richard_smith237

What freedom exactly... ? My phone gives me the freedom to pay for anything I want (up to bank account limits)... My Thai credit card (also cashless) gives me the freedom to pay for anything up to 1.2 million Baht. Cash.. is rather limiting.

If you're too important to wait 30 seconds then perhaps the issue lies with you and not the person paying with cash I completely agree... I'm not the one complaining that people who using 'scan pay' methods cause delays.... the point is, people using cash also sometimes cause delays... so the argument that 'cashless is slower' is flawed.

How many items are rounded to the price of a convenient note ? Prices of things are more 'odd'... So how are you paying for your 21 baht 50 satang pack of sweets ?? Scan and go is quicker than waiting for 8.5 baht in change.... And scan an go is also quicker than waiting for the person to dig out their change. The reality of all of these arguments is that the same person who causes people to wait with cashless transactions is the same person who hasn't got their wallet/purse out of their pockets/handbag until the cashier tells them the amount...

This is a common boomer argument... boomers stuck behind other boomers !!! Paying by 'scan' is quicker than using cash for all but the technically inept... with an added bonus of not ending up with loads of coin. That said.. there are other valid argument for society not to go cashless, but those debates have been discussed in many other threads. The main argument I see here is that IF vendors are going 'cashless' and actually do not accept cash, that is going to impact those who do not have Thai accounts. That said, I doubt business are going to be as daft as to reject cash. If the Op really wants the convenience of 'going cashless' and paying with PromptPay type systems the best thing he can do is try to get a Thai Bank Account.

Ask any 9 year old the in world if theft is right or wrong and you'll have answers of an overwhelming majority. 9 years old is well beyond the age where a moral compass is of questionable maturity and questionable common sense.

It's perhaps less about that and more about effective enforcement of existing traffic laws. But, as mentioned above, if there are only 81 accidents in a year involving delivery riders, there is hardly any cause for concern whatsoever.

In a country with a WHO Estimate of 25,000 road deaths per year, 80% of which are motorcyclists.. That puts delivery riders at 0.14% of road fatalities... potentially placing them in the safest demographic !!! (although I suspect the stats provided in the article are flawed). Nevertheless, this gives us readers an opportinity to have a bash... after all, just like Fortuner drivers, delivery motorcyclists with big boxes on the back of their bikes are immediately identifiable and any mistake they make immediately fills our conformation bias with affirmation that all delivery riders are lunatics. In reality - how many of our deliveries are 'late' because the rider has had an accident ??... we have numerous deliveries per day, none of which have been late (that I ever recall). The reality is that delivery riders ride like most other motorcyclists here... we just don't notice the 'others' as readily as there are more difficult to 'pigeon hole' and group into a demographic we can easily criticise.

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From the linked Article: An older friend or an adult. How hard can it be to get that information from a 9 year old ?? They can if the push the 9 year old thief for an answer. There is clear evidence if they question the girl and get that information. Whatever happened to 'police work' - surely the child can be questioned (in the presence of her parents). The parents claim they have no idea, surely they'd want to know who else was involved too. Don't they want to protect their child (or the parents were in on it).

Surely the parents are accountable for the Childs actions ??? Can the victim recover the money from the parents as the child has already confessed ? ------ One has to wonder what kind of household this adolescent kleptomaniac is from from - is this pure desperation ? or complete parental failure ?... or perhaps even parental success depending on the moral compass of the parents !!! The thought of theft would never cross the mind of most 9 year olds.. I have a 9 year old, I can't imagine theft of anything has ever crossed his mind, although, I'm sure his situation and upbringing are quite different from a poor Thai kid.

What on earth does this 'obesity' rant have to do with the serving method of a Seafood Boil ?????

Plenty of restaurants that serve a 'seafood boil' out on the table... ... its a bit of fun. There is (was?) one at the night train-market behind Seacon Sq. in Bangkok, and there are some around town (BKK), called Holy Shrimp... I'm not sure what the point of the thread is... asking how you would react - quite odd. How would I react ?: Answer, by eating !!!

Once piece of advice for everyone: Can your phone be put into Airplane mode from the Lock-screen ??? (most can unless set not to). IF it can, a thief can put your phone in Airplane mode and you can no longer track it or control it to erase all settings. There are options (on our phones) so that when the phone is locked, no settings can be altered.

