richard_smith237

The limit is individual and can be changed. The limits can be altered on the Mobile Banking App (if you have it).

There is no law that says this. Its is a common myth perpetuated by dodgy BiB some 15-20 years ago who chanced their luck pulling over motorcyclists who were riding down Sukhumvit in BKK in the muddle and right hand lane. Law says on a multilane road all traffic must stay left unless passing another vehicle. This law is clearly superseded by queueing city traffic where motorcyclist can ‘split lanes’ to pass queued traffic. --------- The 500 baht fine is almost treated like an Admin charge by the BiB. Whenever a person is involved in an accident, fault or not at fault they automatically get charged this 500 baht. Really, when not at fault they should not be charged this fine, but the BiB try it on with everyone - entitlement has settled in as the BiB don’t actually know the law themselves, they’ve learned from their peers and supervisors who levied the same fine. Its become the norm and after an accident people just want the issue to be over with as quickly as possible and get on with things.

Because the police are simply too lazy to work out what happened. Its clear the Grab guy is 100% innocent - charing him anything was outrageous, he should be compensated for damage to his bike, for any medical bills and any loss of earnings due to being unable to work etc. Who pays for the damage to the BMW ???.... IF the BMW driver makes a claim on his own insurance he will lose a no-claims bonus, why should he/she be penalised ?

The exclusions insurance companies apply for non-symptomatic issues is often ridiculous... I often wonder if I had a broken leg would they exclude me from cover for further broken legs !!!...

.... The village where all the village idiots go to from villages who are missing their village idiot is missing its village idiot !!!! ... but its ok, he’s been found on Koh Chang with a girl that loves him long time !

They exist everywhere and are for wheelchair access and similar. These are not for wheel-chair access...

Ultimately, to allow the convenience of being permitted to live together. For both of us... It was obvious we were going to get married at some point, we married after 2 years just to make life easier for us. My Wife is from Bangkok and lived at home with her parents (Wife was 31 when we met - 3 yrs age gap). In a traditional culture there is no way my Wife was ever going to be permitted to live with me or travel together unless we were married. Before marriage, whenever we went out she had to be home by midnight. We did holiday together etc and sometimes she stayed over, this involved the ‘white lie’ to her parents that she was staying at one of her females friends places. I’m sure her parents knew was was going on, so prolonging this sort of lie was becoming disrespectful. We got married so we could live together and spend more time with each other, we’ve been married 12 years. My In-laws are proud grandparents and visit weekly and often stay over. Would I get married again ? - thats obviously something I can’t imagine.

Then a hypocrite I am... passing bitter judgement on those who pass bitter judgement !!!

It is a Thailand issued Identification card for people of non-Thai nationality...

Next in news.. Dog pays for British Tourist’s medical bills after causing accident.... and add to boot, British Tourist was not double charged !!!... ????

Its just so very droll..... whenever there is an article concerning anything to do with beauty, there are always posters who spout the same pathetic twaddle... - Not my cup of tea - Too much plastic - Bleached pasty white skin - Looks like a ladyboy - Seen better down Soi 6 (Pattaya) - Not representative of a real Thai - Give me farm girl any-day ... yadda yadda yadda... when the reality is those making such comments have so little game they stand no chance whatsoever with such females and are forced to continue scraping the barrel... they’ve become brainwashed into thinking ’it is their choice' to become attracted to the females the rest of society ignores when in reality, they’ve just become used to it because thats all there is for them... They make themselves feel better by passing bitter judgement on those they know are higher up the socio-economic food-chain who’d never ’need’ them to ’take care me’ !!!!...

I repeat, as you appear to not understand what I wrote - it has nothing to do with saving a couple of hundred baht. And... neither does hiring a maid have anything to do with not being able to look after yourself. It's simply paying someone else a very affordable wage to do some work (washing, Laundry, Ironing, cooking) that the Op would prefer not to do himself and thus give him more time to do the things he does enjoy.... It [having a maid] is not a tough concept, its one many have warmed to in Thailand... except and your friends it seems. I also pay people to paint my house etc not because I can’t, but because there are other things I’d rather spend my time doing.

Maybe he has more disposable income than you? I think he’s simply decided to attack the Op and is sticking to his opinion without realising how exaggerated and flawed is comments are.....

Either a basic level of comprehension eludes you, or you’re either being deliberately obtuse. There is a difference between.... ‘unable to do’ ... and ‘prefer not to do’.... Its about standard of living... My Wife and I don’t want to do out own house cleaning etc... so we hire someone else to do it... Simple. I don’t want to wash my own car, so I pay someone else to do it. And this one’s a shocker.... We regularly go out for meals.... and its not because my Wife and I can’t cook for ourselves !!!!

Why close the thread... This is comedy gold !!!.... Unfortunately for you, in a laugh at, rather than laugh with manner...

"Trip, trap, trip, trap, trip, trap, went the bridge. "Who's that tripping over my bridge?" roared the.............. " ok ok... as Trolls go, this one is quite funny.... Next instalment..... 'I went out for some food and came back to an empty room... she took everything !!!’....

