JoeLing

An anti-corruption hotline. Best i have heard in a long time. The only way !

Even if it takes a million people to answer the phones.

Naa, I don't think it will need millions of staff to answer those phones.

One or two will be sufficient.

The "Anti Corruption Hotline" for Thailand will either be a fake number

or they will charge premium rates costing 100 THB per minute.

I've got to love the attention to detail in that I don't know how many times I've said "oops I was wrong" and it's maybe just instinct that causes the "urge" to flash and correct, without reading any further but thank you I think the message that there ARE 3 Airlines with direct flight airlines has been pretty much established.

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Waoo, Fat Haggis, you're back already?

I wonder, did you take one of those direct flights from one of those three airlines who have direct flights direct to and from London?

Did you see the Ambassador by any chance?

I don't live in Pattaya, and I am only 51 and in somewhat-decent health, but I've often thought that if I died in my sleep no one would know for days.........surely the same or more than this guy. I have lots of friends but they don't babysit me and sometimes I go 3 or 4 days or even a week before I cross paths with anyone I know really well. Plus where I live there is no maid service, and I have no GF or wife, so who would find me? It would take many days before the smell got bad enough for the few neighbors on the 6th floor to notify reception.

I'd like to think the guys whom I do Quiz Night with every Monday night would say "Hey, where is Deaw?" and send over a search party, but by then I would be as ripe as this poor old man. R.I.P.

Well you know what they say Deaw, if your good at quizzes you tend to have no common sense!!! Get yourself some Harpic haze buddy.

The guy who says *I* have no common sense doesn't even know the difference between "your" and "you're", classic!!

Why are you so angry at the world, little man?

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Hey DAEW, sorry to hear you might be dying all alone but no worries,

there is always a silver lining on the horizon.

At least you don't have to smell yourself when they find you.

Sorry posted in the wrong thread - does that make me now eligible for a permanent residence permit ?

People say tourism is only a very tiny part of the GDP but if tourism drops the country goes into panic mode as if the whole economy is about to collapse. I would guess that tourisms is a very large part of the GDP.

Just because it's a "small" part of the economy, doesn't mean it's not needed.

Glad to see someone in Government takes care of TV forum members

Maybe if she just gave showed them the 20K in cash.

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Does one really think the immigration would let her in?

They would keep the cash and have her charged with bringing too much cash with her.

Naturally confiscate it,,,,,,,,,,

Now don't be silly.

In all my years in Thailand, me or my travel partners have been ask only a couple of times to show I/they had sufficient cash.

NATURALLY - no cash ever got confiscated !!!

I my humble opinion, this whole thread is misleading and rumour mongering at its worst. It confuses everyone and does nothing to quell any panic. The originator of the thread should really try harder to understand what might have been said in Thai about the Navy marines presence that night or stop re-writing what was given to him as translation. (I say this having seen the original Thai release.)

Thais and panic ?

Somehow those two words just don't fit together.

........ with their filthy over polluted seaside resorts, .......

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Are this the polluted beaches you're talking about?

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Suppose you must only have been in Pattaya, Phuket or some other ghettos and you

have not traveled much around in this beautiful country, if you believe Thailand consists

only of polluted beaches but please, keep that myth going, at least that will keep our

beaches quiet and clean for an other 50 years..

You're right, Thailand is such a horrible place. Should really warn all those shoppers,

Jetski enthusiasts, deck chair fanatics, ping-pong admirers to go somewhere else and

leave this place alone and we who enjoy this place, will have many more years to come

without huge hotels taking away our beautiful views, without unconsidered, rude tourists

ruining this places.

Hope you have a good flight back home as you're probably not staying in this filthy,

over polluted and horrendous "shit hole" full of rip-off's.

sorry to tell you but I arrived in Jomtien Beach in 1983 when it was really beautiful - Karon beach in Phuket was a paradise and there were only a couple of small hut hotels there. You might feel the same if all the places that were once so beautiful had been destroyed. Koh Samet used to be a real tropical island now its covered in plastic bags (well it was when I went to see the family at Xmas)- of course there are places that remain untouched and beautiful but most of what I will always remember has been totally overdeveloped- but when you are 70 years old like me you hanker for the old Thailand! And no I'm not about to get on a flight home - this is where I live but that doesn't mean that I am not entitled to my own opinion.

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Yeah sure, just as I said, Phuket, Pattaya and the other ghettos.

Your not the only one, me too had the pleasure to see what Phuket, Kao Lak, Phi Phi, Phattaya

or Koh Samet looked like in 1978. Kao Lak had around 30 families living of fishing and diving of

shore for tin bearing sand. The stench of drying fish was so intense, no one would want to stay

very long. Koh Phangan and Koh Tao together had just about 250 inhabitants compared to over

50'000 inhabitants alone on Koh Phangan today.

They all have become tourist enclaves with all the negativity and problems you'll find in any tourist

ghetto around the world. But, they are just a very small percentage of all the other beautiful and

unspoiled places you'll find even today in Thailand but, one still needs to travel a bit away from the

expat areas, tourist conveyor belts or industrial places.

So at your age, with such a long Thailand experience, why are you still sitting in one of those

shit-holes and complain? Why haven't you found one of those thousands of places here in Thailand

where the beaches are still clean, the sea crystal clear, pollution not really a problem. Where Thai

people are still generous, friendly and unbiased towards us farang?

