drummer boy

15 hours ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

Not so good...but 60% are prison cases so easier to contain.

Not so many Thai in prison now ,

On 3/19/2021 at 12:30 AM, madmen said:

I'm in Oz and a 6 pack of all local beer is around $20. Ridiculous! But the wines are silly cheap ????

will not be going to Oz uk must be the cheapest got 12 cans of guinness original for 10 pounds 440ml tesco Becks larger 24 bottle 330 ml 14 pounds UK

 

12 hours ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

Let´s just speak the truth. Pizza Company has never been able to make a decent pizza anyway, so what´s the difference. Actually they have never been able to make something that I would lika to call a pizza. Mostly it just taste like a hot sandwich.

Hi i want to do that the same as you 8 months thailand and 4months in uk also 70 years old But dont foget to have life and Accident insurance very expencive there if anything happends and you cant make it back to the uk for tretment i know i lived in thailand for 7yrs had to come back for 2stents they wanted 600,000 for two stents and that was a local thai hospital and if you cant speak thai very boring in hospital this is my avice to you Buddy !

the answer that lady told the police it would not had happened If you was not in my country they all say HaHa!

4 minutes ago, Airbagwill said:

Road fines etc were not suddenly all introduced in ten the UK at the rates they are now - it has been a process of decades to get to where they are now.

One thing is the number of offences has gradually reduced making the serious ones all the more serious.....for instance the correct sequence of speeding at over 100 mph could in theory attract a £10,000 fine as well as a ban. But the original fines were much smaller even in relation to income. A sudden introduction in Thailand would just result in chaos and lack of enforcement.

Very Good you should work for the government here in thiland will get a free visa Airbagwill 

3 minutes ago, essox essox said:

these people are in cloud cuckoo land...

Did not mention 3 on a bike with no helmets is that 3 points HaHa !

On ‎8‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 10:01 AM, PatOngo said:

 

Drunk driving: 3 points...……………………..OK, can do 4 times

Red lights: 2 points...…………………...……..Can do 6 times

Helmets and speeding: 1 point each.......Can do 12 times

 

That will teach them!

But only 1 month ban if you lose all of your points up then get a clean licence WoW not in uk 1 year ban !

7 hours ago, brokenbone said:

i paid 10k some 17 years ago on pattaya memorial hospital.

Same as me I paid one night in hospital for a nose bleed 25,000 let me out next day wanted me to come back 3 days to cheak did not go back might be another 5,000 Haaaa!

That's  nothing compared to the hospital in pattaya momoriel pattayglang  drip I had to pay 20,000 baht for one night to treat me for a nose bleed then I had a bill for another 5,000bhat for a hospital car my friend took me in his car then I had another bill for a blood transfusion which I did not have it was only a seline drip 2,000 baht because they told me they had to go out and get it sorry forgot hambuger and fries they had to get outside 200 baht total 27,200 baht I had to find my own way home they wanted me to come back in tree days and cheak me out did not go back again beat that 8months later had infection up my nose had to go to Bangkok hospital in rayone more meds 2000 baht !

12 hours ago, ukrules said:

Maybe, it might also make people think twice before coming on holiday to a country where foreigners are sentenced very differently to locals.

 

Then again maybe they won't care. It will be reported world wide anyway, that's for sure.

 

Two years supended prison sentence plus thousands of dollars in fines for mere graffiti - pathetic!

what was she thinking idiot this is Thailand !

I agree everything is on credit or mortgage thai people do not think how long they have to pay back with intrest they don't worry !

1o yr 20yrs etc !

50 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

45 out of 50 is a pass bro'.

 

Right at the moment Mrs owl is attempting to obtain her TDL. It's quite a trek to the centre and right now we are on 7 trips. Hopefully the last one will be tomorrow. 

 

On the test itself,,,, well the questions are - as you pointed out - a little vague to say the least; especially on any parking ones. The actual driving is something of a joke. Two of the three points that have to be passed are on reversing, the third is driving along a straight white line. My wife took two goes at getting over a small hump, (not part of the test fortunately) bemoaning the pick-up on the way home. On Monday I watched an elderly lady take 17 minutes to drive around the test route that should take no more than 5; she passed. Dear, dear dear!!!

 

Fortunately I obtained my 11 year TDL in Non Han (Udon Thani Province) without having to do anything; apart from having my photo' taken and handing over my fee.

IThink you have that wrong only give you a 5yr licence with a uk licence !

On ‎10‎/‎29‎/‎2018 at 11:18 AM, richard_smith237 said:

 

The irony being that the IDP is not needed to drive here unless it is used to translate Driving License (from your home country) which does not have English Writing... 

