4 hours ago, djayz said:

With all the existing no-frills airlines, I would have thought that market was saturated. How are all of these going to find enough passengers to fill planes? 

1.6 billion Chinese. 

You gotta let 'em know who's boss. 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

he had dealt with the teacher using bad language after Facebook posts were made by one of the children involved. 

And there we go.

Thai revenge.

Even against children.

The Thai is at fault, gets caught doing he shouldn't. Gets reprimanded. 

Then needs to get revenge against the child that reported him, so shaves her head using some weak headlice excuse.

Reminds me of the Thai Airforce 5 years ago.

A student complaned about the teacher, the teacher was reprimanded. 

On the next parachute jump the student's chute failed to open and they plunged to their death. 

Thai revenge. 

1 hour ago, Dexlowe said:

So you're not entirely right. 

I'm afraid I am. 

15 minutes ago, Dexlowe said:

A quarter of a century ago, newspapers were profitable and could afford to pay stringers. These freelancers, who were found in every village, were dedicated ambulance chasers who sought out stories to sell from every source, especially the police. So little went unreported. If there are more stories of violence today, it's likely be because there are more to report.

Incorrect.

A newspaper only has so many pages.

Only a limited number - 1 or 2 - for crime.

1 page daily for national crime, that one may read, versus 1000s of media reports selected and sent directly to your handheld device as you sit on the toilet via Thai Visa and Twatbook. ????

20 hours ago, generealty said:

Before any Thai apologists comment on my post- I know this stuff happens all over the world BUT it seems we are reading crazy <deleted> like this every day now. When I came here to live 23 years ago I never read this stuff, but it seems to be escalating or am I wrong ?

Yes, you're wrong.

How much media did you have then?

2 national English language papers, and the Channel 7 news at 9?

Now you have Thai Visa, social media sites etc etc reporting when someone farts.

It's the amount of media reporting that has escalated, they've always been killing each other over nothing. 

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

He is just quoting a person who has nothing to do with the labor law. Has been declared as not valid hundreds of times but these digital nomads live in their own fantasy world and know nothing about the actual labor law or just tend to ignore it. On a tourist visa it says NOT ALLOWED TO WORK but they are coming up with all sorts of BS why it should affect them.

Isn't it absolutely amazing just how angry some people get, over the young guys that breeze on in and legally work remotely from one of the thousands of co-working spaces set up for them, or wherever they live.  ????

Absolutely furious about it. ????

2 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Utter BS, you work here , you need a work permit and a visa which allows you to work here. 

I don't work here.

But thanks for the...... ummm... legal advice. ????

1 hour ago, FritsSikkink said:

Maybe people who want to work legally over here and pay their taxes.

No problem for them to pay Thai income tax, and they are working legally. ????

They just need to go to the tax office, get a TIN number, then pay their Thai income tax. No work-permit is required to pay Thai income tax on earnings here, because not all incomes come from work that falls under Thai Labor Law. Such as remote employment for non-Thai companies, stock trading, property....

You're welcome. ????

1 hour ago, moontang said:

a gun in the wrong hands is no worse than a car in the wrong hands.

????

6 hours ago, sangtip2 said:

And so  if your kid takes your car and kills someone you should go to jail ???

lol

What do you think he was doing, riding the gun to school like High Ho Silver? ????

5 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

The tsunami thread is fascinating as you can watch the realization occur about what just happened.

Link?

The 3 year old just wandered off. ????

5 hours ago, Fancyzancy said:

Just what brings you to say American culture coming to Thailand, There are many issues from around the world. 

 

The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html

9 hours ago, moontang said:

Yep, a tourist visa, as in one...

Not everyone here is on tourist visas ya know....

Study

Marriage

Kids

Retirement if 50+

Elite.

For example studying Thai and a few hours online work is a nice free and easy existence for them. Or while studying in a university here. ???? 

14 minutes ago, Just Weird said:

Who do they teach, then?

They do it remotely for foreign companies with foreign customers.

Fully legal to do on a Tourist Visa as explained by immigration police. 

9 minutes ago, Nakmuay887 said:

Do those online teaching gigs include a work permit? I suspect they do not 

They don't need one as they're working remotely. Just go to one of the 1000's of co-working spaces around Thailand.

Fully legal to do, as already explained by immigration police. ???? 

“It turns out that the reason for the raid wasn’t because we were working online, it was because they thought Punspace was illegally hiring western staff without work permits. They did not know the concept of a co-working space or why we would pay to use an office,” he said on his blog.

The owners of Punspace were helpful, he added, bringing lunch for those affected and giving them a free month’s use of the facilities.

Chiang Mai immigration officials said at a press conference in August that “digital nomads” – people who can work remotely from anywhere – would be able to do so on a tourist visa.

https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citynews/general/immigration-officers-raid-popular-co-working-space/

The 2 'people' in the photo, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to refer to them as women, as that might be massively offensive to some, as perhaps they demand to be known and referred to to as 'Gender Fluid Specimens of Life' and using a pronoun such as 'she' is committing a hate-crime. 

Somchai McNulty. 

2 minutes ago, Percy P said:

But I've seen a man,woman two children a baby in the woman's arms all on the motor cycle and all could be wiped out .There's no thinking of what could happen and nothing is done about it.

You even see Westerns on scooters here with kids on them.

Must be retards.