isaanistical

Just that if you are US, you might think "hyperbole" was a football match

Hyperbole. Bit like irony. Bit like "bronzy" or "silvery". You American?

In Bangkok? (BIB)

Sorry if it was misunderstood. You re-make my point, which is that many here have to trek thousands of km to an IO while Samut Prakan is probably (since they relocate back to the riverside) the easiest in Thailand to get to. I thought the OP was making - at least - a mountain frm a molehill.

talk about making a crisis out of a drama.... The amphoe is 200m across the car park from the IO (which is a 5min walk from the BTS, it's not exactly away in Isaan). She can do it by the time you have got your queue number and sat down.

Play golf? You ever hit Nicola Sturgeon? Golf is for male sexist pigs, according to a recent paper (no, seriously): “How Men Use Symbolic Masculinity to Network Through Golf” (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gwao.13271). Golfers really should be ashamed of themselves! Sociologist joins a bunch of Geordie golfers for a round and earwigs their banter: “The flight path of golf balls and golf challenges they faced were ... given names rooted in heteronormative and misogynistic language. [t]he men developed their own jargon based around the sport. I observed shots being referred to as a PHILIP SCHOFIELD: a shot that appeared “to be straight but ended up being ‘bent’” SALLY GUNNELL: an ugly little runner NICOLA STURGEON: to describe “a nasty little five-footer”. Report goes on forever, berating these nasty men. It was “supported by National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise and Research England.”

short answer: NO.

It is chanote - looking at the doc now. That appears to be the only good thing about it!

No, not a sign on the property - we had not considered it! We are not exactly local, and though the circumstances are not like yours, there are some touchy aspects (in his family, whose 'present' it was and they rather expected him to keep it) to be got round. Anyway, does a sign on the property EVER work (I got so used to seeing them everywhere but they stay up for years!)

Thanks for this. Couple of thngs I had not even considered. The land in question is about 500km away, though - would a land office (presumably has to be the relevant changwat?) respond by phone or does someone actually have to go there?

My step-son (khun thai) wants to sell off a piece of land (never built on) that he will never use. It's just 7 rai but should be useful to someone and he wants the cash for a business idea. The question is, how does he establish roughly what that land might be worth? When I search google, etc, all I get - obviously - are answers relating to farang buying/selling. How do Thais go about working out what their land is worth (per rai) in a particular area? Also, is there any government tax on sale of land that Thais have to pay (naive question, perhaps) beyond a 3 percent fee if an agent is used. [I searched for this in the TV forums but surprisingly can't find anything]

Allowing officials to take brown envelopes is a terrible idea. Everything about Thailand's administration (and that of many other countries) is a terrible idea and topping a few to "encourager les autres" would get my vote (er, I don't have one). I don't say all officials are bad, but all are bent. Even the good ones - who do their jobs diligently in their community - will happily accommodate one in return for a little something. And that is about something else - the rate for the job. To be serious, "Pay peanuts, you get only monkeys". The diligent local cop, or local council guy, gets a pittance. No great incentive to refuse my occasional "pourboire", is there? But - and we all know the reality - pay better and you don't actually get rid of the corrupt(ion). You have to somehow weed out the baddies BEFORE rewarding the rest. And that is something no administration in the region, perhaps in the world, has learned to do.

You just arrived? There are no good guys.

A "dangerous idea" for the pollies themselves, though. Far as most of us are concerned, they can purge each other to infinity. Sell tickets.....

and this anti-corruption party is led by............ a general. Am I missing something, or is it just TIT?