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@Pib, thank you very much for your table.

But i would like to add one important fact. There is a 1 working-day difference between a Master-Card and a Visa-Card.

• the rate for the Mastercard is fixed/known 1 working day after your ATM-transaction. Result: you don't know the exact rate at the day of the transaction.
• the rate for the Visa-Card is fixed just after midnight - at New York time of the day of the (ATM) transaction). Result: you know already the exact Visa exchange rate in advance. You must only consider the time difference between NY and Thailand. I believe it's 11/12 hours, dpending on Summer or witer time. For my German Visa-Europe-Card the € --> THB Visa-rate of the day is available until 5 p.m. now in the "summer"time. In the winter-time until 6 p.m.

On 7/7/2020 at 7:41 AM, pineapple01 said:

It is indeed a Sad Event no Question, so is from what i read here is Hanging the Driver without  knowing the facts.

Nearly all (the other) commentators presume

• all Thai (minibus) drivers are driving like idiots !
• (only) Thai drivers behave like this, the falangs never make driving mistakes!.
• the driver was the the only culprit - without knowing the details !

Maybe it's their experience. My own experience over 15 years with minibuses from Chiang Mai to Mae Hong Son on the N 1095, they are driving excellently; never involved in an accident. Maybe 1 or 2 times the driver shouldn't have overtaken.

When I see the traffic here on the N 1995 I cannot find any difference between young Thai and falang idiots racing with their motorbikes through the village in a high speed. They would like to impress the village people with the noisy gears of their bikes. A difference between falng and Thai drivers? Not at all beside the fact, that there are reponsible drivers on both sides. .

In our mountain area with many, many curves on the N 1095-road the public minibuses (Prempracha) drive only at daylight (with 1 exception). The bus drivers are driving only 1 minbus per day from CNX to MHS or vice versa, have 3 or 4 stops of 10 to 15 minutes. So they are relaxed after 6 to 7 hours tour and have enough time for sleeping.

But I hear and read different things about minibus companies in big cities like BKK. Sometimes they don't give them enough time for recreation between 2 driving jobs. That's specifically dangerous for driving jobs at night.  Who is the culprit now - the driver or the minibus-owner ?

7 hours ago, Walker88 said:

{White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Tuesday that it was a "book of falsehoods."}

 

One of the first questions reporters asked McEnany after she called it a 'book of falsehoods' was:

 

"Have you read the book?"

 

"No", was her response.

 

Oh, the irony!

Like master like man (ehm .... press-woman)

The new style in the US since 2016, if an idiot has a pretty wife/lady (with low intelligence) he thinks he is destined for president.

Later you can see him in  Mount Rushmore - as the 6.th most important POTUS. The #5, you can see him here  (from German SPON)

If this is "a leading ecologist", then I'm the new pope.

21 hours ago, Thunder26 said:

The officials in Prachuap must be really tough headed. Such a waste of energy.

Please go and complain in Prachuap, but first look at the changwat-map.

TiT

The military dictators banished the higly intelligent Thanathorn Juangroongruangki from politics.

Nitwits like Anutin or former criminals like Thammanat Prompow are nominated as ministers re. deputy ministers.

The no-facts-knowing wrote

Quote

He said on Twitter that he had been to Chiang Mai and found there to be virtually no Chinese tourists, just farangs. He said that

90% of Thais in the northern city were wearing masks but not a single "farang" was wearing one.

Send him to primary school again to learn about   %   .

But I'm afraid even this wouldn't work.

Another idea: send him to the USA, he would be an "outstanding" adviser for Trump, concerning facts !!!

OMG, inspite of the dry season, first let rain brains on special high ranking officials

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Most divisive actually. He acts as if he is a dictator monarch and he rules only for his own personal benefit and to stoke up his limited loyalist base. He treats any Americans that are not in his base as enemies. 

Maybe ... he intends to build a Trump-Tower (TT) in India.

2 hours ago, vogie said:

And back at you, the EU are looking to replace the British cash cow and good luck with that.

The basic element of politics is BELIEF.

