NoshowJones

"but the vets refuse to "put them to sleep". That is because as long as the animal is still alive the veterinary surgeon can make money by charging the owners for treatment and medicine. In other words using the animals suffering to line their pockets.

You mention education. You cannot educate stupid which most Thai drivers and motorbike riders are.

Labrador??

DrJack54 is only trying to be helpful, not BSing his way out of anything. Both him and Ubon Joe are very helpful for posters with immigration problems. They cannot always be on the ball when IO's all over Thailand are always making up their own rules.

No more than other countries, and governments are the worst of the lot.

How are they going to know if you don't tell them? Then again do they only rent for two or three days at a time, which will not make it worthwhile to rent a big bike at all.

I have also found that to be the case, a few days ago I had to travel 15 Ks to the nearest town to get any milk and there are two 7-11's and a Lotus in my village.

In a earlier post I mentioned Villa Market as the worst value supermarket, I had forgotten about Foodmart in Jomtien as I was only in there once and due to their prices have never been back. Is the aforementioned the only Foodmart in Pattaya? I haven't seen any more.

IMO the worst supermarket for value is Villa Market.

3 years old. Note 6. It was fine at first, also had great reviews, that is why I bought it. Big mistake.

When Thailand has a Junta government, as what has happened a few times over the years, it's because they have elected themselves, and no one can argue against that with the soldiers, tanks and guns behind them.

Oh! Look! There they are again. The unelected PM and his sleeping partner. ????

You may very well have a point there.

Another 24 hour crackdown.

Getting rid of unelected "politicians" must surely be the first priority.

Same here apart from garden peas. I could never eat sprouts, cabbage, lettuce etc.

"money towards hospital costs." Towards???? Not the full amount??

What if you have an accident that is not your fault and you end up in hospital? If the other party does not have any insurance, then you have to pay the hospital bill, is it a case of hard luck, nothing can be done and the other party get's let of with maybe a small fine.

"you can't beat Xiaomi phones." I have an Xiaomi phone, worst I have ever had. Torch keeps coming on by itself then I have to keep putting it off, camera same, same. There is no excuse for these to keep coming on if I do not put them on.

Again nonsense. When I first came here to stay about 15 years ago, all it needed was a nice pleasant trip of about 200Ks to the border for a stamp every 90 days, that was it.

Nonsense. Retiree's did have it easy till about 15 years ago. not now.

"It is a lack of management by the Thai Government, who doesn't see and don't take any action for these problems." They are mostly soldiers, they only have about the same IQ's as the ordinary Somchai in the street. They would not have a clue how to take any action for these or any other problems.

This post is alarming me, I have money parked with Wise. Are there any other posters with money parked with Wise? Should I send that money back to my UK bank?

I am in agreement with your post, I would hesitate to hit a Thai even in self defence, that's just common sense, but not when I was back in the UK, all it would take for me to lash out is someone to even threaten me with violence. People who carry on like that are the type who will curl up or go down quite easily. I know that from experience. I was friendly with all the hard men in my home town and none of them ever went about looking for trouble.

Next time you enter a plane for a long journey, take note of the flight attendants at the door. All though I don't know for sure, but I would bet that is part of their training watching everyone who enters. I am not saying you are making anything up, but when you say someone is a nutter, well. This debate is now finished, it is not going anywhere.