Thread: Farangs At The Protest Are....?

Originally Posted by charleyboy

Here's a Farrang interview.

Thailand protests: an on-stage ‘duel’ | World News Blog | World News Blog

I like this guy^

^Which one?...

The Thai guy on stage

Apparently he ended the interview pretty quickly when the questions started to get tougher...

Nah, he said what he had to say.

Nice one.

What exactly are these Farang Protesters??

Complete wankers?

Originally Posted by November Rain

In her defence, rebbu, she has no real understanding of anything

I must say you are quite the troll.

And in my defence, I'd like to say that if you'd shut up talking about myself you may learn a thing or two from me. All you have to do is put me down or say stop talking about yourself when it is you talking about me all the while. . I definitely know you are not a girl to act like you are.

Anyhooo... no use in saying anything on this forum cause it is a waste of breath.

Gun attack on Bangkok protesters

GUNSHOTS rang out in the heart of Thailand's capital overnight in an apparent attack on anti-government protesters, wounding at least two people and ratcheting up tensions in Thailand's deepening political crisis.

The city's emergency services office said one man was hit in the ankle and a woman was hit in the arm in the shooting, which occurred on a street in downtown Bangkok that has been occupied by camping demonstrators trying to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government since Monday.

It was the latest in a string of violent incidents this month that have kept the city on edge and fuelled fears the nation's deadlock could spiral out of control.

In another incident overnight, a small explosive device was hurled into a residential compound owned by former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, shattering windows and slightly damaging a roof, according to Police Colonel Chumpol Phumphuang and Abhisit's opposition Democrat Party. No injuries were reported, and Abhisit - who resigned from Parliament last month to join protesters - was not home at the time.

Despite the incidents, Bangkok was calm Wednesday and most of the vast city of 12 million people has been unaffected by peaceful demonstrations.

more about barely sentient monkeys calling for change they can deceive in.......

Originally Posted by Necron99

Gun attack on Bangkok protesters

GUNSHOTS rang out in the heart of Thailand's capital overnight in an apparent attack on anti-government protesters, wounding at least two people and ratcheting up tensions in Thailand's deepening political crisis.

The city's emergency services office said one man was hit in the ankle and a woman was hit in the arm in the shooting, which occurred on a street in downtown Bangkok that has been occupied by camping demonstrators trying to bring down Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's government since Monday.

It was the latest in a string of violent incidents this month that have kept the city on edge and fuelled fears the nation's deadlock could spiral out of control.

In another incident overnight, a small explosive device was hurled into a residential compound owned by former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, shattering windows and slightly damaging a roof, according to Police Colonel Chumpol Phumphuang and Abhisit's opposition Democrat Party. No injuries were reported, and Abhisit - who resigned from Parliament last month to join protesters - was not home at the time.

Despite the incidents, Bangkok was calm Wednesday and most of the vast city of 12 million people has been unaffected by peaceful demonstrations.

more about barely sentient monkeys calling for change they can deceive in.......

4 suspects

The shirt I prefer. I'd never wear it and I keep a low profile as I want to keep my position. I'm in yellowshirt terrortory. I guess I am taking the money for my vote. No real freedom for anyone in the land of smiles.

I don't think Thais treat foreigners with equal rights. If foreigners took to the streets in Thailand , they'd probably be jailed. Thailand is a cruel nation of hypocrisy.

Gotta be objective.

Originally Posted by robuzo

There is a certain breed of tourist that gets to his hotel room, opens suitcase, replaces packed clothes and sundries with brain, and locks the suitcase til checkout time- the sort of tourist that

marries a bargirl after she's told him she's only being a prostitute to support ma & pa back home in the village.

Did that bargirl drag her teerak along to the protests?

^ Why don't you try reading the Immigration act Todd? 12/7 and 22.

You know, sometimes when you post on these threads youu come across as a right condescending prick.

As if being a Kiss fan wasn't enough reason do dislike you.

Thai authorities will make up the rules as the go along.

