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Chongalulu

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  1. 28 minutes ago, timendres said:

    Again. Anyone who believes that Thais cannot exhibit logical thinking is deluded.

     

    Most of the examples that you mention may seem illogical to you, but there is logic involved. You simply cannot understand it. Putting up prices when business is down seems illogical, but you are assuming that lowering prices will bring in more customers. That is not always true. Drunk driving points has been introduced, but does not meet your draconian desires. In the US, the draconian laws are a mess, and nothing more than a payday for courts and lawyers, that destroys lives in ways one could argue are sometimes worse than the original problem. And, just as in the US, these laws are always phased in over time to allow the people and the legal system to adjust to them. Just look at the history of the "legal limit" in the US. The 90 day reports employs how many immigration personnel? The TM30 is so logical you would have to be retarded to not understand it.

     

    And I am certain that I could go to any country in this world and find equivalent examples of ridiculous and illogical rules, regulations, and behaviors. Does that mean that the citizens of that country are incapable of logic? No. It means that politicians and politics, by their very nature, sometimes produce illogical results. Many would argue that Trump's trade war is totally illogical. So, by your measure, US citizens are incapable of logical thought.

    The proof of the pudding... So Thais have found a way to reverse the rules of supply and demand,have they? Everyone else must be wrong? You think less draconian drink drive laws result in fewer deaths? The pudding is the respective RTA death statistics from this. Thailand is orders of magnitude worse than anywhere in Europe where you’ll be jailed for persistent drink drive offending .

    Your Trump analogy is a false equivalence. His strategy cannot yer be evaluated. The examples I’ve given most certainly have.

    And again I have not said incapable of logical thought but a far larger absence of it. 

    Frankly your rationale for creating work as the justification for immigration procedures is risible or do you think productivity is illogical too. Thailand does not have an unemployment issue. 

    Im leaning to conclude you may have been here too long and have become 'infected ' with the same malaise .

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  2. 18 hours ago, timendres said:

    I believe this sums it up perfectly. Furthermore, unlike tourists, expats engage the immigration staff. In this scenario, you have a staff wishing to pad their (meager) salaries as much as possible, doing a job that is (quite honestly) miserable. There is no prejudice here (other than for those who make their job even more miserable). You are merely a target. Nothing personal.

     

    Here you are off the mark. I have had numerous Thai employees who exhibit the same level of logical thinking as I have seen anywhere. In fact, I spent an hour today discussing the various plusses and minuses of financing a new house with one of my employees, and his logic was impeccable. What I believe @StreetCowboy is implying is that logic may appear illogical when it is being exercised in a context with which we are not familiar, or with which we are not fully informed.

    Your quoting of an exception doesn’t make a rule. The problem is there’s far more lack of logical thinking than most developed nations . For example 

    When business is down put up prices to compensate.

    When having the worst road death statistics introduce a scheme where drunk driving attracts points allowing 4 transgressions!

    Explain why when driving without licence or helmet ( recognised as dangerous) you are allowed to continue after paying a fine.

    Explain the benefits of 90 day reporting when you already have a 1 year visa?

    TM 30 when you are returning to your registered home address??.

    There are many more examples which unfortunately outweigh their moments of logic

     

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  3. 4 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:

    Thailand should pay attention to what's happening in Hong Kong now.  Same thing will happen here if they continue down with the ChiCom Belt & Road Initiative.  And a rising Baht is all part of the evil plan...

    Those in HK have a level of education and intelligence orders of magnitude greater than in Thailand so understand what is on the horizon. Here not so much...

  4. 1 hour ago, dluek said:

    Bangkok Post reported today that Samui tourism is way down first half this year, and that is a mainstay on the Chinese tourism circuit. All reports are that tourism is lagging overall, so still begs the question, why the long queues? 

    Long queues do not correlate to a healthy tourist industry. All you need is an imbalance caused by a badly run immigration department.

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  5. 4 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

    Look, I know I;m not the smartest guy in the world, but if the UK want him, why not just freeze his UK bank account. Without funds flowing to Thailand from UK, he  can't stay in Pattaya and would have to return

    Because there is a proper process to follow- you cannot start that sort of suggestion given no guilt has been proven. Extradition to answer the charges is that process and is clearly working here.

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  6. 8 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

    Now is the time that ALL car manufacturers should be turning their sights towards electric cars, as the time is fast running out for fossil fuel cars!


    Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect

    Not as fast as you might think. The thorny problem is battery cost which makes an electric vehicle on average $12600 more expensive to produce than ICE ,accounting for 40% of the total cost. Upward pressure on prices for the raw materials to manufacture batteries mean prices are not on a downward trend. Especially in developing countries like Thailand expect your diesel pickup to be around for some considerable time yet.

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  7. On 8/3/2019 at 2:39 PM, Macthehat said:

    Using your tablet while charging will drastically reduce the life of you battery and eventually render it useless . Been there with the kids using games and not waiting on the re charge before playing again . Had to replace both batteries  on my tablet and phone 

    That’s an old wives tale - google it. Even when not using it actively it’s always performing some background activity so effectively operating and chaeging

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