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  1. This is a simple thing to say,

    but while he lives, his ego won't let him back down, till he regains the power he had pre-coup.

    Spoken like a Swahili Spear bearer. Taksin was forcibly removed from office. Taksin, Thailand's legal Prime Minister was elected by a landslide victory in recognition of his substantial achievements in his service to the Thai people.

    If you can visualize any grounds on which Taksin could be successfuliy impeached (now on the statute book in Thailand)

    I would like very much to hear them.

    At the time he was given the bum's rush, Taksin held no office. He was simply keeping the chair warm up until a new election brought about a new PM. Taksin had created an impasse whereby the election could have only have resulted in such new PM being himself, thus the opposition refused to play ball. The people of Thailand, that is to say the indigenous population entitled to vote and not the likes of you, were heartily sick of him and his maniacal ego and were happy the army, as usual, stepped in. (As an aside, this was, in my view, a huge mistake, they should simply have let him implode).

    If you doubt this, ask yourself one question: Why were all his devoted supporters not taking to the streets at the time of his ouster?

  2. By the way, there is a very real difference between 'free speech' and idiotic intentional whipping up of xenophobia. Flaming is a lesser parallel. It serves no purpose other to set one against another which is precisely the Government's (in this case Obama's) agenda and nothing more. DO wake up.

    A soldier handling secret information and then releasing it to someone else is not 'free speech'. It's treason. I'm not defending the person who made the movie but I think it's really stupid when someone brings up what Bradley Manning did as 'free speech'.

    Bradley Manning stupidly tried to do you lot a favour and wake you up to what your government after government would prefer you did not know!

    You seem to be of the Ignorance Is Bliss brigade. No wonder they believe, and seemingly rightly so, they can continue to manipulate you ad infinitum. At the peril of The Rest Of The World. Baaaaa

    He didn't try to do anyone except himself a favor, and if you follow Wikileaks, you are being manipulated.

    '... and if you follow Wikileaks, you are being manipulated'. Yeah ... And how did you 'form this conclusion'?laugh.png Fox News?
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  3. OP: I echo the sentiments of the other posters. Please do not be upset with the following as I am not intending to be negative.

    On a very pragmatic level you need to be a bit careful with some fee paying hospitals if that's the path you go down for medical care whilst in Thailand. You can register a Living Will Declaration , as I have. Would need to be translated into Thai and notarised by a Thai lawyer. Wording you may like to consider as follows:

    As I make this declaration I am of sound mind. I direct this declaration to my family and to anyone else who may become responsible for my health, welfare, financial, or other affairs. I hereby declare as follows:

    Should circumstances come to exist, such as there is no reasonable expectation of my recovery, I direct that no extreme measures of any kind be used. In the event that there is a substantial question about the possibility of my recovery, or if there is no reasonable expectation of my recovery, I request that medication or other measures be utilised to reduce my physical suffering. I ask that this request be carried out even in the event that such measures or such medication may shorten my life.

    On behalf of myself and my Estate I hereby release from any liability all hospitals, physicians, other medical personnel, and all other individuals having any part in complying with the requests made herein above.

    My very best wishes...

    All very nice but the FACT is that unless you have someone to actually instruct VERBALLY your wishes, such as a friend/family member, pragmatically any hospital here, private or otherwise will do what is in it's best BUSINESS interest and you'll be Non-DNR'd (to add to the money they make from either your pre-paid credit card/insurance) and thence subject to a long drawn out artificial extension of what's left of your physical life.

    Please do not be fooled by Western concepts of Living Wills/Empathy here. They do not exist no matter whatever some shyster lawyer will tell you.

    On the plus side, for there is one, any Western hospital would be duty bound/so in fear of being sued that they too would drag out the agony. A nice bungalow by the sea and a bottle of Nembutal's my plan. I've seen the alternative.

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  4. By the way, there is a very real difference between 'free speech' and idiotic intentional whipping up of xenophobia. Flaming is a lesser parallel. It serves no purpose other to set one against another which is precisely the Government's (in this case Obama's) agenda and nothing more. DO wake up.

