Traubert

11 hours ago, Brayka said:

Seems like generalisation is the hobby for most people here about” they need money”!

About everything.

2 hours ago, gamini said:

I am 90 years old and don't expect to live too long. I have been in Thailand for over 40 years and I'm a writer. I have published five books. I'm thinking of writing a very long post on Facebook detailing a lot of people and their corruption. And post it just before I die. Does anyone think it would create problems for my family. My wife doesn't have Facebook or a computer. Our children live abroad

Pointless. The attention span on Facebook is approximately 3 minutes.

10 minutes ago, tinca tinca said:

because we have had better driving education.........

Well then, live with it. And be grateful.

13 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Lovely....... Chinese, Chinese and Germans....... That should make a joyous environment...... One trying to shout louder than the other..... Oh, and i musn't forget the spitting........     Oh, dear me......    Next straw..... 

They spend money, unlike the current tightwads. Every satang is prisoner with some of them.

4 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

Well, China had been busy murdering 65,000,000 of their own people via purges, starvation, qmismanagementand corruption during the second half of the 1900s, plus they were so dirt poor that they couldn't viably conduct more than a few border skirmkshes.

 

But now that China has the 2nd largest economy in the world, China has lost no time in expanding their military and aggressively pushing outwards in all 4 directions using debt traps and military threats.   Yes, even claiming Russian territory.  

 

If you can read Chinese, you'd be able to access current Chinese military generals & admirals openly advocating war with the US today.  

 

A strong China does not want friends.

Source? Particularly on the 65mn people.The rest will be interesting though. Provided its not western propagada.

10 hours ago, Robin said:

From what I can see, and I might be wrong,  to come to Thailand on any sort of visa, you need Covid test, Covid insurance and ASQ, cost about 60 - 80K Baht.  That could double the cost of a holiday for many.

Now how many tourists, even long stay, are going to add that to the cost of their holiday?

if you are retiree, like me, then it is not too bad of an extra cost, just to get back to the place I call home.  

No doubt in Anutin's world of high spending tourists, there are millions who do not care about the extra cost, and will be flocking to Thailand some time soon.

I suggest that one problem is that us retirees are not considered by Anutin or TAT to be high spending individuals, so not really welcome.  Somebody convince Anutin otherwise and we might see the country open up to retirees

Anutin is Minister of Health. Why should he care if you've got no money?

I could see why he's worried that you'll be lifting with Covid.

Its weird that the figures are so high but all the Thai people known by TVFers are excellent drivers.

I wonder how that can be?

24 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Perhaps, if instead of making it only for Thais, they should make it only for farangs. The corruption level would plummet.

I can almost hear the sneers from here.

Assumptions are just that. For people who have no knowledge.

20 minutes ago, Isaan sailor said:

Better to lose Mekong waters, and gain submarines, bullet trains and those sweet mysterious foreign inflows at BoT.

How are they mysterious? They are available for viewing by interested parties?

Some of you have some strange ideas about how currencies work.

4 hours ago, Agusts said:

I think having scooter as a mode of transport (only option for many, no bus etc.) and part of culture and all that is fair enough...

But then the government and parents should also take responsibility for safety and teaching the kids riding properly, respecting rules and taking care of other road users and so on.

 

It's not hard really, Thais are so glued to social media and TV, why not have more road use safety and learning campaign... (instead of so much other rubbish / propaganda they put out...!).

In US teenagers (14/15) can choose driving as part of their school curriculum to prepare to get their license, why don't they have somehing like that for scooters here...., not that difficult to implement...!

 

I came up with my own stats - see if you agree..., if Thais just followed the road rules and take care by 20% more, the road accidents will be reduced by 80%...!? It's really easy and possible to do, some of the things/mistakes they do is just mind boggling in this day and age...????

 

In the US they........................

We dont live in the US. Thank Buddha.

42 minutes ago, overherebc said:

For me his best was The Russia House.

Everybody has their favourites.

I didn't get on with The Russia House, it was Smileys People for me.

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Come on, explain please.

I said there cannot be cancellations if there were no bookings initially.

'Had the expected levels of tourists' as quoted. Ergo there must have been some.

So many jealous kennel raiders here.

Good news.

27 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

He said that the long weekend that just passed had the expected level of tourists though he conceded it was not as busy as it had been for the fireworks weekend last month. 

15 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Surely that is because there were no appreciable bookings in the first place.

Wrong.

7 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

In Singapore in the 70s the taxi drivers often did not use their lights. Apparently they thought using them drained the battery.

That was 50 years ago.

Times change

1 minute ago, Guderian said:

Hang on, three days ago a guy from the Disease Control Department was saying that they've now dealt with all the covid cases caused by the Thai tarts crossing the border illegally, so where did this "second wave" come from all of a sudden?

 

 

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196342-every-covid-patient-in-thailand-accounted-for-confirms-disease-control-dept-chief/?utm_source=newsletter-20201212-0638&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

 

Mr Anusorn made it up.

He should be a member of TVF. Cant see anything good.

1 hour ago, bwpage3 said:

Yuthasak said that 3.11 million Thais - trips would be undertaken and the economy would get a 12.6 billion baht injection.

 

No mention of how many actually DID take a trip and how much was actually spent.

 

Don't you find it odd the weekend is barely over and they have all these statistics already compiled?

No.

2 hours ago, Gandtee said:

Perhaps we can now qualify to be named a Hub for Farang Heroes. We haven't seen a new hub lately.????

Thailand - The hub of grumpy old men.