News Forum - Italy bars tourists from Singapore until late-January over Covid risk
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News Forum - Horny Thai man fined 200 baht for having sex in public under Bangkok bridge
Looks like the plan for a quickie went into overtime.... -
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Thaiger Talk Quiz #156 - Thailand G's
Score: 3 The german/japanese sexual fetish item tricked me. -
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News Forum - Phuket crash kills foreigner, the 35th road death on island this year
Let these foreigners who wanted to decide their own fate face it in the way the wish to. As long as he killed himself without injuring others then it is good enough. Let him have the way he wants to end his life. -
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News Forum - Trump plans to ‘make America great again,’ after he faces 30 charges of business fraud
Precedents are important but I don't see the fuss about absence of precedents: there has to be a first time for everything, so there shouldn't be any surprise that sometimes something happens for the first time (making it -- by definition -- unprecedented). As a fact it isn't even accurate: Desi Bouterse was sentenced to 20 years in prison while being ex-president (for the purists: he was president at the time, but since it was his 2nd term he was an ex-president as well). If for no reason the argument "but that wasn't a real democracy" is injected: what about Benjamin Netanyahu, Silvio Berlusconi, Najib Razak, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Nicolas Sarkozy, etc. ? For the USA, it may be the first time (but only after ignoring all leaders in the USA on all lower levels in all of history), so limited to that context it rightfully can be called unprecedented. Still, if someone cries "unprecedented" with a couple of question and exclamation marks attached, despite all that effort it remains a word to simply describe that an event happened for the first time. In short: it's a logical fallacy to equate the absence of a precedent to follow up on a criminal charge to there being a precedent to not follow up on a criminal charge. -
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News Forum - World’s most visited Van Gogh Alive exhibition comes to Bangkok
Not too sure about that, isn't art supposed to be subjective and are some people like sheep and perhaps believe someone who tells them that a work of art is great, so they believe it is great. It is to me no different than looking at a pile of bricks or a banana gaffa taped to a wall and someone telling me that's art, do we need to be told what's good and what's bad. What am I missing when I look at a Van Gogh, whatever it is I just don't see it, but look forward to earing from you.
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