https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenAgreed. I think the distinction matters because, as a Brit, he likely underwent driver training that placed far greater emphasis on hazard perception, defensive driving and road awareness (even if he never undertook motorcycle training). In theory, that should translate into a better appreciation of risk, the importance of helmets, and the need to ride defensively. We'll never know exactly what happened here. However, what we do see is that many foreign riders, particularly Westerners who have benefited from formal road training, often take the same risks as the Thai riders. Perhaps that is why foreign riders stand out more when things go wrong. Fairly or unfairly, people expect them to know better. When a local takes a chance, it's often dismissed as part of the local road culture. When a foreigner does the same, it is more noticeable because it seems at odds with the road safety education they are presumed to have received.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:29:39 +0000We will all need each other one day, unless you choose to stand with the enemy, or are the enemy. Trump is just one President out of many more hopefully, and still an Allie Still, it is worth noting: Russia lost a Tu-22M3 bomber, and the US lost a B-52 bomber on the same day. Different events, different circumstances, but still a strange coincidenceTue, 16 Jun 2026 10:28:59 +0000Yeah I seen that survey 😁 no one really wants to join 👍Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:28:41 +0000You are certainly rabid. I don't know anything about the rest of your writings.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:28:31 +0000No. The US government should but will not. But equating this USAF crew and civilian contractors to murders? The point is way off the mark. Certainly not logical. The names and past missions of the USAF crew have not even been revealed yet. We do not know if they were part any missions in the CENTCOM AOR. CENTCOM is where the Middle East is in case you did not know.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:27:54 +0000You must be a Billionaire ..... regards WorgeordieTue, 16 Jun 2026 10:27:36 +0000So that makes it okay?Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:27:13 +0000Every Israeli PM has called for the elimination of the Arabs. Some have said so more diplomatically but colonists have been part of the expulsion since Israel's beginnings.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:27:08 +0000I wonder if the travel insurance will pay it try to blame it on him for bring intoxicated?Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:26:21 +0000I never said nobody was not unkind to me.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:26:18 +0000Of course, Trump himself is pure class.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:26:14 +0000Yes, he's okay with American soldiers dying as murderers, and `"possibly" on Iran's regime's side. That's asking him if he might be.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:26:12 +0000That’s quite the little limp you got there. Suppose you’re a rabid member of the Get Trump Hate Club…yes? Protectors of illegal immigrant murderous rapist pedophile molesters blue city gang banging rioters criminal leftist…yes?Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:26:10 +0000That's a really smart post from a old hand. So impressiveTue, 16 Jun 2026 10:25:37 +0000Yes. America has already tanked, as is clear. The USA is for the Super-Rich, now, and many come from abroad to enjoy life....if they have over USD100 million, as a bare minimum. What I do not understand, actually, is why the people in the USA do not revolt. Of course, I know why: Mind control, propaganda, and the ability of those who rule the USA to divert attention from real issues during elections, which are ongoing and never end. But, as I often say, and it is true, Americans are a very Dumb Bunch of people who are easily hoodwinked, and I am not the only one who says so. Think PT Barnum, for example. So, this is why Americans do not revolt. They do not realized that others, in other parts of the world, have it much better than they. Again, it is a matter of BELIEF, and ..... Americans are willing to believe ANYTHING.... Highest rates of reliosity, too. We cannot change the world, and we can not change the views of people who call themselves either Republican or Democrats. Hopeless causes, theses two groups, by the way.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:25:12 +0000Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:24:40 +0000I've read the Bible a few times. The books were removed in 1684 from Protestant bibles, which I don't read. The Apocrypha. 17th and 19th centuries. Due to Doctrine differences and costs.You can read here why. It doesn't affect my beliefs anyway....https://thesevenlamps.medium.com/why-were-books-taken-out-of-the-bible-ec9aad8cf1f6Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:23:39 +0000Interesting to see two new chicks, sorry nicks fighting each other like they had been here forever.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:23:00 +0000The girl's ethnicity can be important in accurately understanding what happened. There's a huge difference if she's a plain vanilla WASP with mental problems or radicalized Muslim. I always like to know the details and reason why.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:22:31 +0000How dare you - "Was that AI generated?" An exquisitely intriguing interrogative, and one that perhaps reflects the ongoing socio-linguistic evolution of contemporary digital discourse. In years gone by, when an individual encountered an argument possessing an inconvenient degree of evidential robustness, rhetorical coherence, or merely more paragraphs than their attention span could comfortably accommodate, the customary response was to dismiss it as a "wall of text" or "word salad." Today, however, we appear to inhabit a more algorithmically conscious communicative paradigm. The fashionable rejoinder is no longer "word salad" but the infinitely more zeitgeist-compatible: "Was that AI generated?" The underlying functionality remains delightfully unchanged. Rather than engaging with the substantive epistemological architecture, argumentative granularity, or evidential underpinnings of the text itself, one simply pivots toward speculative authorship attribution. The argument is neither refuted nor rebutted; it is merely subjected to a provenance audit. In essence, what was once "I can't be bothered to address that" has undergone a process of technological rebranding and emerged as "Aha! A computer may have assisted." A remarkable feat of conversational innovation, really. The conclusion remains conspicuously invariant: when the response to an argument focuses exclusively on who—or what—wrote it, rather than the content itself, one begins to suspect the criticism may be compensating for a shortage of counterargument. Or, to employ the modern vernacular: that's a lot of AI accusations for someone who hasn't actually addressed the point.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:22:29 +0000With his short attention span ,he is bored with the illegal war he started, and is looking for a way to get out of it, so it seems he is giving in to all Iran's demands, at the same time giving them 300 Billion $ , so he's buying his way out, and they are now pushing propaganda that Iran are our friends now..... regards worgeordieTue, 16 Jun 2026 10:22:28 +0000RIP sir. I agree with other posters, the hiring of bikes to tourists without the correct licence needs to be illegal and heavily policed. After learning to ride in Thailand 9 years ago and touch wood, having never been off a bike, hit anything or been hit by anything (although there have been a few close calls that i have seen coming) there are a few things i have learnt. Don't ride like the Thai's. Do wear a helmet. Be patient. Ride defensively and have a heightened situational awareness. Riding safely usually comes with experience, but as bike riders know, there are situations where even the most skilled and safe riders can get caught out. At the end of the day it is all about reducing the chances of becoming a statistic on Thai roads.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:22:25 +0000I'm still trying to work out why Bernie Winters was wearing a Hijab.......Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:21:47 +0000I'm pretty sure the point is that you certainly aren't likely to make that distinction about any Iranian/Palestinian or whoever the enemy is on that particular day. Has the USA expressed any remorse for killing the school girls?Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:21:22 +0000I make the distinction because the issue of foreign drivers in Thailand is a topic in itself. It is very likely that the lad mentioned in this thread's OP would still be alive if he had worn a helmet and driven with the awareness required.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:21:05 +0000