The week that was in Thailand news: You’ve been framed! Nah – it’s just living in Thailand!

[rooster59]

The week that was in Thailand news: You’ve been framed! Nah – it’s just living in Thailand!

 

 

There are days when Rooster has barely wiped the weary sleep from his eyes, not yet slurped that first cup of reviving coffee, hardly focused on the day ahead when I take those initial glances at the Thai news. 
 
And I can barely believe my own porkies (that’s eyes not lies, by the way).
 
The text is there. The brain is almost in gear. Yet something does not compute. Even after nearly four decades in Thailand this seems too unbelievable! It can’t be true…or can it!?
 
One such day was Thursday. I had to glance over my shoulder to check that Jeremy Beadle had not returned to life to tell me I’d been framed. Or look behind the bedroom curtain to see if Peter Dulay was lurking ready to tell me to look in yonder lens because I was on Candid Camera.
 
Still unconvinced, the now fully alert eyes darted to the calendar. August 27th. Not April 1st. Double check 20/20 vision for 2020. This was for real! All systems are operational! Don’t beam me up Scottie. Thunderbirds are Go!
 
It was time to translate even if the stories were away with the fairies!
 
The week had started with nary a flicker of surprise. Thailand was spending a Googleplex of baht on submarines instead of bailing out its desperate people. This was to be expected. 
 
The opposition threw their own toys out of the pram but the best response they got was that the sub purchase could be delayed. Until the government would proceed anyway – Som Nam Na for even trying, losers!
 
Then along came tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprkarn who makes predecessor Kobkarn “Durian Kit-Kat” Wattanavrangul appear like all her screws were tightened. A rare feat for a tourism supremo.
 
Minister Pipat was pressing ahead with plans to lock up all foreigners on arrival for two weeks extracting every last cent or penny they happened to be carrying, forbidding them to go outside a one kilometer Phuket exclusion zone, testing them all over again, keeping them tied down for a further seven days then…only then, unleashing them on a wider Thai public who mostly have said they don’t want them.
 
Then a survey from abroad announced that 4 in 5 actually do! (Clearly the odd one out was Anutin who still hasn’t forgiven Johnny Foreigner for turning down his freebie Health Department mask).
 
As if to make the plans even more nonsensical he reckons that 2 million foreigners will jump at the chance between the October 1st D-Day - when the invasion is slated to commence – and the end of March.
 
PM Prayut – our father who art in khaki, hollow be thy name – sounded a note of caution questioning if 2 million was really worth it when 20 million was the norm. I mean what's a paltry few billion between friends when the voters could be alienated. 
 
Especially when compared to the cost of those subs, despite the Chinese discount for old friends.
 
Undaunted, Pipat insisted he must press on. All working together. All ministries as one. After all who could rely on Thai domestic tourism. All they do is cram themselves in one room, turn on the soaps and order Pizza Hut two-for-one specials with free Coke. Then toddle off back home to start work on Monday or watch daytime TV, depending on their post pandemic status.
 
All hail the Phuket Model he yelled! We shall prevail! And when we have contained the virus we will unleash the foreign hordes on Chiang Mai, Udon, Samui…..you name it!
 
Justice minister Somsak Thepsuthin did little to allay Rooster’s mounting incredulity. There he was in a chef’s hat also pressing ahead with his own stimulus measures.
 
Tourism in prisons!
 
After they had studied English and accounting, (I’m not making this up, please believe me) there was a “cookoff” between the inmates to decide the “Iron Bar Chef”. The forum faithful will have noted Rooster’s reference to “cooking the books” in the story.
 
At least the tourists after their imprisonment in Phuket will be able to empathize with the convicts’ plight. Who knows – it could lead to a whole new round of cultural understanding between wily Thais and baffled foreigners.
 
Then came Thursday when the S.H.*.T. (Studies of Humanity In Thailand) really hit the F.A.N. (Foreigners Appreciate Nothing).
 
In a measure to help deal with the carnage on the roads the RTP has decided to REDUCE the fines. Not just that, plod in all their uniformed glory came up with some baffling new anomalies to streamline the system.
 
How the lady presenter on Channel 7 kept a straight face was remarkable. I suspect years of presenting the Thai news had hardened her to the point that even the bells and whistles of a Thai soap would fail to perforate her eardrums.
 
The fine for not having a license, previously up to 1,000 baht, was now 200 baht. They threw in some cunning semantics to make it look as though they had thought this through to the nth degree. Running a red light that was 1,000 (or thereabouts depending on plod’s mood) was now a fixed 500 baht.
 
