that are negative for the image of Chins, that is unusual. The link you dispute was actually from CNN, and reportedly from a National Health Commission official. I suspect you did not read it... as it does not fit your agenda. 

 

Yes I do, very very well, people were dying in large numbers in Italy, Peru, Mexico, Brazil was having mass burials using diggers. Corpses in refrigerated trucks in the USA  as morgues overflowed. It was well reported by reputable Western media outlets....again you have a selective memory befitting some agenda. 

 

Not learning from history is a definition of insanity... and we had an event that has over 6 million deaths attributed to it. It is pretty much over, thank heavens, and we need to move on..... but I am not accepting denial from the Luddites. 

I was referring specifically to China, and the videos of people keeling over and supposedly dying in the street..

As per youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fKTZuY6KxM

Are you really taking this at face value? 

Oh and thanks for the the CNN ref as some sort of 'gatekeeper of eternal truth' statement.

19 hours ago, jacko45k said:

A nothing response....... empty of facts when there are so many you could have brought to the table... like China's about turn that has cost them 60,000 lives. By the way, an about turn is 180 degrees not 360 degrees.... great demonstration of putting little thought in one's post!!

'Big brother'... I do not see what that reference is about... !

Do you actually believe any "news" coming out of China? Supposedly, their "zero-Covid" absolute lock-down measures resulted in zero fatalities, but opening the country again, produced queues of corpses at the crematoriums, etc..

Thus: "Lockdowns work, and we'll use them again. And again". Communist propaganda,.

Remember at the start of the pandemic: People in China dropping dead in the street.? Where else in the world did that happen? Does anyone have real life experience of anything similar? *crickets*

Oh great.. The manufacturers of these masks (CP, etc) will be happy at least. I'm sure they wouldn't want to influence any policy that limits their production. ????

The masks have almost replaced the ubiquitous plastic carrier bag as the main source of litter around Thailand, sometimes a combo of carrier bags of the filthy things chucked away by the roadside, or floating in the sea.

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

There are millions of Chinese Covid cases and thousands of Chinese deaths.  I know, let's let the Chinese in with no restrictions!  It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

The Chinese CCP have outright lied, obfuscated and manipulated stats since the beginning of 2020.

Why would they be telling the truth now?