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O can help you here as you seem to struggle. That´s for you to find out, and hopefully it will keep you very busy. Have you been hitting the bottle today Mr Angry ? It seems you're doing your best to turn every thread you stumble upon into an argument....

To be fair, if you I, or most others on this forum took UK test right now, we'd very likely fail... I know of a handful of posters who think they are the 'best drivers' who'd never admit to such !!!

Instead of issuing a 5 year license - lengthening that to a specific set age limit (i.e. 65) would make more sense if they wanted to ease the burden at the DLT. I wonder what the reasoning is to limit the licensing to 5 years...

No... As this doesn't include any changes or improvement in driver education / training etc... Its just an easier way to replace a 'card'. I don't think there is any plan to stop issuing the physical card - it is the renewal process itself that will be online. I'm 'guessing' that the renewal card will arrive via post.

Soo, yeah! I quote myself. Great I got 26 thumbs down so far. Please give more. I just want to know how many Brits we have on this forum. 😉 Some unhinged bumf going on there fella.. Now you are trying to turn this into a Brit bash thread ?... Strange behavior.

I think the same. In Chonburi foreigners can not even book an appointment on line Its the same at DLT Area 3 in Bangkok - I was unable to book an appointment (getting an IDP), Wife was able to book an appointment. When we turned up, she went into her 'short appointment line'. The other line was huge (100+ people in it) - this was going to be a long day for me ! The DLT officer pointed me to a line for foreigners (because appointments can't be made) - thus, while not being able to make an appointment, a concession was made in my (the foreigners) favour and I was in and out quite quickly. Its not all anti-foreigner / its not as if they deliberately do not add the foreigner bookings.. its not added for a reason and usually something related to ID numbers etc.

Its a hill... what else should they do to the road ?? they can't make it flat. Put up a sign that say' 'use low gear' ??? How would you redesign that road so that 'some' drivers of trucks and busses who fail to go into a low gear don't over heat their brakes and crash ?

There are a multitude more people driving down that road that don't have an accident... What exactly are 'you blaming' regarding engineering the road ? the incline ? Could the incident have been avoided IF the driver remained in low gear and didn't overheat the brakes - IF that is the cause ? Road are far more dangerous in the Alps, sharper turns, deadly drops into ravines, steep inclines, yet we don't get this 'frequent' brake failure that we do in Thailand - why is that ? Maintenance ? or poor driving standard of busses ? it can't always be the roads fault - human error is the primary factor whether you like to use the word blame or not. As you pointed out, drivers being too tired, that may well be a facet too... but even tired drivers know to use a low gear.... .... so it still comes down to poor driving standards that incidents such as these are occurring with such frequency.

I suspect the Op is considering this not from the point of view of getting to the destination, but from the point of view of experiencing the journey..... ... without all the potential paperwork issues, it could be quite a blast...

you better run home to your mama now It was a sensible question... why get abusive ? Why make things harder for yourself when getting a new card is so simple ? If you don't want the 30 baht fee - can't you just withdraw from Kasikorn and ingore the others, or is there no convenient Kasikorn ATM near you ? I recall with SCB - that I could only do cardless withdrawals at an SCB ATM - but that was a while ago and may have changed.

Thats not quite driving 'from UK to Thailand'... I think they've had to circumnavigate some of the Middle East via shipping... Op wanted to drive from UK to Thailand, there are countries which cannot be driven through which make that impossible.

While 'physically possible' its impossible due to 'human / political' reasons... The last time this was 'nearly' possible was in the 1960's and undertaken by Harold Stephens, Albert Podell who wrote the following book (below)... If I remember correctly they had to bypass Myanmar and ferry their car from Bangladesh to Thailand, and then continue...

Agreed, I'm much rather browse the food that I want to order on my laptop rather than the small screen of the phone... (its the same with Lazada and shopee too)... I find the Apps here to be quite 'noisy'...

Quite likely, but only because it will be tied to the Thai ID card, whereas we will still need to provide one of the 'proof of address' methods (CoR, Letter of Address, or Yellow Book where accepted).... But, the added bonus for foreigners, even IF this is not available to us, is less queues at the DLT while most others renew online... IF the do, that is. When we renewed our Sons passport - we booked an online appointment and turned up at the allotted time... waited a few mins and were being processed. Meanwhile 100's of others were in a long queue as they had not made their online appointments - So it seems that many, still do not adapt to these 'convenient' online measures.

I was joking!!! Ah... OK... in that case...

Nope... I know of an example in the UK were a lady lost her hand and forearm up to her elbow in a butchers on the same type of machine (mincer / grinder). The machines are supposed to have a guard on them to prevent getting the hand-inside anywhere near the 'auger - corkscrew' part. In both cases, this guard was obvious removed as it was 'getting in the way'.... Must have been horrific for the boy - I very much doubt much of his hand will ever be usable again.

