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Talking about hats and politics, anyone seen baseball hats with pics of local top politicians for sale? (like prayut, Prawit, anutin, srettha and others)
Would be cool to observe reactions wearing such.
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Submitted couple of days ago, application was accepted by the system
But came back rejected next day. First time for me since using the system (many years). Try again Monday, if fail need to go immigration to ask what's the issue
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16 hours ago, bkk6060 said:
Pattaya is jammed with traffic and non quality tourists and it will just get much worse.
Pattaya mostly has quality tourists by thai definition (spending) , but many non quality retirees
Pattaya tourists, those one week millionaires, usually spend a lot on hookers and booze every day, thus qualify as quality ones!
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1 hour ago, Dan O said:Or Big Joke's investigation into gambling payouts and othe activities was getting a bit too close to the puppets behind the scenes. You'll never know the truth. Its pretty easy to frame people here and there's not much you can do about it due to the level of corruption in the courts.
certainly all of them have a lot to hide, and all also have something about other they absolutely dont want to become public. That's how the system works, balance of horror. Not a good idea to start nuclear war against someone who has nukes also.
Having said that, if someone gets pissed off or is scrwed by others for whatever reason, the damage control is difficult. At the end, foreign media is probably the only party that could tell the truth had they access to the information. All others will be silenced if need be, especially in case like this, having the level of involved as it is. BJ is really playing a gamble, bullying the bullies, to see what he can get from the system. But he is against the big wind.
Still I believe the likely outcome after few rounds of threats and barking is a settlement of some kind, and public will be told it was all a misunderstanding, nobody had done anything wrong and especially not anything illegal.
Life goes on.
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59 minutes ago, SeaMike01 said:
This is all very confusing. I'm still not sure who did what, and who didn't do anything at all.
Everybody did something that earns plain old cash, that's the whole point
Whether they all agreed how that cash is distributed among them may be an issue.
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4 minutes ago, Scott Tracy said:
Don't they already charge tourist tax? What happened to the cash money I had to pay to leave in the 90s, what happened to the tourist tax supposed to come in on 2022?
That's departure tax, even locals have to pay that. They of course want a tax that only foreigners would pay, just don't have figured out how to execute the collection...
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10 minutes ago, Scouse123 said:... she had asked for a new motorbike and he bought one, then after a while there was the farm plus animals which he provided for, ( a lie of course was that project, to extract cash) then there was the obligatory pick-up, which he paid for again.
... And you said he was nobody's fool...
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32 minutes ago, scorecard said:
Further, how would the spending of the money be managed to ensure it doesn't end up in corruption activities?
? - manage money not to be used how it is planned to be used?
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Throwing my net here: anyone would happen to have pointers to qualified electrical engineer to review some proposed changes to electrical system in a small condo building? Someone who is familiar with building/electricity system code of what is needed etc, and ideally licensed to make drawings for possible changes?
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Funny, very Thai news story.
PM Srettha wants more tourists to drive economy.
Adith of FETTA wants to get rid of over-tourism i.e less tourists
Surawat of TCT wants 300 baht tax that does not impact number of tourists i.e wants current level of tourist numbers
News header obviously should be 'Thailand is lost of what it wants to do with tourism'.
But hold on that is not true, all they want is money is very well known by everybody.
So better just get it straight to the point: 'Thailand wants foreigners' cash, but don't want them to come to Thailand'
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24 minutes ago, Jonathan Swift said:As a Norwegian with brown skin and thick curly black hair I resent that. Funny how you happened to choose to describe Black people as your example. A Freudian slip? You could have chosen any kind of example. So you don't like Russians, and you don't like Black people. Another run of the mill racist who just can't avoid wearing it on your sleeve, can you?
I am absolutely not racist and have nothing against Black people (nor any other skin colours), Norwegians nor birds for that matter, whether able to fly or not. However due to personal experiences unfortunately I can not say the same about Russians, and my grandpa can say even less so.
My point was about statistics of well behaving Russians, and as I have quite a few Norwegian neighbors and was just talking with one of them (white hair white skin guy), just took them as example thinking what they as people are and what they are not statistically.
I apologize if you understood my point as insulting for Black, that was absolutely not the intention.
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5 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:Asking a Russian to be respectful and to not be rude is like asking an indigenous Alaskan to not eat fish. It's a bit like asking a Frenchman to demonstrate affection toward an American, or asking a Thai government official to show warmth and hospitality toward an expat living here.
