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MICE visitors welcomed first? To congregate in meetings? Great idea. I would have thought they should be last on the list.

Admirable sang-froid on the part of that lady. Many people would have crashed.

So he'll resign. No, I thought not.

33 minutes ago, keith101 said:

You obviously haven't watched anything on how the droplets travel from the mouth when talking /sneezing or coughing , they travel straight out for some distance and if your wearing a face shield they will hit and drop straight down as has been shown in tests .

Exactly. Face shields are excellent for stopping infected people from ejecting the virus far outwards. They also protect the eyes from infection by other people. They are extremely useful, in fact, if you think about the means of transmission of the virus. Ignore this foolish official.

"scrumptious"? In a news report?

"most destinations"? Not. No foreign destinations are mentioned.

Darwin award.

Absurd. Just test all those who enter and quarantine those who are infected.

No contract tracing, I note, unlike the unworkable rules now applied in Thailand. Lucky English.

4 hours ago, Darkside Gray said:

Its no different to any where else in the world I have been!

Rubbish. People in great European cities go to parks, museums, galleries, historical sites and other places of leisure in droves. The Thais don't because these places largely don't exist and because they'd rather do mindless things like shopping in malls anyway.

Quote: "The rapid growth of the city has left Bangkok with almost no space to create a public park as land is too expensive to nurture green or public areas."

The land is not too expensive for the Thai billionaire class, especially the top one, to do the good deed of creating public parks. But philanthropy is not a trait of these people. 

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Indeed, but the planet is not doomed, just humanity along with all the species we will exterminate between now and when Gaia finally gets rid of us. The forests will return to cover the earth, the oceans will recover in time ( even plastic will dissolve in a billion years ), and another species will emerge to become dominant. Rinse and repeat till the sun expands and melts planet earth.

 

I count myself fortunate to have been born at a time when medicine and technology made my life better than ever before, and I count myself to be fortunate that I shall ( hopefully ) pass over before it really turns to deep doodoo caused by just too many people.

It's too many people PLUS bad economic policies that are causing the planet's devastation - but I'm with you on being happy to exit before the doodoo really hits the fan..

19 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I suggest that she is indicative of the average teachers ability, and completely explains the poor English capability of students here.   

Exactly. Unfortunately.

What the heck did it want with a car engine?!

The worst thing is that gross food he's chosen.

7 hours ago, kotsak said:

Could.. So not final yet.

 

That has to be a poor translation. Only "can" makes sense.

Pah, 5 years overstay?! A friend of mine racked up 10 years and then decided he wanted to go back to the US. Speaking excellent Thai and with a good lawyer, he negotiated a fee of 20,000 baht to be let go. And in a few years he came back and is still here, legally.

But this was the 1990s, another age in immigration terms.