sandrew33

You’ve quoted me without including any quote. WTAF is your point champ?

How many Americans - and Westerners in general - are getting citizen immigration status in Thailand each year? How many of those are becoming a cost to Thai govt in terms of benefits? Answer those and then have a think about the impact.

Shows article to Thai wife. Her response: “And? Everyone knows this forever” I mean it’s hardly a revelation.

True, although they are also amongst the largest consumers of his weed.. 🙂

The problem with Thai politics isn’t the Shins and it won’t be solved by Anutin 🙂

He’s just another member of the elite class originally part of Thaksins Govt/Party (prior to his 5 year ban) and aligned with the infamous Newin. Weed users would be happy though I guess 🙂

This is a complete misunderstanding of reality. Police in all states in Australia had defined benefit superannuation long before Super Guarantee started. In most states they also had additional superannuation contributions (on top of compulsory) after compulsory started. I’ve got several 55-65 year old Police in my extended family with comfortably more than $1m in super. If they acquired an investment property or bought a near city house near Sydney in the 90’s they could easily have $4m+. I mean my best mate bought his house in Sydney in 2000 for $1.2m and it’s now worth $15m. You are reaching based on a flawed grasp of the system. That he’s now done something that is epically stupid is not in dispute.

This 👍🏻 Much better to be assumed to be some sort of struggling pensioner than a potential mark 🙂

Well yes, and yet as I explained this is vanishingly rare from a massage in my experience and the experience of everyone I know. Hence me finding a drive by on much of the Thai massage sector unnecessary and driven by the need for clicks rather than anything much useful.

The problem with content creation is that the need for new content is endless. There are many of us with 20+ years in Thailand between ourselves and our networks would have had tens of thousands of all manner of massages up and down Thailand (and in other even sketchier parts of Asia) and we’ve never seen anything like this. That skin irritation/infection can occur is obviously true anywhere but that’s not really the focus here. It’s about a content creator looking for a niche for content. No context, not especially useful but scary images and broad brush tars an entire sector. Because content must be created as those DTV’s aren’t going to fund themselves. Has anyone else noticed that much of the newer content is either just lazy stereotypes or, increasingly just negative nonsense like this?

Yeah it’s only the Shins that are devisive and certainly not the absolute clown show that always finds a way to replace them right?

Bloodless sure but those who stand up against it and are then destroyed in other ways. And the people bear the cost of a country that never comes close to achieving its potential because of the endless power struggles.

This is frankly the boot licker view of the last election (hiding behind rhetoric). The young educated, the young poor and much of the middle are onboard with the PP notion that the countries method of government needs to be modernised. That’s why they got so much of vote in a fairly gerrymandered process. The LM assertions are just the old guard crushing modernity. Again. And so we ended up with the current sub par govt. Again. Change is long overdue.

They probably buy planes for their subs TBH 😉

So nothing has changed, they’ve added some LTR visas that are easy to get but require higher income or assets? I mean this is one of the more poorly written articles I’ve ever read.

These are the package Chinese tourist that nobody wants. All Chinese owned and paid and little money to local economy. That Cambodia would allow itself to bent over some more by the Chinese for the inevitable sole benefit of the ruling family is no surprise and should be of zero interest or concern to Thailand. Cambodia has vastly less tourism infrastructure and they are targeting the budget tourists, maybe they can take some of the similar group of Indian tourists too? 🙂

This is largely just BS though. I’m Aussie and not anti vaccine but the Covid vaccination program has materially negatively impacted views of vaccines all around the world including the UK. See attached You are likely quite old and so even relatively mild respiratory illness is potentially an issue for you but let’s not say increasing lack of trust of vaccines and public health officials more broadly hasn’t been widespread - it’s far from only Americans - maybe at your age you are just out of touch with reality 🙂

I’d respectfully suggest that either (a) you have some serious health issues or (b you need to learn to use a condom and stop confusing some industrial level STD with Covid 🤷🏻‍♂️😁

It is compared to actual flu. People calling common colds flu is part of the problem. I’ve had Covid twice, the second time was barely a cold. The first time is was 4 days that felt exactly like last time I had a proper flu. Both flu and Covid primarily kill the elderly and infirm for most others it’s a few days of relative misery with “flu like symptoms”

They can be for many. At worst they are like a bad flu these days as you’d expect of a virus that is endemic. Unless you are very old or infirm it’s not likely to do much to you beyond 3-6 days of feeling crap. In that sense it’s exactly like proper flu. Worth noting that we rarely get stories about flu. It should increasingly be the same for Covid. But for reasons that aren’t clear there seems this need to whip out these stories every 6 months or so.

Let me guess cloth masks (entirely pointless but the main used ones in Thailand) or surgical masks (mildly helpful if you have Covid in reducing particle spread if worn properly and changed every couple of hours, entirely pointless otherwise or if wet). The only ones with any real benefit for those healthy are properly fitted (no beard, no gaps) N95 masks which are uncomfortable when worn properly, even moreso in hot weather). So which ones they wearing at Makro because 99% of mask usage in Thailand is entirely or largely pointless?

And what would that have achieved? There was an election required, they didn't win, he was deeply unpopular. If by outside forces you mean the Thai population then sure

To be fair there’s new hotels built every second week and there remains myriad brilliant ones. Perhaps avoid crap old hotels and fat bar girls and you’ll have a better time.

A few years ago this was the dream but when we observe them replaced by bulk Russians, package tour Indians and those objectionable man bag wearing Benidorm types it’s basically a nil all draw at best 🙂

Yeah, one suspects that there are a few important details of his story missing TBH