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I think a lot of you are missing a point here:  The ganja-shops are for tourists and I doubt that opening up for sale has had much impact on Thai youth.  They will not walk in to one of these new shops and pay 300 - 800 Baht pr.gram!  Those who are interested in continuing their practice of smoking will keep on buying the «un-certified» ganja at f.ex 50Baht for 7-8 grams.  For them nothing has changed, the politicians (and probably doctors etc) are probably just sore because they didn´t get in on the game in time.

10 hours ago, MrJ2U said:

30 million doses

is enough for 15 Millon people.

 

Why not go all in and get 100 million Pfizer and 100 million Moderna for the public.

 

Use Astra Zeneca on the army to keep them complacent.

 

After this you can order 100 million more for booster shots.  Any extra give to your neighbors before they expire.

 

10 million here and 20 million there doesn't cut it.

 

Anutim should have been doing this last year, F idiot.

No booster shots:  Although Thailand is a country in dire straits most of Africa are still up <deleted> creek without any paddles.  Western countries have hoarded, Thailand has not even tried without the Government first asking what is in it for us, which is a tragedy.  Covid will probably never go away but if we don't want to go through the whole Greek alphabet of mutations to this virus we have to slow the spreading world-wide.  It's actually a good lesson in how we all now are dependant on each other.  A lesson that should be well learned.  (It won't I know but what the heck). Could be useful for other minor problems like say global heating, draught, heat, floods, Bangkok and other major cities slowly sliding into oceans rising etc.  What I am trying to say is forget the booster shots for now!  Lets start with understanding that this is not over before the reste of the world is a wee bit safer. 

18 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

It is said that the measure of a modern & civilised society is in its road use... 

 

It could be argued that this is somewhat of a sweeping generalisation and a bit of a Thai-bash... well it is, but not an unwarranted one. 

 

Improvement would make living in this lovely place that much more enjoyable... 

 

Its heartbraking to see so many Thai’s unnecessarily succumbing to a nationwide cultural failure to adopt a little curtesy and common sense... 

Amen to that.  Thai-bashing seems to be the favorite of the day on this site.  While we all have chosen this country as a place to rest our bones. A bit more of optimism might be help us all?

20 hours ago, jackinthebox said:

most of these will work for 300 Baht a day. Thais won't. At least not in Bangkok. Too lazy. So if thai police rounds up all these foreigners and sends them back home to Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia - who will do all the factory-/serving-/ construction-/ cleaning-work?

Feeling a little racist today are we?  This is all about (mostly) Thai owners of companies who prefer workers with no rights to a livable salary and few or none legal rights.  This is the kind of work force loved by disreputable employers all over the world.  And the people the BIB really should go after.  But going after their workforce time and again might also help.  Teaching new illegals every other month might be a burden.  So it's a thai sort of way saying "stop this, stupid".  Have a nice weekend y'all!

15 hours ago, sweatalot said:

I have been working with a lot of dying humans - they all knew.

It is not simply telling the truth or lying - there is a third way: withholding the truth until it is requested, and there is a difference between offering a fatal truth - or force it on someone

Patients sometimes are not ready to hear the truth. And you don't know. Then it could be a good idea to start slowly, giving them a piece of truth that would make them ask for more or just the full truth. If they don't ask I'd leave it this way. May be next time they will be ready. I don't think it is a good idea to force the truth on someone who does not want to know. But always be ready to tell the truth when it is wanted. If you want to find out you could start with a question "what do you think how your ailment will go on?" 

I understand what you are saying, but I am not sure I agree:  as you say "they all knew" -that they were dying. So why not start the conversation right away: "You are dying, how do you want to spend you're last days".  Some, i am sure, would not appreciate this approach immediately, but it would help them realize and live with reality of their situation.  Why wait.  Why support a lie?

9 hours ago, dcnx said:

No one said anything.

 

Sums it up. One of these days Thais will hopefully stop kowtowing and stick up for themselves. 

 

The carnage continues.

It will change- but at the bottom of this and many other problems lies a cultural and educational problem.  kowtowing to your elders and supposedly "superiors" and the outdated "rote-learning" in Thai schools.  Most other Asian schools have left this outdated system years ago.  Not Thailand!  With more and more Thai families able to afford international schools, we will hopefully see more teenage idols from this class speaking up for themselves and encourage their peers to do likewise. I hope.

18 minutes ago, Samuel Smith said:

The "respect thai culture" was tongue in cheek ???? 

