Bday Prang

Have you ever actually been to a village? I ask because you appear to have no idea what you are talking about.

Luxury where I live we dream of garbage collection, we have a recycle guy who removes the bottles, but everything else just gets burnt There was some sort of proposal to start garbage collection but the locals decided they didn't want to pay such extortionate fees ( I believe it was estimated to be about the same as yours 300-400bt per year)

Are you applying from the UK ? If so you need to look a little more carefully at what kind of tourist visa they might give you, There is indeed a multiple entry tourist visa option available if one selects "Tourism and leisure activities" as the reason for applying , BUT..... If you state on your application that you want the visa in order to visit "family" then you will find that the multiple entry option is no longer there, and only a single entry option is available And for anybody thinking of disagreeing, don't bother as I have just checked on the UK e-visa website On the positive side, the application process for METVs seems a bit easier than before the recent changes, there was no financial evidence required, or tax return or employers letter, and no need to do a selfie holding ones passport, at least that's how it was a month ago

"An exorcism of the wrong spirit" !!!! what on earth are you talking about ?

Absolute rubbish, from somebody who has never lived in a Thai village

Another who chooses to base his opinion of people on what he reads in the media, you know pretty much nothing regarding this incident, or either of the people involved

Its irrelevant where they are from there are enough "students" who never attend any lectures to warrant rounding up and deportation. That would send out the right signals

Sadly true, we are constantly bombarded with news reports of threats from the " right" but the threat from the "left" is never mentioned, presumably because the "left" have now moved beyond the threat stage and are currently conducting an active campaign. It is not just the media, don't forget the major contribution being made to this mess by the education system too

No it is not. and that is not how you spell it either

Not true as we remember neither i don't think either is intended to be a team event under normal circumstances

He's described by many as "extreme far right" although I'm sure that those who refer to him as such have little knowledge of such matters, its just a label they stick on anybody who speaks a bit of common sense, But he is not far right and not far wrong either

A big fuss is made in the UK about illegal immigration particularly those coming in the small boats (around 50,000 per year) but now its been revealed that is just a distraction to divert attention from legal immigration which is around 750,000 per year mainly from abuses of the student and other visa schemes. Today the authorities admitted that they have "lost" 17,000 illegals who have just vanished into the country. What a disaster

Looks like everywhere is suffering the same fate, I was always an optimist until relatively recently, but now I'm pretty sure the writing is on the wall, Every civilised country seems to be getting run into the ground, to me there seems to be a sort of grim reality about it all, The curse of mass uncontrolled illegal immigration coupled with the misguided notions of diversity and wokeness will be the undoing of the modern world as we know it It will happen an awful lot quicker than the climate change disaster that has been invented to distract us

I would respond "I personally do not have a government but the UK government......."

They would have you sussed and given you a perjorative nickname in seconds

I have heard westerners telling Thais they mispronounce some words Conversely I have had Thai english teachers correcting my english

Most Thais I know would have no trouble describing you

Even if one is Thai I don't think ones IQ ( if there even is such a thing) is anybody's concern

I could not give a toss about some test, I may have failed your basic intelligence question, and I'm obviously not as smart as you think you are , but i never had a problem shopping

in order to buy certain Items from some Thai shops one often needs to speak Thai to a higher level than a 3 year old

not if their IQ is so low they wont

Personally I have no idea what IQ specifically means other than its generally calculated by how one responds to abstract questions formulated by bearded psychiatrist type people. To assess somebody's IQ based on some sort of customer service experience is just plain weird The OP seems to think his negative shopping experiences are due to the low IQ of the shop assistants. Perhaps he should think about improving his own Thai language, and interpersonal skills before he decides how he will increase the IQ of an entire nation of people

You must be bored , why would anybody care about the average Thai IQ ? If you want HK IQ then go to HK (better for all of us)

Why do you find that a "real concern"? do you think there may be "racist" undertones lol does it state the nationality or ethnicity of the drunken tourist or the person impersonating them? no it does not. Or are you just a bit "noi jai" because they didn't ask you to play the part

Don't you just love the mainstream media and politics. Two entities who are supposed to serve the public, yet have no idea what the public actually want. They have not, contrary to popular opinion "lost touch" with the public, that phrase would imply that it happened almost accidentally, and that is not the case They don't care what we want they have their own agenda, hasn't always been like that but it is now "Far Right" seems to be the most misused word of the century so far, seems to me that most people have no idea what far right actually means, and genuinely believe it just means "people who don't agree with me " This Wilders guy is not far right, and he certainly isn't far wrong The constant mantra from them, that left is good and right is bad is just plain wrong, where did it start?