Pierrot
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Not only are you still being judge and jury, you now clearly show you are taking the brief for the prosecution. By selectively quoting you are not showing or admitting all the other facts. Exactly what prosecution lawyer would do of course. To say you only show one side because you need to keep the podt size is down won't fool many.
For a balanced and less naive view look at citizen33 serpico and petterrgaga's posts. No bias. No histrionics. Just giving their personal opinions having lived here a while.
Fair and Balanced .... why do these words sound so nasty?
cause those words are the Fox News moto?
I don't understand Pierrot's post and heaven only knows what a "moto" is
I suggest Samran you read a bit more widely about the two current cases, look at other sites and read some of the more lucid comments on here. I live in a soi with no farangs for miles, and I can assure you the average Thai is very embarassed by all this.
We always have the Thai apologists on TV and no amount of logic or facts will change their posts
Sorry for the trouble caused. Actually I was trying my luck at "triple entendre".
As Samran noticed, it was first a joke at Fox News expense.
Then it was an answer to caf's accusation that Benjie was partial but caf's posts too were far from "fair and balanced" .
And last, these few days we talked a lot about 70's music, these words are from "Hair", the 70's musical. I won't give the full verses because I don't want any trouble with the mods here but you can check by yourself on google if you like
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Not only are you still being judge and jury, you now clearly show you are taking the brief for the prosecution. By selectively quoting you are not showing or admitting all the other facts. Exactly what prosecution lawyer would do of course. To say you only show one side because you need to keep the podt size is down won't fool many.
For a balanced and less naive view look at citizen33 serpico and petterrgaga's posts. No bias. No histrionics. Just giving their personal opinions having lived here a while.
Fair and Balanced .... why do these words sound so nasty?
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So you want to promote an "entrepreneur" society ? But is it compatible with the Thai "sabai sabai" attitude ?
As I mentioned, before we try to alter society as a whole, we need more captains and quarterbacks. The sabai sabai crowd should then have more jobs available for them to turn wrenches, push buttons, affix chips, etc. and still have plenty of time for their sabai activities or doing nothing. Those who want to go the hard way (the higher risk, higher reward route) as always are more than welcome to break ranks and hack their way through the jungle.
You very rightly point out the major problem of Thailand, an army of generals and soldiers, but nobody in the middle.
The question of why the uneducated stay uneducated is a very good question. Why some society can promote "good" social value and other can't ? Thailand had only survived because of the regular influx of Chinese and, to a lesser extend, Japanese, which answers the original question, but maybe not in the way the OP expected.
But to answer your post, as a society, as far as education and work ethic are concerned, Thailand is a failure. So maybe it's time for a change ...
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This ain't rock'n'roll. This is genocide!
As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent
You asked for the latest party
With your silicone hump and your ten inch stump
Dressed like a priest you was
Tod Browning's freak you was
Crawling down the alley on your hands and knee
I'm sure you're not protected, for it's plain to see
The xxxxxxx xxxx are poachers and they hide behind trees
Hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal
To the mods, it's related to this thread, in multiple ways.
Please try first without using Google.
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I apologize to King Power for my thoughts.
Looks like professional crooks to me.
Did you read about how they changed clothes, sat separately, and he had the stolen goods on him although she took it??
I find it weird that they'd go so far for a simple wallet. Either they're kleptomaniacs or they had some other agenda. Could also be that they're just plain dumb.
So far it seems the main crime K P is responsible of is poor PR. And probably also bad judgment in the choice of their security company.
Then we have the "victims'. First they are not the innocents people some would like us to believe. Actually they look much more like a bunch of professional thieves than some occasional offenders victim of a momentary lapse of judgment, which probably explain the exceptional treatment they had to endure. I guess we will learn more about them in the near future.
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The way this was handled is outrageous and State Departments owe their citizens a travel warning on Thailand until something changes with the cops in this country.
Absolutely agree with you.
If you plan to cheat, scam, steal or kill someone (recent thread), avoid Thailand !!!
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It seems you have a limited knowledge of Thai middle class outside Bangkok. I happen to know a lot of those middle class people who got university degree in local or foreign university and are now middle managers in international (read mostly foreign) companies. And will be the future G M in a couple of years, like it or not.
I won't comment your "elitist" system, so close to what they tried to do in the former eastern block, with the success we know.
Perhaps, but I'm well aware of that fate as well, and IMO that's a less productive role for these folks. I think they could be of more benefit to the economy and country if they were running their own businesses. Like it or not, indifferent actually.
