Jonathan Swift

1 minute ago, wombat said:

They should have made that figure 10 million dollars.

oopsie. Instead, they get about $275,000. No math whizzes in government  I guess. 

On 9/6/2022 at 2:57 AM, 2baht said:

Well, just what is the vibe on Walking Street? ????

The vibe is you don't do this unless you know it's a working girl and that it's OK. The vibe is that there are hundreds of ordinary people and tourists walking around just taking in the sights who do not deserve to be degraded or sexually assaulted by folks like you. How is it you're not smart enough to know this? 

He can sue the airline, I've done it, it works, it's cheaper for them to pay you than to go to court. I am this moment filing a suit against Saudia (Saudi Arabian Airlines) for stranding me in Saudi Arabia and no one helping to book a new connecting flight. You look for the local office in your country, usually at the airport, and you serve the papers or send a copy of the complaint there. You'll get a phone call within 48 hours. Make sure they know that you're ready to post a tiktok video if they don't want to play ball. 

13 hours ago, Emdog said:

He would never consider that perhaps his behavior may be the reason she wants to look for farang hubby?

No, such things do not enter the minds of such people

17 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Still feel the need to talk about Thai behavior, pathetic.

16 hours ago, robblok said:

When drunk people have a short fuse. That might have something to do with it. But it would be so bad if this was intentional. I mean he could not be that stupid to do something like that on purpose and thinking to get away with it.

He's probably what people call a mean drunk. A personality change occurs when they drink and they become obnoxious and violent. I'm just speculating, he might also just be a full time ɑ$$hole.  

17 hours ago, Jerno said:

Wonder why foreigners are not really welcome in Thailand?  This is why.  Jerk-wah, dipstick, idiot, ignoramus, stupid  IRRESPONSIBLE ass.

Speaking of ignoramuses, on the contrary, foreigners are not unwelcome here. Most Thai people know better than to judge everyone because of the actions of a few. Do you? This is one incident. People get drunk and drive all the time, people from every country and all walks of life. Some end in tragedy unfortunately. However, stories about foreigners tend to capture news coverage. I've been here 10 years, and I have only a few times personally detected an anti foreigner sentiment, it was never overt, and I understand it and don't criticize it. I can understand the idea that foreigners may be seen as invaders and interlopers to the native way of life. I can understand the resentment toward all these "rich" pensioners running around not having to work while Thai people work day and night just to barely survive. But the reality as to most Thai people's sentiments is nothing like what you claimed. I have had more Thai people, from police to the average person on the street, go out of their way to make me feel welcomed and comfortable as guests in their country, to them it is a matter of pride to extend welcome and hospitality. I regularly see the occasional police officer or BTS security guard salute me with a smile as I walk by.  Feel free to voice your views, but don't expect them to mean anything if there is no education behind them. Maybe it's just YOU being made to feel unwelcome, maybe it's your attitude. You don't sound like the kind of person that I would welcome anywhere. 

11 hours ago, Songlaw said:

I expect a lot of visceral over-reaction to this but uncovering the nearly infinite parallels between Thailand and the USA has been a continuous source of bemusement for quite some time. Holy mother of <deleted>.

I wasn't aware that Thailand had a problem with schoolchildren being mowed down with AR15s nearly every other week. And this subject bemuses you? Let's hope we never meet in a bar somewhere, I may vomit at your presence.

To all of you armchair quarterbacks and self professed experts, it doesn't take much force to snap someone's neck or cause a fatal head injury if one is unprotected. It can be a matter of chance as to who survives an impact regardless of how fast or slow they might be traveling. People die just from falling and hitting their heads on sidewalks, causing fractures and cerebral hemorrhages. Happens all the time. And it's quite possible that a responsible person might take a trip to a 7-11 for a few beers and transport them without actually being roaring drunk - the intent might be to responsibly bring said beers home before consuming. The point is, there is insufficient information in the story to draw any conclusions whatsoever, and it serves no useful purpose to speculate. When the driver's toxicological report comes in and is made public, when the accident investigators have submitted their reports, then you can start having a few sensible conversations. 

8 hours ago, Thunglom said:

This amateur apportioning of blame needs to stop. 

It has nothing to do with road safety and is counter-productive. These comments are made by people who have no details of what happened but just love to make assumptions.

The issues here are not to blame people but to find out what happened and how it can be prevented from happening again.

There are a lot more factors that need to be taken into account than simplistically blaming a drunk for everything.

What about emergency services? were they quick and well equipped? did they receive car on the spot?

What was the road surface like? What about street lighting and vehicle lighting, what were the road and weather conditions,

Was the scene of the accident analysed by a trained crash crew? - where is the crash report.

In all likelihood we will never know, we'll just get a quick off-the-cuff hypothesis from the local cop who is trying to justify his job.

Until this attitude amongst the authorities, the public and expats changes there will be no improvement in road safety in Thailand.

 

That's not fair - you're using common sense, logic, and reason against a bunch of uninformed schlubs whose sense of self importance is tied to the loudness of their opinions, and not the validity thereof. 

