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watterinja

The Physics of Black Holes... fatal attractors...

terry57

Foking amasses me when someone trots out tripe like this, more to the point they should ask themselves :

Why do the Thais think I'm a coont when they like other farang ?

Suppose this dude lives in pattaya.

Actually I'll go a tad further with this one, how about touring the north east of Thailand and foking meeting the locals out there, maybe you will get to meet some real nice Thais instead of spruking shite like your post.

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terry57

For fok sake can some bastard please put this flogger in jail. Foking muppets writing absolute bullshit piss me off.

EmperorTud

^ he's right though Tel.

That Thai boy that did it not so long ago has had threats of legal action, death threats and been assaulted in the street.

EmperorTud

I’ve seen tons and tons of movies in Thailand - and always wondered if maybe somebody missed the moment and kept on sitting and what would happen. You never know. Or an unknowing tourist? Well, next to Chotisak - two seats away exactly - sat Nawamin Witthayakul, who filed the lèse majesté charges against Chotisak when the latter refused to move. Chotisak faces 3-15 years in prison.

Lèse Majesté Charges For Keeping Cinema Seat

A Thai woman arrested for refusing to stand as the royal anthem played in a Bangkok cinema faces up to 15 years in prison, police said Tuesday.
Ratchapin Chancharoen, 28, was arrested Sunday [june 15] evening and charged with insulting Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej by not standing during the anthem, which plays to a montage of royal portraits before the screening of every film.


Lese-majeste : woman arrested for refusing to stand in a Bangkok cinema « Thailand Crisis

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brixtonbwoy

it happened to me the first time i was in bkk about 7 years ago.i didnt know you had to stand during the anthem.i was at the cinema and luckily the girl i was with dragged me out of my seat and saved me from a kicking.it was close though a bit like that scene in 1984

Jools

Tourist authorities once acted under the principle that if you give tourists reasons to come...they WILL. There is ample room for argument that Thai attitudes hinge on xenophobia and lack of education. This is a quick way of getting votes but not easily undone when you are trying to attract the foreigners that you revile.

brixtonbwoy

anyway if there are so few tourists why havent prices started falling.i havent noticed any reductions everything just keeps going up.bring on the recession!

keda

Can only hope, but awareness and acknowledgment is beginning to trickle to the lower and middle classes that Thai politics and other repressive institutions are transparently corrupt. Those at the bottom may be more concerned with not missing the harvest than whether or not the airports are open, because it does not directly affect them, but more are less afraid to voice uncomplimentary opinions than they were just a few years ago. This is also coming at a time of change, away from what most Thais have been weaned on and know nothing else.

Also, more people than before seem prepared to register anger and discontent, which can be a good sign or ominous, depending on many variables...won't be sweet, major shifts never are, but fingers, eyes and legs crossed that it turns out better for the next generation than it has been for the last several.

Lese majesty must be first or very early to go, as observed by HM and echoed by his representatives, to demonstrate his wise and forward thinking approach. It is a graven image that should be worshipped by choice, and HM got that bit right. Good, because as long it remains about the only law in this country that is ruthlessly enforced, many will be torn between their perception of freedom and the horrible consequences of saying or doing or not saying or doing the right or wrong thing, so removal is a catalyst for openness and truth for the people, albeit with the wisdom of their elders.


Should qualify, though it's a fairly common opinion, still can't see more than a continuing pretence at democracy here, at very best, but a move in that direction is better than nothing and quite frankly, the current generation of unconscionable leaders well deserve to be punished for selfishly failing to consider that people with nothing have little to lose.

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gjbkk

It is too useful a law to rid of quickly as it sever the ones in power. But thanks to the PAD it's vile existence is now being challenged by some.

Butterfly

oh yeah, because the first thing tourists check when they go to a country for the sun and beaches, is to check the local laws

Wallalai

Most of the long timer and expats living in Thailand act like respectuous people and have learned the way to live a happy life here, when the 2 weeks tourists act like porks left alone in a vegetable field. Don't pack all the foreigners in the same bag plz.

phuketbound

Prices are falling. Most hotels are giving discounts left and right according to many websites. I'm heading there in February. A good time to go, as there will probably less tourists, and lower airfare compared to now.

Repubblicano

Now that the whole world has seen the threat they pose , they surely do.
300,000 tourists stranded are something difficult to forget.

terry57

Shite, first time Ive ever heard of that, I wonder if it only applies to Thais and not farang ?

Foking hope so or Bkkandrew will be in jail forever.


Alright then I apologize to the other dude that I abused, very foking unusual for myself to make a shocking mistake like that innit ?

0bsidian

is it written on there forehead?

DrB0b

It's a small town with a small sex-tourist area, most guest-house/bar/gogo/tour people know each other and the people who work in the tourist areas and I generally know exactly where our guests go. The ones who do want sex are not shy about asking where to get it and I'm quite happy to tell them as I get a commission.

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terry57

^

Yo Bobby boy,

Now your talking me old mucker. I'll give you the good oil, if you give me the inside info on the lovely little brown bomb shells I'll split your commission with you.


Urm, thanks bobby.

keda

DrBob: Is that 'small town' representative of Thailand? - have you ever been outside that 'small town' to check if sex tourists do indeed exist beyond the 1% you've managed to identify? Is there life beyond that horizon?

DrB0b

I said 1% of OUR customer's, not Thailand's customers, MY business's customers. I'm not making any claims for anybody else. It's bloody obvious that lots of people come to Thailand for sex, I'm not stupid enough to think otherwise.