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19 minutes ago, Benmart said:

Seems the current PM didn't reform the RTP afterall. Crooks stealing from crooks.

The current PM has not EVEN halted the sale of lottery tickets above their listed price of 80 Baht

in the six years he has been in power.

I would have thought that something this simple would have been an ease for someone this powerful.

  After all having proved he has to live in an army barracks, for protection surely he would be safe from the Lottery  ticket mafia.

I think that the motto at the bottom of ukrules post sums it up best.

40 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Baht is overpriced, due to excessive foreign inflows.  Period.

Baht is overpriced due to the elites massive debt in US dollars!

This has been going on for decades. 

As usual in Thailand the problem is deciding which proposal brings the best [monetary benefit] to the comittee.

Thai prisons have come into the news recently for the lack of humanity provided to inmates.

Don't come at me  with lines like "do the crime etc  BS. It is irrelevant. The loss of freedom

and being unable to decide when to sleep, eat, ETC.  Is decided by others is punishment.

We have heard recently about food issues and the question of the budget provided

whether it is sufficient or skimmed.

No common person expects or wants prisons to be homes away from homes, but

things like in this instance [lack of sanitary pads] is degrading.

23 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

 

Do the crime, pay the time, or would you prefer they have a separate room, with TV, snooker tables, libraries etc etc.

What a callous person you are.

5 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Huge amount for the hotel owners, probably affluent already, and probably paid a bung for the privilege of being an ASQ hotel.

Not much being spent in the economy when people are holed up there for 2 weeks ! 

OK, I give-up, I am confused and stupid or stupid and confused!

Is the country benefitting from the pandemic or sinking from  the lack of tourists?

As a surrogate father to my Thai so, i would like to place some Thai women

as the biggest instigators of violence to children.

Before you shout and scream at me, hear me out.

nearly 30 years ago my then Thai partner were left with her brother's son to care for.

All seemed OK for a few years as she took reasonable care of him, taking to the child health clinics as required 

After he started to attend school she began to mentally and physically abuse him for any minor error in his school work.

As I was working days and evenings [and he was threatened with more abuse if he told me] I was unaware of the extent of the abuse.

If she abused him while I was home I told her in no uncertain manner never to do it again.

to cut a long story short, I needed to return to my home country frequently and obviously leave him in her care. I financially provided for them while i was away.

Cut to the present and given the facts by my son I got him away from her and have taken complete care of him much to his daily delight. 

Sorry for such a long winded reply , but i understand that all Thai women are not like this , but when they are they can be bloody mean.

All talk and no action.

A bunch of incompetent administrators bowing to the billionaire elite that need a high baht for theiir activities.

I feel that the finance minister that they poached from the private sector knew what to do but his underling

refused to co-operate , so he resigned after a month.

Why isn't Prayut on the panel. 

He is the epitome of reconciliation! 

Prayut wants the students to express their creative opinions.

So why are you abusing their right to do so, with violence?

I am far from religious, but on this occasion, please Zeus "let it be".

7 hours ago, madmitch said:

.....and Government-sanctioned inflated prices for foreigners!

Yes, in this release does A- nut-in inform that you are going to be charged an additional 25%

because you are a dirty foreigner?

5 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

Enough said.

As the (albeit, unelected) prime minister, he is responsible for whatever actions these people take, and should be held accountable when it gets nasty.

I actually thought there was no need for further comment after

"Prayut is indifferent".

Thanks for that. 

It reinforces my attitude to Thai justice.

Some time ago He said He will sue the OZ paper that printed the fact that He

spent time in jail in OZ,

Question:  Did he actually sue???

Any response to this needs more input from the authorities.

IE: How many inmates in prisons?

    Budget for meals X inmates?

   Actual cost per day x number of inmates?

  Budget for nutrition per inmate.

A lot of these responses refer to driving on highways and are quite relevant.

However city driving is just as dangerous.

the complete in-attention to road laws and other motorists is abhorrent.

My great bugbear is the complete disregard shown to pedestrians by motorists. 

Faded paint on crossings, signage at only 2 metres from the crossing, the lack of controlled red lights etc etc.

Does anybody expect this senate to vote themselves out of a job?

" My yellow shirts are gathering dust in the back of the closet".

Very subtle, mate. I hope you intended it to be.