Take it or leave it – here or at the station. Or 7-Eleven or bank transfer. Anywhere will do. Just pay. They expected the public to believe that “negotiation” was now dead.
 
Finally, amid 155 changes for the better, or so we were told, came the coup de grace – motorcycle riders with no helmets 500 baht fine reduced to 400, pillion passengers, no ifs no buts, 800 baht.
 
OK Jeremy come out. I know you’re hiding and all that pneumonia nonsense was just a game for a laugh. And Peter, where should I be looking? I promise to smile for the camera!
 
Barely had Rooster recovered from this onslaught on objectivity when along came the story about Mr Prima from Belgium. Apparently the latest “bad guy” arrested by Big Oud and his immigration heavies was an actor.
 
After reading his tale if you’d told me his surname was Donna I would have believed it without batting an eyelid.
 
Mr Prima was blacklisted in 1999 for forgery. But he returned in 2014 at Suwannaphum (my spelling) and after being turned away went to Myanmar then Cambodia before sneaking across the porous border. Then a talent scout – recognizing his amenable personality (IE he won’t charge much) and noting his fluent and clearly pronounced Thai – signed him up for movies and the soaps.
 
Feeling a tad jealous by this point Rooster asked Mrs R – a soap expert – if she recognized him. Her non-committal response was a tad disconcerting. At the very least I expected her to say we all look alike.
 
Anyway, IB plod had stalked Mr Prima to his Lad Prao condo. Media Naew Na helpfully noted that the Belgian had brought a string of women back who were all….wait for it….different. At least things were now starting to become more believable and Rooster could take another swig of coffee without fear of spluttering it over the keyboard.
 
To cut a long story short – please follow the link – Mr Prima is now in the hands of the Wang Thong Lang police. I wonder how you say “Nice One” in Flemish.
 
Not in the hands of the police – for many obvious reasons – is Red Bull Boss. Public Enemy #1 (how the government must hope and pray he is never caught lest they be tarred with that brush) is back facing reckless driving and cocaine consumption charges encore une fois.
 
Big Oud said that the Thong Lo police had been in touch and he had put out an APB (All Point at Boss) order should the miscreant decide to front up by sea, land or air. To capture him, no stone would be left unturned though a few of the heavier rocks might prove a struggle. Nobody mentioned Interpol as those blasted foreigners have an infuriating habit of getting the job done when all that is required is saving a bit of face.
 
The whole affair has stretched incredulity to the limit and has caused an irreparable malfunction in jaded Rooster’s titter-o-meter.
 
Thankfully by Friday a little seriousness prevailed though you could have been forgiven for thinking that it was more merriment. Dr Thira of Chula uni said the world virus situation was still so bad that Thailand should keep the country closed to foreign tourists for at least six months. He warned of a catastrophe if they didn’t. Then Tourism Council of Thailand chief Chairat went further in the opposite direction.
 
He told Thai Rath that the country’s tourism sector would be completely destroyed if moves were not made to open up to foreigners. He warned of ten million redundancies not the present four.
 
Observers of what is happening in Thailand could be forgiven for thinking that the country is making it up as they go along and making U-turn after U-turn. They are. But in this regard they are only taking their cues from governments all around the world who are chopping and changing doing the same thing.
 
Regarding foreign tourists it is fair to say that this is a major dilemma especially in Thailand. And much now rests on the opinions of a few people on a southern island who rather like a Roman emperor hold sway over the future of Thai tourism with a potential thumbs up or down for the “Phuket Model”.
 
So are 90% against it or 90% for it? It’ll depend on who the surveyors ask!
 
It was almost equally hard to keep a straight face reading the news from abroad this week. In the US the highly respected postal service was deemed to have rigged the election two months before anyone has even voted. Rooster has ordered three hundred weights of popcorn in anticipation of November. There was more racial unrest in Wisconsin and Hurricane Laura hit the Louisiana coast.
 
Why do they name these killers after women? Is it a mother nature thing? Surely Hurricane Vladimir would have a better ring.
 
In England U-turn upon U-turn meant that the government was going round in ever diminishing circles. Listening to Education Secretary incompetent Gavin Williamson avoiding questions about masks in schools was like returning to one of his kindergartens. 
 
In France and Germany, the virus was increasing alarmingly showing what most everyone now appreciates; this mess has only just started.
 
