Pedrogaz

I went to the pharmacy today to buy some medicine. As usual the pharmacist said " Sorry, no have". In the UK, US or Japan they say "Sorry, no have but will get for you in couple of hours...can you come back then?" Having lived in the UK, US and Japan I can see that the level of service here is appalling.....and fully meets the expectation of the customers because they don't know any better and so they put up with lousy service all the time. I have been in Thailand now for more than a decade and what I can say about hotels is that they are cheaper that UK or Japan but the service is bad and gets worse each time you stay there. Last year I stayed at a lovely hotel near Nana....it was small and intimate but during the pandemic had no kitchen so you had to go out to eat. This year they have opened the kitchen, but it smelly like a greasy spoon and the food (breakfast) sucks badly. What happened to the reception staff who were so wonderful and friendly last year when my wife was temporarily disabled and they could not do enough to help her? Well they are no longer there and the staff are now hiding away so as not to interact or help residents....the service has gone from 5 star to 1 star in 12 months.

Why are the leaders of Thailand so damned stupid?

Sadly more welfare 'rights' mean means more dosh sloshing around the system....which leads to yet more and more corruption and abuse in Thailand. I can just see a poor peasant going to claim his, let's say 1000 baht and the uniformed cashier hands him 500 baht....what does he do? Who does he complain to?

And think people have to cheat to pass the police exam.....it must be really difficult, eh? Why not fire these people instantly....why are they still drawing a salary? If it is against the law to fire such people, then change the law. Time is running out on Thailand's ability to reduce corruption to any sort of reasonable level. Did Prayut vow to eradicate corruption? Isn't that what the coup was all about?

Nothing self-serving in this statement by Jatuporn.

Great headline. Thank you, you saved me trying to pee up my own nose.

Come back Thaksin, all is forgiven.

Sadly the police have zero credibility in such cases. BTW, is Joe Ferrari in jail yet or is he out on bail?

My view is that if the public and tourists are required to be totally au fait with Thai laws then we should expect no less from the RTP

TAT are incompetent. Use the money to hire someone with a functioning brain. Watch their forecasts in future and see how deathly accurate they are.

I read it as Park Imports because I'm stupid and thought there may be some corruption in the parks department......god forfend.

Preecha looks as honest as the day is long. Who could possibly want to question him about any illegal activities.....it's pretty obvious he knows nothing.

Yes come home soon please Mr T. The last decent male PM that Thailand had.

TAT being given billion to throw away. TIT. Where is the neutron that people in gubmint share?

Were these noodles not already banned by the Thai FDA? One would imagine that anything for human consumption that has been laced with pesticide needs banning asap.

Yes come back quickly Mr T and bring happiness to the people......we've been waiting for it since 2014.

Never, I hope.

Where did you get the information that public transport deaths are only 1% of all deaths on Thai roads? Are these the infamous 'at the scene' deaths or the real death rate? What is the market share of Toyota Communter vans in Thailand (I'm sure more people are killed on Honda motorcycles than other brands of motorbike, but this reflects the dominance of Honda in the market and not any poor safety on behalf of Honda motorbikes themselves). I agree it is time to phase out these vehicles from hell, to put GPS in the cab to notify authorities of speeding and to make after-market modifications like LPG/NPG conversions subject to eye-watering fines.

A positive development. I hate motorcycle tub-tuks. Apart from the rip off pricing, they are smelly, dirty, noisy, unsafe and uncomfortable with rude ill-mannered drivers (yes I realise I am generalising and that the odd driver may not be a pig). Overall I find nothing 'loveable' about this medieval form of transport. I would always rather walk than use a tuk-tuk.

Yes, lest we forget......he rolled into power with tanks behind him and a promise of eradicating corruption and 'returning happiness to the people.' Personally I don't see that he has done anything at all about endemic corruption and I'm a faring so I can't comment on whether happiness has been returned to the people as farangs were specifically excluded from having happiness returned apparently as we were happy enough already.

If I were a betting man, I would bet that this is totally untrue, that the citrus spray has no activity when measured properly, and that the citrus nasal spray never sees the light of day (outside Thailand.)

About time. This is all about Thais not enforcing the laws they have. IMHO the government should stop any new laws being enacted until they can demonstrate that the laws already enacted are enforced. After all why add to the burden of the underworked police force?

I thought convicted killers were barred visas for Thailand. Why did I have to get a police report from home to get my visa?

Wouldn't a picture of the online shopping app be a good idea so people could recognise it and avoid it?????

It doesn't really matter how it will work......the one thing about Thailand is that all systems must make several random changes to their operation each year that make no improvement to their efficiency or utility.