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Damn right. No cover if helmetless. Maybe they don't think they're covered so why bother. But covered or not, how fricking dumbass can you be not to give yourself at least a CHANCE of survival if bashed up in an RTA?

It must be the most BS index ever invented. Consumer confidence? What the hell is it based on? How do they calculate it? Here's one explanation... https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cci.asp 5 questions. 1 of 3 possible answers to each. Utterly meaningless as you could answer anything to any of them. A complete nonsense for economists and Bloomberg. They go mad for this rubbish.

The time to kick up a fuss was in the airport when they first learnt of the delay. First thing is to find out what your options are, either at the airline desk if there is one, or at check in. Refund, hotel or whatever. 16 hours would be way over the acceptable limit. I reckon hotel and next available flight. But you have to fight for it!

Yeah. Up a gum tree!

All wombats think that.

Having weighed up all the facts of the case, definitely one for AN Poirot. Could be murder. Hmm, maybe not. Could be suicide attempt? Maybe. Could be murder/suicide? Yeah, let's go with that. Murder and attempted suicide your Honour. Crash. Hammer falls. Case dismissed. But where's the taxi?

As usual a paltry fine of up to 10,000 THB, or 6 months in chokey. Some kind of joke. Why are fines in Thailand so pathetically small? Let's see. 6 months in prison or 10,000 THB fine. Hmm think I'll phone a friend. Brrr brrr, 10 secs later, yes, I'll take the fine. 10 million THB and you might get a result you idiots!

Next headline: "Driving with eyes shut hinders vision, new study shows".

Despite the opposition being voiced here, it has to be a positive step forward for the 7 groups to be consulted at all. The actual groups aren't named here so it's hard to know who is being represented. But, monitoring the wording of the questionnaires will be interesting. The inclusion of a question as to whether the whole charter should be up for revision is also radical. Many conservative politicians and the upper eschelons of Thai society regard Section 1 as untouchable, and some, Section 2 also. Power to the People!

Plea to Pattaya News... The mayor's name is transliterated as Poramet Ngampichet, not the incredibly annoying spelling you, and you alone, use. You should know the Thai language rules for words ending in 's'. The 's' becomes a 't'. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Pattaya_City_mayoral_election#:~:text=Elected Mayor&text=Out of 38%2C320 registerred voters,Pattaya party with 14%2C349 votes. Irrelevant info: there were only 38,320 registered voters at the last mayoral elections. I suppose because the vast majority of Pattaya's floating population of 98,000 roughly are from up country.

What I meant by "selling at a profit but still make a loss" was, although you might sell for more than you paid, all the other costs can wipe out that "profit". Anyway, you seem to have had a remarkable run. I have a large house I can't sell here and a large house I can't sell in Philippines. Land is a different proposition as an investment. I'm just not a builder, and so fail dismally when it comes to construction.

Ever mistaken a Dane for a Spaniard? Northern and Southern Europe. Or an Irishman for a Welshman? Both celtic origins. The Khmer and the Tai both originated in southern China and drifted south, so it's just tribal genetics probably. Fair skin is totally over valued in certain sections of society. Asian women spend probably trillions of $ on skin bleachers. Why? Fashion probably. Who knows they aren't breeding white skinned babies.

Well Digger me old Cobber, meet yer Cousin Clytus.

Can't you look it up for yourself instead of screeching Bueller, Bueller?

Why are you dredging up old rants? But it's easy enough to find out: https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7947934/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221007931 More?

Set up on Bangkok Bank account, with the help of the counter staff.

Ah, didn't see that coming. Now, where's that banjo?

Krungthai has yet to implement facial recog. Been waiting now 3 months. Government bank.

They have access from 3rd Road.

Park and ride.

Dongtan 2 way for bikes 24 hrs, one way for cars 4am to 10pm, as now.

Off topic, but I never use PTT as it's always chockers, whereas 50m up the road the Shell is always deserted. I guess the PTT one gets the government reduction. Either way, exiting and getting back to Jomtien or Pratamnak is nerve wracking.

Totally agree. I got chased by a copper's asdistant down Beach Rd once coming from na klua and doing the pedeX chicane just there by the dolphin. Copper was creaming it. He'd kitted out this old boy with a pair of ill fitting bib boots and a brown jacket so he looked like a crumpled copper, and got him to do the leg work hauling in the miscreants. Thais escaped free of charge I believe.

It is a problem, maybe not in the execution, but in the intent. Cars can't do the same manoeuvres. I too use the cut across to get to Lotus and the yewy to get into Ratanakorn. Luckily I turn left when I come out, otherwise it's down almost to the Thappraya lights and back to get the right they've blocked. Some vehicles don't have the lock if there's cars parked across the road. The tail back becomes a joke. Then there's the non functioning lights at Soi 8, so it's a free for all, but with people doing yewies in both directions, bikes and cars appearing out of nowhere. And the 2 gas stations where you can't get in going west, and coming out, the bikes use the pedestrian crossing to get the right. And all this was planned? Nuts!

They'd have to make them one way too, like between Beach Rd and 2nd Rd, alternately as they already get clogged. And sois connecting buakhao and 3rd. I hope they've thought this through. 🤣🤣🤣