The dudes in the pics look like teens, y'all. I can't believe they are 30 and 40 already. You wanna catch some bad guys, better come up with more recent pics to identify them.
Often they are hidden in drainage pipes running under the roads. Checkout some pictures online of the aftermath of some attacks; often you can see a crater in the middle of the road, right through the concrete or asphalt.
They always know when the 'enemy' is supposed to pass by. I have lived in the region for 8.5 years and have been on countless roads with IEDs buried beneath them, some of which were detonated less than an hour later.
Still, I'm not afraid. As a farang I'm not on the hit list and the insurgents never randomly detonate those explosives inshallah.
Us British fellas instead prefer the inked-up, brown-skinned, flat-faced, wide-jawed, pint-sized Issan spinners who can suck a knob like a vacuum cleaner and do the gogo shuffle like a pro.
Go go England! 🏴⚽
Probably paying using PromptPay QR codes.
I have a Thai bank account with a banking app on my phone, and I use it to pay for at least 80 percent of all my payments anywhere, from Big C to the local market. Only our 7-11s do not accept it, but they do accept True Money wallet payments.
Nice thread about a country most of us wouldn't visit now.
As a fellow teacher in a "dangerous" area, Narathiwat Province in Thailand's restive deep south, it's good to read about a country I'd love to visit one day. Just not under current circumstances.
The political center is dead. The left is dead.
All we have left is what we the people want: a full-blown far right-wing Christian nationalist dictatorship with Trump as the Fuehrer.
Mark my words: the US Constitution will be shredded during the next four years and Project 2025 will become the de facto new constitution. Crazy right-wingers like Steven Anderson, Greg Locke and Joel Webbon will get high positions and rule us. They'll impose radical laws in line with Project 2025.
This is exactly what WE the people of the USA want, you dumb lefties.