So you want to promote an "entrepreneur" society ? But is it compatible with the Thai "sabai sabai" attitude
? From The Economist :
"Dr Nesse believes that persistence is a reason for the exceptional level of clinical depression in America—the country that has the highest depression rate in the world. “Persistence is part of the American way of life,” he says. “People here are often driven to pursue overly ambitious goals, which then can lead to depression.” He admits that this is still an unproven hypothesis, but it is one worth considering."
http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology...ory_id=13899022
PS : I'm getting sick and tired to see Greenspan face every time I type by mistake"theeconomist.com". They say "THE Economist of the Century" ... because he's responsible of THE Crisis of the Century
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It's much much safer for these extortionists to pick on people who've really done something wrong.
Yes, it actually is. And the main point here is they REALLY did something wrong.
But do you really believe that if your old Mum goes in there, there's no chance she's going to be charged for 2 items on her credit card instead of 3, or given a 'freebie' that turns out expensive?That's very different ! Heavy sales tactic, maybe. Extortion , definitively no !
Too many people believe Thailand is a third world country where they can do as they please, and if they get caught, should get away with a slap on the wrist. Sorry, wrong !
From Lao Pao "The point is -guilty or not guilty- the extortion of enormous amounts of money from the people involved, apart from the fact that they were kept against their will, missed their plane and the amounts are not proportionate to the products involved, whether KP is/was involved or not."
You believe if you get caught stealing in any airport in Europe or the USA, they won't keep you against your will and you won't miss your flight ? Obviously you never got caught
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I never did that before so I'm not sure it's going to work
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/post-a86973-.html
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/post-a86974-.html
Above (?) are the picture of our lawnmower and the result.
We use this "machine" because we have a land about the same size as Lickey. We need to cut the grass on a regular basis, a shoulder held brush cutter would be too tiring and to hire a tractor (we don't own one) too expensive. We try to maintain the grass between 5 to 15 cm high, actually mostly for aesthetic reasons but also because I don't want the soil to be too exposed to the wind and the rain. But I never thought about the bugs, so I'm not sure it's the right solution. Any advise is welcomed.
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Guys page 3 is all rubbish comments. Put some usefull information or just say nothing.
I can't believe who says that !
We will never know how many people went to check the Nation, will we ?
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Well it's all relative. Obviously I don't mean just the families at the uppermost tier, as there would still need to be some financial need demonstrated, just not of the bare bones variety; I think there could be a scale to determine who could be pushed further and faster AND still come back and do something productive other than just become a professor with no experience (which is what happens to a lot of folks with no business foundation family wise). From the families that own a few small businesses but can barely afford out of state/foreign student tuition (using the US as an example) to the ones who can easily afford that tuition but can't afford the higher tiered private universities, I'd look at it as not helping the privileged but more of a weeding out/development process not unlike how they determine who the best athletes are/who can become professionals, putting them through higher and higher levels of training and competition. The goal would be to create more and more 'quarterbacks' instead of just making sure more people in the stadium get an extra bag of peanuts.
It seems you have a limited knowledge of Thai middle class outside Bangkok. I happen to know a lot of those middle class people who got university degree in local or foreign university and are now middle managers in international (read mostly foreign) companies. And will be the future G M in a couple of years, like it or not.
I won't comment your "elitist" system, so close to what they tried to do in the former eastern block, with the success we know.
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I know I'm going to bruise some egos here, but all "expats" are not equals.
Uneducated Chinese from some of the poorest rural place in China have been proved more valuable for Thailand, in the short and long run, than most immigrants from the "first" world. And I believe Japanese are close second.
Maybe there is problem with your link but I honestly don't understand your point
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If he's not allowed to have his own birthday party in Thailand, he should call Sandra Bullock or Mick Jagger and join their party, after all they share the same birth day !
If you want to p:ss off some people ... I'm sure they will when they see the pictures in front of all the hi-so magazines in Bangkok !
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Nice to see the old Zeppelin fans come out the woodwork.
Graetest band that ever graced our planet.
Off tiopic but so what.
Live version off 'Song Remains The Same'. Jimmy at his best.
When I realize from time to time that younger generation have already forgotten Led Zeppelin and other mythic bands from that time, I've the same feeling as the guy from the movie "Planet of the Apes" when he discovers the head of the Statue of Liberty on the beach, if you see what I mean
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Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.
Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way
Watch your honey drip, cant keep away.
