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It shows the mentality here when she is being cheered on and encouraged by alleged ' Netizens ' for her actions. Has she not heard of divorce courts? Stanley knives cause horrific injuries.

or a drop of sodium?

I have seen and witnessed the same behaviour as the OP about service in bars and eateries. I certainly think it is a familiarity and contempt issue, as in the thinking of, he comes anyway, we don't need to exert ourselves.

A bit stronger than a kick in the back, I hope it draws the same attention from the Thai press.

Then you have to go look and find your own flip flops.

Fairly clear by your responses who is acting superior here and definitely up their own ass! Slap yourself on the back! Have a nice day.

Yes, but that doesn't fit the narrative, just like foreigners are responsible for all Thailand's woes! We are right back to xenophobia until they can figure out a deflection story more suitable. Thais want money WITHOUT work.

Koh Chang is full of Cambodians doing work that Thais don't want to do. Which is anything that involves washing, getting dressed and doing a day's work.

When I was in hotels and restaurants down Pattaya way, government representatives would come in and go through the books thread to the needle checking social security payments, tax payments, licences, everything. Surrounded by Thai businesses, did they go to their establishments? Not a chance!

Great response, Agree absolutely with you.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/17/how-wearing-shoes-tropical-diseases-podoconiosis-acc

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/17/how-wearing-shoes-tropical-diseases-podoconiosis-acc

No, you won't hear Asian people complaining about it because the majority are sheep and would drive off a cliff if everybody else was doing it, and it's called not thinking for themselves. I have pointed out the dirty habits displayed by the locals regarding food and hygiene, and that part of the post has been ignored. Nobody is being a boorish clod walking around with an air of superiority, that is a dull and thoughtless way of trying to explain something that you are unable to explain, so you resort to name-calling. Your response is ill-thought-out and childish.

I've seen and been in shops with chipped, dog-eared and broken lino that insist on the removal of shoes.

Well, how do shops feel in the UK where we have a rainy climate? They seem to manage and the shops are always clean as a rule. And there are no set rules to it in Thailand, as other posters have pointed out. In some places where you would expect the removal of shoes, they don't mind, and in places where you would think they wouldn't care, they do! Keeping a clean floor is part of general housekeeping running a shop in any country, and it's not unique to Thailand.

Silly man with little or no money, a long stay in jail and him at 45 years old. What a dope!

This is a contentious issue, so before all the poison pen letters commence, read with an open mind. It has always been a bit of a bugbear to me in Isaarn households. I can understand a dwelling, family home and local customs where the family sleeps, eats and moves around on the floor, much as though it is alien to me., scurrying around on the floor. It is their house and their rules. That is OK. I'll even go along with the reasoning about bringing dirt, dust and grime from outside as the reason. It makes sense, even though these houses are usually untidy and in complete disarray, except that small square of linoleum they insist must be kept clean. I don't get it when it is a shop selling products, services and goods, why do they want me to take my shoes off entering a doctor's/dentist surgery or similar? I don't take my shoes off entering Lotus or going to the shopping mall etc They claim it's a hygiene thing. Well, my sensibilities get offended and go on high alert when I see these families all huddled together inside AND outside the dwelling, on a dirty mat eating food in the grime, then one trots off to the Thai-style toilet and returns, throwing the water off their hands, and drying them on an old shirt in front of you, to sit and eat from a communal bowl again. You know full well without asking, that they haven't thoroughly washed their hands after toilet use. That is far more unhygienic than not removing one's shoes. I have seen the inside of too many Thai toilets in homes where there is no soap, hand cleanser, paper towels or anything to clean one's hands after a person has used the facilities, only to sit down and munch away with their hands communally. When you are using the family bathroom, they are usually untidy, not clean, with a cup with toothbrushes sticking out all over the place and old bits of soap, here, there and everywhere. Disorganised, and I've seen this in many homes, including those that are allegedly middle class with government jobs. No, I am not contradicting myself regarding the soap issue. There are either tiny pieces scattered around or none at all. And then the dreaded dirty holding tank where the stagnant water lingers that they use to flush the toilet. It's not like the Vietnamese way of eating, where anything taken from a communal plate involves the use of chopsticks, placed in your bowl, and then separate utensils used for eating, to avoid cross-contamination.

They only see life through their blinkered vision.

Agents who are in the widespread practice of obtaining extensions from different provinces for people who do not have the necessary funds in the bank. There are plenty in the likes of Bangkok and Pattaya, who work hand in glove with immigration, however, I think you know this already, and have nothing better to do with your time, except stalk on here acting or being obtuse.

Yes, But, you are doing continuous extensions. This guy is applying for a new extension each year and it is quite legal what he is doing. He is doing the two-month seasoning and getting one year. Then using his money in total. The following year, when his extension expires, he is leaving and then entering on a waiver I believe, and then applying for a 90-day visa whilst in Thailand and putting his money in the bank for two months. Then he gets another 1-year extension. Rinse and repeat, that is how I understood him to be doing it anyway.

You are being pedantic as I think you know very well what I am getting at.,

Without a doubt. Clowns on here want to inconvenience thousands of incoming travellers for a few silly mishaps. As you say, the offenders have not even got any criminal history, so how would 'screening' help? Nothing but soundbites from an empty head in a government press office.

There is only so much screening that can be done, and the rest is the luck of the draw. As I said before, they can't expect massive revenue to come through the airports and spend trillions in the country without some hiccups, and that is all these things are Hiccups. A young kid playing with a horse, A Swiss that kicked a woman on some steps, and a couple of Kiwis that subdued an overzealous policeman? These are hardly mass shootings, murders or bombings, are they? There was even one poster on here last week advising that every person should have their luggage checked on arrival at the airport!!!! .............Could you honestly imagine that? Way too many knee-jerk reactions here, by a sensationalist press corps with too much time on their hands!

They can't stop their income stream, that would be very Un-Thai.

Well, If you are going to break the rules, you might as well go the whole hog and not do things by halfway. Well done!