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The Five was a good binge watch - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4370528/

Do you guys tip Uber? I never do when in the US, but seems harsh to not do so when they are essentially taxi price here and a much better service.

What subject do you teach?..

...am behind the moto taxi dudes on this one. They provide a valuable service. Too much invested to be undercut by a

snazzy web app designed to marginalize their livelihood.

Am all for Uber, etc. to go tits up and perish. Their idea works---until it doesn't--usually involving an accident and the finger pointing begins in earnest. How about an app for Tai legal system and justice?

Nonsense.

There should always be a free market. If the old guys can't keep up, that's life. That's how it works in every industry. Adapt or die.

I agree with this wholeheartedly, however in Thailand I think an attempt to disrupt the status quo in terms of motorbike transport is likely to put both GrabBike drivers and passengers at serious risk of assault or worse.

We'll see how this pans out - GrabBike are putting huge money into marketing and gaining market share now.

The way of solving it is likely going to be GrabBike making deals with the existing motorbike crews. Profit share for an area or similar.

Thai company would be a dreadful choice, huge tax implications as well as extreme bureaucracy.

OP - I found this book extremely useful in terms of getting to grip with the general approaches - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Resident-Offshore-Tax-Planning-Your/dp/0957602405

Ah I see - yes, I agree there is no benefit at all - the income is taxable.

In terms of not being allowed to invoice as an individual - pretty sure that is not true.

http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/issuing-an-invoice-as-an-individual-non-uk-resident

http://ask.metafilter.com/266947/Incredibly-basic-question-on-freelancing-invoices-and-self-employment

I certainly did it for years without issue, to the UK, US with some big companies.

Perhaps something has changed that I am unaware of though.

Where will you be receiving the money, and will you be invoicing as an individual?

I don't think NRTs are sold in Thailand at all. My understanding is that they cannot be licensed for sale due to the Thai Tobacco Monopoly.

After 3 years on e-cigs, started to get imports seized and have now started to find it difficult to get decent quality e-liquid, and most crucially, replacement e-cig components. And when I can get them they are hugely overpriced. Last attempt I made was from one of the big vendors on the forum mentioned above and the extremely overpriced hipster branded liquid basically contained no nicotine, only pg/vg and flavourings - very bad experience.

I'm back on the snus again and enjoying it to be honest. Can order snus from Sweden up to 200g a delivery, around 1000b and would last most people at least a month or so. Not sure if it's tax free but I never get tax assessed. I use buysnus.com

Before ex-smokers jump in with 'why don't you just stop' - I like nicotine, just as I like caffeine. I simply prefer to reduce the extra risk added by taking it in the form of burning tobacco.

It doesn't justify the severity of the actions of the Thais in the video whatsoever, but the first physical actions I see beyond 'pushing' are:

1 - foreign woman slapping someone

2 - foreign man punching someone

What I see in the video is that a Thai guy is having some problem with another Thai guy, who does not respond and keeps walking. While those two are ‘engaged’ in each other, the foreigners pass by and one of the foreign guys pushes the Thai guy and keeps walking. The Thai guy that was pushed ,then pushes that foreign guy (black shirt, black cap), who slips and hits his head. An exchange of words between that Thai guy and the foreign woman then starts. A little crowd gathers around the two and there is some pushing and shoving. The foreign woman slaps the Thai guy. The crowd grows and then some Thai guy hits the foreign woman. The Thai guy (that was pushed by the foreign guy earlier) then appears to try and calm things down. The foreign guy (black shirt, black cap) is restraining some Thai guys, including one with a black shirt with red motif. It is this Thai guy who then walks around the crowd and knocks the third foreigner down. The foreign woman comes and stands there and says something and then that Thai guy knocks here down. Then the other foreign guy approaches that Thai guy but the Thai guy knocks him down too. Then some other youths jump in on the ‘fun’ and hit and kick the foreigners that are still down. There is also a second fight going on between a Thai guy and Thai youth.

Not to blame the foreigners, but the foreign guy should not have pushed the Thai guy. It was unfortunate that the foreign guy slipped and fell, which made things look worse, otherwise all could have just apologized and kept walking.

