https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenIdiotTue, 09 Jun 2026 19:40:03 +0000Georgette, girlfriend, I am once again struggling to keep up with the magnitude of the issues you are tackling. You started with immigration. Then moved into workplace equality. Then somehow ended up in a late night confrontation with an elderly Italian janitor. A truly remarkable journey. The best part was the dramatic showdown. There he was, worried about a female colleague working alone. There you were, standing in the stairwell after a hard night of mop pumping, locking eyes with him like it was the final scene of a junkyard quality action movie. “What the Fxck do you think I identify as?!” Powerful! I assume he immediately dropped his mop, saluted, and ran off in complete terror. Honestly, darl, I think you are aiming too low. Forget immigration. Forget politics. Forget equality. You should be focusing on the real issue. Why are you the only person brave enough to patrol hospital corridors at 3am while conducting social research, statistical analysis, diary maintenance, toothpaste audits, and floor sanitation all at the same time? That is the story nobody is talking about. And please be careful. If a Karen, the Italian bloke, a ladyboy, a monkey, three sweaty farangs in Chang singlets, and a crowd of marijuana hurling socialists ever join forces, I am not sure even your communication device will save you. Stay safe, sister.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:39:17 +0000Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:34:11 +0000Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:30:04 +0000Speak English. I do not drive a Chinese car. Why, are you in the market for one? Maybe one of those Buicks made in China.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:49 +0000The Corvette is a terrible car for the category. Only brought by old divorced geezers in denim shorts and NB sneakers. No one buys these things except Americans. Its made of plastic, with a truck engine, and a leaf spring.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:23:33 +0000Surely, ordering over 100,000 people out of Tyre (including areas previously deemed “safe”) is totally unacceptable? Doing it hours before bombing a dense residential block just underlines this point. Israel may well insist this is a separate campaign from their conflict with Iran, yet these tactics appear to follow their usual game plan: widen the displacement zone; hit civilian infrastructure; then claim Hezbollah was nearby. Meanwhile Lebanon is now sitting on one million displaced people and shelters are overflowing. At some stage the international community needs to stop issuing token statements of concern, and actually say "ENOUGH"! Otherwise, Israel will continue to assume that it can empty entire cities without consequence.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:23:15 +0000In 50 years time, why would a US, that has no interest in imported goods, does not need Arab oil, has divorced itself from any involvement in Europe, have any interest in maintaining an isolated outpost that cannot sustain itself, and which becomes ruinously expensive to maintain (ask the Dutch how expensive sea walls are). As for worrying about China, the US has basically surrendered the entire continent of Africa to China, through the withdrawal of its Soft Power (aka USAid). If America wants to replace all of its imported European cars with American cars, and all of its scotch with some sort of homebrew knockoff, why should it really care what Europe and China get up to? Maybe the EU can get in on the bidding war for the Chagos Islands, along with China and India, given that Trump has now formally acknowledged where sovereignty lies (Mauritius can only sell something it owns). The Louisiana Purchase and Alaska purchase were examples where it made economic sense for an expanding country to have these. The US Virgin Islands; purchased to stop Germany gaining a presence in the Caribbean, and affecting the Panama canal. Not really all that relevant now. Of course, how is the US going to pay for it. Its skint. There are cheaper ways to keep a presence in the Chagos. Be a better friend with the government of Mauritius than China might be a good start, stop pissing off the UK might be another.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:12:07 +0000This is exactly how a traditional lending-group is run in Taiwan. You have the group-head who is responsible for group management, and collecting payments and interest. This head receives payment for starting and managing the group. Then, as you say, members can borrow money from the group. And they bid interest rates to become the next member to borrow from the group. These groups often end in disaster, and lawsuits.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:44 +0000Only if you wear a Sari.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:22 +0000VillageTue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:05 +0000Put the cats IN the atticTue, 09 Jun 2026 18:41:00 +0000Oh please! When my little pet Chihuahua Ralphie was alive he slept in my bed How cruel inhuman you are to have your pet outside!!Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:40:06 +0000I think you're missing the point. Where I grew up in the south in farm country, guns were everywhere. We hunted, shot targets and yes, some people had handguns too. Guns weren't new. What we didn't have were kids wanting to shoot up schools. That's the part people keep skipping over. If guns alone caused this, then rural areas should have had this problem a long time ago. They didn't. Something changed with the kids, the culture, mental health, broken homes, gangs, social media and people wanting attention. I'm not saying guns don't make an attack worse. Of course they can. But the gun doesn't wake up one day and decide to hurt people. A person does. So maybe we should spend more time asking why so many people are getting to that point instead of acting like the gun is the whole problem.