I gotta roll, cant stand still,
Got a flame in my heart, cant get my fill,
Eyes that shine burning red,
Dreams of you all thru my head.
Didn't take too long fore I found out
What people mean my down and out.
Spent my money, took my car,
Started tellin' her friends she wants to be a star.
I don't know but I been told
A big legged woman ain't got no soul.
All I ask for when I pray,
Steady rollin' woman gonna come my way.
Need a woman gonna hold my hand
And tell me no lies, make me a happy man.
lololol! I'm curious, where's the DOG?????
Never heard of Led Zeppelin ???
not in Thailand, not in ASIA and apparently never in MY GENERATION!!!
WW I veteran ?
Still think Elvis was a communist plot to destroy America ? (btw, I really like this comments from your time :http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/archives/elvis-presley-on-milton-berle-show-06-06-1956.pdf)
Or were you raised in a greek monastery on an isolated island ?
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I know I'm going to bruise some egos here, but all "expats" are not equals.
Uneducated Chinese from some of the poorest rural place in China have been proved more valuable for Thailand, in the short and long run, than most immigrants from the "first" world. And I believe Japanese are close second.
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Hey, hey, mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove.
Oh, oh, child, way you shake that thing
Gonna make you burn, gonna make you sting.
Hey, hey, baby, when you walk that way
Watch your honey drip, cant keep away.
I gotta roll, cant stand still,
Got a flame in my heart, cant get my fill,
Eyes that shine burning red,
Dreams of you all thru my head.
Didn't take too long fore I found out
What people mean my down and out.
Spent my money, took my car,
Started tellin' her friends she wants to be a star.
I don't know but I been told
A big legged woman ain't got no soul.
All I ask for when I pray,
Steady rollin' woman gonna come my way.
Need a woman gonna hold my hand
And tell me no lies, make me a happy man.
lololol! I'm curious, where's the DOG?????
Never heard of Led Zeppelin ???
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These threads keep on amazing me.
Would you consider hiring a convicted fraudster as an accountant ?
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IMHO the more Lese Majeste complains are filed for futile reasons, the more it undermines the position of His Majesty .
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Sorry, don't have the time to read the entire thread, so maybe someone says it before.
Anyway, trust the French to state the obvious :
"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
A. Malraux
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When you think about it, it's all our fault.
Next time we want to piss off the Brits, we better think twice.
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He added that the elephant's owner said it was "violent by nature".
Local reports said the animal had previously killed four people, although police could only confirm that she had killed one person before Wednesday.
Read somewhere the elephant was a PAD member.
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Thailand is not that dirty at all. The streets might be dusty because of the amount of people and cars and the trash is because of lack of rubbish bins and garbage trucks. All in all I would rather go into a MC donalds or fast food here than back in Australia. They really implement sanitization and cleaning. For all other dirty toilets its probably the "MAI PEN RAI" attitude
What a load of bull we are not talking about being dusty we talk about about rubbish thrown every were
Well I prefer my burger in OZ because every body has to wear gloves while handling food.
You ever go to the local markets here? How do they prepeare the food? With bare hands no water to wash and a minute ago they picked theyr noses. Have you ever seen a health inspector checking on all the food stores along the roads? I guess not
Most probably you also have asthma and suffer from multiples allergies. Contact with dust from the early age built your immune system.
You're probably a "bubble kid".
A great hello from someone living outside the bubble.
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The way things go nowadays with all these PC stuffs, soon you will see someone getting in your own house, checking your fridge, sitting on your sofa, screwing your wife and if you protest, he will sue you for discrimination !
What a well-balanced analogy. I can tell you are a deep thinker.
Deep or shallow, it doesn't make me wrong.
The rules of some private club are already challenged based on this principle. In a school recently, a kid had to cancel his birthday party because he didn't invited one of his classmate he had an argument with a few days earlier.
I'm telling you, be very careful next time you organize a party at your home, if I'm not invited, it's my lawyer who's going to ring your door
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(Warning : Adult only rating !)
Not Necessary To Close The Borders, Yet
in Thailand News
Posted · Edited by Pierrot
WHO warns swine flu 'unstoppable'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8130196.stm
Don't these people read the news some time ?
In the mean time, in the UK they organize "flu parties" :
Reports have emerged of people intentionally mixing with friends who have flu. Their reasoning is that it is best to be infected before the winter when the virus could become more deadly.
"I don't think it is a good idea"
says Dr Jarvis, chairman of the British Medical Association's public health committee.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8125191.stm