Assurancetourix

I just watched IP Man 4 The Finale;
to keep in your media library;
Beautifully filmed with fights of all beauty.
But don't forget the message distilled throughout the film;
The final fight, of all beauty

This video on U-Tube is in French;
I hope that the moderation will leave it because many members understand this language and if one of them, good at computers could add English subtitles to it it would be perfect

To return to a bar, you should already have been there once ...

Which is not my case and certainly that of many members of this forum.

1 hour ago, owl sees all said:

I think I'll get Milly one for her birthday.

I fear that Ms. Owl does not agree;
on the other hand buy her 1 or 2 baht of gold .......

Positive point of the thing,
we will not see every morning on thaivisa that a coach has gone to bed in the ditch or entered the lorry  of a parked truck ...

While waiting for the next even more devastating virus, maybe it would be good to read or re-read the Scarlet Plague by Jack London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Plague

I lived ;

let's say rather worked and slept and sometimes eat in a much smaller space than those of which you speak about  and this during very many years:
a cabin of an heavyweight semi-trailer and there was no balcony   ;

I can tell you now, the cabin bed of a 1973 Volvo F89 is slightly too short for my 193 cm;
now manufacturers know how to make spacious cabins even for tall drivers 

5 hours ago, cyril sneer said:

The ban is only for western style stores, people will just buy it elsewhere

That's what you think ; but it has nothing to do with reality on the ground.
Even in the villages the local grocery stores refuse to sell alcohol because it should never be forgotten that here the national sport is delation.

they are solid these new IVECO factories in China ( Industrial VEhicles COrporation );

45 minutes ago, OnTheGround said:

If you in Pattaya now,

Me in Sakon Nakhon now, for sure !

6 minutes ago, yogavnture said:

what happens if you wake up and your tires are gone and you are on blocks?

Impossible; my ferocious guards sleep under the vehicle .

16 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Really they have V8 Rangers/Hiluxs/D-Maxs/Everests/Fortuners in the NT ?

None of the vehicles mentioned has a V8 engine

I have an "old" ( 11 years ) Dmax of 3000cc, it's a 4 cylinder of 172 HP

32 minutes ago, OnTheGround said:

 

Yes. It's time for 3-4 heavily armed guards at all bank branches country wide, then gold shops, supermarkets and 7-eleven. We haven't seen anything yet.

Expats and the few remaining tourists here, leave all valuables at home.

I don't think it will ever happen in Thailand;

there is generally a "guard" in uniform who is mainly there to open the door for us by making a vague military salute.
and then it would cost too much to the banks and the police would especially not want private guards to do their non-work by showing the population how bad it (the police) is useless.

9 minutes ago, OnTheGround said:

 

Yes. It's time for 3-4 heavily armed guards at all bank branches country wide, then gold shops, supermarkets and 7-eleven. We haven't seen anything yet.

Expats and the few remaining tourists here, leave all valuables at home.

It is therefore high time that the government throws money helicopter out the window.

A photo shot in Bangkok in september 2009; I think it was in Khao san Rd 

On 4/12/2020 at 9:34 AM, Surelynot said:

Thanks for all the replies......going off the idea rapidly.

There is or I think there was in Pattaya a motorhome rental company at lunar rates ...
It can't work in Thailand;

there are tens of thousands of informal hotels and some in the middle of nowhere for prices often derisory ...

I very rarely see vehicles to which caravans are attached, but in 99% of the cases they are workers who move from construction sites to other construction sites.

34 minutes ago, Andrew65 said:

Some self-employed might get caught out like that in the UK. because of under-declaring previously.

Here it is much worse than that.
There is never any declaration to the competent authorities.
Anyone with 1 screwdriver and a wrench can set up their own business and declare themselves a highly qualified electrician;
when i see the mostly new vehicles of the itinerant traders who keep idling in my village and who painfully manage to sell for 100 baht of products, but where does the money which was used to buy this pickup of 600 or 700 thousand baht?
In addition no market study; no return on investment;
the purchase price and maintenance of the pickup are never taken into account in the sale price of the products they offer.
Ditto with these tens of thousands of boom boom hotels built all over Thailand.
When they have a filling rate of 20 to 30% they think they are rich; with the money collected the night before they go to party at the local karaoke;
the money invested in the construction of all these small houses with airco and flat screen Tv is never included in the nightly sale price.
How do you want them to fare at the slightest economic or health problem?

1 hour ago, kentrot said:

Here in Jomtien - the number of "For-Sale's" is over 7,500 and rising. And prices are dropping to half.

Even if they gave me money, I would never become the owner of a condo in Pattaya or Bangkok or in a city that lives largely on tourism.
When we see how they "work" we know that we will buy sh*t that will fall apart very quickly.
Not to mention the balconies glued to the walls which are unable to support three pots of flowers.

Anyway, buying real estate in Thailand is playing the game of wholesalers of various drugs.
Most of these constructions are financed by dirty money.

1 hour ago, ronaldo0 said:

Crime involving robbery and theft will go up

It is very possible but it will not make people happy in the police; they will be forced to work after 6 p.m.