bender92

Looks like the 'fine' will be 5 million baht.

Crack down on people renting vehicles to people without a license.

Bangkok issues the cheques for getting the tax back on bank account interest so they come by post. You only need to go to the Jomtien office with the appropriate paperwork and your yellow tax registration card.

Where do you get the yellow tax registration card?

It means "I forgot your name again".

its a requirement for all passenger carriers in the uk to have seatbelts ,has been for a couple of years,,

And how many people ignore them? I wouldn't use seat-belts on a bus.

Google "bus crash USA". You can die anywhere, third world or first world.

Very rude drinking company you had! Hope you said thank you and walked away!

Not all do, i think. But a lot of tourists are prejudiced, sadly.

I did make an exit about 10 minutes later. I joked that I hoped that my wife was never a bar prostitute thinking what an incredible xxxx the guy was.

How would others respond?

Tourists think it, expats know it.

You just need to apply defensive driving and learn to read the traffic better.

As far as I am concerned, everybody else on the road are potential accidents, I just read the traffic, adjust and always ready for a surprise.

I drive defensively, no worries

I am just puzzled by what appears to be intentional misbehavior by some drivers.

When they get blocked and you can go, a swift kick to the side panel might work. Or follow them til they park and 'key' them.

Curious if you do remove the entire toenail, can you put in a cosmetic fake nail for show?

I had a fingernail removed years ago, the skin under was very tough, the nail grew back nd now I can't tell which one it was. Toes should grow back too.

Has this not happened before with North Korea. I seem to remember Bill Clinton being involved

Clinton went because it involved two lady reporters. He hoped to get lucky.

Last year it was Korean guides, this year Chinese. Any bets as to which nationality will be next?

Didn't they just do the Russians?

I suspect that most, if not all of the Thai tourist guides can't speak fluent or maybe any Chinese. How can they possibly be of any use to Chinese tourists that can't understand them?

True, Thais need to learn a 2nd language if they want to work with a specific group of people and not just sit back and complain.

It seems that many beach vendors can speak some Mandarin and Korean. They should be tour guides.

Thanks for the True Value suggestion, however I'm a bit cheap and find 900 Baht a bit expensive for something I will need probably only once and will give me blisters right away as well.

So any suggestions to something more reasonable in price are still welcome.

Nobody wants to rent out one ?

One time? Hire a Thai gardener.

^{"the country’s social fabric"}

^{What's that then?}

^{Prostitution?}

^{Fake goods?}

^{Dodgy police?}

^{Tourist scams?}

^{Bribery of officials to allow massive overbuilding at tourist locations?}

^{Deforrestation?}

^{Destruction of national parks?}

^{Culling protected species for money?}

^{Dangerous roads?}

^Drugs?

Jet Skis

"A source at the channel said the job of finding the picture had been outsourced to another company"

Ever heard of Goggle ??

And ofcourse it was someone elses fault! Probably a foreign owned company!

What's Goggle?

Oh ,goody ,more room to park motorcycles and double park coaches.

The new lane will be for tourist buses, so tourists don't have to cross the road.

Let's see, 100 protesters, millions of tourists. Who will win? The mafia of course!

To be fair, the situation IS unique. After all, how many of us not living in the South are actually affected by the insurgency there? The closest we get to it is reading it in the news. No crazy Muslim separatist has tried killing us in Bangkok yet.

Well, they did remove a lot of the trash cans around Bangkok and in malls.

Should get the Americsns up in arms

I'm American and I like it. What do you weigh?

Will passengers be made to pay for scratches to the Jet-ski boat?

This is good. It's never a good idea to have one ethnic group take over another country. Before the Russians, we had a mix from all over the world. It's getting like Little Russia here in Pattaya too. I want Thailand to remain Thai.

Its up to the Thai's, if security guards in shopping places don't tell them, or anyone in authority on the streets, they will continue to do it as they don't know better, most of them being first time travelers

I just have a little smile when i see it in shops, even saw a guy in Friendship supermarket recently, nobody said anything to him

I usually say "Hey Putin", and tug on my shirt and laugh. They look bewildered. Today in Big C again.