Songlaw

He was clearly a sweetheart of a guy in many respects. I didn’t know about the particulars of his treatment of Muslims. But if he were to look at global standards for their treatment, especially in China, he might have been convinced it was all in good fun.

Why don’t you ask him? I’d certainly like to see how he’d answer. Conversely, you could ask how many he supposedly saved? Either way, I would expect a convoluted answer.

In the most archaic, draconian, and unnecessary manner possible, he took the idiocy of the Americans’ so-called war on drugs and pumped it full of steroids - before turning it against his own brethren. Countless individuals suffered, and families went decades without mercy or any hope for their loved ones ever coming home - over marijuana no less, more often than amphetamines. They didn’t randomly P-test for yaba before extracting every last baht from tourists/foreigners either. A bit of suffering would seem fitting for a remorseless individual who, given the opportunity, would probably reinstate the same measures immediately. Small-minded vindictiveness and extreme cruelty are the only aspects of his reign that actually move the needle for me. Totally overshadowing what were, for the time, some seemingly progressive and societally beneficial measures undertaken by his administration, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Same here, my friend.

If Thailand is willing to suffer you “Hunter Biden” types - which some of us traveled to the literal ends of the earth to escape - I doubt that general Halfwit has much to worry about. Neither has boded particularly well for the Kingdom, in any event. Thanks for the memories.

So, you claim to know of a 24-hour Villa that makes alcohol available both day and night? Let’s just say l’m skeptical concerning every aspect of your claim. It’s right up there with the dude claiming he’s not been refused a liquor sale in twelve years - though if all he drinks is Leo at the local pad krapao shop, that would at least be plausible.????

Do you even know what planet you’re on?

I expected the hand-wringers, but for this site, that was fast. You may have even set a new record. Fifteen years and three separate banking apps later, l think l will stand by what I have personally observed. All banks attempt to save the stupid from themselves. As usual, this site often demonstrates the futility of that endeavor. Best of luck to you.

There’s no doubt that Thailand has one of the more convenient and secure banking-app systems in the world. There is no way l would exchange it for any other. Glitches, commonly referenced as Murphy’s Law, are universal and always in full effect, lest we forget. I trust that Bangkok Bank will eventually find the 1000 baht l transferred to my son on Saturday. So much so, that I haven’t even contacted them about it yet. FYI, initial reports attributed the snafu to a KBank switching system, which as a component in a larger network, affected many of the major banks. Cheers.

I agree, if your hope is for a better existence for the Thai. They are continuing to suffer in ways that are immeasurable and would be intolerable for most foreigners. When their lot has been improved, perhaps then our hemming and hawing will not seem quite so absurd. We had a choice as to our whereabouts; it’s quite another matter for those who have had none.