Out of respect for Thai culture here in the city of angels (often differs fro upcountry) which is to embrace all feasts foreign, we throw a pool-party a couple of times a year.  And we include all there is to celebrate, every event:  X-mas, Hanukah, Thanksgiving, Easter, Valentines-mothers-fathers day, Easter, Chinese-Muslim-Peemay-Western New Year etc. etc.  Thai buffet of course, but to honor som of the occasions we pick up a couple of drunk Brit. retirees from Pattaya and keep them for the weekend.  They're so sweet!  All pink, enormous bellies and they can be used as easter-bunnies, happy Buddhas, you can stick an apple in their mouth and serve them as part of thanks giving dinner, decorate them a bit and hang them up as angels for Xmas, hang them on the tree as candy etc. etc.  The only occasions we still have not found use for them is Hanukah and as a part of Thai Tradition.  I am sure we soon will work that out.

47 minutes ago, shackleton said:

When people think of Thailand in the UK this is the Image of the type of tourist now visiting Pattaya  

getting drunk and up to no good

but then again  there is plenty of  negative reporting  about Pattaya in the National newspapers and this is one of the reasons why 

I am not quite sure where you are heading here:  Is the meaning that if NOT National media reported about the behavior of stupid asses bringing shame on themselves and their country the UK impression of tourist in Pattaya might be better?  I might have misunderstood?

Good reading Rooster, thank you! I arrived - and fell in love with the city in 79. Stayed in a swiss?owned hostel on sukhumvit soi 1. Breakfast and lunch in stalls along sukhumvit! For dinner I often went to Silom/sala daeng just to watch and listen to the tens of thousands of birds quirping (did I just make up a new word? -I’m norwegian) at sunset snd then have a seafood dinner up a 1,5mtr narrow alley. In a british bar under a garage next to patpong 1 I met an ex helicopter pilot whi owned some shares in a few bar beer places. Think he was british. Since I also worked with helicpters he introduced me to the mamasans and told them to treat me as his brother. Anybody have an idea who he might be?

14 hours ago, bbi1 said:

Why so many fires everywhere? Is there an out of control bushfire everywhere?

What a boring attempt at a joke.  If you believe smog is of no significance and want to make an ironic remark, more knowledge and a wee bit less ignorance just might help.

8 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Sad that road user's cannot make an attempt to improve their driving skills and be less arrogant and try to avoid an accident

I agree, but the blame is not entirely on the drivers, hopefully in the future it will be: when they have been taught what happens even w 2 slow vehickles meeting front to front etc allready in grade school, when there are strict rules for obtaining a license and when the powers that be enforce the rules. Untill then: I’m staying put in Aran till the 3rd

Grannys behind the wheels?  The Saudis solved this problem ages ago.  We should look more to these oldest peoples of the earth, be humble and learn.  Fake news? Piece of cake.  Neighbours keeping you awake at night?  O.K. got a bit off topic there, ban alcohol!

11 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:

One life wasted. No longtime Thailand expat thinks the cop will do more than a couple years and quietly be pardoned or let out. Who would follow up to make sure he's in jail longer? 

 

Killing farang and tourists is mostly free of penalty in Thailand. 

 

Killing Asians has a penalty only because Asians, and especially Chinese, will retaliate en masse by hurting the Thai economy, which is all Thais care about other than face (money) 

I get that you are disapproving of something, but what? Is it that killing farang is mostly free of penalty?  (I dropped "tourists since you contradict yourself in the next sentence) or is it because we, the farang are not up to par and do not retaliate en masse?  Doubt this will make you any less disapproving, but my experience no matter how plastered I am;  If I feel like belching on SoMe I always try to make sure I know why I am belching (doesn't work all the time) and ALWAYS check the direction of the wind before I puke. Just my pennies worth...

I have time and time again rested my weary soul (dick included) on the beautiful shores of Thailand.  Although both signs of my soul and my dick have fallen into disrepair that gives NO ONE! the right to climb either.  

On 9 August 2016 at 9:32 AM, KenKadz said:

Very Silly!

If this new Minister of Tourism wants to do something productive she should mandate that people with foreign passports and businesses frequented by foreigners/tourists be exempt from any of Thailand's non-alcohol days.

This eliminates the problems, and the costs, created by the need for extra policing.

Tourists and foreigners do not vote in Thai elections.

Tourists and foreigners do not go to wats on Buddha days.

What is the point?

Thailand either wants tourists to come here or it does not!

Who is silly?

 I cannot think of any country, except Muslim countries who have banned alcohol completely for their own citizens, who allow a policy for differentiating between visitors and locals.  The norm is as always: "When in Rome, do as the Romans".  And no tourists and foreigners in Wats on Buddha days?  What a strange world you live in?

All over the world alcoholics and other addicts have always had to live under a strict logistical regime:  Does my income pair with visits to public venues or do I have to consume my drug of choice at home, in a park or on a parking lot?  

Secondly: If a public venue is affordable (and legal): what are the opening/serving hours and do I need to stock up a bit for hours when services are not available?  Piece of cake, been done for centuries!  So why should some miserable Falangs in Thailand be excempt  from these logistically easy rules?  

