21 hours ago, colinneil said:

Yes i feel for him, but at the same time, what he did was crazy.

He honestly thinks Thai officials would be on his side, no way, Thai mother wins every time.

 

I'm going to have to disagree with you for once, Colin. He did break the law so the why should the Thai officials be on his side? I've heard the "Thai wins every time" sentiment repeated a lot on this site, but I've only got first hand knowledge of ONE guy who went through the courts when he divorced his wife: He got custody of his daughter and 50% of everything they bought since they got married (as per Thai law).  The fact that he was British and she Thai did not seem to disadvantage him in any way. 

13 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

Trump is a showman and a good one. The US dollar has dropped about 5฿ over the last year, so somebody on a $3000 pension has lost ฿15,000 per month but is he good enough to keep expats and people in the US rust belt still supporting him?

He single-handedly controls the exchange rate? I thought he was an idiot?  You must have hated it when Obama made the dollar hit below 29. 

"Election Commission chairman Supachai Somcharoen said the scrutiny committee headed by Mr Wittaya Piewpong agreed unanimously rejected the amended MP election bill allowing entertainment activities to be held during electioneering and restored the original provision that bans entertainment activities which was proposed from the beginning by the Constitution Drafting Committee."

Is that in the scope of the scrutiny committee's ability? Weren't bills supposed to be approved/rejected by the "governement" also know as the NLA. Don't bother - they just make it up as they go along anyway. 

I guess if it turns out the shit does not belong to him, it will prove that he was not there. 

On 2/8/2018 at 1:17 PM, Lingba said:

man oh man if they would only put this much effort into educating their kids in schools and educating drivers on the roads, this place would be hub material again

Education does indeed sucks and may drivers are terrible BUT this is about immigration working with tourist police to...well...carry out their duties of monitoring foreign citizens. So they're doing their jobs.  Or would you prefer if the checkout lady didn't scan your food items, or the surgeon not close you up, or....

7 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I am so shocked you would say something so unkind about my despot boss. He is only amassing billions of dollars, as is Little P., at the expense of the good Thai people. And when found with luxury goods, they are always borrowed. I must run and tell the little man what this minister said. He is being disobedient. We must treat him exactly the same way a truthful person in the Trump administration would be treated. There is no room for truth in Thai politics. Let us continue to deflect, lie, obfuscate and deny. And use arcane, oppressive and ridiculously paranoid laws to protect us. 

 

Same with the former police chief recently. Oh, why are you making such a big deal about me borrowing 300 million baht? It is already paid back. Why take offense at that?

Trump. Seriously? 

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

"Out of these 114 groups, I am not sure how many new political parties we will actually see," said Jurungvith Phumma, acting secretary-general of Thailand's Election Commission.

I'm pretty sure the "People's Network for Reform" will qualif. 

1 hour ago, DefaultName said:

211 out of...?

if there are only 500 of them it's a lot, if there are 50,000, not so much.  OK, there shouldn't be any, but perspective is needed.

There are only 144 prisons so I doubt there would be tens of thousands of wardens 

5 hours ago, dddave said:

 

"the system at DMK and BKK seem about the same to me, although DMK tends to have longer wait periods.  you get a number and wait for it to be called at DMK.  at BKK, you get a number and walk to where the taxi is parked (i've never had to wait"

 

Suvarnabhumi uses a taxi pool system, much like many international airports.  Drivers can not just go directly to the curbside taxi area.  They must first enter a Taxi queue at a separate parking area and pay a B50 fee (which they are allowed to pass on to the passenger)  They are dispatched to the curbside area when needed.  They must show their receipt to get a queue number at the curbside area.

DMK's system is less organized but will probably get a system similar to BKK's.  

I fly a lot and use taxi's from both airports, though most often BKK.  I go to a not particularly desirable destination (Phra Khanong, about B200 on the meter) but rarely get grief from the drivers and have only been asked for a flat rate 3 or 4 times in over 100 trips.  I use DMK less often but there to, I have only been asked for a flat rate 4 or 5 times out of perhaps 25 trips. 

 

I suspect many of those who complain about taxi cheats are those same people who themselves try to cheat the system by grabbing taxis dropping passengers at the departure level.  Som nom nah.

You're lucky. Do you ask for your destination in Thai or English? As I said before, in my experience, unless you're local, your percentages go waaay up. My family visit often. None of them tries to cheat the system. Not a single visitor has gotten into town without a fixed price (and they all use the taxi rank downstairs). Well, they used to: Now I just pay 1100 for the AOT Mu-X limo service which is well worth it since an entire family with luggage can get in without having to worry about a gas canister in the boot. (Although I'm even more fortunate in that I've never been asked for a flat rate at Suvnarabhumi)

NB: 3 times is 3 too many from a "registered" taxi rank if you ask me. Hell, at DMK you've got guys trying to shaft you 20% of the time apparently 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

But he has said that next year the busy airport will be adopting a new system more like that in operation at Suvarnabhumi.

You mean like the one where the taxi drivers cover their meter with a cloth until a local or Thai speaking foreigners steps into the car? 

Just now, Sapporillo said:

No, you're right, "we" are so much more rational, we would never invent such a thing as artificial tan, that would be laughable...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunless_tanning

Who are "we"? EVERYBODY gets darker to some degree when they stand in the sun.  People that use chemicals to darken/lighten/colour their skin are taking a risk. I find the practice to be stupid. 

On 2/4/2018 at 3:41 PM, Rimmer said:

including whether it had been blessed or not.

So one needs to add another layer of fraud for it to not be considered fraud? 

On 2/3/2018 at 2:55 PM, Basil B said:

Problem with FaceBook you can not keep anything private...

Didn't want it kept private: It's clearly a professional, staged photograph and the owner gets all the free advertising he wants thanks to indignant "netizens". 

11 hours ago, saakura said:

Just as insane as the whites who go to tanning saloons to darken themselves....

A tanning salon speeds up a natural process (you could just sit outside and achieve the same result, albeit at a slower rate). But sure, that's exactly the same as whitening your penis using lasers and chemicals during a medical procedure performed by a doctor. Exactly the same. 

Just now, webfact said:

Meanwhile, Army spokesman Lt-General Kongcheep Tantrawanich denied speculation about the issue on Saturday, saying if poll respondents really were soldiers, the number would have been in the hundreds of thousands, given the total number of soldiers across the country.

Only if they all voted in the poll. So if 10,000 soldiers followed orders and voted in the poll, they are not soldiers, because all the soldiers must do the same thing in order for them to exist as soldiers? His "logic" leaves me confused and bemused.

22 minutes ago, sungod said:

Funny enough its about the same number who showed up last Friday on the skywalk in Pathum Wan to call for elections :)

It's illegal to protest the government but not illegal to show public support for it. You're ignoring the fact that 63,000 people in the online survey thought he should be let go. 

18 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

I can open a beer bottle using another. Does that mean I've gone native?


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