John Drake

Agree. A string of 39 to 40 days is much better than having my house under water for three months as it was back in 2011.

Today is turning out to be not so bad. Humidity way down around 40 percent in the western suburbs of Bangkok. And temperature is at 40, too. Might get to 42 or so with this low humidity in a couple of hours. But all in all, things feel much better today.

Which bloc? They didn't bother to mention it.

Thailand has already chosen China.

Both a year ago and two years ago, the high temperature for today and yesterday was around 33. It has been cool the last two years. So this year seems excessively hot in comparison. But I think it's a degree or two at most over the average. I think a lot of people coming from Europe just can't deal with this.

Who else in Thailand does this?

It's fair, however, because this is dangerous. What is not reported and makes it even more dangerous is the nighttime lows. It only "cooled off" to 30 degrees at my house last night. And that was towards the early morning. If you're without aircon, your body just can't recover from a 41 degree day to a 30 degree low to a 40 degree day with high humidity. Put the air pollution on top of all this, and yea, it's bad. Real bad.

When else are they supposed to propose it when they're out of government? It's part of their campaign platform. Besides, plenty of people argued during Covid that the existing government crack open the piggy bank and spend some of the surplus it had accumulated in direct funding. Instead, they came up with their own stimulus plans, remember? Pay 3000 and get another 3000 for targetted spending. A few scandals about that, too. This current plan seems more direct, although there needs to be some changes to who is authorized to receive money. OTOH, I understand wanting to keep it within a 4 km or whatever radius, because the idea would be to stimulate small areas, whereas the last plan above ended up actually moving money out of small rural villages.

What makes you think it's just about "the poor." Yes, they're hit the hardest, but I referred to "the average Thai." This has socked them in the wallet, too. It may be nothing for the average farang to pay a thousand to two extra on their electricity each month, but I can tell you it effects many, many average people getting ready to scrape up money for school tuition, uniforms, and other expenses.

True. I don't read Chinese forums or chat rooms, but I do know many Chinese here in Thailand. They complain about other Chinese all the time, say they're embarrassed by them, think they're unintelligent, untrustworthy, and wouldn't leave their wallet with them.

Maybe not so funny. The Bangkok Post has an article today where the hotels are demanding they pay only 3.50 to 4.00.

It's a stimulus policy. Much needed. Other parties in power have had the same opportunity to do this for the past three years. But they didn't.

To me, this is the Thai version of those Covid stimulus checks some of the rest of the world got two years ago. Some didn't need them. A lot did. Just getting them out to people across the board was a life saver for a lot of people. Don't dither about the 10,000 baht. Just do it.

Not if you're the average Thai living off the local economy.

Attempted murder. British sociopath.

He assaulted himself? I guess anything is possible. Maybe Thailand also about to find out that there are cultures that tend to follow rules and laws without much coercion, and there are others that have self interested criminality as the be all, end all. Of late, Thailand has snubbed the former and pandered to the latter.

At least in Bangkok there was an abnormally long stretch of cool(er) weather, stretching from late November until the first week of March. A lot of people, I think, got used to that. Now, there is sort of a shock with things returning to normal. This seems just like a lot of April-May months I've spent here in the past.

It's really not all that bad. A couple degrees above the past few years. Higher nighttime lows make a bit worse. But 37 or 38 I expect. The couple of days that hit 40 a week or so ago were alright, because the humidity was so low.

I don't watch these videos every day but am looking in sporadically. And considering that he hasn't done all that many of them, Rooster appears to have grown into the role. Much more relaxed. Coming along just fine. Might want to go with a collar mic eventually. But all in all, it's getting better. Going to be okay, I think.

I used to think Vietnam was an option to Thailand, for everything from retirement to Western investments. That's no longer the case. Every country in this region, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand seem indifferent to abducting or abductions. (And Vietnam is just playing the US with insincere and false indications of confronting China.)

The heat is one thing and using the a/c to escape the heat is optional. So I wouldn't bother about paying more for electricity except the air pollution levels make remaining indoors and using a/c pretty nearly a necessity. It's government's responsibility to enforce clean air provisions and stop burning or take emergency actions to shut down traffic. If the government is going to refuse to do that, then it needs to pay a subsidy for people to operate a/c. Ought to pay a subsidy, too, for people without a/c to have emergency centers for clean air.

Just add the 300 baht for everybody, non-Thai and Thai. Nobody will notice.

The pub owner has already apologized to the American.

Khaosod twitter story is even better. The Chinese guy is in a "grey" business, Chinese have an arrest warrant out for him, she was his former girlfriend, and she brought in her Thai boyfriend to kidnap him. This is really good stuff!

It's already been settled. Smiles around the police station and some compensation for medical expenses. The kicker was fined 1000 baht.