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Check Wiki out for some info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Thailand

I suspect the desirability of your "1" only applies to cars and not scooters. I recall seeing plenty of bikes with single digits around. 

I can't see a Hiso Bangkokian willing to forego his Merc with a non personalized plate to pay megabaht for the honor of whizzing down Suk on a Vespa with a "1" plate hanging off the rear mudguard.

Back in the 70's in the United Socialist Democratic Republic of New Zealand (formerly known as Godzone) some idiot invented a beverage that looked smelled and tasted (at least a little) like whiskey. Even the bottle looked like an alcoholic drink. 

But it was non-alcoholic and marketed as "the drink you're having when you're not having a drink". The brand name of this beverage was Clayton's.

To this day to somebody of my generation, if anything in NZ was considered to be fake, false, a copy or a failure,  it was referred to as "a Clayton's" in the local vernacular, much to the chagrin and eternal embarrassment of the manufacturer.

Last year and this year we have and will experience again, a Clayton's Loy Khratong, a Clayton's Christmas and New Year, a Clayton's Songkran and the list goes on.

In fact I would suggest we have had a couple of Clayton's years.  Let's hope we don't have too many more Clayton's birthdays before all this BS is finally brought to an end.

Having 20k will come in handy when they imprison hospitalize you if you test positive.  It won't go far but you shouldn't be starving for the first 2 days at least.

This will be the first of many reports yet to come.  Only 10 or so testing positive thus far is surprisingly low and probably so because the statistical probability of randomly testing positive has been skewed by the pre-departure negative test requirements.

As arrivals increase (that is, if they do increase) the laws of statistical probability means that a greater percentage will test positive on arrival.

My prediction - if they get to anything like 200,000 arrivals per month they will see circa 2% (4,000) testing positive, and that will be a world of hurt for a lot of people. The horror stories enforced  expensive hospital quarantine will get out into wider circulation and the arrival numbers will drop like the proverbial brick.

It will be about then they will do one of two things.  Close the border again or more likely, throw their arms in the air and stop the ridiculous charade.

The only tax payable to any thieving filthy money grubbing government endorsed highwayman of a tax collector is what you tell them about or what you allow another entity to tell them about.

Governments and tax collectors should be considered to be mushrooms - best kept in the dark.  Getting difficult these days but luckily I saw it coming years ago structured accordingly.  Still pay a truckload of tax, but that's a truckload less than they would otherwise filch off me.

I consider my annual tax returns to be works of art on a par with anything da Vinci did.  It's just a shame I can't hang 'em on the wall.  Instead I file them in my small library of paperbacks - in the fiction section, obviously.

If you're in Pattaya - I get mine done by a lawyer/Notary Public on Thepprasit Road, 20 mtrs from Soi 8.  I forget the name but they have great English.  1,000B for a Stat Dec with all the appropriate stamps etc.

Then tell the <deleted> to give me permission to go to a bar, have a pint or two and play a spot of pool. 

I doubt I'm a risk to national security and even though my personal hero is Winston Smith I've now been brow beaten so much by these fanatics that I am prepared to submissively show my vaccine status and behave like a good and loyal member of the Party. 

Like a sheep to the slaughter I will abide by the rules of groupthink and doublespeak, I'll accept that 2+ 2 does not equal 4 unless the Party says it does, and to hell with the over production of razor blades and  the hell with Julia.

Yeah right - the clocks will indeed be striking 13 on a bright cold day in April before I'd give in to all that.

What a load of codswallop.

I think the importer is liable for the tax.  You're assuming the importer will pass on the tax saving to the wholesaler or if the wholesaler passes it on to the retailer. 

I'll bet you dollars to donuts you'll see no price reduction at the counter, there are too many variables in the supply chain both domestically and at the point of origin that can be utilized to justify an increase in retail price instead of a reduction. 

Ocean freight, inland freight, cost of fuel, rising wages, assumed or real inflationary expectations, exchange rate, and the list goes on.

With inflation now a world wide phenomenon you will probably never see anything cheaper than it is today. I remember the 70's and 80's - my salary increased by 19% one year but still didn't match the price rise of beer that was 30%.  

My favorite T-shirt had on the front "you too can have a body like this..."  and on the back said "...for 89c 99c $1.10 $1.99 a pint".

Ask any greenie or journalist about the Aussie Great Barrier Reef and you'll be told it's virtually destroyed. 

In reality the coral cover is at the same level as the mid 1980's after suffering and recovering from a range of natural phenomenon over the decades.  The official government data of their long term monitoring process can be found here https://www.aims.gov.au/reef-monitoring/gbr-condition-summary-2020-2021

But I would never suggest that empirical data and observed and measured reality should ever be allowed to trump anybody's imagined reality. 

You know it's a balls-up when it's harder to get into Thailand than it ever was to escape from Colditz.