King Kung

Ryoko wa fukaku zoshite munashiki ga gotoshi. It's a very old kotowaza. Care to look it up?

Why would Israel waste expensive precision munitions on non-productive targets? Everyone knows djoos are tighter than a fat broad's bikini. Your rhetoric on this topic is hollow.

You can easily rent a car in the US with a Thai license. Go to any of the big car rental companies online and try it. The only hitch is that they will automatically charge you for insurance, optional if you have a valid US license (presumably you already have insurance that will transfer to a rental car). And now Thai licenses are printed in English.

^^ My comment was tongue-in-cheek. If you don't have a surname with the correct amount of syllables, you're in the "out" group in Isaan. This can be remedied with a 500-baht name change, but without pasty white skin, the cover is blown.

What? Are you talking about those little brown buggers with webbed feet and flat noses? No self-respecting Chinese Thai would spend more than a week in Issan before scurrying back to the blue-blooded hisos in Krungthep.

Just shoo them back from whence they came. No treatment necessary. Instead, they're being put up in resorts and flown to Massachusetts and Alaska. Yes, America is quite foolish indeed.

Because my experience is different than yours? How much longer do we have to listen to minorities crying about unfair laws? Policemen the world over exist to enforce laws made by others. In civilized countries, police do not have the latitude to create laws or to apply creative interpretations of laws. The courts will punish that sort of recklessness. My experience is that police in the US are friendly and firm. If you break the law, expect to pay the penalty. There is no provision in jaywalking laws that suggests it's OK if no cars are around. I've seen many people adopt an immediate and absolute confrontational attitude toward police. These are always the mouthy types resisting orders and getting tazed or worse. Their immediate reaction is to flop around and play the victim. Shameless and transparent -- much like the poor "victim" belting her daughter across the face causing the real victim (the 12-year-old daughter) to scream and alert neighbors who called the police. It's funny how the perpetrator so often becomes the "victim." Where is the sympathy for the victim? It's lost in the sad, see-through ruse emboldened by the empty rhetoric of other perpetual "victims." Nobody gives a crap about the abused child when there's a chance to twist the scenario of a cop doing his job as another racial injustice. Yawn. American cops do a good job. They should be thanked for plunging crime rates nationwide, not castigated for fabricated injustices.

I've been exactly one time, about a decade ago, and thought it fitting to be a subterranean lounge of sorts. The ghastly vermin and reptiles inhabiting the Thermae wouldn't be out of place under an overturned swamp log. Let the Asian chancers fill their boots -- there are much happier hunting grounds. Just my opinion of course.

A thoroughly corrupt judiciary? Nah, can't be.

Trannies should be much, much higher on the crazy y axis. They're bigger emotional basket cases than real women with slots, not tabs. Most trannies are hideous creatures with enormous heads, large, clumsy clown feet and hands like coal shovels -- spotted a mile off. You can paint it and stuff it with silicon and chop bits off, but that pesky Y chromosome will remain forever. Male for life. I'll have a unicorn, too, thanks.

Nice play on words.

He only has to make a few more annual visits than I do. And I didn't even get to kill my wife.

While your money is between your accounts somebody is earning interest on it. Your individual case might not be much, but every HSBC customer transferring money that's churning interest for the bank over the course of a year probably pays a few salaries, three or four days at a time. They also likely include money in transit as part of their fractional reserve ratio (amount of cash they must have on hand). It's in the bank's interest to move slowly.

I've seen reserved parking spaces in front of our local Tesco that say "Mother And Child." Nothing about "Father and Child." "WTF," I thought, as I eased into the extra wide slot right smack dab in front of the store. This is Thailand. I'll wiggle my ass as I walk in carrying my baby, nobody will challenge me. Nobody did. It's clearly a sexist policy. Why do people seem to think it's OK?

I've always been polite to cops and always show respect (for the law, not necessarily for the cop). I've never been insulted, done over, spent a second in apprehension or in jail. Never. I've lived in nine states across the continent. California to New York, Louisiana to Indiana. I've never had a problem with cops. I've received about three speeding tickets in my life and maybe five parking tickets. That's it. I've nothing but good things to say about policemen in the USA. They've always been helpful and understanding when I needed assistance or directions. I've noticed a lot of people have a problem with authority figures. They're usually the ones having a rough go of it. Oh well.

Liberal western media is not "the world." Why anybody still gives a rat's about the two dysfunctional neighbors is a mystery to me. You could have completely tuned out 40 years ago and if you tuned in again today, you wouldn't have missed a single thing. This has gone on longer than the Cold War.Tiresome. You're right that many ignore the fact Hamas deliberately targets civilians. I've noticed a recent uptick in European disdain for Jews in general and Israel in particular. They have a history, you know.

At least they didn't say, "What difference does it make," like they do when their own employees are gunned down.

The blatant bigotry and intolerance toward males is an outrage. Do males get their own carriage? If the open carriages are full will they deny boarding to paying men if seats are empty in the "vaginas only" carriage? Do women traveling alone have to ride in the female carriage? or do they have a choice? Can kathoeys prance between and betwixt all the carriages? Wrong on so many levels. I think men should boycott Trains of Thailand.

It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the police were in contact with the kidnapper in an advisory role. Nobody knows extortion like the BiB.

I don't understand the mindset of innocent people who try to resist arrest. Just comply. Stay calm. Smile. Inform the nice policemen that there is no problem at this address. No need to get excited and start fighting. Save your energy and pay attention to names and who is doing what. You'll need this information for your lawsuit against the nice policemen. Think of it as a payday in the making. If, however, you've got a half kilo of heroin under your bed, that's another story -- you are a criminal you deserve to have your house raided. If you're a Boy Scout, just go along for the ride. It'll pay nice dividends. Likewise, if you are abusing children, it is the duty of policemen to intervene on the child's behalf. http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1889919 A rather ironic choice of apparel.

They voted for that snake twice. Ebola is a fitting reward.

This doesn't seem to have been properly thought through. First, I wonder why the amniocentesis was conducted in the first place. Usually they're recommended for women closing on age 35 or over. An amnio is performed at between 16 and 22 weeks. Since the procedure was carried out, there should have been a crystal clear protocol established for the eventuality that one or more of the babies would be found to have genetic abnormalities. (i.e. surrogate may opt to carry the child to term, but will not surrender that child and the child will not be adopted.) Upon discovery of chromosomal abnormalities, it's too late to begin a discussion of whether to carry to term or abort, especially in a Buddhist country that looks down on abortion. If this was set up by an agency, as it appears, they need to spell out resolutions to these eventualities. The birth mother is 21 and has now given birth to four children. I wonder how old the adoptive father is and if he has any other children. I'm guessing there's more to this story. I reserve judgement until I hear the adoptive parents' side.

That's a stretch.

Interesting article. The only comment I would add regards this statement: While learning Thai I found it very frustrating when people outside the classroom butchered the language regularly (bah instead of plah) Often knowing how to spell a word tells you how it should be pronounced correctly. If there is a large regional disparity in the spoken language, spelling is important.

An equally interesting story is why China's currency isn't the most broadly used and why their economy isn't the largest in the world. They have 1.4 billion citizens compared to the US's 314 million, nearly 5x. In 2012, China's GDP was $8.227 trillion while the US was $15.7 trillion. How can the output (market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a year) of a country with five times the workforce be half that of a comparative economy? Economically, I'm not sure it's a good comparison at all.