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4 hours ago, Lancelot01 said:

Licence or license.

Color or colour? Tire or Tyre? Hood or bonnet, Sabre or saber? Sidewalk or pavements? Team were or Team was? American or British English? I was quite aware I had swapped the British "licence" for the American and wondered if anybody would notice (believe it or not). Looks like you, at least, did. Technically, I should have not made that swap because I had indicated a quotation, yes? Anyway, Wiki prefers the American spelling (link):

A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit). A license may be granted by a party to another party as an element of an agreement between those parties.

You should be aware by now that there is a strong British presence in the articles and replies on this forum, yes?

3 hours ago, Xaos said:

What cc he had. And how thai woman can buy few mil jewelry on a american man named cc, shop owner should be done for fraud too. Money laudering.

Credit laundering? How about credit card fraud?

On 8/26/2018 at 9:42 AM, StefanBBK said:

The credit card company should not pay the Jewellery shop, because of their gross negligence. 

Hope the Tourist recovers quickly.

I'd say "gross corruption", beyond negligence. Perhaps an accessory. Or maybe "gross profit motive" at best.

1 hour ago, Eligius said:

Perhaps the Thais can learn during this competition how to train shop assistants in vaunted shops like Tops or malls such as Central Chitlom to know even the most simple, basic, rudimentary things connected with the items they are selling - for example, whether they do actually sell that product or have it in stock or have it on order? We can't, of course,  expect them to master the more difficult bits of the process yet  - such as knowing anything  substantive about the product concerned. That might take another 20 years and a further 20 'competitions' .... (And that is being generous with the time frame!).

 

Sorry, they're too overloaded with their SmartPhone lives and learning English with high intensity and immersion.

On 8/23/2018 at 8:58 PM, kekalot said:

I personally avoid any place that doesn't have marked prices like the plague.. cause I know they just quote prices out of their ass and I don't like haggling.

I have been to Pantip recently and yes it was quite empty. likely to be quite fully deserted soon also.

I was quoted a marked price for a Panasonic Lumix camera of 17,000 at Central World, Rachaprasong. Bought the exact same camera Pantip's AV Center for 13,900. I just took it on a warranty repair because I accidentally killed it it (another story).

At a 3,000 baht lesser quote I didn't haggle at the AV Center and knew better than to try to haggle at too upscale (for me) Central. IMHO, bargains are where one finds them, marked price or not.

15 hours ago, Catkiwi said:

Japanese or termites?

Probably Chinese.

2 hours ago, CLW said:

I think the only ones who believe that people come to central Pattaya for the beach are in their city hall.
Even Thai people come here for other reasons but surely not for the beach

I call it "PartyYeah!".

Looks like a triple-layer stupidity sandwich to me. Not the most enjoyable of threesomes.

3 hours ago, BestB said:

The scary part is he was fined and deported. No court, no judge and really no law was broken , yet fined and deported

Ht has not been determined from this article that he was deported. Do you have confirmation of that?

Why not? After all Terminal 21 had separate parking for "big bikes" and, no, I have no idea what differentiated a big bike and wonder if even they did.

16 hours ago, hobz said:

I don't think a driving license in Thailand means u can drive safely. 

So what difference does it make if everyone has a license or not??

 

The license test is basically a glorified parking test. Means u can park. That's it.

 

They need to increase fines for reckless driving, drunk driving and speeding.

 

Then if they could set up a camera system everywhere that catches all the illegal lane changing I would be very happy.

 

 

So you'd be happy with just recording the video of illegal lane changing? Do you actually think the video would be used for anything other consuming a lot video image memory? For how many days/months/years/centuries would you recommend retaining the videos?

On 8/21/2018 at 8:56 AM, madmitch said:

Sounds good but only with the following provisos:

 

1. It's enforced

2. No "negotiations" with the police

3. Same law for all, regardless of nationality, class or position

 

Any chance of this happening?

The infamous snowball's chance in you-know-where.

