Dogmatix

2 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

 

I went on a business trip to India as a young impressionable chap out from London in the 80s.  Stayed at the Taj Mahal in Bombay and went out for a walk near the Gate of India.  After nightfall it was a a complete horror show - people sleeping all over the streets and peeing and pooping wherever they could.  And that was near a 5-stay hotel in the city. Imagine what it was like and still is in the rural areas.

1 minute ago, Purdey said:

Yes, I have the diabetes and an enlarged prostate. Malls, PTT, coffee shops. Keep the eyes peeled. The car has am empty water bottle for emergencies.

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If they pee in their hotel, it will end up untreated n the sea anyway but will just take a bit longer.  So why the fuss.

I remember as a boy in Edinburgh that bus drivers and conductors would jump up of the bus at a bus stop near a telephone kiosk and relieve themselves in the telephone kiosk.  I suppose better than doing it on the drivers seat.

48 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

The Shin family has been the best at governing Thailand but my personal favorite was Abhisit.

The Shin family has always put personal advantages and enrichment to the fore when governing Thailand but Thaksin implemented a handful of worthwhile policies, such as universal healthcare from the amongst the ideas offered by his advisors.  Now the decent advisors have fled and his policy cupboard is bare leaving only free handouts, casinos and a disadvantageous oil and gas deal with his buddy Hun Sen.  Whoever get the casinos and the oil and gas done can potentially make a pile of cash on the side but nothing there for the hai people. 

On 1/11/2025 at 11:28 AM, maddox41 said:

Good old Thai hisos going  for as much as  they can problem is they are dreaming no way they get anywhere near that typical l Thai greed at it  best hence why the country is in free fail 

In Thailand ordinary people would probably be awarded 80,000 baht which would never be paid. In England they are ordinary people too.

I don't think they have made vaping illegal in Thailand yet- just the importation of the equipment. That seems to be why it is on sale so widely.  The sellers are not the importers and just pay off the police.   Thais are not arrested for vaping.  It is just a shake down for foreign tourists.

Russians?

Thai police pathologists are likely to hand over the body with all internal organs removed and dumped somewhere to prevent a proper autopsy overseas.  This has happened before when families went to some expense to repatriate bodies.

Thai and British police are only responsible for custody in police cells.  Thai police cells are usually just one open cell for men and women together with a concrete floor to sit and sleep on and a bucket in the corner to pee and poop in. Rapes of vulnerable prisoners such as illegal aliens are a common occurrence in Thai police cells with Thai police senior sergeant majors, which seems to be nearly all of them, exercising a medieval droit de seigneur (right of the feudal lord or slave owner) over the helpless captives.

British police are probably jealous of the Thai interrogation methods with black plastic bags over the head and a boy in Kalasin who was castrated by police colonels trying to get a confession of motor bike theft.  They then hung his body from a tree in a neighboring province to make it look like suicide but his aunt was skeptical about how he lost his balls and why he travelled so far from home to commit suicide. Of course none of the police colonels ever faced appropriate punishment.

As we all know, this is all for show.  Thai police and their government have no intention of doing anything about this stuff. 

How illegal is this in Thailand?  Having a Thai gf and acceding to her requests for money for financial support is certainly legal. Faking cancer and death may be over the line, as it demanding money on false pretenses. So could be fraud.  But would a Thai court convict for it? What evidence can he present?  Is there anything in writing or was it done via unrecorded phone calls?  She can just say he was welly lich and loved her.  So he sent money money she never even asked for out of love. Then he fell out of love because he found someone else and regretted all the love gifts he sent.  

Anyway the guy needs to ask himself why he was sending so much money to a prostitute, rather than paying the market rate per session.

All blank guns modified to fire live rounds bought online and a home made air gun according to Thai media.

Another common scam is a bilingual message purportedly from Thai postal customs saying a package has arrived for you from overseas with some tax to pay. Since Thais now order tons of consumer items from China there is always gonna be a certain percentage of SMS recipients waiting for something coming from China. If they fall for it, the scammers will try to get their bank account details and suck it dry. Another version of the scam involves a phone call to your number with a recorded message in Thai from a “customs official” with a pleasant, polite female voice telling you to click on a click being sent to you by SMS. 

Thai postal customs repeatedly posts notices advising the public that they don’t send SMSs. They send all notifications about tax on incoming parcels by mail. God knows how much this scam has netted so far. 
 

Since scanners now seem able to use Thai mobile numbers, it is a pretty safe bet that mobile phone company staff are involved in the scams in addition to police and other government officials.

I had been transferring money from overseas to make various property investments for about 10 years.  That investment project was terminated the day the initial announcement was made. The last investment was made in June 2023.
 

Used to use my Thai credit cards for everything. This year I set up a new debit card arrangement with  a foreign bank that allows me to maintain balances in major currencies and the debit card automatically debits the  currency of the payment. So I can pay directly in USD, EUR, GBP, HKD, SGD, AUD etc without incurring hefty credit card forex charges. I haven’t used the card for Thai purchases but have used it for overseas tickets and travel and all my online shopping from Amazon, AliExpress, Temu etc. 

The missus has paid our son’s school fees and her life and health insurance premiums from gifts remitted to her from overseas. 
 

With these adjustments my local investment income has been enough to survive for the past year. I sold an overseas property, I had been putting off selling, and am putting the proceeds into a bank account in the name of an offshore company. This is to protect from the possibility of a Thailand introducing global tax in 2026. Income in a company name would only be taxable, if the company paid it to me as a dividend. This is what Thaksin and other wealthy Thais woukd do to avoid global tax on their offshore income.

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20 hours ago, Aussie999 said:

Big mistake Thailand,  you are heading diwn the same path as the west, with delinquent kids running wild, being agressive/abusive/undisciplined/uncontrollable with no set boundaries, this law has the possibility of changing your society.... the only good thing, like most laws, Thais will ignore it.

Teachers unions in the UK came up with similar arguments in the 70s and 80s trying to resist the abolition of corporal punishment in schools.  My experience of corporal punishment at school was that it was at best dished out in a totally arbitrary and unfair manner and, at worst (and this was sadly only too common) was administered purely for the perverse sexual pleasure of teachers and prefects doing the beatings. Floggings at home and at school did nothing to encourage better behaviour but instilled a deep hatred and resentment for the beaters and a disrespect for authority which proved itself irresponsible.

"By converting USD into Thai Baht, these investigations involve substantial considerations, both financially and politically, as the NACC seeks to address the impunity that allegations like Thaksin's can represent."

I wonder what this para was supposed to mean.  Seems like a non-sequitur produced by the AI scrambler. 

Nonsense article that made it to the front page of the Post.

A rambling, uninformative article that only says what is not being changed in this bill but says notice about how it will change alcohol laws.