What with all the Thailand experts round here... What difference does it make? It's an opportunity to display your superior knowledge of all things Thai. Perhaps somebody can thank the troll for the opportunity to divulge your hard-earned and well-deserved moniker of long-term expat. It'd be a real ...

Just read through this thread again,all 3 pages,twice,got to AGREE,t/p is RIGHT,it all make sense now,just as it did when i trained to work with people with emotional problems and delusions of grandure,yes,yes,yes t/p,you are correct, now lets go back to your nuclear bunker (padded cell)and talk ab...

vent it at those who deserve it, not a country thats just trying to protect themselves! Didn't you get the memo? You're not allowed to protect yourself. You're not allowed to go after those who attack you. You gotta roll over and absorb it because it's ALL your fault. Yes, Bali was Australia's faul...

Agree OT -- make 'em wish they had demanded more.

Just give 'er the money a be happy.
You only go 'round once in life.

And geeze, it's only money, right? You can't put a price on true love.

Oz immigration officials insist Christmas Island Detention Center is not a jail. http://img3.allvoices.com/thumbs/event/609/480/60867896-handout-photo.jpg What's with the double row electric fence and razor wire? http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/01/29/1225824/670987-christmas-island-detenti...

Nonsense. What does any of that have to do with the topic of asylum-seekers drowning in a boat wreck on the shore of Christmas Island? This isn't tit-for-tat. Are you suggesting that because there are illegal Mexicans in the US, I'm somehow obliged to be silent? Yes, I believe that's what you're say...

Merely refuting this sort of nonsensical, overused and highly inaccurate cliche. we really have no option other then to follow the U.S. into every s##t fight they stir up. It just seems to me that Rudd is the one stirring the poo. You don't have to agree. Glass houses an all that... be prepared to "...

Go away? I don't think so. Indeed, there is robust, often quite engaging debates and discussion over various countries' policies on this forum. Why is it different now? Why do you think I would go away? This is jacksprat's thread, "Texpat v's Oz." I'm not v's anything or anybody. It seems to me some...

we really have no option other then to follow the U.S. into every s##t fight they stir up. Wikileaks exposed Kevin Rudd begging Hillary Clinton to get tougher on China. Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd suggested force may be needed if China could not be successfully integrated into the internati...

Simmer down Bandung_Dero. Are we forbidden to be critical of a government's policies? I sincerely don't think so. There are volumes on this board critical of many government's policies. Thousands of critical entries about one government alone. Yet you've become rabid over a just a few critical of yo...

Oh dear, again?

Tsk, tsk. No sense getting all lathered up about a simple discussion over Christmas Island detention facility, is there?
Golly. So sensitive. Funny how a little critical observation sends some right off into the deep end.

stop many diseases and unwanted species entering the country

Ah, yes, of course.
That explains the three-year-old in leg irons for two weeks with neither toilet nor shower.

Unwanted species indeed.

Run-and-hide strategy doesn't address the truths that are, evidently, too painful to bear. Odd, you never seemed so reluctant to whine and moan and criticize the US for jailing terrorists in Gitmo -- but you simply "don't want to talk about" Christmas Island SuperMax: Gitmo South. Please jackspratt,...

Texpat, Still waiting for an informed response to the question posed or has the car got your tongue? Car got my tongue? Is that Aussie slang? I considered your question rhetorical. Can you explain why the back door refugee doesn't seek refuge in a country near his own to which there are numerous op...

Eric Holder assures us they only looked menacing. No problem with Michelle Obama "just hanging out" at a polling station either ... you know, just chatting up voters as they head into the booths ... What a friendly gal...
Good ole, Holder, we expected as much from that dirtbag.

Some other tidbits about Christmas Island (the name alone makes me laugh): *The detention camp on Christmas island has CCTV linked to RCR- (Remote Control Room Canberra). *The detainees will wear electronic ID tags or cards which identify them wherever they are in the complex by locator beacons. *Th...

Why is Assmange hiding?

Shouldn't everyone have the right to know where he is?

This is the kind of stuff they called sour grapes not too long ago ... Nov 2008.
Whhaaaaaaa!

Shame the Messiah couldn't hold his house together for more than a few months. Truly a spanking the legislative branch hasn't seen in a long, long time.

Spectacular FAIL.

Asylum seekers in Australia sew lips together in protest at indefinite detainment At least ten asylum seekers at an Australian detention centre have sewed their lips together in protest at the amount of time their visa applications are taking to be processed. By Leah Hyslop 12:48PM GMT 23 Nov 2010 ...