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12 hours ago, NONG CHOK said:

Maybe normal alcoholic beverages don't really need the suggested lablelling. An easy fix would be to totally ban Lao Kaow, it's the reason that people up north die on the roads. Just give it a try and see how it affects you.

The reason Lao khow is so cheap is to stop the Thai villagers making their own, which probably kills even more people...

1 hour ago, JoePai said:

We learn it at school

Only the rich...

6 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

The foreigner then had to go back to the bar to find another girlfriend

With a sheepish look on his face, no doubt...

18 hours ago, save the frogs said:

 

statistically speaking, in a group of 20 random expats, you will have at least one or two very shady characters if not outright criminals?

i don't know what the odds are. just a guess.

I'd say much higher than that here in the 21c answer to Tortuga in it's hayday...

On 2/13/2024 at 1:58 PM, Foroitalico said:

Let me explain. This website was founded for expats, as well as wives up men, who habe a problem or another relating to staying in Thailand. We spend a lot of time on browsing Facebook and the likes, because we're in need of banter, expressing our grievances, and the odd divorce specialist. It is not a place where you take pity on your fellow travellers, or offer money for projects or a ticket home to Europe.the public on here is savvy by choice and will not take any chit chat from nobody, rather talking abundantly about the latest mishaps if such and such 

And your point is?

On 2/5/2024 at 2:17 PM, The Fugitive said:

Members of my Thai family have received bills from our local community hospital after receiving treatment for injuries caused when they came off their moto's. They had neither riding licences nor insurance. Fortunately, no other road users were injured. I understand this is normal as National Heath Service's elsewhere will not provide 'free' treatment for road traffic injuries. This being what motor insurance is for.

The way it works is the hospital claim off the gov. insurence you have from taxing the motorbike for the first 20000 Bht of bills, social security or the 30 baht scheme pays for anything after that. If you have no tax you're liable for the first 20k of the hospital bill...

7 hours ago, mfd101 said:

True, but the young people - those with anything at all between their ears - are leaving for the cities.

But they've been doing that for many years...

22 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Will this man never stop?? Who start to investigate him and surely they find things how he get his wealth or is paid for all this crap

If it wasn't him, they'd have just set someone else to do it, so this odious character gets to do it again...

9 minutes ago, off road pat said:

There is a French proverb that says « le ridicule ne tue pas » "The ridicule doesn't kill" which means, don't let the fear of ridicule stop you from doing what you want, or what you think is good !!

Sticks and stones may break my bones,

but names will never hurt you...

   Is the British version, don't think that it made it to the "proverbs" list... 

That'll be the competition gone then, for a little while...

The British Brainwashing Corperation, a fine upstanding instution, not...

17 hours ago, jvs said:

I challenge you to come smoke some of the stuff out of our garden and still have the same opinion.

Or mine, come to that...

12 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

...humans are certainly the cruelest beasts of prey on planet earth. when they're not inventing the most terrible weapons to kill each other, they're using everything they can get their hands on - even their own hands - to kill.

Luckily, the vast majority of us worldwide, don't go around killing people, don't be so dramatic...

On 1/4/2024 at 2:51 PM, ikke1959 said:

A peacemaker and praised?? for not being in jail? for divide the Thai society more than ever??

A divided society would suit the powers that be very nicely, I'd have thought...

I wonder what the police "finders" fee was?

48 minutes ago, Accidental Tourist said:

And so the cycle of corruption and misused power ist completed 

Continued, surely?

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

The list is endless..... only in Thailand you find people willing to be paid to go blind.

Really? have you never been to the rest of Asia, Africa, South America?

13 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Tell that to America!

Only fools and poor people stick around there to be locked up too... 

6 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Thais seem to be wildly optimistic re land and house prices. A guy with a townhouse near to me In Ratchayothin, Bangkok is wanting to sell for 9m but the top price for his property should be 5m max.

Secondhand cars and motorbikes too...

19 hours ago, SiSePuede419 said:

And impossible to do at noon one of the hottest times of the day because the sun is directly overhead and there is no shade.

 

Gee thanks for the sage advice. 😋

All together now.

 Mad dogs and Englishmen, go out in th midday sun...

18 hours ago, Prubangboy said:

Thai people generally haven't tried lamb. But they never met a red meat they didn't like. 

My Isaan family don't like it at all, they think it smells bad...

39 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

This will be difficult as the Police are the biggest illicit sellers 🤔

Really? BIB bigger than the BIG you reckon?

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Despite all the money thrown at education?

It's all been pocketed before it gets to the schools, then the Director grabs whatever's left...

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

They don't think about what could happen next because generally nothing of consequence happens next. The are devoid of spatial thinking here.

 

It'll drag on for while then fall in the blackhole like most all these stories. A wai, a promise of compensation that never comes and the next tragic story of child molestation at a school that covers it up will take its place.

 

The surprising thing to me is they claim he was arrested at the scene, which is a rare occurrence 

Too drunk to run away...