Siamwhiteelephant

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

rising costs of raw materials, wages

Charming! Fat cat foreigner billionaire stokes the tier-priced system while oblivious to "rising" Thai "wages" and hotel charges already happening within this country.

On 10/29/2022 at 1:25 PM, keithkarmann said:

He gave his life, nobody took it.

He lost his life in the accident.

Probably a blunder. He might've forgotten the ammo was tucked away in a luggage pocket if he'd hurriedly packed before flying. Israelis are generally well-informed about security issues.

Another 'high quality tourist' exclusively desired for humongous spending of baht. He doesn't quite fit that narrative pushed by TAT, though. Guess they'd reverse the narrative on that one. 

10 hours ago, webfact said:

dangerous bend

Yes. It is a dangerous bend (for careless drivers). Road codes mention dangerous bends and road signs often show them.

Reenact? A cunning criminal would reenact differently, as would an innocent suspect overall, than in the crime investigated.

Belisha beacons are 'same same' as zebras at zebra crossings in Thailand - non-existent. The beacons are in many countries, including with the first zebra crossings in the UK, for additional visibility of zebra crossings for motorists. Though not addressing motorist attitude, wouldn't they help increase zebra crossing awareness here?

"... murdered by scythe" "... loud music blamed". Only people can murder and be charged, not inanimate objects or sound. 'With' and 'triggered' would be among suitable words to use with these extraneous things. 

3 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

Translation: as diehard anti-vaxxers die off, the rest of society will be better protected from Covid.

So, better still and long-term, the emergence of new anti-vaxxers among children transitioning to adulthood should be stymied by quality education about the verified importance of this vaccination and altruistic community health.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

Oz and NZ showed themselves to be two of the most timid, cowardly and fearful nations on earth. Not exactly something to be proud of, when you nation shuts down for 20 cases or so. 

Until recently, the governments of these island nations had a different approach: the zero Covid policy.   

Why didn't they survey all the retirees themselves, the ones this is all about? But reading other posts here reminds me that the situational and economic differences even between us is enormous.  I'm merely surviving. As for the media pitch, the consumption of heavily sugarcoated goods eventually results in what?

9 hours ago, Paulaew said:

Some additional guidance would be helpful. Are we supposed to call before or after?

 

Paul Laew

Reporting in the 1599 call saying “She does crack” would cover both before and after infractions, as it suggests she habitually does it. I’ve thought long and hard about what this street talk could mean. It would also avoid using the word ‘prostitution’ and give a lowdown on approaching the crackdown.

Flood risk management plans (FRMP) should’ve already been in place. Just quickly implement the plans when flooding seems imminent, instead of running around in circles. Root of the bigger problem is downriver - protecting the sinking city of Bangkok, originally built on river delta swampland.... Difficult - the West has sinking cities, too, like London and Amsterdam. Long term, Bkk faces more flooding and a rising sea level from global climate change. Groundwater extraction and the increasing weight of Bangkok’s infrastructure causes the sinking, some places about 2 cm. a year; the sea level rise is about 0.4 cm. a year. Short of the horrendously expensive relocation of the capital city, combat groundwater extraction and global climate change.

1 hour ago, inThailand said:

With it being named the Sandbox, the writing was in the sand on day one. 

Could rename it Quicksand Box after the quick reopening.

Siamese - She must be in the category of Siamese cat burglar. ???? Siamese cats are known to kind of bark rather than meow. She could've been barking mad to have stolen so many cats for so long.

3 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

What would poor people have to steal?

Poor people have to steal food just to survive ????????. They even have to steal cats to eat if their plight is catastrophic????.

It’s all about money. Instead of overt haemorrhaging contrivances for more money, I wish they would show or at least learn to respect all tourists by valuing hospitality, service and cultural interfaces.

8 hours ago, DefaultName said:

Even drunk, how do you not see a shipping container?  Those things are ***ing HUGE!

Yes, hard to believe. But could’ve been a case of "inattentional blindness", a phenomenon first coined by psychologists. That motorcyclist might’ve ridden down that road hundreds of times before and never encountered shipping containers partially blocking it. Much like the original invisible gorilla experiment in which the participants didn’t expect to see a gorilla showing up in the middle of the basketball game and missed seeing it, he wouldn’t have expected shipping containers in the road and failed to see it in time. By my own experience, while riding a motorbike on a dark inner London, UK street I'd ridden hundreds of time before, I crashed into an unilluminated, unmarked wooden railroad sleeper... It shouldn't have been there. It was at night, I was riding out of a turn, sober but tired, and I was an experienced motorcycle courier.

Contributory factors would've been his reduced alertness from the alcohol, the containers actually being moved at the time, night time, rain/water reflection? and so the high likelihood of few or no lights on the containers or warning signs, and you had a dangerous cocktail for this motorcycle accident.

2 hours ago, mahjongguy said:

That is such a wild statement, I must ask you for your source of information.

If you mean the NZ info., it appears ogb took from the news this week of just one death linked to the Pfizer vaccine but no deaths from Covid in NZ this year so far.  While hiding the statistics, you could even get away with saying "there were more deaths from the Pfizer vaccine than from Covid" because 'zero deaths' is a valid description upon which to base an assertion and the extremely low statistic is hidden. Of course, hiding extremely low statistics in this way makes a claim misleading and invalid.

27 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

what tunnel is it with light at end of ??,

mystery tunnnel

Robert Lowell — 'The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.'

1 hour ago, retayl said:

In addition to this I am in advanced stages of negotiations for the Thai government to purchase London Bridge.

"London Bridge" - knowing they won't get the old one having the drawbridge and two towers.

This info. clarifies it all, thanks. I appreciate your help a lot.

I need a visa to tide me over between teaching contracts during this long school holiday period. I’ve read the relevant visa info. but my situation is complicated in that I didn't obtain a work permit and haven't yet any new teaching job lined up for the next academic year. The teachers’ agency I was contracted with failed to process documentation for my work permit last semester, despite the co-operation of the government school I’d taught at and no ‘roadblocks’.  I had obtained a new 90-day Non-Immigrant B visa, which expires on Monday. I completed the contract but the agency hasn’t had its contract renewed with the school for the next academic year. I don’t want to continue with the agency, because of unpaid salary, etc. and I can’t obtain a new contract directly with the school.  Last November, I had to obtain a 30-day visa through a border run to Cambodia to tide me over to getting the Non-Immigrant B. I'm from an NES country. I think I could get only one more 30-day visa there (unless the two times visa applies to this calendar year), but it’d still be insufficient to tide me over.