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:28:27 +0000They wanted equal rights they got it I had to stop and laugh at everytime I read this comment on Social media Usually it's commented ( by a woman) after an immigrant does something wrong eg robbery , "Where are the men ? Karen asks , "why aren't the white men doing something?? !; I noticed this comment after the attsck in Belfast Where are the men ? Why aren't they doing something!!? Well Karen , the men have given up! I'm sick of women / females etc wanting to be equal but now asking innocent men to get involved in this "war" on immigration. Putting pressure on men to get involved I had a run in with a work colleague recently , a old man colleague who questioned why the female colleague I was working with was working by herself on the nightshift in a different area That's the way it's normally done I told him , she has communication devices eg phone if she needs help Oh but you must make exceptions if it's a female and work with them not in different area No thanks ,women are equal I told him ,stop living in the past !! "But ..but... they are woman ! He said to me sternly in his old Italian accent "they are woman and shouldn't be working alone ! I looked at him ,stared straight into his old eyes "What the Fxck do you think I identify as !!!! "How about you worry about THIS old woman !! I shouted He looked at me shocked like kangaroo with headlights and took off line a bee to its honey Women are equal how about they stop the immigration crime not menTue, 09 Jun 2026 18:25:00 +0000I think you're putting way too much emphasis on the number of guns and not enough on the people using them. If a law-abiding gun owner has 2 guns, 10 guns or 50 guns what difference does that make to public safety if they're never going to use them criminally? The fact that America has 120 guns per 100 people sounds shocking until you realize that doesn't mean 120 different people each have a gun. It means a lot of gun owners own multiple firearms. To me, that's like saying someone with 20 cars is 20 times more likely to drive drunk. The number of cars isn't the issue. The behavior is. What I keep hearing is statistics about the number of guns. What I don't hear is an explanation for why some people choose to commit violence while millions of other gun owners never hurt anyone. That's why I keep coming back to gangs, drugs, mental health, broken homes, repeat offenders and a culture that increasingly glorifies violence. If the number of guns was the main factor, then simply counting guns should predict violence rates pretty accurately. It doesn't. The gun is a tool. The harder question is why we're producing so many people who want to use that tool to hurt others.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:23:48 +0000I assume the law only turned up to arrest the victim. When they couldn't find evidence of the victim racially abusing the attacker did the police decide to arrest the attacker.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:22:19 +0000Should Suckerberger build his 5-GigaWatt Data Center in the MetaVerse? Dear Folks, I don’t understand. It seems that Suckerburger is facing huge backlash for his plan to build Data Centers around the USA, and especially for his SUPER-DUPER 5 GIGAWATT Data Center in Louisiana. So my question is: Why doesn’t Suckerberger avoid all this fuss, and just build these Data Centers in his own MetaVerse, where he can control everything…just like any other BIG BROTHER? Here is an interesting article about just how BIG the 5GW Data Center in Louisiana will actually be….and it is Mind Blowingly big. https://spectrum.ieee.org/5gw-data-center And what about this backlash against new Data Centers in the USA, and around the world? And, is Sunny-Boy getting closer to his Impending Imploding Bubble, his… Date with Data-Destiny? I have often enjoyed the vids out of ColdFusion produced by some guy in Australia. He does a great job at distilling complex issues into info suitable for a young audience, even though I find his work quite appealing myself. So, here is one of his vids about why Data Centers might not get a free pass, as they once did, in the USA. And, the dreaded bubble…..is mentioned, too. And then we have the great commentator, and Sammy-Boy Hater, ED Z., being interviewed by Bloomberg, another great vid. And, a longer version with a far prettier interviewer, on The Tech Report.... Are things changing now, finally? How much longer before the bubble implodes? Or, will it remain impervious to public sentiment, and just continue to inflate…to… Infinity? Enjoy the vids. These topics affect us all, and our world. Best regards and happy whistling… Past the graveyard, GammaTue, 09 Jun 2026 18:21:19 +0000Have you called or messaged TRUE about what you want to do? When I wanted to ditch the standard Huawei router from 3BB, I messaged them and they sent an engineer around and they added my HG8310 ONT to their system and it was working with my new ASUS WiFi 7 router in minutes - I posted my experience above. Worth contacting TRUE to see what they say.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:15:43 +0000Interesting about celery! PB would probably good added to a lot of things. Maybe we just need to experiment more. I could see a tablespoon stirred into a hot bowl of noodle soup adding a fuller, richer flavor to the broth. I’ve always added salt to peanut butter since moving to Asia because I don't really like it unsalted and there are no salted options. In Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, France, and even South Africa, salted peanut butter is more the norm than the exception. Growing up, I always bought peanut butter with the salt already added, so I have eaten it that way since I was a kid. In Thailand, though, as in the rest of Asia, I’ve never seen it sold with salt. If you’ve never tried salted peanut butter, you’re in for a treat when you add a little salt the first time. Be careful with the amount and ratio, though. Too much salt can quickly ruin the flavor of a good jar of peanut butter.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:13:34 +0000Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:12:57 +0000Oh please have a heart...many of these people are refugees who need urgent help Embrace the diversity,the culture and the food of Africa I certainly do my bitTue, 09 Jun 2026 18:10:28 +0000Thank you for sharing that. Are they selling 1000 grams for 210 Baht? That would be a very good value. Anyway, I checked online for it and couldn't find it so I guess it is a local regionally distributed product from up north.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:04:19 +0000The laws against vaping are so unbelievably misguided it is almost funny. A UK govt study found that vape is 98% safer than cigarettes since there's no cancer causing ingredients. Yet boomers on here think they are being more healthy by "just smoking cigs." The do-gooders hate vaping more than they hate cigarettes.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:02:57 +0000I always try and walk on curbed sidewalks. And avoid walking where the road is at the same level. You never know when a chav will come out of nowhere and run you overTue, 09 Jun 2026 17:57:33 +0000