Lets not forget the current dictatorships history of management.

These are the same guys who built a submarine base despite having no subs and purchased fake bomb detectors. Yet there are posters here that think they are masters of management and can fix the many problems with the political and legal institutions here

Has any of the last 20+ coups improved Thailand's democracy?

Before I completely demolish your argument with pure and unadorned logic would you please respectfully give a link or any other reference to where you gained the erroneous information that your post is based on?

Your credibility hangs on you providing "Bona fides" for the basis of your argument.

Advanced age is conventionally aligned with having some "learned" common sense.

Possibly the reason I admit to not having an answer for the approval of the Junta by those over the age of 50 mainly white and older farangs is that Thailand at this moment in time needs "Order" or do you disagree with that sentiment?

Whilst it could be argued that there are other more important changes that need to be made who are we or more specifically who are you to say what order these changes are made in.

LOL

OK gramps, demolish this . . . once you've found your cardigan and slippers.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/lite/topstories/418976/banks-told-to-slacken-loan-rules

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Nothing for me to get my teeth into young "hoppin youth," your link is a dimension away from any point that I was making

Not at the stage yet for slippers and a cardi so another juvenile comment, irrelevant and unrelated other than to flame, disparage or bring down a person by unfair and foul methods made by you , just to make you sound as though you have the intellectual edge.

in your case Hoppin youth and also the other ageist geezer on here you are not even qualified to enter the fray of a good debate by virtue of your shown imaturity.

When I was presumably your age I possibly too knew all the answers, now as I have said before I do not remember what the questions were!

And its all said in the very best of taste and only quid pro quo

We all love a good flamer but when are we going to find one, maybe that could be the next topic, "Who was the best ever troll on TV?"

No offence meant or taken wifey pass me those slippers and don't forget me cardi and pipe

My God, you're a blowhard, aren't you? In love with the sound of your own voice.

Anyway, enough.

Clearly you're at a loss for a point that justifies the extreme verbosity of your posts so I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back for using more than 250 words to say absolutely nothing.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

-- Abraham Lincoln

So AnotherOneAmerican lets hope that you survive and get to be another "Older white foreigner" then lets see how quick and acerbic your intellect is then !

It would take a bloody miracle, as I'm not white.

As we aren't really allowed to talk about the stuff the Junta is really doing.

Lets all say what a good job they are doing ...........

OP reflects elderly white male foreigner opinion, those who don't understand Thai language.

2nd post reflects Thai opinion, those who understand Thai language.

PS

Not sure why elderly white male foreigners like a government that hates them and want rid ASAP.

I thought we were rid of you - still cant work out if you actually live in Thailand or not. Care to update us ?

As we aren't really allowed to talk about the stuff the Junta is really doing.

Lets all say what a good job they are doing ...........

OP reflects elderly white male foreigner opinion, those who don't understand Thai language.

2nd post reflects Thai opinion, those who understand Thai language.

PS

Not sure why elderly white male foreigners like a government that hates them and want rid ASAP.

I thought we were rid of you - still cant work out if you actually live in Thailand or not. Care to update us ?

I'm posting from my prepper bunker somewhere in Oregon, surrounded by bullets and MREs.

The zombie apocalypse won't get me!

So AnotherOneAmerican lets hope that you survive and get to be another "Older white foreigner" then lets see how quick and acerbic your intellect is then !

It would take a bloody miracle, as I'm not white.

Neither was Michael Jackson but He certainly tried to be!

Not that the color of your epidermis will have an effect on the way that you will "Mature"

The way you sound off on here you may well finish up with exactly the same syndrome as those you condemn.

Having said that I realise that you really are an attention seeker but I am happy to contribute to your cause, until it costs me something that is!

Keep it up though because it really is enjoyable getting a little steam up and venting off, if it wasnt you stimulating it, it it would be some other hapless sap.

You see son in my age group as a generality where we are fairly compos mentis albeit lacking in the vigor of youth, unsteady on our toes and unable to trip the light Fantastic, we still think like young men, the only time we are reminded that we are not young men is by young rapscallions like you and the image that looks back at us when we look in the mirror, Ugh!

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Congrats,

Racist and patronising at the same time.

Unbelievable!

Please, do explain to me where am I racist and where am I patronising?

Where I live, and you have to understand this was a red stronghold, this is the general idea and belief.

