DualSportBiker

What a tragic way to learn a simple lesson. He needs to tell that story to a camera and have an influencer post it. You would be doing Thailand a huge favour were you able to get that done. You can IM me his number and I will see what I can do as this topic is one I lose sleep over...

Understood, defs your decision in that situation. Would you were you with passengers? It would be reassuring to know you take others' safety to heart...

Do you care if your corpse bounces around and injures/kills another passenger in the car?

I got into a cab here, put my belt on immediately and the driver then said, "Why are you insulting me and my driving skills?" So I would posit that some here do think that it is a reflection on the driver. Given that most men around the planet over estimate the quality of their driving skills, your observation is far from wrong.

When new laws around advertising alcohol were first circulated, they were backed by companies that almost own the local liquor market. They wanted cartoons banned from any and all packaging. The excuse being that cartoons draw in children and therefore are a moral hazard. Johnny Walker was the intended target, but the more failed. Just shows to go ya how far they will lie, cheat and steal if they can.

Sorry old boy, you are way off the mark. Have you been to/heard of Bang Saen? They have serious races there; fenced-off city streets with very good controls of who can get on to the track. There would be almost overkill FIA oversight of Thailand's first GP - Thailand's reputation for planนิ่ง is pervasive...

Would not know as I've not been to either. But both have a long lists of internationally recognised hotels which are not in Buriram... Neither are labelled sin-city or known worldwide for reasons Thais would rather weren't true/known.

Perhaps not. In the 90s a group of Poles were busted from bringing weed INTO Thailand...

The F1 crowd want glamour and the best hotel rooms. I don't see the glamourati wanting to be anywhere but Bangkok which does not have a circuit. Buriram works for MotoGP because bike fans aren't venue/hotel snobs. They can't hold it early in the season because the pollution is too bad. They can't hold it from July through October because the rain will make it impossible - Formula 1 Powerboats is its own thing. April and May are too hot leaving November, perhaps between Vegas and Qatar is the only viable timeslot that will not overheat the drivers, bring too much attention to the pollution, or turn into a fiasco and cancelled events due to rain and possible flooding. Keeping international eyes off of Pattaya would seem like a smart move - no need to confirm that Thailand has not dealt with its dirty underbelly as top-shelf sponsors don't like to be associated with that...

False? Seems to everyone else who can read thinks he won...

With that kind of logic you need to apply for your professorship! No really, you are the best, the most logical, fact-driven, data-empowered, deep-thought genius ever! I just wish I could have leverage your deep insight, infallible logic and experience-based breakdown of real facts before now.

Ignoring the inconvenient fact that the severity of injuries are significantly down since pre seatbelt/safety seat days... Car seats for kids have been around since the 30s. Not popular, but around in various forms. In that same period, driving has changed beyond all recognition. We drive faster, and we drive heavier vehicles. They are quieter on the inside which ofter promotes slightly faster driving due to the feeling of quiet suggesting slower speeds. City roads are an order of magnitude busier than 'before'. So when you ask 'how did we survive'? you seem to be ignoring all those changes and simply think that 'we managed before, why can't we just manage now like we used to?' Well we can't. We have moved on. Most of us that is...

Over the years I have seen too many people crash and burn here. Some did so fast, others in slow-motion. Most refuse to accept their situation and keep going downhill. Confession and acceptance are the first steps to recovery. Best of luck.

I know a guy here who was in a serious accident back home in Germany years ago. He was not wearing a seatbelt. The accident investigators told him that had he been wearing his belt, he would have died. Now he refuses to wear one and his family follows his lead. This is known as 'argument from personal experience' and goes along with all the other frameworks psychologist have given names like argument from authority, from incredulity and from ignorance. Taking a single incident and extrapolating it to general use is foolish. The number of people saved by not wearing one is a fraction of those saved by wearing one. The statistics on seatbelt usage are clear. Odd exceptions must be seen as such. People who don't wear seatbelts are as likely to injure other passengers as they are themselves.

Maybe I am obtuse, but I get it. The square-headed Ex-PM has never hidden his distain for any form of consumption. Thousands have died in anti-drug activities, most of which were later shown to be innocent bystanders. Cracking down on minor public nuisances should play second fiddle to cracking down on the incessant death of locals and visitors alike on Thai roads. The point made pertains to priorities...

"Clearly"? Don't judge based on a single experience. That is not how life works.

Perhaps you are right. Me thinks you should take the blame for clearly being a large part of a muppet...

Don't project your own fear and incompetence on others. You are clearly too much of a wus to ride a bike, others might be perfectly competent. As for the rest of Thailand, they mostly ride because they have no choice; their intelligence is not a factor.

That all sounds horrible. I opened an account with Krungsri a few months ago. I took my passport, a bank statement from a Singapore bank with my Thai address which I did not need. I was in an out in 25 minutes. FWIW, I am on a marriage visa.

I almost never use cash - taxis, street food, lottery tickets, fancy lunch venues, Chamber of Commerce events. Almost every single thing I buy is cashless. I can't remember a single fee from KBank, and I've been using e-payments for as long as they have been here.

Are those not optional extras customers add to their base policy which typically covers local expenses, then add repatriation for emergency/complex medical, then add repatriation of the body in case of death? That is how I remember them. At 33, most of us don't think about dying overseas. I would not be surprised to know that ALL policies could include repatriation of the body if the insured added that to the coverage and paid the additional cost. Who does that? Who at that age even considers the chance of dying while on holiday? I remember buying medivac insurance for a holiday in Cambodia when I was living in Singapore. Guaranteed 24 hours to get me to a Singapore hospital for an extra fee. I've not added a clause like that to travel insurance since. RIP.

My old man played Drum Battle more times that I can remember. Used to crank it up when we were alone... I think the common opinion is that Buddy Rich was faster the Gene Krupa, who he acknowledged as one of his influencers.

Apples and mudskippers might be more accurate. The Apollo missions were telegraphed globally as a rallying call! The Manhattan Project was secret even after products were delivered and used! Around 130,000 people worked on the MP. Perhaps 5-10,000 were security staff! 1,000 Military Police at Oak Ridge alone! Travel was restricted, communications were restricted, work was so well segregated that many project staff did not know what they had built until after the bombs were dropped! As VP, Truman did not know about the projects full scope! The purpose of leaks for both projects are also different. Leaks from the MP would be detrimental to the country, war effort and world at large. Leaks from the Apollo project (with respect to exposing it was all faked and a waste of money) would have been to the benefit of the public by exposing fraud. So no, he who thinks they can be compared, absolutely not!

Having a more accurate tape measure is not egg on face, it is progress. And, just BTW, in a vacuum, all forms of light travel at the same speed. Red and blue shifting is not a function of the speed of the photons, rather the compression of the waveform by the movement of the source, or the medium the light is traveling through. The only thing that has changed regarding the speed of light is our ability to measure it more and more accurately. Even if the dubious source you quote were correct, 20km/h is a 0.00667% change. Do you want to be taken seriously by suggesting that it would be significant?

Refer all you want, the speed of light has not changed. And know you don't. Sorry, but you are off your tree if you think that you should be taken seriously.