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1 hour ago, BritManToo said:
Sometimes but rarely, it's usually easier to just choose another hotel.
I would just say no.
The last 30-40 hotels I stayed at with Booking.com, Agoda, AirBnB haven't asked, and wouldn't have got.
I doubt the entire door in a Thai 3* hotel would be worth 600bht.
At my hotel in Asoke they ask for 1000฿ deposit, which they hand back to me when I check out a day or 5 later ... And the problem is ... ?
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25 minutes ago, toolpush said:
I finished building my house in 1999 and installed a 80,000 baht Aussie solar water heater. It bit the dust in about 8 years. I bought and installed a local product for 55,000 baht and it lasted about 5 years. I did the same again for another 55,000 baht. Total = 190,000 baht for intermittent hot water and no hot water on rainy/cloudy days or Dec, Jan and Feb. Basically, I was an idiot. I now have an electric tank heater that has 24/7/365 hot water. I could have bought a lot of electricity for 190,000 baht.
But for your calculation & comparison to be accurate you need to factor in your electricity costs for your traditional-style hot water - so the answer comes out: 190K - X
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Perfectly normal. Covers your drinks from the fridge in case you fail to mention them when you leave.
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Pigs will drown rather than fly.
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It was my wunnerful tax accountant people who offered me up as a virtuous sacrifice. I didn't have any valid ground to object, unfortunately.
Sigh, that's the price of virtue. $7K isn't the end of the world (though I have stressed to my b/f that actually making some money from his fighting roosters might not be a bad idea!).
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The problem is that ordinary Thai people have little idea how to make things happen - yes, use the media but you need NUMBERS - not just 5 or 10 people, 500 or 1000. Then the local police & governor start to take notice.
Then you need PERSISTENCE so they start to actually DO something - like arrest fire burners and fine them with REAL money ...
Any trade unions in this benighted country? I've never heard of one ...
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48 minutes ago, MichelleRawai said:
Oh yes that's what I'm afraid of!... What were you taxed on though? Aus income or foreign income? And what rate? Had you been filling out tax returns?
My income is and always has been entirely Australian (super + investments) paid in Oz. So no escaping the ATO.
I have been doing Oz tax returns every year of my adult life, including the last 4 years from here in Thailand but the 1st 3 were as 'Resident for Tax Purposes'. And obviously I'm not about to revise those 3 returns!
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I have just had the inevitable but unpleasant experience of being declared Non-Resident for Tax Purposes by the ATO, after 4 years living in Thailand. Can't wriggle out of it, lose tax-free threshold and a few 'poor person' subsidies. Net effect: Extra $7000 to cough up, which I have just done. Sigh.
If only life in Thailand were as cheap as it used to be!
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Fingers crossed. Quite apart from health matters, the whole world economy and supply trains of all kinds in all directions and in just about all countries are grinding to a halt.
We may yet have a new generation - well, several actually - who will have to learn from their grand- and great-grand parents how to raise spuds, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, beans, chooks, apples, oranges ... how to milk a cow, ride a horse ... Heavens, I feel exhausted already.
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32 minutes ago, mercman24 said:
wow a brain dead idiot, his thinking, * i am an army deserter, keeping low profile under the radar, i know, let me post some utter rubbish about me wanting to be a mass murderer* (and he gets LIKES?) yep, that will work. this clown needs serious jail time, not just back to barracks, to deter any other idiots who think it is a good thing to post this sort of stuff on social media
A half-decent NCO will take care of him.
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37 minutes ago, SiSePuede419 said:
Get out to the country and you probably won't see any.
Yes, but don't come to Surin, please.
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Stay at home with a pile of good books to ward of Alzheimer's.
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2 hours ago, smedly said:I am starting to wonder how far back people should be checking, I visited Bangkok on the 2nd Jan and used buses - BTS etc, at that time there was no mention of a virus but I certainly was amongst a lot of people during my visit in what I would call "close contact" but then that was just one day of 40 days since and people in Bangkok do that on a daily hourly basis - but even so
Best to keep away from crowds and, above all, confined spaces. Planes & cruise ships come to mind.
Friends of mine in Canberra have just cancelled an Easter trip to here in Surin. Hours in a plane, breathing in everyone else's viruses, and the prospect of "up to 3 months" confinement on a desert island off Oz on return ...
Meanwhile, Chinese tourists continue to pour in to this fair land. The competence of the Thai government makes the State governments in Oz look like models of productivity and probity.
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(1) Any masks available in Surin? None that I can find, not that I propose to wear one for the moment but I guess the time is not far off ...
(2) I assume that the falangs who refused the 'Health' Minister's offerings at Siam BTS thought he was just a no-good salesman trying to make a quick buck off others' sickness.
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You could always try a book. Much better for the aging brain and they tend not to break down.
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It would be reassuring to hear from the Thai Government on a number of issues:
- What is their plan for stopping the inflow of tourists and other visitors from China once even the government is convinced of the need?
- What is their plan for supplying high-quality and middling-quality face masks at reasonable prices to ALL the peoples of Thailand, not just central Bangkok?
- What is their plan for increasing the testing-for-contamination capability of the Thai laboratories from the present half-a-dozen a day to 1000 or 5000 or 10,000 a day if required in the next 3 or 4 weeks?
Still dreaming.
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The photo of the 2 PMs is interesting: As Chinaman speaks, Thai PM has a post-coronal change of focus.
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1 hour ago, micmichd said:
Maybe he survived a couple of virus attacks before and now has a strong immune system.
Yes, hard to be a taxi driver anywhere in the world if you don't have a well-functioning immune system!
People who catch influenza can carry on much as usual, with just a sore throat and feeling a bit low, or they can die from it if already unhealthy, or anywhere in between.
Nothing unusual about this taxi driver, and not surprising that the Thai authorities make the most of him to reassure the populace. But of course cynicism and conspiracy theories are the default mechanism to reassure elderly falangs of their superiority ...
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2 hours ago, Susco said:
To me there is a difference between poor farmers encroaching to harvest some food to feed poor people, and a rich politician building a chicken farm on more than 700 Rai.
Either way the forests disappear!
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Anxiety ⇒ Panic ⇒ xenophobia ⇒ fascism
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12 minutes ago, WaveHunter said:
A lot of credible sources believe that the "Spanish" Flu actually originated in China. China sure has quite a track record for bringing the world such gifts !
And one of the reasons - perhaps the main one, for ought I know - is the large number of people there living cheek by jowl with large numbers of domesticated animals. The animals are the source of the virus or bacteria which then gets transmitted to humans & thence from human to human ...
Which I am reminded of every day here in south Surin as I observe my Khmer family living amongst cattle, chooks, dogs, fish, and insects of all kinds, with little distinction between 'inside' and 'outside' the house and little evidence ever of handwashing. And my b/f is much the same with his children-I-mean-roosters, injected fed and washed lovingly every day ...
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As the situation worsens (assuming it does - which, for now, looks likely), and with Thailand generally and Bangkok in particular at the top of official lists of places outside China exposed to the threat, it will be fascinating to watch the Thai 'government's' actions (if any).
Other countries - Europeans, Oz - are already closing down as much travel contact with China as possible, but Thailand is still welcoming planeloads from China every day ...
As road safety here shows us daily, risk management is not a strength.
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Friends! Let us not forget the frenulum of life. It is forever with us.
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AUD already rising in expectation that RBA will not further reduce interest rates next Tuesday, in which case AUD will rise further against THB.
Virus shaving tourism in half, minister says
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And of course not the least hint of a reference to the Thai public's health safety and the possibility that the virus may become an ongoing middle-level pandemic centered on um our um good friends to the north-east.