richard_smith237

PKK ... Land of Pineapples. All my postings, thought that was common knowledge ... ... guess not Fair enough - there I am back-tracking on the 'surf comment' then... Though I'd be more concerned about the bag getting stolen off the beach, you can't swim / surf with it...

If going for home treatment - its quite 'time consuming' - i.e. twice a day for two weeks then weekly 'top up'... This Colgate LED Teeth Whitening Kit is an example and used in the UK..... But I'm not sure of availability here... Given the prices of teeth whitening at a more 'normal dentist' in Bangkok, then I can see why 'home treatment' my not be considered worth while. https://shop.colgate.com/products/optic-white-comfort-fit-teeth-whitening-device-and-kit

I think this process is extremely common now and pretty much any 'decent' dentist can carry out this simple procedure as a simple 'walk-in'... So I guess you are looking for recommendations of 'decent dentist' in Bangkok - there will be plenty of experience as dentistry in Thailand is generally of a high standard. Thantakit Dentist at All Seasons Place: priced at 10,000 baht for whitening. https://www.thantakit.com/our-services/zoom2-tooth-whitening/ Quite likely at the higher end of the price range for whitening - nevertheless, this place comes well recommended. There is also 'The Smile Bar': priced at 2400-5800 baht. https://www.the-smile-bar.com/?gad_source=1

Do you use 'skins' when you run and exercise... even when sitting and waking around ? If not, give them a try... I find them excellent to receive pressure on the legs, I wear them when chilling around the house and sometimes when sleeping if I've been on my feet all day...

Agreed - the check-in processes themselves (in most airports world wide) seem wholly inefficient, although 'online check-in and automated bag-drop' is improving that in many Airports world wide, but its only an improvement because its fairly new and many don't want to use this so there are rarely queues. Agreed - This seems to be a game Immigration have been playing for a long time.... Reports / complaints of long queues at immigration have been on-going for decades. Immigration Claim they cannot get the numbers (not enough trained Immigration staff) - the reality IMO is somewhat different... ... The Immigration division of the RTP want 'more money' from AOT to make 'movements through the Airport more smooth'.... they could put more officers on desks, but they won't... Additionally, its clear 'shift patterns' are not tied to flight arrivals as sometimes there a huge queues and at other times the queues very little. Solving this problem would include AOT paying Immigration for overtime (for its officers) and then some form of 'encouragement' for Immigration to 'take a greater interest' in ensuring its Immigration Counters are 'well managed' (or better managed) as things stand it would appear there is little incentive for improvement beyond a 'one off visit' by an ousted PM (Sretha)... Such as ??... Once actually at the counters the Process itself always seems fairly smooth, except for those who may be gaming the system with repeat Visa Exempt entries or too many back to back Tourist Visas etc.

"The altercation began when the 'tourists' leaned against the parked taxi while waiting for a ride back to their hotel and the taxi driver then 'asked' them to move" .... Taxi driver asked them to move ?? - that one's been polished a bit !!... I very much doubt the taxi drive was a measure of polite respectfulness.... ... That said, leaning on anyone's vehicle is a no-no... I'm sure such arrogant behaviour of the tourists enraged the taxi driver... and drivers in that area are known for their hair-trigger.... So.. my only surprise here - Thai taxi drivers in an altercation were they were out numbered.

Yep - I see that too... ... Though when faced with a vehicle pulling out in-front of you its impossible not to react - so I don't think any blame can be placed on the lorry driver for 'swerving'... (its a natural instinct). (not that you indicated the lorry driver was at fault)...

I'm only doubting the measurement of 100m which led to KhunBENQ's comment that the lorry driver 'had time to avoid impact'.... Looking at the timing in the Vid I don't think the lorry was 100m when the motorcyclist simply failed to stop and continued out into a road on which a a heavy truck was travelling). As the lorry enters the 'screenshot' it is about 12m away from the motorcycle - this is why I suspect the distance of 100m quoted in the article is mistaken - it is also common for people to 'guess distances' in emotionally charged situations such as this and be quite inaccurate... Thus: I suspect the lorry was about 20m away, possibly 30m away - the lorry driver really didn't have a chance. What the video also shows, is that the lorry driver attempted to avoid the collision by veering to the right, when had he 'continued straight on' its possible he would have missed them. Thats not to blame the lorry driver, non of this was his fault IMO - this is a tragic consequence of an inexperienced young rider failing to stop and look at a junction.