Two mass murderers will never see the light of day again. In Christchurch the Australian terrorist Brenton Tarrant got life without parole for the murder of 51 people, while in Thailand Prasitthichai, the Lopburi school director who killed three including a young child in a gold shop robbery, was sentenced to death.
 
In sports the Paris police made 148 arrests after Paris Saint-Germain didn’t like being beaten by Bayern in the Champions’ League Final in Portugal.
 
I was taken to task by one reader last week for always mentioning the Beautiful Game (football or Scrabble, take your pick). What about cricket, he fumed.  Oh alright, I’ll acquiesce:
 
In the third test against Pakistan it rained just like it did in the second test. Though the clouds cleared for a few minutes to allow England’s James Anderson to become the first fast bowler in history to get 600 wickets.
 
Respect to the man; he’s clearly got bails.
 
Back in Thailand the road carnage was less about death and more about potential this week. A leading Thai doctor in Bangkok thought that narcolepsy should be added to the list of conditions preventing driving. How many of the “lap nai” (microsleep) accidents that might have been caused by this was not mentioned.
 
In Nakhon Nayok 44 primary school children and their teachers on the way to the Science Museum were driven into the undergrowth by Arun, 63, who said he was not familiar with the road. Two #1 buses in Bangkok were pictured playing a dangerous cat and mouse game before the passengers wisely fled the scene at the bus stop.
 
In Bang Plee a “big biker” nearly killed a Myanmar pedestrian. Thai media 77kaoded – obsessed with the Big Biker moniker - said he was on a 300 cc machine. Thai Rath earlier confirmed that for the purposes of the planned new training for bikers, big means 400 cc up.
 
Personally, I think more training for ALL bikers would pay dividends.
 
Amid the madness of the week Pattaya seemed almost sensible. A tourism and business leader in QUOTES said that it would take up to five years for the resort to recover her previous glories. Measures to stimulate the Thai domestic tourism market with better parking and less restrictions on the deckchair folk were announced and mayor Sontaya said the EEC fund were giving him 80 million baht to plan various tourism projects. One was a port on Jomtien beach.
 
And in further good sense, City Hall is spending two million baht on a mobile sterilization unit after a scary increase in the number of stray cats and dogs during the pandemic. Many have been abandoned by people laid off and going home. Rooster is convinced by the arguments that sterilization is a better answer than just culling.
 
Some Thai posters and a less than sympathetic Sophon Cable TV on Facebook, called for the culling of another epidemic. The homeless and desperate on Pattaya's streets and beaches. The lack of empathy for these unfortunates inspired Rooster to angle the story critically. Thais are a compassionate people – I’ll always believe that – but the reaction of some Thai posters from behind the safety of their keyboards beggared belief.
 
These people are not the “dregs of society” that exist only to drink ‘lao khao’. They are your compatriots and they need your help especially at this very difficult time.
 
Pattaya also took one in the eye from Hua Hin and Cha-Am. Despite the alarming murders at both of these holiday resorts recently, Booking.com said that more Thais clicked on them for holidays than anywhere else. Anecdotal reports indicate that both, with their reasonable proximity to Krung Thep, are doing far better than those further afield like Phuket, Koh Samui and Chiang Mai, to name but three.
 
Doing better this week was yours truly with a little help from the electrical authorities. They finally came through with refunds on meter deposits adding 6,000 baht to Rooster’s coffers for my main residence and a further 2,000 baht each for two studio apartments that I rent out.
 
Readers who own property and have the meters in their own names or the names of their spouses may like to see if they are eligible for a refund too. Every little helps and if you make money I only want a beer for the tip!
 
Finally spare a thought for little Captain, a boy aged 3, who was slathering himself with hand sanitizing gel on the front porch before going to school. His brother – as siblings occasionally do – set fire to him with the aid of a handy cigarette lighter.
 
Fortunately, Captain was only burned on his arms and legs and survived the ordeal.
 
I mention the story as it probably contained the best typo of the week. At least I hope it was a typo. Captain’s uncle who ran to help said it took almost 20 minutes to put out the flames.
 
The difference between “nathee” (minutes) and “winathee” (seconds) can make all the difference!
 
Speedy recovery little fellah!
  
Rooster

 

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[Samui Bodoh]

20 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The text is there. The brain is almost in gear. Yet something does not compute. Even after nearly four decades in Thailand this seems too unbelievable! It can’t be true…or can it!?

