tomazbodner

I claimed the same, taxi drivers proved me wrong.

Then government should not be begging companies like True to pay 100s of millions of baht for the rights to broadcast and just not broadcast it in Thailand at all.

Why not just pay True for it? I see TrueVisions even displays phone number to call if you want to publicly share the stream...

You're right. Lived there for 15 years but just moved out of there close to 2 years back (all that shooting that happened years earlier and looked like it would happen again), so I forgot the other exit to Ideo Verve, although I took it sooooo many times when stopping at MaxValu... before it closed, like most stuff around there. Thanks for reminding me of the area ????

Just heard from my friend arriving that it was 700 baht one time, and 1200 baht the second time for taxi from Swampy. They didn't even want to hear about using a meter. That's the official taxi counter on ground floor. Before COVID going to about the same area I'd have about 200-250 baht on the meter, plus the 50 baht fee. 700/1200 baht seems like a rip off, to the point I'd rather recommend anyone arriving to take ARL to Ratchaprarop or Phyathai and taxi from there to save both time and money.

Your direction (south towards Lumpini station) the biggest crowd would be 8 am to about 9.30 am, and northbound after about 5 pm to about 8 pm. Going south you should be fine if you come anytime after 9.30 am, which would probably mean leaving Suvarnabhumi by ARL after 9 am.

Ratchaprarop is one way most of the time. So he should get off at Phyathai to go south, while Ratchaprarop is good going north. For taxi it's hard to make a right-turn so close to station. Great point. Asoke and Petchaburi MRT stations are a mess during rush hour, especially north bound.

It is probably 400-500m walk down from platform to road level by escalators, u-turn and down another level to MRT. There will be security check and your bag will probably beep. It should not be as bad as getting off Maglev in Shanghai where they take everything out of your bag for inspection, but they could ask you to open it. Then it's another set of escalators down to ticket office level and one more to trains. I'd say you could do it in 5-10 minutes walking.

True. Even land department officers call it "Chanote".

Maybe you can just buy their entire staff database with all their home phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, bank accounts, etc. I bet they'll send someone over.. if they ever notice... https://grahamcluley.com/ouch-ransomware-gang-says-it-wont-attack-airasia-again-due-to-the-chaotic-organisation-and-sloppy-security-of-hacked-companys-network/

What would you prefer? COVID-19 = CO for Corona, VI for Virus, D for Disease and 19 for year of reporting Or would you prefer SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) CoV-2 (Corona Virus - 2)? Or maybe you're upset about ATK... Antigen Test Kit? Or EMT? Emergency Medical Technicians? Can't see any other "all Upper Case letters" words in the above article nor linked one. Abbreviations are generally written in capital letters.

Gas modification done badly?

They just fined and scared a bunch of Bolt drivers at Central 1-2 days ago, so maybe competition is now gone, so they can charge anything.

Your assumption would be correct. If you declare it, it will be confiscated, if you don't declare it, and your bags get inspected, it will be confiscated and you may be fined as well.

No idea. But most of this kind of music is taken from royalty free music sites.

Maybe to put this in perspective. You have paid for the place to live in. But a squatter moves in, claiming his right to habitation. You want him out of your place, but other freeloaders start calling you greedy, start calling out your family connections, etc. and demand you let him and anyone else to stay at your place for free.

In the past, in Bangkok the smog started in February or so and lasted until May. Then it started to appear earlier, until this year, starting already in September. If this continues, it'll be like this all year round. Smog isn't harmless. It kills millions every year and costs a lot. UK estimated that the cost of air pollution is 9-19 billion pounds every year, and cost up to 5.3 billion pounds on healthcare alone. Note, air quality in UK is considerably better than in Thailand. https://laqm.defra.gov.uk/documents/air_quality_note_v7a-(3).pdf https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-tool-calculates-nhs-and-social-care-costs-of-air-pollution

SVB is Sambava airport in Madagascar. Suvarnabhumi airport code is BKK... That out of the way, see this warning: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thais-abroad-warned-not-to-buy-fresh-fruit-to-bring-home/ Thais travelling abroad have been warned not to bring fresh fruit back to Thailand, as they may face legal action. Agriculture Department Director-General Rapeephat Chantarasriwong said that a number of Thais travelling abroad, particularly to Japan and South Korea, have brought fresh fruit, such as grapes and persimmon, back to the country without certificates indicating that it is free from pests and plant diseases. He said that the plant quarantine checkpoints at the Suvarnabhumi airport have confiscated a lot of fresh fruit being brought back by Thai travellers, many of whom claimed they bought them according to advice offered by their guides. This is against the law, because the fresh fruit does not have appropriate certification, he said, adding that most of the travellers were not arrested or charged, but that their fruit was seized and destroyed. The penalties for illegally importing uncertified fruit are one year in prison and/or a fine of 20,000 baht, said the director-general.

It is actually quite funny how many people pick up a bone thrown at them ????

For the sake of those who have bought the units, I wish this gets resolved soon, but not without severe penalties to Ananda for ignoring laws and regulations that have been in place for 30 years. Guess only way that can happen though is if MRTA sells the land the road is built on to condo project. But can they even do that? Would that then mean that people entering the station and parking at the station are using land belonging to condo?

Now I see Toshiba is similar in design to WD. That's what a WD external drive would look like, as well.

Depends. English won't help much in Japan, Korea, Germany, China, Italy,... But you have a strong point. The flip side, of course, is that Brits, like most of those in line above, never bother to learn any other languages. So an English speaking Thai is at least bilingual, while English speaking Brit isn't even that.

Please demonstrate your Thai language skills.

I'd like to rank British on their Thai proficiency. Though just a thought... I read somewhere that over 750k Brits can't speak English... Lemme find it... Here: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/14/sajid-javid-770000-people-in-england-not-able-to-speak-english

And for me Phyathai 1 in Bangkok, if it gets to needing the surgery. Had it removed there in July by Dr. Wudhichai Kittipadakul (https://phyathai1international.com/dr-wudhichai-kittipadakul/) and he is awesome. Maybe someone you wish to talk to before making a decision on whether to cut it or not. In my case I didn't really have much of an option given severe infection after years of discomfort that was misdiagnosed previously. Yes, cost was around 300k from what I remember and I have left hospital with 4 patched holes, 3 days after the surgery. Follow up appointments to remove stitches, etc. were free of charge.