mashed in maryland 2:51 Thu Oct 13
King of Thailand
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...has bought the farm.
World's longest reigning monarch.
I'm guessing this is just a tiny bit significant and could cause a lot of instability?
Any Thai dwelling WHOers got any insight/predictions?
Discuss.
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HairyHammer
12:17 Mon Oct 17
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It's all good I am not one to go over kill with my knowledge, probably because I do not have any.
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chim chim cha boo
11:21 Sun Oct 16
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HairyHammer 9:53 Sun Oct 16
Cholo's right. 'Yeah well fuck of your a cunt' is as close as you should come to an apology on here. Anything else makes us all a bit uncomfortable.
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Cheezey Bell-End
11:03 Sun Oct 16
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HairyHammer 4:35 Sun Oct 16
Do fuck off..
He earned his popularity. Yes some pf it is driven by the media and education system brain washing, But the country would likely have ended up like Cambodia or Burma without him.
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Mike Oxsaw
10:23 Sun Oct 16
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cholo 10:03 Sun Oct 16
That's indeed highly possible, maybe very probable.
Some of the old farts (and I use that term endearingly and to their face - and they understand it's literal meaning fully) I socialise with in my village talk of a time "when the king was young" and even then had the respect of the people. A little investigation put this time in the 1930s. Respect for their king is almost in their DNA and no law was needed to enforce it.
Even some of the younger generation, when they talked about "My King", it was very possessive, very personal. The King "belonged" to them, as well as lead them.
Quite difficult to translate that into a "Western value" - maybe something like: "if you don't say, out loud, every 5 minutes that you hate paedophiles then that means you fully support them".
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cholo
10:03 Sun Oct 16
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Mike
I'd suggest that 'it isn't the done thing' at least partly because it could get you thrown in prison.
That's how authoritarian regimes work is it not?
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cholo
9:59 Sun Oct 16
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Don't apologise hairy just tell him to fuck off. This isn't charltonathleticonline.net.
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HairyHammer
9:53 Sun Oct 16
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chim chim
Then I am sorry for what I have said.
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Far Cough
9:35 Sun Oct 16
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Lese majeste, I believe?
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Mike Oxsaw
9:29 Sun Oct 16
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cholo 9:17 Sun Oct 16
It IS illegal, but, in general it's just not "the done thing", so the law rarely comes into effect.
Thais, being Thais, however, have mastered the art or criticising without criticising - even in English.
It's a subtle art, and the English language has this ability in spades, as witnessed regularly in the mass media, but commoners who have English as their first language fear to use for some reason.
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cholo
9:17 Sun Oct 16
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Isn't it illegal in Thailand to criticise the royal family?
No wonder he got away with such outrageous clobber.
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Johnson
9:17 Sun Oct 16
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You cretin, Nicholas.
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Mike Oxsaw
9:10 Sun Oct 16
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HairyHammer 6:58 Sun Oct 16
When push comes to shove, I would rather have a random Thai by my side than any cunt that posts on here. You don't have to understand these people, just know them.
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chim chim cha boo
8:17 Sun Oct 16
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Take your medication Hairy- the Thais see their king as a blood-descendant of God. It's not a multi-billionaire who goes to war or doesn't they are crying for, it's their God.
Our queen is over ninety years old and is the only monarch most of us have ever known. When she goes there will be plenty of us shedding a tear and we won't give a fuck what someone on a football forum on the internet thinks about it.
This whole thing is absolutely fuck all to do with you.
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HairyHammer
6:58 Sun Oct 16
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Mashed
I am not even better than the people who visit this website never mind the Thai people, I just think Crying like crazy for an 88 year old multi Billionaire is very over the top, that is all.
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mashed in maryland
6:02 Sun Oct 16
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No one cares about how much better you think you are than Thai people.
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HairyHammer
5:49 Sun Oct 16
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mashed
It was me you called a pratt yes?
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HairyHammer
5:49 Sun Oct 16
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mashed
No, just stating my honest feelings about this situation.
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HairyHammer
5:31 Sun Oct 16
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Mashed
You are obviously not British any more you have been in America too long son and must cry over anything even a broken biscuit the way Yanks seem to do when they get even slightly emotional.
I agree though that The Thai people are obviously not bad people and what I said about their character was stupid, but their character must be very soft emotional and very different to the British one which I find difficult to understand 88 is a good age for fuck sake OK he meant a lot but crying like a two year old baby who has just had there lolly taken away looks mad to me and that is the way the Thais who were crying on the news for their king looked like to me, yes it is genuine but that does not mean I should find it normal.
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HairyHammer
5:22 Sun Oct 16
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Mike Oksaw
A man who fights to save his country and its existence deserves great respect a war monger deserves nothing.
A king is a king is a King these days, it is not exactly The Old Ottoman Empire of the 1400's or King Harold of 1066 etc, Kings of the last 150 years have simply enjoyed being Kings and have had little Influence apart from Kowtowing to their army or accepting the flow of power around them The King of Saudi Arabia will get tears too but what has he done or his family done apart from accept British and American assistance and regulations for over 100 years ?.
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