In times like these, I (re)turn to the book(s) that allowed me to survive my late teens and early twenties. Yes, of course, I refer to those fountains of knowledge, those magnificent tomes which hold the sum of human thought, those writings that form the entirety of human wisdom.

 

I refer, of course, to the five-part trilogy that is The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 

In book two, Ford Prefect states...

 

"There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself from going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later."

 

Wise words for these difficult times...

 

'Nuff said.

 

 

[bluesofa]

27 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The difference between “nathee” (minutes) and “winathee” (seconds) can make all the difference!

Lost in translation:

At the works canteen, asking at the food counter for more: "kor winathee krap"

 

It's my futile fertile imagination again.

[Matzzon]

Yes, yes! Get it, and again everything is wrong in Thailand. I just wonder why some people still stays here. Just stop complaining and make something beautiful out of your life instead.

[SchuetzRob]

I like reading your column even though I do not always agree with your point of view. And I like your revised point of view regarding strays.

[pennine]

So are 90% against it or 90% for it? It’ll depend on who the surveyors ask!

Maybe Quantity Surveyors!

[kg1947]

Just a side note for the Minister of Tourism : ......  in 6 months , there will be no more Soi-7,8,13 and Walking Street in Pattaya .  Better plan a BIG parking lot or a cheap Fresh Market for those out of work Thai people or just create a PARK with nice green space and children playground .....

Edited August 30, 2020 by kg1947
spacing ....

[Thed]

does one really think tourists will coop with all that

Who takes a vacation and first stay in qusrrantin for 2 weeks

Laigh !!!

[mikosan]

A good read Rooster. Thanks.

[PaDavid]

 

Thank you, as always, for your excellent summing up of the week’s farces. He’s behind you. Another one to add to your collection. 
 

Did I really fume when asking for a mention of cricket?

[Flying Saucage]

Wonderful read again Rooster! I enjoy a lot to read your column every Sunday as part of my breakfast routine.

 

Would be intersting to know a little bit about the usual feedback from your Thai friends and colleagues at Thaivisa, whenever you shine a light on these daily embarrassments of the Thai machinery of officialdom. Do they generally agree with you? And, did you ever get some feedback from the officials themselves? 

[khunjeff]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Why do they name these killers after women? Is it a mother nature thing? Surely Hurricane Vladimir would have a better ring.

From the US National Hurricane Center:

 

"The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico."

 

From EarthSky.org:

 

"Here are the hurricane names for 2020:

 

"Atlantic hurricane names (season runs from June 1 to November 30) are Arthur (May 2020), Bertha (May 2020), Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, and Wilfred."

 

In fact Marco (a tropical storm) and Laura (a hurricane) both struck the US this past week.

[RichardColeman]

5 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

I refer, of course, to the five-part trilogy that is The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

 

In book two, Ford Prefect states...

 

"There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself from going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later."

yes, and the beloved PM just speaks vogon poetry 

[againstthewind]

Reading it in concentrated form makes you gulp and this comes to mind:

Couldn't happen you say? Probably not in most places, but it did happen...in the ThailandZone.

[jerolamo]

The new joke of the day was to read about submarines... (but electricity cut every rainy days and every windy days). Looks like they don't know what priority and logic are meaning.

 

The bad joke of the week was the dirty idea for human's respect to imagine a kind of "tourism jail tour", like if people (tourists) will go to see animals in a zoo ? I think not only farang will be outraged by this kind of tourism, also Thai people themselves and everyone psychologically healthy. Actually in the world, the zoo is already something in question about morality... 

 

Ho... you should also observe quickly (a scoop for you guys) that the COVID pandemic is soon totally finish. The asymptomatic people tested will never die and the virus power is close to a little flu. Sorry for big Pharma company's ambition to get big money back from imposed vaccine by force, but... the plan failed.

[Purdey]

It seems the police have thought through the price of traffic fines. When they were high, maybe people could not afford to pay off the arresting officer with a percentage of the fine on the spot. By lowering the fines, people can now afford the necessary bribe and continue to avoid justice. 

[Chassa]

33 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

From the US National Hurricane Center:

 

"The practice of naming hurricanes solely after women came to an end in 1978 when men's and women's names were included in the Eastern North Pacific storm lists. In 1979, male and female names were included in lists for the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico."

 

Aussie cyclones too!

[grobec]

5 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Yes, yes! Get it, and again everything is wrong in Thailand. I just wonder why some people still stays here. Just stop complaining and make something beautiful out of your life instead.

