AhFarangJa

Are those tanks open to the elements then?

Where we are the road safety checkpoints are a bigger hazard than not having them. Always set up just after a bend, or where the road already narrows. A line of cones in the road, absolutely no prior warning, and a bunch of mindless morons sitting around playing with their mobile phones while motorbikes stream past on the wrong side of the road, no helmets, no number plates, three on a bike. It is a pathetic sham by the people in power to try to show that they care, which they do not. DDPM.......What a fiasco.

Maybe now can you please do something about deleting notifications as it used to be.

Fragile mummy's boy Thai male's egos.

Can someone please tell me the relevance of the age of His lawyer.....

Correct, and you cannot get more racist than that Britman...

In the many years I worked in Saudi Alcohol was available if you knew how. I even had a Bedouin colleague who took me into the desert and showed me the cairns of stones, under which was the fermenting fruits in large jugs. Blew your head off.

So He has never noticed the massive hoardings in and around Bangkok, and other cities with L** and Ch**g logos on them and in small letters at the bottom....mineral water.......

He also was quoted as saying in about 2017 that He believed the 800,000 or 65,000 per month income was too low. He also, in 2018 was involved in the instigation of the money in the bank rule of two months before, and three months after, and not to fall below 400,000 at any time.

Many people on here seem to have short memories. However, I agree with you that He is a xenophobic racist in the same mould as A-nut-in. I still remember his rhetoric about unruly Farangs, and tarring everyone with the same brush. His whistle stop tours of Thailand's provinces rocking the boat in the name of protecting Thailand. His famous rant that there are now no more overstayers in the Kingdom thanks to his efforts, yet we still see people arrested for years, and years of overstay. I believe it was all smoke and mirrors to divert attention. As you rightly say, to get anywhere in the RTP you have to be corrupt, that is just the way it is, and always will be.

Like you, I am waiting for the rains, and will guarantee the power will go out. About two years ago they cut the power from 7 am until about 8 pm. When I asked why, they said they were upgrading the system so that the power was not interrupted when it rained. No points for guessing what happened about four days later, when we had a thunderstorm.......no power for 4 hours. When I asked why I was told it was another part that had not been upgraded. Snakes, are a common problem, yet when I suggest the wire rat cones on the poles I am met with blank stares. Our biggest culprit though are the drunk drivers hitting the power poles, normally one a week, depending on how many weddings or funerals there are.

Well, the price of olive oil is going through the roof...so...maybe.

They are no longer allowed to take your licence away I believe, I think the law changed about two years ago. However, apart from that, what is this moron doing riding without a shirt. Apart from the insult to the culture, it is bloody stupid, has he never heard of gravel rash.

Just another day. Until the address the Me, Me, Me, Me attitude on the roads, Ignorant driving actions, cutting in, dangerous overtaking, ignoring the signs, no licence, unroadworthy vehicles, overloading, speeding, drink driving, and the police who do not give a rats ass. It is bad on a good day near me, so I will not venture out on the roads for another three days yet until all the morons have gone back home.

When I try to talk to the Wife about it, all I get is "This is Thailand, He is Rich, so He can do what He wants."

A work colleague of mine once told me how He had managed to smoke in the toilets of the plane without anyone knowing. He said He put His head into the toilet bowl and flushed it so the air was dragged down. I told Him He must be pretty desperate to put His head into a toilet bowl on a full flight from the Middle East.

Well, that would be better for you than the food.

Yes, and you can blame the xenophobic imbeciles in power for spreading the hate speeches.

They are only peasants, plenty more where they came from. As long as it does not affect the Hi-So ruling class there is nothing to worry about......

Exactly, and this stupid government has extended it so they have started throwing water today near us. and the Wife says it can go on until the 20 or 21st.......absolutely ridiculous.

Unfortunately in many places if there was a system that you advocate, there would be a long queue of locals waiting to dob in any foreigner in the hope of getting the equivalent of 3 days salary.

Egg on their faces seeing as how the netizen nutters were calling the driver a Farang.......Som Nom Na....

My thoughts too, maybe a completed tax return, and receipt every year when renewing the visa.

Something I do not see written about, yet to my mind is a serious issue, and that is the retired people on annual extensions to stay using the monthly income method. Surely, with a sum of about 65,000 per month coming in regularly to meet visa requirements, the taxman will want to get his grubby paws on some of it.

Seven percent, probably hardly even notice it, but Thailand is getting as bad as the west for taxing anything, and everything they can to grab more money for the trough. Whatever we do, do not mention the window tax introduced in England in the last 1600's. Do not want to give them ideas !!!