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4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Link - There will not be a karaoke service, dance floor, promotion and alcohol for the customers who share glasses.

 

Not being a visitor to nightclubs and bars anymore, it is common two people go to a bar and order one alcoholic drink and two straws ? 

Only if they are from the Indian sub-continent.

Pre-paying for anything in Thailand is a recipe for disappointment. 

4 minutes ago, johng said:

Here is a better photo.

 

I'm in Patters - how many times will I have to refill my Click 125 to get to Chiang Mai? 

"Rape" and "regret" are now synonymous. 

I refer you to my quotes below.  These quotes are the only wisdom you need in today's world.

6 minutes ago, Reigntax said:

Covid is here for decades. Vaccinations and learning to live with it or lockdowns, restrictions and social and financial destruction.

but when you have the elite making the decisions with little affect on their lives, the poorer the majority become, the more they be used in the future

Colditz-19 will technically be here forever and until the end of the universe.  Mankind in all his (hers/zers/zim....insert your pronoun of choice to suit your self identified gender) wisdom and modern medical science has only ever eradicated one virus (smallpox) and that was only because the virus was not a zoological virus and shared by animals.

Colditz-19 is a zoological and can never be eradicated with current known science.

But otherwise you are correct - Colditz-19 is the current fear du jour being used by the oligarchs to control us.  Climate change wasn't working as well as they'd hoped as  a control mechanism so they used the colditz-19 event as a more tangible, immediate and imminent crisis as their weapon of fear.

Meanwhile they're ramping up efforts on climate fear and the new hatred towards energy and the powerhouse of the world's economy.  The shift away from colditz-19 fear to a heightened climate fear and energy outrage will be almost seamless.

Coldita-19 is the ultimate weapon of Pavlovian "conditioning". The "conditioned" normies that are now so fearful of colditz-19 will be easily convinced to adopt the climate fear mantra.  

Unfortunately the world is run by those that know how gullible and fearful the Pareto's 80% of the population are.  Always have and always will.

30 minutes ago, tonray said:

The buttons work as follows:

 

Yellow: I'm lost

Green: I ran out of water

Red: There's a gang of LadyBoys approaching

Are you discussing the buttons at the park or the buttons on Pattaya pedestrian crossings?

The shacks look OK to me.

I mean, give them a lick of paint and the village could be easily be passed off as  a "Ree-zort".

If these buttons work as well as the pedestrian "crossing" buttons in Pattaya, it should all go swimmingly.

6 minutes ago, soi3eddie said:

The pandemic has been very convenient for mobs in charge of many other countries too. It's not just a Thailand thing. Control, control and control the populaces into submission and into being thankful of small freedoms.

 

As Winston Churchill famously said, "Never let a good crisis go to waste".

Colditz-19 fear mania is a politicians wet-dream come true.

"The Church" was the second oldest form of business ever invented by man.  The cave witchdoctor/sharman would rattle bones or read the signs and be highly regarded by the tribe.  He didn't hunt or gather, but elicited tithe from the tribe.

Add on a few thousand years and nothing has changed.

At least the oldest profession is a little more upfront and honest.

Jeez, that's 1,428 Baht per bottle.

Johnnie Walker by the litre costs less than that and actually works.  And if it doesn't work, you don't care anyway.

As the BIB currently hold the national gambling franchise I can see why he's worried.

He'll get to know that "kicked in the goolies" feeling that former holders of McDonald's and 7/11 franchisees have felt over the last 18 months.

Meanwhile he's got his accountant busily iterating the numbers to see how they can afford to resubmit a better franchise tender assuming TAT forecasts of cash-cow tourists that aren't and won't be coming to Thailand.   Pigs, lipstick, and all that.