I think it is deeper. You believe it is behavioral. I think it is genetic.
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555 - to expect respectful behavior from Russians is about same as expecting Norwegians to have brown skin and thick curly black hair, or say a bird move around by walking instead of flying i.e not impossible but fairly rare occurrence statistically.
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1 hour ago, zhounan said:So, influential figures would like to crack down on influential figures?
You missed one part:
Influential figures telling influential figures to crack down on influential fixtures.
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More or less of the use-inhibiting screen blocking ads as a consequence?
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It's actually amazing how few building fires you see knowing how the typical electric installations are.
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1 hour ago, Keeps said:
You forgot to mention that you can sit outside with a Russian family partaking in a picnic comprising of cheese and ham toasties and a half bottle of cheap vodka.
That would definitely an ambiance ruiner in Thailand.
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38 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:Your right ,great coffee at the 711 just the Ambiance is not great 😃
what's wrong with 711 ambiance?? I've got tens if not hundreds of coffees from 711 and never had issues with ambiance. You can take your coffee out, and hang outside the shop kicking off the soi dogs and beggars. You can possibly sit on the one and only (likely broken) blue or red plastic chair that someone has left there, and which possibly will collapse when you sit down on it. While sipping, you can top up your phone and check how much you have put on since last checked.
And if you are off the tourist areas, odds are that the girls behind the counter start giggling 'where you from', and when you answer they have no clue what you said. Good chances to have a date after their workday, possibly leading to anything. Locals come to talk to you or at least show thumbs up.
And you complain about ambiance of genuine cultural experience!
BTW 711 coffee is pretty good, better than in many small coffee shops.
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26 minutes ago, JimTripper said:Saw 150 baht for a latte in bkk recently. Went next door and got a 39 baht coffee 🤔
... So you are the riff raff? 😝
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Regardless of he being not too smart to say this in public prior to completion of legal process, this is possibly the first time something he says makes sense IF what is told/shown by media is true.
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2 hours ago, Banana7 said:
Why can't department plan, organize, lead and control civil engineering projects so that the city roadways, walkways are not consistently under construction and are fully usable? Why can't they coordinate all of the utilities so the job gets done once right, the first time and on-time, on budget and on quality. It just seems like a waste of money to dig twice in a year.
How come we never hear of anyone in City Hall getting fired for incompetence?
Why are you listing they key recruitment criteria for not hiring a person there?
People won't get fired because they don't hire people who would be doing things the way you described.
It's like you would be asking why Arabians don't write from left to right. It's because Arabic is written from right to left. If they would wrote left to write, they would be told you can not write and consequently fired. Or think it as scooter that turns left when you turn the handle bar right and vice versa. You need to learnt to ride based on the mechanics of the system you are using to get where you are going.
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How would the officials and their families survive, not to speak pay their premium cars and houses if they would stop initiating useless construction works?
The only news is what they use as explanation for each of the new projects.
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13 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:
... city hall started charging company owned home owners, which they back dated, cheeky buggers. I went to city hall and argued with them, saying its a domestic house occupied by 4 family members, it's not a business, they refused to listen.
... And that goes on still. Couple of my neighbors got this backdated tax in last few months. I for mine already 4-5 years ago.
But the new tax system is ok for now at least. Tax went from 7500 to 300, with 90% discount for first two years to 30 baht. But I bet soon they will separate company/foreigner owned property and tax those at 10x rate.
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Thailand Customs to Apply VAT on All Postal Imports
in Thailand News
Posted · Edited by mran66
Some european countries did similar move some years back. To deal with that, Alibaba created a system that they handle the VAT payments automatically for all the millions of parcels the sellers sell on their platform. No work at all for buyer.
If you choose such euro country as your shipment location, price is different than e.g Thailand, and stated that it include VAT. Parcels come home in mail like before, just VAT added.
So this is actually (relatively) favourable to Alibaba as they have system in place, whereas some smaller sellers may not. The question how will Thai govt officials enable that system to be connect to their system, as if all done automatically, not much chance to extort bribes from buyers. Alibaba sure need to pay something to customs to compensate the losses of course...but to block off Alibaba from selling to Thailand, wont happen as big brother will come remind who is big brother if they try!
So, as long as they allow the IT systems to talk, this is no issue, and fully understandable for Thai govt to do it, though of course I would prefer to buy tax free.