1duckyboy

"Personal responsibility" for Thais, the land of blaming darkness, curve in road, wet road ,brake failure and my new favorite, mini-sleep?

Good to see my response stimulated so many caring responses. Next time I'll highlight "understandable" so folks don't read it as condone.

If the elephants are destroying the villagers' source of income, then it's understandable that they would feel it's either the elephants or them. Easy to be judgemental and then go to a nice restaurant for a meal.

Time to sue Taiwan for slander.

"Rain" "Darkness" "Curve in road"

Martial arts and meth, what could possibly go wrong?

He's worse than Prayut. Don't forget, Anutin who coined the phrase "dirty farangs".

I thought this was the worst possible news, but then I read he (Anutin) is ready to be the next PM.

The farce continues.

He's also allergic to confinement.

Three week quarantine when they return home?

He's been preparing a medical pardon ever since he showed up to court in a wheelchair, now it's a wheelchair and huge eye bandage. Once in prison, it will be easy for doctors to say his condition is deteriorating and he'll be pardoned for medical/age reasons. Pardon my cynicism.

On the positive side, he passed before the brakes failed.

The obvious underlying message to the police is don't get caught taking bribes.

A friend reported how quickly he was recently processed through Suvarnabhumi Airport upon landing. He put it down to there being very few other travelers at the airport.

Random testing and being whisked away by an ambulance. Finally, the last nail in the tourist coffin.

Raided a fourth time, serving alcohol and smoking shisha, no social distancing, masks or restaurant license, the caretaker wasn't named and no one was taken to RTP headquarters and fined. Someone knows someone.

Read a post on another Thailand forum by a bar owner who came away from that meeting realizing the closure of Pattaya's adult alcohol-serving establishments was no longer covid-19 driven but politically driven under the guise of of being a health issue.

I disagree. Required, redundant paperwork is merely a stalling technique until enough people get their beaks wet in the deal.

The first night must be in an ASQ hotel. That's one day in quarantine. Waiting for the other shoes to drop.

No problem, tomorrow Anutin will explain the misunderstanding. I'm getting tired of repeating myself.

The lesson is larger brown envelopes are needed.

No one here has mentioned that many Chinese condo owners own multiple condos that they illegally rent out to short-stay dollar tour chinese tourists. This practice harms local hotels, brings less baht into Thai coffers and displeases on site condo owners. The Base Condos in central Pattaya is a prime example of this. One Chinese owner is said to own 30 condos there.

"authorities said", TAT, mayor, minister . . .?

"More assertive role . . . while maintaining a balancing act . . ." = an assertive balancing act. That will inspire confidence in Thailand's S.E. Asian neighbors.