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1 minute ago, kingdong said:

What's Boris supposed to do?discover a cure single handedly? Seems all these so called experts haven,t got a clue.

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

Unfortunately, for the haters Johnson's personal rating remains increasingly high.

17 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

People who live in provinces that have extended the booze ban will simply drive across the border to one that hasn't and bring their booty back. Really well thought out!

 

At times like this, their needs to be strong central leadership, well thought out and well coordinated plans, with everyone implementing the same plan, in the same way, at the same time. Have you ever seen that happen here? Everyone and anyone with a little bit of authority will become a self appointed expert and implement it as they see fit - and will never loose face and change their mind!

 

Come on, they can't even enforce rules on taxis not refusing fares and using their meters; or even the price of lottery tickets!

I don't agree with your one-size fits all approach. 

There needs to be different requirements for different provinces. I find it hard to argue with the government having central, minimal, strategic requirements and provincial governors having the ability to INCREASE measures if they feel it is warranted in their province.

The issue then becomes the Thai inability to be reasoned, consistent - and as you stated actually enforce the decisions that have been made.

I had a couple of examples yesterday... in the morning I traveled by motorbike into Pattaya; I showed a copy of my passport and said that I lived in Sattahip (I had a copy of my PEA bill but did not need to show it)  and was promptly waved through. I decided to go back into Pattaya later, prior to setting off for Buriram. I was in my car this time and encountered a young army guy who would not accept the same paperwork and insisted that he could not let in without a completed access form. The slight irony is that I understand the checkpoints are being removed tomorrow. I aborted my plans and headed to Buriram.

I had previously acquired my Buriram Healthy sticker and as I had previously traveled out of the province before 1st May it was not removed from my passport. I wasn't sure what to expect when crossing the border into Buriram (there is a normal army checkpoint as you enter the province on the 348 road. I wanted to try and keep my 'Healthy' sticker so I prepared copies of my passport, immigration stamps, address and contact details for the missus. The rules spoke of 'quarantine' and wanted to ensure that the worst thing I faced was home isolation for 14 days.

I needn't have worried. As on an earlier occasion I was simply taken to one side at the checkpoint and my name, passport, address and contact details were entered on a schedule. I was the third Farang yesterday by the looks of it. I was then waved on. 

Will I be contacted by the local Poo Yai Ban/local health officials to be checked over and then checked that I self-isolate? I very much doubt it, which simply makes a mockery of the system and is further evidence that the Thais can implement whatever rules they wish, but is likely they will be incapable of enforcing them.

16 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Yes, i have a friends who's wife has a market stall, if she sells 1000 baht of items a day she thinks she's made a 1000baht profit, absolutely nothing like going to BKK to buy stock / rent / electric etc taken into account.

 

Majority of them think like this, they just don't get it.

I try to avoid generalising but that is perfectly true. Evidence from several friends whose wives set up/were set up in businesses and thought that any cash in their pockets was profit.

5 minutes ago, Chivas said:

Spot on fella. Johnson and Cummings have been criminally negligent and with now 3 Barristers crowdfunding for private prosecutions the spurious lying blond ponce will have more serious matters on his plate instead of sprogging up females and hiding in fridges

Oh dear..................... the haters continue to hate.

.... and yet you are no more than water off a ducks back.

8 hours ago, Don Mega said:

#31.... is beer an essential item ?

Not for all of us....????

2 minutes ago, essox essox said:

yeah think your right ....another stupid thing that is here.....needs to be abolished for ever the stupid times for alcohol sales

100% agree.

We are grown ups after all....

12 minutes ago, billd766 said:

IMHO it was a sharp reminder of who actually runs the country.

 

Somebody cracked a whip to bring the government back on line.

....... or wrote a very large cheque....

We are using the pool at our condo.

One person at a time appears to be the rule........ no problem because only 4 or 5 of us make use of it.

Bring back Singha Light and dump that horrible MyBeer.

I have emailed Boonrawd Trading Co accordingly....... still waiting for a reply. 

2 minutes ago, DrTuner said:

hope they enjoyed their little power trip.

I am sure they did.

It has been a long journey......and the trip is a long way from being over.

1 hour ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

So this then must be the "Thailand alcoholics" thread???

Well, you seem to be contributing to it...????

2 minutes ago, Thunder26 said:

By continuing to keep in place unreasonable restrictions while the curve is flat will continue upsetting and stressing people out. This CCSA is being extremely incompetent at the moment and it will start the demise of the current government.

It won't.

You may want it to, but it won't.

3 hours ago, Chassa said:

But what about all the people that are not labourers etc.

They are discouraged from inter-provincial travel.

But, the relevance of labourers is - as I am sure you appreciate - that mass number of manual workers travel to Bangkok et al to work in factories or the building industry. 

Just now, Chassa said:

Just the labourers and workers! So it is all about control of the masses.

No....... it is about control of the virus.

You can't see that ?

12 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

This is my favourite meal in Thailand; poon pap a pow.

 

In Big C (when it's open) I have prawn fried rice or shredded chicken on rice with soup. Don't know the Thai, and can't ask the wife 'cause we are still not speaking, and Milly is at her Grandma's at the mo'.

 

Looks like a very dry, wet season to me. Not off to a great start.

Looks like a Pad Krappow Mu at the top

9 minutes ago, hugocnx said:

Government afraid of the people that they might easier resist/rebel if intoxicated.

They have never managed it in past........................arguably, a pi55ed Thai is less of a threat.

Just now, SteveK said:

I need to send some documents, 3 months is not acceptable. There's a DHL office in Ubon but they have lots of reviews saying they lose mail etc, I am not sure what to do.

Find someone going to the UK and ask them to take it for you....... otherwise put your faith in DHL.  (scan them first....)

5 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

What about the expats living in Pattaya? Will they be happy with the Chinese using their "all you can eat" buffets, cr@pping on the kerbside and in taxis, peeing on the airport train, and not to forget the

spreading of disease again?

Obviously yes.

Coronavirus has been pretty much a non-event in Pattaya...................... more cases spread by going to Muay Thai boxing stadiums.

On 3/31/2020 at 1:38 PM, Maybole said:

My UK Passport expires at the end of this year. I worked out that the extra fees charged and costs incurred by using VFS will more than double the nominal price of a new passport..  I therefore intend to apply on line using my brother's address in Glasgow for him to send on to me.

 Is this legal? Can I send my expiring passport direct back to the Passport Office or would I have to send it via my brother? I expect the whoe process to take one month which is not bmuch longer than VFS.

No.

It has been covered before and I have seen a response from UKPO that says you are making a false declaration by trying to apply that way. 

You also understand that if anyone at UKPO is sharp enough they will see that you are stamped into Thailand and not stamped out....................... that could open a can of worms.

That said, I know people who have done it......... but, no, it is not 'legal'.