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So many complaints on this forum about driving standards in Thailand, but when the cops make a positive move, a first step to saving thousands of lives, they get slated on the same forum!

I have a question. What the hell do you want?

16 minutes ago, Crossy said:

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You've not been here long have you?

 

Whilst I'm sure rkidlad's tongue was planted firmly in his cheek he's not really that far off reality

 

Not been in the forum long no. In Thailand? 8 years. I happen to love this country, sure it has it's faults - where doesn't? and guess what? that's why I choose to live and work here. Seriously - the vast majority of respondents to posts on this forum sound like they can't stand being here. This is a seriously useful forum, but populated by seriously unhappy whingers. Just sayin'. :)

18 hours ago, rkidlad said:

But what if there are no storms? Can the people sharing be sued for defamation? Making Tnews look bad and scaring the public? 

You are kidding - right?

1 hour ago, Thaijack2014 said:

To me it looks that the taxi coming up to the lane was wrong. He just came up into the lane, the blue car was already driving. He should have slowed down, not the other one. The blue car couldn't go to the right as there were some cars driving. He's the victim in my opinion!

Correct. The taxi is at fault. The Blue car was in his lane and tried to avoid the taxi swinging in from his left but could not evade it as another car was to his right. The Taxi should have slowed to merge - instead it looks like he speeded up.

45 minutes ago, gamini said:

I would not say so. I tried to drive through India and the traffic was terrible in some cities. Mostly cows walking along slowly with all the cars. And everyone honking their horns

The thing about New Delhi, and New York is that while there is certainly just as much traffic, it does seem to move. Whereas in Bangkok you just come to a grinding stop. It takes people too long to get through a green light to begin with, but when the sequence of lights is not set up properly its worse. It seems to take about ten seconds for people to realise the lights have changed to green (which is often a third of the total green light time)

Siemens Bangkok

Embassy's and Consulates are traditionally THE most unfriendly places on the planet. Populated by people invested with the power of refusing you entry to a country on the most frivolous pretext, and to ignore all protests out of hand, coupled with the mentality to do just that without compunction. I was once on a very remote island and my company screwed up the return flight tickets, routing me and my wife through Australia - for which no online transit visa was available to citizens of my wife's country. I used up the last dregs of my satellite phone to call the Australian Consulate in Fiji and was told to fly there and they would 'sort something out' We flew there, there was a military coup, we made it from Nadi to Suva through many army checkpoints, were first in the queue in the morning, explained the problem and the satellite call to the consulate lady who said "Nobody here would have told you that - NEXT PLEASE !!"  and that was that. No argument. We had to make our way back to Nadi, fly back to the island, wait for the Christmas Holidays to end, send emails to the Office (no satellite phone left) and wait for new tickets back via Seoul.

A bit careless of the Doctors to blame cats. It doesn't take much for people of a certain mentality to start a witch hunt against cats. The bacterium in question is everywhere. We are in the tropics. Every scratch must be treated seriously and cleaned thoroughly with antibiotics - even mosquito bites.