bheard

"Quality tourists" - 'cos they spend up big.
And I thought a quality tourist would be someone who doesn't stand on the toilet seat.

Many Thais do park in the road or half in the road with no regard to other traffic.   He parked in the middle of the road to take pictures ???   Only in Thailand 

I guess I don't understand why westerners come here if they don't like Thailand, I come here because its fun and a lot cheaper than back home. If Thailand gets all the same rules and regulations that we love back home it will no longer be fun or cheap.

Doesn't even look Thai.

Oooh, oooh, I know where they can find a bunch of brand new buses.
 
If only the different departments would play nice.  
 
Why one government department doesn't get a waiver on import duties to save the taxpayers (their own) money is beyond me.
 

Plenty of better looking ladies to view at Asok BTS
stand there at peak hour in the morning ,you are bound to 
see many 7 and a few 10's 
without all the make up, miss  “Milk” has on
 
 

Even more attractive than the number one all star singing, dancing cult glamour boy PM Prayut? A no brainer!

Democratic Party stronghold, so "schemes" are OK.

So why do you think I live in Thailand?  An Australian pensioner can live here much better than in Oz.

In the old days out west where I grew up when we had a problem with something we put a bounty on it. People made money by eradicating the problem . Maybe a bounty should be put on refugees. Ever one you bag is worth x amount of money.Then homeless Aussies could get money bagging refugees.
 
 I would really like to know how Australia came about to be legally responsible to refugees. Does not make sense to me. Their own home  country should be the legal responsible country. If their home country is unwilling to be responsible maybe they should have stayed home.

I believe the policy was changed last year so that Australians (and not just G7 citizens) once again receive a 30-day visa-exempt stay if arriving by land at a border crossing, and not just by air as it had been before. However an Australian friend rang a Thai consulate there and a staffer told him:
 
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet. I have been working here for five years and it has always been 15 days when you enter by land."
 
Can anyone clear this up please? I could have sworn there was a Thai government announcement changing it to 30 days if by land for most Western nationalities, but now I can't find it. Thanks. 

Everybody is a bit nasty sometimes, but being "dark skinned" really seals their fate in Thailand.

Well . . . Now you know that these things need maintenance. No point having radar guns and cctv units that don't work is there? Thailand is so good with maintenance after all.

I think this is her: https://www.facebook.com/Maeyaisom/videos/615233378681205/      
 

Does this crackdown on trucks indicate a reaction to analysis of accident records?
I doubt it.
My totally random observations tell me that many accidents involving trucks are the result of people running into the back of them.

Technology transfers from Thailand to China? Ummm . . .

If you can't see the sense in that regulation re emergency vehicles on the job, then it's probably a good thing you spend most of your time out of the country.

No I.D. card. He's screwed then.

And thats OK by me, as a man with two lots of cancer
 
But so far my wife still loves me, maybe I have her better trained
 
She is under very strict instructions to sign nothing if I am admitted from ME
 
bheard try being nice to people rather than scaring them
 
REMEMBER what goes around comes around

It's all very well saying that 'everyone must have insurance', but as already pointed out, anyone over 60 will find it both difficult and expensive to get any insurance, and if they have any pre-existing conditions, it becomes almost impossible. And how many people who come to Thailand are over 60? A high percentage, I would imagine. And they probably put more into the Thai economy than young families who don't have the same disposable income.
 
I said this in the other thread, but the only way I see around it is to have a mandatory fee that must be paid on entry (or exit, which might be easier) by everyone - 500 Baht perhaps (500 Baht X 30 million visitors = 15 billion Baht) which would cover everyone for basic healthcare at a state hospital. The majority of visitors would prefer to have insurance that will provide a higher level of care in a private hospital, so only a small percentage would, if the need arose, have to be treated under the state scheme.
 
It's not a perfect system, but 500 Baht is not so much that people would refuse to pay (or refuse to come to Thailand). We used to have a 500 Baht departure tax, and everyone just paid it. We may have grumbled a bit, but it wasn't a bank-breaking sum.
 
Also, the idea of having to check everyone's insurance is just a non-starter.

Any foreigner living here long term and MARRIED to a Thai, should automatically have access to the Thai system for medical coverage..
Thats the way it works in most countries as far as i know....If she is your wife (Husnband) then it's natural to be included in the country's system, of that person....if not, why not?
 

Have to sell cars or land or property in wife's name. Eventually should put back the 600,000 bt borrowed. Healthy at the moment.

Numbskull.

I must be out of touch, but looks to me like a couple wheel bearings in a useless configuration.. I assume it has some point though, or it is part of the younger generation on Thai Visa these days?
Anyway Lazada surely has them and will deliver them to your door, paid on delivery.
 

I regularly take 4 at a time. Any less does nothing.
Don't believe for a moment that paracetomols killed him.
Sounds like a heart problem.