Worst People In World Thankfully Stranded In Bangkok Airport
If you get too wrapped up in this financial crisis, you can sometimes forget there’s a whole world of happy news out there, like the fact that Bangkok airport is closed. Protests at goverment corruption have got so widespread in Thailand that emergency rule may be imposed, and hundreds of protestors have shut down Bangkok airport, staging sit-ins and taking over the control tower.
Which is awesome, not only for its action-movie vibe and expression of democracy, but because all of the Western world’s gap-year bongo lovers, sex tourists and dull retirees have been grounded. Maybe they’ll never return! Auntie Beeb won’t let us embed her videos, but there’s a great one from inside the airport here. It’s all gold.
Loving the lisping Yank fresh from sporting tiny Speedos in front of little boys telling the political activist: “Have you any idea of the tens of thousands of people whose plans you have screwed up?” Or the overweight Aussie using the international method of patronising foreigners, speaking in English slowly while making semaphoric hand gestures: “Tell your boss [point] to tell the people [point point] what’s happening [karate chop]“.
Bad Idea salutes your cause, People’s Alliance of Democracy! A couple more days and all the Americans miss Thanksgiving!
Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Other | November 26, 2008 2:14PM |
November 26th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
expression of democracy?
more like mob rule.
Just because it has the word Democracy in its name doesnt make it so. The opposing faction (the reds) generally represent the poor.
Please do stay in the UK enjoy your Brussels ruled ‘Democracy’
November 26th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hey bob, what’s with the Eurosceptic angle?
And anyway, I thought democracy was mob rule pretty much. Isn’t that the whole scary point of Alexander de Tocqueville?
November 27th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Sorry bob, this post was a mere forum for Bad Idea’s facetiousness, rather than an indepth look at the sociopolitical climate in Thailand. Now if you don’t mind I’ve got to go and check all these bananas are straight. Au revoir!
November 27th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Democracy, what democracy. Regardless of what the government is like, they were elected. A group of people (minority) can’t just decide to hold a country to ransom because they want a new government. What these people are doing is damaging the reputation and economy of Thailand. You could argue that what they are doing is an act of terrorism.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
wheel a few underage pole dancers into the terminal, turn up the music, and they’ll all forget they ever left Koh Lanta.
November 28th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Such a simpleton and outdated perspective on a country facing a situation which is about to turn very, very bloody.
November 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
@luke – um, ‘outdated’? have you been to thailand lately? tourists have pretty much turned the country into an open air brothel.
even if the protestors are wrong, my sympathy levels for the tourists are still close to zero. glad they’re finally being confronted by some of the realities of the country, rather than treating all Thai’s as service…