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5 hours ago, dominique355 said:

What happened to the 6 + 4 + 6 +4 rule the General has promised the Thai people?

Not a total untruth! 

6464 is the year the next election (may) be held.

You might not be here. 

A Chinese built high-speed train would be able to zoom through that puddle effortlessly.

The problem with having an election is that the topic of democracy might come up and that is the last thing El General wants.

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That Donny Osmond song is back in my head again - 'until the 12th of never' Would the junta lovers like to sing along?

So what the Government is saying is; this year’s road safety campaign has been a huge success.

A quote from the old Prisoner TV series:

"I am not a number"

Man of the Year, but President for Life. 

Why not just issue another ultimatum?

Apparently, artificially fixing the market price is only illegal when it involves rice.

Another day, another positive economic growth announcement from the government. Quelle surprise!

On a serious note, can anybody suggest a good independent source of information about the Thai economy?

These five hackers will probably turn out to be five poor Burmese fisherman, who when confronted by the police, immediately confessed.

I seem to remember that last year when government websites were attacked by the Anonymous group the Thai police said they would track them down and arrest them all.

I can only assume they did and that is why they feel so confident about their website security.?

On 12/20/2016 at 9:41 PM, amjamj said:

 

 

What kind of guy shows Merc to his GF and let her drive an Isuzu ???

 

 

 

 

She is a real farm girl and loves her Isuzu pickup and definitely did not want a Merc.

She said rude things (in Thai) about Merc drivers.

My cat thinks it was suicide

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(RIP to the poor man)

It can be very convenient to have your own motorbike; I wanted something bigger than a Honda Wave 110 bike for only a six month stay in LOS a few years ago and the motorbike dealer (not a main dealer) suggested to pay monthly on installments, as if buying it over 3 years and when I had finished with it, just return it.

I ended up with an almost new Honda CBR 150 and the dealer was very happy to accept it back and cancel the contract when I left the country.

But if you do buy a used bike (avoid all Chinese bikes), it is cheap to maintain them. My 2 daughters both have an old Honda Wave each, that goes to school every day, (additionally loaded with school friends), which they do not look after in anyway and the occasionally problem is not expensive to fix.   

Thai people are unaware that second hand cars are so very much cheaper in Europe and USA. I showed my Thai GF some second hand Mercs on Autotrader (UK), after seeing some for sale locally, and used a calculator to show the price in Thai baht and she thought I was kidding her!

On the plus side, some new cars, especially if manufactured locally can be cheaper compared to Europe; the finance can be cheap also, I cannot believe my GF drove off with a brand new Isuzu pickup for a tiny  B250 deposit!

Unless it is something special I would avoid used cars.

I think that any protesters are going to receive a  strongly worded email.

This does sound like a scam that did not have a successful outcome for the scammers.

I agree with others, I would have been expecting some note switching or just a distraction while the little girl is stealing your cell phone from your back pocket.

A trick that saved me once in the past is to carry a second wallet, with the second containing very little money and some old expired bank cards etc.

OMG.

This is the sort of thing that happens everyday in Manila; and the police do not even bother to investigate.

At least in the LOS the police will conduct a robust investigation. (Another suicide perhaps?)

But I do feel very sorry for the unluckily bystander and hope she makes a quick recovery.

So let me summarise for those who are skim reading this post:-

Tourism is booming at record levels.

Chinese are not zero dollar tourist, uneducated journalist mis-read government communique which read lots of zeros in amount the Chinese tourists bring.

Economy is booming.

Thailand does not want 6% more tourists; it just wants Thai people to make tourist 6% happier, so they can be like all the Thai people.

Have I missed anything?

Sideways promotion on the cards for these very naughty policemen.

I was in the UK in the run up to the Brexit vote and most politicians were saying if the people voted to leave it would all be 'doom and gloom'. So the Brits ignored the politicians; voted to leave the Brussels madhouse and guess what happened? Nothing, well Pound Sterling dropped a bit which is now boosting exports. But Europe and other countries know that trade to the UK has to remain the same, for everybody sake.

So blaming Brexit is not the real reason for the drop in Thai economic growth;  perhaps it for other reasons closer to the junta? Perhaps the Thai people are not really happy? 

It is a good idea to disconnect the battery but as others have pointed out, you may need to re-enter the radio code, so double-check you have it. Some expensive cars the radio is 'married, to the engine management computer, so no problems.

Many good suggestions already posted; so let me concentrate on what to do when you finally get back. Recharge the batteries off the car or bike to see if they are still good. Fuel does degrade with age  and my mechanic friend suggested if you left the fuel tanks full to stop condensation in the tank, remove have of it and dilute fuel with fresh fuel; the old fuel add back over time so has not to waste it.

And most importantly change the oil and filters.

57 minutes ago, NextStationBangkok said:

Sad that she must have lost at least 2 days income. British government should take responsibility to replace her fake money. I know many of these travel agents gets only 100-150 baht per ticket sold.

 

These kind of petty scammers should be punished at the Airport while returning.

I was recently talking to a man who works for the US Treasury and is involved in tracking down fake currency and he said that Thailand is one of the biggest producer of fake US and UK currency.

This election in 2017; can we have the result now please.

A bad day for Thailand; the new constitution does not solve the political problems, it just exacerbates it.

And sadly, I feel this will all end in tears!