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7 hours ago, webfact said:

Photo Credit: Watchara Motor and Marine Sport Solution Centre

I doubt many of your Chinese paymasters can read English. Consider writing this '打開' (assuming Google Translate is correct). It's a little more complicated than 'O-P-E-N', so try not to have an accident while doing it yeah.

7 hours ago, mr mr said:

 i should open a brake repair shop here. the business would be non stop. 

On the contrary, I'd wager. Nobody here cares for their brakes, so nobody will send anything to be repaired, until it is too late, else there won't be so many cases of 'brake failure' ????

Why do Thai officials keep harping about the somewhat non-existent 'returning foreign visitors and tourists'? If one wanted a real holiday, I doubt a 14-day quarantine plus having one's whereabouts electronically monitored and logged thereafter sounds like a good agenda. Even if someone had that kind of time and money to spend, I doubt Thailand would be the first destination of choice. The kinds of hoops, loops and conditions visitors are subjected to, make falling down a flight of stairs sound like a more enjoyable adventure.

Alternatively, why don't the authorities do more to spur and stimulate local tourism? It's not like the Thais can go anywhere now anyway, so why not encourage them to travel domestically and keep the local economy going? Even if transactions from domestic tourism don't match pre-CVD19 levels when the country was open to all and sundry, it is still better than nothing!

Most deaths from floods during the monsoon season involved large bodies of water.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The prime minister will visit Phuket on Monday...

Not sure a visit by the enlightened one is going to bring even a sliver of relieve to Phuket's woes, if at all any. Probably just going to end up with lots of picture opportunities, forces smiles for cameras, some idiot blithering about how 2021 will become a record year, and that's that.

Why general sir, the heat is too much in BKK and the good general needs to cool it down a bit eh, hence Phuket?

Nothing has changed then. Come to Thailand, leave your money, go away. Just another day in the Land of Scams.

Nooooooooo!!! That is impossible! Thailand's finest being cheated? No way! Surely the Land of Scams will never scam their own?

But, if that is true, then I would like to ask these brown clowns how they felt to have the boot they use to put up people's derrière, go up their own? Not so nice right? Now play nice and say 'hi' to Karma.

Mockery aside, THB60 per hour for overtime is unbelievably low, by any standards, especially considering it is a job in which responsibilities are heavy and lives are potentially at stake (if done properly by proper police personnel). No wonder these guys are on the take all the time.

A welcome move, this one. IMPACT Muang Thong Thani is a great venue for large-scale exhibitions and events, but very bad traffic (both ways) makes access by road downright horrible. Won't open in time for this year's Motor Expo though, I guess. Hopefully this will be the last motor show for which I have to leave BKK at pre-dawn for a traffic-free drive to (and parking at) the venue.

5 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I see a web of tangle lies will be unfolding soon especially with this little nugget.  

 

"China will continue to suspend outbound group tours and ban travel agencies from allowing inbound tours due to the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases this winter, authorities said.  The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism made the announcement in a notice published on its website on Wednesday"

 

Can someone help the Thai Government understand that other countries are still not cooperating as they say they are.  Can someone explain to me who these 39 Chinese tourists really are? or, are they just really a new set of possible new diplomatic staff that have come to conduct an annual change at the end of the year in the Chinese embassy.  However, before stepping into place they get a free vacation first, just a few thoughts off the top of my head..

To be fair, the Reuters piece did say "China will continue to suspend outbound group tours... " so these could be 'individual' tourists, if they are in fact tourists to begin with. Perhaps there really are people in this world who think going on tour without interacting with anything local, including its people and travelling only on predestined routes and destinations AFTER spending 14 days in quarantine in a foreign country, is an ideal vacation LOL

19 hours ago, YetAnother said:

Anutin,plays the role of the fool perfectly

Looks perfect for the part too. Literally.

What's with Thai men and their pent-up anger, the latter turning into unbridled, excessive and murderous rage at the slightest hint of a provocation? Even if this story goes back to earlier and beyond the mere scratching of a prized pickup truck, it still does not warrant murder at the end-stage!

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Warning signs and flashing lights have been installed at the railway crossing where a freight train plowed into a bus on Sunday killing 18.

Thai drivers in general don't bother obeying road signs and lights on busy city roads and intersections. What makes them think they will heed flashing lights and signs on a rural back-road?

5 hours ago, darksidedog said:

It's those certain measures which are the issue. They have no idea what measures to use, as is evident from the daily flip flop on the proposals to date. The whole thing is just a comedy show.

Especially if it's coming from 'Anutin the Racist'.

I welcome this idea, since I work remotely quite often, even pre-CVD19. However, this is Thailand, so I guess such an idea will remain as yet another pipe dream.

On 10/13/2020 at 11:38 AM, webfact said:

*They will have to stick to routes where other Thai people do not go. They must not veer off course at all.

 

*They will have to be followed around 24/7 by Covid minders to ensure they don't stray and are healthy

*Go where there are no Thais - what about restaurants, shops etc. run by Thais? Replace them with foreign workers or bar foreigners from entering these shops?

*Covid-minders - new job opportunities for the unemployed and ex-go-go bargirls.

Thai authorities - you think they are stupid. Then they open their mouths, and remove all doubts.

22 hours ago, webfact said:

Torphong said that the 8th October non-arrival debacle showed the hopelessness in the lack of coordination...

Fact is, and as far as the Thai authorities are concerned, the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. Heck, they don't even know how many fingers they have between them!

Correction: They don't even know what fingers are, or what they look like.