Narratio

3 hours ago, connda said:

PM Prayut to grace Phuket Sandbox launch

I thought only Royalty, High level Religious bods and (obviously) beautiful women could grace you with thier presence. Not short, tubby, politicoes...

Headline says "Armed Man". The synopsis doesn't mention a gun, just that he was holding a Durian. Now, I'll agree they are fearsome fruit. Heavy, covered in pointy things, will do real damage if you're hit. So my imagination went sideways as I was seeing motor cycle helmet clad men walking into gold shops and declaring "they had a Durian and were not afraid to use it!".

Darn but I wanted another "only in Thailand" moment.... oh well, maybe Anutin will hold another press conference.

That's a very odd lead sentence. Having read ir, I now understand. Right. It was illegal for this man to have ammunition for a gun.

Ok.

But I'm still confused that him having and firing the weapon being legal? Oh well... TIT.

For me, the main problem is in how the figures are presented.  Everybody is referred to as a Tourist, even on retirement, trade visit, one day stopovers, buying trips, teaching etc. Forgetting the border crossings by Laos, Kampuchean etc, they have the passport information to give real enter/exit figures. Given that hotels have to give that info to the police, they can even, with some number crunching, figure out who are real, real tourists and people like me who work a month somewhere awful and then spend a month in Thailand. I'm pretty sure that, after 30 years of this I don't count as a tourist.

I'm wondering why they need to show a ratio of 5.3 men per woman infected. Why not just say that, out of the 38 people infected, 6 were women? Seems simpler.

But... but... the Eurovision Song Contest? We had to stay in order to take part as a full and equal member. Now we'll be optional. We won in 1967, 1969, 1976, 1981 and 1997 and we could have won again! I admit that the past 20 years have been rocky, but we were coming back! We were contenders! We were... were... macro-biotic... vegan... ISO-9000... were...$%#@(&#... were...

I'm sorry. My Auto-Sarcasm emitter has malfunctioned. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible... NURSE! More medication please!

The math in the original post confuses me.

"Businesses and consumers are currently burdened with high costs from complying with these laws and related regulations, estimated to total Bt142 billion annually. The Thailand Development Research Institute projects that the revisions of laws and regulations would lower annual costs by 55.2 per cent or Bt133 billion for consumers and 22.4 per cent or Bt9 billion for businesses."

So, the total burden is 142 Billion. Of which 133 Billion is from consumers and 9 Billion is from businesses. Okay, I can see that, the number add up. But the 55.2% and 22.4% don't. If those % are true then the real burden is not 142 Billion but about 280 Billion.

Is this another case of the reporters not understanding what they're being told and so writing it... poorly? Or is yet another governmental department pulling figures out of thin air?

I'm bemused by 'stagnant air'.

That's air which has no life, air which doesn't move?

It's too early in the day for this. Time for coffee ????

I heard that some of the playing pieces will change. The long retired boot will reappear in the flip-flop. The little Scottie dog becomes an indeterminate breed Soi Dog. The Battleship of the original game will become an aircraft carrier (possibly a submarine, decision is not yet made).

The long retired the thimble, and wheelbarrow, which were replaced with the penguin and Tyrannosaurus will be replaced with Rolex wristwatches or similar. Although there is sentiment that the Tyrannosaur should stay. Keep watching this space.

11 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

"...A last-minute addition to a 2014 Pentagon funding bill signed by former President Barack Obama allowed Rio to exchange land it owns near the forest for land above the copper reserve..."

Here's something that has always confused me about American funding bills.

The original was for Pentagon funding, full stop. That's the usual manpower training, equipment and weapon buying, food/fuel/clothing etc, etc. How on earth can you add something to it that has nothing to do with the original bill?

So what you're saying is that nothing radical is going to happen? It's all 'same-oh-same-oh'? That's good to know.

(NURSE! More medication!)

Of course! I should have got that immediately. And so the sublime plan become clear!

Thank madmitch, I can sleep easier at night knowing that the powers that be have everything under control.

????

With a headline like "Slew of factors to impact stocks, baht and gold next week", we're expecting a story about large rise/drop predicted not that it'll be about the same.

