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Now I am confused.

On one hand, they don't want teenage pregnancy -- http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/967946-health-ministry-aims-to-cut-teenage-pregnancy-rate-by-50-percent/ --

On the other hand, they want more babies...

And then the country girls all say that they have to have babies before the age of 25 because it's too late after that. That they would be too old to have babies after 25. With 3 kids being the magic number. Their words, not mine.

I hope he pays them well. If I was a cute girl, the last thing I would want to spend my time doing is watching people eat noodles and making a mess of it.

Welcome to Thailand. Where if you are handsome/pretty, wealthy, popular and/or HiSo you can get away with pretty much anything - including murder.

So happy to see that the BiB did their job so diligently...again.

16 minutes ago, webfact said:

"not for battle, but so that others will be in awe of us,"

So glad to see that they have their priorities straight.

Maybe they can offer free pad thai and som tam to all navies that catch them in the water during naval exercises. That would certainly awe people.

1 hour ago, Jonmarleesco said:

But doubtless not richer than a Mercedes driver.

Come again? 2017 Prices - C-class Mercedes 2.5m to 4.2m baht (depending on the model) and no import fees vs. BMW i8 12.5m baht + import fees.

17 sounds about normal. 4 for clothes, 4 for accessories, 4 for shoes, 2 for makeup and hair, 1 for underwear, 1 for electronics and 1 for mama noodles and other snack...

Actually, pretty light when you think about it.

That's what I call pretty damning evidence against the BMW driver. The dashcam shows the speed of 109km/h and the BMW zooms past it.

Another case of 'I am richer then you!' syndrome.

To quote Mick..."You can't always get what you want" comes to mind.

Hey TAT!!!

I am actually smiling right now. In fact, I am rolling on the floor trying desperately to not pee in my pants from laughter.

Which Thai smile are you talking about? The one given while being scammed or the one when they know the foreigner doesn't understand that they are being ridiculed or the one that the police uses when it's time to issue a bogus traffic ticket or the one that...... 

15 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

So I hope she'll be going to prison. If you wanna kick someone in the head, try the husband. He was the one doing the dirty. 

And, of course, the husband gets away with it as the 2 women refuses to dump his sad *ss. Or, at least 1 of them won't. But I think the worst part is that nobody dares to try to stop this, just stands there and watch or looks away. Pitiful behavior by so-called adults.

5 hours? Really? I mean, really???

Most Thais that I know can't even sit still for 2 hours in front of the local monks while blessing a new home... Let alone stop playing on their phone as if Facebook updates are way more important then any driving video. Especially if the video does not contain car chases, guns and crashes.

Ok -- end of sarcasms for the day --

2 minutes ago, fruitman said:

 

I was in Pattaya beachroad 2 weeks ago and tried to cross the road at the stoplights. We waited and waited but the thing never became green, it stayed red for ever. 

 

So it's still turned on mate.

 

So we crossed the road over the zebra with a red stoplight, what else could we do?

 

Also very annoying is that every taxi and bahtbus horned to us, like if we didn't see them.

The one near my home on Pattaya Tai (BigC Sukhumvit) is not working and the stripes on the road are already fading away. LOL

12 minutes ago, trogers said:

Expats or tourists...

Exactly!

The title should read - This is how thai students think foreign visitors see thailand - and not expats as they view it completely differently after the rose tinted glasses falls off their noses.

Pattaya tried zebra crossing for a while but it didn't work. They turned off the electricity to sign posts after 3 month. Too many pedestrian getting hit and to many farang cars getting rear ended by thai drivers since only the farang stopped their vehicles at zebra crossing, as the law state you should.

Even normal intersections in BKK are perilous, nevermind the zebra crossings.

Good for him to be honest about it. Bravo.

Responding to the viral letter, department director Arthit Boonyasophat maintained that the bureaucracy offers job progresses to those who are qualified for it, and bureaucrats can move up their ranks by taking relevant examinations.  - pulled from the article

At least this bureaucrat did not succumb to the usual alternative means of job progression. ie; looking the other way, making sizable contribution, cheating on exams, etc. ad nauseum.

Replace Donald Trump with Prayuth and you have pretty much the same thing.

Wow!

As we say back home, this guy is really dreaming in Technicolor.

In other related news...

'gold diggers' on Soi Buakhao, Pattaya, continue to ply their trade after authorities did a routine inspection to verify their age and residency status.

Moving on...

Impossible to achieve...that would mean getting rid of all politicians, mini-van/bus drivers and corrupt cops.

Couldn't help myself. The post title was just begging for it.

... Why won't the cops do anything - I don't understand", she added.

Because Thailand is male oriented and you have no rights, yet. Why is it that a rapist gets a 1 year sentence (out in 6 months) but a drug dealer gets 5 to 10 years. While we are at it, why is there no penalty for stalking a women...

5 minutes ago, Deepinthailand said:

Hi what app do you use to get thai channels please

It's free IPTV with 3BB after being a subscriber for 1 year.

Playing devils advocate here...

Maybe the Sanook articles was written to warn Thai people to not depend on foreigners as a source of income?

But that would be silly as they never listen anyways.

In the statement, TrueVisions stopped short of saying it would not attend a public hearing on the issue to be held by the subcommittee on Tuesday.

TrueVisions said it was willing to explain the cancellation of HBO channels to the subcommittee on the basis that the explanation must be done only in the presence of the panel members and TrueVisions’ representatives.

This just proves how much they really care about their subscribers... Never trusted their offer and laughed at their prices. Been with 3BB for 1 year now and I have all the Thai channels for free streaming through my android TV box as well as so many foreign channels for the a much more affordable price.