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Deputy chief of the Tourism Council of Thailand Wichit Prakopkosol seems to having another brain storm.

So another case of a bullet in the foot I think.

Just after TAT announce they "expect" 600,000 tourists to come to Phuket the RTP Mensa members arrest 121 people for having a drink with a meal in Pattaya.

Amazing indeed.

RTP Koh Tao: Where's the carpet sweeper?

Same BS different day.

So many spokespeople telling so many stories and all are untrue...

Amazing!

On 5/27/2021 at 12:32 PM, sirineou said:

I did not mean they made it to the end of covid line, I mean .making it  to where major vaccinated countries were vaccinated to the degree where some of their vaccine would become available to other countries, Increasing the supply , an decreasing price. All they needed was for their luck to hold on for a couple of more months than it did. 

 In a way it did, do you think they would had been able to negotiate the same price and numbers 6 months ago where the producing countries were desperate for every dose they had?  

Of course the money they were trying to save was not for the taxpayers...

On 5/26/2021 at 7:36 PM, fangless said:

Yes of course they did.  It was a plan to make a plan on how to start planning a plan.

Yeah, but they had to plan how for find someone to show them how to make a plan so like the Oozlum bird it disappeared....

At 66 and having chronic asthma all my life I would have thought I qualified under section 3, only to read further down and see I'm in section 8.

Despite this latest timetable coming from the PM I would bet we get another story emerge on Monday, and on form nothing will get done until the brown envelopes are safely secured whatever we are told.

This situation is what I imagine it is like sat on death row.

3 hours ago, Pilotman said:

My original Visa and my annual extensions are on a 'none immigrant basis' , None 'O', we are not all immigrants by a long way.

If you need a visa or entry stamp in your passport you are an immigrant. Only Thai citizens and a chosen few (like diplomats and heads of state) don't require a visa.

On 5/15/2021 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Once an official announcement is made to signal the opening of the walk-in vaccine program, foreigners, in principle, will be able to use the walk-in service, Mr Natapanu said. 

Same old B/S this time from a "deputy" spokesperson. I will believe when someone sticks a needle in my arm and I hope the bill is not outrageous...

1 minute ago, Brierley said:

On this occasion, residence will be proven by visiting immigration and obtaining a residence certificate, in order to get this you'll need to show your Thai drivers license, if you don't have a Thai drivers license you'll need to get a residence certificate fist in order to get one. Next, you'll need to take your residence certificate to your embassy and get it stamped and approved, your embassy may ask to see your Thai drivers license in order to verify your identity. After that you can take your embassy certified, Immigration certificate of residence to the hospital where you will be asked to prove your identity by showing your Thai drivers license. Prior to be given the vaccine being administered you'll need to show your pink ID card and your yellow book, along with your Thai drivers license. Is that clear?

Hilarious. If I was to try to do that I would be stopped for entering a red zone several times for a start. By the time I have been to all these offices if I didn't have covid before I would most likely get it in this process.

I hope we don't need all that to get it done at a private hospital, although the nearest one of them is 75kms from where I live.

Thanks for nothing.

As clear as mud once again. Will someone just let us know what will be considered as proof of residency? Do you need to have the residency certificate or is a retirement extension enough?

Left and right hands coordinated for once.

Here we go again some brainless official (K. Ratchakitprakarn) wants tourists to pay a "tax". If tourism is to recover in Thailand this is the last thing to encourage new visitors let alone returning tourists who already know about double pricing and scams.

6 pm is easy, it is the 12 o'clock midnight ones that join up with the everyday rules that really kills it.

Lots of countries don't sell booze on election days.

Isn't it time people that use social media got to grip with the fact it isn't a reflection of real life? It is not a source of factual news either.

Finding the truth in 2021 is not easy.

17 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

Indeed - better to be an equal and respected partner with 27 other countries than one forced to go cap in hand to its neighbour for permission to do the most fundamental of state activities, especially when the neighbour has a significant number of people who show such disrespect.

 

 

You seem to be a bit pre-occupied with the printing on the banknotes, but it won't be an issue for you; that said, we can always use BoE notes, which are the majority in cirulation.

 

 

This is the most ridiculous of all claims - can you actually point to how Scotland is being destroyed by Sturgeon? Give me examples; don't just parrot the daily express nonsense that your TVF cohorts are incapable of expanding upon. If she is destroying Scotland, why is she so popular? Are we masochists? Why do the SNP continue, after a decade in power, to walk all over the opposition if they are so bad?  Might it possibly be that you have no idea whatsoever about that which you type?

 

 

I know that economics is not readily taught in schools, but surely even a few moments thinking about this would help you see that what you wrote totally exposes your lack of knowledge about how countries finance themselves? The UK is in debt to the tune of 2.4 trillion pounds, rising by £5,000 a second. English taxpayers cannot even fund themselves, let alone anyone else. Drop your sense of benevolent superiority because you are not entitled to it - your country is a political and economic basket case, and my country benefits not one iota from being in a union with it. 

 

 

I have no idea what you are trying to say, but I appreciate your closing statement. 

 

Hey, you could take over from Billy Connolly. Farcical.

More nonsense, you accuse me of not knowing the facts when you seem to understand little/nothing about Westminster funding for Scotland or much else that resembles reality. Stop dreaming and stop listening to SNP lies.

That said I hope your dream comes true, I won't miss the Scots and I doubt many English will.

