Thread: British teacher fighting for his life in Thailand after being 'savagely attacked'

What was that thread on here a while back where some guy witnessed a Teacher handling a girl at school and was asking advice ?

Originally Posted by nidhogg

Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog

Citizen journalism is no better for society than Citizen Brain surgery, or Citizen-flying-a-Jumbo Jet.

You equate journalists with brain surgeons and pilots? LOL....

I equate the ability to cock it up as being similar, yes.

Doesn't have to be something like brain surgery or 747 pilots though. Could be citizen soldiers for example. Most observers agree that professional armies are preferable to conscript armies.

Could be a decent comedian vs some bloke who cracks up his mates at the Pub so decides he should go on stage at a Comedy Club - then can't understand why he doesn't get any laughs.

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by BobR

^ If this British Government is going to tax their citizens to impose a communist health care system, they should cover British citizens while they are out of the Country. America's health care system sucks, but at least my private insurance covers me here for anything including motorcycle accidents.

I don't think it is a communist care system. The NHS has long had a regulation that to qualify for treatment one must be ordinarily resident in the UK and to have not been absent for more than 6 months.

The Middle East states all have free health care systems for their citizens and I'm fairly certain they are not communist either.

The British level of taxation is commensurate with any liberal, western democracy. Certainly, the provision for the poor and vulnerable is a staple of any civilised society which adheres to Christian values and is a feature of the British welfare system among many others but that does not denote communism in itself.

I'm puzzled too about your reference to private insurance. British people often use this facility whilst in Thailand and those who remain for lengthy periods will often negotiate with local providers for indemnity. What is your point and how does it relate to communism?

Are you just having another of your mad moments?

The healthcare system is state run and state funded. It is the biggest employer in the country. That is communist

In the US the provision of military force in its defence is centrally funded and the sole responsibility of the State headed by its commander in chief. Is that communist too?

There is a few things that government has always had responsibility for. National defense is one of them.

Not healthcare by decree, not pensions by decree, not insurance by decree, not control of the money supply by decree, not justice by decree.

The maintenance of a national health service has been a central plank of any political party's manifesto in the UK since its inception and, indeed, if it were not then that party would be consigned to a democratically chosen wilderness. How on earth you construe government by decree from that escapes me. But then, I'm also somewhat bemused by the dedication of your carer who gets you up in the morning, feeds you and sits you by the keyboard and punches out whatever drivel they think your gurglings represent.

Did you ever receive a proper education or was it just a case of leaving you in front of the TV in the hope something might happen?

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by thegent

Originally Posted by socal

Originally Posted by thegent

I don't think it is a communist care system. The NHS has long had a regulation that to qualify for treatment one must be ordinarily resident in the UK and to have not been absent for more than 6 months.

The Middle East states all have free health care systems for their citizens and I'm fairly certain they are not communist either.

The British level of taxation is commensurate with any liberal, western democracy. Certainly, the provision for the poor and vulnerable is a staple of any civilised society which adheres to Christian values and is a feature of the British welfare system among many others but that does not denote communism in itself.

I'm puzzled too about your reference to private insurance. British people often use this facility whilst in Thailand and those who remain for lengthy periods will often negotiate with local providers for indemnity. What is your point and how does it relate to communism?

Are you just having another of your mad moments?

The healthcare system is state run and state funded. It is the biggest employer in the country. That is communist

In the US the provision of military force in its defence is centrally funded and the sole responsibility of the State headed by its commander in chief. Is that communist too?

There is a few things that government has always had responsibility for. National defense is one of them.

Not healthcare by decree, not pensions by decree, not insurance by decree, not control of the money supply by decree, not justice by decree.

The maintenance of a national health service has been a central plank of any political party's manifesto in the UK since its inception and, indeed, if it were not then that party would be consigned to a democratically chosen wilderness.

How many communist buzz words can you fit in one sentence ?

I am aware that communist healthcare is ingrained into every political party in the UK for some time now.

Originally Posted by socal

How many communist buzz words can you fit in one sentence ?

the standard/type of education required for a person to believe those words all have communist connotations causes rational minds to quake - the future is indeed bleak

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by socal

How many communist buzz words can you fit in one sentence ?

the standard/type of education required for a person to believe those words all have communist connotations causes rational minds to quake - the future is indeed bleak

Good impersonation of thecunt err I mean thegent.

Originally Posted by thegent

Oh for goodness sakes.
It was simply hyperbole and a passing reference to Betjeman.

