sebastion

Picking up the rubbish that these idiots leave in the water

Well its pretty flaming pointless to clean up the beaches when you have idiots advertising this is what they do on their boat tours only a few hours ago...Polluting the oceans, discracefull conduct

2 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Impossible target, Soi Dog is a business not really interested in solving the problem, they need the dogs so they can keep on pretending to be an effective solution, they are just playing at being one.

Exactly, they cant endeavour on a baiting program, because if the problem is gone. So is Soi Dog

2 minutes ago, Jackcwba said:

That would definitely eliminate the idea of trying to sneak out or check out early 555  

Well its in case you infect Thai staff at the hotel with Covid. The 100000 USdollar insurance only covers yourself for hospital and infection, not the Thai staff.

A high up immigration officer told me this was going to happen.

I heard they were going to make farangs deposit passports to immigration while in quarantine hotels. 

2 hours ago, Bluetongue said:

Adverts for Thailand on Australian TV today, I am told. " when the world is ready to travel, Thailand is waiting"

They will be waiting till July 2021 for Australians

The Islander in Rawaii

3 minutes ago, ukrules said:

I've been suggesting for years that they issue a 6 month visa with a 6 month permit to stay so people can come to Thailand on an extended holiday for the winter.

 

Various laws would need to be changed to do this but if they change them then lots of people would come for longer than the usual 90 day period before they need to leave the country and do a 'visa run' in order to extend their stay for the entire winter.

 

Think of the northern European countries where the winter starts early and ends late, they have plenty of money, 1000's of them own holiday homes here and come every year yet they're still stuck on this 90 day maximum stay nonsense unless they get retirement visas when they're not really retired and living here full time.

 

In Hua Hin and plenty of other places many such people come every year and I've noticed some of them have been cutting trips short to fit inside the 90 day window in recent years, they can't be bothered to 'border run' any more - it's too inconvenient, especially from a place like Hua Hin which doesn't have a nearby border.

 

I would have thought Hua Hin would be the closest city to any border

28 minutes ago, stuarty said:

There are longer lines at the food handouts...."Teach a man to fish..." and all that.

The food lines are a direct reflection of a lot of locals in Phuket, they are a very entitled race of people. They expect big money for minimum output and complete lack of customer service.

7 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

Why are you lying? You call it pontificating when people are held accountable when they spread false information. 

 

Show us where the organization has "lost" money. It is a non profit, so it spends money in the community. Because it is not a for profit organization,   it spends the money it receives on its activities. You  do not  have any understanding of the financial structure of a charity do you, otherwise you would  use such a term. Because it is a charity it relies on donations. How else do you think a charity raises much of its funding? You call it begging. I call it a request to  assist, and is no different than any other reputable charity.

 

How do you know whether it has been successful or not? You do not, but instead post your ignorant, malicious comment. The fact is that the results speak for themselves. Hundreds of thousands of unwanted litters were prevented through the spay and neuter programs. Tens of thousands of animals were provided with emergency medical care and tens of thousands of children were given examples of compassion and responsible behavior. The foreign adoptions are a small portion of its activities. The 200+ animals adopted out address overloads at the shelter and  respond to visitors requests. Often kind and decent people visit Thailand and encounter an animal they fall in love with and want to adopt. Soi dog helps.

 

You  describe the organization as a "failure" and yet  it  is one of the more transparent charities in Thailand. It is recognized by the government  as one of the pillars of public health policy  and is the go to organization when there are rabies outbreaks. Soidog spends a large part of its  budget on  spay,/neuter release programs which are considered the most effective method of dog/cat population control and it  spends a large part of the budget on education and outreach.

 

You show yourself up to be an ignorant misogynist bully when you  describe "Volunteering at Soi dog is mostly a hobby for bored expat wives pushed to volunteer their time whilst the husband plays 'golf' and gets a soapy. (Ladyboys optional) We all know the deal. "

You disparage respectable and decent  people and it is quote obvious that you are ignorant of who volunteers at soidog. It seems that you are projecting your  activities with prostitutes and  transvestites on  these people.  It must come as a surprise that the vast majority of foreigners outside of your demographic do not use the services of prostitutes or have "soapys". I have never had a "soapy", nor have any of my colleagues.

Huge budgets, huge waste of money. baiting these feral animals would be a whole lot cheaper and more effective.

As I said before Soi Dog is a business, people make money off it. Simple

39 minutes ago, balo said:

I am a dog lover but I have to agree with Hans, sending them to another continent is not helping the soi dogs. We need less dogs living in the streets, and a spay/neuter program to make sure to keep the numbers down.   

In Australia in the 80s they had a bounty for cane toads, 10cents each. You know what happened? The kids all started breeding them to make more pocket money.

If you start charging people to adopt dogs, guess whats going to happen? People will start breeding them for profit.

You cant tell me that if I donate a bag of dogfood to Soi Dog and a bit of cash, that someone isnt skimming some of that money.

Its a business, people benefit from it

A total of about 12 people will run for the hills

1 minute ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Why?

funnily enough, they crash into minivans

32 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

One of the photos in the linked article shows scrape marks in the road surface where the bike was dragged. They are well inside the van's lane.

I don't think there can be any doubt that the bike was in the wrong lane when the collision happened.

I have never seen an Austrian motorbike champion, Australia on the other hand has plenty of great motorbike legends

2 minutes ago, hansgruber said:

Here you are pontificating to everyone, again. Can't help yourself. 

Soi dog foundation is a failure. Year after year it's lost money, begged for donations and not made a single dent into the feral animals. Kata beach still has wild packs roaming it. 

Educating the locals is a better way to spend ones time. 

Volunteering at Soi dog is mostly a hobby for bored expat wives pushed to volunteer their time whilst the husband plays 'golf' and gets a soapy. (Ladyboys optional) We all know the deal. 

 

Everyone feels good and goes home feeling fulfilled. Another day in paradise. 

 

 

 

 

Its funny you should say that, last year I regularly saw one well known local expat down at Soi Paradise whenever his Soi Dog volunteer wife was out 'rescuing' Soi Dogs, he is quite the party animal and popular amongst the boys.

7 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Agreed, we have an Irish friend - with 9 children already - still trying for another at 75 for child with his 35 year old wife

Probably should not be driving motorbikes with pillions on the back either

18 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

Why the character assassination?

What exactly do you know about the incident to comment so assuredly that he was not licensed, drunk, not wearing a helmet and had a bargirl with him?

 

It was approx.  7.30 pm. Isn't that a bit early to be drunk and picking up a bar girl? Perhaps they had just finished dinner?  Don't you ever have a romantic dinner? I don't think a helmet would have helped as he did a face first  impact. He was apparently still alive when transported to the  hospital.

According to the initial investigation, the motorcycle strayed out of its lane. The turn angle isn't that sharp so he may have been distracted or lost balance. I don't know and neither do you. How about waiting for the blood alcohol test results?

 

We all know what the blood alcohol tests will reveal

11 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Why disgusting? At least they would be feeding people. 

In western countries stray dogs get put down and then incinerated....and if some feral animal comes onto your property you have every right to blow it away.

Lets see how much of a fan of Soi Dogs you are when some kid gets killed by a pack of them