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I COMMEND YOU (30/03/2009 09:27:19)
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Author: Regards, JS.
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Hi, Issue 177, Saturday 14-21 March, 2009. I wish to commend your paper on the story about the health hazard of the illegal boat factory in Huay Yai. The yard was originally to be for boat storage not boat building. Why is a boat factory allowed into a suburban neighbourhood anyway? Please don't allow them to bully the paper into retracting the story. Regards, JS.
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Overcharging (30/03/2009 09:26:27)
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Author: Andy.
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Thought you may like to inquire as to why Caltex service stations on Sukhumvit road as at 4:00pm today (25th March 2009) were charging 28.01 baht for 91 and 32 to 34 baht for 95. The other brands were charging around 23 to 24 baht for 91 and 28 baht for 95 (sorry didn't check the diesel.) This represents a typical uplift over market rate of about 20%. I am not sure how Caltex can justify their product or service as being 20% better than the competencies brands. Typical of a multi-national exploiting foreign markets in times of hardship! I’m sure they would not try this in their home market. Andy.
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Up in Smoke (30/03/2009 09:25:22)
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Author: S. Freud.
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Mr. Andrew Pitt owes me gratitude for the lots of tobacco tax I pay, and mountains of healthcare and pension costs I won't cause because my smoking habit will possibly kill me before I become expensive. It wouldn't cross my mind to force Mr. Pitt to smoke, so what gives him the right to demand I do not? Health reasons! Our host country isn't quite clean, yesterday's Bangkok Post reported that some 8 million tons of trash are dumped along the roads each year. The same paper sometimes covers the freak diseases amongst residents around the industrial estate of Maptaphut. Foreign corporations are attracted by virtually non-existent environmental standards, and their plants may blow the most hideous poisons known to men into the air. Diesel exhaust is more carcinogen than tobacco smoke. A walk along Second Road is more hazardous than a night out in a smoky Go-go bar. Congrats to our hosts if they realised the hypocrisy of that particular legislation. If Mr. Pitt would please follow! He also might ask himself whether it is health concerns that fuel his crusade against tobacco, or the joy to impose his view upon others? S. Freud.
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KOTO vs. the RAT is misplaced sillyness (22/03/2009 20:37:54)
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Author: Flounder
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I wish I could spray paint KOTO's, keeper of the inflated egos, editorials in all the Pattaya papers. Cigarette smokers are the most vile and inconsiderate lot on earth. Death warnings on the sides of packets are nonsense as the smokers could care less. Tell a smoker that second hand smoke is actually harming those around them, and they respond this medical fact is baloney. Smokers are in bliss that the tobacco monopoly have obviously paid off prime officials to take a blind eye to enforcing the no smoking ban indoors. Posting "costly" laminated signs of fish ingesting cigarette butts on the beach is an eyesore and I guarantee you it accomplishes nothing. Do you think that the idiot that holds a lit cigarette within inches of his or her toddlers' faces is going to heed a sign to properly dispose of cigarette butts? Of course not! KOTO, please stop self-gratiating yourself with repeated posts in the papers and on the beach. Your efforts to enforce no smoking laws will hit your "RAT" where it counts!
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Bertrand Russell Said (21/03/2009 07:32:10)
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Author: Jack Tighe
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Louise Emery has opened a possibly edifying debate. Despite, that is, she appearing to criticize someone else’s opinion and then criticizing others for doing it. Please remind me, what is that called? She would like to know which sociological study suggests that illegality of the sex trade creates sexually juvenile adults. To conduct a study of her own, all she has to do is sit with a few Western adults and raise the subject of sex. Or she could read certain Pattaya journals’ features. Or watch male-oriented movies. Guaranteed that examples of juvenile sexual innuendo, sniggering or lingo will be evident! Is she someone who thinks that talk about sex, an issue which is the most important to most men for much of their lives, cannot be serious? When did she last weigh evidence as to if a legal sex trade would be socially beneficial to women as much as men? My guess is she holds onto a view that was jammed into her mind by moralists as she grew up, as the case is with many people. Regularly on this page, sexual hang-ups are rabidly exhibited by someone who believes in abstinence. This person (called ‘Bob’) has admitted that he says things merely in attempt to annoy people (maliciously). He is unable to see that so doing makes him more a prostitute than any bargirl and, indeed, a prime example of the worst sort of human. One example of the damaging effect of illegitimacy is the stereotypical pervert. Bertrand Russell said: “Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young.” As to a specific study, books by an author I have mentioned in this section, and from which I got the above quote, cite a study by a noted US epidemic expert who specializes in HIV. This lady recently appeared on the BBC, giving her reasons why she believes the sex trade should be legitimized (worldwide). .
