richard_smith237

Makkassan to Airport is currently 29 mins (google Maps) - your 1 hour is somewhat exaggerated unless you are travelling at peak-rush hour periods (i.e. 5-6pm on a Friday). The rail link ‘would’ offer a time saving IF someone is within walking distance from Makkassan Station and the road traffic is horrendous. I’m travelling to and from the airport regularly - the journey from Ekammai / Thonglor area very rarely takes longer than 45mins... Mostly about 30mins.

So now its the BTS to Phayathai... then change to the Airport link. & also get a Hotel near the Phayathai or Makkassan so you can catch the airport link ???? Hmm... ???? Want to take luggage on the BTS ??... Utlatimely, the Airport link is no good if you have luggage, no good if you have any distance more than 5mins to travel to Makkassan... Do you really want to be changing trains from BTS to Airport link? sure that negates an time saving ? The ONLY reason I see the Rail Link being any better is if someone is only concerned about costs. A taxi from the same area is about 400 baht including tolls... Rail link is how much ? 45 Baht ? So I do see cost saving if thats all you are thinking about.

At the very beginning of our relationship my Wife considered I just had a bad attitude with some point... unjustly so... We’d walk into a shop etc and I’d ask someone a question or ask someone something in the street etc.... (or the Wife would)... And ‘sometimes' within seconds I’d just say ’thank you’ and walk away... Wife would ask... Why... I’d say, they were lying, or about to lie. She had no idea how I knew, she’d figure I was a little impolite. It wasn’t impoliteness, it was just impatience for the person who had just or was about to string a line of utter BS together - it all stems from the face issue of Thai’s in general struggling to say “I don’t know”.... Years later she gets it.. she trusts my judgement and even calls out this behaviour herself. Its not rude.. We just say.. Don’t worry, thanks anyway, and walk on... It saves a lot of time.

Totally understand you Op.. OK.. not with my Wife though, she’s smart and backs me up on pretty much everything having experienced my logic vs local logic on many situations... Best story I can tell is a ‘toilet problem’ in a house we’d just moved into. 4 toilets in the house. Ground floor ‘guest’ toilet wouldn’t flush after a week (after we’d moved in). They blamed the fault on ‘having used the toilet’... Of course we’d used it. They asked if we’d done any #2’s in there... Yes was my answer... Oh, farang cannot #2 in this toilet... Utterly exasperated and irritated. I asked they why it said American-Standard and not ’Thai Standard’... The lifted the toiled and found the toilet was misaligned with the exit pipe, only allowing for 1/4 area of the waist / flush at the ‘joint’... Both Wife and I incredulous at the excuses coming out of their mouth until we both got quite annoyed and they uncleared the blockage, but the toilet to this day remins misaligned - to realign it would take a major piece of work to re-pipe underneath the house.

According to Google Maps.. Right now (Saturday 1pm). It will take 21 mins from Makkassan to the Airport by Taxi. It takes 26 mins by train. Of course, the train is more reliable than the traffic... i.e. at 5-6pm on a Friday it’ll take a lot longer to get to the airport... But, for anyone using a taxi to get from their Condo to Makkassan the traffic is also dire in the city centre.... or BTS / MRT is also dire (extremely crowded) especially with lugged and involves a lot of steps. IF the travelling at a time when the Airport Rail Link is quiet, odd are the roads are not that busy either and its a 30-45min journey to the airport from most area’s of town.

How do you get to the Airport link ?.... You still need a taxi, right ? or can walk? So most people still need a taxi which makes the above comment somewhat moot. From Thonglor, its quicker to get to the airport than to the Makkassan Station... Unless someone lives within 5mins walk of Makkassan station and has no baggage the Airport Rail link offers no convenience or time saving.

Qatar has all the power now... they can go back on any agreements they made in the bidding process - Qatar has made FIFA look like fools...

Hardly surprising why...

Then I must say that you have no idea how much skill it takes to play American football. Yes, you may think they have to wear protection, it is a hard hitting game of brute and stamina as well as using skills and techniques to play the game. You should try and open your mind more and see both sides. I will say this is personal opinion for sure, because I have watched both sports and I don't care for Rugby, but I really dislike hockey and all the fighting on the ice, there is no sportsmanship there. I agree.... ‘we’ should try and open our mind more... read my comments again, with an open mind this time !!!!... Example below:

Do you need proof of address for the Thai Elite Visa ? If you have the TM30 (owner reporting) from a year ago - that should be ok, as you are on the same Visa and have not moved. If you are unsure you could log into the Section38 Immigration App and do another online report of you want (use an iPad or iPhone the Immigration webpages don’t work properly, the app is better) - but that takes a little time IF its the first time as you need a passport to be mailed to you etc. All in all, with TM30 filed in within the last year I think you are ok.