I thought all Thai Bank Accounts had a transfer limit of 50,000 baht without 'face ID' (that new law was put in place this year). With SCB as a foreigner we can 'sign out of' this scheme... (which places the responsibility on the account owner if there is fraudulent activity >50,000 baht). Its strange that this was possible... unless of course, multiple transactions.

The Thai roads point is a valid argument... and as you mentioned, there was a clear comorbidity in the two cases discussed in the article. That doesn't diminish the validity behind the ideology to take an Influenza vaccine, while the flu may not kill us, no one wants it, and if a vaccine reduces the chances of us catching influenza, then it's a good thing - I've had too many holidays ruined by contracting something cr@ppy on a flight !...

After the world (mostly) isolated for a while it was a couple of years there was a divergence between the antigenic drift of influenza and human resistance... I suspected it was a matter of time before there was an influenza outbreak which kicked our backsides after a couple of years of no-exposure (thus antibodies waned). On the back of that, last year we each took the influenza vaccine and I'll do the same again this winter. In the past, a couple of times we have flown back from the UK after Christmas and found ourselves struck with a stinking cold (or flu) - If the vaccine prevents a couple of weeks or misery, I'm for it. There's no telling if it worked last year... but If I take the Influenza vaccine for a 10 year period at winter and do not catch a serious cold or influenza then I'll consider the vaccine a success... In the past with frequent travel to various areas exposure is simply expected.

It continually astonishes me how a monetary value is so readily placed on life here, and when it is, it's an amount that could considered quite insulting. I have to wonder what the thought process is behind this ??... empathy to help the victims families with funeral costs etc ?... compensation for losing a family earner ? Is the act of providing compensation some form of admittance that authorities made mistakes, or is the compensation beyond that and simply an act of benevolence ?

One would have to be outrageously stupid and completely disconnected from reality to make such moronic comment so juxtaposed from the emotional temperature of the nation.

I know there will be a few 'tin-foil-hatters' out there who get triggered by the word 'targeted'... however, IF an Emergency Alert system is to work anything like it does in Japan, it can only be a good thing. For example... a couple of years ago landed in Japan... dumped bags at hotel and went out, a few beers later I was back at the hotel taking a shower and suddenly felt dizzy.... (I thought it was the booze!)... After stepping out of the shower and saw the EarthQuake alerts on my phone... My Japanese friend called me up and asked if I'd felt the earth quake. I was data-roaming on Thai Sim... so the alert didn't come in via any registered number, it was targeted to 'all cell users' - an excellent system. This would work well for Tsunami's any other natural disasters and of course terrorism which triggered this announcement.

So a complete fruitcake !!!...

so how come you know she's going to "sue"? Nothing to that effect in the reports quoted. Tell us please WHO she will sue? Maybe you know the result too? How do you know the employer is female? What do you think taking legal action means ??? Photo is of a woman - I assumed this was the boss announcing that she going to take legal action, could be typiclaly rubbish reporting and an unrelated picture. How do you think she'll go about getting maximum compensation ? File a law suit perhaps ?.... as you wrote, against whom ?

The mind boggles with the reporting... In the link, a pixellated photo (also used here), then the same article shows the video without any pixellation or masking.... so why pixellate in the first place?

Being smart and repeatedly having to tell everyone how smart you are is also somewhat questionable...

Imagine if security were a lot more strict and searched everyone... Instead of a nutcase smuggling a gun through the metal detector they could just wait outside a mall and open fire on people in densely packed queues while waiting go undertake a more detailed search... ... meanwhile, anyone who parks a car, simply enters from parking without any checks anyway !!! I can't see how this lady can have grounds to sue anyone other than the government for their flawed gun-control... but thats like the families of the 25,000 victims of road deaths per year also wanting to sue authorities for their failure to educated and protect the public. - IF a complete lunatic with a gun wants to go nuts, there is very little that can actually stop them without turning the entrances to all public places into massive security queues... then, all that does is create areas of extra high population density which presents even more devastating targets.

Are we going to see a knee-jerk reaction from Authorities banning first person shoot'em'up computer games ?????