Chongalulu

Reading and comprehension difficulties? ????

What I noticed was the country being shut down, not people like him deciding not to come. The country isn’t "shut down" - people can still come ,as I did myself in December 2021 ,but with 14 days quarantine and as a returning resident. Thailand still wants tourists to come ,but the conditions even now,are such that the vast majority reject that offer . So it is very much ‘people like him' exercising their choice to go elsewhere that doesn’t insist on the daft second test after 5 days with the horrendous implications of a positive test. The country has thus caused the effective 'shut down' of its businesses who can’t economically survive. Simple cause and effect.

I’m sure Thailand is devastated by this news. In case you’d not noticed Thailand’s tourist industry is already devastated by the many who have already replicated the decision of this poster..

I’m on holiday in Phuket (from Pak Chong ) and it’s 6 months since my 2nd Pfizer vaccination (I’m 69) . Is there anywhere I can get a walk in type booster while here ,or any other alternatives? I have all my documentation/passport.

All true except IQ levels here average 89 (64th by country). UK and Europe around 100,so there is a difference. Combined with thailand’s very poor ranking in the PISA EDUCATIONAL TABLES indicates they are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

For premiership games ,Champions league and even Serie A etc. subscribe to Bein sports which is quite cheap (I got a whole season for 700 baht !). or monthly.The beauty of it is the games are on catch up so 3 am matches can be viewed later at time of choosing with no spoilers. It has chrome cast facility too. Very good customer support too . Separately ,sounds like your WiFi is substandard ??

I have found that Chromecast won’t work when needing to use a VPN on the device you are casting from. This applies to ALL subscription providers as well as bbc iPlayer etc. You get an error message (sometimes notifying you not available in your location). This is because chromecast connects to your WiFi router directly and thus isn’t under the vpn. The only potential solution is quite involved and requires your router menu to be able to be programmed with the IP address the vpn is using. My recent 3BB router doesn’t have that,not I suspect most others. Screen mirroring from my iPad however does work ! ????

Sorry,but as you mentioned the UK ,the statistics completely undermine your argument. For a similar size population UK has around 1750 deaths per year ,Thailand 25,000 ! That huge difference can’t be explained away by the theories you expound (including 2 wheel vehicle usage). 'Number of collisions' ?? Where are you getting that from and particularly in Thailand how accurate do you think reporting is ? Seeing the commonplace atrocious behavior of drivers here vs UK is reasonable anecdotal evidence that drivers themselves are the main problem . Compare the testing regime and penalties for transgressions of each country and the difficulties to even obtain a licence for further evidence

Part of the tawdry,tacky non functional accouterments (fake exhausts,bonnet air intakes etc.) adorning so many 'chavvy' vehicles illustrating a low level mentality.

Look on the bright side ( "Thailand does the math") - at least the country has taken a baby step from its appalling numeracy credentials..

It’s often said the true nature of one’s character is when your actions are anonymous or you are insulated from them, as when surrounded by cocoon of your vehicle…

Bars..?? How do you get out in the event of fire ? Fee,ing safe and being safe are not the same.

Bars are a very good way of trapping you inside in the event of ???? ????. I have both of the latter two however.

A comment of a breathtaking lack of understanding.

While the point about 2 wheel transport being more dangerous is valid your simple maths argument is very reductive. In thailand those riding scooters are the least capable and the most unlikely to be qualified (licence). Compared to say UK,the 2 wheeled test to obtain a licence is extremely rigorous and not wearing a helmet is extremely rare (unlike commonplace in thailand) nor would it include any 200 baht plastic 'eggshells' from Tesco (cheap helmet for a cheap head). Not having a licence,and especially not wearing a helmet, would get you stopped and prosecuted very quickly. UK statistics that i last found indicated that motorcycle chance of fatality was under 10x the rate vs car (not the 40x you quote) and which is very low in itself (around 1700 fatalities per annum) for a similar sized population. So yes,it is orders of magnitude more dangerous due to driver/rider attitude / behaviour here in Thailand .

There’s a saying " A cheap helmet for a cheap head " . I guess a mask and no helmet denotes the cheapest head of all ..

Nasty incident,but a bit melodramatic just lying prostrate on the road uninjured awaiting sympathetic "resurrection ".. ????‍♂️

It’s no longer astounding when it’s the default setting in so many aspects. The "Thai Thick Gene " ????

Because a juvenile mentality is the real endemic here.

Their critics were less kind… ????

Kindest thing I can say is my point has gone right over your head… ????

Plenty of times victims are identified but it makes no difference to the mentality here.With as many as 25,000 dying on the roads each year means they simply ARE statistics .

If red buttons are pushed there’ll not be an iota of difference on Your fate whatever of Putin’s list you were on. Geography to a small extent might ameliorate slightly the fallout ,but catastrophe is guaranteed. The overwhelming majority of countries condemned him and even if he survives he can’t function without dealing with them and the West in particular. Those countries haven’t'stayed out of it' in any meaningful way ,but will be remembered for their equivocation.

Even My 2002 E46 M3 had 345 hp and my subsequent 2007 onward model E92 414 bhp. Current incarnations 500 from a 3 litre engine. The point I was addressing was in response to your lauding of a 5.7 litre hemi engine which produces relatively low power given its capacity. 4.4 litres of BMW engine which fitted to their bigger models (no chin knee issues!)now produces 600 bhp ! You’d find the bigger saloons /SUVs would be more comfortable (ride quality) with better handling than any truck whose only advantage is if carrying huge loads in the open back. How often does that get used which a SUV couldn’t deal with?

Is that the gas guzzling engine that even in its latest incarnations never got to even 400 horsepower? Comfortably outgunned by my old BMW M3. The best description of those old American V8s was "converting money into noise " ???? ????