ChrisKC

I do not have you on IGNORE. My responses to you are based on this topic alone not your history No more excuses please!

How do I know you are boarded up before you just told me It's still contradictory, you said you were sitting outside enjoying some new-found bliss by what seems your perception of everybody having left YOUR area

I love quiet. And, I love to sit in my quiet compound and listen to…. The Rolling Stones.. As LOUD as I like. Glorious! Sounds a bit contradictory to me. How can listening to music as loud as you like be quiet? Maybe more accurate that you are disturbing other people's peace and quiet!

Now would be a good time to throw a bucket of water over the both of them!

Yes, I pass one of them on my bike ride two or three times a week, always there. It surprises me that if they are doing paperwork - what did they do and when to create that work?

Why pick on Songkran or any other busy holiday period? I live 2 kms from the Number 1 main road in all of Thailand - maybe not the busiest but... Within 10 kms on this road there are two once-working speed cameras, one on each side of the road There are also two police stations within 10 kms of each other. Neither speed camera has been in operation for 5 years It cannot be anything to do with the cost of fixing them or even installing new ones. Why? Because my experience with speeding vehicle tells me they would get their money back in two hours! I have never seen a patrol car doing anything - except attending accidents already happened! This whole situation repeated just about everywhere in Thailand. And only talk in all the 22 years I have been in Thailand. When will it all end - or should I say - BEGIN!

Need more cops on the roads instead of bums on seats At ALL times

For "pruning", read "Hacking" No secateurs, just machetes and chain saws To be fair, they look terrible at first but after a few months these trees seem to recover better than I would have thought!!

Yes, but should we impose it on others? Overweight people make their own choices One choice they have made is to be the Restaurant's customer! One Choice the restaurant Owner could have is to welcome their Customers and be grateful for them! In any event, how do the customers get out?

I have a way of benefiting from Agoda. I search for all the information about resorts, hotels, areas, reviews, etc on their site. Choose something I like and then get my Thai wife to call resort/hotel direct and negotiate a reduced price! Works well!!

It is difficult to understand the thinking behind not wearing a seat belt or wearing a crash helmet. In fact, when talking with those bereft of responsibility or a disregard for the law - in that order, I refer to SAFETY belts and SAFETY helmets. A few years ago I became partly responsible for two little girls 5 and 3 years old as their mother was in prison for drug offenses. My girlfriend didn't hitherto wear her safety belt until I insisted she did. The first time the children were in the car (I was the Passenger) the older child wanted to sit on my lap. I said that if she did she would need the safety belt on. It wasn't easy because it had to be round us both!! I said she will have to sit in the back and I will show her and the younger one how to put he belt on. No problems at all with this arrangement. Two days later, in the car again and the two children automatically got in the back and fastened their belts with no prompting. It really isn't that difficult with proper encouragement to introduce basic safety skills, even to young children. Hopefully, they then grow up to be responsible adults! I have no story after that as I left my girlfriend as she was a compulsive Gambler!

Unless it is a one way street, cars pass on both sides of the road in every country in the world. Pedestrians should therefore observe traffic from both directions!

Thank goodness this comment is in the minority - as I would guess from you!

Trump IS the cancer! There is no cure until the Justice Matters Dept gets its act together and shoves him into prison where he should have been years ago!

Let us all be charitable and accept that Don Giovanni, Elvis Presley, Colin, Robert Smith and Bob are here for our entertainment

My comment is a generalisation - not intending to be personal. In any event winning anything tonight can be lost again tomorrow. The "loser" element relates to the general level of gambling in which just about most people DO end up losing!

Any kind of gambling is for losers - actually!

I think this should be viewed as a positive post. This woman has found somewhere she loves, compared with her own country and obviously her experience, though limited, creates paradise-type feelings. Don't deny her these feelings - maybe it will prove to be long-lasting, maybe not. If she is able to live in Thailand legally and keep herself out of trouble, let her enjoy the life she has chosen - without the unnecessary accusations of being lazy!!

Yes, good to see a positive thread about the Thai people in general. I have been living in various parts of Thailand for 22 years and my position on Thai people, without comparing with anywhere else, is just about 100% positive. If I were to make an observation about the negative attitudes of many Farang, I would say that most complaints come from those who live in areas where there is a large population of resident foreigners and of course many tourists. This has the effect of local Thai people having their daily life culture compromised and more likely for conflict to occur and subsequent complaints arising. Most of the reporting of these conflicts originate from Pattaya, Phuket, to a lesser extent around Chiang Mai, and parts of Bangkok. For those of us who live in areas of Thailand where there are few tourists and foreign residents; we are more immersed in everyday Thai life so they and said foreign residents co-exist in an atmosphere of easier tolerance of our differences!

Hello Richard, I have said enough already on this topic. But I agree with everything YOU have said on the side of common decency and is NOT woke or Political correctness from whence I come!

Give up - no further unnecessary interchange has value No, don't block anyone

Maybe English isn't your first language - I forgive you No more tripe please!

You continue to deflect from my original comment that is about the message, not the shirts per se! Don't be deflector all your life Take a day off - or preferably 25 years!

You didn't understand or chose not to. My comments are NOT about shirts but the message on them You and Harris Man are ignoring it Don't bother me anymore My original comment remains valid.

If you actually read the OP properly and HarrisFan comments and my replies you MIGHT understand!