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Just read a thread in Thai forum about a Thai in Bangkok trying to report a next door neighbor in a condo AirBnB-ing that has 'guests' coming and going in late hours at night and banging on doors, being a nuisance and such they contact every department from immigration to the hotel association and even inland revenue to dob the neighbour in, all of the government bodies they tried contacting just take their details or give them the run-around to contact other department so doesn't appear to be any real crackdown.

The moral of the story is that unless you can vote it some rule at the Condo's AGM and have solid management/juristic person that enforce it, don't expect enforcement from the authorities.

Any condo bylaws that can mitigate airBnB practice is likely to be infringing on other co-owners rights and some condos might already have rules/practice that overstepped their bounds already

On 16/11/2560 at 9:02 PM, rott said:

Seems to me that in general in Thailand, putting the relevant price tag in front of the appropriate item is a vague aspiration rather than a basic requirement. And therefore not regarded as high priority.

Other  customers could've moved the product, and most price tag has name of the product on them provided that you could read to check for sure

4 minutes ago, tolsti said:

it is not the job of the management to register short term rentals. It is the responsibility of the owner of the unit. By undertaking the task of registration the management are declaring themselves implicated in an illegal act.

If the management 'doesn't know' and didn't even see if money has changed hands then there has been no illegal rental witnessed. They are within their rights to facilitate the co-owners in offering service to register TM30 on the behalf of the co-owners

ดอง is used to signify relation through marriage

like if you're married to a family, your family members is considered to be ดองกัน

เกี่ยวดอง is the long form

so ฝรั่งดอง could be a good pun if you're the in law

You could technically have 'guests' stay over and how are they going to prove that they are indeed your 'friends' that has come over from abroad.

Other loophole is that there is no law preventing you to let to a juristic person like a company, usually the 'no subletting' is in normal rental contract but if both party agree the company renting from the condo owner could have whoever come and go as they choose

There are genuine business that rent a property long term for their employee but have different employee rotate in on a short term basis.

I don't see how any practice or condo by-law could prevent all case of short term rentals, maybe make life harder for the owner in that they must be present and register in all 'guests' in person, 

9 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

As far as I know (please correct if wrong) this is the only fuller menu Lanna restaurant in town.

There's also a little shophouse in a soi between Father Ray and Boonthaworn on Sukhumvit road that has decent Lanna cuisine

here

If you need it in a hurry, Bed Bath and Beyond (Old homeworks next to Big C South Pattaya) has some meguiars kit with the quick detailing spray but at a quite exorbitant price.

Ordering online you can get a lot cheaper 

 I use

chemicalguysthailand.com

2 hours ago, waxpro said:

As mentioned in above, I owned and sold several times: cars and motobikes, but never signed near my name,

In the case you case you said 2nd deal can transfer it easily without signature,

how about the passport / identity of the owner?

I agree there are some flexible corners everywhere in everything to use it in the wrong way, but not really sure about how they can do this by just doing fake signature,

if anyone experienced this before, plz share your comments, so that we can be better protected

 

If you don't sign in the blue/green book, when transferring, if they managed to get a hold of the actual book then they'd only need a photocopy of your ID where you're supposed to sign and signed power of attorney letter from you, and a contract of the sale obviously if done fraudulently all the signature would match since they can sign whatever in the blank blue book and it'd still match.

Signing in the book means at least they'd have to make at attempt to forge a similar looking signature to yours

I've had case where it's been a while since I first sign in the book and my signature has changed a bit so when it comes to transfer the lady at DLT had to ring me up to ask for additional details to confirm if it's really me

Other point is that once you've received the blue book, sign where your name is in the book, otherwise department of land transport will accept any matching signature and can transfer the ownership to anyone with power of attorney's letter. Signing the blue book makes it an extra step harder for anyone to forge your details. Sometime 2nd hand dealer will prefer 'unsigned' blue book as it makes it easier for them to transfer the car around.

