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Maybe the person was actually murdered in [INSERT NEIGHBORING SE ASIAN NATION] but dumped there by pernicious [NEIGHBORING ASIAN ETHNICITY] to besmirch the reputation of thailand's pristine beaches
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Apr 10, 2015 19:08
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Some Burmese guy did it. He was of average Burmese height and average Burmese build.
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Apr 10, 2015 20:00
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Personally I would not swim in the Chao Phraya river but this guy did.
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Apr 10, 2015 22:45
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Forget about dying of dysentery, I would be afraid of getting run over by a boat taxi.
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Apr 10, 2015 22:48
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Dude did a backflip off a barge into the river. 
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Apr 10, 2015 23:10
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Just came back from Australia, I loving hate aussie teenagers - "LET'S JUST GO TO THAILAND AND GET SUPER DRUNK AND DO FULL MOON PARTIES"  Oh why can't people get Pad Thai right but have no problem making Bahn mi in western countries?
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Apr 11, 2015 04:02
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caberham posted:Just came back from Australia, I loving hate aussie teenagers - "LET'S JUST GO TO THAILAND AND GET SUPER DRUNK AND DO FULL MOON PARTIES" 
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Apr 11, 2015 04:08
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This is true, drunk white people terrify me.
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Apr 11, 2015 04:38
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It is our true racial trait.
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Apr 11, 2015 06:02
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Wondering now if the Koh Samui death really was an accident...Seven injured in Koh Samui explosion http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32259612 No proof it was a bomb yet but the article sure seems to lean that way.
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Apr 11, 2015 06:17
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Gotta compete with Murder Island somehow.
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Apr 11, 2015 06:51
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mooslims! turrurists!
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Apr 11, 2015 07:37
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Bomb that injures 18 and that was mounted on what looks like the back of a Hilux is about as Southern Thai Muslim insurgency as it gets.
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Apr 11, 2015 08:44
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But how will this effect Santa hat sales??
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Apr 11, 2015 13:25
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It's pretty curious that it happened at the same time a fire (and explosion?) engulfed a co-op in Phun Phin owned by... Suthep. If it is the southern insurgency, it would be a huge departure not just geographically, but strategically as well.
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Apr 11, 2015 14:59
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Part of the issue with the southern insurgency is that its middle management is deranged 18 year old Thai guys. For a while randomly whacking people with a machete while driving past them on a motorcycle was as organized as they could manage. I don't think this was organized, just a couple of Muslim hicks that decided to give it a go on their own. If upper management were involved the bomb would have actually been effective.
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Apr 11, 2015 16:44
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CronoGamer posted:Maybe the person was actually murdered in [INSERT NEIGHBORING SE ASIAN NATION] but dumped there by pernicious [NEIGHBORING ASIAN ETHNICITY] to besmirch the reputation of thailand's pristine beaches CronoGamer posted:Wondering now if the Koh Samui death really was an accident...Seven injured in Koh Samui explosion http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32259612
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Apr 11, 2015 17:23
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Sheep-Goats posted:Bomb that injures 18 and that was mounted on what looks like the back of a Hilux is about as Southern Thai Muslim insurgency as it gets. Was it "mounted" and was it a "bomb?" Attacking any tourist island isn't just a departure strategically for insurgents but incredibly loving stupid. I'll wait until actual evidence emerges. Shammypants fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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Apr 11, 2015 17:48
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While they mostly don't operate outside of the southern areas, this isn't the first time that someone within the group has tried to move to touristy parts. I think it was December before last, police in Phuket found a truck wired up to explode parked right outside their headquarters. Undetermined whether it was meant to explode but they hosed it up, or whether it was just a "warning" (I think the latter is giving too much credit though). This could have been the same guys but more successfully building the bomb this time, or maybe a different crowd.
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Apr 11, 2015 17:51
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It's unclear which attacks were attributed to insurgents and which weren't undertaken by them (or which weren't just accidents) quite honestly. There are definitely insurgent attacks in the South over the years, no doubt about it. There is also no doubt that every single fire is 'tentatively associated with the insurgents' as is any explosion or fire in the northern parts of the country.
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I think that you're right to be skeptical, but most reports coming out today are saying definitively that it was a bomb, and the article I linked to has been updated with a police video saying that they tracked the car to one stolen from Yala province in the south. I don't know anything about other attacks or the fire in Suthep's coop or whatever though.
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Apr 11, 2015 17:59
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My opinion leans toward 'it is a bomb' but I see attacks on tourist areas as a political attack by other parties on the current regime (hitting their pocket book). I wouldn't be surprised if opponents of the current regime outside of the typical Muslim groups did this. That's just me.
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Apr 11, 2015 18:01
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Only in Thailand could a singed Starbucks and an injured Italian be described as a major strategic shift in an insurgency.
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Possibly also in Italy.
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They blamed the New Year's Eve Central World bombing on the Southern insurgency when I first got here. I mean it's more likely when it's in Samui, but they're still sort of the go-to bogeyman for unexplained bombings in the way Burmese and Rohingya commit all violent crimes and robberies. Phuket and Samui/Surat are both mobbed up to all get out, so while anything is possible, I tend to assume it has to do with infighting between the local mafia or the local mafia/police fighting the national mafia (ahem) or whatever. Still, maybe the government's telling the truth and this is what they say it is. In a society so opaque when it comes to information, it's impossible to know much of anything, unfortunately.
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You'd think local mafia would be concerned over bombing a tourist venue, though, and wouldn't hit up a shopping center, whereas separatists don't give a gently caress about tourist dollars.
