No Dinosaur Model Displays on Children’s Day at Government House

No need for any punchline here. Move along..

16 hours ago, brianthainess said:

So he goes to the shop dressed as a woman, then hides the loot under a pillow to buy a gun.

Could have gone dressed in blokes clothes, and took off the plate, then gone back to his normal attire.

 

Hands up, muthasticker! This is a fukc-up!"

Genders, pronouns and wow! -Locations all over the place in this one:

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A transgender person was arrested in Songkhla

I think someone mis-heard "Piss-taker" as "Peacemaker" ?

58 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

 

 

 

That said, the new price rise will incentivise me to reduce my coffee consumption. It's getting too expensive. There is a reason it's a mega company though.

Yep, it's through tax avoidance, and getting in on the Globalists "woke" agenda bandwagon. Howard Schultz is a big player in the World Economic Forum abomination.

I couldn't give a <deleted> about their coffee.

https://www.callaccountant.co.uk/blog/how-did-starbucks-manage-with-paying-zero-uk-corporation-tax-to-hmrc/

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomgara/go-back-to-davos

57 minutes ago, lavender19 said:

I wouldn't call it a freak accident. It's the norm here

Yep, got a 'belt' on Tuesday, installing a new water heater in my bathroom. Wish I'd posted on social media now.

33 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

 These are "Thai experts "   an oxymoron if ever there was one,   this time the "genius" claiming "expertise" is....."Dr Wittaya Chartbanchachai, a specialist on a World Health Organization panel on injury prevention"   although he lost any credibility the moment he opened his mouth 

The fact of the matter is that nobody cares, except for a few concerned expats on here !  I can't ever remember any Thai I have spoken to  ever mentioning  this subject or show any wish to discuss it   that includes quite a few police and people who have lost friends and family to traffic related deaths. It is just something they appear to accept, maybe something to do with Buddhism 

               Twice a year, they have this virtue signalling festival, and nothing changes, in truth during the two annual periods of seven deadly days there  is no significant increase in the death rate, some might say that in view of the increased traffic that this is evidence that these warnings are at least having some sort of positive effect.  Personally I think its more to do with the fact that due to the volume of traffic on the roads a lot of this traffic is  reduced to a snail's  pace  well that and the fact that some of them  are just too drunk to to even attempt to drive

 

 

Agree. Queue the usual hand-wringing anytime some Globalist org points out Thailand's appalling road-accident stats, usually before New Year or Songkran holidays, then back to the usual business of not giving a toss or enforcing existing road rules.

The 'pre-ordained' mindset of the people here, leaving their fate up to whoever and not taking responsibility plus easy credit to buy cars and bikes means that Thailand's yearly loss of lives on the roads is just basically an unemployment solution.

1 hour ago, WHansen said:

W.H.O - a laughable organisation

Correct, right from corrupt pillock Tedros (WHO President) downwards. Unfortunately, they (like those other Globalist acronyms) seem to be ever expanding their pernicious influence over sovereign nations.

5 hours ago, quake said:

I can still remember Analog porn.

Was a bit hard to turn the pages over some times. 

 

Yep. Difficult to time your 'run' flipping towards the centrefold, sometimes. Losing control of the pages could mean blowing your wad over the "Exchange & Mart" section.

7 hours ago, Classic Ray said:

That was Damian Hirst. I don’t understand this art myself but I applaud people pushing the boundaries. Google Sam Stefan, whom I know. His work is gaining some traction.

Yep, Damian pushes the boundaries with some 'challenging' stuff. Was recently viewing some of his recent work at Yorkshire Sculpture Park last trip home.

There are quite a few mobile rotisserie chicken units up and down Banchang. They change location quite often depending on where they can get the most customers / time of day, etc.

There is now a fixed location for BBQ chicken to go at the restaurant at the bottom of Payoon Rd, 50m before before Beach Rd intersection, just opposite the Wat. (Same location that the OP's mobile vendor was located).

47 minutes ago, webfact said:

The blue-ringed octopus has recently been discovered in a local sushi restaurant, causing quite a stir. Similarly, customers were shocked to find the same species in a popular hotpot restaurant’s promotional offer for 99 baht per kilogramme

Obviously not an endangered species then.

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

The possibility of passing on infection to others, and those who are simply nervous of getting infected......

 

Ooh look.. It's 2020 all over again.

16 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Many Thais that I know have tried Lamb  Most didn't  really like it, None ever tried again to my knowledge, they say the smell puts them off  (its also relatively expensive)   Despite some of the things they will eat I find Thais pretty unadventurous when it comes to trying western food.   

I have also noticed a lot of them don't eat beef, which probably explains why there is not much of it for sale in supermarkets, at least out here in issan

Thai-Chinese don't eat beef much at all. They think it's disrespectful and a sin to eat the cows that plough fields, rice paddy, etc.

My Thai-Chinese manager at work only ever eats pork chops on the menu when he travels to UK and Europe.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The Prayut Chan-o-cha government initiated a policy in 2018 to ban single-use plastic bags, but the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns hampered these efforts.

Subsequent ordering food and shopping online has massively increased plastic use and garbage generally. You can see it at the side of just about every road here now, ubiquitous discarded plastic bags, and masks... lots of masks, sometimes plastic bags full of the disgusting things.

On 12/9/2023 at 4:56 AM, webfact said:

The Ministry of Public Health dismissed the cancellation of new year celebrations in Thailand due to the purported spread of a new Covid-19 variant, XBC, as fake news. No unusual outbreaks or dangerous variants have been reported.

 

I bet that has disappointed the Branch Covidian Sect, eh?