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7 hours ago, Don Chance said:
Here are the amazing 'medicinal' effects of marijuana
Thank the Lord that I found out about the evils of marijuana in the 1950. After that I only used legal drugs prescribed by medical doctors.-
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On 11/12/2020 at 10:08 AM, camble said:
The resort has raised it’s rates to make up for the lost revenue.
Based on the TripAdvisor warning they'll now have to jack up their prices to maybe 5,000 or 10,000 THB per night. Which will be ok because all the local supporters of censorship and using defamation laws to throw ice-water on reviewers will no doubt flock to the Seaview in support of this poor, maligned business. Perhaps they should start a Go Fund Me campaign to make up lose revenue.
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On 11/12/2020 at 8:43 PM, Brollox said:
Yeah its amazing how people support a lie. I wonder now, if under Thai defamation law TripAdvisor executives themselves could be liable for arrest upon arriving in Thailand in the future?
That's a possibility however TripAdvisor isn't some expat teacher living in Thailand who is easy to slap around. TripAdvisor is a successful corporate entity with deep pockets, lawyers, and a social media platform of their own. If a sole entity like Seaview used the courts with the explicit or implicit approval of ministries like the TAT then Thailand wouldn't have to worry about the government's reaction to Covid ruining the tourism industry. Try to toss a TripAdvisor exec into jail or take other actions to censor their platform in Thailand and they'd have the attention of the global main-stream media and every other travel site which publishes hotel and trip reviews.
Look at the global press coverage of Barnes incarceration. Now multiply that by 100.-
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I wonder how many offer any medication other than GPO.
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I do hope it will be available in Thailand!
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I don't trust any polls any longer.
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I love this:
"The hotel has issued a statement accusing Tripadvisor of breaking its part of the settlement that was reached with Wesley Barnes.“We fail to understand how Tripadvisor going back on their word, and not being impartial, is helpful to any of the parties involved in this case,” the resort’s manage responded in a statement to the NY Times."
Trip Advisor has absolutely no obligation to Seaview at all. Trip Advisor was never a party in the libel case. They can do anything they wish and they obviously did with this sharply worded warning.
Seaview thought that charging Barnes with defamation was a shot across the bow of tourism reviewers who may issue negative reviews and cause Thai establishments to lose face.
Trip Advisor's action is a shot across the bow of any hotel or resort who may be tempted in the future to use libel laws to silence reviews and ratings. Quid pro quo my friends. Every action has a reaction.-
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How many people warned Seaview that pressing defamation charges against a customer for making negative reviews wasn't something that was going to be accepted by most Western tourists and tour organizations, Trip Advisor Corporate included.
Pressing defamation charges for a review is asinine and as they have just discovered, very counterproductive. If hotels could threaten reviewers for negative reviews then the reviewing system would be worthless. The purpose of a review and rating system is to provide feedback, good and bad, for businesses to consider in order to make their businesses better.
They should have dropped it and found common ground with the customer. Instead they paraded him in front of the media and forced him to issue apologies under duress. Lord knows what would have happened to him had he refused to apologize and that servile Thai manner that didn't sound like anything a normal Westerner would have ever said.
Now that Seaview Resort and Spa Koh Chang have made their bed, I truly hope they enjoy the rest, relaxation, and quiet time they'll be getting without tourists who read and heed travel reviews.
Heck, maybe they can file a defamation suit against Trip Advisor now.-
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Given that tourism in Chiang Mai has been crushed by Covid, can anyone make recommendation for hotels that are offering significant discounts compared to their prices last year. And I'm not interested in the Thai government program. I don't want to try to wade though that. Just looking for hotels offering published discount because they are desperate for tourist revenue.
I plan to travelling to Chiang Mai in November. -
Chiang Mai rains deluge the roads,
What to do my friends?
Water management for one!-
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1 hour ago, seajae said:
excellent, great to see those at the top are going to be done, huge fines and jail time would make it even better but if they are wealthy they will just get a slap on the wrist as usual once the appropriate envelopes are delivered
Watch the owner teflon-up and wiggle away from justice.
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2 hours ago, webfact said:
However, all these detention facilities are still primarily aimed at foreign tourists with high ability to pay
Paying to go to jail. What will they think of next?
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2 hours ago, webfact said:
A lecture was organised at the Army headquarters’ Kittikachorn building on Tuesday to educate new soldiers on the “correct” usage of social media.
Change "educate" to "indoctrinate".
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Someone take the pipe away from the TAT. The return of tourism before mandatory Covid vaccinations is a pipe-dream. Gonna have to wait for 'immunity passports' before tourism ever returns to anywhere near as before, and then it probably will never return to pre-2020 levels as the restrictions on entry will be 'over-the-top' and those who use to travel internationally will opt for domestic tourism in their own countries. The "new-normal" is not the old-normal which will never return. Thailand may want to press onward with different industries than tourism (which the government has effectively driven a stake through heart of that industry) such as growing cannabis as a cash crop.
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"While no one condones looting…one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who have had members of their family killed by that regime (Saddam Hussian)... And I don't think there’s anyone accept it as part of the price of getting from a repressed regime to freedom."
Donald Rumsfeld
April 2003
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5 hours ago, webfact said:“We have arrested 42 small-scale entrepreneurs,” he said, and some admitted they bought the masks for the express purpose of turning a handsome profit.
It's called supply and demand. One moment governments are lauding free market enterprise and entrepreneurship; the next they are throwing small entrepreneurs into jail Lesson to be learned? Only large corporations are legally allowed to gouge prices in the market.
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Yes little people. Make your own.
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1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:Thailand banned kratom in 1943 in response to a rise in its popularity when the cost of opium soared as the government battled to gain control of the opium market.
I'm surprised they haven't ban coffee considering its popularity and addictiveness. Kratom has about the "bang" of a triple-shot latte and isn't as addictive. Really, banning coffee would be a statist control-freaks dream come true. Think of all the people that could be throw into jail.
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So reporting the racist banter to Facebook actually worked?
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On 3/3/2020 at 10:48 AM, webfact said:
The South Korean government has announced that “those who report before the deadline will not be fined or prohibited from re-entering the country”
We know that you have been illegally working in Korea on overstay, but feel free to return on a new tourist visa once the virus situation is cleared.
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"Democracy" Thai style. Attempt to destroy all voices who challenge the status quo, preferably using judicial edicts as those seem to give the repression and hint of legitimacy. Not that the West is any better, but in the West they have destroying opposition down to a science.
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8 hours ago, webfact said:Arrivals from the rest of Asia and the Middle East tend to spend more on a daily basis
Lol! ????
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What could possibly go wrong?
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3 hours ago, sharktooth said:
Their website makes them look impressive, but I know that’s not always the best gauge of a companies quality.
Anyone else have experience with DentalWorld?Yep! ????
Tenant from hell leaves behind mountain of trash at central Thailand apartment
in Central Thailand
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Most tenants who have rented at least one property from a Thai understands that their "safety deposit" will become the property of the landlord regardless of the condition of the property. So........................
This is what happens.