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CronoGamer posted:You'd think local mafia would be concerned over bombing a tourist venue, though, and wouldn't hit up a shopping center, whereas separatists don't give a gently caress about tourist dollars. My thing with the Southern insurgents is that while they have been suspected of past bombings like you mentioned, none of them rang very true to me. I suppose you could make the same ruling coalition argument with the same parties for them, so I'm not saying, "Oh you're SO WRONG!!" it just seems like a lot of logistics for a bunch of guerilla insurgents who stay pretty isolated to the Southernmost provinces and, more importantly to me, there's already this high profile tug of war within the mafia families and between the mafia families and the central government out of Surat/Samui. I'd need a likely catalyst for this (which there easily could be, I don't stay up on news down there, but there's always something going on). You know, if you're the separatists from way down South, why Samui? Why now?
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I walked about 50 metres today before a dude poured a bucket of water on me. I feel like I've gotten a pretty authentic experience and now it's just wet clothes. Also a lady put some stuff on my face. Negligent fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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Apr 13, 2015 06:23
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Negligent posted:
First authentic khatoey experience
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No pisshitwater on me yet I'm in a taxi slowly driving around the moat
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Next time I go to Thailand I'm going to start pronouncing สวัสดีครับ like this guy: https://youtu.be/B8UeFwWLZG4?t=1m https://youtu.be/FvwWn46F9iQ?t=40s sawaddikrap 
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I feel like normal Chiang mai would be pretty great but there are too many white people here for songkran. As an Australian I can authoritatively say white people ruin everything.
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Negligent posted:I feel like normal Chiang mai would be pretty great but there are too many white people here for songkran. As an Australian I can authoritatively say white people ruin everything. Chiang Mai is never the place to go if you want to avoid white people.
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Bardeh posted:Chiang Mai is never the place to go if you want to avoid white people. I really don't know why Chiang Mai is such a destination. Everywhere else I went was better, and had the same poo poo. I mean, if you leave Luang Prabang by flight you're going to Bangkok, Chiang Mai, or Vientiane, but the only good part of Chiang Mai was the shopping mall after a couple months wearing the same three tops and bottoms for two months. The nicest stuff I saw at the market was all the sweatshop stuff you can buy anywhere in SEA. I spent most of my time at the hotel pool, attempting to get the faintest of tans. (Utter failure. Still came home paler than a submarine officer recently back at land. I have the magical genetics that make me sickly pale yet never burn. Lao women were jealous. It's almost impossible to find any body lotions or washes that don't claim to bleach your skin there.)
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Thailand and even Bangkok has a really low cost of living by Australian standards without much a tradeoff in terms of the luxuries of home so I can see how the place ended up a magnet for expats. As for the backpackers it seems the old city turned into Khao San with more temples ages ago but I didn't realise it, the last time I was here I stayed at the holiday inn.
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Pixelante posted:I really don't know why Chiang Mai is such a destination. Personally, if I never visit Chiang Mai again I'll survive just fine. Most of the long-term residents (or naturalized citizens) I know, for whatever reason, buy property in Chiang Rai. I find it pretty sleepy, but very pretty and much closer to the beautiful countryside that people purport to be visiting when they go stay in the congested city center of Chiang Mai. EDIT: Although since the release of Lost In Thailand, the Mainland Chinese have apparently taken the place over, so it's a huge destination for them. All the more reason to avoid. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Apr 13, 2015 |
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My friend's Thai mother just uses Chiang Mai as her benchmark for "North" in Thailand. We ate at her Thai restaurant in Kamloops a few times but her true love was "accidentally" making her son's friends cry with spicy food then calling loud attention to it from across the restaurant. "Brandon, are you crying!?" She also didn't believe me when I said I was friends with her son. "Noooooo... he doesn't have friends!"
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I was once asked where you can get a good cashew chicken near KSR and told the girl asking me to go to a guesthouse with a restaurant that I'd stayed at when I first arrived and she went EW GOD NO I HAD THAT THEY PUT CHILIES IN IT and I was said Yeah well okay but cashew chicken always has chilies in it and she said I'VE LIVED IN CHIANG MAI FOR TWO MONTHS TAKING A MASSAGE COURSE AND CASHEW CHICKEN N E V E R HAS CHILIES IN IT! Also when I visited Chiang Mai I was pretty bored. Way too many white people, it was like being on an island without the beach.
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Sheep-Goats posted:I was once asked where you can get a good cashew chicken near KSR and told the girl asking me to go to a guesthouse with a restaurant that I'd stayed at when I first arrived and she went EW GOD NO I HAD THAT THEY PUT CHILIES IN IT and I was said Yeah well okay but cashew chicken always has chilies in it and she said I'VE LIVED IN CHIANG MAI FOR TWO MONTHS TAKING A MASSAGE COURSE AND CASHEW CHICKEN N E V E R HAS CHILIES IN IT! What a freakin' baby, gai pad med mamuang usually only has those sun-dried chilies in it, which add awesome flavour but barely any spice unless you chew on them. Also I know what I'm having for lunch now. As far as Chiang Mai chat goes, chalk me up as another who doesn't really see what all the fuss is about. I first went there as a single guy about 4 years ago with some buddies - we went to see some Muay Thai fights which were blatantly rigged and an excuse for tourists to get ripped off betting on them, then ended up in a 'nightclub' absolutely PACKED with western guys and Thai/Burmese hookers and nobody else. We left there and got in a Tuk Tuk and told the driver to take us to a bar, but that we "mai ao lady bar" - we just wanted a chill place to sit and relax and drink some beers. Of course he took us to a 'karaoke' bar where the beers were 400 baht each and the barmaids wanted to sell us sex.  We did have some really nice Mexican food though! Nowadays, with a wife and kid, I just don't go very often because the traffic is horrific and the drive from Chiang Rai, while beautiful, is pretty hairy with a narrow mountain road and little chance to safely overtake. Bardeh fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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