Grandpa Cool

I wonder how he's been financing his long stay? 🤔

5 hours ago, Dioj said:

Thus, operating shops selling weed for recreational use can only be owned, operated, and profited by locals moving forward is the real underlying message here. Fine, if that's the real agenda then stop pretending that wide spread use of cannabis in Thailand is harming society, is damaging public image, is a health and safety risk, blah, blah, blah. If it is all just bluster to simply squeeze foreigners out of a hugely lucrative US$1 billion business that they want the locals to dominate then they should stop all the buffoonerous flip-flopping about the cannabis laws and stop pretending it's all about cannabis being a health and safety risk to local society.
 

Also, nothing new in Thailand. So all the foreign run cannabis businesses will now have to bring locals into their businesses to insure the locals are getting a larger piece of the pie. This is actually something that has been done for years. Bring in foreign knowledge and experience to start with in order to develop an industry new to Thailand and once the locals have gleaned all the skills needed to do it themselves then they no longer feel they need to exploit the foreigners now involved who taught them the new techniques and methods to grow a new industry that they had no knowledge of before. 
 

Also, Srettha, and the rest of the PT goons, are probably only acting as if they want to make it an illegal narcotic again because they are pandering to their base of anti-cannabis supporters. At the end of the day they know the cannabis genie is not going back in bottle, but, when the laws aren't changed later, then they can at least say that they attempted to live up to their campaign promises, but they were blocked by other uncooperative parties in the coalition. It's always about the blame game and not about having any morals or values, doing things they claim are in the best interest of civil society, or even doing or achieving anything that they originally promised. It's always only about individual personal interests of "public servants" and political arse covering. 

In other words, it's career politicians playing politics. That's what they do in every country on Earth.

10 hours ago, lexxy said:

 

Travelling to thailand to get a handy from a russian dude

Might have been more than a handy!

On 5/7/2024 at 7:41 AM, ChipButty said:

Im not telling you my favourite beach, 

That's the best idea!

I started travelling in Asia over 50 years ago and was early enough to enjoy  many beautiful, unspoilt beaches. The "hippies" discovered so many fantastic out of the way places...... unfortunately people ruin the reasons for going there. We've loved these places to death! 

Cases in point : nearly every beach in Bali, Phuket, Koh Samui.....the list is too numerous to mention everywhere that has lost it's originality. Bars, resorts, shops, roads, traffic, the maze of cables, the influx of people all contribute to deculturing.

Keep your secrets!

2 hours ago, Zack61 said:

Surely UK police checks would not allow this to move past first base. 

Is there a brown envelope culture in the UK?

😱👎

I'm interested to see where his money trail leads. Who are his associates?

So far, nobody has come out in public to give him a character reference.

I find it hard to fathom that there are apologists for this arogent and violent self entitled couple.

My wife has been listening to Thai podcasts all day. This guy has a lot more unsavoury stories behind him, including abuse and guns.

1,000,000TB a month rent indicates a vast source of wealth. It will be interesting to learn what is the source of his cash flow.

I'm disappointed that there is no photo of the entire local police force doing the big point at the culprit! 🙁

7 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Sad old dinosaurs can baulk all they want; weed made legal was a boon for Thailand, a real move forward. This illegal gov reneging on that puts it firmly back into old tyrant dinosaur territory. 

"Illegal government" is easily the most important issue!

On 12/23/2023 at 9:34 PM, ravip said:

What is the cheapest and most reliable method of transferring money from an Australian Bank to the Bangkok Bank (in Thailand)?

I have downloaded the app "Instarem". It is part of the Travelex/Nium international money transfer network.

I make the transaction to my nominated recipient's Thai bank account. The rate and fee are set before the transaction. So there are no surprises.

Once the transaction is confirmed I transfer the amount of Australian $ to Nium's bank a/c from my bank by Osko. The transfer is immediate. Within seconds I am notified that the money is in the nominated Thai bank a/c. No bank fees at the Thai end.

I do this regularly every month for family maintenance.

Once you install the app with your recipient's information it becomes a very easy and quick process.

You will have to check the rates compared to other transfer agents yourself.

9 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

 

Don't tell me they are going to fly people around the world  for something like this----she has probably had  (being kind) many customers, none would have been younger then her ,

so all were braking the  criminal code of Thailand, and places like the USA etc.

 

This hot shot policeman gets a lot of publicity, while solving crimes--maybe he should be put on something high profile,  like Murder, now who could he track down that murdered one if his colleagues.

 

Or maybe would it be safer to stay with a Bar Girl crime......

That's a very good point! Why not chase down Boss instead of a petty prostitution client?.... it's just B.S. theatrics.

A picture is worth a thousand words!

On 9/7/2023 at 12:25 PM, nikmar said:

i was going to say - it s almost copy and paste what Prayut said when he took power.

BS is all the band can play,

BS, they play it night and day!

BS is all the band can play....

BS, they play it night and day!

I've had extensive dental work done at BIDC, but their prices are now high.

I did extensive research last year and sent my panoramic opg x-ray to 20 different dentists in Australia, Thailand, Turkey and India.

After receiving responses and checking customer reviews :

by far the best and most affordable clinic for serious dental work is Dentzz in Mumbai.