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You seemed to have completely missed the obvious fact that my reply was tongue in cheek. The post that I was replying to listed "Quality" tourists and that post also included a bit of tongue in cheek. Considering that there were so few arrivals from Kuwait, it is amazing how often Kuwaitis have been in the news recently with their antics in Pattaya. That is why when someone listed certain counties as "Quality" tourists I replied "Don't forget Kuwait!" Do you understand now?

Don't forget Kuwait!

When was the last time that you saw an increase of 1 Baht for a meal? With the rice price increase, it probably means an additional cost of 20 or 30 Satang per meal, but they would increase the cost to the customer by 5 or even 10 Baht.

I agree with you. Conditions look better than a lot of Brits have to live in and if I was a refugee I would be grateful for the accommodation. Why should the government continue to pay 800 pounds of taxpayers' money every week to house them in hotels?

There isn't a supply glut. I guess that India's export ban has pushed up global prices and created more demand for Thailand's rice. If Thailand exports more rice, there is less supply for the domestic market

I don't think that anyone would pay 117 baht for a kilo of white rice! Prices may be rising but I bet the farmers that harvest around November will see prices for paddy rice fall again

It rings a bell with me as well. I seem to remember something about being able to sue someone for having sex with your wife. That would have been over 20 years ago though.

A Queerum?

The Daily News article states that a single foreign male dressed in black threatened a group of more than 10 tourists (possibly from Kuwait) with a firearm. He made them sit in a row. Nothing about 10 foreign men brandishing guns

From the updated article a few posts above yours. So I guess that the residents were there first.

Storing explosives in a residential area!!!! I hope that those responsible face at least manslaughter charges and a long time in prison.

The 800K does not need to come from abroad. If doing an extension based on income it does.

Years ago, my GF at the time co-signed a loan for a friend who was buying a pick-up. I told her that she should not do it as when the friend defaults, she will be responsible for paying back the loan. She didn't believe me as she had no idea what she was signing. The problem is that many people are very naïve about debt and are incapable of doing very simple mathematics. The amount of people that struggle to survive on their income will borrow money that they cannot possibly repay. It is very simple to work out that if every month, at the end of the month, all of the person's earning have been spent on necessities, there will be nothing left to service a loan. Yet they will take out a loan and seem to believe that the additional x thousands of Baht that they need to repay each month will magically appear from somewhere!

The Thai word for niece, laan saao, confusingly, is also the Thai word for granddaughter.

There have been 266 weekly updates?? That's over 5 years worth! Did the pandemic start in 2018 and they kept it quiet?

That surprises me as here in Khon Kaen we have had a lot of rain recently. Very heavy most of the time, not showery.

I pay my rent to an SCB bank account every month using the deposit machine. I do not need to insert any card and I just input the bank account number. I know that they were going to introduce the need to insert a card last year but it was never actually done.

Been a few years since I deposited money inside a bank (usually small amounts but up to 30,000 Baht), never been asked for my passport.

Really??!! You feel it appropriate to make such quips when a person has died?

Hardly an unprecedented move! Maybe they were the original rules but they were changed maybe 8 to10 years ago. At that time individual schools were still allowed to make their own rules though.

Why would cisgender people be even remotely likely to face discrimination?? I was born a man, I live life as a man and I have no problem when other people refer to me as a man. Mind you with all the woke nutters about I suppose that me being very happy being a man will be a crime soon.

That doesn't seem particularly low paid for Thailand.

Please enlighten us. How much do doctors earn in public hospitals? I see so often people state that nurses and doctors are poorly paid, but I never see them tell how much they actually earn. Are you just guessing how much they get paid?

They probably tried some Chinese crackers with that square "ham" topped with those processed "cheese" slices.

Not only is the ban on alcohol sales before 11 AM and between 2 - 5 PM totally ridiculous, it makes absolutely no sense. At those times my local 7-11 cannot sell alcohol but I can go into the bar next door and buy a beer at twice the price! If alcohol sales are banned why are bars allowed to sell it at these times?