PeterRS

There has now been a second fatal crash, with yet another crane crashing to the ground. This time on an expressway construction in Samut Sakhon not far from Bangkok. This time a crane collapsed on to a highway. Two dead so far. Death toll in the earlier crash involving the train stands at 32 according to the BBC website as of about three hours ago. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g7n7yd9do

Oh, my goodness! Who would have known? Do you now expect us to bow before you since you are obviously so clever - but clearly just amongst a certain specified group of people! Rabbit away!

That's bullshit! I listed continents merely for convenience as is perfectly obvious to all except @Riobard. If he wants a list of all countries he'd be the last person to read it! The vast majority of doctors in the USA is going to continue to prescribe circumcision for various reasons, medical and otherwise, and then lining their pockets when they issue the bills for their services. Earlier you write - And you had the gall to quote proportionality! When a President or some other person wins a vote involving hundreds of millions of people, the winning percentile is usually in the 0.5% to 5% or so, rarely higher. Yet with a propoortion of over 20% against circumcision worldwide and with at least one million of those in the "pro" camp electing for the procedure on religious or cultural grounds, you consider this has yet to yield a consensus? Well! Well! Well! Better advise the dictionary compilers of the new meaning of concensus!

Haha! @Olddaddy on the vengeance trail! It will become a predictable pattern.

Allegedly it's already started. The Construction Company came out quickly and said compensation would immediately be offered. But what can compensate for the loss of a young life? And how much will be offered. Pretty much a pittance is my guess. It reminds me of that hit-and-run murder of a traffic policeman on Sukhumvit at 5:00 in the morning. He had ben driving at over 100 kph and found to have drugs and alcohol in his system. The driver was eventually apprehended after his mega-rich Yoovihaya family had ried to persuade the authorities that one of the family's drivers had actually been at the wheel - of a Ferrari? Estimates are the car was being driven at 174 kph. The policeman's body was dragged for over 100 meters. The driver was Vorayuth Yoovihaya whose grandfather had been in at the start of the Red Bull empire and was one of Thailand's richest men. For 8 years he failed to turn up to scheduled court hearings on his arrest warrant, yet at the same time was seen galivanting around the world by means of a private jet. He was even seen in Thailand more than once. 12 years after the event, the Justice Department finally got around to jailing just seven functionaries. As a Bangkok Post article wrote on 1 April 1917 - The boss walks free. The boss is the boss. The boss dines in France and snow­boards in Ja­pan. The boss rules the road and tram­ples the law. In the pyra­mid of priv­i­lege, the boss stays on top. In the food chain of in­jus­tice . . . The degree of corruption in this case is mind-boggling. It had Thai social media up in arms several times. But this is Thailand - one law for the rich, one for the poor and tourists. The statute of limitations on all of those crimes has long passed. Freedom for that family was a matter of pennies! And Thailand's rich look after themselves. That is why inner city expresways are carved up amongst several companies. Not for the sake of economy - not a bit of it. Purely so that more poiticians and others can get their hands on a decent chunk of the profits. As for the poor widow of the murdered policeman, Wichian Klanprasert, and her children? The maximum the family was prepared to offer was Bt. 3 million, this for the life of a 47 year old Police Sergeant Major and given on condition the grieving widow did and her children not bring any form of criminal charges against members of the Yoovihaya family - yet another mega-injustice.

I'm not saying we should now be quaking in our flip flops. Merely that we should be aware of surroundings at all times. I suppose that actually applies to every situation but especially if you are in a place likely to be filmed by some and you do not want others to see what might just go somewhere on the internet.

In the meantime, the camera still has your face on it prior to your noticing it and going up to put your hand on it. In fact it is likely to have a close up of your face! Not concerned? Unless you mean outright sex, given the developments of the last ten years, is it not likely that some click-bait idiot is going to extend the boundaries and eventually start a more detailed "expose" of the gay business? Sadly I'd put money on it!

Yesterday afternoon a construction crane working on an overhead railway collapsed and fell onto a moving train below. The train was en route from Bangkok to Ubon Ratchathani and was quite close to its destination. Passengers were mostly students and manual workers. 32 were killed and 66 others injured. After being crushed, some carriages caught fire. 171 were aboard the train. Local outlet The Nation reported that the incident occurred while the crane was lifting a large concrete section which dropped on to the train, causing several coaches to derail . . . "Accidents like this can only happen due to negligence, skipped steps, deviations from the design, or the use of incorrect materials," [Prime Minister] Anutin said. The crane was being used to build an overhead railway that is part of a US$5.4bn (£4bn) China-backed project to link Bangkok with neighbouring Laos, where a Chinese-built high-speed line is already running to south-western China . . . It seems that the Italian-Thai Development company was in charge of that section of the overhead railway construction. Typically in Thailand major infrasructure projects are farmed out among various companies as a number of politicians are always involved in parcelling out the land. Corruption has always payed its part! One of Thailand's biggest contractors, the company was responsible for the construction of a Bangkok skyscraper that collapsed last March during an earthquake. Last year the company's president and several designers and engineers were charged with professional negligence over that incident. Some have denied wrongdoing. The Chinese embassy in Thailand said that no Chinese construction companies or workers were involved in the collapse, Chinese state media reported. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqz7v1507ro

I'm not going to do any heavy lifting for anyone, particularly @Riobard whose posts seem to require some sort of parallel understanding of English to understand what they mean. It's all very well posting what seems like a form of gibberish when in fact, once you dig down - do many posters have that available time? - there is more than a modicum of sense. Africa can do what it wants when it comes to circumcision. The USA can do what it wants. It tried circumcision colonialism with South Korea and that is now dying on the vine. A very considerable majority of the world remains uncircumcised and for @unicorn even to suggest that those countries where it is not practiced and whose health authorities have made concious decisions after their own research not to promote it as indulging in BS is - well, quite frankly - BS of a pretty high order. Is any of these countries complaining? Only @unicorn complains.

I believe this is the case with this Board. Ten posts? That used to be the case and just asume it remains so.

I'm wondering if there is much difference between the Soi Twilight in Bangkok of old and JC in Pattaya now. I recall sitting at Dick's Cafe or after it closed outside one of the host bars near the entrance to Soi Twilight seeing people taking photos and no-one being concerned about it. Admittedly I'm talking about 6 years ago. I guess the main difference is that many of the venues in Twilight were indoors, but near the entrance to the soi there were several host bars. I sometimes saw tourists taking pics of the soi from Suriwong and not venturing inside. I assume they could then just show the photos to friends as Bangkok 'sights'. Is it more that JC has more volume? Why would a tourist be more concerned being seen with a boy in a JC bar but not seen in roughly similar circumstances in a Twilight bar a few years ago? There was quite a lot of fawning of customers in those host bars.

I'm not! And not just for the advent of mobile phones LOL.

Most of the river hotel and complexes have free boats. Never pay the touts.

Patrick Chan did not stick to piano music by one composer. His programmes included piano and orchestral works by Chopin, Vivaldi, Puccini and Rachmaninoff, probably among others.

At least @unicorn has ceased - no doubt temporarily - spouting a universal truth that is far from universal. Only in America!