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I did the same thing with my Lao wife here in Vientiane. The doctor was a filthy slob. His lab coat looked like it could have been boiled for soup stock. His fingernails looked like he'd just come from gardening. When he suggested something ridiculous I pointed to his lab coat and fingernails and then asked him what medical school he went to. He was shocked and told me he was the doctor and if I didn't agree with his advice I could leave. All he saw was the back of my head getting smaller as I calmly walked out the door with my humiliated wife trailing behind. I told her that in Canada, doctors don't look like pigs and are at least semi-intelligent.

Monks good Farangs bad Okay, we get it.

Maybe if those Thai guys got off their lazy arses,got a good education, learned English and got a solid job, Thai women would fancy them. Women want to be taken care of, spoiled and living the good life. I don't think the nationality of the guy is as important as his bank account.

The legalisation of weed in Thailand was done much the same way all of their important decisions seem to be made. Which is of course, with no proper due diligence, no thought process about the implementation, no care given to timelines and how thigs will roll out. Legal weed isn't the problem. The problem is the way everything is done there. There's no freaking plan! Everything is done in an off the cuff half-arsed way. The only wonder is that some things actually work. Canada legalized weed. Where's the problems there? Crickets....it's called planning.

Stricter safety regulations? You mean there actually are safety regulations?

It wasn't my fault. I was bleedin'. Well, alrighty then. 😂

Not on the Aussie side. here. It's all bets off once they get on the plane. Statistics dictate some are going to get through. The big guys don't care about the couriers. Some always get through. A close relative is the chief of narcotics here. I get a great deal of inside info.

It is not going to change. A few years back there was a survey of Thai drivers which was quite comprehensive. In short, a full third of the respondents said there was literally nothing they could do to prevent an accident. Nothing. It is all preordained. Driving drunk, not wearing a seatbelt, in the rain, with the stereo blasting, forgot to put on your headlights, texting a friend on the phone that you're coming over for beers, speeding and blasting through a stop sign without even noticing there was one....has NOTHING to do with getting T-boned and killed by a huge over-loaded semi-truck with <deleted>ty brakes and a driver whacked out of his mind on yaba. It's simply the way things were meant to be. How can you change that? It's such a profoundly stupid, and yet molecularly ingrained, attitude......

It's all a smoke screen. The Chinese officials tipped off the Thai police about this guy while a dozen others got through without an issue and a lot of envelopes changed hands.

I lived and worked in S. Korea for 6 years. They are, generally speaking, incredibly racist. Especially to non-whites. As for the mention in the article about S. Korea being a travel destination for tourists worldwide... HA! As mentioned, I lived there 6 years and met precisely 1 tourist who was there specifically to see the country. The huge majority of tourists were from Japan (whom the Koreans actively hate) and were there to shop in Seoul.

Minutes into the flight??? Why didn't they turn around? Throw dude into the Bangkok Hilton for a while.

Kayaking in unknown waters that are deep and cold without a lifejacket on is a recipe for disaster, as we see here. It takes a few seconds to drown. My cousin drowned when he was 16. He was canoeing and the canoe tipped over 3 meters from shore. He drowned leaving a devastated family behind, while his companion who was wearing a lifejacket, lived. Falling into cold water causes the body to inhale sharply. It's an autonomic response. You inhale water, instantly cough it out and then inhale more. Then you're dead.

The cynic in me wonders which higher-up turned him in to allow another dozens loads to get through?

Pretty sure he meant pulled an all-nighter out boozing or started boozing very early in the morning.

It's not the story that gives backpackers a bad name, it's the begpackers that give backpackers a bad name. I gather critical reading skills aren't your forte.

I was a flight attendant with Air Canada for 10 years and did some flying as well. You are correct from your perspective about landing in fog. But, your perspective is looking out your window down at the ground. The pilots' perspective is looking straight ahead thus they are seeing the fog completely different than you are. It is much thicker looking straight ahead. There's also the legal limits of flight set by the proper government authorities that dictate how far you can see which then dictates whether landing or taking off is possible or not. Having said this, I agree that Thais are way too sensitive to criticism. Which is to say they can't handle it at all. Also, Thai Airways sucks!

Or in the taxi.

I have a solution. Round these people up, put them in a local holding cell and keep them there until they can have money sent from home to cover their flight out. Oh yeah, and charge them for their stay in the crowbar hotel. These sleazy scum give all backpackers a bad reputation.

Tired of peace and quiet. Exhausted by a total lack of whinging and bitching. Unable to exist in a world where you don't have to answer about every minute of your life when you're out with the boys. You miss hearing about close relatives who need a new ______ (insert bull<deleted> answer). You know, things like this.

There are other ways she could have earned a few dollars!

Congratulations. Still, that's a long way from 300 feet.

Yeah.....I just can't feel sorry for people who get killed doing profoundly stupid stuff. Generally, a minimum safe altitude to jump is 2500 feet and most jumpers open their chutes at 2000 feet. This guy jumped from about 300 feet (judging about 10 feet per floor x 29 floors). Unauthorized entry into the building. Trying to get likes on his pathetically external locus of control personality for his online persona. He's (was) an idiot. I hope he wasn't married with kids. I feel sorry for his parents.

True. I detest pedophiles more than any other criminal, but kids have certainly been known to lie. I'd like to learn more about this guy and his relationship with the students. I find it challenging that this behaviour took place in the teacher's lounge and was unknown for several months.

I taught 1st year university in Zhengzhou, China. Chapter 1 in the textbook started with learning the days of the week. This is how far they'd come when they started learning English in Primary Grade 1. So, in their 13th year of formal English language learning, they'd made it all the way to days of the week!

Telepaths!