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Thread: Thailand's big black eye

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    Quote Originally Posted by cluezo View Post
    Pattaya struggles to shake off a seedy reputation as Thailand's "Sin City"
    Good luck with that! Like a cancer victim trying to "shake off" a malignant growth.
    4 more years!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonny danger View Post
    Burma? Never would I go to Burma, shag lil brown girls with perky tits for a dollar, stay in reasonably priced hotels, smoke their A+ weed or enjoy life there in any way! They have a military government! Fuck that!
    Yeah - no shit! Damn military government!

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    I don't think I could get wood knowing a general was running the country.

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    It would be impossible to fuck with jeeps driving around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cluezo View Post
    It would be impossible to fuck with jeeps driving around.
    just fill your helmet with mud and remember your in SEA
    fred

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    Quote Originally Posted by fred flintstone View Post
    just fill your helmet with mud
    ah ... memories ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by goo_stewart View Post
    I do expect tourist numbers to keep rising. That is a given.
    No shit!...



    ---Update---

    Something it seems may have escaped a lot of people is the simple fact that press is press in this day and age...good or bad is no longer relevant in an age where attention spans are diminishing rapidly...in an onslaught of information in any given day the human brain has little time or energy for details...people hear Thailand Thailand Thailand and 3 months later as they're trying to decide where to holiday what country is likely to come to the surface?...Thailand

    Advertising has known this for years and so have hollywood publicists...
    "You really want to save the planet?...the next time you see a hybrid car with a childseat... smash the window, remove the childseat and replace it with a box of condoms..." Doug Stanhope
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thaitanium View Post
    ...good or bad is no longer relevant in an age where attention spans are diminishing rapidly...in an onslaught of information in any given day the human brain has little time or energy for details...
    maybe overly optimistic for some bents of mind, but perhaps this development is essential to human development. if we are to eventually solve some intractable problems we're going to have to really advance our brain's ability to process information. stimulus might seem like overstimulus to our older minds, but a great many youngsters don't have a problem with it, and are developing capabilities that we can't even imagine. they're mentally moving so fast they can't even think as slowly as we do, and that's a single generation.

    case in point, that people will just think 'thailand' and holiday. maybe focussing attention on negative shit that likely has always gone on is no clearer an idea of 'thailand' than someone imagining brochure images and enticing marketing is getting. perhaps focussing on details isn't as effective a way of grasping something than we perceive. perhaps having an apparent grasp of reality (and the sense of control that taking it in in bite-size details gives)has assumed too much importance at the expense of seeing things in an entirely different way that might be a whole lot more effective over time than the way we perceive.

    off topic yah. maybe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cluezo View Post
    Yes, Myanmar - the new kid on the block is looking pretty good.
    You need to go there on a recce mission and report back, soldier. The troops need to know their next move.
    There are few problems in life that cannot be solved with toast.

    One of them, however, is opening a can of corned beef with that stupid key. This cannot easily be done at the best of times, and toast is of surprisingly little use in resolving the issue.







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    When do we move out, Colonel?

    We need to go.

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    Alot of the headlines do nothing but a favour to Thailand... especially towards the younger traveller looking for something a little bit mental. One of the reasons the place does so well is that its a little bit dangerous.
    This is it... The apocalypse.

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    Until it gets dangerous.
    "Take this, brother; may it serve you well."

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    Quote Originally Posted by jonny danger View Post
    I don't think I could get wood knowing a general was running the country.
    My problems are mainly due to the General running the brain.
    Daniel Bedingfield claimed that his new album is what it would sound like if Sting, Stevie Wonder and Micheal Jackson were in a basement together - I haven't got the album so I'll have to imagine the sound of a blind bloke and a Geordie kicking the shit out of a pedophile.

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