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  1. And, many tourists do. They keep all the tourist attractions like the water parks, Nong Nooch Gardens, the aquarium, Floating Market, T21, and so on open. They also keep all the nice resorts and hotels, such as Centara, Cape Dara, and Centre Point Space, open, as well.
  2. My goodness! I can see lots of potential new members for the Just Can't Quit Pattaya Fan Club. Be patient, your applications are in the mail. Meanwhile, keep reading and commenting about anything and everything to do with Pattaya, wherever you are, while you wait.
  3. Being a glass half-full guy, we can all count ourselves lucky this reckless, highly irresponsible motorcyclist has departed for likely warmer climes without having killed or maimed anyone but his selfish, foolish self.
  4. Put the 200 million baht towards an engine for the submarine. Or, my offer of my lightly used lawn mower engine still stands . . .
  5. Probably the best example you will ever see of why any supposed violations of Section 112 should be limited to filings by the Royal household only. Now, any Tom. Dick, or Harry can file a trumped-up Section 112 violation on anybody else--as shown here. Terrible law, being weaponized, and deeply in need of change, which the MF was trying to do.
  6. They left the place dirty and messy? Big deal. That's called running a hotel--which is what you are doing. If you don't want to be in the hotel business, where guests leaving a place dirty and messy is par for the course, don't be. Rent your villa long-term and then you only have to deal with 'messy' and 'dirty' at the end of the long lease.
  7. Indeed! Many haven't even recovered yet from Pattaya being named the 15th most visited destination in the world by Mastercard and now this!
  8. I've told this story before. I have a brother-in-law in the US who is actually a manager at a Virginia CVS store. He has been told by the local police to not call them unless someone steals more than $150 in merchandise. They cannot be bothered to respond. Get lost. Don't waste your dime--we won't answer. Don't even try; nobody's home. You're on your own with all those thefts and good luck. Hence, the merchandise under lock and key. The state of the US today.
  9. Totally agree. I never saw the need even from the get-go and it's certainly not needed or wanted now, except possibly by Republicans. It has literally turned US Presidential elections into travesties where only the 'swing' states are deemed important and 'safe' states are pretty much ignored by the candidates. Ludicrous that the will of the voters was ignored in 2016--two million more voters wanted Clinton over Trump and a handful of votes in a few states were able to flip the cursed Electoral College. Another handful of votes here and there and Trump could have won in 2020, even though he lost the popular vote by 7 million. Madness. Ditto for the 2000 election with Gore getting more votes than Bush--we would have been spared 8 years of the Cheney presidency. Time for US presidential elections to listen to the voters and not the cursed EC--the voters are usually right.
  10. She did beat him in the 'actual vote' so the polls were correct. Trump was saved by the cursed Electoral College. In two presidential runs, he has never gotten even 50% of the vote. Lost to Clinton by 2 million actual votes and Biden by 7 million--after Americans had seen Trump's very poor job as President for four years. Always embarrassing when an incumbent President loses with all the perks he has going for him being President. With oodles of serious criminal indictments hanging over his head, I can't see him doing any better in 2024, likely worse. Way too much baggage for most sane voters.
  11. Yes. And, apparently, not just you.
  12. Total nonsense. The court should throw out both petitions.
  13. They need to work way faster and 24 hours a day. The work they are doing by the North Pattaya Road intersection is a huge bottleneck causing long traffic tie-ups.
  14. Absolutely disgraceful. Sets a horrible precedent. How are laws relating to the government ever going to be allowed to be amended if the lawmakers are prohibited from even bringing up some subjects for debate? In my opinion, the worst part of Section 112 is the part that allows anyone to acuse anyone else of violating 112. So ripe to be abused, with a prime example this very court case. Don't like someone, accuse them of violating Section 112. It should only be the Royal Bureau, or whatever it is called, to decide to invoke Section 112 and bring charges. How is asking for that completely sensible change attempting to topple the monarchy? Just ludicrous. Thai spouse is probably even more digusted than I am.
  15. Good idea. But, as others have said, it should include Canada, NZ, and OZ.
  16. Couldn't agree more. The only time I would ever ask 'why' to any government official in Thailand would be if I got an answer I didn't agree with or didn't think was correct--and maybe not even then. Somebody tells me at Immigration, 'No, you don't need to draw us a map of where your place of residence is located', I'm not going to ask why I don't need to do this. I'm going to say a polite 'thank you' and exit stage right.
  17. But, on the bright side, if they bought a property in Thailand they always had a roof they owned over their heads, come what may, as long as they paid the condo fees and utiities. Not a bad thing if one is planning to be here for the duration. The last condo my spouse and I owned, in a higher-end project, had fairly high condo fees of about 5000 baht a month and our electric and water was, I don't think, ever more than 3000 baht. So, around 8,000 baht a month, or less. About $229 American dollars. Very cheap to be living in a very nice ocean-front condo in Pattaya.
  18. Yes, one of those mysteries of life. Just what is it about Pattaya? Like you, I can't imagine myself following, say, all the news of Peoria, and then commenting on everything I read. Makes absolutely no sense. But here we are, every single day, with all these hopeless Pattaya wannabes reading anything and everything Pattaya focused and commenting left, right, and sideways. And, of course, usually totally clueless with whatever they say. But, thank goodness, at least they have the Just Can't Quit Pattaya Fan Club. Doubt there's one for Peoria.
  19. You again. You seem to be solely focused on Pattaya and its supposed bad crime. Never mind that crime in Pattaya mostly falls into what would be considered petty crime in most places. Never mind that Pattaya is the 15th most visited city in the world, according to Mastercard, and with that many visitors some crime can be expected. Never mind that most of the 'crime' stories on Asean Now--someone has a gold chain snatched, so-and-so arrested for drug possession, another so-and-so a victim of this or that scam, etc.--would likely not warrant one line in any newspaper anywhere else in the world. With Asean Now and its expat reader focus, a clueless tourist having a gold chain stolen on Beach Road is apparently breaking news of the highest import, sometimes leading the AN news of the day. We can all respond with variations of 'What an idiot' or 'Another heinous crime in "family-friendly" Pattaya', but it doesn't add any importance to what is still a petty crime. Of course, some serious crimes do occur in Pattaya. And, Bangkok. And, Chiang Mai. And, Phuket. True for places big and small. Teenager shoots up a mall--but not in Pattaya. Some Swiss guy murdered his Thai wife recently--but not in Pattaya. A British teacher was just arrested for sexually molesting some of his young students--but, not in Pattaya. Crimes also happen elsewhere, too. You were the one who made the preposterous statement in your earlier 'Part 1' thread that, what was it, 95% of the crime in Thailand occurs in Pattaya. And, even more preposterous, you stated that you based your idiotic, incorrect, damaging statistic on what you read in Asean Now. Once more, here you are again, with Part 2. What exactly is the point of Part 2, other than more Pattaya bashing? Wasn't it all covered to death in Part 1? Nothing better to do with yourself? Apparently not.
  20. Ridiculous lawsuit, should have been rejected from the get-go. How can a party or a candidate be prohibited from making any changes to government and laws? Or even just debating the issue? Ludicrous. If the party is disbanded, just start another, like they did before. Move Future Forward. Future Forward Moving. Future Moving Forward. Just keep doing it. The public, especially, the young, will follow you whatever the name of the party is.
  21. If the rider can be found, deport him. Lowlife.
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