https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenDon't mind if I do, thanks. Cheers 🍻 I would add I've only just arrived back in Thailand after a trip back to the UK. I have been nipping on a Singha so just enjoying a couple in the hotel.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:47:02 +0000As in subatomic particles that make up everything? Sure of course, that’s reality. What is astounding is that too many folks believe in any-thing that is thrown at them as in stuff that doesn’t exist, that’s incredible.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:46:13 +0000This is often, how it happens with me: I put something away, to never be able to find it in its "logical" places. My wife takes not more than two quick looks to find it, which makes me look like a poodle in the rain (and yes, one time it was about a mislaid passport right before travel, so of maximum importance). The problem is not memory, but not being concentrated when you do things (listening to youtube videos is, for example, a sure thing to be not concentated when I do things in my place). I think this has worsened considerably for me over the last years. Maybe it is age, in my case I think it is simply being overloaded with stress and constantly thinking about or doing three things at once.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:45:26 +0000WifeySun, 14 Jun 2026 10:45:02 +0000If I leave Thailand, I will relocate to Point Loma, CA, USASun, 14 Jun 2026 10:42:36 +00002024 – Terrorism Act Offence: Charged under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 for failing to provide the PIN/access code to his mobile phone when requested by police during a border What has UK become? You can be jailed for saying hurty words. Or left to bleed to death on the pavement for similar. Orwell would be so proud of his book. You lot seem so brainwashed allowing this dystopia by stealth to infest the once proud Great Britain. Time for another revolution/ civil war.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:42:29 +0000Jamie Bulger was decapitated. They stuck him on a train line to see his head fall off. And they hadn't even started on the crack, maybe moondust. There are about 50,000 stabbings a year (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2024-to-2025/crime-outcomes-in-england-and-wales-2024-to-2025), and about 1 in 5 male murders are by strangers (for women, overwhelmingly, they know their killer, lets assume 5% of female murders are by stangers) (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2023). 80% of stabbings have a male victim. There is no dataset to support your supposition that most random attacks are carried out by immigrants, illegal or otherwise. The presence of drug addicts among murderers, has been rising; one in two murders is committed by a drug addict. 1 in 4 murders by a drug dealer (https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2023) Lets assume the proportions are similar among those who try to murder compared to those who succeed. 8500 people a year are randomly stabbed each year. 4250 are stabbed by so-called crackheads. A further 2125 are stabbed by crackhead dealers, presumably for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So there are about 2125 random stabbings we need to sort out who is carrying them out. Surprisingly, only about 11% of murders involve someone who is or recently was a mental health patient https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/projects/homicide-and-mental-illness-in-england/ So my pool of random stabbings that didn't involve drugs or mental health is 1275 people.. That's 24 a week. You are getting worked up by one, but seemingly not concerned about the other 23 that must be in the papers some place. Ah, unless social media magnifies one assault over all others, to rage bait you, and to deflect you from the real problem, which is drug use in the UK, and people's often ambivalent view of drugs, often expressed on this forum. And where do these drugs come from. Often from the same places people are fleeing from. Drug profits fuel wars. Drug production is often the cause of war. War generates refugees. Sort the wars out, and you will go a long way to sorting out your problem with too many brown people. Sort out the demand for drugs, even so-called harmless ones, and some of these wars will run out of money. Of course, not easy, likely very expensive. But better to direct the money at the root of the problem. The analogy is that you have mice in your house. You could deal with them by killing the mice. But more mice will come in, because you not sorted the filthy mess you leave your pit in. Its an imperfect analogy that I think will fall apart, but it comes to mind.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:41:20 +0000@Roadsternut ..."Not a similar "boat invasion" by any means. Distance from Indonesia to Australia 1730 miles. Distance from France to Blighty; 21 miles..." A much shorter and easier distance to tow them back then, not the 1000s of miles the Australian navy had to! "...And there is another myth at the heart of the 'just copy Australia' argument. You swallowed the codswallop that warships were turning back flotillas of migrant boats. Over the first five years of Operation Sovereign Borders, only about 33 boats carrying roughly 800 people were stopped or turned back, at a cost of £700m a year..." 33x800=26,400 illegals. Sounds like quite an armada! Or did you mean 800 in total? If so, don't know where you get your figures from. The BBC, which is pro-migration, states 20,000 tried to make the journey in 2013, not 800. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-64898507 Just accept it. There is precedent for stopping illegal migration in boats in large numbers and Australia did it very successfully. However, if you choose to ignore this and stick by your argument, good for you, you're welcome to it!Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:40:06 +0000Alcohol, as a rule, generally makes snoring worse, at it makes collapsing the airway easier due to relaxing muscular tone. At the same time it raises the heart beat, making the oxygenation snap back -- which kills neurons with their freeing of oxygen radicals -- all the more damaging. Which leads to the second rule: near everything that is fun is bad for you. 😑Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:39:03 +0000Each to his own. You get your enjoyment out of cars. I get mine out of golf.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:38:50 +0000So just like Ringo Starr or Englebert Humperdinck. People can call themselves whatever they want. A man can claim to be a woman. Not sure what your point was.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:38:00 +0000The problem I see with this thread is the supposition that we can live fulltime anywhere we wish on the planet. I do not believe this to be the case. Most countries do not have long-term visas for single foreigners who have no attachment to that country.