terryofcrete

On 5/23/2021 at 2:44 AM, rooster59 said:

My local club Crystal Palace parted ways with affable pensioner Roy Hodgson who was one of my PE teachers in my first term of secondary school.

Good read this week ... thank you ! I always worried about the lack of cop on when I heard that some unfortunate club...or in one case country... has hired this man to manage. You know him... so could you enlighten me as to whether he is a brazen chancer, actually has talent, is a very likeable guy... or rogue... or just lucky that there are so many gullible figures in football ready to employ his likes time and time again. 

On 5/18/2021 at 9:51 AM, sammieuk1 said:

They have millions registered will that do ????

It's the free cow a week raffle thats gonna be the turning point in Thailand's war on Covid and vaccine rollout ! This plan will spread nationwide, and supplies of cows will become a problem, but vaccine availability will be be surplus to requirements and even the free cows will come fully vaccinated. They will become Symbols of Victory over Covid , venerated and vaccinated , and milked meticulously along with foreign tourists.  

10 hours ago, Jingthing said:

So is that about over half a million shots per day? 

Well, I guess it's good to have goals.

I'm not British , not blowing any trumpets, but didn't they get to a million a day at some stage ? ... Of course theres a little matter of the cost involved , and eh... to put it bluntly , saving money is more important than saving lives in Thailand ... sadly ... First World when promoting itself... Third World when pleading excuses. rockets and submarines .... easy ... vaccinating the population ... ah here ! thats a hard one ... as the actress said to the bishop !   

4 hours ago, colinneil said:

Landrace actually.????????????????

No Large Whites ? .. .. 

5 hours ago, RotBenz8888 said:

And there's when I stopped reading further. 

Now I am seriously convinced that that the stories on here are chosen daily simply to draw comments and that’s what people are reading , the news stories are nonsense but the comments are entertaining . We have a similar online only news App in Ireland. Copy & Paste news … not too complicated stuff … and then comment wars on a daily basis. Good fun for all … not a bit of harm in it… carry on… Just be sure not to take the content as “ News” … 

2 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

it makes perfect sense

What ! that’s criminal ! Making sense is not a national tradition . Where there is peace … let me sow war… where there is understanding … let me sow confusion … and on and on…. 

17 hours ago, ryane66 said:

They don't need to fine or punish. Offer incentives. Maybe free lottery tickets.

To insist that anyone must not refuse the Chinese vaccine is terribly unfair as it is  unsafe and not efficient. … nonsense ? … lots of online evidence of post vaccine deaths and serious illness … It’s the main vaccine being offered in Thailand .. for political and economic reasons as life isn’t as important as kudos and profit in some countries … 

If it was announced that the Chinese Vaccine was now available by any developed country there would be a national day of laughter and jokes declared . 

On 5/13/2021 at 1:47 AM, nkg said:

 

You need two injections to be fully vaccinated - and that's the rule to have the full two doses, not just one. So they give you a card after your first one, and then you wait 3 months for the second one.  

J&J now approved in many countries and rolling out now. It’s single dose. Approved US and EU … The long wait between jabs one and two leaves you in limbo .Especially in the UK with a 12 week waiting period  between them. US and EU is 4weeks … In all honesty I think I would refuse the Chinese Vaccine . Unsafe and just over 50% efficient .

7 hours ago, paahlman said:

No. You can stay wherever you like.. In a house or in a hotel.. You follow the same restrictions as the other locals, but you cant leave the province for 7 days.. Easy.

 

very big question for me me . Am I free to book ANY flights that do not transit through Bangkok ? … example for me… Dublin /Qatar/Phuket…. ? …If they … you know that crowd… pick the flights forget it … backhanders . 

Can my Thai friend  , who lives in Bangkok, travel to Phuket to meet me ? Obviously not  vaccinated yet as are most of the common people… Without this … forget it for me . I would be only to willing to pay for her vaccination prior to this imagined trip … but “they” will not allow the hospitals to buy and sell yet … because there is no benefit yet to their coffers … When AZ is in full production in Thailand one assumes the money machine will click into action .

I have had my 2 Pfizers … 

I did it My Way….… ‘OlBlue Eyes tune….and now I’ve had my two, 

9 hours ago, Chelseafan said:

One minute Phuket is happening in July, the next it's not. Have they flippin' decided yet? If so, is it 7 days on the island or 14 ?