You think people without smartphones shop at IKEA? Does it matter ?... Its still a flawed business model to potentially turn anyone away. We've already read on this forum from numerous boomers who refuse to shop anywhere that does not permit cash payment... so IKEA would lose those customers too. I'm not against digital payments - I'm quite pro-digital payments and find the arguments of some against 'digital payment' to be highly flawed. I'm 'pro-options' and believe its better for the consumer to be offered as many options as possible. Its not big deal of course, this won't impact me in the slightest - but I have an opinion on such business behavior thats all.

Anyone with a basic grasp of language understands what isolation means. So when you claims a virus has "never been isolated," you’re not just contradicting common sense - you're also veering wildly from the consensus of virologists and infectious disease experts around the world. In science, to isolate a virus means to extract it from a sample, separate it from other components (like cells, bacteria, or bodily fluids), and demonstrate that it can infect host cells in a lab setting (usually using a cell culture). This process confirms that the virus is both present and active. You are hinging your misinformation on semantic games - you might claim, “The virus hasn’t been isolated in a completely pure form, free of all other matter,” which isn’t how isolation works in virology. Viruses can’t replicate on their own - they need a host cell. So isolating them almost always involves cell cultures (something else which you mentioned cannot be carried out), which conspiracy theorists such as yourself misuse to imply contamination or fraud. But scientifically the virus is absolutely isolated and confirmed by electron microscopy, genetic sequencing, and infection assays. Great - David Ike was also making TV appearances !!!

That was a 'recommended social distancing' distance... Contextomy: You've taken a 'tid-bit' of information and manipulated it - it was simply are recommendation to 'reduce transmission' not a statement of the maximum distance a virus can travel. This is the issues with having such discussions with people such as yourself - you deliberately misinterpret information to twist the context to your favour. Yes, there was certainly a degree of absurdity in the whole affair. The official narrative centred on reducing social interaction to limit transmission, while simultaneously preserving a semblance of normal life - hence the curious logic of allowing pub outings but in limited group numbers and only outside etc... Frankly, the entire approach struck me as farcical, and I found myself disagreeing with much of it. Take the testing regime, for instance: if COVID-19 was so contagious that simply sharing a room posed a risk, why was it necessary to jab a swab halfway to my brain just to detect it? That alone felt inconsistent. And the distancing models, in my view, were flawed from the outset. Some of the so-called "concessions" to everyday life bordered on the ridiculous. I also want to be clear: this isn’t to say the virus wasn’t real, or that vulnerable groups didn’t need safeguarding, particularly in the early stages. However, once it became evident that the fatality rate was significantly lower than initially projected — especially when compared with the dire predictions from Imperial College - I believe continuing the lockdowns and restrictions was not only unnecessary, but actively harmful to society. The real issue, of course, was political. With the economy already severely wounded, any swift reversal would have looked like an admission of failure - a death-knell for those in power - a risk few politicians were willing to take. So instead, they doubled down, prioritising optics over outcomes.

Agreed... You should be free to voice your full opinion in the right 'zone'... Which is the ideal location IMO - Flat Earth, Faked Moonlandings, 9-11 Conspiracy, AntiVax...

I used to use them all the time, back when it was 'footbyphone' and they'd deliver a nice big menu.. .then it became 'foodpanda'... then over time the service detonated (in BKK)... I had 3 terrible experiences in a row with them approximately 10 years ago, with food taking over and hour or not arriving at all... after which point I simply stopped using them. The issue of course is that without market competition we'll see the quality of existing delivery services diminish as they take greater profits - we're already seeing that with Grab who now take longer to deliver food as they can make 2 or 3 deliveries in one run which means your delivery could be last and the food takes too long - which to avoid we can pay a premium for 'fast delivery'....

Coleman's medical claims have been widely discredited and described as pseudoscientific conspiracy theories... why do the claims have to have been discredited by deep state working... why not by independent medical experts ???

I don't think I've ever paid with cash at IKEA anyway. But for a business to go 'cashless' and potentially ostracise some customers is poor business practice IMO - they should allow as many avenues for customers to pay as possible. That doesn't really change anything - IF there are technical difficulties with digital payment systems, who carries 'enough cash' around in their wallets for the average IKEA bill anyway ?

Absolutely - given his readings, the Op was within the Limits of the Full License... But, as he had no license at all, it is the lower limit that applied to him, hence he was over. The dumbest aspect of this is actually driving without a license, it is this that ultimately cost him.

Not at all. BAC peaks at 30-70 minutes. Fair enough... had he blown into the breathalyser a couple of hours later then. The point I wanted to address is how close to being over the 'limit' the Op was.... .... some want to see him 'hung-drawn and quartered'... I think going slightly over like this, while absolutely wrong, might also be considered a stupid mistake... Where as being significantly over the limit and knowingly driving while inebriated is something that I'd 'morally' reprehensible.