IF the photo in the Article is a real capture from CCTV it would appear that 100m is a gross over-estimation.... and 20m was perhaps the space given. Then there is this... such behavior seems so common, yet is so inexplicable. Why oh why indeed. Such needless loss occurring with such frequency - I know the underlying causes of so many incidents nationwide are multiple and varied - but surely better road education is towards the top of that list - Yet, why is the government doing nothing about educating its populace on basic safety... (rhetorical). - Road safety - Electrical safety - Water safety That won't stop all tragic incidents, but a education alone an surely save significant lives.

Sure thing... where is the next Taliban community centre you'll visit ?...

Because we're all suspicious fools.... and rightly or wrongly so we suspect that some of us identify that this is not a simple bid for a building to be turned into flats, but a bid to 'point score' in the battle between Christianity and Islam... ... One more step in a battle many of us don't really identify with or recognise, but at some point will ultimately see as a growingly problematic situation, one which is now witnessed in cities across the UK and an element of segregation is developing rather than the serendipitous cosmopolitan nature we expect of cities in a well developed nation. Turn it into a block of flats - we have a housing shortage, not a Muslim shortage in the UK. Apologies if that seems islamaphobic - but it is... its a difficult conversation to have, but I am finding a growing dislike in the manner by which British identity is being eroded in the UK city centres and major towns due to fear of appearing 'Islamaphobic'... never before has there been a better time in the UK for a minority to grow towards a threatening majority than the current day political correctness and wokeness further enables.. and if that sounds harsh its meant to... ... I can't speak out publicly, for I'll get called racist and Islamaphobic... Yet I can sit in a cafe in Jakarta, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, KL, Doha, Istanbul, Sulaymaniyah and discuss these issues (quietly) and find mutual agreement with my Muslim friends... the Islam they see in the British news is not the Islam they practice. The UK is facing a degree of extremism which is a departure from the moral standards of many of my muslim friends, more general than that, the standards are a departure from those of any friend, no matter culture, colour, creed or education and that is frightening - and its led by people wanting to possess a Church, for they see it as some kind of Islamic win.... ... I've worked over enough of the world to news like this for what it is... At least others are seeing through the facade... Example at hand... Hagia Sophia in Istanbul - an incredible structure, once a Church, now a Mosque, open to all visitors - at one point a symbol of peace and mutual respect across a religious divide - open for all to respect and witness the architectural might... and now, Non Muslims cannot enter the ground floor but are forced to walk around a viewing balcony on the second floor... (that happened in the last couple of years) - but is a measure of the strangle-hold with which Islam is starting grasping at the throat of the West... and this attempt to purchase a church is similar... As already mentioned - there's a housing crisis - turn it into flats !!!...

Malcom ?

…reckon I can top that… After doing the in-class tests etc… next was a long wait to collect the actual Driving License… a long queue ahead, I took the queue ticket & went for a massage… … came back a couple of hours later, my queue number passed some time before, I was directed to the next available official & processed….

Once my son started school, one thing I vowed not to do was to place him in the daily school transport (van service) & this is at a top tier international school. Nevertheless, I don’t trust any driver with my Sons safety, no car seat, no seatbelt enforcement… (theoretically there is but his friends who use the transportation say they don’t use them - then there is the aspect of putting your kid in a car with such a lowly education person (negative judgment I know - but I don’t know who they are). Before a school trip at his previous school I asked of the transport arrangements with specific questions about safety / car seat use etc - my questions were forwarded to the transport company (Montri)… … one of the responses shocked me (about DUI testing)… their answer… ”we test our drivers daily & if they are over the legal limit for driving they will be suspended for the day” This response highlighted the true disconnect with genuine safety concerns & appropriate responses.. - get drunk, get the day off !!! The school attempted to absolve themselves of the responsibility & ignore this concern - ultimately it was ‘one of’ the reasons we moved to a more professional school.

