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24 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

One good reason not to drive a Toyota ! 

Yah Toyota cars does that to you......

Actually this happens all around the world....A man flashing a knife or sword in a fight between two persons but where nobody comes to harm, even if the perception of the person not having the knife is that his life is in danger at the time. When it goes to court, for example if the guy who was attacked by the knife wielding guy (remember nobody came to harm) takes it to court, the court will look at prior records, the situation in which the knife came into play, the situation between the two antagonists. The court will conclude there is no cause for any conviction and dismiss the case or the guy with the knife will be lightly sentenced to probation. If he had killed or severely harmed with the knife/sword....then it would have become another matter altogether....that's how justice works.....in most places....Of course in Thailand we always have this special situation where cops are not really interested in doing their job unless there is some payback for it.

In Thailand the law is not so Black and White as some are suggesting, one have to take into account following matters:

1. Does the defendant have a sick water buffalo at the family farm or not?

2. How many relatives to the defendant rely on her income?

3. A background check of the accuser may very well reveal unexpected wealth, in which case she could very well easily afford to pay the 5,000 Baht, as well as some side donations to various police departments and justice functionalities. 

4. The defendant may very well have an uncle in the military or police, in which case the whole thing becomes a nogo......

Justice by banana........

And who wants a crappy I-phone anyways? better to buy a new real phone......any Android will do.....

Just as you can find e-coli anywhere you look in nature, legionella can also be found anywhere. Just not in any significant concentrations to cause harm. The Myth-busters showed this very nicely when they placed toothbrushes around in a bathroom for a few days and every brush had e-coli samples, even the one they didn't open from the factory packaging.

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

Why is the headline picture of a check in desk, when the article is about arrivals..........Sorry,  just having a pedantic day ....

Nok paid a lot of money for that picture........

3 hours ago, LazySlipper said:

I think they forgot to mention that they just adapted those forgotten bomb detectors they bought many years ago for millions of baht and how they found a way to put them in a box to detect everything under the sun... and now they call it an x-ray machine... ooopsss

 

 

nonono.....those detectors works just fine!

Just assemble a big metal box, glue a monitor to it and put some fancy looking old pc motherboards into the box, install some old conveyor rolls found in a junk yard and sell it to the Thais, nobody will ever know.....

And when someone complains the machine doesn't work, just tell them they didn't follow the manual correctly and the warranty is void.... 

Try finding a bike or buy a cheap bike in bkk and take it with you, bike is healthy.

5 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

As pointed out by numerous posters yesterday, some sentences here are quite bizarre.

21 years !

You get life for picking mushrooms in the forest.....

16 hours ago, TKDfella said:

If that's the case then you really don't understand the table at all. Take a closer look; here's a hint: It introduces children to charts and the answer to your example is there also and how to make the addition chart.

I refused to memorize the tables when I was a kid, simply because I needed to understand what was taught to me before I could commit to making the effort, needless to say I graduated with the highest grades in Math later in life....and I still can't recite the tables...

See how I managed to include all that self appraise in just one reply? Pretty good hey?

In London they call this terrorism........

Just now, Don Mega said:

Whats a prathom ?

oh nooo!

No need to memorize stupid time tables, it would be better if the students where taught to understand the tables instead. For example why is 6+6 not 66?

And some people look really good in uniform........

1 hour ago, petertucker48 said:

Don't be smug there are Bas***ds in all countries including the " Civilised Western World"

The "civilized Western World" is not in the news here........

Sex tourism isn't such a big thing anymore I guess.......

2 hours ago, Jessi said:

At least he got to  "finger the woman"

Good "point".......

A typical example (both the Taxi and the pickup) of "stupid on the road" that creates all the daily accidents here in Thailand, I see it everyday. 

Why do the Burmese keep driving around at night drunk wearing a fake police uniform?

3 hours ago, joepattaya1961 said:

346 people? At first there were talks about 150!!

Anyway, if during the 'free' period a 100 people joined the free rides, I guess that number will fall drastically as soon as the paid rides kick off.

Yeah they added another two decks.....(without telling anybody of course).....

Go to the police, the shop should have insurance......and not the Tourist police, because they are not actually police officers.....

Usually as is with the one-stop service in Chamchuri square in Bkk, they require the applicant to attend when the work permit is applied for as well as the visa extension, which is done at the same time. You should be present when they do the work permit. The whole process takes half a day at Chamchuri square.

Because it is a BOI it takes half a day at Chamchuri Square.....

The tourist areas are like a fly paper to all kinds of bottom scarp and criminal elements to come there and try to squeeze money out of tourists. Most of the businesses, local scammers, hookers, bar owners, tailors pretending to actually do the work themselves, robbers, motorcycle gangs, speed boats, jet ski.... are not from the local community, they came there explicitly to suck money from the tourists, how can you even start discuss how tourists affect this lot?????

4 minutes ago, jdf2231 said:

I asked my Thai friend to call them and request for an exchange. They agreed to it and I went there, showed them the laptop. Their technician tried to install Linux but it didn't boot and they understood that it was a hardware problem (ACPI issue with Acer laptops). I had to pay 2,000 THB more and take a Dell which came with pre-installed Ubuntu.

 

I could have asked them to install Win10 on the earlier laptop but I wasn't sure if it would be a genuine copy or not. Moreover, I wanted a non Windows laptop because I intend to use Linux. I didn't know they had OEM versions of the OS. I purchased this from IT City and the staff were polite with me, they accepted my return and I went out with a Dell. :)

 

 

 

Good for you, all well.

My point with installing Windows by the shop was not to keep it installed (very easy to uninstall and replace with Linux) but to show the shop that there was actually a problem with the hardware, point using Windows rather than Linux was that it is usually easier for the shop to install Windows 10, just to prove the hardware problem, and many shops doesn't even know what Linux is.

A miracle he survived unscathed from that total wreckage!

I wonder how the car ended up between the the middle of the truck and the center barrier if the car cut in front of the truck and the truck was unable to break?

If a car cut in front of you closely and suddenly your immediate reaction would be to break, no? The picture suggest no braking took place until the car was thoroughly mangled against the barrier....

40 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Your employer has no legal right to hold your work permit since it issued in your name. There is no rule that it has to kept at the work place only that it has to be there if you are present and working.

You should be able to cancel you work permit without the book or your employers consent.

Some immigration offices will cancel the extension with the work permit cancellation receipt.

You can also leave the country without a re-entry permit that makes you extension in valid. Then get a new non-b visa at a embassy or consulate.

Writing and submitting your resignation cover you if you have problems later.

What UbonJoe said, Workpermit has to be with you at your  place of work, not the directors. I have on several occasions been raided by labor officials and immigration at my place of work, where they have asked to see my work permit, luckily I had it with me at every occasion. If not you will be fined I believe.