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You Dirty Rat (21/03/2009 07:31:31)
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Author: KOTO.
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Aloha Pattaya People. Approved by City Hall and requested by the beach chair vendors, are posters that are being vandalized, this being the fourth time, we need help on catching this rat in the night. The rat has come out of his hole again. It is a shame that someone is taking it upon themselves to be judge and jury on the posters that are put on the coolers of the Beach Chair Vendors. By spray painting them black, making them unable to read, which say in Thai and English (no butts - no garbage - goes to ocean, keep it clean for the king and safe for the children ). Also posters on or next to Storm Drains in Thai and English! All posters have a picture of a healthy fish ingesting a toxic butt - a dead fish so that children or people that do not read Thai or English would get the message. These posters have been approved by City Hall and are installed on the request of the Beach Chair Vendors. We offer a reward to anyone who knows or can get a picture of this rat. He comes out at night, spray paints the posters and goes back into his hole. This is the fourth time in the Jomtien Beach area between Soi Wat Boon and Thappraya Rd that this has happened. The cost of replacing these laminating posters is running into the thousands of baht, which are being donated in order to help the voiceless, the children, wildlife and natural waterways. Any information would be appreciated. 089-897-7816.....pollutionsolutionthailand@yahoo.com Health and Happiness to All –
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Not Amused (21/03/2009 07:30:53)
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Author: Ed, Thailand
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Recently, AMUSED, wrote about some writers, Tighe...Crossley and others and said they were all the same. Who is the joke on, those who believe amused or those he is talking about? Amused, the truth, how are they the same people? Let everyone know so no one gets taken in a Madoff type scene by this multi personality.
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NO SMOKING (16/03/2009 03:57:27)
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Author: Andrew Pitt.
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I have noticed that when the no smoking law was passed, most venues obeyed the law. The threat of 20,000 baht fine or the venue and 1,000 baht fine for the customer seemed to work at first. Then there was no enforcement. Bars and restaurants slowly started to allow smoking to a point that even air conditioned restaurants are now allowing smoking. I was wondering if Pattaya People would be willing to investigate this! It seems to me that enforcing the law would be very lucrative to the police or any agency that would be tasked with the duty of enforcing this law. 20,000 baht at each venue plus 1,000 for a customer violating the law would certainly help a department's budget. Is there a reason the government officials are not enforcing this law? If I remember correctly, when the law was announced, Pattaya was to have an enforcement telephone number so the public could lodge complaints. I have seen no promotion of this number or of what agency has the responsibility of enforcement. Would you publish this information if it does exist? Thank you,
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Same old BS (16/03/2009 03:55:51)
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Author: J. Chunkito.
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Pattaya People: Two months prior to the United States election we have been hearing mainly from two individuals in your Opinion column. Now months after the election these two still dominate your paper each week with tick for tack political spins that would make Sean Hannity of Fox News come in second in any contest! Readers like myself have to wonder if these individuals own a percentage of Pattaya People or you run them constantly because you are selling more papers. As I have read many paying readers like myself are tired of hearing about things that really no longer has any relevance considering how there are so many more important things in the world including Pattaya that we can comment on than the weekly nonsense that is going on between these two. Let us move on and I think they have said enough let’s give others a chance to impress more important subjects. Another week of this B.S. and I plan to move on to another paper... like Pattaya Today!
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A MATTER OF FACTS (16/03/2009 03:52:18)
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Author: Bob, Pattaya.
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Editor. Back and forth and back and forth! Yes, Rory, I do know of a much larger organization that creates, harbours more child molesters that the Catholic Church. That organization is called the National Education Association Teachers Union of the USA with a membership of 2.8 million teachers. In a Scientific Study, not in paperback, the publication Education World, an education publication, printed the following story. "Teachers Molest 1000 More Children Every Year Than All The Catholic Priests Combined". It's a fact that paedophiles will often try to get jobs that will give them access and control over children. Seems to be a disparity in reporting and selective outrage over child molesting teachers compared to clergy. Most cases of sexual abuse of students by teachers are never reported. In nearly half of the cases, suspects were accused of abusing more than one student. No type of school was immune to abuse: public or private, religious or secular, rich or poor, urban or rural. Yes, Rory, teachers abuse kids more than Catholic priests, but I still fail to see where abstinence is connected or has anything to do regarding the paedophile problems in the Catholic Church. Yes, the Catholic Church had/have priests who were/are child molesters, but not the spin you put out about the Catholic Church. Rory, seems you and Tony are at odds at what I said. Tony says that I "infer" that he is a child molester. Rory, you say I call Jack and Tony "child molesters"; neither of which I said or inferred they were, nor do I think that either are child molesters.
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