Well I think we have to blame it all on the Brits
there is such a think as “British humour” also known as Monty Python Syndrome. Not to say it is a bad thing, but That to other “cultures” there is slack of understanding how really funny sarcasm can be when used “tongue in cheek” and not viciously.

when a less “ indoctrinated” soul tries to join the fun the part that flew over their heads leaves only the ragged edges to carry the flag for.

so you see the Brits are to blame.

????????????????????????

[jerolamo]

2 hours ago, grobec said:

Well I think we have to blame it all on the Brits
there is such a think as “British humour” also known as Monty Python Syndrome. Not to say it is a bad thing, but That to other “cultures” there is slack of understanding how really funny sarcasm can be when used “tongue in cheek” and not viciously.

when a less “ indoctrinated” soul tries to join the fun the part that flew over their heads leaves only the ragged edges to carry the flag for.

so you see the Brits are to blame.

????????????????????????

I'm not English, but i am in admiration about how they can talk about serious things with lot of humor.

That way to practice is absolutely wrong in Thailand as it should easily be seen as a provocation and would become a situation of "loosing face" (so dangerous).

But studies around humor show that there is two side (positive and negative), one is to be a kind of provocation and a way to decrease the value of a subject, to make it less important than it is (in terms of perception by some). The other part is to remove emotion and show how it can be ridiculous and so bad to apply some non inadapted statement.

Humor is by the time selective because for understand humor, we should be intelligent more than emotive and if aptitude is from born, ability to use intelligence and positive evolution is not free... it ask some intellectual works and skills to practice all the time... so it is a kind of luxury, that is why, most of the time, humans evolution changes comes from students and intellectual people.

 

By the way, i appreciate a lot Monthy Python humor, who is not the best measured humor from England to... they often have this aptitude for having a much finer and more suggestive humor than the Monthy Python shows. Much more than French people can do most of the time.

 

So yes, i follow you on that, but it is actually not adapted for Thailand culture (and for all the Asian culture also).

As you say, the indoctrination is quite strong, but also the customs and traditions are very different. In fact, just showing what is negative to an Asian is negative. Which makes it more delicate. However, it can also suggest that with a strong conviction and a lot of beautiful thoughts, things can move forward in peace. Unfortunately, when the management is deaf, it becomes very complicated (but ... whatever the communication method used, when the management chooses to hear only what it wants, it is always complicated and it is a problem).
On this point, studies of rhetoric show that in this specific case, it is more effective to be persuasive than to be convincing, since the debate no longer has its place, everything becomes influence and manipulation. .
Unfortunately at present, the people do not know it, as it is studied in large schools whose vocation is to sell and not to make people think. In fact, the very influential people who know these rhetorical techniques are those skillful salespeople who are lobbyists and who influence a power in place (and a whole people who have become consumers) in the most effective way possible.
will it change? Who can tell?

 

this is kind of English humor i like the most (who use ironic a lot):

 

Edited August 30, 2020 by jerolamo

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, khunjeff said:

"Atlantic hurricane names (season runs from June 1 to November 30) are Arthur (May 2020), Bertha (May 2020), Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paulette, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky, and Wilfred."

 

So! Why is'nt there a Jimmy???

[oompie69]

8 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

So! Why is'nt there a Jimmy???

He was probably the guy who thought this out.

[oompie69]

2 hours ago, jerolamo said:

The new joke of the day was to read about submarines... (but electricity cut every rainy days and every windy days). Looks like they don't know what priority and logic are meaning.

 

The bad joke of the week was the dirty idea for human's respect to imagine a kind of "tourism jail tour", like if people (tourists) will go to see animals in a zoo ? I think not only farang will be outraged by this kind of tourism, also Thai people themselves and everyone psychologically healthy. Actually in the world, the zoo is already something in question about morality... 

 

Ho... you should also observe quickly (a scoop for you guys) that the COVID pandemic is soon totally finish. The asymptomatic people tested will never die and the virus power is close to a little flu. Sorry for big Pharma company's ambition to get big money back from imposed vaccine by force, but... the plan failed.

Not finished. Work in progress.

[CaptainCarrot]

33 minutes ago, jerolamo said:

 

 

this is kind of English humor i like the most (who use ironic a lot):

 

When I first saw this it was in text form ... and the "expert" was described as an Engineer. I didn't think it very funny (I'm English language native with engineering degrees) so I wrote a response explaining how actually all the requirements could be met (it involved 11-dimensional space and parts of the model moving at appropriate speed to achieve colour shift). I got a request from a Lecturer at a University to use my response in their coursework, . That was funny.

