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49 minutes ago, clivebaxter said:

Thousands of Thais are working in S Korea, 4 of our family. They try and stay for 5 years until their passports run out. They can earn about 4x what they can here.

What type of work are they doing ? Wife of a guy that’s friends with my wife went there a year ago and says she works in a bar and makes around 50,000 bht a month.

4 hours ago, CrossBones said:

And for foreigners? In danger of being sent to the most important hospital, given treatment you dont need, and charged a million baht in the process?

 

I ask because i think you legally have to go to hospital once tested positive

In samui the private hospitals are sending people that test positive to the one government one on the island. Seemingly this is because they can’t make much money giving their private rooms to a Covid patient as they could with a person requiring medical care for sickness or bike injuries etc.

1 hour ago, DavisH said:

If they had problems breathing they would have ended up on a  ventilator in hospital. Noone gets that sick and just stays home and dies.

2 of 4 I know off were perfectly healthy going about daily life and few days later just died . One 50 yr old woman who just felt sick and was dead two days later and a 60 year old who said he had headache and also died about two days later . I have been in the area almost three months and for a rural place with hardly any people they are dropping like flies .

Possibly as they don’t really check . Wife’s father died and they put it down to cancer he had before . Several others in area up north died in same area and none were checked why they died . They mostly had health issues before so that was assumed as cause and off to temple they went . 

I have a vaio that’s about 8 year old but cost about 40,000 new . I hadn’t used it for years and thought would get it cleaned up and new windows on it etc . Guy at shop cleaned it all up but said the ram was too low to install win 10 so I would need buy more . Cost was around 2800bht installed . The old battery was done but a new one on lazada was around 1200bht . 
So I haven’t done anything to it since as I can get a decent asus for 9-10000 that’s far more up to date with decent specs for my needs so will probably end up just buying new . I use desktop mostly though .

They aren’t urging , they are telling !

They have imposed a fine up to 20000bht if you don’t wear one when leaving home .

24 minutes ago, pedro01 said:

 

I like the GLE too - that's where we started out but then - there's rarely more than 2 of us in a car. My Son does his own thing now as he's 18, so having a big car like that will be handy on a drive to Samui or Isaan but that's 1-2 times a year. Even then, it's just so much easier to fly and rent and rentals even out in the Boonies are getting better - so I just don't see us using that much of a car. 

 

Looking @ the Evoque - I started to feel tired at the thought of parking that beastie every trip out - and there's a stretch round the corner from the house which is a real bottleneck 3 evenings a week when it's market day  - all adds up to me thinking there's no point right now in such a big car.

Was the gle coupe I meant , although both versions are good cars .

I think the coupe is similar to a x4 but far better looking .

Also the new x3 is meant to be a great car but haven’t seen one yet close up . 
Friend had an evoque and got rid of it after 2 months as said it just felt far too small inside .

I would spend a little more and get a merc cls , but if not a merc gle or a Volvo. 

I will take my chances with Covid in the pub thanks !! ????????

Find it hard to believe !

6 hours ago, johng said:

There is no need to show them an "IDP"  if you have a licence that shows your photo and is written in English   after all the IDP is just a translation in to several languages  but not of which are the Thai languge.

But you still need do the colour test etc or not though ? 

On 4/10/2021 at 12:48 PM, petermik said:

Firstly you will have to make an appointment at the DLT...renewing my Thai licenses and a three month wait for an appointment at Pattaya (Banglamung) DLT.....I came over here with a IDP from the UK which made the conversion simple...not sure about just a UK licence.

Did you give them the idp and your uk license ?

I had a Thai license but it expired a few year ago and when I went to renew it I failed the colour-blind test so no license. Said try again tomorrow ????

I now have a idp from the uk and was not sure if I submitted it with my license would they give me a license or will I still need to do the colour test etc ?

And how did this suddenly appear when everything was under control and you seemingly can’t get into the country without quarantine ? 
Unless ????????????

And are the owners or managers of these places going to jail like the two managers in Bkk ?

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Yep.

And this is the thing that will put your average person off going to get tested , so if they have caught Covid and even have very light symptoms then they can still be walking around spreading it . All because they were afraid of hospital charges if tested positive and quarantined . 

Ooh la la !! Tres <deleted> ! ????

So if you present yourself and test positive ? Are they going to quarantine you in a hospital for 10 days or more and hit you with a massive bill afterwards ?

Oppo A9 2020 

<deleted> !! Obviously drink driving is at the bottom of concerns there . Wonder how the several people killed by foreigners on samui who were drunk feel about that . Oh wait they can’t as they are dead !! 

Mostly play pc games all time nowadays but if I was to get a console it would be Xbox as had them since they came out .

Look up nadzproject.com in Bkk if interested in buying PlayStation or Xbox . They had something a few weeks ago and can’t remember if it was to buy PlayStation or register to get one . 

12 hours ago, webfact said:

Sophon said that the tragedy was a result of "naughtiness".

No the tragedy was the result of an idiot leaving a loaded gun around !