https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenDon't worry about keeping me on the ignore list. Others have promised to have done so too and still reply to my posts anyway. Obsessed I guess. So disappointing. I am so glad we are back on the Thai bashing discourse you started though. I was worried we were drifting too far off topic. So, now that you’ve established that all Thai men who happen to be drinking out in the countryside are drunken fools, I’m wondering what other lowest common denominators we can use to keep this narrative moving along. What about the Thai guys who ride motorcycles without helmets? Fools too, obviously, just a different subspecies. Or what about the Thai train drivers on meth who plow into city buses? And the Thai crane operators who drop cranes onto passing vehicles? Fools as well, or are those the rocket scientists of the bunch? As for drinking, yep, not for me. Despite my many faults, alcohol, poor diet, lack of exercise, and physical neglect are not among them. I’d like to stick around long enough to watch the Yanks start World War III, and then see China finish the job.Sun, 31 May 2026 16:11:04 +0000Doesn't Canada support assisted suicide? Surely this guy was helping the state? Its kind of like a Lib Cali government jailing someone for killing unborn children. Maybe they're just mad he's stealing their work?Sun, 31 May 2026 16:03:43 +0000Go through his videos, where he repeats, ad nauseam, that the LTR is $hit. He even says it is illegal...Sun, 31 May 2026 15:55:42 +0000It creates jobs for locals and probably generates revenue for some level of government. The problem is that some groups' interests lie in areas other than money. Some groups tend to corner the market and bring in their kin and friends. Next thing you know they act like they own the place (which by then they do) and start abusing the local populace. The area looks more like a foreign colony, or ghetto, than part of the nation it's in. It sounds like some parts of Thailand are hitting that critical mass and Thailand has the means to deal with the problem.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:54:06 +0000Sun, 31 May 2026 15:54:05 +0000You know, Sir.... Recently you have upped your game. And so, I have committed to never adding you to my Ignore List....never again. But, let us be clear: a. When one is situated far enough from the drunken-fools, then one hears only Ack, Ack, Ack....and ACK.....! b. Perhaps, if I were sitting together with them, at table, then I could understand what they are yelling about. c. But, there is a distance at which one hears nothing intelligible, but only noise..... Ack-ACK....to YOU....Sir..... IMHO....it is the say, the world over..... ============= I am, Sir, most pleased to hear you admit that you do not drink alcohol. Drinking alcohol is a fool's game. Why cloud the brain, unless absolutely necessary. You are....Sir....a Lucky Duck for choosing to NOT drink alcohol.......and....I have one last thing to add here, for you....the TRUE Lucky Duck..... QUACK QUACK QUACK.....Sun, 31 May 2026 15:51:51 +0000The deep voice, hairy chest and beard is normally a dead giveaway. It's even easier with the men.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:48:46 +0000The Biden crime family in power was really a dark period for US politics. Who remembers Hunter's coke baggies being found by security? 😀Sun, 31 May 2026 15:46:36 +0000I thought that Schwab would only open a stock trading account for us US citizens residing in Thailand and with no US address . If they really have option for MM or CD's (for sure) please restate that for me. And any info how to begin the International Account process ( i did look at the website previously and pretty sure they did not offer "banking"Sun, 31 May 2026 15:45:48 +0000You've got it backwards, mate. Clear out the clean living and families so that Pattaya can go full on being what it's famous for: the world's largest brothel. The city is having an identity crisis and needs a purge of the wholesome and the righteous.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:45:40 +0000They are just doing their normal speaking in opposites routine. Even my cat knew Joe Biden took a 10% cut on all the extortion and treasonous activity his awful family carried out. What do the fora left do? Claim it was actually Trump and then have a flounce-fest when they get called out for being dishonest and silly. Just so predictable.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:45:06 +0000Phew. When I read the title I thought he'd made up with Keir Starmer. Relief.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:42:13 +0000Leftie luvvies refusing to perform. Spitting their dummies. 😄 Good. Stay away.