https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenLess common then you think. He didn't want to take his own life he wanted Help. Going to a Happy Place and doing things to keep his spirits high were helping him keep going. Alcohol affects the prefrontal cortex in the brain which balances your emotions. It actually amplifies your feelings by removing the ability to regulate your emotions and feelings normally. Hope he gets the help he needs. Definitely not easy sometimes as hard as life can knock you down.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:51:58 +0000Black fatigue even here. In April there was a big fm 98.5 concert at the new railway station, never any foreigners at these events, but there was this time. Crazy African out of his head shouting , waving his arms about and just staring people right in the face. Happily lead away by security.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:51:39 +0000Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:50:43 +0000This enforces the point, even an educated person such as your friend thinks it's ok to support a dysfunctional lazy family, doesn't matter what you tell them, it's deeply engrained.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:50:20 +0000Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:50:07 +0000Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:49:46 +0000This time the 'Banderites' have the backing of the US/UK/EU/NATO Their aim to balkanize Russia after regime change,once the last Ukrainian is used up they will conscript the Europeans to continue the foolish errand...the last lot of 'Banderites' that took on Russia eventually lost and I'm pretty sure this new lot will too.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:49:40 +0000I guess what you mean is that people were comfortable enough with their good lives during Biden's term that they could afford to laugh. Despite his own cognitive decline---though not as bad as Trump, as Joe never claimed to have stopped the 1994 Rwandan Genocide personally---the US enjoyed higher growth, higher employment, much more worldwide respect, and no new wars. Biden also tamed the inflation handed to him by Trump and Trump's $8,400,000,000,000 addition to the National Debt, a 41% increase over the combined debt of the first 44 Presidents, and an amount represented $25,000 for every man, woman and child in the US. MAGAs, ignorant of economics and most everything else, think inflation is a light switch, instantly turned on, rather than resulting from Trump's massive debt run up. Anyway, Biden got the Trump-generated inflation down to 2.8% by the time he left office, while despite his campaign promises, Trump has lifted inflation back up to 3.4% and climbing. Of course the entire world does laugh at Trump---his endless lies, his grifting and corruption, his absurd attempt to make himself something---anything---he is not (like White Jeebus, Atlas, sculpted and fit, etc.), his childish temperament and late night rage Tweeting, his endless self-aggrandizement, his supposed 6'3", 225 lb bloated and decaying corpus, and all the manner of silliness and embarrassment Trump has brought to the world's view of America. Admittedly much of the laughter at Trump is a kind of gallows humor, as Trump and his Carnival People fascist Administration is hellbent on destroying the ideals upon which America was built and toward which successive bodies of the USG have tried to steer the nation. Trump is the epitome of "two steps backward" in terms of the graph of progress, as Trump is clearly against key principles as embodied in the US Constitution (free speech, freedom of the press, the right to peaceful assembly, habeas corpus...even freedom of religion). Real American patriots take part in the gallows humor, while still working toward defeat of the fascism and autocracy that defines this vile detour of MAGA and Trumpism toward the true American Dream. Soon, America will have a analogous "Ted Patrick", the famous cult deprogrammer from a few decades ago, to erase the madness of MAGA and try to lead the cult back toward sanity and reality. Sadly, many in the cult are too far gone, and there will be no bringing them back. The best one can hope for is that the most vile of the MAGAs crawl back under the rocks from which Trump called them. America will become America again, reconfirming its belief in the freedoms at its core, of speech, press, assembly, and belief.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:49:20 +0000I hope I am never on a survivable crash with you on board. When evacuating you will be the one pushing everybody out the way to get off while holding your carry on and duty free.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:49:01 +0000I never did respond to my opening comment further I'll be polite This absolute utter "internet myth" spawned over the last 25 years into instead now an "internet fact" that airlines wont help you if you've booked via an agent goes down as one of the most ludicrous ever and completely spurious Absolute utter bollacks proved by myself probably at least 10 times this last 35 years odd re London Bangkok London Lets just grasp one fact.....Online Agencies provide around 70% of sales for airlines whether economy biz or first class Can you imagine (purely as an example) Southall Travel with its SIX online agencies how much business via ticket sales (again as an example) it provides for Emirates on a daily basis ?? Colossal amounts of money. Yet people actually believe the likes of Emirates would now pish off that agency by telling its client (because thats what you are of the airline) to sod off and get hold of your agent tomorrow morning instead. Comedy Gold idiocy you would agree and a fantastic way to ensure the agent now pushes an alternate airline in future Once you have your eticket you are a customer of the airline. Period. Of course in addition you can get hold of your agent if you want to change anything....I have at least 10 times using both methods Of 172 arrivals London Bangkok Around 50 were BA staff tickets Around 112 were agent generated tickets 10 were direct airline generated tickets Of the BA tickets generated never a problem Of the Agent generated 112 tickets never a problem . Not one Of the 10 direct airline tickets 3 I had problems with and