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OMG- that's sick! Ist Thailand becoming "Zombie-Land"?
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the annoying thing is that this looks like a "BorKorSor" (บ.ค.ส.)-Bus to me, wich is, ASAP, a state run company (www.transport.co.th) so it is not only " business of the tour company " IMHO
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I really hope they don't mean the Webservice "Thaiflix" (www.thaiflix.com). It is a great deal to watch Thai-TV online. The cost is roundabout 12.-€ per month, so I guess it is legal and they have the right for streaming, both, live and time-shifted. I really can recommend it - especially if you live overseas with your thai wife or if yourself want to learn Thai.
Note: I have been learning thai language for more than 12 years, I can read and write it (I guess my thai is better than my englisch
). So I really appreciate watching Thai-TV for practising listening comprehension. Unfortunately, I live in Europe and the regular free live-streaming services of the usual thai-channels (3,5,7,8, MCOT, Nation-Channel, PBS and NBT) are very bad here overseas (ie. poor frame-rate, really lacking, no fun to watch).
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>Drugs suppression agents had raided student quarters
32 year old - what was he doing at Naresuan University? Was he teacher? Or a (eternal) student? Or just a drug-dealer?
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C'mon. The picture is very old, the bike is just a 2-stroke 50cc neighbourhood-scooter. In thailand it is called "Rot Pab", and it doesn't need a licence plate. I wouldn't consider that as toooo dangerous, as along as you only drive slowely in small sois or alleys. BUT it is something else with a liquid-cooled (and engine-tuned) 125cc bike that can reach easily 110kph. Driving that bullet on a highway or on a frontage-road is really suicidal....
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No wait, Mr. Prayut, it has been 5-years-plans for a century now! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plan You are doing it wrong!
Yours sincerly: Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Zedong
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25 minutes ago, Basil B said:
Does this mean everyone will have to change trains and buy a second ticket at Soi Baring???
Probably something like that. But it would not surprise me if they started their service on the extension line on the the twelfth of never.....
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2 hours ago, davehowden said:
There is no end to this man's talents!
Soon we will see him flying a plane:
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All the bystanders completely indifferent. In some aspects thailand is really dark middle age.You wouldn't believe this to happen in a country full of fancy shopping-malls....
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4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:
Just imagine the loss of face if you told Thais that their hi-so treasured Mercedes car is used as a taxi in Germany. Oh the shame. There would be mass suicide
That is what I am always thinking when they are so proud and so impressed by foreign "Hi-So-Cars". The E-Class Benz in the Video is 14 years old, they are sold for as little as 3000.-€ here- definitely not a stunner when you park it outside the disco-pub...
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5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:
It's just the usual western PC brigade BS. Bangkok’s tawdry red-light districts gives the author's game away.
Referring only to Bkk, Pattaya and Chiang Mai implies that only westerners are to blame and anyone that has been around the bar scene in LOS knows that is an outright lie. That they include nothing about the locals just reduces the entire article to toilet paper.
Yes it goes on in LOS, just like it goes on in the USA. Perhaps the FBI should clean up their own country first, before getting involved in other countries.
all the little kids selling trinkets in the bars
That is the real tragedy as far as western bar scene. It goes on right in front of the WESTERN wanabee cops on Walking Street, and they ignore it. SHAME ON THEM.
And what is worst is not only the usual nonsense they write but also the misleading pictures, ie. the FBI-video with the interview about trafficing and underage sex mixed with shots from 30year old houswives (bar"girls") from Pattaya. BTW if they really wanted to show the business and the environement of illegal sex-activities, they should have gone to Hat Yai. Loads of cars with malaysian number-plates there, thousands of muslim men coming to thailand for sex, as well as many underage girls from thailand trafficed to malaysia. So why not shoot your documentaries down south (or up north in the golden triangle for example)? THAT would be investigative journalism. Too lazy? just to stick to the cliche of pattaya as a gomorrha.
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Well well....there IS a way to ease traffic! Even within days:
Gasohol 91: 59Baht
Super 95: 71Baht
Diesel: 52Baht
CNG: 33Baht
Problem solved!
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Please excuse my OT-question: Does anybody know if shops are allowed to sell alcohol this weekend respectively if Pubs and Bars will open? In the past I remember that they were mostly closed on theses "critical" days.
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18 minutes ago, sjaak327 said:
They have got to be kidding. Good I have a local sim for over 10 years now, and they will have to remove that one from my prying hands.
Of course it is a blatant invasion of privacy AND I as a foreigner was also required to present my passport for my local sim to even work after their registration <deleted> two years or so ago.
Also, people that bring their own sim used and simply roam are not going to be easily traced, wonder if those Einsteins ever thought of that..