That would be a first, since I've never lost or had anything pinched from me in my life. All 3 easily replaced, along with the safest place for all three is with me. IMO - the safest place for the passport is my safe... ... Carrying anything around encompasses additional risk of loss - Passport is in the safe 100% of the time unless I need it. I used the say the same thing... I've never lost anything or hand anything pinched from me in my life... .... Until I did... (lost my wallet)... have also caught two attempts to pick-pocket me (Prague and Barcelona).... Aren't you living in the Kanchanburi area ??? ... hence the comment about Kanchanaburi surfing... IMO - the safest place is my

A mercedes is not a luxury car in my country. It is a brand the drug dealers drive A Mercedes is not a luxury car in my country, its what the hair-dressers drive on hire-purchase.

20m is a long walk in the Thai heat - I'm surprise a hi-so exposed herself to the sun for as long as it took to throw the litter over the bridge, but a 20m walk - Imagine the change of skin shade she may have encountered had she risked that distance !!!!

That doesn't avoid problems... 'it records them' when you have problems !!! .... and either exonerates you... or suddenly gets lost (or data deleted) if you are at fault !!

In Indonesia, thats called the Jakarta Millisecond... 'the time it takes for a light to turn green and the cars behind to start hitting their horn'.... Thankfully Thailand is not like that... the drivers pull away from the lights slowly and with caution because there is always someone 'jumping' the red light... All drivers know this and understand the 'slowly-slowly-cautious' approach when entering a junction after the traffic light turns green.

Yep.... Son in a baby seat, Wife semi-conscious the passenger seat, breathing... quicker to just carry them to the car and rush to hospital than call and wait for an ambulance. Fortunately, with the hazard lights, and frenzied flashing of the lights it seemed most people were 'alert enough' to notice that this was not a normal situation and I found that many gave way... At one point, on Sukhumvit, I recall going around all the traffic waiting to turn right, then pulled across the front of them and pushed / forced my way into the on coming traffic to turn right across them - hand up to apologise, but flashing and hazards still on... others gave way, as if they knew this was not a normal situation... I was quite surprised (positively) by the response... ... I half expected to get pulled over by a Policeman... I'd have shouted (in Thai) 'Hosptial' - they'd have got the message and I'd then expect an escort... ... none of that happened, but I was able to 'slice through traffic' and no one seemed to put up an objection and try and block me for which I was quite grateful... ... had someone tried to block me in that situation, I'd have done my best to get around them, but ultimately I may have ended up scratching or damaging our cars... (I'd worry about that later - priority #1 - getting to ER (and getting into an accident that would slow us down on the way).

For Mr Confused..there is no such thing as an International Driving/Driver's Licence. A colloquialism... Obviously they are referring to an IDP (International Driving Permit)...

100% agree... So many similar incidents and incidents which lead to an accident are caused by a 'dual fault'.... i.e. two separate parties... both parties behaving poorly, both driving badly etc... In so many of these news reports we see how easily something would be avoided if just one of the parties rose above the issue.... In this case - the guy was trying to get his wife to the hospital in an emergency - but the Thai driver reacted to his forceful driving... That would have been the end of it, but then the American driver reacted back in retaliation further escalating a situation instead of getting on with his task.

Agreed,... especially IF he was on a 'genuine emergency run'.... But in this case, he didn't need to ram her (which he didn't) as there clearly was still room to go around to the left (which he did)... Its clear he'd lost his temper... the incident looks 'tit for tat' to me and there was an initial 'incident' before the incident we see in the video. It seems the American man tried to aggressively overtake the Thai woman in tunnel and used the horn... and she didn't let him in, they both stopped and the American man got out and hit the car (causing damage) and tried to get into the car... ... the both then drove on, her overtaking him and blocking him, so to try and stop him (becasue he'd already caused damage hitting (punching her car) - this was the part caught on cam...

Yup... its been an issue for a while... ... and there have been warnings about it all over Thailand for a while... On this forum too...

I can't believe a Thai hi-so in a Mercedes would disrespect Thailand and her environment in such a manner..... This lady either wasn't Thai.... ....or the 'trash' was not trash, but fish food and she was earning merit through kindness in feeding the fish... ... All just a misunderstanding...