the airlines involved Etihad Eva and Qatar were absolute nightmares to deal with without an agent going into bat for you Never again Notwithstanding all of that invariably the agent ticket will be somewhat cheaper. You want to book direct with airline then you crack on but dont expect any help when that airline doesnt play ball because you're one on one with no one to help you ! Agent every single time thank youWed, 01 Jul 2026 00:47:06 +0000An unfortunate cultural misunderstanding. I did not know this before, but even the word swastika was adopted from the Sanskrit word Svastika. The difference between the Indian symbol and a swastika is that the spokes of the swastika wheel turn to the right whereas the Indian svastika spokes turn to the left. The spokes of the svastika the woman is wearing turn to the left. The man displayed boorish behavior, used vulgar language and hand gestures, revealed an ignorance of the historical origin of the swastika, and sadly did damage to cross-cultural relations, but in today's political climate where far right wing politics are being embraced by some, shouldn't he at least be given a tiny bit of credit for having spoken out against what he believed to be was an endorsement of one of the most evil people to have ever walked the earth? He is not the first person, and undoubtably will not be the last, to mistakenly read into the Indian symbol an embrace of Nazism, and many on the forum would be just as ignorant of this distinction as the man in the clip had this issue not arisen on this forum at various times in the past.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:46:16 +0000Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:44:07 +0000Photos reveal room where Australian man allegedly murdered Thai teenager Photos obtained by the ABC show Ms Tunchanok's unnamed friend inside Mr Carman's cluttered hotel room the day after she went missing. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-01/photos-show-room-of-simon-carman-alleged-murder-thai-teenager/106863284Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:43:32 +0000Reagan was shot one month after he said he wanted to back the US dollar with gold. Can't have that -- The Federal Reserve is part of the deep state and they need to control behind the scenes. Well, I guess Reagan didn't want to continue to put his life at risk just to make your life better. Presidents who stray too far away from the script of the deep state get shot or maybe threatened first. I'm surprised Trump is still alive. He is also trying to extricate from the Federal Reserve. Obama, Biden ... absolute puppets of the deep state. If you get rid of the deep state for once and for all AND have an intelligent and honorable president, there is your best president of all time. But hasn't happened yet.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:43:28 +0000May I say your lawyer friend is a spend thrift with a sense of humourWed, 01 Jul 2026 00:43:17 +0000Relevance?Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:43:11 +0000I know I'm as married to an Isaan lady and I'm staying at her mothers house in Korat now which has been vacant for the past 25 years. My wife has decided to restore it that's why l'm living here now but when it's completed I'm out of here. Back to the bar girls, how many actually have a full book? The A graders might but the average Pattaya bar girl isn't an A grader and would be battling to cover her monthly expenses. The over supply of bar girls in Pattaya and the down turn of tourist makes their lives much more difficult.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:41:19 +0000My lawyer friend supports her Isaan family, son, mother, father, 2 brothers, buffalo. I've told her the father and brothers should be looking for work, they prefer drink, one's just gone to jail for a brief respite to the familyWed, 01 Jul 2026 00:38:48 +0000Thought it was strange when media interviewed dad. Sitting on a woven mat on the sidewalk, shirtless, stepmother looking more like HIS mother.... his story is that his daughter came to Pattaya in the middle of June "for a vacation" with some friends. Smells like BS to me. What kind of father would let his little girl do that? Sounds more like "girl, get your ass out and make me some money, I'm running out of cigs and Hong Thong!" And given her appearance it had been going on for a while. Also, if she was working in a bar as an underage person, the bar will hopefully face the wrath of law enforcement. As well as the bar that employed the dirtbag killer. I think the ripples of this case could eventually spread far and wide.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:37:44 +0000From the forum rules: 9. You will not post disruptive or inflammatory messages. You will respect other members and post in a civil manner. Personal attacks, insults or hate speech posted on the forum or sent by private message are not allowed. 10. You will not post troll messages. Trolling is the act of purposefully antagonizing forum members by posting controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages with the primary intent of provoking other members into an emotional response or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion. 11. You will not troll or stalk other members by misusing forum posts, private messages, reactions, emojis or by any other means. //CLOSED//Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:34:15 +0000I was just down there. Had a pint with bob on Soi 6. He had a new mate with him. It was a good laugh. SaveInta.com_AQMIw562IGZAKTYmXFnfb4zHes1oaKE7Xb-V4TntyOj1D4uZhYZSfgyW153EzYxOTfDPcCCipk-JFJx2_9NmqTMBes1rRCLXXEWveBk.mp4Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:34:08 +0000I stay there for weekend trips from Bangkok. My target price is 1700 baht and normally get close enough to that. Includes breakfast..... (I like bacon, infrequent treat)Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:33:31 +0000Yes, very different. In Australia, the mother would poison the kids mind, they would brain wash the kids to hate their father.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:33:18 +0000Lept to his death from the 18th floor.....pattaya takes another one eh.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:29:23 +0000MailWed, 01 Jul 2026 00:25:29 +0000