Crackdowns on dissent haven't stopped people from making fun of a photo of the Thai prime minister sniffing sock. https://t.co/Ix9bepdEob
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) August 17, 2016
Silence your mockery. The man is a poet. He was enacting Puccini’s beloved aria, “Che gelido piedino,” from La Bohème. See video below, though in that production they perversely insisted on changing “foot” to “hand.”