Suppose we all are getting old . Me too, will say every so often 'Back in time things used to be

better" but so did my dad, my grand dad and my grand-grand dad once they got over the age of 60

but that is no excuse to call an entire country a shit hole

BTW - Phuket or Samui where even 35 years ago already "shit-holes", they even served burgers

and french fries with Ketchup back then. No, not places I would ever have considered to settle

down as one could predict already then, that they will be completely ruined 20 years later.

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i wonder whether the people in those small little towns in nowhere will deal with the "no going outside after 10 PM" or havei lao khao with the whole family.

Got back home last night at 23:30 from a private party here on Koh Phangan

We did drive in a "convoy" with two cars and an other four motor bikes. From what I saw, no one in sight, not

even ​a dog. Not a single police or army check-point and even if there would have been one, I probably would

have had to pay 200 THB for driving without helmet and maybe other 200 THB for driving whilst intoxicated ;-)

I must admit, it was a bit creepy driving in a foreign country under curfew and I did switch my lights off a couple

of times on the way. Not something I feel I want to do every night (not good for my liver or my nerves ).

As a friend of mine mentioned, it's strange how those freedom loving Thais who don't let themselves be told

anything from anyone and are daily driving around without helmets or seat belts, running over red lights

right under the nose of the police, now sit at home scared shit from this invisible military might.

........ with their filthy over polluted seaside resorts, .......

Sent from my i-mobile IQ 2 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Are this the polluted beaches you're talking about?

Suppose you must only have been in Pattaya, Phuket or some other ghettos and you

have not traveled much around in this beautiful country, if you believe Thailand consists

only of polluted beaches but please, keep that myth going, at least that will keep our

beaches quiet and clean for an other 50 years..

You're right, Thailand is such a horrible place. Should really warn all those shoppers,

Jetski enthusiasts, deck chair fanatics, ping-pong admirers to go somewhere else and

leave this place alone and we who enjoy this place, will have many more years to come

without huge hotels taking away our beautiful views, without unconsidered, rude tourists

ruining this places.

Hope you have a good flight back home as you're probably not staying in this filthy,

over polluted and horrendous "shit hole" full of rip-off's.

................. In fact, its energy would have been better spent in trying to locate more than 200 kidnapped Nigerian girls and bringing the kidnappers to justice.

Just hope, the "Thai Junta" bans all future amnesties for "politically motivated crimes" too

Suppose lucky the coup leader is General Prayuth Chan-O-Chai and not Suthep Thangsuban.
Maybe better luck for the Shinawatra's in Thailand then in North Korea

I recon, the whole demonstrations had more effect on tourism then martial law will have.

Our occupancy rate compared to last year has dropped considerably.

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For sure, I have much more time enjoying the tropics this year then I had last year.

Will eventually get bored sitting in the hammock drinking Pinacoladas

Today, five cancellations for the next full moon party on the 12th of June .

Ideal time for a relaxing, quiet holiday on Koh Phangan .

The curfew applies for the party people. Families with kids might consider the overall situation and decide it's not time to bring kids here.

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And what's about all those millions of poor Thais who are now deprived of their nightly educational "lakhon's" on TV?

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The General has saved lives. If the red shirts want to retaliate then they will be the cause of further lose of lives as they had been for the past 7 months.

Well done General Prayuth and the Thai army.

You are savors of Thailand. You have saved them from themselves.

If it's all about saving lives, the generals should have closed all the roads and seized all cars and motorbikes.

Promiss of "No Army Involvementt" - Groundhog Day [Version 12.1.0]

Martial Law - Groundhog Day [Version 12.1.1]

Promiss of "No Coup d'etat" - Groundhog Day [Version 12.2.0]

Coup d'etat - Groundhog Day [Version 12.2.1]

Ministers report to military - Groundhog Day [Version 12.3.0]

Ministers applying for Montenegro Passports - Groundhog Day [Version 12.3.1]

For the Full Groundhog Day Version 12, just keep reading and posting on Thai Visa

Does it really matter how many groundhog days here are - provided they scour Thailand of all the corrupt politicians and murdering scum hanging out of Thaksin a r s e.

What gives you that idea?

Version 1.X.X to Version 11.X.X didn't manage to do it,

So why do you think, Version 12.x.x would be any different?

You're dreaming of tomorrow but as we all know in Thailand, tomorrow never comes!

I recon, the whole demonstrations had more effect on tourism then martial law will have.
Our occupancy rate compared to last year has dropped considerably.

For sure, I have much more time enjoying the tropics this year then I had last year.
Will eventually get bored sitting in the hammock drinking Pinacoladas

........... The next 30 were ridiculously mundane.

Don't tell me you were expecting some heavenly or spiritual comments? ;-)

Don't tell us, you're on TV to find heavenly enlightenment? ;-)

Off course, the comments on TV might not always be to every ones liking

and of course they mostly pretty mundane - from this earth.

Although, occasionally some comments seam to be from aliens from outer space ;-) .

Just a quick tip for anyone trying to hide in Thailand.

Put one address on your visa application,
put an other address on your arrival card,

wear a t-shirt with the address of the closest police station
and the BiB will be searching for you for the next 21 years.

Although beware, the Army might declare a state of emergency,
state a coup d'etat or even start a war in order to find you.