Sir Swagman

While this may not be beyond the bounds of what could occur here……it might pay to look at your calendar 

Does that mean Dhaka, Calcutta and Tiboobura ranked above Pattaya?

I worked for this company - glad I haven't posted the sort of things I saw and experienced on a near daily basis!

Who gives advice to these people? What possible good could result from this legal action - nothing positive to most people I think.

I am always amazed that there are so many qualified parachutists in Thailand

Interesting that she could use Google translate with no phone??? Unless of course her 'state of shock' was insufficient, allowing her to have the wherewithal to use that of the guard

13 hours ago, arick said:

Maybe they should start running the airlines by diesel cuz the diesel prices are really low again

Jet Fuel pretty much is diesel - current price  (and of course it fluctuates) is close to 55 Cents USD/Litre. Wish I could buy diesel at that price!

As a traveller in aluminium tubing from a previous life I can tell you most of what is posted is BS. Thai regs are not much different from international ones (standards are another matter!) and if you weigh some passengers you have to weigh them all. Mixing average weights and actual is not permitted. Cargo loading is, unless the ULDs (the containers holding underfloor baggage on most larger transport aircraft are individually weighed - something I have not seen), not loaded by members of Mensa. Bags are just chucked into the nearest available box (if labelled fragile it will be thrown gently however). I guarantee that Load Control for any airline, seating more than about 30 passengers, does not have the capability to distribute passenger weights, either by zone or row, if individual weights are applied. It would take so long to enter individual weights to the system that check in times would need to be extended by perhaps an hour. They will use average weights to trim the aircraft. Standard passenger weights used to be 77Kg + carry on (average or limit) + actual checked baggage to achieve a load and thereby calculate takeoff weight, from which other performance parameters flow. There was (for a while at least) a standard passenger weight that applied to Asia (I think around 66Kg, from memory) but thanks to Macdonalds and the like, that is hardly applicable now. Leaving the US and some European ports the aircraft always slightly under-performed as the standard weights were exceeded by the vast majority of passengers. 

The ONLY reason this is being promulgated is to make money by saving fuel and engine wear and tear (reduced thrust takeoff) - safety is the very last thing on the mind of the accounts running airlines these days.

Is it possible for 'them' to make up their minds? "Tourism is up", "Tourism is down" which is it - more to the point, who cares - beyond those filling in the numbers on what must resemble a Sudoku puzzle when it comes to government statistics

You could pretty much write a template script for all the stupid things faring men do when deciding Thailand is 'it' (I am not much of an exception here BTW). It is always 'different with this one' etc etc etc. True love....LOL

In reality they could replace all the currency sniffing dogs used at airports with almost any Thai woman, they would do a much better job!

Is it not a pretty sad indictment on a country such as the USA that the candidates on offer are hardly relevant, let alone inspiring? Of course the USA is not alone in this, most 'Western" democracies suffer from the same paucity of quality in politicians. 

I have a theory that we are governed based on revenge. Most politicians are the sort of people that, as children, didn't play sport and probably had their lunch money stolen, they did join chess and debating clubs perhaps and now....It's their turn!

Police 'on the beat"? In Thailand? More likely that, by coincidence, they were there on the way to get lunch or some such vital assignment.

CSI can’t be arsed to do my job, Pattaya - hopefully not coming to a station near you

Incomprehensibly the government is completely overlooking the untapped and potentially lucrative market in Inuit tourism. This group, along with other igloo dwellers, remain a tantalising source of tourist dollars. They could predict, plan, expect and forecast to their hearts content, the revenue stream potential that groups used to eating seal meat and other marine protein could generate from the consumption of the rotting crab and fish delicacy so many dishes contain. 

If the crowd of coup leaders could, just for once, announce a definitive, incontrovertible statement, it may go something like this.......

We, in consultation with almost everyone we have not been speaking to, have reached a final, penultimate, initial, possible statement. We have, or have not, decided, or are considering, to not activate the dynamic program now in full effect. Published results will be in line with our expectations regardless of facts. We expect all of society to conform.

The idea that this group of coup leaders are 'progressive' in looking at casinos, weed etc. is hilarious. there is only one motivator here, as usual.....money. If they and their cronies can make mountains ps dosh out of it it is a good thing, otherwise.....forget it.

I thought Huan-kin was a town in China till I discovered Smirnoff.

My ex wife thought Koo King and Fuh King were towns in China too 

Not fair on him really. He has been right behind the Thai people, leading from the front, backing them up and showing the way. I think it could be called Quantum Governance?

Banks, who, like insurance companies basically rip off their customers at every opportunity, get bailed out by governments when the faecal matter hits the rotating cooling device, why should this be different?

Last time I checked, having an accident, especially a fatal one, wasn't contagious. Why are people comparing Covid with road deaths? Talk about apples and oranges.......

21 hours ago, webfact said:

Critics fear that once the army gets a slice of the pie, it could use its stake to gain political influence – an idea that does not sit well in a land rocked by pro-democracy protests

Luckily that hasn't happened so far......

I had better stop going out with that rusty nail then......