Scouse123

She may not be stupid, she may have been simply desperate.

There is a maximum rate on borrowing money; over that limit, it is illegal and rightly called loan sharking. At this point, the government bodies can intervene. It was supposed to be getting overhauled under Prayuth. All too often, they have been turned down by normal lending sources. Yes, sure, it's poor education, unable to manage money, call it what you want. Plenty of people in the world can't manage their money. However, it's a desperate state of affairs to set fire to yourself, and I feel sorry for her, to think there was no other way out.

He's a lonely old man, and this is one of the only ways he can get people's attention.

With free internet, there are not many excuses these days not to let people know you are safe and want to be alone. We have Messenger and WhatsApp, not to mention just a couple.

Looking at his accommodation and appearance, he didn't appear to be heavily involved in remote working. He looked more like a dishevelled man who didn't know what he wanted. As you say, he's an adult so his family now can just like it or lump it, they know he is not in harm's way, end of.

So what are you talking about? My post agrees with everything you have just written? I've pointed out already with a degree of sarcasm calling him an unruly tourist simply because he either made a joke or was being friendly, was a stretch!!! Where's your issue? And the tourist wasn't Scottish, he was Italian. The official who chastised him was half Thai and half Scottish. Read the post properly before making uninformed comments.

I have just had the same and am awaiting my complaint response. My guess is they will credit it to the most recent years; I mentioned in my complaint the year I wanted it credited to. It says online ' pending ', so I'll wait and see.

I think the job title and badge has gone to his head a bit.

Agreed, A bit of light relief and harmless fun. I've said, and got away with far worse in jest, and it's been taken that way.

There seems to be far more to this story, and the guy is well educated and apparently ' well heeled '—he is the great-grandson of the Singha corporation's owner. He was angry at corruption and attempts to oust him from a position he refused to take a salary for due to his love for the sea and the environment. So, it seems the OP was light on substance as to the full facts. With regard to the Italian tourist, if he had told them about deportation, that would have been out of order. The job seems to have gone to his head, maybe passion, maybe arrogance. https://www.nationthailand.com/sustaination/40048923

Unruly tourist because he made a joke and said Hello in Chinese? Your threshold for ' unruly ' seems low. and to threaten with deportation for this, seems somewhat childish and pathetic.

Who cares?

Beer in, wit's out!

Agreed, There, again, he just might be a self-important, entitled, spoilt <deleted>.

I'll put my thinking cap on.

Not anywhere tbh.

It doesn't look that way by his CHOICE OF ACCOMMODATION. Mind you, we never know, he might just be playing it cool.

They don't grow up like we had to, way too much mollycoddling from parents and the system in the UK. Everyone gets stress related time off from work, just for ' being offended ' No wonder so many are useless.

He may just have been captivated as we all were when young with the Thailand scene, and the story about family issues is he might not want a dose of reality from them, whilst he's living his dream. I mean, snow forecast for UK, who wants that in April, when you have Thailand, Tom Yam soup, Singha beer and women on draft.

Vietnam and Cambidia.

About the same, tacky happy hours and pissed up kids.

That would be good, I agree, but no beach....I love it there. Maybe, Danang in Vietnam?

I agree, Guns and ammo are cheap and plentiful in the USA

If we get rid of the Chinese, the Indians, the Muslims, and all religious zealots, the Man Utd and Man City fans, as well as Keir Starmer and the Labour government, there will be bags of room for the rest of us.

Usually spoilt, rich, misinformed kids with a simplistic vision of how to solve all the problems in the world. However, this type of protest seldom garners sympathy, it just involves disrupting normal working people going about their daily lives, whilst these kids are busy, playing at being grown-ups. Whilst the UK is chasing some unattainable and very expensive, socialist dream of net-zero, China is building the equivalent of two fossil fuels power plants a week, and India's fossil fuel consumption is through the roof, combined with Trump's ' drill baby drill ' policies.