I'm still not understanding why they are banning on-line booze buying. There can't be any link to it and drunk driving, the country doesn't have the data collecting ability to make that linkage. Taxes are being paid on it so I don't see it hurting government income. It's weird, but then again, so is the mid afternoon ban on buying alcohol in shops to help "stop school children drinking", or some such idea.

Just another TIT example I suppose.

Given that 202 has been such a hellacious sh***storm, I'm thinking this is not something to shout about. "The Car of 2020, when Hell got down and boogied!" (or something similar)

Got to agree with above. Anything that gives a 15% return in a month could be linked to something like a South American drug cartels. Although I do remember Thai money lenders hanging around Soi Nana back in the 1980's demanding 10% a month with motorcycle riders doing collections.

Getting involved with either is not good and shows the investors didn't activate their brains.

The report posted on "The Federal" website a lot of prior posters link to is fascinating. 

"The Hungarian delegation was supposed to have a two-day visit aimed at strengthening ties, especially in economic matters."

That's a Hungarian Minister and his 12 person team of bureaucrats. Only fly in and out, no quarantine.

"On his one-day visit to Cambodia, ... he paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Hun Sen and held separate meetings with Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn and the ministers of commerce and agriculture. In photos of their meetings, neither Szijjarto nor some of his hosts was wearing a face mask to guard against the coronavirus"

Again, no quarantine and it doesn't mention where he was before the Cambodia trip, but it does say -

"...he had tested negative before leaving last month for his Asian tour."

As the Cambodia section of his tour included opening a satellite office from the Embassy in Vietnam , I assume he went to Vietnam for some unspecified period of time as well. So we have a one man plague vector picked up in either Vietnam or Cambodia before it appeared on a test while entering Thailand. Nope, government officials don't need14 day quarantines.

10 inches. So the curved blade is about 10 inches in length. The attacker sunk it deep into the back of the head and dragged it around the front I presume? That's a heck of a cut. And this guy was a friend? As Trink would have said "Oh well, TIT".

The original post is still referring to a "suspected Islamicist".  While I understand that impartiality has to be at the forefront of news gathering and you should not make claims without proof... I'd have have thought that cutting a guys head off while ranting about the victim insulting Islam would be pretty solid evidence?

A quick check of Suvarnabhumi Airport arrivals show 60 odd internal flights per day arriving at the airport.

https://www.bangkokairportonline.com/flight-status-arrivals-departures/

That would tell me that most of those 1,200 to 1,600 people are on internal flights, not international arrivals.

The figures the spokesman gave are probably true, just not all of the story.

I'll agree with tomazbodner above. Pre-this year I suffered a common cold or flu (the snotty nose, headaches, coughing etc) about 3-4 times per year, usually within a day of arrival at my destination. (An annual flu jab took that down to 1-2 times a year, but I still get them). I always put this down to the 8 to 12 long haul flights in/out of Thailand I made to get to work. The general crowding in the queues to board flights as well as the packing in of passengers must be a factor. Then an aircraft recycles... I forget. I think it's 50% of it's air. So the 300 odd people are always breathing each others air for 6-18hours at, what 20 air changes per hour? 

Then we add in that many of the airlines fly aging aircraft and we all know horror stories on important maintenance, let alone something like the air systems. Those filters will not get cleaned often, if they ever had HEPA filters that is.

Nope, flying is still the best way to spread disease. How do they think it spread from Wuhan in the first place?

I want somebody to explain to me how a Communist country like China can possibly have millionaires... oh yeah, and keep a straight face while explaining it. When that's done, I need them to do the same thing for Thai millionaires who got their money while working on low wage civilian government or military jobs. I'll provide popcorn.

"It would bring in 1.2 billion baht a month to stimulate the economy, said the media."

The media said this, not the TAT spokesman?

Oh well. I'm still trying to get my head around how 1,200 high value tourists per month equals 1.2Billion baht. Really, a million baht per month per tourist? Or is one of those cumulative things where, over the 90 days of the initial STV, each person spends 1 million baht? And they're looking at 3 months worth of tourists on the 90 day wonder visa?

The TAT version of math and their inability to make clear statements makes my head hurt.