    A soldier handling secret information and then releasing it to someone else is not 'free speech'. It's treason. I'm not defending the person who made the movie but I think it's really stupid when someone brings up what Bradley Manning did as 'free speech'.

    Bradley Manning stupidly tried to do you lot a favour and wake you up to what your government after government would prefer you did not know!

    You seem to be of the Ignorance Is Bliss brigade. No wonder they believe, and seemingly rightly so, they can continue to manipulate you ad infinitum. At the peril of The Rest Of The World. Baaaaa

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  5. Just punish the guy who made it ... And all this will be gone ....

    In America we dont punish people for speaking their mind, we have free speech. The day the USA bows to such cowardly acts is the day it loses what makes it great.

    Bradley Manning?

    That's the stupidest statement I have ever heard. There's a big difference between 'free speech' and what this guy did.

    What, exactly, did 'this guy' do? In your er, educated opinion?

    By the way, there is a very real difference between 'free speech' and idiotic intentional whipping up of xenophobia. Flaming is a lesser parallel. It serves no purpose other to set one against another which is precisely the Government's (in this case Obama's) agenda and nothing more. DO wake up.

  6. When will these nobodies realise that it doesn't matter what they say or think about Thaksin, he is not going to listen to them. Thaksin is biding his time now and is happy to do so. He is waiting for THE moment when he will come back here and claim his position of power and at that point he will never let it go again. Plans for a family relocation would not be a wasted exercise wink.png

    Seriously, would you consider leaving Thailand and relocating your family should he return ???

    What about others on here ?

    By 'THE moment' do you mean ... huh.png

    And yes, please, all you farang here who feel that any return of The Guy Constantly Referred To In The Media, (including this forum) would be a threat to your insignificant presence in this country, do relocate yourselves now. As if it matters who is/is not 'In Power'.

    Odious he is, PaPa Doc he is not. Miaow ...

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  7. Then, they spot "Motorbike Rent - 200 baht a day" - so, they jump on and many end up dead or badly injured.
    I've spotted travel websites actually advising people to hire a bike when they visit Phuket because of the very expensive transport here. Hence so many straight off the plane ending up dead as never ridden a bike before. I see these obviously incompetent riders on a daily basis in the high season. terrifying. And just days ago, they were announcing their objective of getting the traffic death stats down to 50 per year. Laughable.

    You can hire a jeep for 600 baht a day or a car for 1000 baht per day, I always advise my friends to arrange private transport

    That's fine if your're a family/group of friends on holiday. There are many who not only vacation alone, but who actually live here and don't drive. Notwithstanding this thread seems to be tourist centric, completely ignoring the fact that many local expats and Thais could not/would not pay 600-1000 baht to trip up to Tesco huh.png
  8. funny how many people cant tell the difference. Though i suppose it is safer to err on side of prudence.
    Yes, funny how a local Thai electrician couldn't tell the difference between a tah-kaab and a ginlur (millipeed) and looked at me in horror as I picked one up and put it outside the bathroom. Also funny how the OP (who didn't mention the length by the way), could mistake this for a bloody caterpillar.

    I've never seen this smaller species here on Phuket in all the time I've been here. And I've seen most everything else. Funny.

  9. Then, they spot "Motorbike Rent - 200 baht a day" - so, they jump on and many end up dead or badly injured.
    I've spotted travel websites actually advising people to hire a bike when they visit Phuket because of the very expensive transport here. Hence so many straight off the plane ending up dead as never ridden a bike before. I see these obviously incompetent riders on a daily basis in the high season. terrifying. And just days ago, they were announcing their objective of getting the traffic death stats down to 50 per year. Laughable.
  10. I've read many posts on this forum saying how dangerous Pattaya is. I found it to be the complete opposite. I didn't see a single bad incident of any sort, and people seemed very well behaved. I felt very safe and didn't see anything that even hinted at danger.

    You were just lucky. Pattaya is the cess pool of Thailand, although some might consider that honor goes to Phuket.

