https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenPut 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 +0000As a Canadian , i gotta see the video.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:53:09 +0000You don't smell it in your house at all. You spread the soil in the attic. Unless you are sleeping in the attic you would never know anything about it. I'll have to take your word for it, but deliberately spreading cat-p!ss-soaked litter around my house feels like one of those ideas that's technically a solution, in the same way suggesting setting fire to the sofa is technically a way to get rid of the mother in laws pish-stains....Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:48:51 +0000Exactly, they are extroverts who like to drink, have fun and don't care about the social stigma – most Thai women don't tick any of those boxes.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:48:46 +0000It is more than likely that he went for a swim drunk and drowned. Any other theories ? Drug deal gone bad or what ?Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:48:17 +0000If you are in a state where you can actually go through with taking your own life (a very unnatural thing to do), then you are not in rational territory.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:46:32 +0000They were probably in too deep. A stint in Pattaya might not have scratched the surface. Plus, she might not be wired for that. Pattaya girls are party girls to begin with. Then they make a career out of itTue, 09 Jun 2026 17:45:29 +0000So in your world there are no nicknames for anything? My friends and I for decades have referred to the place as Patters, I see no disrespect or harm there.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:44:01 +0000Yeah I don't get it. I don't understand why ppl do it like this. I have a theory that they do it because there's no way of backing out. And it requires no planning. It is more impulsive than we thinkTue, 09 Jun 2026 17:41:42 +0000Rubbish. That's a flawed, sweeping generalisation wrapped in emotion rather than reason. One idiot committing a crime does not make 70 million people responsible for it any more than one Thai, American, or Australian criminal speaks for their entire nation. If we're going to condemn collective blame in one context, we should be consistent enough to condemn it in all contexts. As for the person who asked which side of the road the doctor was walking on, that's not necessarily victim-blaming either. Context and causation matter. The doctor was clearly the victim. The rider bears responsibility for his own actions. Those two facts can be true while still asking whether there were factors that might have affected the outcome. Most of us teach our children to walk facing oncoming traffic whenever possible. Not because drivers are blameless, but because self-preservation matters. You face danger so you can see it coming and react to it. That's common sense, not an assignment of blame. If a drunk driver mounts a pavement and kills someone, the driver is responsible. But it is still reasonable to ask whether the victim saw the vehicle, whether they had a chance to move, or whether the tragedy could have been avoided in the final seconds. That's analysing an event, not excusing it. The real problem today is that too many people seem incapable of distinguishing between understanding what happened and defending what happened. The moment someone asks a factual question, the mob rushes to accuse them of victim-blaming. Critical thinking isn't the same thing as taking sides.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:40:22 +0000Low season 2008, rainy late June Nai Harn beach Phuket. The soi dog population had gotten a bit out of control. Pop, pop, pop, I thought someone was lighting off firecrackers. I walk back toward the road and the BIB had a truck, they were culling these dogs and tossing them in the back of the truck. Animal control Thai style. 👍Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:40:07 +0000Would a 43 and 29 year old qualify ?Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:37:15 +0000