Not my own thinking only, but the thinking and wish of the people I meet and speak to.

Patronising, you aren't Thai, you can't understand Thai, you can't speak for Thai, Thais won't tell you what they really think about anything.

Racist, why try and speak only for white foreigners, if you are Greek, you probably aren't even white and most Thais would call you Kairk (not farang).

PS

I'm not white either.

So lame and slightly sad. your response that is. Did you hurt much in your life?

I truly dislike people that start treads and responds to posters like this.

I would change your title from "I am Optimistic" to "I am Delusional". Oh yes, and rude.

2nd post reflects uninformed, perhaps uneducated Thai opinion.

I'll tell you why white male farang like it....because they are old enough and wise enough to know that if nobody is altruistic, society as a whole loses. I guess they love the country.

Arrrr,

nothing like a Thai bash is there, those poor ignorant natives need Johnny foreigner to tell them what to think.

Old White foreigners,

I've always found the ones I meet nearly always hate everything Thai and hate their lives in Thailand.

Don't know where you meet those old white foreigners, maybe in Pattaya Bars, but I am one from Isaan and love it here and my life here and 95% of the old white foreigners I meet here also love their lives here. Most of us like the coup, because we have been here long enough to see that Democracy in Thailand isn't really democracy and doesn't work. The last good PM Thailand had was Anand, and before him Prem, both unelected.

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From AnotherOneAmerican with apologies for not quoting the complete post for some reason I got a message saying I exceeded something or another and therefor had to copy and paste the salient remarks by AOA

He said;

My God, you're a blowhard, aren't you? In love with the sound of your own voice.

Anyway, enough.

Clearly you're at a loss for a point that justifies the extreme verbosity of your posts so I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back for using more than 250 words to say absolutely nothing.

Gee thanks for a candid straight from the heart response for a change AOA, got your back up a bit did it?

When you give it out, expect to have to take it as well and remember we old farts have nothing better to do in what little spare time we have then to take on the ilks of you!

The flamer flamed, the troll trolled slowly slowly catchee monkey!

Mom throw away those slippers cardi and pipe, one took his bat and ball home only ten thousand to go.

From AnotherOneAmerican with apologies for not quoting the complete post for some reason I got a message saying I exceeded something or another and therefor had to copy and paste the salient remarks by AOA

He said;

My God, you're a blowhard, aren't you? In love with the sound of your own voice.

Anyway, enough.

Clearly you're at a loss for a point that justifies the extreme verbosity of your posts so I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back for using more than 250 words to say absolutely nothing.

Gee thanks for a candid straight from the heart response for a change AOA, got your back up a bit did it?

When you give it out, expect to have to take it as well and remember we old farts have nothing better to do in what little spare time we have then to take on the ilks of you!

The flamer flamed, the troll trolled slowly slowly catchee monkey!

Mom throw away those slippers cardi and pipe, one took his bat and ball home only ten thousand to go.

Sorry, but nothing you have quoted in this little lot, came from me!

From AnotherOneAmerican with apologies for not quoting the complete post for some reason I got a message saying I exceeded something or another and therefor had to copy and paste the salient remarks by AOA

He said;

My God, you're a blowhard, aren't you? In love with the sound of your own voice.

Anyway, enough.

Clearly you're at a loss for a point that justifies the extreme verbosity of your posts so I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back for using more than 250 words to say absolutely nothing.

Gee thanks for a candid straight from the heart response for a change AOA, got your back up a bit did it?

When you give it out, expect to have to take it as well and remember we old farts have nothing better to do in what little spare time we have then to take on the ilks of you!

The flamer flamed, the troll trolled slowly slowly catchee monkey!

Mom throw away those slippers cardi and pipe, one took his bat and ball home only ten thousand to go.

Sorry, but nothing you have quoted in this little lot, came from me!

Grandpa must eat his words!

So sorry OneotherAmerican Please treat my misdirected response to that other kid on the block

Most sincere apologies and you are welcome to have a plug of my favorite twist, a mild sensation of my meager supply of blended and if you are cold you can use my slippers.

Of course I still had time to edit out my mistake but then the fun would have gone with the edit wouldn't it.

From AnotherOneAmerican with apologies for not quoting the complete post for some reason I got a message saying I exceeded something or another and therefor had to copy and paste the salient remarks by AOA

He said;

My God, you're a blowhard, aren't you? In love with the sound of your own voice.

