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When I first moved to Phuket about 22 years ago, I built a small airport hotel and employed 'Bert', a young Thai man who was hardworking. One day he rode his motorcycle along a road in nearby Nai Yang village. Another young Thai man rode alongside and shot him dead. It transpired that Bert's girlfriend had been carrying on behind his back with this other man and they both transpired to kill Bert. The local police investigated but made no charges. Every time that I saw Bert's girlfriend after that event, I would look her straight in the eye. She knew that I knew.....

I do recall many years ago at my wedding in Issan that me and the bride had to quickly evacuate the party when the shooting started (not at me I hasten to add!)....

I'm fairly sure that the academic lecturers at Chula do not 'moonlight' at Chula Hospital 🙂

UCL - Master's in Microwaves & Modern Optics (space science) Chula - Studied for an MA in Thai Studies, but I will be honest and say that I only studied 'for fun' and I was not awarded the actual certificate at the end because it carried a $2,000 fee for that bit of paper!! (You farang - you pay more!!)

Well, it is to do with both 🙂. Solids expand as they are heated. The expansion coefficient of steel is about 14 * 10^-6 and for concrete it is about 10 * 10^-6. So both are expanding... For the steel rails, this expansion can be managed by using expansion joints, but I guess it's not so easy with the concrete sleepers.

I'm proud to be a post-graduate of both Chulalongkorn and UCL (London University) 🙂

Hmm, but perhaps saying all these things 'on film' whilst living in Thailand was not the brightest of ideas 🙂

Well, I watched that video and concluded that he is either mentally-deranged, or his brain has turned to soup due to drugs, or a combination of both.....

He seems to have made the mistake to assume that there is freedom of speech in Thailand. He's from the UK and what you can say and do in the UK is light years ahead of what you can say and do in Thailand. Accept that or shut up.

Very safe and very effective! Note that the report says 'a very rare adverse event... According to Dr Google, your chance of getting this adverse event are about 0.003%

The students taking part in this violent process should be informed that their positions as students has been cancelled by the university, and no fee refunds, and that since they are students no longer, that they are trespassing on campus and liable for arrest and prosecution.

Update: My thanks to AN for adding a photo of Rick Brown to this news article 🙂

My maths is pretty basic, but receiving a total of 200 million baht from monthly payments of 159,000 baht maximum would take more than 104 years....

No, I don't mean 'snobby English'. My family were middle class, living in a semi-detached house in working-class Leicester. I was brought up to speak 'clear English'. However, (and this is something that I mentioned in another thread), I also switched to a local, Leicester accent when chatting with school friends. switching between RP and local accent according to the circumstances. When I speak with adult colleagues who have local accents from eg - Birmingham, Manchester etc, and I ask them to switch off their local accent, they look at me as if I have come from Mars! It seems they have no ability to switch off their local accent, and I find that positively weird! If I encounter a taxi driver in Phuket who speaks with a Southern Thai accent, (which I find difficult to understand), I simply ask them to speak Bangkok Thai and they do so. Are people not taught to switch off their accents? As a teacher, I am appalled when I hear an English teacher speaking with a 'thick' local accent. It's not fair for the students and it shows a failing by the employer to ascertain whether or not the potential employee can speak English clearly. This kind of problem would be avoided if the teacher had learnt to switch off their accent when teaching students. By the way, I am still trying to understand this 'waheh' for water 🙂. Do you mean using a glottal stop in the middle and pronouncing the word as 'wor-er'?

That is an appalling file photo! The news report is about a man having a relationship with his adopted son. If you're going to use AI for these news stories, at least use a 'real' person to vet the accompanying photos. Not happy with AN....