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What Freedoms Will Return After Thaksin?


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pondering thai society after thaksin: will his "achievements" be rolled back?

- no more early closing hours in the nightlife? even jakarta is bustling now compared to bangkok.

- gasoline again available around the clock?

- booze in stores again available around the clock?

- no more cultural monitoring neo-taliban who prohibited books such as "bangkok inside out", censored nipples and banned certain love songs?

what else did we lose under thaksin?

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what else did we lose under thaksin?

Your sense of what matters in life, or so it would seem.

you certainly got a point with your comment - and I guess you have never been stuck after midnight on a highway not being able to refill the gasoline.

there are many other freedoms slowly disappearing under this government. I mentioned the obvious ones which are just a nuisance and nothing constructive or essential for the betterment of society.

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A lot of the "fun" in life has gone.

I do hope Thailand can roll the clock back on some levels.

I'd certainly agree that their seems to be less 'sanuk' in Thailand, not that I go out boozing or clubbing anymore anyway, wonder what Thais own experience is ?

All those jokes about Thailand being Asia's part-time tourist-destination have a little bit of truth in them. :o

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Apart from the petrol decisions, things still seem not to have changed.

- Still fat ugly blokes on the beaches wearing their speedos.

- Pattaya still exists.

- Fat bald ugly blokes walking down suhumvit with no shirts (or English football jersey - take your pick) looking so ###### sexy.....not

- Same fat ugly bloke passed out on same said sukhumvit footpath at 1am. English jersey being used as a pillow.

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