NeoDinosaw

13 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Presumably he's booked his travel vehicle to wave to the 'fabled tourists' as they come out of the airport ?

Is that a toilet in the back of the pick-up ?   Not exactly private ........................    must be a public toilet ?

12 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:

Once again, not sure how the government could not anticipate this outcome when many of us idiots here on the TV did.

 

Better countries started working a year ago to relocate tourism workers they knew would be displaced for several years.

 

One begins to feel sorry for the Thais at some point

I always feel sorry for the majority of Thai people, but not their masters

6 hours ago, Charlie Halliday said:

Another bird <deleted> foreigner giving the rest of us a bad name. Lock him up. 

6 hours ago, Charlie Halliday said:

Another bird <deleted> foreigner giving the rest of us a bad name. Lock him up. 

6 hours ago, Charlie Halliday said:

Another bird <deleted> foreigner giving the rest of us a bad name. Lock him up. 

Right !!   This is the sort of tourist who makes Thais want to ban normal farang from coming back 

On 6/26/2021 at 6:58 AM, BangkokReady said:

 

A little vague...

"Her husband had sneaked off to marry his mistress according to Buddhist tradition "

If it is a Buddhist tradition that a husbands can sneak off to marry his mistress -  this must make it OK -  so what was all the fuss about ?

4 minutes ago, Almer said:

Ive got a relative in a tidy size travel agents in London and she confirmed nobody is booking anything other than a week on the Norfolk Broads

sounds like a good idea  -  sailing alone with a beer in hand, unmolested by jetski morons, and ale to stop at pubs - very relaxing.  I might give it a try ...

7 hours ago, Sticky Rice Balls said:

You win the internet today--kudos ????

I guess that Biggus Dickus  'Life of Brian'    would be OK

21 hours ago, Pravda said:

Prominent, Well Known, Leading, Distinguished, Knighted, Master, Captain, Commander, General, Overseer......

Putin ?

23 hours ago, Rhacsyn said:

In UK, the original recommendation was always 12 weeks but could be reduced to 8 or 9 in certain circumstances.......

C1254-covid-19-vaccination-programme-faqs-on-second-dose-v2-1.pdf 217.75 kB · 3 downloads

It's down to 8 weeks now in UK - my wife is half way through.   It was 10 weeks when I had my jabs in Feb and April

7 hours ago, Pravda said:

Is this a typo? 

 

Is it meant to say 1000 per day?

At last someone who can do sums  (including divisions !)

4 hours ago, khunPer said:

That could actually be a possibility, as it's said that Pompei were famous for something similar, and Pompei vanished from the surface almost two thousand years ago, i.e. 79 a.d...????

That could actually be a possibility, as it's said that Pompei were famous for something similar, and Pompei vanished from the surface almost two thousand years ago, i.e. 79 a.d...

What is the evidence which was used to estimate the age of these jars ?

9 hours ago, Lingba said:

I still want to know who is planning to come and put themselves through the torture of all the restrictions including wearing a bracelet to be tracked down like a soi dog

Soi dogs do not need to wear a bracelet tracker.   That tells you something !

35 minutes ago, chalawaan said:

Oh they know all right. Orwells other masterpiece "1984" is banned here, and activists were arrested in BKK for defiantly reading it in public just a few years ago. 

They also think Nazis are kind of cool, they have a Stuka dive bomber hung from the rafters of Don Muang Airport, the one aircraft above all others famed for strafing civilians. And they do share that love of civil servant uniforms and the cops wear those peaked caps in identical SS style.

 Is it true that 1984 is banned ?

21 hours ago, pikao said:

 

How do we know any event even occurred?

 Jean-Jacque's logic strikes again ????

2 hours ago, Enzian said:

Transferring money out of the country. Misterwhisper above alluded to difficulties doing so. What are they please? I deliberately put my 800,000 baht by the equivalent in US$ for Non-O into a Foreign Currency Deposit (FCD) account, at a pretty good Thai bank. I started the account with the required $US500 in cash, then brought it up with one large transfer engineered by my son in the US. I never touch it. Now say I decided to move myself out of the country for good, what would need to be done besides just doing the wire transfer in reverse? Anything?

Ask your pretty good Thai Bank what the procedure is.......       then report back here please  - I'm sure many peole here would love to know 

3 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Tut Tut; they are not in Thai Airways colours !

Which airline is it advertising ?

Maybe they could cover the cost instead of the tax-payer

11 hours ago, tifino said:

 

Also Kown as HAB    Harmful Algal Blooms because they cause a lot of deaths in different groups of marine invertebrates. dead sea urchins washed up on beaches are often blamed on storms out at sea, but many are due to HABs

9 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

They are blaming the wind. Gold, and particularly alluvial gold, has already been deposited millions of years ago. Panning these rivers or creeks for gold that has been there for millions of years. They don't arrive daily! Next!

The alluvium in the Mekong is gradually moving down-stream to build deltas into the South China Sea. Mixed in with the clays and silts are particles of gold.  They are not deposited millions of years ago as a finite resource; they are constantly replenished.  When I travelled up and down the Mekong in the 1990's there were always a few panners on what they assumed was Thai territory. Missed from most maps is the fact that, because Laos owns ALL the islands in the Mekong, the border appears to take out a small chunk of Thailand because it is continuously an island.  This is here that the gold settles-out when the velocity of the Mekong flow drops around the island.

8 hours ago, zhounan said:

Until a few years ago, we would never have accepted these forms of personal discrimination.
Now, thanks to a one-directional media narrative and a herd mentality of conformity, we are passively accepting the unthinkable.

 

In this state of habituation of the masses, governments and the world's big stakeholders can literally decide and implement what they will.

 

Prepare for an era of obedience or imprisonment in case of dissent.

A few years ago (maybe more than a few decades) this was a bog-standard necessity to travel to many countries in the world.  I still have mine from the 70s  with lots of stamps for typhoid ....

If you don't want to travel - you have the freedom to make a choice. Nobody is forcing you to go globe-trotting.

What a BS post !!

2 hours ago, keith101 said:

And for a family of 4 parents and 2 kids they think they are going to spend 340,000 baht I DONT THINK SO 

4 parents and 2 kids !!!   Thats only half a kid per parent   ????????

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

 

Thank you. Instead of helping the millions affected by the enormous betrayal of the administration, they continue with the empty promises. And a promise with nothing to back it up is boring, useless, trite, fraudulent, deceptive, malicious, unscrupulous, unprincipled, unfair, shady, untrustworthy, traitorous, two faced, villainous, wily, cunning, crafty, and bent. That describes the army, the tourism authority, and this administration. 

For several seconds I thought you were talking about Boris Johnson's government !

11 hours ago, ukrules said:

So what,  this is the list of places people from the UK are allowed to travel to :

 

• Portugal

• Israel

• Singapore

• Australia

• New Zealand

• Brunei

• Iceland

• Gibraltar

• Falkland Islands

• Faroe Islands

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• St Helena, Tristan de Cunha, Ascension Island

 

Source : https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57026936

 

If it's not on this list then you are not going there.

 

If they don't let them in then they will either go elsewhere or stay home. Not a big deal.

 

It is very notable that Spain is not on this list.

 

I am looking forward to eating my sandwiches on South Georgia - great place for a holiday ????

7 hours ago, mikebell said:

The Thai prostitution industry dwarfs that for tourists.

Yes , that is indeed true. But the vast majority of the money that changes hands is from one Thai to another.  It is not bringing income from abroad - which is what the country needs