Signs or no signs.

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

Thai authorities will make up the rules as the go along.

Signs or no signs.

They don't need to make it up, it's in the act.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

Originally Posted by robuzo

There is a certain breed of tourist that gets to his hotel room, opens suitcase, replaces packed clothes and sundries with brain, and locks the suitcase til checkout time- the sort of tourist that

marries a bargirl after she's told him she's only being a prostitute to support ma & pa back home in the village.

Suckers....

Amid Bangkok's protests, a smattering of foreign faces
Aubrey Belfo
(Additional reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Jason Szep and Nick Macfie)rd


BANGKOK(Reuters) - Jörgen Movérare considers himself a proud Swede. An avid skier, he enjoys his homeland's cold weather and is thankful for life in a stable, wealthy democracy.

But as an expat in Thailand of three years' standing, the 45-year-old has a different prescription for his adoptive home: a military coup, and soon.

"This sounds really stupid because I come from a democratic country (but) Thailand is not ready for democracy," he said at one of the protest sites that have shut down much of Bangkok.

As tens of thousands of Thais take over the streets of the capital in the latest push to unseat caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the protests have been marked, as they have throughout Thailand's multi-year political crisis, by a smattering of foreign faces.

Foreigners were a feature, too, when pro-Thaksin red shirts took over downtown Bangkok in 2010. After a bloody crackdown that killed more than 90 people, a Briton and Australian were arrested and briefly jailed. The Briton, Jeff Savage, caused a flurry of Internet interest - and conspiratorial mutterings - after an online video emerged of him calling for the destruction and looting of a shopping mall, which was later burned down after the crackdown.

While not nearly so dramatic, the latest round of protests has seen the participation of foreigners who feel they too have a stake in Thailand's future, earning a warm welcome from Thais who share their belief and the scorn of those who do not.

"I HAVE AN OPINION"

With a Thai-flag ribbon tied under the collar of his business shirt, Movérare, who owns a marketing company in Thailand, concedes that, strictly speaking, the current crisis is "not my fight."

The protesters have been calling for the overthrow of Yingluck, and the eradication of the political influence of her brother, exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

They want to replace her with a hand-picked "people's council" to unravel Thaksin's grip on politics, in which he and his allies have won every democratic election this century - a feat his detractors claim is thanks to his buying of the votes of the country's uneducated rural masses.

Jan Plantenga, a retired Dutch banking consultant, has taken his involvement further. On December 22, he took to one of Bangkok's protest stages to express his support for the movement.

On Monday, he was on stage for a second time, but was more cautious.

"I was on the stage again with my girlfriend but I didn't say anything because I was a bit worried about my visa," he told Reuters while sporting the red, white and blue Thai flag wrist bands, a symbol of the anti-government protest.

Some anti-government Thais appreciate the presence of foreigners at their protests, given the widespread perception that outsiders, and the international media, share little sympathy with a movement that openly questions the value of Western-style democracy.

"Most foreigners don't understand why we want reforms before an election, so it's good to see Westerners join our movement," Montree Noenthing, a protester from Nakorn Si Thammarat province in the country's south, told Reuters near a protest stage in Bangkok's Silom business district.

Other Thais are just bemused.

"(Foreigners) have nothing to do with this. This is about our country, it's about Thailand. The foreigners I've met at the rallies are completely clueless," said Anchalee Mekloy, 59, a housewife from Bangkok.

uk.news.yahoo.com

Originally Posted by Mid

The foreigners I've met at the rallies are completely clueless

Pretty much sums it up.

^

true enough , most falangs do not have the necessary to unravel the decades of tangled webs woven .................

Originally Posted by Necron99

Originally Posted by Smug Farang Bore

Thai authorities will make up the rules as the go along.

Signs or no signs.

They don't need to make it up, it's in the act.

Yes but it doesn't stop them adding embellishments to said act or making up a few rules themselves dependant on which immigration office you attend.
I'm with SFB on this one.