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    What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    I'll start...

    When explaining the probable cause of thousands of fish dying in The Chao Phraya river (about 6 months ago), Chavalit Yongchaiyudh explained...

    "It could be the nearby plastic bottle factory, that some people suspect of illegally dumping chemicals into the river. Or it COULD be a barge of natural fertilizer and strawberry flavored xantham gum that sunk nearby."

    Gotta luv Chavalit, always entertaining!
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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    Nobody killed, only one unlucky guy! - The worlds dumbest pig

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    He IS a big dick to have such GOOD cooking shows!
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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    Same. Samak's utter drivel about the 1976 massacre was literally jaw-dropping was the most blatantly ignorant thing I've heard from a Thai politician.

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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    Another gem from Samak, not long after becoming BKK governor. After a concerted and ultimately successful campaign of many years by environmental groups to end the use of styrafoam for Loy Krathong floats in falour of the traditional and biodegradable banana trunks, the moron suggested going back to styrafoam because it was 'easier to pick up' and could be recycled.

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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    i'll start with this
    What is the incident that had happened? Everybody in the country know what had happened. And seventy… they fall down on each other. And then 78 died.
    So you’re saying they died because they fell on top of each other?
    Yes. Nobody kill them. Everybody knows it was…
    Not because they were packed into trucks without enough air?
    When people get in the truck, in the good shape, and running, actually nobody think they will be like that, but if they people happen not to eat, not to drink, not to swallow, and then somebody fall down the other on the top… So 78 died, out of 1300.
    but this one just about shades it ('speshly now)
    For me, eh, for me, eh, if I am dirty, I am concerned with many thing, I cannot come this far. This dirty history always come. I just have a, a lady like you come from far away, asking this question. Even the Thai, they dare not ask this question to me. If I am a dirty man like that, I cannot get, when I run as the governor of Bangkok, somebody bring this case again. “Oh, a murderer with the blood in the hand cannot run as a governor.” I bring the case to the court. So the judge says that, “Khun Samak, we are going to run, eh? Please forgive them, that misunderstanding, just forgive them and withdraw the case and then a good thing to you.” So I just think, I agree with the court, with the judge, so I withdraw the case. And when I ran, eh, I got over million vote in Bangkok. Never before. The highest anyone get is 700,000. I got over one million. And then, how about a man, a dirty man like that being elected?
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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    The Dobie Gillis Incident.


    Insurgent heads say ceasefire agreed in South

    (BangkokPost.com) - Two men claiming to head a group responsible for the southern insurgency said on national TV on Thursday they had agreed to an immediate halt in attacks.

    "We have agreed to a cease-fire," a spokesman for the unnamed group said in a statement aired on TV Channel 5 on Thursday noon. "Our group will now support peace in southern Thailand."

    The group claimed that the cease-fire began last Monday in order to restore peace in the region. The group also called on underground movement to stop all kinds of their operations. Several killings and bombings have been reported since Monday, including two bombs near the Yala municipal headquarters on Wednesday.

    The statement was made in Yawi, and was translated into Thai.

    Earlier, former army chief Gen Chattha Thanajaro said he had met with a group called Ruam Pak Tai Khong Prathet Thai, or Thailand's United Southern Underground group, and agreed to end violence.
    I like the fake beards. Is that a goatee? Did the stylist work on the set of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, doing touch ups on beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver)? lol
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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    I remember my first ever exposure to it shortly after arrival. Years ago now. A couple had been kissing or in the same bed on the Thai Big Brother. The minister for culture (or somesuch government branch) said it was the influence of foreign programmes like BB that was corrupting Thai morality. As an introduction to the blatant hypocrisy Thai politicians like to engage in, it couldn't have been better.

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    What about the Deputy Finance Minister (the wife of a banned politician and a former nurse) in the Samak cabinet who said something to the effect that as soon as she learned she had been appointed to such a high position, she raced to the internet to find out what the ministry did.
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    Re: What's the DUMBEST thing you ever heard from a Thai politician?

    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat View Post
    What about the Deputy Finance Minister (the wife of a banned politician and a former nurse) in the Samak cabinet who said something to the effect that as soon as she learned she had been appointed to such a high position, she raced to the internet to find out what the ministry did.
    Who says there's no equality, or social mobility in Thailand?

    Someome who so blatantly has 'special needs' getting elevated to such a post. If 'tis true, why it fair warms the cockles of one's heart!
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