    Pattaya, unlike Phuket, has no pretensions to being anything other than that which it is. It also has an excellent public transport system. If Pattaya's 'mafia' is so much worse, or at best even equal to Phuket's, why is it that Pattaya is able to fund decent fast, efficient and affordable public transport and Phuket isn't?
  11. Ugh, it's a ta-khab, and the only thing I'll go after with a flamethrower having been bitten by one some years back. It'd hidden in some clothing I was wearing and spent the entire evening with me on my jaunt around the island on Loy Kratong until it decided to come out and introduce itself some hours later. 12 hours of pain. There's a thread running in General re 'Nature invading your house time of year'. Seriously, my house is open to every other living creature to the point of Jainism, but not this one. Don't piss one off laugh.png

  12. How long ago and how bad was it? A minor dust up even if reported to local police has made it to the dust bin by now. On the other hand if you almost killed the guy they might care a bit more. They don't even put that much effort into finding crack heads that rob houses for pete sake. If you have a warrant it is most likely they won't see or care unless you get arrested for something else un related and they bother to check. Stay out of trouble and the longer it is the less it will matter.

    In the states they care about the city budget and a friend went into the police station and asked if he had a warrant - his x wife had said she turned him in for something he had done - they asked where the warrant would be out of and he told them and then they said we won't check on that because it is out of town and if you do we have a warrant we will have to arrest you - we can't afford to feed you - go home and forget about it.

    When a warrant of arrest is issued here in Thailand, it automatically goes to Immigration. Slowly, but it does. And if the police er, 'forget' to act on it, anyone can fax a copy to Chaeng Wattana General and Police Divisions. So 'your friend' will not only be taking a chance on re-entry, but for subsequent visa extensions also. Witness the French guy picked up at Phuket Imm a week or so ago.

    Altercation with a Thai man, 70 years old and seemingly in poor health? whistling.gif

  13. Now that is a very sensible thing. I wonder if Thails have ever heard about the idea of Carpooling.. The public transportatin in my view is excellent. The bus system very good, and there no place you cannot travel to. The subway and the skytrain are superb. It would however be good if the skytrain would operate on a 24 hour basiscoffee1.gif

    Conversely, the public transport here on Phuket is, quite literally, save for the odd hourly 'chicken' bus (and what a face they present to the world on this 'World Class International Destination'laugh.png ), non existent. Local tuk tuks cannot be described as 'public transport' they ply tourist areas only. Even if you were able to secure a second mortgage to hire one, outside the main drag, you're stuffed. Then we have the itinerant motosais who've now taken a leaf out of the tuk tuk's books and charge accordingly. And just yesterday I read the local authorities want to reduce the number of road deaths here to just 50 per year, laugh.png , again. Give people a reasonable and convenient alternative in getting around this bloody great island to personal transportation hurtling along at unchecked break neck speed, and they just might.

    I am aware this thread is about Bangkok, but miss the incomparable ease in getting about Bangkok. Never mind 24hr skytrain, you have it made.

  14. I watched that Australian tv documentary on the Bamford case and anyone who believes she was lying has had no other dealings with what passes for the law enforcers here than having to stump up a 'traffic ticket'. I don't care what the weight of Phuket's PR says.

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  15. This pointless case with it's ridiculous 200k/4k 'either/or's', the Public Attorney now asking for more evidence w00t.gif and 'cannot access black box' is the typical Thai way of showing something to having at least attempted to be done and sod all will happen.

    All this debacle will do is further enforce what everyone here knows and that is Money Is God and screw your justice. Waste of time (and they're very good at that, m.o. here, 'keep everyone hanging around until they get bored and bugger off'). As per.

  16. Thailand is the master of the universe when it comes to the sex trade. The sex trade sets the bar for social thought and behavior. As long as society tolerates rampant pervasive participation in the sex trade by all levels of society whether declared professional or free lancer, then it's open season on a corrupted philosophy with limited values. The sex trade was really the first "international" scale enterprise of Thailand. Where foreigners would actually plan to travel here for sex. Long before that, Thailand specialized in sex trade for its domestic customers which geometrically dwarfs foreign sex trade today. Secondly, Thailand's history of cash real estate investment, sex trade and other black economy money sourced through the drug trade hub in Bangkok clearly links links the "corruption" factor.

