scunner

Used it several times when work have ponied up the cost of a business class flight, it was very fast compared to the usual lines - the longest wait I had was a bloke got mixed up with which immigration hall he should be using, took 5 mins for he IO in broken English to tell the other gentleman, who also only spoke broken English, to inform him of the ins and outs of proper procedure.

18 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Live public hanging on tv in my opinion

No point in hanging a corpse, as he offed himself, only a pity he didn't attend to that part prior to murdering 4 other people.

On 5/25/2022 at 9:41 AM, Neeranam said:

English are like that, not the rest of the union.

Worst troll ever

Looks like the well heeled are hoping to drive more businesses into bankruptcy so they can scoop up their assets for satang on the baht.

They polled 171 people out of 33,059  arrivals, so to geta 95% CI and a 5% Margin of error on the data, you need a sample size of <googles> 371 - so these results are junk.

On 8/11/2021 at 3:43 PM, Mr Meeseeks said:

A great list mate and these are mostly over ten years old but honourable mentions must go to the Saudi crown jewels and blue diamond, corruption and murder at Kaset sugar mill, theft of tsunami relief funds, foetus graveyards at Bangkok temples, NGV buses for Bangkok, Salween logging, Raluek Leekpai embezzlement case, the blimp, Kamnan Poh the Godfather of Chonburi, Bangkok International Film Festival bribery, Thai Airways overtime scam, etc.

 

Good to pinch ourselves and remember where we are now and again.

Also the rice price support scheme

Given the way TAT works things out, no doubt we'll have 4 plane loads of tourists flown in, herded through immigration taken round the back and promptly put back on the planes, which will take off again and the whole process repeated.

Rinse and repeat until desired number of entries are achieved.

3 hours ago, Beachboy66 said:

Did anyone think of what happens if one. Of the tests (highly insecure) show positive results. Will they be forced to quaratine then? Where is that quarantine? Will they check all persons that have been in contact and quarantine them as well? Or do they think we are a big quarantine in Phuket, if so, why even bother to test people? If you are sick you stay home. If you need hospital you go there.

Sounds like a money spinner - oh sorry, but someone has tested positive, from your intake,  I am afraid you will all have to stay in this approved Hotel for another 14 days, please go to reception to pay for your stay, have a great day now.

An amusing read, just the right tone of wry commentary o the absurdities of it all

The cynical side of me says that the powers that be an the well off want this lock down / shut down to continue for as long as possible - all that lovely well placed property and assets in tourist areas going for satang on the baht right now.

In further news, the noodle vendor is to be charged with theft of police ammunition and causing injuries to an officers hand and foot.

7 hours ago, RickBradford said:

This topic calls out for a poll:

 

* More than 2 million

* More than one million

* More than 500,000

* A planeload of Chinese denied entry to Singapore.

* 2 Finns with a comfort dog

 

Closest to the target wins a trip on the submarine.

I'll go for 50 Chinese business men who are "Schrodinger's Cat" type "tourists" as they are simply names pulled out of a database at random

My inner cynic says that the Powers That Be don't really mind all those beach front hotels and other resort businesses going belly up, as they and their friends will be able to fill their boots with cheap land and property - satangs on the Baht - kerching

Will they reduce the newly increased visa prices?

And yes, that is a rhetorical question.

On 12/5/2020 at 8:02 AM, RichardColeman said:

'allowed to be confirmed'  or 'stated' should be added in that statement

Wonder what the death rate for "pneumonia" is this year...

Those two are a lost cause, time for a good beating with a rubber hose, to a similar extent that they hurt that poor kid.

3 minutes ago, Canuck1966 said:

Two officers from Thai SWAT team were killed after the clash with the shooter at 2.45 AM

 

Khaosod

Bloody hell

2 minutes ago, Nakmuay887 said:

Girlfriend is watching several Thai news sources online. 

 

The commandos yelled all clear after a minute long firefight and have now cleared out of the Mall with ambulance crews going in. 

 

So either they killed him or he killed himself before they got to him. Not sure which. 

If confirmed, then good riddance.

1 minute ago, tgw said:

did I miss something or is this just footage of empty escalators?

If you have the sound on, it sounds like someone was yelling at the shooter, and said shooter didn't like it much. Any Thai speakers care to translate for us?

17 minutes ago, Thian said:

Once i asked my friend (senior policeman) where i could buy an air rifle to kill snakes...he started calling around but i never got one.

There's the problem, should have just asked for a rifle, job done.

1 minute ago, tgw said:

 

 

taking out innocent shoppers will teach them !

 

Looks like he took care of the problem first, as it is reported he went to a house and killed two people there. then returned to his base and got more ammo and a new gun.

Bloody hell, this is just terrible news. Hopefully, he won't be able to carry on his murderous spree for much longer.

2 hours ago, KKr said:

2 hours ago, KKr said:

snip for brevity

 

But you aren't thinking like the people in charge - as in "where can I extract the most money out of the system"

On 11/29/2019 at 7:19 AM, Samui Bodoh said:

How to deal with this issue:

 

1. Add 100 Baht to each plane ticket.

 

OR

 

2. Make it difficult, bureaucratic, nonsensical, stupid and unintelligible in order to make every visitor angry.

 

Which do you think will be chosen?

 

 

Let's see, which one offers the most opportunity for graft and make work - I know, Ill take (1) and (2) please Bob