Where he is from is of no relevance whatsoever to a thread about having a maid to clean, cook and do laundry. As is the amount of time it takes up in the day... Even if prepping, cooking a couple of meals a day, then doing the dishes etc, them perhaps cleaning a little... then laundry a couple of days per week... It all adds up.... IF the cost of getting help is cheap there is no reason whatsoever to go for that. I have no idea why you are attacking the Op for wanting something that many many people in Thailand have.... Maids here can be a godsend. Once my Son was about 6 months old we got a Live in Maid / Nanny... (no cooking though)... about 12,000 baht per month - she was awesome and made things so much easier for my Wife... I wouldn’t have a ‘live in maid’ now as I prefer the privacy - but having someone come around and clean the house couple of times per week is perfect - It free’s up so much more time for my Wife. Yet you weren’t brought up not to jump to silly conclusions and assume the op can’t take care of himself because he wants a maid ???... Now.. Good for you for cleaning your own toilets (not on your knees)... the op wants to pay someone else to do that stuff...... that in no way means he is unable to do so himself.

You’re confused about ‘quality of life’ ???? He doesn’t want to do ‘those things’... he prefers to pay someone else to clean, do his laundry and cook..... & Why not ??? None of this suggests he is incapable of looking after himself - thats just your hyperbolic projection. One of the enjoyable facets of living in Thailand is cheaper labor and being able to pay others do some of the work you don’t want to.

Horrific... In many of our home nations the road below would be closed while constructing the bridge causing traffic chaos for weeks. In the UK roads are closed to paint the white lines !!... Motorways are ‘coned down’ to a single lane to prosecute the workers carrying out repairs which take weeks and moths. In Thailand the traffic is permitted to flow, beneath, above and around road-works and building works. This incident is of course horrific, and someone for such took a short-cut resulting in this failure. But its construction and this is why in other areas of the world whole roads are closes. Which is the right way to go about this ? Well, I like that Thailand doesn’t close whole roads when carrying out work, but this can come at a very expensive cost as this news highlights... Pros vs cons of closing roads.... We like them not being closed until something like this happens. We don’t like them being closed in the UK and complain about it, but then something like this cannot happen... Which is best ????...

Same here... When seeing the Doctor its easy enough to just tell them you want to buy the meds outside of the hospital - I’ve never had pushback on this.

This is one of the major is issues in Thailand... borne of an utter apathy by the police to enforce the laws... people do what they want when they want (i.e. park like this) then the sense of entitlement develops, they expect to park like this all the time.... No one does anything... Pedestrians are forced to walk on the road.... Its the same with motorcycles on the pavement, ‘someone’ even goes so far as to add a little concrete and build little ramps to ease access !! Do those in positions of decision making power know ??? My guess is they care so little they hardly notice until something negative occurs and social media makes a big deal out of it... they are then ‘forced’ to care, but briefly until the issue dies down. In this scenario, if you were looking for a spot to park and there was an available gap, what would you do???.... Personally, I’d park there, everyone else has... And thats the issue, the authorities ‘enable’ antisocial traffic behaviour (and parking) by doing nothing about it - in this case they’ve pretty much designed the pavement to be parked one with the ‘ramped kerb stones’.... That said - is the side walk / pavement on the other side of the road clear to walk down ??? This is one of those... TiT issues... not too much to take issue with, its just one of those things to shrug at... its Thailand after all.

Sorry to hear that your friends are unwell - Out of curiosity, what are their ages and health status etc ?.... Everyone I know who has had Covid-19 in the past 12 months have not suffered any symptoms more severe than a regular household cold. It is therefor interesting that while earlier in this thread I quoted ’nothing worse than a cold’ it would appear that I am mistaken and some are still becoming quite unwell. I do wonder if those same people would become quite unwell if exposed to influenza - i.e. for whatever reason, do they have some underlying susceptibility to increased symptoms when catching a respiratory illness, or are they carrying any comorbidity (known or unknown) ? ------------- Faviparivir is the ‘go-to’ antiviral medication used in Thailand to mitigate Covid. This is issued by doctors in hospitals treating Covid patients, it is apparently more effected as early on as possible when symptoms present. Faviparivir is also ‘sent out’ to patents who have called the covid hotline and stayed at home. Wife, Son and Inlaws received it when they caught covid and called the hotline - symptoms were so minor they didn’t bother to use it.

Too quick to let you foot off the clutch... Boots is all over Thailand (in many many malls), as are many other chain pharmacies such as Watsons. Many of these pharmacies can only sell certain (over the counter) medications when the pharmacist is present. When the pharmacist is not present there is usually a ‘blind’ over the ‘being the counter drugs’ and a shop assistant will tell you to come back later (Pharmacist is on a break etc). Can pharmacists diagnose serious conditions ?... no, of course, not, neither can a General Practitioner - all they would do is advise you see further medical assistance at a hospital etc where you would be guided and received dedicated attention and investigation (in your stomach ulcer scenario).

IF you are finding the massage uncomfortable, ask to change the masseuse. Thai’s do it. It's obviously more difficult to do so politely and discretely due to a language barrier, it wouldn’t hurt to tip the lady (as a form of apology for changing her out). I don’t like Thai massage. Massage for me is something to relax to and I often find myself falling asleep and waking myself up with a ’snore-snort’ !!!... I’ve digressed... While I find massage something to relax to, I want to me massaged, not just ‘rubbed’... thus a happy medium needs to be found where the massage is good, but not too strong and getting towards discomfort. I recall a few years back having an ‘aroma massage’... the lady put oil on my back and just wiped it from side to side... I gave her a few mins and realised this was just going to be a waste of time. I simply sat up and asked for a different masseuse - there was little point in going through the harder, harder, too hard palaver... I wanted to relax.

Rightly so... But someone in Thailand made a deal with ‘someone else’ to take the waste...... ... Cut off the head of the problem and solve the problem... Find the person who made the deal to take the waste. They’ve probably been doing so for years. What are the odds that person is connected to a well placed wealthy politician ?