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3 hours ago, Guderian said:
Actually, I'd have called it confrontation rather than contemplation. Sad news all the same, and the right attitude IMHO, since there seems to be no avoiding the end, enjoy yourself while you still can.
Sometimes I appreciate confrontation in Thai politics rather than merely shifting pieces around on a chessboard or pussying around forming coalitions with the other loser mates. Say it as it is and if they don't like it, stuff'em.
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13 hours ago, bignok said:
I paid 1100 baht for a mid range room last month.
Who does this research?
CM has 8,000 baht a month hotel rooms in Old City.
I have stayed in 3 Bangkok hotel/apartments at this price in the last month.
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2 hours ago, Neeranam said:
I had a problem too with that.
There's a big difference between amphetamines and ganja though.
Yes there is, but I am not so sure that Thaksin would see the difference that we see between the two substances.
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One big problem I had with Thaksin was his Duterte like 'shoot a drug dealer/user' campaign which failed to discriminate between real criminals and small time users and dealers. You would not think Thaksin would be tolerant of legalised marijuana if he was again in a position of power.
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Are banks closed throughout this period too? I need to send money to a Thai friend's account but it appears he will have to wait.
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3 hours ago, couchpotato said:
Only 2 days out of the six---live with it.
Which two days? I need to stock up.
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Don't know how the average expat can afford cheese. It's so expensive here compared to back home.
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4 hours ago, JonnyF said:
An incredibly ignorant generalization.
https://www.dogvills.com/famous-celebrity-pit-bull-owners/
Dr Phil, Jamie Foxx, Tom Brady, Jennifer Aniston, Cesar Millan, Jon Berthnall. All "no good" people people presumably?
Perhaps just change 'always' to 'always too often'.
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8 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:
How many countries in S.E. Asia have democratic elections, Cambodia have just had an election, it was from Democratic !
Cambodia doesn't really even have an opposition anymore, let alone a credible alternative party. For that you have Hun Sen and China to thank. The country doesn't even make any real pretence of being a democracy now that it's clutched to the bosom of Mainland China. Thailand does offer a selection of parties, but the military and the overruling parliamentary structure ensure that only the old guard can win in the end.
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4 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:
I went to court when my friend fronted the judge and witnessed first hand the sentencing.
I apologise for lying to you.
Whatever. From personal experience I say 6 months for one joint is impossible. There has to be something else involved. Posters here are querying how this guy got months for 2 ecstasy pills, a crime much more serious than marijuana.
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5 hours ago, Ralf001 said:
Not as though the repercussions for being caught with drugs are not known.
Had a friend do 6 months for a joint he had in his pocket.
I don't think that could possibly be true. When I lived in Thailand, the penalty for small amounts of marijuana was 48 days jail. Most farangs would have paid their way out. 6 months for a joint was not going to happen.
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6 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:
I learnt long ago that there is always two sides to a story.
Now do we honestly thing that the cops would waste their time to arrest him for 2 ecstasy tablets, I would think the other side of the story is that he insulted the police, now that could be by his foul mouth or spitting on them.
The above said, I don't know the other side of the story, but I got a rough idea.
His dad must be real proud of him.
His story could be true, but you have to weigh it all up.
You're just making it up as you go with your assumptions of what MIGHT have happened and convinced yourself that your embellishments represent the truth.
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7 hours ago, Jonathan Swift said:
He's obviously old enough to have known better. I feel bad for his suffering, but come on, did he not know about drugs and Thai prisons? Why take those kind of chances? I knew about it long before I came here, and I wouldn't at the time (10 years ago) even go near anyone smoking weed.
I doubt that anyone buying a couple of ecstasy pills does so believing they will be caught by police. Drug takers generally take the odd risk in life, and 99% of the time don't pay a consequence. You are obviously not of his ilk. But the point of the article is the humiliating way in which he was treated. Having been in a similar but less serious situation 30 years ago, I am inclined to believe his story. At least Thailand has legalised marijuana. I for one have avoided coming here because I don't wish to visit somewhere more strict than my own country. I'm back now.
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19 hours ago, Polaky said:
Plenty of people leave factual negative reviews to assist their fellow travellers and nothing ever comes of it, without these reviews we would be staying in absolute horrible hotels, so we owe them a great deal of thanks.
I am currently staying at the Asia Airport Hotel near Don Meuang airport for 4 days to be near Thai friends and have 5 other bookings in the north and elsewhere in Bangkok in the north and elsewhere in Bangkok. This hotel didn't get many great reviews on booking.com, but I really appreciated the variety of information and opinions in them, enabling me to decide whether I would be likely to be satisfied with the hotel, which in this case I am. I will leave this place a decent review when I leave. I think reviews are really valuable tools, particularly verified ones rather than those that anyone can do on TA etc. It's important to consider the impact of a review on a hotel etc, particularly if your opinion is vastly different from others.
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On 6/23/2023 at 10:59 PM, proton said:
HP are a trash brand my HP battery lasted a year. Buy something decent, current laptop battery lasts 18 hours
Do you have any advice on brands? My HP battery also dropped by half in a year. Get 5 hours out of it now.