 

If anyone was silly enough to print out or screen shoot these daily gems you would have a hard job identifying Day, Month , and soon Year as to when the same headline has appeared or a contradiction has appeared. Thank God I’m a recovering alcoholic for over 20 years and everything in my life runs on the AA principal of “A Day at a Time”... I can take it without banging my head off the wall ... and not being able to ... well... Bang at all for now ! 

4 hours ago, kingofthemountain said:

Thailand is still a nice place to stay

for a holiday.. I’m a tourist.... 5 separate months a year... 6/7 years ...and love it ...Separate months ? ... because 30 days in something goes bang in my psyche ! .... GTFOOH.... as in get the...out of here !  

9 minutes ago, terryofcrete said:

lack of hygiene ,

The cleaning staff at my hotel in Soi Bukahao stared with questioning and unsure eyes into the toilet bowl observing the blue water up in the bowl ...  It was from the “ toilet block” I had added to the cistern to eliminate the odour ... not objectionable given there are no cleaning products ever supplied in the hotel rooms... but better dealt with ... I was afraid I might be deported ! lol .  Jaysus Wept ... as we say.... 

2 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

Well we pay to get out included in the ticket so I guess they think it's only fair we pay to get in as well! How will it be done, lines of people who don't have 300 baht being escorted to ATM's? Highway robbery from people who do not realize the golden goose has flown off.

same as previous charges .. in the price of the flight ... there’s already charges in there ...should be the other way round , we should be subsidised for enduring the filth , lack of hygiene , overpricing, danger of crossing a road , and potential accidents even walking on the third world pavements or even no pavement at all ... and falling down holes ... my personal favourite . 

Reading about the difficulties of living in Thailand and having the option of doing the same for many years now I’m so glad that my instinct always told me not to sacrifice my rights and privileges afforded to me as a citizen living in my own country for being a non entity outsider with no respect and considered as simply tolerable because of his or her spending ability in a country that is not a democracy , without freedom of speech or right to appeal constant threats to my continued existence in the country .

I can visit for months, enjoy its pleasures and partake of its false revenue driven “hospitality” any time of year .. excepting the covid era.... and when bored or exasperated by the many irritations in Thai society ... simply go home . 

both UK and Ireland, my home country , decided Christmas was precious and we had to have a couple of days off from our vigilance . The results were very saddening . It’s not just Thailand that make these blind irrational decisions to drop restrictions to avoid unpopularity at festive times of the year. 

20 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

I don/t understand. Mr Prayuth said that the standard vaccination would be Astra Zenica, but they use a lot of Sinovac too...Or do they relabel the sinovac??

Many people believe the Sinovax to be dangerous, even causing death apart from being as low as 50% efficacy... so what’s the vaccine on offer...

17 hours ago, Kinnock said:

Yes - you can check in, but you can never leave.

I started humming Hotel California the moment I read it ! 

Well, for my sins I have many lady friends in different parts of the country and without hesitation most say the Sinovax is dodgy and has killed people ! They said they will not take it. 

Now, I’m not blind to the fact that rumours spread and become gospel truths , but with tests saying the efficacy of the chinese vaccine is as low as 50% , all in all it is not the “ to die for” choice of most people . But Causing death ? Anyone ? 

10 minutes ago, Caldera said:

Thank goodness. All hail the Covid Czar.

 

in only a matter of days since taking singular control of all matters covid he has reversed the advance of the virus in Thailand .... 

All hail indeed ! 

On 4/25/2021 at 7:27 AM, ramrod711 said:

Poor Anutin

very rich man I am told ?

2 hours ago, Spellforce said:

No planes are flying from most of the countries, definitely none from Australia. 

From Ireland you can travel to Phuket without transit thru BKK , which is not allowed , but , for the time being , we can’t come home via the middle east ( qatar or UAE) without quarantine in Dublin although only transiting through the airports in Doha,Dubai or Abu Dhabi....I expect  that to change though . 

4 hours ago, madmen said:

Who in their right mind is going to add yet another non refundable air fare to their credit card? 

Well anyone who would buy a non refundable flight in these times would NOT be in their right mind and would be most welcome in Phuket to which anyone in their right mind would not travel anyway so I guess Phuket will get what it rightly deserves ... like minded not in their right mind tourists ! ... eh ..if you get what I’m at....