isaanistical

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

Only in deep blue cities... 

Er, what? No, don't bother. I meant they get shot in pickups in the USA.

42 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I see many tourists here. Most of them seem to be ignorant.

Most tourists are "ignorant". Somehow I expected better from you..........

I don't like them either, but I don't call them names. Not on websites, anyway.

On 12/26/2023 at 3:07 PM, StayinThailand2much said:

 

Yes, while in Bangkok one has to buy at least two different tickets/cards (no discounts whatsoever), not to mention long and time-consuming transfer distances between the different providers (MRT to BTS, BTS to Airport Link, etc.) - No need to go to the fitness center, if one has to walk twice between BTS and MRT stations... 

 

I enjoyed travelling in Hong Kong where it is so convenient.

Lots of cities have some long interchanges - Paris, for example. But I never saw such a lack of co-ordination in the joining up of interchange stations. Even super-busy (by BKK standards) ones like Asoke have no bridging or such to facilitate the change.

But BKK runs the lines as competitors, hence the lack of such helpful infrastructure as well as lack of interest in common ticketing. "We gave the poor a train, but they still want more," say the top families that make the money from the projects. Never forget that the object of a major road or rail construction is to line certain pockets, not for us to actually use..........

On 12/27/2023 at 12:43 AM, Irrumator said:

Rubbish, it's scruffy and dated. And don't forget crowded and almost impossible to get a seat. And o platform indicator boards - why?  The MRT have done it since day one, so why can't the BTS?  Nothing to do with saving money by any chance?
Anyway, why are so being so defensive?  Seems very parochial to me.  
And yes, I do live as near as dammit to Bangkok - near The Mall Ngam Wong Wan.  That's (just) Nonthaburi, but I doubt you lot who can only live near a BTS line know much about other nearby areas.  

Why do you want indicator boards? You unaware which platform you on/ which direction you going? How difficult can it be to navigate BKK systems? It's not exactly Seoul, fer chrrisssake.

And I'm not defensive. I spend most of my waking hours cursing Thais, but one thng they do rather well is keep their trains clean and I appreciate it. You need optical advice, as I suggested.

If you live away from a railway, it's not exactly the railway company's fault. But I assume you think differently. Get a limo.

wow. Temple chosen for NYE. A temple!

There is nothing else in Thailand to see. Of course that's what they choose. A local newspaper today featured "one-day trips" around BKK. Guess what? Every single one was a temple.

Seen one, seen 'em all, I say.

On 12/19/2023 at 7:21 AM, billd766 said:

I can use email or a smart phone to talk to the seller world wide, but dealing with the UK government, none of this is permitted.

 

The UK embassy in Bangkok is of little to no help either.

Just like the UK itself. Don't forget they sold off the embassy...... it's a dirty little office in a block down the wrong end of Silom these days.

17 minutes ago, Irrumator said:

You need to go to Specsavers.  

Then you need a white stick, which ironically would not get you a seat. The trains are clean and, remarkably, free of graffiti

On 12/24/2023 at 6:49 AM, StayinThailand2much said:

If one needs to travel with three or four different lines, the fare almost adds up to prices seen in Hong Kong (where consumers have much higher incomes).

But at least in HKG there's the wonderful Octopus card, good for every transport mode and much more. That, as has been said by several posters, is the really stupid thing about BKK's systems.

more than usually demonstrably nonsensical.

Let's just make the maths easy and say 24 million punters. To reach "24 trillion baht" they each have to spend 100,000 baht (nearly USD2,800). Half that number are Malaysians on cross-burder days out.

I never met a Thai in or outside the tourism industry who believed a word the authorities said; this is a proof of why.

2 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

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The H is for Heinz, which owns it, or perhaps for Holland where it's made. The P is what they are taking.....

18 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

Until the wrecking crew moves in on the building next door 😉

I was about to say the same. Three times in my earlier years living central I had to move from spacious and very agreeable condos as construction started, and it was not so well regulated then as to hours.

More recently I located literally 30m across the border into Samut Prakan. If I do need to be in, say, Asoke, it's a reliable 20 minutes; BTS is cheaper (as far as On Nut); you can get a seat on a bus (or BTS); and I don't have to go to Chaengwattana.

2 hours ago, WorriedNoodle said:

prompted me to check the news. It's bad. What a genius this man was! So prolific yet I don't think I ever saw a dud. Sadly missed.

18 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Eddie Merckx😋

Getting really serious (and this is true) Adolphe Sax was Belgian. He invented the saxophone!

And running a London pub is Belgian Frans Schepperdsbusch

5 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Eddie Merckx

well, if you're going to get serious, Rene Magritte.

If we aren't careful we may end up with more than six.......

17 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

I've never heard of "one other"!  What does he/she do?

that's rather the point, isn't it!

54 minutes ago, WorriedNoodle said:

Bertrand is not French but Belgian. One of the apocryphal "six famous Belgians" that comprise him, Jacky Ickx, TinTin, Hercule Poirot and one other.

On 10/9/2023 at 2:00 PM, KhunBENQ said:

To the OP: you don't have a second SIM in the phone?

You have not been in the US with the phone?

You have not purchased and used the phone in the US?

No

Good g0d no!

No

But I tried my SIM in another phone that Ikeep as a spare, and the dreaded alert did not appear although the dreaded DTAc cr@p did.

I suspect that without rooting (the phone, that is), I'm not going to solve this.

23 hours ago, mrwebb8825 said:

I'm curious to hear what happened at the end of your trip if you paid nothing when you got on. Did they have a group of locals to "assist" you in finding your wallet to pay when you got off?

No, of course not. I'm in BKK, where did you think I was?

23 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

They have this in England as well.  But it's more intrusive.  It can actually turn on your phone, vibrate, sound a siren and send you a message.

You would think in England it would be sirening 24 hours a day. What a #####

Just now, isaanistical said:

ok so you don't see it, which was part of the question some days ago. The source was the one you now mention. 

What's this about

 

"your phone (or your government)"?

 

Helpful as ever.............

 

 

23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"...in a media we don't mention..."

The Bangkok Post reported that a couple of days ago, also.

 

It's got to be your phone (or your government), not the SIM, it's not an automatic download from Dtac.   I have a Dtac SIM so I get the Dtac app but do not have the app you mention.   It cannot be courtesy of Dtac, if it was, everyone on Dtac would have it also.

ok so you don't see it, which was part of the question some days ago. The source was the one you now quote. 

What's this about

"your phone (or your government)"?

Helpful as ever.............

25 minutes ago, 007 RED said:

Wireless emergency alerts

 

You will find that by clicking on each of the above mentioned topics, you can setup what you want to do (turn on/off), who to send an emergency message to etc.

cheers but the last of these is already turned off, yet as I said earlier the app is still in the apps-list and has no means of turning off all the permissions.

What puzzles me most is that I am fairly sure it only appeared today, or very recently. I'm it may be a security problem.