 

Note: When Applying for a Motorcycle Licence (at DLT Sukhumvit 101) all that was required was

1) Valid UK Licence (no translation required)

2) Medical Certificate (300B from a local clinic)

3) Affirmation of Address

 

At the DLT in Bangkok the Clerk at the front desk told me I no longer required the Medical Certificate - correct or not, it was asked for when applying for the license. 

 

In your shoes... I'd go back to the DLT in Kalasin and ignore the clerk at the front desk... and try to apply without the translation - the guy at the front desk may simply be mistaken or have misunderstood something he has read or been told (it happens a lot).

And, as we know, the rules are applied with varying degrees of stringency and quite often a smile and someone who's decided they like us is all it takes to get things done 'more efficiently'... 

first time going for a thai driving liccence you need a doctors certificate whe you have got one for 5yrs next one no !

On ‎10‎/‎2‎/‎2018 at 4:50 AM, ukrules said:

 

Once you've already had cancer once your chances of getting any kind of cheap insurance are pretty low.

you are so right very hard to get insurance here in Thailand that goes for heart conditions stents etc' I have tried they don't wont to no !

13 hours ago, poanoi said:

i would stop paying just like that,

and tell her the facts that getting divorced is more important

to her than it is to you,

since she will want to land another income one of these days.

 

my ex wife came strolling by after around a year and wanted a divorce,

there was no mentioning of financial compensation whatsoever

OK!but you had no kids or you did not mention it easy pizza !

Only one answer go back to your own country live there for 12 months don't pay her 2 much money get divorce go back sorry there is another way your chidren where not born in Thailand she can not keep the chidren there tell her you are taken them back where they were born to frighten her good luck !

On ‎6‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 11:15 AM, LivinginKata said:

Not just Chinese. We once had a younger Russian lady stay for a month. She was a Time Share sales person and would leave the apartment all beautified (and was a good looking  woman). Yet when she checked out the apartment was disgusting, especially the toilet. She had caused a blocked toilet yet kept on using it without telling us. 

Land Lords fault shoud have taken a 1000 baht deposit before they cheak out !

11 hours ago, kannot said:

lets guess, the man with gun.....................nothing happened,  he'll be back at it again tomorrow

Well Said there is a video showing the guy had a gun he should be done for danger driving and threating with a gun no licence no doubt no he said sorry that was good enough farlang be fine ! and told if you was not here in Thailand this would not had happen !

On ‎5‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 4:17 PM, khunPer said:

It's been discussed in another thread a while ago, where it was stated to be due to the government has changed the taxation.

 

Where I live, I saw that Mount Clair white (fruit) wine is back in 3-liter cartons (only) for 995 baht a piece in Makro; seem like new stock at new price. Both Makro and Tesco-Lotus still has quite a lot of old stock of Mount Clair red wine, whilst almost all other boxed wine has disappeared, apart from a few (very) dry red, which presumably nobody wants, as they they have been boring alone on the shelf for a couple of month...

Still get mont clair red 5lt box in ban chang 1000baht 

On ‎5‎/‎9‎/‎2018 at 10:33 AM, keith101 said:

looked like a small .22 or 9mm pistol pulled from a holster

This is why you have to carry a bass ball bat to defend yourself if this happends to you instead of getting killed dose this make sense !

1 hour ago, kuzie57 said:

I will stand corrected but I am pretty sure that a tourist visa won't cut it for opening an account here. I had a friend who had heaps of problems trying to get it sorted. Once he had his nonim O visa it was all simple. 

Yes you are so right best thing for you to do is do like my friend take out a a single payment with your bank back in uk 10 pounds a month it is a insurance as well while you are here you can take any amount from atm without any deductions from uk only thai !

On 12/03/2018 at 1:30 AM, chickenslegs said:

I'm from the UK.

What do I miss from home (apart from family and friends) ...

 

French bread and cheeses

Affordable Aussie/NZ/etc. wine

NZ/Aussie lamb chops

Jersey Royal potatoes

Belgian beer and chocolates

Proper Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi curries (English style)

Chinese (Hong Kong, Cantonese) take-aways

HP sauce (now made in the Netherlands)

Guinness

 

On 13/02/2018 at 12:34 PM, Get Real said:

I guess he will have a better chance of a long prison stay in Thailand. We can hope for anything between 15-20 years. Hopefully! 

I live in thailand bang chang 1hr from pattaya I get everything I want we have a expat food stores here even a finnegan Bar that sells  Guinness very good i rest my case don't know where you are buddy 

Now I have heard it all what else will they think up I am a drummer I use to get up and play a few songs with thi=ai band in pattaya I have to chance playing now might get 40,000 baht police are stopping all the fun that's all it is I pay to play not pay me the law should change now 2018 cant own land only buy house thai owner only !