Curmudgeonly59

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand should be concentrating on matters like the lives and safety of their people. What they are going to eat next and the air they breathe, for example.

 

At last. Concise, relevant social/political commentary. There's hope for the new year.

Coherent, balanced and timely article.  Let's see more like it on Thai Visa...????

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

like some newbie desperate for approval.

Nowadays like an oldbie desperate for approval!

22 minutes ago, overt2016 said:

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???

No. No suggestion of that, yet. 

No mention either of the suggestion that, after being deported from Australia, he also then had to do three years' custody in Thailand - for rape & murder - for which he was subsequently acquitted. 

"...records suggesting...".

That's a cute suggestion.

There are also formal legal records suggesting that he was tried, convicted and sentenced by a court in Sydney for importing 3.2kg of heroin. Prompow, a young soldier in the Thai army at the time, suggested that it was simply a few kilos of cooking flour - just the kind of thing a young Thai soldier carries from Bangkok to Bondi. Got to eat something while in Sydney! Those Thai restaurants are damned expensive for a humble Thai soldier! The forensics lab suggested that the 'flour' was only 70% pure, and so it was suggested that it amounted to only 2.7kg of unadulterated heroin. At sentencing for the suggested conviction - only a suggestion from the judge mind you - it was suggested that young Mr. P do eight years, reduced to six for 'assisting police with their investigation' - the suggestion being that he squealed on his mates - the original sentencing suggestion was reduced to six years and it's suggested that he eventually went down for a four stretch. In later years, Mr. P suggested that he "...only slept at the state sponsored accommodation"

There are also suggestions that he's changed his name on a few occasions - indeed - five times, is the suggested number. I've my own suggestions - but they probably won't make it onto Thai Visa, so I suggest readers do their own research and come to their own conclusions about his suitability for public office. Better to have him out in the daylight where the honest to goodness government can keep an eye on him. Just a suggestion.

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

two compilatory liqueurs

Ahh! Those fiendish compilatory liqueurs again! Lucky you're on a teacher's salary!

17 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Rooster prefers to call it journalistic skill.

Really?

Quarantine in Buriram?

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

but unlike a famous British hymn, it’s a love that does ask questions

Next line seems relevant, too:

"The love that asks no questions, the love that stands the test,
That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best."

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Coming from a family where we have had to face up to such issues

Looking forward to the extended narrative...

7 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

I can't say that the above statement is wrong, but I am not sure if it is correct, yet.

Waffle.

The only explosion will be the tummies if that line up photo is any indication. And talking of old muzzle loaders, that seems to be what most of the guns are - both more of a danger to their owners than any target. 

Years since I've used counter service inside a Thai bank and yesterday I suddenly remembered one of the reasons why. Cash advance on a VISA debit card. Passport, ok. Then she asks me to sign a photocopy of my passport and (on the same A4 sheet) copies of both sides of the debit card, including the three digit CVV code! When I politely queried the need for that, it was straight into the usual officialdom and over compensatory aggression. Always amusing to watch the lightning fast switch from smiles and servility to open hostility, even at such a banal level of transaction. I smiled, and set about obliterating the CVV code. But really, with the debit card number, personal details from my passport, signatures all over the place they're not going to have the CVV number into the bargain. Bangkok Bank, by the way.  

I missed all the other equally interesting nearby countries - Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam,  Malaysia etc etc...  

On 6/10/2020 at 2:58 PM, rkidlad said:

What about the big army guys with all their medals but they’ve never been to war? 

Classic textbook psych: overcompensation for low self esteem...

22 hours ago, steven100 said:

if the thai family is treating you ok and you are not being cheated in any way, once again, just to ensure all is ok.

Of course! Why couldn't I see that before? Now you come to mention it, I can almost feel the empathy and concern for my well-being, each time I interact with the immigration police...

Must be time for a ''reenactment", with a bit of pointing...

Interesting, informative - thanks.