Honestly, talk about pearls and swine, eh?

Betjeman was full of hate

were you bullied at school too, theGents?

Originally Posted by thegent

Did you ever receive a proper education

and your school was?

You can send a whore to Vassar...
But you can't make her think...


With apologies to the horse...

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by thegent

Oh for goodness sakes.
It was simply hyperbole and a passing reference to Betjeman.

Honestly, talk about pearls and swine, eh?

Betjeman was full of hate

were you bullied at school too, theGents?

No, not at all. I was far too accomplished for that. In my experience only the inadequate, the misshapen, the dull and stupid, and the gingas were given a rough time. Which one were you?

In other words thegent was the bowler and not the catcher.

Originally Posted by Tom Sawyer

the catcher.

the wicketkeeper - a queered pitch makes for a sticky wicket

You would have rec'd a rare but well deserved green for that

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by thegent

Oh for goodness sakes.
It was simply hyperbole and a passing reference to Betjeman.

Honestly, talk about pearls and swine, eh?

Betjeman was full of hate

were you bullied at school too, theGents?

Given thegents acute sense of pedantry and despite his otherwise very cogent ramblings, I feel compelled to say that his quote was not a passing reference to Betjeman, rather a poorly executed allusion to the scribe's poem.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now
There isn't grass to graze a cow
Swarm over, death!

Presumably he was sat at the back of the class in his 1960s Grammar School in a dick measuring contest with some of the bigger boys when the black gowned master covered this verse

So this was an unprovoked attack ?, still do not know what went on that night.
Strange that because nobody puts someone at deaths door for nothing unless they are physcopathic and they reckon the perp. is farang which should narrow things down somewhat.

Originally Posted by dobella

So this was an unprovoked attack ?, still do not know what went on that night.
Strange that because nobody puts someone at deaths door for nothing unless they are physcopathic and they reckon the perp. is farang which should narrow things down somewhat.

Hmm. Farang psycopath in Thailand - not sure that narrows it down by much at all sadly.

Why do they suspect a farang? Was his attacker seen, did he argue in the bar with someone? Did he owe someone money or steal their girlfriend?

Or is it the usual Thai xenophobic belief that only farang do made thing like this, not thai line of thinking?

Got me wondering too. Stuff like doesn't just happen because the guy beat someone at pool.....

From the OP:

He was attacked as he drove home alone from a bar in the Nong Prue district, where he plays pool, last Thursday.

On the way, he stopped and got out of his car, although it is not known why. He was then beaten over the head before his attacker - who is believed to be a Westerner - drove off, leaving him for dead.

Doesn't state how this was arrived at. No witnesses?

If it had been done by Thai, it would have been several individuals, all beating him up at once, or a drive-by shooting.

BBC News - Teacher in coma after Thailand assault to return to UK

22 June 2012 Last updated at 13:05 GMT

Teacher in coma after Thailand assault to return to UK


Adam Pickles has lived in Thailand for seven years and has a baby son

A former teacher from West Yorkshire left in a coma after an assault in Thailand is to be flown back to the UK.

Adam Pickles, 40, was hit on the head with a metal bar in an attack in the city of Pattaya on 17 May.

Friends have raised more than £50,000 through a Facebook page to pay for the cost of his care and repatriation.

Mr Pickles's condition is described as stable and his parents said they would now fly him back to the UK to continue his treatment.

Bedside vigil

Mr Pickles has lived in Thailand for seven years and worked as an English teacher at a local college.

Andrew and Adele Pickles have maintained a vigil at their son's hospital bed since flying out to Thailand from Leeds following the attack.

The couple have also been helping to care for Mr Pickles nine-month-old son, Benjamin.

They said they had been "completely overwhelmed" by the level of donations to help pay for their son's care.

A close friend of Mr Pickles, Katie Jones, said she had been "blown away" by people's generosity.

Ms Jones said: "The news that he is due to come home is just incredible and we will continue to hope and pray for his recovery.

"We will keep fundraising until we have managed to raise the money needed to pay for his repatriation and his care whilst in Thailand which has now topped over £100,000."

The Bangkok insurance firm that covers Mr Pickles through his job has now paid out but the sum is less than 10% of his care costs, friends said.

The attack on Mr Pickles is still under investigation by the Thai authorities.

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

The attack on Mr Pickles is still under investigation by the Thai authorities

Yeah right, in the deep freeze unit of the cold case files.

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

an attack in the city of Pattaya

Nope- it happened outside Pattaya, in the Pong district.