Which brings me to a question I have often asked myself:  Does the cost of living in a country for retirees influence the social and political awareness level of said retirees?  Meaning, is the average IQ and social skills lower for visitors in Thailand than say Spain?  I doubt it, I think it has more to do with expectations.  The further you get away from your home, both socially and geographically,  the greater are the expectations of being able to break social rules and norms.  

And of course, let us not forget inherent racism.  Which is quite normal, old chap, but something that also should be taken into consideration.

The women should also be arrested for stupidity.

And so should you, if not for stupidity so for thinking your voice should be heard.

Well, this will cut Thailand's tourist numbers in half.

I doubt that very much! They are (or so they say) trying to get a hold on the massive influx of labour from neighbouring countries. (Whom, by the way are needed by the countries economy - local logic..). The tourists who come for a week or 3 are still welcome. Most of them speak Mandarin, Cantonese or Russian or related languages by the way. The small cluster of pinkies in Phuket or Pattaya who haven't got their papers right are of no consequence to Thailand's economy. Stop fooling yourselves; the room and the bike you rent, the beers you drink mean nothing.

As much as I abhor violence, there are some people who deserve a good kicking................

A good kicking, what for? The man got up on the stage, interrupted the show surely, but said what HE thinks about the whole thing and was - from the looks of the photo - fairly peacefully removed. Could have happened anywhere in any democracy. Or is it because of the 9 inches you long to give him a nice, good kicking perhaps?

This is just some random clown on facebook. What makes it newsworthy? There's plenty of baying for blood from the other side too. Selective reporting.

What makes it newsworthy? Well, for starters a named person is officialy suggesting the abduction and possible killing of two named young women. I find it newsworthy, and so would most normally hinged people I would think.

Selective reporting? Nobody's said that the other side(s) are flawless, but you should understand that a report that goes against your likes or dislikes does not make it selective. It would be too selective if we all had our own preferred "selections" and categorized news according to this. You can of course have your own point of view but sharing this with us on social media, hiding behind phrases such as "random clown" or "selective reporting" isn't really very newsworthy, now is it?

They was not entitled to stay in Denmark after his death . Therefore, they were sent home to Thailand. They do not meet the requirements of the legislation said. Not the wife and the daughter's fault that he died . A shame for them that they did not get to meet the requirements when the man died. Because they have lived here for a few years, doesn´t make them Danes. Can´t see what connection they have to Denmark. The dead man not even adopted the little girl. Again , there is legislation . Fair or not is debatable. Legislation must surely be followed. But we have a spineless government that due to pressure from a support group, as well as the press, the resilience and choose to make a special law. Home is being said / written. Where is home? What citizenship do they have? Tourist visas they come to Denmark on. If it is as it says, that it is a tourist visa, then something illegal is going on. Can´t own / rent an apartment, a daughter go to school, get social security, free medical and hospital , later perhaps work etc. on a tourist visa . Well , these two do it. Now everybody that comes to Denmark on a tourist visa will be thinking, hat all who come to Denmark on a tourist visa believe that they can do this too. Well the same for everyone. Welcome to Denmark.

Your a bundle of joy arent you.

Well put, Pomthai! Apart from "jes" being so unwilling to share whatever it is he (I presume IT is a he) seems to think is being stolen from him: I very much doubt that they stayed for 4 years on a tourist-visa: they might have arrived on one, but their status was surely changed when she was married in the Queendom of Denmark. The kid has lived half her life in Denmark. She only speaks Danish and Denmark is the world she knows. And in cases like this, where interests of State, adults and children do not co-incide the childrens rights are to trumph all other interests. Some nerd out there might help me find the right UN-declaration and wording?

This has been an on-going discussion for years, including in my home country Norway where the police are apt to break into an asylum-seeking families home at night and evict and return children who have no other language than Norwegian to some foreign country. Denmark and Norway enforce their (possibly internationally illegal) laws quite heavy-handedly. And strangely enough: the police-corpse is never seen objecting to such inhumane treatment.

One maybe 12-13 yrs old girl (lived in Norway for close to 10 years) put it this way on TV in a fluent west-coast dialect: "I like Norway, but Norway does not like me!" She is back in the home country of one or both of her parents, and doesn't speak a word of the language nor the culture. A great cheer! for jes, Denmark and Norway!

I'm confused - and a bit heart-broken I must admit. Here we have a thread about a black American supposedly attacking an elderly Thai female shop-keeper with a small flip-knife. And NOT ONE OF YOU have uttered the words "The last nail in the coffin for Thai Tourism". I need to hear this guys, 3 times a week at least. This comment - to any news of any sort, is what makes me feel at home here. Surrealism equals safe and sound for me. Guess that is not happening anymore and I will have to do as y'all and check out Prozac?