
Chongalulu
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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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1 hour ago, Thingamabob said:
They want people who don't break the law, who are financially self-supporting, and who know how to behave.
Now if only they could set themselves that same example...
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5 hours ago, timendres said:Who did not see this coming?
The Italians....
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9 minutes ago, hyku1147 said:I am pals with a ginger tomcat. He meows a greeting, and loves it when I pick him up and scratch him under his chin. One day I watched him stalk and kill a rat. He had turned into a focused killer. If this behavior exists in house cats, then it must exist in leopards. Begging the question - what could trigger it?
Anything could trigger it,it’s instinctive. Although not the biggest of the cats, leopards are regarded as the most dangerous with the best pound for pound strength value . They are lightning quick and it would be like having a fight with a chainsaw. A 30 kilogram leopard would make short work of a human.
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5 hours ago, Vacuum said:
That job is reserved for Thai soi dogs.
Leopards find dogs as tasty morsels
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5 hours ago, justin case said:
the irony
The real irony would be that the funeral of whom they were attending died in a road accident. Quite high odds I’d posit.
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4 hours ago, sanemax said:
Eyeing up school girls in short skirts
That is by definition the opposite of perversion given you are mostly biologically programmed to find a pretty nubile post pubescent woman (as shown here) with a good figure attractive. Perversion is NOT being attracted .
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9 hours ago, GraThai said:I totally agree that TM30 is an outdated law however I have lived here in Thailand for 30+ years and try to abide by all the rules including this one. Every time I return home from a trip she fills in the form pops into immigration and its done so what is the massive problem...unless of course people have something to hide?????
Said the person so shortsighted that he can only view the issue through the prism of his own circumstances. You have certainly assimilated one Thai trait - not for the better.
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He’s now been given detention to write out a hundred lines "I must not shoot my classmates ".
let that be a 'lesson'.
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3 hours ago, Misterwhisper said:
The headline missed out on one additional factor that played a major role in that death toll. It should've read:
Not quite right - it should read 'Incompetent drivers failing to adapt to foreseeable conditions cause the death of 65 people.'
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You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
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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...
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7 hours ago, jvs said:
A great idea!!!You have to start somewhere and hopefully these young people will learn something from it.
All they’ve learned so far is chin straps and mirrors are unnecessary...
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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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8 hours ago, mok199 said:
When is enough enough???
But they want MORE than enough. There can never be enough until no one is left.
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Lack of any real competition at retail level is the problem. All the prices are almost the same ,as in a cartel. Compare that with the the discounters Aldi and Lidl in UK shaking up the retail market. I’m here in uk just now and despite £ depreciation prices (including imports) are way better,as is the variety and quality of fresh veg. I can buy Tuna in tins imported from thailand cheaper than from Tesco lotus in thailand!
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On 8/10/2019 at 6:16 AM, Vacuum said:
Well, I've been in Thailand for 20 years and never experienced the 'problems' you have. What am doing wrong?
Rather like the bloke who never wears a seatbelt saying ' I’ve been ok for 20 years' . You are until suddenly it isn’t.
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3 hours ago, Yinn said:
Good to warn the local children.
Safety first.
Warn the children not to go where he no longer lives nor ever will be again...? Is that an example of Thai logic? ????
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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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46 minutes ago, jingjai9 said:When, when, when we will stop simply announcing how much we hate people who commit these crimes. Killing them or hanging them or whatever other punishment is deemed necessary never gets at the cause = What makes people do this????? Perhaps if we could expend our engery searching for causes for this behavior, then and only then could we really protect children. What do we really know based on psychological or physical causes for this behavior? Instead of using our imaginations to come up with ways to kill these people, let's formulate strategies to protect our children. Kill one kill two kill three, there will be more perpetrators.
Skallywag I think you have a most interesting comment about DNA if we could in fact know if genetics is a cause, but what if the causes are environment as well as genetics?
It’s the repetitive,mindless,unoriginal suggestions as to what to do with him that I wish could also be eliminated from the gene pool. ????
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13 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:
I often wish the laws here were like Singapore that would thin out the foreign population by a few hundred thousand
It would thin out far more of the native population- if equally applied.
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7 hours ago, Yinn said:
Except he’s no longer there and won’t be going forward given he’ll be extradited. So how has your post helped?
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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 ConnectNot 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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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
What kind of farangs...
in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
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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 .