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8 hours ago, clockman said:

When you lift a stone in Thailand. Always something nasty!

A few years ago my daughter (a health official) uncovered a similar nasty event featuring an 8-year-old girl. That was in the UK. Not just Thailand.

3 hours ago, Beats56 said:

What Some people get their jollies from is way out there. Different strokes for different fokes. Just not my cup of tea.

 

 

Folks?

7 hours ago, jaltsc said:

 “ 'did it absolutely' because he disliked the military. '

 

Great work national police!!! You found the one person in Thailand who dislikes the military.

In my opinion more grassroots Thais prefer the military than do not. It's only the farangs here, with their weird ideas culled from Western media propaganda, that are opposed to the military.

Does anyone have a working email for the chiang Mai polce: Preferably tourist but any other will do

Thanks

22 hours ago, sgracer said:

a lot of these racing cyclists are a-holes.

I hope people don't confuse these so-called vegan cyclists with people who have ridden bikes all their lives and ride sensibly and with respect to others.

Most of the non-vegan (and one or two vegan) cyclists here in Chiang Mai are decent people. Most of us are out riding a few days a week, keeping ourselves healthy and not hanging about the bars in town watching our bellies get increasingly fatter.

6 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

Clearluky he needed to be charged with the death. But he is no so cocky now. Before on Facebook.  No w hiding his face. Says it all ....

Such an unnecessary and sad comment. I know Danny and I know this guy is totally devastated. No need to be charged in this case. I wish him the best of luck under the so-called Thai 'justice' system.

Durian Rider is extremely bad news for Chiang Mai. The vegans are mostly in a cult ruled by Durian Rider who is here on a tourist visa but is earning money and working. He is possible quite dangerous. The immigration should throw him out. Most of these people are not 'cyclists' in my understanding of the word. Totsal nutcases as a whole. But one r two nice people (but misguided) within their group. Wish they'd go away.

Now it's time to free the Burma 2.

The coffee shops that work are the ones that are well-located or have low overheads. Consider this: In Chiang Mai there are 100s of coffee shops. The ones that seem to be effective serve a limited menu of food as well as a wide range of drinks. The ones with customers also have some 'extras':

1. Kids' play area, safe and fun with perhaps sand, bouncy thing, swings and so on.

2. A theme to attract people with a particular interest: cycling for example so cycling groups are offered small discounts, cycling videos etc (many ideas here)

3. Good quality and unusual ice cream (not nestle/walls!). Or other nice cakes that are home made and not the standard fare you find in every coffee shop!

4. Starbucks in Chiang Mai Central Plaza is packed to the gills: but their coffee is hugely expensive and not tasty. Why do peeps go there? Do a survey and find out?

5. A meeting evening for singles (we're not talking sex here)

Anyway: Good luck

Remember that a successful business always has some charisma that the opposition lacks!

On 5/13/2017 at 2:18 PM, SiamBeast said:

If you marry a girl, leave her in Thailand and live somewhere else, she WILL whore around. No girl will spend her prime years patiently waiting for her husband to come see her when she can have better options.

 

Thai wives have sex at least once a week - whether you're there or not.

 

 

Do they? Can someone inform my wife?

Are you being rude howard? Why?

My response is to the troopers' explanation: Likely story!!!

1 hour ago, bangkokairportlink said:

Who is the farang snitch who went there to work for the mibs ? What a low so life some foreigners have in this country.

 

 

Probably a christian missionary

Shoot first, ask questions afterwards (or not). Great to see we have a democratic judicial process in Thailand.

4 hours ago, idman said:

Good on her, teach the adulterer a lesson he wont soon forget. If they stay together he had better sleep in a separate bedroom or risk the old snip snip in the middle of the night. A scorned Thai woman is a frightful thing.

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"The adulterer" sounds very over-the-top moralistic. Perhaps you know more than your post reveals.

This is a cultural problem. Yes, most Thai people know how to think but thinking for yourself is discouraged by the very nature of the culture here. It starts off in the family: The father is the undisputed head of the family, what he says goes, what he tells you to do, you do. He may be an oaf and his reasoning skills may be deficient, but he is your father, so obey and don't answer back. School: This hierarchical attitude is continued in schools: learn by rote, don't question, don't think. There is no creative thinking or any encouragement to do independent research. There is no failure and therefore no success. Teachers are not allowed to fail the kids and this in itself discourages creative thinking and leaping out of the box! Work: The same attitude is carried forward to the work culture and in any case by the time you are at work then you've been pretty much brainwashed. So your manager/director comes up with stupid ill-thought schemes and you can't question, improve and so on. You simply carry out the instruction. Ask any counter staff, for example, a question that demands a decision or decisive thinking and you'll see what happens! And this attitude is carried right up the hierarchy so anyone who is in a higher position than you, or has more money than you has the power and cannot be questioned. So if you ever ask yourself why some road design is so stupid, or a government decision beggars belief, then look no further than this explanation. Until this attitude changes then nothing will change for the better in Thailand.

