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On 6/5/2025 at 8:14 AM, spidermike007 said:

There are at least a dozen good reasons why the vast majority of wealthy people would have no interest in retiring in Thailand. The vast majority of us who do choose to retire here choose to do so at least partly because it's affordable. If I had a significant degree of wealth I might be spending a month or two of the year in Thailand, but I would be elsewhere for most of the year. 

 

Unfortunately the nitwits that are running the country are so self-absorbed, so arrogant, and so mindlessly ignorant, that they just don't get any of that  and these are the same fools who have never bothered to address any of the problems that have been plaguing tourism or he nation for decades now. 

Well said.

On 6/3/2025 at 10:58 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Oh don't be a reverse racist 

These young boys probably behaved like that in their country and didn't know 

They needed behaviour guidance not assaulted 

Behaviour guidance ? What they need us to be given some of their own medicine. Oh, wait a minute .. .

2 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

I don't blame the taxi driver at all. He might not have understood the passenger when he entered the tollway (kun bai tangduan), and at destination he would automatically add the tollway fee(s) to the meter charge. That's normal, every day stuff. I didn't see the destination in the article, but if he picked up the passenger at 4:30 pm - beginning of rush hour - from Yawarat of all places, to go to the airport down that highway with thousands of Thais driving to the eastern suburbs, it would be the only choice. Alternative? Much worse via Din Daeng. (It's why I never choose an early evening flight - anywhere - if it involves a late afternoon drive to Swampy). Early morning arrivals also a big mess.

Agreed.

2 hours ago, loong said:

 

Who knows why the passenger did not want to go on the toll roads? Why do you care?
It is not compulsory to use the toll roads.
You don't know the reason why the passenger did not want to go by way of the toll roads; it may have nothing do with the cost!
If the passenger was Thai, you think that he shouldn't be in Thailand??? You think that if the passenger is not Thai, they should be forced to use particular roads even if against their will???

Oh dear. Never mind. Enjoy the rest of your day.

Don't be fooled by the apparent policy change on immigration Hermer and Starmer hand in glove on all issues. Lord help Britain and it's people.

Not all, but many doctors are influenced by big pharma. 

So what ? They all over-stayed.

19 hours ago, loong said:

 

What has the report got to do with foreigners?

 

 

The passenger does not have to pay any toll fares if he chooses the option that does not use toll roads! The problem is that Somchai would only take him via toll roads.

Sad and pathetic.

19 hours ago, loong said:

 

What has the report got to do with foreigners?

 

 

The passenger does not have to pay any toll fares if he chooses the option that does not use toll roads! The problem is that Somchai would only take him via toll roads.

Why would a passenger not choose the option of taking a toll road ? Quicker, shorter and therefore likely less expensive even after paying the toll fare. Anyone having a problem with the small money involved in this kind of issue should not be in Thailand in the first place. Sad, and rather pathetic

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Fraud suspects seem to be rather  good at escaping police capture.

For once many people will agree with her. Best to ignore the ICJ.

Rowley is an incompetent clown. The UK police, including the London Met,  mostly gave up fighting crime already. Instead of being a force they have become a pathetically inadequate social service.

Walked away through embarrassment rather than entitlement I suspect.

The BBC is no longer bothering to try to hide it's anti-Israel, anti-Jewish mode.

Rule number one in the MSM, under no circumstances may any successes be attributed to the Trump administration.

Only Chinese will accept the mess that pervades Banthat Thong. No Chinese, no business.

She was arrested in April according to the report. I wonder if an update is available. Also, her picture looks fake with her head appearing not to fit naturally on to her body.

13 hours ago, Patong2021 said:

 

No. You are blaming everyone, other than accepting responsibility for the  deficiency. It is the electorate who set the rules. It is the electorate who put the MPs in office. It is easier to pint a finger at the judiciary and the police than to accept that  the impediment to immigration reform are the people themselves.

How often do we see a violent   migrant take refuge in a Church and some group to claim that there is a right of sanctuary? (There is none). How often did we see idiots block removal efforts  of violent offenders? The people doing the blocking were never held accountable by friends or family or the public. Instead they were more likely to be celebrated as heroes.  How does some of the UK public  have a moral right to complain when it returns MPs like  Sarah Owen, the Labour MP for Luton North who offers the bankrupt position that the best way to avoid the UK becoming an “island of strangers” is to invest in communities so that they thrived.

Or, Nadia Whittome, the Labour MP for Nottingham East, who claims that “Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming ‘an island of strangers’ because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far right.”

The UK votes in MPs like that, who determine government policy. It is up to the UK voters to  vote in MPs who have  a different position.

I agree, up to a point. I do, however, feel that some senior people in the institutions are not working in the best interests of the UK. They are appointed, not elected, and as such there is not much that voters can do to bring them into line.

Falling from a steep incline ? Falling backwards down steps would be more accurate. Easily done if not fully in control.