GeorgeCross

3 hours ago, evadgib said:

No they didn't.

well last i checked there are 195 countries in the world and so far only 4 refuse to issue income affidavits.

so do you want me to do the maths or would you like to borrow my calculator?

edit: haha just realized thailand is one of the countries so i guess i was wrong..

190 managed it.

there ya go feel better now?!

4 hours ago, evadgib said:

Thailand demanded cast iron guarantees that couldn't possibly be complied with; not least due to privacy laws in the real world and the increased man hours that would have entailed.

and yet 191 other countries managed to do it.

strange.

5 minutes ago, PoorSucker said:

A simple search, one site offers 1400 private rentals on Samui 

and only 2 people following this thread 

hahaha the blissfully unaware..

would you have to pay tax here? is this salary? maybe thats what they want?

they just keep winning here..

whats next to 'clean up'? after hours clubs or airbnbs?

this place IS the poster child for villa rental operations here. if they remain taking bookings after today it will say a LOT about law enforcement on Samui.

watch this space.

and if they do shut down operations there is gonna be a lot of puckered <deleted> on this island.

1 minute ago, quandow said:

I live in Jomtien, and when the mood hits me, I rent a room near LK Metro so I don't have to worry about drunk driving. Am I required to do a new TM30 every time I rent a room?

no, only when you go back home. the hotel reports your stay comrad

36 minutes ago, stanleycoin said:

Feel the Love and respect for the ex-pat community.

can't you feel it growing,  day by day.

Thailand, Welcomes your wallet, but not you. 

you do realize the wallets leave with the expats?!

no expats, no wallets

i wonder what happens if a train traveling 160km/h hits a pickup on a crossing?

because that kind of happens a lot round here..

this is absolutely nuts, they couldn't go 24 hours before stabbing their coalition parties in the back. how the hell do they think they can run a government for 4 years?!!

running a government and dictating a government are two totally different things

gonna go grab some popcorn it's gonna be a hell of a year

nice to see some work getting done instead of the usual penalization of every foreigner in the whole country for the actions of a few

keep it up!

possible he has turned quote notifications off and doesnt even know you are quoting him?

i have them turned off too.. stops me getting all bent out of shape by some of the losers on here ????

56 minutes ago, OJAS said:

But presumably applications will still be able to be submitted in person at the Embassy in London? If I've understood your link correctly, that certainly seems to be the default option in any case in the event of it not proving possible for an account to be created for online application purposes.

wow there are still people in the UK without access to the internet?

don't worry guys confidence will be soaring now prayut is back in!

36 minutes ago, madmitch said:

Just watched the intro so far. Don't think the Thai authorities will like what they see but it's the Thai way to come up with a denial and sue and/or ban DW for damaging Thailand's image.

 

I'll watch the rest this evening.

 

P.S. I was expecting it to be in German!

its says later the tourist police accompanied them only allowing them to film the good side of thailand, they had to film covertly to see the other side.

sounds like north korea

some other notable sections:

the government in bangkok wants to increase tourism to 50M/year

big companies make the bulk of the money

locals work for minimum wage trying to survive

i'm lucky i got to see most of the islands before mass tourism arrived but even 6 years ago, the last time i was in the south, i saw many of the things documented in this film including national park beach bays full of floating trash, floating islands of trash offshore and the relentless outflows of waste water into the sea.

we finally left samui after 8 years living there when we flew onto the island one year and noticed a brown halo around the whole island. "thats what you swim in" my wife said. we left soon afterwards.

probably the same reason i can't use my thai electric bill as proof of residence to open a UK or offshore financial account.

wrong language, not even the same letters lol

14 hours ago, impulse said:

 

I'm sure lots of Thais don't see "sex, booze and the like" as drawing the kind of tourists they'd like to keep coming.  Something unsettling about seeing your country's daughters being rented out as sperm receptacles and your streets loaded with morning-after puke puddles, even if it is in the name of money. 

 

For every drunken monger they lose, there's a family looking for a less disgusting place to spend their holiday cash.

 

Not saying they're doing it right.  But I salute them if they're trying to get away from being a destination for debauchery.  It may take decades.  And they may have to try different tactics in different areas.  But in the end, families spend more $$$ and do less damage to the infrastructure and to the culture.

 

well, though i admire your ethics, have you actually spent much time travelling around thailand?

everywhere from the smallest village to the largest cities has its very own 'destination for debauchery' though in the rest of thailand they are lined with karaoke bars rather than beer bars and the girls sell themselves from 100baht upwards rather than 1000baht up.

i'm sorry but its just the thai way and if we (meaning westerners) all disappeared tomorrow the sex industry would carry on unabated.

its (unfortunately?) a big part of their culture.

not a dig at you by the way it just is as it is.