ข้า is valid in this context, but it stopped being used in normal vernacular at least 50-80 years ago, to use it on unsuspecting public would get blank looks from them, also there are many meanings for ข้า such as "I" 

another word is ไพร่ which although also quite antiquated, is readily accepted to mean 'serf' or servants

On 16/1/2561 at 10:47 AM, tgeezer said:

It would seem that if a saying is not used properly people take them literally. When we research a saying we are doing something which most Thais do not do. Schoolbooks think that ภาษิต พังเพย and สำนวนไทย are an important element of the language, a ม5 book I have devotes some twenty pages to them, listing about 400. Incidentally neither of the two here get a mention there and ย้อมแมวขาย isn’t in any of my books of ‘sayings’.


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The other day there was a thread in Pantip.com from a guy who can't understand the สำนวน "ศีลเสมอกัน"

ศีล in buddhist context is literally: norms but in use in Thai has become 'precepts' or 'commandments' 

Typical Buddihist take 5 'precepts' like thou shall not 1,kill , 2lie, 3steal, 4drink alcohol, 5commit adultery

some take more like 8, male monks take 227

ศีลเสมอกัน is now used to talk about couple, like husband and wife that they are 'of the same cloth' and has no longer any religious connotation, but the Thai guy couldn't get his head around that it's just a figure of speech

ข้า is antiquated so that would throw them off, otherwise คนใช้ 

You seem to assume that Thailand operate under a rule of law

They may appear so, having institutions and documents that appear like it

MA-LA Craze

Not an actual restaurant visit/review but a note to keep an eye out for the new Thai restaurant craze of MA-LA (Chinese for spicy)

Basically a bbq type restaurant with spicy Szechuan pepper sauce on various things on skewer and of course Szechuan pepper soup.

This trend were first around Northern Thailand and is now everywhere in Bangkok, most are outdoor type like a all you can eat BBQ place, with probably cheap and not very good quality ingredients, but hey, if you want tingly MA-LA Szechuan pepper, they've got it. 

It's only a matter of time when one opens in Pattaya

18 hours ago, janclaes47 said:

 

 

Am I the only one who is confused?

 

The 5 new toll booths will remain FREE until April 19, but the cost from Pattaya to Chonburi ( which has always been free ), remains 60 Baht until April 18.

Article is wrong, from Bangkok to Pattaya is 60 baht, pay at Pattaya's gate same 60 as before where you pay at the Chonburi Gate until April

The old  booths at Chonburi (Pan Thong) are being dismantled now

17 hours ago, greatwhitenorth said:

 

ประตูเสีย

 

pronounced pratu seeya

That'd get the shop to direct you to a body shop or a hardware store to find a hinge or something

ราคี and มลทิน is like a patina, if a woman's been touched by a man she is said to have them

มลทิน is also used in context of criminal case where once someone clears their name they are said to no longer have any  หมด มลทิน

What's worse, sandals with socks or no shirts beyond 2nd road?

In theory once they got rid of the big Chonburi bound tolls and each exit has their own tolls there should be less queue as Pattaya bound traffic only pays once to exit at Pataya, and Rayong bound traffic pays at 36 exit, and countless other along the way like Sri Racha/Laem Chanbang

The remaining bottleneck would then be the Bangkok bound final toll

On the 7 as you head just past the airport, before turning into 9 there's roadworks and congestion in the afternoon/evening of around 40 minute wait

years ago DTAC, the Mobile company called their pay as you go line DPrompt, and in Thai it sounds like ดี พร้อม

Just because the sign aren't temporary doesn't mean it can't be replaced at a later date at significant cost

The one in Harbor on Klang is empty most of the time, they probably terminate their lease on the 31st December, only yesterday they were still moving the fixtures away and the shop is now boarded up

Chao tee sood, (the earliest morning)

or

Rot Kun Raek (The first car/bus) is best understood

When is Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day every year? 

SAME DAY EVERYYEAR

It's not a holiday like Easter or other Lunar calendar-based day that moves around

B-b- but Pattaya is on diffrent date.....

Yes, the 19th, every year, any festivities before or after that date is spill over from other area