9 hours ago, Bobtheblob said:

Rip, but have to think why they searching under the seat and stating they found alcohol before tests have been conducted.

It's called police work. Standard procedure. The story was very short and contained very few facts, certainly not enough to justify some of the nonsense comments here. There is a lot that is not known or disclosed in the story. 

3 hours ago, Thunglom said:

 

And As said your premises were demonstrably wrong.

No real look at the evidence and just some ideas based on prejudice.

the evidence of the photo contradicts most of what you say.

 

now you are just talking nonsense trying to justify your original blunders you are trying to move the goal posts

 

"Possibly because one is dead and other seriously injured?

 

At 1 AM, they were on a main road away from the main population centres and carrying alcohol. What were the chances that they were drunk and speeding?" - you're trying to say they were drunk and speeding you are not postulating you're trying to say that's what happened with I would say LESS than a scant regard for logic.

 

 

 "Death and serious injury imply speed" - no they don't - again you make adssumptions

 

.If he had just turned into a side road then there wouldn't be the speed f"actor required to result in that outcome. You are now trying to back up a false premise you made earlier

 

If it was in any doubt you then say - “that's what I think happened.”

 

you language is quite clear in black and white. 

 

 

Waste of time trying to reason with people who lack basic reasoning skills in the first place. People who are not seeking to educate themselves will not learn. What we have here is a classic pseudo intellectual. 

10 hours ago, vangrop said:

The rescue workers arrived at the scene to find a damaged motorbike near a garbage truck owned by the Koh Samui Municipality. Under the motorbike seat rescue staff stated they found cans and bottles of beer.

 

Here we go again. The 2 Farangs were obviously drunken so they are the culprits, Van driver innocent, Case closed no further investigation needed.

Is English not your native language? There were no such presumptions implied or stated  in the story. It was a clear and simple statement of facts, reported without any bias whatsoever. I read it several times. You have an overactive imagination and a persecution complex on behalf of your poor fellow maligned farangs. Are you one of the ones always complaining about the imaginary "racism" of Thai people? Any farang who lives in Thailand is lucky to be here, and anyone who whines and complains about it should self deport and spare the rest of us any further obnoxiousness. It's you who give the rest of us "farangs" a bad name. 

15 hours ago, EricTh said:

How many taxi-drives in Thailand actually use meter? Almost none, all refused to use it when I asked in Bangkok.

 

So they have been overcharging customers for a long time now.

I don't know where you were in Bangkok but I've lived there for nine years (Makkasan) and rarely have I had that occur. It tends to happen very late at night when it does, after midnight in places like Nana etc. All you have to do is wave them off and flag down another until someone does use the meter. Most taxi drivers are decent working people. The bad eggs get a lot of attention though. You really ought not to spread misinformation, and should say nothing if you don't know what you're talking about. And you don't. Maybe you're just not a very nice person, and that's why the taxis don't want you. 

Weird sounding headline, in the US we don't call the sidewalks pavements, that's mostly what we call roads and parking lots. Technically anything that's paved can be called a pavement. But then the sidewalks in Bangkok are made of ceramic tiles, so what's up with that? They just finished replacing a whole lot of them all along Ratchaprarop and nearby streets. You can see those tiles in the photo. 

On 8/24/2022 at 9:53 PM, findlay13 said:

Such a pity he lost a finger Boo Hoo

"He then crossed the lane and crashed into his taxi from the front and slammed into the overpass railings, which sadly amputated his finger.". Sadly. 

On 8/24/2022 at 7:04 PM, RichardColeman said:

Chuck all these flaming arabs on toilet cleaning duty for 2 weeks if they do not stop it. 

I have a better idea. Deport all of the flaming bigots such as yourselves as undesirables. 

For those of you concerned about the money being mismanaged, I think it's still better to give with high hopes attached than to withhold because of something that might or might not happen. We shouldn't let cynicism take over our thought process. Then the bad guys win

18 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

I wonder why some people are so full of themselves that they post derogatory comments about people positing that they helped out?

Next time try "I know you are but what am I". Same level as your comment. Theirs was a legitimate comment. Some people do such things as much for their own egos as the other person. The phrase was some people. Some. Maybe 1%. Maybe 10%. Capiche?

17 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

I wonder why you perceive what people have done as them being full of themselves and their posts as being self-congratulatory.  (Actually, I don't.)

 

I realise you are very much of the mindset "Thai good - foreigner bad", but you could give it a rest where some foreign people are doing something nice for a Thai person in need.

 

Even if we were to pretend that you are correct, and the users that posted saying that they donated money did so out of vanity and the desire to show off, a very deserving person has received some free money to help her change her life for the better.

 

I see nothing but positives all round, but you choose to look for negatives.

You seem to be as full of prejudice yourself as you are suggesting. I see posts that are very likely as much self congratulatory as not. There is no cause for you to "perceive" the mindset of the commenter to be "Thai good - foreigner bad".  The commenter made an observation and a speculation. There was no hint otherwise as to his mindset or opinions. Project much?