The biggest injustices? Let's start with Koh Tao and the 2 Burmese boys. This is such a bloody disgrace .................. Not to mention the other end of the scale - the Red Bull heir ......and on it goes ...........

28 minutes ago, louse1953 said:

Your last sentence coukd be an urban myth,but we will never know.That's why the missus name goes on it,no probs so far.

Actually you may be correct. When we ordered in the wife's maiden name we did not face such punative charges.

In my experience DHL in Thailand stinks. I've had many problems: Shipment from Taiwan of cycle clothing for my Thai wife where the DHL shipping charges, handling charges, extra charges, VAT, inmport duty ended up being more than the value of the items. I refused the shipment and it eventually got back to Taiwan and I had a refund. Condor Cycles sent me a new frame from London as a replacement for an old frame that had been damaged. I have been with Condor for years so I get a good discount. DHL added the discount back on, added the British VAT back on, charged me for handling the item, 7% VAT on all the charges including the British VAT and shipping etc, plus customs duty at 33% on the whole lot all meant in the end that I was supposed to pay them far more than I had paid Condor for the frame. Eventually they relented (I think pressure from the London DHL office) but I still ended up paying 5000 baht more than if they had applied the correct charges. This has happened a few times. In eight years it has never happened with shipments sent via EMS/Post Office.Each time I have to pay EMS charges they are fair, reasonable and acceptable. It makes me ask the question: What exactly is the relationship and deal between DHL and it's embedded customs officers. Their bat does not seem to be straight! So my advice: Avoid DHL like the plague - easier said than done because some suppliers only use DHL.

56 minutes ago, Shoeless Joe said:

Likely a troll post.

 

But 2400+ posts by you would indicate that you've been here for at least a couple of Songkrans and should by now know the answer. But just in case....No, the celebrations probably won't be finished until Tuesday when the Govenrment Offices re-open  (oh and why do you have to call the those enjoying and celebrating the Songkran Festival in their (now) traditional way, idiots)? Don't be so selfish, you have 361 other days when you can be a nuisance on the roads.

 

Regards,

 

Joe

I like to communicate with people who have some intelligence and the social ability to respond to posts in a polite manner.

Will they all be finished today, Saturday. Or are we expecting the idiots to be out on the roads on Sunday? I want to go cycling without being subject to their dangerous games.

14 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

He's hardly what could be called a dynamic leader....great education and not a fool.......

He's never won or been close to winning an election for the DP.

His time as PM was as a stooge of the elite, and during his tenure, was almost pretty much useless in getting any issues passed through the house.....he was impotent almost in his role...then came an election and he faded once again into insignificance remaining the DP leader....but granted, they had no other candidate suitable....and likely still don't.

It is incorrect to say that he "is a stooge of the elite". Shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the political situation here. But if you make statements like this, please produce your reasoning.

3 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Is this wet blanket wannabe, Abhisit, still relevant....it's him and these types of people that need to step aside, and it's really no wonder that without desperately needed new and intelligent blood, (a decidedly rare commodity), coming into politics, Thailand will remain a pretty hopeless pit of ineptness.

I don't agree. Abhisit was/is one of the few politicians to think outside of the Thai 'box' - which is a strait-jacket imposed by the Thais' cultural norms. I have often argued that what we see in Thailand is a nation of free spirits: whatever laws are enacted, are ignored; corruption is endemic and unlikely to change; education does not educate but reinforces the cultural norms (especially the hierarchical nature of the teacher/pupil relationship). One of the reasons that I like Abhisit is that he knows the world and he has experienced democracy at work in the UK. He fully understands that his hands are tied - he opposed corruption within his own ranks but was left unable to do much about it. For those who continue their sloganeering "Bring back Democracy" they miss one essential point: There has never been democracy in Thailand. Democracy can only exist within the context of the rule of law and we all know how sadly lacking that is here. The education system, where kids are taught not to question, means that this attitude is carried on throughout the average working life. You don't question your boss however ridiculous his suggestions and this applies throughout society which is why you get these strange and unworkable directives here. The constitution does emphasize ending corruption and establishing the rule of law, but I can't see that happening. So Thailand will stumble from one crisis to the next - whoever the leader and whatever the party. It won't change until the education system and the system of family hierarchy changes. And I can't see that happening in a long while.

There is nothing more stupid than riding in the back of a pick up. But because it has been custom and practice in many areas (taking workers to building sites, kids to school and so on) it would be difficult to change behaviours. Easy solution? A little bit of lateral thinking may help here. How about speed restricting picks ups with flat bed passengers to 40km per hour. This would resolve the social issues and introduce a measure of care/safety. Logical thinking really but logic never seems to apply in Thailand.

Is Songkran limited to just the Thursday-Saturday? Perhaps the City may not be so but how about the countryside?