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32 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

I definitely agree on the 'rider safer' comment, not so much on the marginal increase in safety from a cheap to a branded helmet. 

 

Quality 95% as high? - You mean the finish?

 

How can we tell the quality of a helmet unless its been professionally impact tested?

 

Video below on a rather rudimentary impact test which highlights the difference between recognized Branded helmets and the rest. 

 

 

 

If you make one impact same this, your helmet survived but your brain ? Have have serious doubts about.

2 hours ago, ben2talk said:

Certainly you can get BETTER, but paying over 50 times as much is a bit of an issue for me.

Mine's an 'Avexcombat' - before i always used full face, but now I have a scooter so I just want comfort, a bit of quiet and comfort and decent/easy replaced visors... that's 400 baht.

 

Having ridden 40 years, although I accept that a better helmet could make the difference I think that we westerners are a little overly keen to pay so much more for such marginal increases in safety. Just ride safer, that'll make much more of a difference...

 

As far as German Quality is concerned, I could have purchased a Mercur Futur razor for 3750 online in Bangkok, but I chose to import a Qshave from China for 300 baht - and the quality is 95% as high.

I have also been riding a scooter since I was in Thailand before it was impossible to use it without finishing in the freezer, now here with a scooter I really enjoy driving it, I wanted to take a full-face helmet but it seems to me to suffocate inside, so I opted for an open helmet.
For the quality I bought two bikes in Thailand not of German quality that have been unused for some time now, now I bought a German quality bike made in china, a real pleasure to go there.

My last visa extension I go also quickly out with not date on my extension, too much quickly I suppose.

On 11/29/2019 at 8:03 PM, baansgr said:

My UK Bank is advertising charges 15.9% on a personal loan...that is extortion

The bank all the world is same, make extortion nothing new, rent money the bank not have and waiting you not pay back for make big bank business.

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

Just started another argument with the wife, she said she paid for the metre deposit back in 2009 when we built the bungalow, yes you did, with my money I said, so I will expect the full refund, so it can come back into my hand, to go out the other, no doubt ????

If happened you a really lucky man, money on my hand go only one way, never came back, she tell me because I am falang

I buy yesterday new helmet  SPACECROWN 600 Baths not metallic parts, why pay more ?

On 11/28/2019 at 12:20 PM, bbi1 said:

Why would anyone be stupid enough to give immigration your email address? Why would anyone be stupid to also put their email address on their arrival card? Well, I guess there are ones that do instead of leaving it blank or putting N/A.

Mee, and what happened if immigration have my address email ? If I received address my messenger mail don't know the email go directly on spam also IO.

Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic Tac, the time is go more short.

liar and liar and liar, nice work from lobbing company Thai insurances

32 minutes ago, saengd said:

Please explain how lowering the bank rate to 0.75% will reduce the value of the Baht and lower the value of the current account surplus?

Yes only print more money lowering currency same Venezuela and many other countries.

I am a compulsive owner, if I want to live in a house for 10 or 20 years I prefer to be the owner even if indirectly with a lawyer, if we also calculate that the money to pay the rent is to dictate monthly to the cost of what I have paid a new house I don't see any convenience to stay in rent, if one day I decide to leave or I have not received the visa, no drama will put it on sale with an agent and I will recover at least half the price I have paid, my quality same owner live have also a price.

11 hours ago, rickudon said:

TAT predicts 80 million tourists by 2030 .....

Is predict well 80 million Chinese soldiers tourist without Visa arrived Chiang Mai and Nong Khai

On 11/25/2019 at 10:35 AM, Lungstib said:

The Thai population is listed as 69m. A tourist for every 2 Thai citizens, really? 

Or one tourist every 21.23 Thais, calculate for the median year, with Asia tourists country not see so much difference

On 11/25/2019 at 10:10 AM, darksidedog said:

39 million arrivals does not mean 39 million tourists. I have been out of the country three times this year and obviously come back again three times. I am not a tourist, but I have been counted three times, and i am not alone. You only need to visit any of the genuine tourist areas to see that tourism most definitely is not up.

I suppose that your passport is written NON IMMIGRATION O, so you are an annual tourist, so the calculation is correct you were counted as a tourist three times, if instead it was written IMMIGRATION O  then you would be right that it is a mistake. Thai logic (read illogic)

1 hour ago, Chelseafan said:

I know, I know!! Is it Thailand sir ?

 

 

I'm surprised how you guessed so quickly ????

3 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

I take issue with Thainess's comment that I've migrated. I'm not an immigrant. My visa said Non-Immigrant. My extensions are required yearly, should I so wish to remain here as a non-immigrant. 

That rant over. I am not, as of this moment, and have never been subject to or felt as if I have been scapegoated, whichever definition is used.

Yes you are tourist long term same everyone farang. Your comment is interesting because it shows how the government thinks of us.

6 hours ago, Pedrogaz said:

I wrote to a moderate degree but it is only because of immigration who seem to treat fangs like criminals.

Women tend to have no problems with us....but the men? I have been here over 10 years and don't have a single Thai male friend (apart from an ex-employee and a relative of the wife's)...I feel men don't care for us here.

In my youth, I can remember going to a public phone box in England and a racist group had put up a postcard with the picture of a black guy and a strap line "Coming over here to steal your women and your job". I do wonder if Thai men resent us because we take their women?

I do not believe because generally we farang not take the young new on the market but the old used with child, in reality the Thai men think we are stupid and maybe we are

5 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

It must be a funny guy like you who took my new flip-flops the other day, and left the old ones ????

If you go with flip-flops with two different colours you're sure to find them.

*He urged people to keep calling 1178 to help with this endeavour.*

Calling 1178 work also for Thai people make bad think????

12 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

Tell me where you saw foreigners selling stuff in Thailand 20-30 years ago??? 

Yes  de-industrialization and the transfer to Asia of a large part of the industrial sector because foreigners came from more poor western countries and Thai people continue to believe western country are rich the same before.

12 hours ago, Denim said:

Not enough options to vote on.

 

Not everybody over 50 is on a retirement visa.

 

The increasingly hot weather will force me out before anything else.

 

Just had my second skin cancer cut out for a thousand dollars and don't fancy a third.

I agree, is not only A and B the question needs more articulate. Not forget big pollution, very dangerous roads, expansive cost living growing year after year and repressive government again population increase instability future, for ageing farangs on a search for peace and security, Thailand is anymore a country for retirement.

Prayut did an expensive facelift recently, but not so much success with women.

7 hours ago, gearbox said:

In Iceland shorts probably are not  sold in the shops anyway, but I can tell you plenty of people in Australia turn up in banks or government offices in shorts.

I agree, I apologize for Australia and NZ peoples, on Thailand if the one who gets off a refrigerated car and enter an immigration office to ask the employees to work for him knowing that in Thailand the dress is important is a minimum of savoir faire to go there with a decent dress. It is also a matter of respect for yourself not to present for a practice as important as the visa does not go dress like a beggar.