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1 hour ago, shadowofacloud said:

Some impressive brown-nosing here. Way to go!

Do you think he swallows....

On 10/13/2019 at 2:04 AM, Andrew Dwyer said:

I have a Jazz, chose it for its large carry capacity, it has carried more than its fair share of DIY materials ( sand, cement , 2.5m lengths of pvc/wood/ steel etc ), certainly the most flexible hatchback among your list.
Has also carried me and the gf 55,000 km’s around Thailand in the last 3 years without any complaints.

Have no experience of the others but the Jazz has served me admirably.

Jazz at  12 years / 255,000 km, still going strong..... I will buy another Jazz when this one finally pops its clogs..

3 hours ago, Bob12345 said:

I doubt craft beer will bring in millions of tourists, but if i had to take a wild guess: you are making craft beers (or plan to do in the near future).

No, I am no longer a big drinker, nor do I have intentions other than to highlight an example of a pro tourism policy choice which could easily be implemented, and which would help the grass roots economy.

There are things the tourist authorities could do to stimulate the individual tourism sector.

Relaxing the laws that prevent local craft brewers from offering their products for sale, as an example.

Globally, there is a trend to interesting and varied craft beers being offered in bars. In Thailand they are all highly taxed and expensive imports, due to the laws that effectively create a tasteless duopoly in a key sector of the tourism take.

I suspect that if you follow the money, you will figure out why!

I won’t tell immigration if you don’t 

What an outstanding success! It takes coordination, ingenuity and vision to milk the coffers after every rain storm. After years of trial and error with substandard roads, which take up to two years to disintegrate, the city council has excelled itself. Finally, a project that is guaranteed to spread the wealth to in-laws and mates after every single downpour for years to come

On 4/28/2019 at 12:37 AM, Isaanbiker said:

Not wanting to make your blood boil, but I know that the coppers here are more than powerful, because all cases are first in the hands of cops. No matter whose fault it was, in theory, would the injured guy pay money to the cop who came to the accident and wrote the report, you could be very screwed. ( Of course, did he visit him in the hospital ad the chat might not have been in your favor.)

 

             Don't wait too long, go to the coppers, try to find out what the report looks like, or you could find yourself in a very bad situation. If the guy paid the cops, pay them more. Sorry, if that might sound insane, but there's no right and wrong. Money rules.

 

       My neighbor, a younger teacher was heavily intoxicated when he crashed with a motorbike driver who's also drunk. Both vehicles were brought to the coppers and when the teacher's mom went to them and paid the cop 60 K, the report was changed in a way that the poor guy who's hospitalized and less drunk than her son, was the only guy who was drunk. Mom's dad was a big shot at the same police station a while ago...

 

    He could get his Nissan pick up truck from the station and bring it to a place where they fixed all for zero baht and even resprayed the damn thing, just because he had # 1 insurance. But same insurance wouldn't have paid one baht if he'd been drunk. I felt so sorry for the poor guy in the hospital who had broken bones who was all in a sudden a criminal who'd destroyed a teacher's vehicle being intoxicated. 

 

The offense can easily become a crime when they change the story in a way that you were speeding, did a red light, or anything similar. Be careful out there, it's like a jungle with plenty of poisonous snakes. 

      

 

          

 

  

I agree with everything you say...... all of which speaks for “get a dashcam”! A dashcam is a particularly good investment for farang drivers here........

My usual songkrahn strategy was aircon at home with 4 large boxes of Chang. I stopped drinking 13th April last year.....this will be a real test!