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:40:07 +0000Is this really possible ?? My previous bank (many years ago) just up and cancelled my long standing accounts there in the US because i only have a resident address in Thailand . (banking with Bangkok Bank for all that time) If you can desciribe the process to open an account with Chase , as you did, or a link to the process....... i would apprciate it . (or PM me) rumakSun, 31 May 2026 15:37:29 +0000Pope Leo couldn't resist getting his name in the media again. No doubt he's an expert on cars as well as geopolitics now. This is a massive mistake from Ferrari. Not as bad as Jaguars woke alphabet weirdo phase which saw profits drop by over 99% but a mistake none the less. EV's are for poor people and Liberals. Ferrari should stay well away.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:36:56 +0000The situation was created cause some radical protesters don't want to stand behind the barricades and yellow lines, they prefer to run amuck in front of the ICE vehicles going in and out of the facility. "The situation at the detention center escalated to the point of riot police being called in, resulting in the use of smoke grenades to disperse the crowd. As the rioters retreated, they could be seen breaking into fights with each other as well". https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2026-05-31-violent-anti-ice-rioting-continues-in-new-jersey/Sun, 31 May 2026 15:34:24 +0000Most peaceful from what I can see. We should celebrate the diversity not focus on a few minor attacks and burning.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:30:37 +0000I just read today that 6 rapist got caught and they were all Republicans.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:29:56 +0000No, it wasn't Bubba's.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:27:11 +0000Hard for me to comment, Glamma. I don’t drink. I also don’t make a hobby of hanging out with drunk Thai guys out in the sticks. In fact, I don’t hang out in the sticks at all. I’m not even in Thailand right now, which further complicates my ability to conduct field research for you on this subject. Maybe Georgeenta would be willing to hire himself out as an independent researcher and perform a statistical analysis for you. We all know how good he is at this stuff. For a fee, of course. Serious science doesn’t come cheap. That said, I do speak Thai, so when I hear Thai people talking it generally sounds like a language I understand rather than the strange woodland grunts and extraterrestrial transmissions you seem to be describing. Since you’ve chosen to settle in the North, you could always learn some Northern Thai. I don’t speak the Northern dialect myself, but I’ve never needed to because Central Thai is spoken pretty much everywhere by people who occasionally need to communicate with the rest of the country. If your goal is specifically to decipher the conversations of drunk Thai guys deep in the northern countryside, then some regional language study may indeed be necessary. But I’m fairly confident they aren’t just sitting around making alien noises. They probably only do that when you’re nearby so they can reinforce your theory that they’re members of an undiscovered species and inspire your next fumbling forum post about the mysterious sounds of rural Thailand. My working assumption is that they’re speaking a regional dialect, not attempting to make first contact with another galaxy.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:25:02 +0000I certainly have a case. Why do most of Ukrainians that stayed not need protection? The "protection" only a privilege for those that "ran"? Hot potato. Especially for those that return, once it is all over. I wouldent't return, as "stigmatisation" would make it hard for them to be accepted as veritable Ukrainians again. It is often quoted here, that a large number of Ukrainian women including their children have reached the shores of Europe. What about the majority of Ukrainian women, including their children, that have decided to stay? Who are the heroes in this war? In my view, the ones that stayed and not the ones that ran, enjoying the benefits of a lavish "social security system". Something that "the remaing mothers and their children" in the Ukraine don't have. "Financial opportunism" has replaced the believe that the Messias will return soon in many corners of the world. Getting tired of waiting for his return. Easier to board a rubber boat and head for England. The root of the refugee problem in general. Like it or not.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:23:21 +0000I'm curious WHY you think he would do that.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:21:46 +0000Yes, Blair has power. Cowards like Starmer go after the little people. The Lucy Connolly's of this world. Women. Mothers. Working people.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:20:35 +0000And there was me feeling special again 5555 ... oh well.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:19:25 +0000No. I've pointed it out a few times as well.Sun, 31 May 2026 15:16:10 +0000