Its a different game... but, yes... NFL players are faster the linebackers etc are bigger than the fwd in rugby... But... How long is the ball in play for in NFL ???? - I’m reading that the ball is live for about 11-18mins of the 3 to 3.5 hr game.... Thats not to criticise it, but to highlight what a different game it is and comparisons are not accurate (its like comparing draughts and chess)/. Egg vs the chicken - Do they need the padding because the impacts are so great, or are the impacts so great because they have the padding ???

All-in wrestling for a weird shaped ball. Just like athletics huh???... all you’ve got to do is run from A-B... easy !!... So many of these comments are just plan stupid...

What does an 'exploding tire' sound like ??... and how would she recognise that ? I wonder how relatable this is to the common comment we read on here that tyres of commonly over-inflated... guys complain that when they get there motorcycles back from service their tyres are massively over inflated....

American English (Curb) vs English English (Kerb) - thats all... Interesting that they also use ’Tire' instead of ’Tyre’... The author can’t decide if they are English or American.

From the technical aspect of scrummaging, line outs, rucks and malls... to the timing and angles of the runs and passes.... the variation and evolution of tactics through as the game evolves... The skill and intelligence involved in being a successful rugby player can’t be under-estimated. But... If it has to be explained to you, you wouldn’t understand anyway....

All good points... but these ‘anti-spending-money-on-the-football-world-cup’ comments cast their judgement with the impression that this money (b1.1 bn) is the only money Thailand has to spend... It will get much of that money back from sponsors paying for their ‘brand’ on the Thai broadcast screens and advert / intermissions, or they’ll do what they usually do and make the ‘football images’ smaller while playing an add in the background... The govornment could actually profit (I’m guessing). One thing is for sure this amount is a small of Thailands annual budget which is in excess of 3.3 trillion Baht (±13.2 trillion over 4 years) approximately 12,000x greater than the spend on showing the football (every 4 years). The virtue signallers and soap-boxers can put this back into perspective !!! Now.. anyone want to talk about military submarines ???

Rugby is boring. League has action. Let's face it... in reality, Football, Rugby League and Union are all good to watch at the high levels. All have their pro’s and cons - but all very enjoyable... There’s no reason to choose one over the other, they can all be enjoyed even if we have our preferences.

Is Musk really imposing abusive work conditions ? or have you exaggerated the response to present a stronger counter argument to Britman suggesting its a good way to get rid of the wokes ? I don’t know the specific details, I also doubt the media is giving a truly balanced and unbiased account of the situation - I also know there are plenty of labor laws that must be adhered to. People may lose some of the perks they believe they were entitled to. Some people think the world owes them a living...

Watching the games on British Terrestrial TV (BBC 1 and ITV) with a VPN. OR purchase an IPTV subscription. But, something 100% legal.... I’m not so sure.

Lazada can’t carry ???? The supplier its a ‘shop’ not a supplier to lazada which sells on the item... Lazada doesn’t do the shipping - the seller does, unless the purchase is from LazMall. The shop is going to refund the online payment and has asked the Op to purchase the item directly. There’s no risk if he does that in person at the shop (if its convenient).

Flawed thinking... Although people... Thai hi-so’s, Farangs and most middle class already have their VPN’s and IPTV to watch the football and have been doing so for years... This who story is about providing football on the free terrestrial channels so that everyone else can watch... Not just the poor people up north, but also in the central, eastern, wester, and southern regions... I’m not sure why you singled out only the poor up north, but it highlights that you didn’t give this a great deal of thought.

I absolutely agree..... massively, astronomically overpaid... The World Cup is still a very enjoyable spectacle to watch and football in general is enjoyable to watch, as are the vast majority of competitive sports when we understand them.

By a long way football is the most popular sport in the world. You are free to read a book !!... the question really begs, if you have such a disinterest in football, why are you even remotely interested in a thread about ‘watching football in Thailand’ ???? 1,120,000,000 globally watched the last WC Final... So.. what do you think ???

??? You mean why would Lazada accept the shops listing ???? Lazada has no way of knowing if a shop can honour delivery or not.

Its pretty obvious why.... They are using Lazada as a marketing platform. A lot of people will use Lazada as a search-engine for shopping... Its a sensible move for them to list their item on Lazada... ... Clearly they are attempting to avoid any additional costs due to Lazada or credit cards (which perhaps lazada passes on to them) - this improves their bottom line. I can’t say I blame them for contacting the Op - I imagine most Thai’s would be fine with this, but many of us westerners would be more suspicious - I don’t see anything underhand going on there though.