That means you can believe that there is a second universe, but you cannot improve it. You cannot improve that the EU will need another "cash cow". I cannot improve the opposite.

So, let's wait and see whose belief will be confirmed by facts.

6 hours ago, sahibji said:

do not quite agree with this view about worrying about road deaths. yes that is important but with little known about the corona virus and its possible modes of transmission this is something to worry about. you do not know what an unknown enemy can do and corona virus, at this juncture, is an unknown enemy.

If an idiotic driver kills you or members of the family, isn't that "an unknown enemy" ?  ????

You have to worry about both "enemies". Both pandemics are not related to each other. But the government should fight both separately and seriously.

Swiss-Cheese-like political and constitutional system in the USA is the main reason for this failure. Sorry, that I repeat it.

Must not talk again about the strange effect, that the POTUS does NOT need the majority of votes.

Completely idiotic is the system in this impeachment case.

The Senate, a political member in the system, decides about an impeachment. That means interests of special groups decide on a question/problem which has to be solved by jurists ... and not by influenced people who are afraid of losing their job in the next election, being harassed by the LOTUS or the REP-party ..... . 

Jurist have the reputation to be neutral. That means they are the ones who are mostly near to the truth, and in this case to the facts.

On 1/29/2020 at 2:38 PM, ThaiBunny said:

The OP sounds as if he's bought the whole pandemic hysteria story root-and-branch. This coronavirus has a death rate so far of less than 3% or one-third of the SARS virus - which most people who caught it survived. It is no more fatal than catching the 'flu, and the same people are most at risk - the very young, the very old and those whose immune system is compromised because they are diabetic or HIV+ etc.  As for the airport - how many unclean hands have handled his suitcase between him checking it in and him retrieving it? How many door handles - the taxi, his hotel room to name but two - will he be touching in the hour after he arrives? Get a grip

Panic because of the outbreake of a new virus.

It's understandable that people worry about that. The number of deaths and infections – especially in China - make many people feeling it could affect them tomorrow.

But inspite of the bad news there is no reason to panic. Just at now there is no real remedy against the virus. Common sense seems to be the best advice to fight the disease and the panic. I don't want to repeat them here, you read about this everywhere in the media, including TV.

Fact:

• There are more than 3 – 5 million serious influenza infections in the world, resulting in ~650.000 dead people …. yearly. And this is a virus, too.

The common people don't worry about this disease. Now it's part of the daily life – despite the big numbers of sick and dead people. That the people worry about this new (maybe) pandemic is normal and okay, but overreaction not. Do the people wear face masks because of the much more dangerous influenza? Not! What do they do against influenza in the same way the OP is missing against the new virus? Nothing!

My father told me once: Nearly all people die in the bed, but ....... they go there every day, again and again.

5 hours ago, SheungWan said:

 

Fortunately Boris didn't die in the ditch which the Kamikaze Brexiteers would have preferred him to do taking us all down with him. Instead we have a transitional year, so that's good instead of the no-deal Brexit brayed for so long by the forum Hard Brexiteers. The odds are that there will also be a trade deal at the end of this, so that all finally puts an end to the driving off the edge of a cliff which the loons would have voted for. Instead we get a compromise.

..."at the end of this" [year]. You are very, very optimistic.

I must admit that both sides will be interested to do it within the remaining 11 months. But the time for the trade deals with the other countries has taken much, much longer. Unless they copy one of those deals.

4 hours ago, evadgib said:

We're still leaving on Friday and no amount of whinging will change it.

Now "no amount of whinging", but wait for the time after the year 2020. Especially, if no deal.

7 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

Rumak,

 

it sounds Like you had A very unhappy And hateful life from where you came from to compromise a basic right...

 

a little smoke? Number of thailand cities rank among top 10 air polluters year in year out now....

 

I don’t accept incompetency on an incredible important topic - actually a a human rights violation 

 

it’s one thing to have unintentional burning fires like in Australia or California who take it seriously; it’s another when it is intentional as it becomes willful negligence by the gov and guilty burners... 

ahmmm ........  from

https://www.airvisual.com/world-air-quality-ranking