You are right. I also use a local D-Tac SIM since 2010. Last year I had to register it with my Passport. So why spread new special-SIM-Cards for tourists? To make money (higher fares for 3G services and calls than for the native Cards)?! If the are really worrying about the foreigners, why not just trace all the the SIMs that are registrated with a foreign passport?
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He then put the brake to slow down the bus.
But the brake locked up, causing the bus to sway and hit a roadside tree before falling into the ditch, he said.ABS anyone?
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Good thing! Animals don't know if they are sweet and cute or ugly and frightening. Some species are cuddled all the time, some are thrown away. Some are slaugthered because their meat tastes good or are used in animal experiences, and some pets are hugged by the kids in the house. Snakes are killed because of their skin, crocodiles are farmed in concrete-boxes because of their leather. But at the end- they are all creatures. Only WE treat them differend because they are fluffy species or look disgusting. But they all have a brain and are able to suffer and to feel pain- no matter what they are called, how the behave or what they are useful for as production animals.
P.S. sorry for my bad english. Learned it for 5 years only....
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I wouldn't be too proud of it honestly. While the building is nice and surely was a symbol of progress and a modern railway a century ago, it is today a symbol for a poor and corrupt state-run comapany. Hua Lamphong is always the terminal for a slow, boring and bumpy ride upcountry. The whole railway system is completely rotten and that is why 80-90% of interprovincial transportion is NOT rail-bound but made on roads.
Thailand should have modernized it's train-system half a century ago. Now it's completely outdated. And it is (one of) the reason(s) why thousands of people loose their lives in traffic accidents and on crashing overland-buses
Indeed, but it doesn't have to be that way. With some sympathetic modernisation and renovation it could be quite beautiful again: it is one of the most significant buildings in Bangkok and it should be a centre of activity rather than the drab and dreary place it's become.
It used to be a central place back in the day, not so long ago, when people still used trains. I hope that day will come again for Thailand and for the millions of visitors who would be attracted by a safe and efficient rail network.
There is nothing like a good train journey.
Like i said - the HuaLampong building is charming and afaik fully funktional. And it is much nicer than for example the concrete-jungle Makassan-Station (or gare Paris Montparnasse for example). Unfortutanely I don't see it often, because every time I travel in Thailand (and I travel a lot) I head without hesitation to Ekkamai, MorChit or SaaiDaaiMai where buses leave every 30 minutes to every province. I agree - there is nothing like a good train journey and I love travelling by train in europe. But the complete SRT here is a farce imho.
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I wouldn't be too proud of it honestly. While the building is nice and surely was a symbol of progress and a modern railway a century ago, it is today a symbol for a poor and corrupt state-run comapany. Hua Lamphong is always the terminal for a slow, boring and bumpy ride upcountry. The whole railway system is completely rotten and that is why 80-90% of interprovincial transportion is NOT rail-bound but made on roads.
Thailand should have modernized it's train-system half a century ago. Now it's completely outdated. And it is (one of) the reason(s) why thousands of people loose their lives in traffic accidents and on crashing overland-buses
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These guys are so annoying. In some tourist-areas where you are constantly bothered by lazy and greedy TucTuc- and Taxi-Drivers when you take a walk ("Hey. Mister! Hey! Hey. Where do you go? Yes! Hey. Massage?!") and honked at, I would love to spray the opposite on the doors of THEIR stupid vehicels: "No need to ask me! I am going by myself. Leave me alone!"
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The ministry of agriculture better make some drastic changes soon.
The youth is walking away to the cities and many of the ladies find better incomes in the known cities.
They don't want to work the paddies in the blazing heat, they prefer to hang out in the ACed malls.
Invest in ACed tractors with radios and EDUCATE !!!!!!!! the lot.
Shiny John Deere Tractors with AC are quite expensive. I wonder who would invest in upcountry farming-communities when in the capital 45 year old non-AC-busses still run from the suburbs to downtown every day.
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He will soon have that smirk wiped off his face,there must have been a ton of forensic evidence
at his apartment,lets hope they collected it all,correctly.
regards worgeordie
Plus: fleeing Bangkok, fleeing a restaurant in Isan, fleeing Thailand, dumping motorcycle at boarder - pleadging not guilty. I wonder how he is going to explain this.
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Dear Mr. Thanit Sriprathet,
your guidelines are much too complex and too sophisticated. You better make it short:
1. Everything that is against us: forbidden!
2. Everything that is for us (= "pro"): requested and welcome!
Regards
Jackinthebox
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That makes an average electricity power consumption of nearly 500 Watts per Thai Head no matter where they are!
Citizen's "arrest" - concerned truck driver tells drunk driving motorcyclist he just can't go on!
in Thailand News
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I agree with you if alcoholism is involved. But if it was just party binge drinking he may feels ashamed when he wakes up sober - (unknown environement, motorsaai locked up, villagers laughing at him...)- lesson learned!