17 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

Scottish fish and shellfish exports to the EU are down 83% 

Whisky down 63%

Meat exports down 59%

Dairy down 50%

EU exports overall down 63%

 

All because another country demands that my country must follow their path of misguided xenophobic isolationism. 

As I said, get on with it and declare UDI and put up a border. Bye Bye and good riddance.

See what you get from your precious EU if, IF they let you join.

????

17 hours ago, stevenl said:

All doesn't matter, let the Scots have the right to decide for themselves what they want.

Well didn't the "once in a generation" vote count. Don't tell me the EU vote makes a difference, more people voted to Leave in Scotland than voted for the SNP.

21 hours ago, Rookiescot said:

 

Yeah right. There have been no problems at all because of Brexit.

Its just sunny uplands and unicorns all round.

What fishing industry will be left in five years?

The lies on the bus were clear for everyone to see. Pretending now that the words "Lets fund the NHS instead" didnt mean anything is pure deceit. 

The City is desperately trying to get a deal but the EU is going to take all that business.

Liz Truss is doing such a good job for the UK that Japanese car manufacturers are pulling out of the UK.

Did QAnon or the Daily Mail not report that?

Yes yes yes yes, lots of <deleted> nonsense. Facts you deny are staring you in the face.

On 3/28/2021 at 2:42 PM, Rookiescot said:

 

This from an ardent Brexiteer ????

As an English Leave voter I have to say that by now we can see who was telling the lies... Doom, gloom, food shortages and disaster they said.

The number on the bus were gross not net, which was a silly mistake and the press/media said it would all go to the NHS nobody else. Fishing has been fudged but should sort out over the 5 year transition. The City can turn there noses up at EU loans so they will have to settle soon. Liz Truss is doing a great job, or didn't the BBC/Guardian report that?.

On 3/28/2021 at 6:48 AM, RuamRudy said:

Is it? I hope not - it is much quicker to type than 'misguided xenophobic isolationist'. 

And what does wanting to leave the UK to try to join the EU make you exactly? A Globalist, with British money in his account printed by Scottish Banks that exchanges for less than a US dollar in Asia.

A dreamer is about the politest way I can put it. Face reality, Scotland is being destroyed by Sturgeon, and things will only get worse without hand outs from the Westminster government, funded by English taxpayers. You have maybe got a case of amnesia on our previous exchanges, or possibly something worse that prevents sentinent  (Adjective 1. Capable of perceiving by the senses; conscious) reasoning by now.

I hope you get your wish.

Rejoice, it is 6pm not midnight as normal (so it meets up with the stupid everyday laws so you get a longer ban).

Fridge is full anyway and Mom & Pop next door take cash with no till receipt if I run short.

On 3/25/2021 at 8:56 AM, RuamRudy said:

 

- UDI would be illegal in the eyes of the world and would cause problems long term. I know nobody who sees this as a desirable option while we still have a democratic process to follow. 

- Scotland already has a currency and will develop its own to relinquish the need to rely on a pre-independence legacy, especially one with such a troubling future ahead of it.

- Trade agreements are the easiest thing in the world to negotiate and we will hold all the cards ((TM) Brexiteers).

- Passports are not uniquely British in concept, design or manufacture. In fact, I understand that the UK cannot even manufacture their own so government has had to go to a better organised European country to do it for them.

- Debt will be negotiated (assuming that we don't go down the UDI route) and will be reasonable and transparent. But the debt will be to the holders of the bonds, not to rUK, which already has eye-watering levels of debt itself (albeit to the same people). bkkcanuck8 has posted some very good write-ups of debt management and future trade opportunities. 

Without UDI how does Sturgeon propose to get a referendum to legitimise it, if she is reelected?

So the Groat will be the Scottish currency I guess as they have no claim on Stirling if they leave the UK without agreement. I guess you think the "Scottish" pound will be seen as legal, but try getting anyone to take a Scottish note now outside of Scotland.

What makes you think the Westminster would let the Scots out without paying their bill? You can't "do a runner" on this one.

We have crossed swords before on this subject and the truth is: Scotland can't afford to leave the UK, will not get a legitimate referendum for 20 years or more and will be ignored by the EU since all it has to offer is its fishing grounds. The EU want The Ukraine to join  not a pumped out gas country with a few million Euros worth of herring and a LOT of bad debt..

I do wish the SNP would stop this pie in the sky ideal and start to try and make a success of Scotland not ruin it as they have been doing.

Oh, and the Passports were subject to EU "fair competition" laws when they were ordered, I guess thanks to some Civil Servant <deleted>*. It was Poland that got the job, but it could have been done in the UK.

(*PS. Is "Berxiteer" a forbidden word too?)

8 hours ago, lordblackader said:

This isn't rocket science - Chiang Mai has far higher excise returns because CM is bigger. The population of the whole of Lamphun Province is under half of that of just the Chiang Mai metro area. 

I do think they have taken the number of people into account in calculating these figures, as poor as their maths normally is.

I suggest you don't apply for a job at NASA any time soon.

7 hours ago, KannikaP said:

What a misleading statement. It doesn't say any age range and Bht 21093 divided by 142 = Bht 148 per bottle of whatever size they want. 

Yes that's right, so it means everybody drinks large bottles of imported beer. I don't think so...

Posted by Rooster from Chiang Mai News it must be a local report. In my experience that means it is badly researched and the reporter is hopeless at maths.