    The Thai "culture" of corruption and its escalation are its prescription for becoming an official "failed state" with endless refills. No other country takes Thailand seriously as a "legitimate" business partner and camps in here because they can freely play the corruption, payoff, bribery scheme with cheap labor and limited benefits or negative ramifications and bought off politicians and government organizations. Because everything can be bought out for a lower cost than the cost of making it right. Thailand's "Mr. 20%s" start out right away slicing in to a new business venture's margins right after a BOI intro or even before. Then comes the squeezing of profits at the expense of safety, benefits, and fair play with employees.

    As this philosophy of corruption continues to eat away at government, police and military organizations, they become less and less able or willing to enforce law. The less that they enforce law, the more complacent about it all the regular folks get. The state then escalates to a Fascist type regime, and shortly thereafter becomes an "official" failed state. Thailand already meets many of the prerequisites for defining a failed state.

    147 reading this topic and no one addresses 'noitom's' excellent post (thanks for this wai.gif )

    Also interesting to note that a 'popular' post was one basically saying there was nothing wrong with corruption here. Seems the much derided Thais aren't the only ones in denial.

  17. However, luck was on their side as the Bahraini taxi driver took pity on them and dropped them off at a hotel and paid for the room - Bt2,000 - telling them not to come out or contact anybody.

    But however way they managed it, at least the women did escape.

    Heres the problem I have with this story:

    It states that the woman used all her wits and knowledge of communications technology to help herself and nine other Thai women escape from forced prostitution in a Bahrain brothel. So we can assume that this woman is quite intelligent.

    Therefore, I find it difficult to believe that when the woman accepted the job, that she would not have guessed there must be sexual services involved or expected of her, especially considering the large sum of 50000 baht that was being offered, plus I gather it was all expenses paid, for only a 10 days working contract as a masseuse of which she had no experience whatsoever. So surely logic says; there must be other services required from her. This should have sent alarm bells ringing in her mind if she was not prepared to enter into prostitution?

    And what about the allusive friend who sent her the ticket? Has she been named and shamed?

    These occurrences are happening all the time, where women hoping to earn mega bucks in a very short time become tempted by these offers and end up being held to ransom by international criminal gangs.

    Perhaps it really is naivety or maybe just greed. What about the women who never manage to escape and become trapped forever as just sexual receptacles for the services of men and being held in some back rooms somewhere?

    When will they ever learn?

    Didn't take long for someone to jump on the 'naivety' aspect. How many times have you seen warnings on this forum re Nigerian/Your Email Address has won a zillion dollars scams? Greed or stupid?
  18. I also like the concept of using shipping containers for housing. With appropriate shading, it is suitable in Thailand, too. For the money, it gives you a very sturdy structure. Container houses are earthquake-proof - in contrast to the typical concrete construction.

    The style is a matter of taste, of course! But there are many option; from the genuine "rusty" type until a house where you no more see the container core.

    Shipping container were my first choice for our weekend house in the Roi-Et province. Unfortunately, I am not the only who decides...biggrin.png So we start building a more conservative house - but with steel frame and prefab walls.

    http://asitespecific...or-made-prefab/

    https://www.facebook.com/prefablab

    The artists' impressions on the first link look nice (notice absent price list ...), but wonder about the 'eco' aspect. As another poster pointed out, it'll be hot as Hades in one of those in this country (think getting into your car after it having been parked in the sun for 30 minutes, but bigger and longer time), so either you cut a lot of openings which would require a lot of glass (for when it rains), which would require an enormous amount of energy being used to air con the thing = astronomical utility bill.

    Shipping containers been done to death now anyway.

  19. Thank god, the legal side is finally finished, the bar is now ours officially....! The request of the family to make a thai passport for my baby is denied by me and my lawyer...

    Hopefully things will only go better from this point on, I dont wanna rush back to my home country allthough the last few months made me realize I dont want to stay here indefinitely either...lets see.

    Good for you Carry! Don't let these vulchers chase you off back to Europe with your tail between your legs. Reading between the lines, you really don't want to go anyway.

    I get sick and tired of the 'Thai always wins' mentality on this forum. Oh no they don't! Hang in there and tell them to bugger off. They appear to have tried their best to get everything they can out of you, and failed. They'll get bored now. Parasites.

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