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The military will probably fight to keep the draft slavery. Who else is going to keep the officers chickens fed, pump the petrol in the Army owned gasoline stations, wash the cars, and assorted household duties for the top brass.

Thankfully it only lasts a couple of days up here in the sticks.

LOL, I like your sarcasm. It is, as you know, far too late for the U.K. Give it less than ten years and it will be renamed Englandistan.

He is the Governor of Phuket, so as a politician if his lips move he is lying.

I cannot believe all those people travelling in the back of the pick-up's were not wearing their seatbelts.........oh, wait a moment.............

I too had that problem with a washing machine. Went to this site, put in the details, model number etc. and downloaded English manual in PDF format.............. www.manualslib.com also another one called ManualsOnline. Good Luck....

Several years ago we were in a queue outside a school as the police directed the kids coming out. I said to the Wife that there were three, or more on a bike, most had no helmets, and some were clearly underage. Why was the policeman not doing anything. Her answer...........it is not his job, he is only there to help them get out of school. Needless to say after another ten minutes arguing that as a policeman, it was his job to uphold traffic laws, I just gave up. You will never cure them of this mentality.

At my last renewal in Cha Am they used the big circle with coloured dots. We were all in a line around the room, and were seen one at a time. As the examiner pointed to the dots I listened to the Thais saying the colour. I could see black, grey, and a lighter grey. I soon learnt that when he pointed to a black dot they said red, the grey was yellow, and the light grey was green. Passed with no ploplem.

I am glad the news added a big red arrow all through the video otherwise I would have missed him hidden among the rocks.

There are sometimes benefits to the independence of branches. For example up here in Prasart the local Kasikorn bank ( Former Thai Farmers Bank), does not require all the paperwork that a Bangkok bank in Bangkok needs to open an account. It may of course have changed a bit in recent years, but up here several years ago I opened two accounts with only a 30 day visa exempt stamp.

Many years ago, (and I mean Many !!), I was moving from Phuket to Surin. I admit that what happened in the bank was partly my naivety, but anyway, I opened an account in Surin, then went to Phuket, and asked them to transfer about 1.2 million Baht to Surin. they charged me 20,000 plus Baht that I never saw until they gave me the transfer slip. A blatant rip off because each branch is treated as a separate bank. I know that other banks do it too, but it would have been nice to be told, because then I would have just withdrawn the money and took it with me. There are other issues that are more personal pertaining to a divorce, and safe boxes that I would rather not divulge on a public forum. As I said earlier they may not be the only bank to fleece customers, but they did it to me, and ruined my trust in them.

Only my opinion, but I think Bangkok Bank has to be the biggest rip off bank of Thailand.

Imagine what any country would look like if we all just wanted to express our views by spray painting every available wall space.

One major thing the boys in brown have forgotten is that today, 7th. April is INTERNATIONAL BEAVER DAY !!!!!!!!! So let them cut the tourists some slack so they can celebrate.

Exactly, and people still have not woken up to it, re my post above.

Quite so, they want to control how much you spend, what you buy, where you buy it, restrict travel, plus, once it goes cashless they will bring in a 'token' system instead of currency, which will be de-valued the same as happened when Britain decimalised the currency. They will also be able to tax you more as there will be no more cash for work payments. Complete dominance is what they want.

I too am making plans for Songkran...........Stay at home for a week.

Is this just another move towards a cashless society that the ruling elite want?

I thought all motorbikes had to have the light on all the time while on the road.

I acknowledge that vendors or shops using the pavements are a nuisance, but, if all these bikes are taxed then what law are they breaking?.

Fainted.........Sorry, but pure histrionics. Middle Eastern people are very proficient at it, especially the Women.

Exactly, my B.I.L.'s truck tax sticker says 2560............and he has had it 6 years...........

You can get an idea of the manufacture date by two ways, sometimes a sticker inside the door well of the drivers side, or by looking at the v.i.n. number. With the v.i.n. I believe the 10th. character is the year of manufacture. Could give you some idea of how old it is.

You may have forgotten that illegal activities of any kind here are a reserved occupation for locals only.

The warnings are being aimed at the wrong demographics. They should be warning tourists of other countries that there are likely to be hordes of Chinese tourists in Thailand.