retarius

Just what we need, more ads. Marketing is about spreading dissatisfaction with your current range of solutions to problems i.e. products then presenting the advertisers' products as being a better solution. It's clever because it is always applicable. One of the things I love about Thailand is that I can easily screen out advertising in Thai, either print or on TV. It's like having very little advertising.

I think MF are correct. A strategy should be cohesive and span a lot of different situations. What we have with Srettha is a series of gimmicks like the land bridge, the digital wallet and so forth....it's not what you could really call a strategy. The sad thing about lacking a strategy, is that it also means you don't have any sort of plan.

Yes it's wise but is it fair? A court in Texas 'more or less absolved' a 16 year old of various charges after he stole his father's car, got blind drunk, drove the car the wrong way on a highway and killed 4 people. He got a suspended sentence after his lawyer pleaded that he had 'affluenza', and that his affluent parents had never made him responsible for anything. Seems to me that Thai boys are never held to account by indulgent parents...so if they are prosecuted now it might be a case of 'indulgenza'.

That might be your tactic, mine is to shout really loudly so I can't be ignored. Each to his own. My precious wife is very good and explain to the staff that I am not used to people pushing in.

I totally disagree. I happen to love, well like, Elon a bit. He's a huckster, like Trump, someone who shakes the world up a bit, so he's fun. He is a hero to many folk, and a hero to me for his stand on free speech on X. Although I deplore him going to meet the vile Bibi and kowtowing to him, it made me want to vomit, and I thought Elon would stand his ground and condemn Israel but he didn't. He can't be all things to all people. I don't drive Teslas, I like things to have a track record, like Japanese car companies, and Tesla has little behind it other than a bunch of words from Elon. Look he must be the greatest raiser of money in the world, and at least he tries to do good things with it. And he has been stunningly successful in most of his ventures. I think a lot of people buy Teslas because they believe in Elon.

I yelled at one in True last week.The girl serving us who turned to serve him first after we had waited about 15 minute, nearly s**t herself. I told him to get a ticket like we did. The pusher-in went very sheepish and we got served first. I shout in a very, VERY LOUD voice.

Why not go in the summer months July onward during the rainy season here....you would win both ways and not risk breaking your neck?

It isn't hatred. You seem to spend good portion of your life defending your decision to buy an EV. That's totally OK, but you can't seriously expect to avoid criticism from people whop don't agree with you. I bought a Japanese made Toyota Alphard last year, petrol engine and I am very happy with it. I don't ever feel the need to have to defend my purchase to anyone. You or all the forum members might think vans are the stupidest things on the planet, but I like mine and need to convince myself that I made the right decision buying it. As for EVs, I don't want an EV....yet. If I had lots of money and wanted a 4th car, I might buy a high end one to use occasionally. I think EVs might be a sensible choice in 5 years time when we have charging stations at every PTT and other distributor garages. Trouble is the chargers are costly and have an uncertain payback period for a franchisee. I think the jury is still out as to whether there will be any significant benefit to the environment. The only information available now tends to be sponsored by EV manufacturers, who are not disinterested parties. I have been lied to by corporations enough over the years to know that I want to see much better data from more unbiased parties that don't have a vested interest in telling me how marvellous EVs are. Think of it this way, if EVs are the wave of the future, you are right in your decision. If it turns out they are an expensive gimmick, you will have been wrong. We simply don't know at the moment. My personal view is that like other technologies, EVs will improve over the next few years, prices will come down relatively speaking, and some of the disadvantages will be overcome, like range, or concerns about child labour and environmental damage. It is like computers, I was an early adopter and found out that two years later I could get 10 times the computer for half the money I had paid. I realised then I would like to be a later adopter.

The money in the bank is less than 20,000 quid, if you are hard up for the interest off that money places elsewhere, I tend to think that you are living in the wrong country. Thailand demands a very small security deposit from you, if you can't afford it, go elsewhere.

It is a good law because it prevents people who control the media from participating in elections.

Khun LA do you get paid for promoting EVs?

Total inane comments.

It is simply because there is no way top down vote a post you don't like. Confused or sad are the emojis that come closest to a down vote.

It only costs peanuts...

This is the reason I will not buy one. Not enough infrastructure, despite the silly picture.

Russia should send pictures of US arms shipments to Ukraine.

OOOH! yet another crackdown, because they've all worked so well in the past. When officials in Thailand have absolutely zero to say, they say "we'll have a crackdown on X"

Absolutely correct. I am dumbfounded about the level of uncritical and passionate support that Israel receives here. A nation that has murdered far more civilians than Russia has in Ukraine in about 10 times as long fighting, is still murdering despite the concern of the whole world, except US and Nato. What a wonderful and peaceful world we would have without the US and NATO.

Israel is not empowered by law, by ethics or by common decency to murder all these people. Frankly, this is a disaster for Israel, much of the world condemns the vile and senseless slaughter of innocents and in particular the younger people in the US, Gen Z and Millennials. I'm hoping that this will prove to be the turning point for this bloody and violent nation, born in terrorism, and now soaked in the blood of innocent women and small children. Israel is losing the good will of other nations, with its FU attitude and merciless butchery. They have lost a lot of support in the west, for the majority of citizens of most EU nations no longer support the ruthless Israeli butchers, and while in the propagandised US, support is down, but among the young it is down even further. I'm hoping that Israel loses support and support for the BDS movement grows (Boycott, Divest and Sanction). I cannot but applaud the Houthis who are taking action to try to end the slaughter, while our self-serving politicians wring their hands and call black, white.

I don't know, I haven't filed. I was under the impression that you don't need to file until the end of the year. I file everything on the last day if I owe money. Of course nobody knows if all the people on this board have filed unless they respond to your question.

Who cares about Iranian attitudes to the Jews? I don't. Then only people who have violated Iran's sovereignty is Israel with frequent bombing raids.

Great comment, Ozi, really great.

IT is bigger and better armed and more zealous....but if the US are willing to ignore Iraq and invade from there on land while flattening Tehran from the air, I think there is a good chance that the US will win the initial conflict, but will of course lose the war eventually. It is not easy for even a superpower to invade and hold another country.

BS

Sounds like you are just a just a little prejudiced against Russians....instead of speculating and making it about rude Russians, why not just admit you don't know what nationality they were and omit the nationality to avoid bias. What have Russians doing to you personally? Having said that, it is difficult to order a toilet when you can't 'speaka da lingo' and when your kids are jumping up and down wanting to poo, but equally there is no reason for her not to say thank you to the owner. There fixed it for you and your bigotry.