[Orton Rd]

'And in further good sense, City Hall is spending two million baht on a mobile sterilization unit after a scary increase in the number of stray cats and dogs during the pandemic. Many have been abandoned by people laid off and going home. Rooster is convinced by the arguments that sterilization is a better answer than just culling.'

 

How can sterilization, then leaving the dogs to suffer and be a road menace and crapping, barking and posing a danger in large groups of wild animals possibly be a better answer than dead dogs? So much hypocrisy about killing dogs, thousands of animals are slaughtered for meat eaters every day, some animals are not more equal then others. If people can be found to kill cows, pigs and sheep they can be found to kill a few million dog pests. Sterilization is not the answer, it is just slightly slowing the population growth,

[jerolamo]

31 minutes ago, CaptainCarrot said:

When I first saw this it was in text form ... and the "expert" was described as an Engineer. I didn't think it very funny (I'm English language native with engineering degrees) so I wrote a response explaining how actually all the requirements could be met (it involved 11-dimensional space and parts of the model moving at appropriate speed to achieve colour shift). I got a request from a Lecturer at a University to use my response in their coursework, . That was funny.

so... i have an other one for you my friend:

and maybe much more this one:

The actors play their role very well.

[rumak]

4 hours ago, Flying Saucage said:

Would be intersting to know a little bit about the usual feedback from your Thai friends and colleagues at Thaivisa, whenever you shine a light on these daily embarrassments of the Thai machinery of officialdom. Do they generally agree with you? And, did you ever get some feedback from the officials themselves? 

I wondered that as well.   Rooster must have some powerful friends .   Heck,  I just use the word foolish in a post and its "  Rumak, go sit on the beach for a few days" 

Oh well,  the roasting of the ruling crass is always my favorite.  

[Flying Saucage]

3 hours ago, rumak said:

I wondered that as well.   Rooster must have some powerful friends .   Heck,  I just use the word foolish in a post and its "  Rumak, go sit on the beach for a few days" 

Oh well,  the roasting of the ruling crass is always my favorite.  

Wow, "foolish" was already sufficient? Interesting. Beeing quite here new as an active poster, I already hat two post deleted.

 

One of 'em as a troll post, to which I agree and which I accept. It was a troll post of me, as a reply to one of Stevens photos of his beloved general to which I reposted another photo of the general, without any comment. But the other post was deleted as "off-topic" which clearly wasn't the case. It was about if the purchase of the subs still can be canceled, denying this and stating some info about the Thai-Chinese connections, and as a reference a link about how the Chinese did on the Philippines. Hardly off-topic. Wonder if my post really was read, or if it was censored for political reasons.

[davidstipek]

Rooster,

On the note of returning Tourists...

Someone is definitely Dreaming. Most available bodies able to travel here, have one to two weeks Vacation a year!

Thinking these people would "Blow it... In Lock up for 14 days!!

20 years ago before Unions and Corporations decided to pocket Workers Benefits, you might have been able to get 4 weeks ( Then only if you started working at age 10. Most were at a max of two weeks, some Benefit plans let you roll over to after 2 years have total accumulated at two weeks x two years, a total of Four weeks.

But still....

Where do these Kids in Politics Dream up these Stupid Ideas!! Must be because of their Work Habits and ethics... Think the Whole World is on the Same I.Q. levels...

 

Think about it.... To spend entire faction... About 90% of your funds being in some <deleted>##in Hotel, and never see daylight??? Who is the Stupid one here?? At least at home in some Countries I can still get a Beer and enjoy a "Lap-Dance"

 

Further down the Road... In regards to Civic 19... Who wants to step up and sue the U.S. Department of Desease Center in Atlanta for having kept hidden the fact that they created, patterned it, hold all the authority on who can get and use it... Why have they stuffed up their Are the fix. I have Video of Major Dr. Finally spilling the Beans, Rooster want a Copy? P.M. me here.

 

 

[DogNo1]

"... the virus (sic.) power is similar to a little flu."  Try watching the interviews on BBC of the various sufferers who have been released from the hospital but are still struggling months later to recover fully.  Apparently some people will suffer life-long impairments from having contracted COVID-19.  Some who suffer serious complications are under 30 years of age.

[carbon007]

Your words may have some interesting things in it. I don't know and it is too long for me to bother. Remember Mark Twins words: “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.” Could you write the same on ½ page structured wirh premises and conclusions?