richard_smith237

Cat's can be an utter irritation too... There’s one in my moobaan which keeps ‘spraying’ up my car and motorcycle.... I’ve bought some spray-repellant to put down and an ultra-sonic deterrent. I don’t know if either of them will work. If they don’t I’ll have little choice but to ask the owner to have the cat spayed so it glands are removed and it doesn’t want to spray everywhere (or can’t). If that doesn’t work, then what ??? I wonder if the owner minds me pi$$ing on his car....

I would say it is pathetic if your wife is so incompetent and a snowflake that she is so dependent on a grab food delivery to stop your son going hungry. If she can't manage to cook some food for herself and your son if you are not there then there is something seriously wrong. Your take away from this is my Wife’s ability to cook ?.... This is the issue with these forums, some posters are so gallactically stupid they project utterly idiotic strawman fallicies into a discussion and don’t have the basic intelligence to recognise they are doing it. A persons ability to cook has little to do with online ordering of food and the poor service by the delivery company.... You’re really quite stupid if you can’t see that.

I bet you suck the life out of parties if your comments are your idea of a sense of humor !!!....

Yeah,.. I know, my argument was out there the midst of ‘strawman fallacy’.... ... the point I was trying to make is that these guys either want to work or they don’t. Being a delivery driver or taxi driver involves being prepared to do the job they’ve agreed to do. So, if a rider accepts the ‘delivery job’ to take your order, then cancels because he doesn’t want to do it - its irritating (and its happened a few times) - the same with GrabTaxi’s. I’m sympathetic to the drivers, they get a decent tip etc... because they are doing something I don’t want to do myself. But, if everyone just got their own food or cooked for themselves, these guys wouldn’t have any work. It is their ‘cherry picking’ of the jobs which generates the irritation that the Op has pointed out. IF there were no GrabDelivery service at all, something else would fill that ‘void’ i.e. another service !!!

These dumbed down responses really miss the point...

That would be inconvenient... How would they get the cow in the elevator ? People of course could make their own burger etc.... I certainly have done in the past, but sometimes I don’t have all the right ingredients, the right bun etc.. and there’s always that one place that makes excellent burgers better than I can. Food delivery is a way of life and has been for well over a decade... When a ‘delivery service’ cherry picks whether or not it wants to deliver, customers are right to have misgivings. That’s almost like a restaurant turning away customers because it just doesn’t feel like serving them tonight, then some posters on this forum suggesting... just go home and cook, or just go to a different restaurant... It kind of obtusely sidesteps the point.

I don’t really want to do my job sometimes, either... but... I imagine sometimes airline pilots sometimes don’t feel like going away from their families for a few days, either... but... If grab had a known policy that their riders won’t deliver in the rain thats different - but they offer a service... People want to use delivery because they don’t want to go out for any reason... rain, laziness, tiredness or just simple convenience.... it doesn’t matter, a company is ’theoretically’ offering that service... .... But, if that ’service’ only operates on a ‘when it suits them’ basis, then I can understand the irritation of a potential customer (i.e. the OP). The other facet of this is the ‘game’ the drivers play. To work for grab they have to accept a certain amount of orders (or rides), then the start messing around, take too long to get to the restaurant, or call up and ask us to cancel etc... they’ve accepted the ‘order’ knowing they don’t want to fulfil it. Not every moobaan or condo has a restaurant next to it... They could also nip to 7-11 get some bread and and make toast.... The point is that there is a service which markets itself as a ‘delivery service’ which only delivers when it feels like it. And yes, complain about it on here... because thats what we do on forums... make observations, sometimes good, sometimes negative and we discuss them. Agreed... there’s always plenty of options in the house... but if we just ‘want something’ then we order it. Thats the convenience of modern living. ... Sometimes I just want that ‘burger’ from a specific shop thats 3km.. to far to walk, traffic is too bad to drive... the convenience of being able to order something is welcomed in every city and town world wide.

I think the answer to that one, particularly given some of the responses is fairly obvious... .... but, people generally don’t really like to admit that they were behaving like a bit of a ???? !!! so, I suspect you’ll only get further deflection !!! .....

These sort of ‘smart arsed’ responses are really too predictable on these fora... The whole point of a ‘food delivery company’ is to deliver food... Your response is akin to someone posting a gripe about taxi’s and you telling them drive themselves.... it completely misses the point and only serves you make the poster of said response look like a ????end.... -------- Now... While I’m away and my Wife wants to order something from Grab and the same thing happens... Would you tell her to go herself and collect the food herself? who watches our son?... ah.. take him with her... ok, but the traffic is terrible because its raining, so no point taking the car. Ah... don’t be so lazy and cook herself you say ???.... You see where this is going, don’t you ???..... When we have a gripe about a certain service we have to justify our need for said service to posters such as yourself to avoid dumb$$ responses.... Not clever Mac... !!!...