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:37:50 +0000Correct on both counts. Have another drink.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:36:35 +0000Surprising what you can't get away with calling people these days as most of it is not meant as derogatory. Calling people from Britain Brits = fine. Calling people from Pakistan by the first 5 letters = getting banged up. Crazy times.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:36:13 +0000IMO the statement is justified when one looks at how much a car depreciates in 1-2 years. The only new car I ever made money on was a 1974 Honda Civic, brilliant small car for its time. I paid $3200 for it, sold it in 1981 for $3400, with 100,000 km on the odometer. I always preferred low km secondhand cars where someone else took the biggest hit on depreciation. Cars with a reputation for reliability, or technical excellence. I am completely immune to fashion. Most of my generation are. Smokers and drinkers completely ignore the statistics on lung and liver disease. Their lives, their choice. If you think moderate drinking is safe, you're wrong. Alcohol has had the designation of a Class 1 carcinogen since 1989.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:36:13 +0000Funny enough, cuckoo clocks are a cultural good over the whole Swabian/Alemannian cultural region, which includes the Black Forest and large parts of Switzerland. Which proves my point, that the Swiss are just wayward southern Germans without a true separate cultural identity. (I am halfway joking, as I actually work for a Swiss company).Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:33:28 +0000I spent 400 baht on mine, via Shopee/Lazada. More here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/116008010411Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:33:02 +0000Fair enough, but I think you've also rather proved my point. I wasn't arguing Stalin was a saint, or that the Soviet Union was some sort of workers' paradise. It plainly wasn't. The Nazi-Soviet Pact happened. Soviet atrocities happened. The occupation of Eastern Europe happened. None of that is in dispute. My dad's point, which I happen to share, was much simpler. By 1945 the Red Army had destroyed the bulk of the Wehrmacht. Had Hitler not invaded the Soviet Union I very much doubt Britain survives the war as an independent great power in the form we recognise today. That doesn't make Stalin a good bloke. It makes him a deeply unpleasant ally who happened to be fighting the same enemy. As for Ukraine, reasonable people can disagree. My concern has never been whether Putin is a villain. He is. A right bastard in fact. My concern is whether the West has a clear idea of what victory actually looks like, what it costs, and how long we are prepared to keep paying for it. They are different questions. On Germany, I was relating my dad's views, not necissarily prescribing them for 2026. He belonged to a generation shaped by two world wars. A reunited Germany worried him far more than a weakened Russia ever did. History has probably proved him wrong on that point, but I understand perfectly well why he thought it. And on Switzerland, you're taking the analogy a bit too literally. I don't mean hiding Nazi gold in mountain vaults and flogging ammunition to all comers. I mean a country that places the security, prosperity and resilience of its own people ahead of grand projects abroad and endless foreign entanglements. As for loving Britain being hypocrisy, I would argue the exact opposite. It is precisely because I love Britain that I would rather see British governments spend more time fixing Britain and less time trying to fix everybody else. We can't even build a high speed railway , a serviceable tank or an aircraft carrier that works. As for my old man being wrong, well I'm afraid sir it's you against him and there are no prizes for guessing who wins that contest in my head. One final point. You say America saved everybody's arses. There is a lot of truth in that. Equally there is a tendency in the English-speaking world to view the war through a Hollywood lens. The Americans provided immense industrial muscle. The British held out when they stood alone. The Soviets bled on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend. All three things can be true at the same time. Auschwitz lest we forget was liberated by Ivan but they were denied a place at the anniversary of their liberation whilst Ukraine raises monuments to those who actively and viscously partook. These aren't Kremlin talking point merely inconvenient truiths. Perhaps that is my real objection to all of this. The world is changing. China is rising and Russia is not going away and will always bee a miserable bastard with a huge appetite and ability to take pain . The West is not as dominant as it once was. At some point principle has to meet reality and reality tends to win.When you lose 20 million, like the Jews in Israel you get the right to be paranoid to the point of psychopathy. Anyway, we are probably not going to agree on this and that's fine. I know it's fiendishly hot in Thailand and you have far more time on your hands than I have - so enough for now !Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:32:16 +0000The oldest President America ever had, getting his name torn from the Kennedy centre, is a nice birthday present , they put the letters up in full view , but erected scaffolding and tarpaulins to hide Trumps 🤡 shame of having them taken down , just like the Trump 🤡Epstein files they try to hide everything , just hoping for rain for the shameful UFC fights at the Whitehouse. another 60 million $ of taxpayers money wasted. regards worgeordieSun, 14 Jun 2026 10:30:33 +0000I think that should be 02.00am on the 20th June Thai time. The Paraguay game should be 09.00am 26th June Thai time. I'm a couple of bevies in though so could be wrong.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:30:08 +0000If Bali is too touristy for you (it would be for me), go to neighboring Lombok.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:29:09 +0000I agree that the shops renting the motorcycles should provide helmets too even though many locals fail to use helmets too.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:28:59 +0000W word. Slang but meant as no harm these days. My friend is half Italian and he calls himself half W. But the team looks talented. Maybe they can make Semis.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:27:24 +0000Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:26:34 +0000Volley ball, hand ball, netball, croquet, all played on the feet.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:26:27 +0000