When the foreign guy got up and was alright, they all should have just kept on walking no matter what was said by that Thai guy, who appeared drunk anyway.

It of course in no way excuses the actions by that Thai guy that knocked all down.

The guy in the red motif that throws the haymaker on the father, jabs the mother, then lays out the son is the same guy who is arguing at the start of the movie with the yellow shirt man.

If you follow the red motif guys movements:

1 - He walks on without noticing when they yellow guy turns to push the son. He joins a group of younger thais that were behind the foreigners at the start of the movie, and appears to again be having some kind of dispute with them. One of the younger guys is wearing shorts, white trainers and also a red motif shirt.

2 - He then returns to the yellow shirt guy when he realises something is going on, and puts his ear down to the yellow guys face.

3 - Farang father walks around to the right of the group, and farang son who has put his hat back on, walks round to the left.

4 - Farang father throws a punch, and as the group breaks up, farang son is holding red shirt motif guy from behind in an arm lock.

5 - Arm lock is released and red shirt motif guy walks in a circular manner around the back of the shot and then returns to the foreground where he punches farang dad then kicks him on the ground, he then jabs the mum, and then knocks out the son. He then kicks the son a number of times whilst he is on the floor.

6 - Yellow shirt man who has been around the periphery of the final assault with beer bottle in hand stamps twice on sons head and leaves the shot.

7 - The younger guy in shorts, white trainers and a red motif shirt from point 1 kicks the mum in the face.

8 - Older Red shirt motif and younger red shirt motif along with a few others that appear to be in the group leave the scene to the bottom of the shot.

My suspicion is the yellow shirt, older red motif, and group of younger thais one who also has a red motif are all together to be honest, with a few other younger lads. Perhaps having a drunken dispute.

Edit.. Can see some mods have tried, but still loads of offtopic racist comments remain from days ago. Shame.

The Ergohuman ones are good - http://ergohumanthailand.com/product-category/ergohuman/ I've had an Ergohuman 2 heavily used for around 18 months now and still going strong.

Last chair was a Herman Miller Aeron (in fact I still have it, but it needs a service - it's > 5 years old) but I personally prefer the EH2.

Current prices for EH2 of around 17k are very good compared to the international retail prices.

Review here - https://youtu.be/EMjJ0RVnFzQ

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Matches my observations, the wife buys pretty much daily from Facebook - kids clothes, her clothes, beauty products - often she'll see something in a mall then come back and grab it from a Facebook vendor at a fraction of the price. Pretty much the same way I use Amazon and eBay.

Payment is usually by bank transfer, and we've never had a problem with stuff not arriving - in a similar vein to eBay the reputation of vendors can be destroyed with bad and visible user feedback.

Not trying to be intentionally morbid, but if a mule dies with what appears to be over 2.5 million baht worth of drugs inside them, and their handlers are willing to stuff the dead body in a suitcase, I'm pretty sure they would be willing to get the drugs out first.

http://www.2c2p.com/ might be worth a look

I don't get it, the net method is pretty much commonplace nowadays, in the west they have guns that shoot nets...nothing new or inventive about it.

Really? Never seen it used myself - UK police would taser, often ineffectively especially against drunk/high people, and the US police would simply shoot him 60 times.

It's a superb idea! Other forces should be taking notes.

They should have boxed them up and sent them to the animals living in Southern Thailand....

Rats are pretty intelligent creatures. Perhaps you should grab a few to eat before the shipment.

he should go to Netherland, where euthanasia is legal, he would get a shot instead of jumping to death, poor guy RIP

And who was it that gave Holland or Switzerland for that matter, the right to play God?...RIP fellow countryman.

It's not about Holland or Switzerland having the right to 'play God', it's about the rights of the individual to control their own destiny - something that should be an inalienable right in my opinion.

Macbook's don't run iOS and it doesn't sound like you're speaking from an especially informed perspective. What are the specs of your 3500 baht netbook and for what purpose do you require a computer?