3 hours ago, Stargrazer9889 said:

All these comments, and no one noticed that the kid was 18. Likely his parents

helped him to get the bike and nice helmet. RIP to the kid, and shame on his

parents bad choice to give him the money or means to get this big of a motorcycle.

  I have owned a few bikes, and never had the wish to buy any over 250 cc.

  I did not ever have the big urge to go faster than 100kms on 2 wheels.

Geezer

The parents of a kid in my apartment bought him a Honda Repsol CBR (an obvious muscle bike and probably 1000 cc) which he clearly was not competent with (going directly from a bicycle which I had to show him how to inflate the tires on!).

I told his mother that it was a really bad idea and that it was mainly about impressing his peers and, mainly, the women. He hasn't done himself in with it yet (as far as I know), but I don't see him riding it much either.

I'm not comfortable over 20 kph on a two-wheeled vehicle, frankly, because the human body is more fragile than people know and I'm not in that big a hurry these days.

1 hour ago, luk AJ said:

What do you suggest than people do on the train? Stare a each other? Picking their nose?


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I suppose there's always groping... ?

On 8/18/2018 at 12:51 PM, kannot said:

 so you are travelling right now at 67000mph or 107000km/h........are you wearing a helmet and how  will that help? curious to know.

Sudden deceleration kills not  speed.......along with stupidity, lack of awareness etc etc all plentiful in Thailand

Sorry, it's not the deceleration it's the opposing reaction force that does the damage - Newton's Third Law.

56 minutes ago, kannot said:

whats the <deleted> point in extending the lines when the amount of carriages is  still only 4 per train...........woefully inadequate

It's a good point. One would think it would cause the peak commute hours to be spread out over a longer time span. Does anyone know what the BTS/MRT plan is for lengthening trains or (OMG!) can they actually do it?

The Nation's chart did not include the BTS Sukhumvit Samut Prakan [article] extension opens next year(?) (eight new stations in addition to the recently available Samrong station). I actually followed the Sukhumvit extension with Google Maps and Street View all the way from Samrong to the end-of-line yard near Sai Luat Road (I was really bored ). An impressive piece of engineering/construction.

I'm eagerly awaiting the Pattaya City extension...

On 8/18/2018 at 10:36 AM, Bangkok Barry said:

I wonder how many people commute in Bangkok each day. And how many spend at least an hour locked in traffic each way. It must amount to millions of lost man-hours. Every single day. Life just wasted in traffic.

It's not life wasted. Most are on their smart phones (Oops - most probably frittering their lives away on FaceBook or somesuch).

On 8/18/2018 at 8:31 AM, SoilSpoil said:

Compare Bangkok's street plans with that of any other city in the world and you'll realize that its the worst planned city in the world. All the new lines will not improve the situation. How will the people of Bangkok (the millions not living and working along the lines) get to the stations? They will prefer hpurs of traffic.

"planned city"?!

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

When you double park rule is to leave the car in neutral so it can be easily moved.

Have you not lived in Thailand?

More than ten solid years in Bangkok. However, I don't get involved here with any type of motor vehicles at all, except when they are obstacles (more likely threats) to my cycling or the very rare instances when I take a taxi. Besides having a serve case of "motorcycle disease", Bangkok also, obviously, has a serious case of "excessive motor vehicle syndrome". I encounter carelessly and irresponsibly parked cars and trucks every day even on the sidewalks, but I don't attempt to relocate them. ?

An unassuming soul without a hint of impertinence are you?

I'm sure Thailand, with a severe case of "motorbike disease", will treat it like taking an aspirin when bitten by a rabid dog or having Bubonic plague symptoms.

7 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

Just a shame that many helmets are little more than hair protection and there is little understanding that they have to be worn correctly, with a strap, to afford even minimal protection in case of an accident.

And they have to fit properly to the individual noggin, according to my Index^TM helmet manual.

35 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

The only way to seriously reduce mocy accidents by 50% is to remove 50% of mocy from the roads.

Which would result in twice as many people being on each mocy, of course (if that is possible and it appears to be).