Anyway, enough.

Clearly you're at a loss for a point that justifies the extreme verbosity of your posts so I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back for using more than 250 words to say absolutely nothing.

Gee thanks for a candid straight from the heart response for a change AOA, got your back up a bit did it?

When you give it out, expect to have to take it as well and remember we old farts have nothing better to do in what little spare time we have then to take on the ilks of you!

The flamer flamed, the troll trolled slowly slowly catchee monkey!

Mom throw away those slippers cardi and pipe, one took his bat and ball home only ten thousand to go.

Sorry, but nothing you have quoted in this little lot, came from me!

Grandpa must eat his words!

So sorry OneotherAmerican Please treat my misdirected response to that other kid on the block

Most sincere apologies and you are welcome to have a plug of my favorite twist, a mild sensation of my meager supply of blended and if you are cold you can use my slippers.

Of course I still had time to edit out my mistake but then the fun would have gone with the edit wouldn't it.

Apparently, you have had too many beers tonight.

so many frang know how to run this country did they leave there own country because they fluck there own country up

so many frang know how to run this country did they leave there own country because they fluck there own country up

No. We left it perfect and looking for another place to perfect.

so many frang know how to run this country did they leave there own country because they fluck there own country up

Nope, I returned to mine to appreciate the benefits after several years watching the Thais do that to theirs knowing that I would never have a say.

Ah well, it's their train set.

From AnotherOneAmerican with apologies for not quoting the complete post for some reason I got a message saying I exceeded something or another and therefor had to copy and paste the salient remarks by AOA

He said;

My God, you're a blowhard, aren't you? In love with the sound of your own voice.

Anyway, enough.

Clearly you're at a loss for a point that justifies the extreme verbosity of your posts so I'll leave you to pat yourself on the back for using more than 250 words to say absolutely nothing.

Gee thanks for a candid straight from the heart response for a change AOA, got your back up a bit did it?

When you give it out, expect to have to take it as well and remember we old farts have nothing better to do in what little spare time we have then to take on the ilks of you!

The flamer flamed, the troll trolled slowly slowly catchee monkey!

Mom throw away those slippers cardi and pipe, one took his bat and ball home only ten thousand to go.

Sorry, but nothing you have quoted in this little lot, came from me!

Grandpa must eat his words!

So sorry OneotherAmerican Please treat my misdirected response to that other kid on the block

Most sincere apologies and you are welcome to have a plug of my favorite twist, a mild sensation of my meager supply of blended and if you are cold you can use my slippers.

Of course I still had time to edit out my mistake but then the fun would have gone with the edit wouldn't it.

Apparently, you have had too many beers tonight.

Apparently

not yet and seldom touch the stuff except on a blazing hot day on the golf course but you are right in a way because I am just about to have my first mild sensation of the Scotch.

Your one liner almost sounds derisory, are you of the TV alcohol awareness initiative and making a not so subtle statement or are you enjoying together with me the magic of the moment?

why do so many has beans land here cannt get anyone own country listen to them

Your one liner almost sounds derisory, are you of the TV alcohol awareness initiative and making a not so subtle statement or are you enjoying together with me the magic of the moment?

Don't you just hate it when bad things happen to good sentences?

Seriously though, you're trying so hard to sound articulate that you're tying yourself up in knots.

so many frang know how to run this country did they leave there own country because they fluck there own country up

Nah - we had politicians who were perfectly capable of doing that in Australia. They really didnt spend too much time worrying about the Electorate except the 6-8 weeks leading up to an election, and you effectively had a choice between two sets of smooth talking used car salespeople. I wont miss it.

sorry just normal like 95% of people and donnt pretend to be academmiicc geek or fruit cake

Your one liner almost sounds derisory, are you of the TV alcohol awareness initiative and making a not so subtle statement or are you enjoying together with me the magic of the moment?

Don't you just hate it when bad things happen to good sentences?

Seriously though, you're trying so hard to sound articulate that you're tying yourself up in knots.

No not really owd lad you are just not vibrating on the same wavelength as me, not your fault just one of those things, men of different minds,birds of different kinds sort of thing but I dont take your comments to heart and am not easily offended

Has any of the last 20+ coups improved Thailand's democracy?

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