Sadly the very same degree of non-confrontationalism and acceptance which makes Thailand a very enjoyable place to be for many of us is exactly the same reason Thailands political system has always been the way it is and why this illegal authoritarian parliamentary dictatorship continues...

Prayut survives, so what’s next? .... I’d expect at least some further suppression of freedom of speech....

Even after googling... you still fail to recognise you have ceased to debate the debate and are instead targeting the individuals with whom you disagree.... .. to use my own ad hominem... you clearly do not have the intellectual tools to continue, but there are a couple of running threads such as ‘did you waste your life’ and ‘Is it safe to bring a freelancer to your apartment / condominium room?’ which you may not find less cerebrally tasking !!

Hmm... ad hominem...

No... I didn’t see that thread... But, I’d hazard a guess that it wasn’t the benevolent act which upset the locals - more to the story ?

How feckless does a potential burglar have to be to leave ‘bolt cutters’ on a place he has ‘cased’ ??? Utterly brain dead, but could also be an indication of the mental state of the potential burglar... drugged up, drunk etc.... Its wholly irritating that the Police don’t care at all... utterly lazy. Thats no blight on the Thai police. In the UK the police aren’t even bothered after a burglary.

could be misinterpreted .... and it appears it was 555 That depends on your reading age !! Ops... kitchen lights on timers (to go on and off in the night), movement sensitive lights outside. And of course security cams (which you have ready to go up). Can your wife install them ?.... a friend of hers or a neighbour etc ?

If you could avoid all accidents you wouldn’t need your protective bike gear !!! Thats the point... sorry if you struggled with the long post.

I hate them all, dirty, disgusting, stinking, drooling aggressive mutts. But I especially hate soi dogs, vermin the lot of 'em. I don’t hate them. I feel terrible sorry for them. The issue wasn’t dealt with two decades ago... so two decades later we have millions of dogs on the streets. At some point there will be little choice but to deal with the situation very harshly.... instead of spaying smaller numbers across the nation 20 years ago and actively spaying existing soi dogs over the last 20 years so they could not procreate we instead no need to deal with a few million....

Some might suggest that so are a lot of children, particularly in Thai villages where we're all aware supervision is lacking. You are comparing a stray dog to a child to justify the presence of a stray dog ??? For the record, I have an equally damning opinion of parents who fail to look after their children properly... There are of course tragic accident, but where supervision is lacking such that children are wondering a main-street, then something is very wrong. (Note: I wrote main street - kids often play in quiet residential streets and that is fine, but they still need supervision of course).

Almost every accident can be avoided. I'd like to think so... but I entered reality and while we can do our best and ride / drive defensively, the actions of others or mechanical failure, or the unfordable can occur.... sometimes an accident cannot be avoided.... A dog darting out from behind a parked car straight in-front of us is not something we can avoid. It would be naive to think we have that much control of our situation which is while its always sensible to ride with the minimum of gear.... I compromise on my gear when riding around town: Always a helmet (open face when going very local), Always gloves, always footwear (never flip lops) trainers... When going further on faster roads, Full face helmet, riding jeans / pants, riding jacket with elbow, shoulder, back protector. The reason I do this is because I know I can’t always avoid an accident - although I’ve never had an accident so far... but all it takes is one dog and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Who claims responsibility for that dog when it bites someone or causes a car accident ? If the answer is no-one, then its a stray. IF the dog doesn’t have a collar and an owner who will take responsibility for its health, veterinarian fees etc... then its a stray. Because they are strays. In Thailand pets which are ‘owned’ (i.e. not strays) have collars. If a dog runs out-across the street - its not always possible to miss it or brake in time. It's not the drivers fault. Of course there are also careless and reckless drivers who may also be responsible for their own carless actions. That is what I’m saying - without this we have these issues, the issues of ’stray' dogs causing problems on the roads, biting etc I agree, nothing is going to happen soon because people just don’t care... but the issue is not going away either.

But..... a person as you describe would have had more knowledge of road conditions than a 15 year old boy, right? Maybe driving cautiously due to expecting a stray, right? A valid point... And we’d all like to think our ‘experience’ will help us.... But when a dog darts out between cars, from an alley way etc.. depending on the ‘space' there is little we can do about it...

Do you struggle with reading or something ????

It could be argued that a true dog lover hates to see these animals suffer. A true dog lover hates to see future generations of animals suffering from disease and mange, fighting for territory and scraps on city streets.... I certainly don’t like to see animals suffer and there are far too many of them suffering in Thailand. Had something been done properly about this issue of stray dogs 20 years ago, 10 years ago then there wouldn’t be so many stray dogs on Thailand street today.

So the 15 year old driving the bike is wrong in now way, shape or form? It could easily have been a 40 year old, fully licensed, fully legal.... It could have been a parent with a child on their motorcycles. The motorcyclist is complicit in his own demise as a result of his choice not to wear a helmet. However, the stray dog running out is the cause of the accident - stray dogs are the problem.