hbullinger

I am all for this change in the retirement age of air hostesses. Older ladies are usually more caring, so it will increase the quality of service. It will also increase passenger safety as the trolley-dollies are only interested in keeping the pilots busy all night during their overnight stop-overs. I have been told about cases of totally over-tired pilots suffering also from hangovers flying their planes back home.

If it means, that the sex tourists will have to wait a little bit longer before groping the targets of their dreams in Pattaya, where they have just celebrated the female condoms, who cares?

BMA calls on people to stop driving

The Nation

Isn't it funny to see that such an issue in the news always starts a jamboree of all the anti car do-gooders. Most of these are farangs longing back for the war against car drivers in their countries with all the excessive penalties they were obviously happy to pay like the 80 Pounds parking ticket for overstaying a few minutes at a parking meter in London. One wonders what made them come to Thailand.

"Poorly skilled drivers and the law"

(Pattanadesh Asasappakij)

As long as you can buy your driving licence with hardly having to spend an hour for 'driving instructions' accidents will happen all the time. Have you seen many Thai drivers who can steer a car properly round a corner? In narrow sois without pavements pedestrians are in constant danger of being hit by cars using the whole width of the road when turning into such a soi. For the same lack of driving skills many drivers cut the corners in right bends when driving on a country road and you can see plenty of cars coming along on your side of the road, whether they have a clear view of the road ahead or not. I wouldn't be surprised if driving instructors do the same.

Newbie

"Does anyone have any information on where these 'smugglers' were from?"

They must have been Yorkshire men as they are used to carry their whippets in their trousers.

Honorary Pita, what do you mean by 'old people'?

I am 73 , my eye sight is not the best anymore, but I had no problems of deciphering that captcha.

I am sure Yingluck enjoyed the red coloured Sauce Hollandaise she was served with over her asparagus. The French and the present Thai government do indeed have a lot in common. Big talk and no substance.

I may have missed it but I didn't see any comments about Chancellor Merkel hailing the Yingluck style of democracy 'commitments'.

If you know the basics for directing a Taxi driver and some of the items on a menu and maybe some swear words, you are getting by, at least in Bangkok.

One blessing of not speaking and understanding Thai is that all the chit-chat from Thais around you - mostly women - which usually is nothing more than background noise - doesn't affect you in the slightest. Thai people employ the same philosophy with English language. Have you ever noticed that when you have a conversation with someone in English a non English speaking Thai person interrupts you mid sentence, not because he/she is rude, but their ears are closed to English, so they don't realise that you are talking at all.

The "case" against Abhisit and the Democrat government was stoked by the BBC, not least in its most recent documentary "Thailand Justice under Fire", August 2011, weblink:Khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QufwX0JsdXA. It begins with hailing Yingluck Shinawatra as the new leader bringing democracy to Thailand. Since then it must have become clear to most observers what sort of democracy the red shirts meant when they terrorised Bangkok.

Discussion No. 19, 'birdpooguava'.

Correct, PT aren't as stupid as some try to make them, but they know how stupid their voters are. As the North/Northeast population will always be larger than that in the rest of the country PT can do what they like. They will always win the elections and the country will be stuck with them.

Not even North Korea declared its failed rocket launch a success. Maybe Ying luck or ther brother should travel to Pyongyang to tell that young man with the funny hair cut what to do if it happens again.

I just wondered whether glorius Phue Thai counted the murders committed by revelling hooligans into the death toll.

"Thaksin called on the red shirt detainees to be patient, saying that he is negotiating with the judges to help them".

What sort of country would allow a fugutive criminal to negotiate with judges?

If that farang had any experience of traveling on the BTS cattle trains (BTS: Bovine Transport System) he should have realised that there isn't just any space for balloons. They would have burst in any case the minute he squeezes into the train. Where is the problem?

I read somewhere that an arriving passenger got through immigration in the morning of the 15.3. in 20 minutes. I had friends arriving on the same day at BKK on TG917 (2 hours late at 6pm) who also walked through immigration in a very short time.

Was this due to the assistance of the 90 female riot police officers they talked about a few days beforehand?

Thai planning can't indeed extend to more than 30 minutes before starting consruction. When did the Airport Link start running after completion of Suvarnabumi? After some more years it suddenly occurs to them that they need a connection tunnel between the so-called city terminal Makasan and MRT Petchbury station.

Did the BTS prepare for the sudden influx uf passengers with bulky luggage on their Phyathai station by modifying their cattle transport trains or extend the number of carriages from 3 to 6 to use the full length of their platforms? Of course not. The list of other examples of failed or non-existing planning is endless.

Logistics will forever remain a foreign word in Thailand.

Reading through all the various comments on the burning issue I did not detect the real reasons for it.

They are called STUPIDITY and IGNORANCE, equated by some apologists to THAI CULTURE.

Warnings not to burn forests, fields and any rubbish the people want to get rid of is useless. Throw some of the worst offenders for a year into prison, so that they have time to think about the damage they do to their fellow human beings and to the economy of their country. Large scale pollution is more worrying for tourists than a few bombs in Bangkok.

What after all is the difference between this and sellng drugs to people wihth which they ruin their health.

All the Farang do-gooders will now tell me about burning being part of Thai culture. Culture is a value-free expression and that sort of culture is of extremely low value

"Intelligence analysis said [the suspects] were arguing with one another, and the incidents are being treated as normal crimes."

And then we learn that it is standard procedure among Iraninas to settle their differences amongst each other with grenades. The odd ones thrown at a taxi or the police obviously don't count.

This government and their glorious police force are insulting the intelligence of the Thai population and froeigners alike with their stupid statements.

Let's see what all this does to the numbers of touists in the future.

With the SRT running Chatuchak Market, does that mean the opening times of the market will be delayed by 1 to 6 hours every day like the arrivals of their trains in Hua Lamphong?

I suffered an injury to my knee sometime ago in a multiple car pile up on a Motorway in one of those infamous minibuses.

I took photographs, recorded time an location of the accident and sent a claim for medical costs to the minibus operator per recorded letter.

The accident was recorded by the police. The letter was returned as undeliverable. The same will happen to that husband if he claims any compensation from the elephant operators.

This has nothing to do with Thai bashing. It's just karma.

Does this sum include all the kick backs?

In many of the above contributions I can smell the Red Shirt philosophy raising its ugly head again.

As they didn't manage to achieve their declared target of destroying Bangkok by fire last year, why not try by water?

I didn't spot many red shirts helping flood victims in Bangkok. Maybe they regarded them as part of the elite.

Does anyone out there know how to go to IKEA by using the Sky Train from Asok?

50 million cabic metres per second?

Can anyone imagine the size of such a pump?

Tears? Sure, tears of joy, because Pue Thai and their red barons are very happy indeed to see all of Bangkok swamped. This will teach those elite Bangkokians who to vote for next time round.

No wonder the Bangkokians are busy doing their panic shopping. When red ahirts have anything to do with flood control and supply distribution then it is time for the next coup.

I assume that the Thai military forces would be willing to accept help from the US forces.

It is time for the coup!