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On 1/12/2021 at 7:38 PM, kingstonkid said:
OP not sure if you bought your battery but if you are in the Bangkok area check out Zeer Rangsit as there are a lot of shops that sell the batteries at a reasonable price and you can check them out at the store.
Are there computer places in Zeer that can replace the battery too? Also have HP Envy with a battery running out of steam, and will be staying at the Asia Airport in the Zeer complex next week.
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5 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:
No more careless than I see many folk with their belongings....
People leaving their phones and handbags on tables with their backs turned....
Handbags open in busy shopping malls etc...
See women with open handbags on the BTS etc..
See someone pull up at 7-11 and leave their car running while they gets what he wants.
See a motorcyclist pull up and leave the keys in the bike while he gets what he needs etc.
People in general are often careless with their own belongings... how many stories do we read of someone leaving a few hundred thousand baht in a bag in a taxi etc... ???
All this points to the fact that there are a lot more honest people around than there are thieves !!!
With this story, the only real difference is the 'value of the item' this lady owns.... that seems to have really put some people in a nicker-twisting-tissy !!!....
You say the value 'is the only difference', but it's a very compelling difference.
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2 hours ago, bradiston said:
Top price for a pair of Air Jordans 17,711,000 THB. 2nd most expensive 3.2m THB. 3rd, 3.1m THB. Just a sample.
But, because she's Chinese and a woman, somehow it's obscene to have paid this amount, if she in fact did. However, it's crazy to be actually carrying this item around with you. It should be locked away in a safe. In a few years, it would have been worth double. Only 5 made! Unused. Mint condition. Priceless!
It's not because she's Chinese or a woman, it's because she carelessly carries the bag around and allows it opportunities to be snatched from under her nose. It's having so much money that you can spend $US65,000+ on a basic necessity luxuriously made and targeted at the super rich and be so oblivious to its uniqueness. A collector would store the bag, not swan around with it on her arm and forget it on her way to or from a flight. To the average person, it's all a bit obscene.
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4 hours ago, jts-khorat said:
In my old times on Phuket, payment of a 'service fee' because police was inconvenienced to drive out for nonsense would have been the preferred method of cooling down hapless minds.
Anything would be considered an inconvenience by Phuket cops. It's the Thai province in which money talks. They'd be easily interchangeable with Pattaya police.
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13 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:
Looks like the nearest was a Golden Retriever.
Golden Retrievers are among the most commonly used dogs for food in China, apparently due to breeders selling unwanted dogs. Any dog rescue video you view from China will contain numerous GRs among the dogs in the trucks and crates. They are also a breed which are the friendliest and least aggressive of all dogs.
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13 hours ago, Bundooman said:
Great picture - the future for all these disgusting, stinking animals. Alternatively minced and sold as cat food.... and vice versa.
"According to the WHO, rabid dogs are responsible for about 25,000 deaths per year throughout the world. Countries with large populations of strays see correspondingly high rates of rabies and about 36 percent of rabies deaths occur in India each year, most of which come from people coming into contact with rabid dogs.
The number of individuals who suffered from dog bites annually. More recently, according to a randomized survey conducted from 2001-2003, an estimated 4.521 million suffered from dog bites each year."
Exterminate them all. No more dog sh*t......... heaven!
You evidently have no idea of the cruel manner in which dogs destined to be food in Vietnam are treated and killed. If dogs in the country were treated with love and respect instead of being dumped on the streets and forced to fend for themselves by irresponsible and callous owners, there would be so many strays. The strays themselves need to be neutered, but no government is prepared to accept responsibility for this either. The dogs did not ask for their fate.
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18 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:
And the article clearly states that on those previous occasions the child's mother admitted that her son had instigated those incidents...the same child who was approaching the same dog with a plastic bag this time. Perhaps...?
That's the way I read it, though you'd wonder why a child twice bitten would torment the animal a third time. There is no reason not to believe that the boy didn't instigate this attack too, given he had a stick and plastic bag and was unsupervised. The question is should the dog be expected not to react violently to provocation, particularly by a small child. There is also the bite to the older brother's leg to be considered. I'd be demanding a series of rabies shots too for both children. I imagine the animal has been mistreated before by people and is wary of them. I guess the dog should be humanely euthanised, particularly given the owner's lack of remorse or willingness to accept real responsibility. At the same time, you wonder how the situation might have been different if locals showed more kindness and respect to dogs.
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12 hours ago, Jingthing said:
People that have done LSD are more likely to have flashbacks on THC.
LSD permanently alters the brain.
Not necessarily bad but it does.
Never liked LSD. Just too heavy an experience and being locked into it for 8 hours didn't help either.
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On 5/20/2023 at 11:31 PM, jollyhangmon said:
... fear not, place is full of da weed, worthy & right just as it should be ... couple dudes here on AN alone done stashing away serious rotating tonnages.
Bring a couple ersatz lungs & bronchial tubes though and you gonna make a killing ...
The new government doesn't look like taking office till mid August, so recreational dope looks safe till at least then if not well beyond.
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Sibling surprise: Thailand’s ex-PMs special guests at Cambodian PM’s birthday bash
in Thailand News
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Any friend of Hun Sen is no friend of mine.