bkkresident

Thailand is a champion when it comes to drafting new laws that cannot be properly enforced.

Anti-prostitution and anti-gambling come to mind.

So lets see.

An 18 year old can work in a bar.

A 20 year old can enter a bar as a customer but only drinks soft drinks

A 25 year old can enter a bar and order alcoholc drinks

A 25 year old can also buy alcoholic drinks a stores, but only at certain hours.

A true alcoholic 25 year old can buy alcoholic drinks 24 hours a day by buying 10 liters or more.

However, if one gets caught DUI, the penalty is a small fine, you can drive home, and not mch comes off it.

Soccer on TV has become a sport without goals

International sport events will probably no longer be held i Thailand, as beer and whiskey producers are almost always major sonsors. They same applies for concerts.

Yet another newbie talking out of his arse. Man, where do they all come from? Out of the woodwork yet again.

Oh and btw, <deleted> are may worries anyway?

If you're referring to me, I can guarantee that I have been in Thailand longer than you NEWBIE.

Missed an 'n' though - read 'many worries'.

Anyway, my point is get your visa in order. Tourist visas are for tourists, not for those sort of hanging around 30 or 60 days each time for an indefinite period of time.

No loss to Thailand if they all move elsewhere IMO

The large number of replies and may worries are not surprising.

However, don't forget that Thailand's immigration laws have laways been very loosely applied.

It is possible for instance to stay in the US indefinitely, by making visa runs to Canada or Mexico.

And how about in Europe?

In most developed countries a stay for tourism purposes may not exceed 90 days in each period of 180 days, or no more than 180 days per year.

IMO (and that of immigration in many countries) anyone staying longer than that period is no longer a tourist, but a resident. Anyone stying in within the europen Union for more than 180 days is considered a resident for tax purposes.

The current rule tightens only the 30 days on arrival permission to stay, but it will not surprise me if the same will soon apply to all form of tourist stay.

The effect to Thailand's economy will be very marginal. But it will affect many that have lived here as permament tourists.

Following up on my original post, why do they build 27 checkout stations if at the busiest times they might have 10 working? I am sure you want to have a few extra for downtime/maintainance, but 17 extra? Agreed that sales staff are cheaper to employ than cashiers, but why not get rid of two or three sales positions and create more cashiers? I don't know if sales staff and stackers are one and the same, but in a lot of stores I usually see sales staff just idling around chatting with friends, picking at something, or even playing with pets (little dogs, etc.). Despite that, if you ask them where something is they will just point you in the general direction most times rather than walk you there! Even if they are paid minimum wage they are a waste of space. I once counted something like 22 employees in a fairly small electronics area at Big C.

As long as I am on this topic, why do the Automotive Products sections always have aggressive sales people? If you so much as walk through the aisle and pause for a moment they are on you in a second. I have never noticed that with any other product areas. It is so bad at Central, Robinson, etc. that I skip those areas even though I would like to browse around some time.

A lot of the sales staf that you see are not employed by the stores themselves but by the companies whose products, or brands they represent. Many of these sales staff earn more commission than salary, and that's why they appear aggressive.

It's another reason that such staff cannot be used as cashiers.

Hi,

I don't play very often due to a recurring back injury, but don't mind a round if you don't mind playing on Friday mornings.

I tend to pass on the weekends nowadays, as it gets too busy.

PS: my h/c is 20 but play a bit worse lately due to lack of practice.

Hi guys,

I not a frequest poster, but read this board quite often.

Anyways, I'm a resident here and don't mind a round of golf with anyone.

Is this TV golf club come off the ground yet?

The sanap-sanun phrase I heard as sanap-sanun-doi a lot on the radio but some thais were saying the 'doi' part was the name of a product/business they were endorsing - they seemed pretty clear on this but maybe they were being "thaipically inaccurate"? Also is the sanap part the same as in the sanap-sanook expression?

They're definitely inaccurate. "Doi" means "by". Sanap-sanun-doi means "sponsored by". Sanap-sanun is the verb, meaning to sponsor or support.

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"Nan Lae" translates word for word as "that is", but is in fact more like an expression. It means something like "so you see (I was right / that's right).