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For all the rumour talk you guyshave about a plant in Thailand, if it is/was true, I wonder how the coup d etat today effects things?
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I wonder if the streets are their usual madhouse?
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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I wanna go visit the bars, er, i mean, FACTORY in Thailand.:)
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I wonder if the streets are their usual madhouse?
Looked pretty calm on the CNN video. Thailand's gotta be the only place in the world where the streets are calmer during a coup.
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I was talking to my gf in Bangkok a few hours ago... there's a tank sitting on the main road outside her house. The army declared today a holiday so she didn't have to risk going to work. Apparently you're not allowed to gather in groups of 5+ and they're asking people to stay home and not move around. They've surrounded the royal palace with tanks and troops to protect the king, and are saying they'll arrest the prime minister if he returns to Bangkok. The army have control of the local media and the phone lines are worse than normal. So far the internet's still in place.
The army claim they're not gonna retain power but return it to the people ASAP, and have sworn allegiance to the King. Now we just wait and see what unfolds.
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This just in from the DNN(Dwight News Network)
THAILAND-Reports of a rumored slowdown at the Triumph factory here and any subsequent additional delay in the manufacturing of the world-beating 675 sportbike have proved to be just that...a rumor.
However, in a related story, General Tkjgsiiyreiooajhdhfuetakhskhksdgalkhyiut, the coup's mastermind and driving force, is quoted as saying that the unavailability of these fantastic machines was one of the key reasons cited for this drastic action.
This has been the afternoon edition of the DNN, where more people get their "news"(or should at least) than from any other source.
Stay tuned to this channel for any additional breaking news on this topic.
We now return you to whatever crap is regularly scheduled on your local channel.(probably some "American Chopper" rerun)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I was in Thailand once. Caught the clap, I did.  Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!
JB
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I was in Thailand once. Caught the clap, I did. Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!
Evidently all this happened before your service with the U.S.Army, and when you were on leave from that pirate ship there, HUH?! 
Dwight
(talk 'bout your "blend" of threads!....ARRRRRGH!!!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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I've been to Thailand! Wait! Oh s4it, I have not, I've never been to Thialand, I think it was Cambodia. Aw He77, we were not supposed to have been there anyway. I know there was jungle and it was raining raining, it quit then got real hot and they started shooting at us. We shot back, called in an air strike, popped smoke and got the he77 out of AO. What were we talking about?
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I suppose if the Triumph plant slows down then some of the employess will have to become "Hookers" to make ends meet?
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There'll be a few conspiracy theories floating about by the weekend.. General now in charge is a Muslim, in a 95% Buddhist country. You read it here first.
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There'll be a few conspiracy theories floating about by the weekend.. General now in charge is a Muslim, in a 95% Buddhist country. You read it here first.
He's also a personal friend of the King who is a devout buddhist and who has been preaching religious tolerance for years. I was worried about it when I heard a muslim was the caretaker pm and coup leader in a buddhist nation but I doubt it'll have a major impact (unless the press decide to beat up that particular fact).
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I think it was Cambodia. Aw He77, we were not supposed to have been there anyway.
I as there too, in the spring of 1975 (navy corpsman assigned to a marine corps unit - they treated me like a king. I found out why).
Ride Safe,
Dennis
Triumph, it's how I live and what I ride.
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