Kasset Tak

This government is banning weed again, impose harder rules on alcohol... but then they want to build casinos?! I guess there's been big brown envelopes going to the Shinawatras...

If Thailand will be for high end tourists... then Thailand needs to be redeveloped too. Can't just offer high end hotels restaurants and attractions in 2-3 cities. And the things that you can see/visit already today needs to be renovated and adjusted! I have been to the same museum twice in 15 years... and what was broken 15 years ago is was still broken last year. And we are talking about a museum at one of the top 20 tourist attractions in Thailand!

Any modifications makes the motorcycle illegal unless you have a doctors note. That includes making it a trike, add a sidecar and everything else, so unless you live in a rural area it might be a hassle... Personally I live rurally and have an old trike that is a home made conversation... I don't drive fast, it has working breaks and lights, and it's not noisy, so the police still let's me go without a hassle. However, I was thinking about buying an ATV instead... and the same police office who let me drive my totally illegal motorcycle told me that if I get an ATV, then he would have to fine me... because even though my motorcycle is 1,000% illegal, it is still considered a motorcycle. And again, if you get a doctors certificate, then you are supposed to be able to register an ATV for road use too. Or you can get it classified as farm equipment and drive it the same way as they do with the home made trucks and other unregistered "farm equipment"...

There's a reason why you need a drivers licence to drive a motorcycle. And even then, many people who got their licence still seen to not have a clue about how to drive.

This is despicable, but not surprising. Remember that sure Bangkok, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and other places are comparable to our home counties, but much of rural Thailand is still a developing country. And then also Bangkok, sure the glamorous downtown with everything... but around the corner is the slum of all the people drawn/forced there. I went to a cheap "hotel" and there were between 5 and 10 people living in one room, and I was told that people were being robbed at gun or knife point almost every day in the area... and that's just 6 BTS stations from Siam!

Yeah... people invested as the government legalised cannabis, and now the next government decided to criminalise it again... and instead they are legalising gambling and take away the alcohol restrictions... Basically it's all about the brown envelopes for this government... Because face it, there are way more alcohol and/or tobacco related deaths, and way more families destroyed because of gambling than because of cannabis. And if they were really thinking about people's healt, well-being and the cost for society, then they should go after the most addictive, devastating, and harmful thing that today is legal and still destroy more lives than alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis combined... refined sugar!

People complaining about the school uniforms?! Many students wear the same clothes for 3 years, and in many cases those are hand me downs. Same when someone here was complaining about 300 Baht shoes... sure that is what some people make in a day... but how much do you spend on your own shoes?! Just think about what quality you would get if you bought 100 Baht shoes?! This week the school started here, and on Wednesday I saw 4 students walking barefoot and stup me, I asked them why... in 3 out of the 4 cases they answered that their new shoes had broken.

Not enough public toilets, lack of trash bins, and so on are common problems all over Thailand.

Well, she should really blame her brother as she was just his puppet...

That ain't happening as the uneducated crowds believe that, this the 3rd round of this family in charge will be better... They don't see that sure, as farmers they got a little bit more money from their schemes... but prices on (buying/renting) land, seeds and agro chemicals went up so much that in the end they had less money left in their hands... and instead supporting the all mighty company that in some provinces control 95% of the food market... Same, about 90% of my Thai friends think that legalising cannabis was great, and they don't support the move to build casinos in Thailand... but somehow they still support this governmet?! I think it all comes down to the pieces of "purple and brown paper" they were handed for attending political rallies before the election...

Yes, and do it the Trump way... deport her to a neighbouring country... like Palestine, Syria or Yemen...

Remember that Musk is a white South African...

I didn't have any tattoos until I came to Thailand and my Thai friends asked me if I didn't want to go together with them and get sak yants. But on the other hand, back home all of my family have tattoos, and all are honest working people, and not degenerates like those working in finance, lawyers or a plushy offices, just stealing hard working people's money. Because frankly, who is worst for the world?! A person who is working hard for their living and doing some drinking, gambling or whatever, or someone like the CEO of Blackrock with billions to his name, closing down companies and factories, not because they are making a loss, but because they aren't making ENOUGH profit... I worked for one company that was closed down by the owners because we "only" made a yearly 15% ROI.

When I moved here 9 years ago the city had 2 7-11, now there are 9 and 1 more coming. At the same time there were 12 coffee shops, now there are over 40. For restaurants I'm not sure, but there were 3 moo krata, now there are 10, and for westerner food there were 1 steakhouse and 1 pizza place... now there are 5 places identifying as steakhouse and 8 places selling pizza (2 selling Italian style pizza). Might it just be that there are TOO MANY RESTAURANTS?!

I have had similar problems, especially when people use 3rd party companies in Bangkok to send by Thailand post. I get a tracking number, that is then not in the EMS system, and sometimes it takes days before it's finally registered in the online system, and few times the package have been delivered with another EMS tracking number on it. And to/from abroad (home)... I had a package sitting at the airport back home for 5 weeks according to the EMS, then it was finally sent to Thailand, and arrived at my house less than 24 hours after arriving in Bangkok... and I live 400 km from Bangkok.