isaanistical

Lent on Wednesday for sure, but is Asanha Bucha "dry"?

duh or no duh. It's a passport renewal application, not a PHD exam. What's so XXXX complicated that you need an agent to make sure you don't eff it up? The argument against having to go to BKK or CM I recognise, but not the need for someone to ensure you haven't spelt your name wrong.

haven't seen this on here for at least a week..............

unless, like many people here, you travel a lot. Moving round this part of the world eats up passport pages; I've done them in 2-3 years (before the covid Panic, that is). Have renewed in Singapore and Aus on occasion, just to avoid the chaos here. Thanks, ambassador.........

whatever its purpose, they can't flog it off this time to help pay the rent back home........... who wants an office in a US insurance company block?

Ah, the good old days – takes me back. I remember once taking the pink slip for collecting the new one and shouting to the girl behind the grille (whom I happened to know a little) “I demand you give me a passport”. Should have seen the looks on the faces of all the asylum seekers in the room! Of course, that was when UK had an embassy here……..

Fog lifting, but Green, Pink and Yellow are operated by BTSC (as BTS, NBM and EBM) - Rabbit so how come the Yellow jobbie is clearly signed all over it "MRT"? Or in this case were you solely talking about the ticketing? [Blackadder: "I have always been content to wear cotton, without bothering to know how it works"............]

Enlighten us? (I have only been here 28 years). If youre right and my wife is wrong (which has never happened before), how come Rabbit works on Yellow, which is an MRT line not a BTS one? Even the lack of logic is wrong!

Not calling you a liar, but my wife told me today she uses the same Rabbit card on Blue MRT and BTS. Certainly it works on the useless Yellow Line, and I have never heard of a Red one.

It's a nuisance if you're just an occasional user of one or the other. Can take ages at, say, Asoke or Silom to get a single ticket. However, I understand a Rabbit card will work on both MRT and BTS, so for those of us who live here, surely that IS a single system?

Agreed. In fact having been out of UK for so long, I am denied a vote there should I ever wish to, which is ironic. My wife, who is Thai, used to be totally apathetic about what happens here - fatalistic, more like, same as many millions of her compatriots. This time she has become really angry about the way they are being s()at on, not least because she is better informed - largely through foreign media that are not always accurate, partly because they usually omit the real source of the whole problem, which of course none of us here dare mention. It was the disclosure some years ago about the truth of that problem that started getting my wife (and her peers) angry, and that will never be healed until there is action. BUT: it is clear that serious protest action would be bloody and costly in terms of lives, and it is not difficult to see why so few Thais are prepared to go to those lengths. I for one don't wish to see my wife killed by Men in Black.............

well, no. I haven't got a tuk-tuk.........

Certainly not. But you may be able to help: I recently saw in a local shop "Wisconsin Bratwurst" for sale. I lived long in Germany and I know what a Bratwurst is. But does this particular US town (?) have some special culinary exemption to produce proper food?

well they don't, but we do. Like "American beer".

with the local libel laws in mind, I would like to assure everyone that Sikarin hospital (Srinakarin) is an absolute paragon, the perfect exemplar of patient handling and administrative excellence. Just as well, too, because medically they are quite good……….. I can't wait to get sick again just to go there.

Sheryl is right (as in ALWAYS right!). But consider Camillian, up the top of Thonglor. I/my family have had a number of generally quite good experiences there over the years with bills that are -relatively - not so dangerous. It lacks the 6-star hotel ambience of some other BKK establishments, which is another very good reason to use it!

Have to be careful here but OP posts as "female". If that is true, it probably explains the whole thing, but there is always the outside possibility that women might be the answer.

Indeed, do it every day for a year and you will be nearly a thousand km further away...... and we will al feel better.

Beat me to it. I always find a few facetious posts to websites does the trick.

Just seen this. What do you mean? During the free "test" period I used my Rabbit card a la BTS. Are you saying that is now history? (You may be talking about the train crash that is the non-availability of an Octopus/Opal style onecard system). Given I can get from Samrong to On Nut for fifteen baht, and thence to places I want to go, I don't plan to use Yellow Line at all, but it would be nice to know. I could not understand anyway why Rabbit card might work on Yellow but not on MRT.

Approx 20 seats and 100 max standing per car. If they ALL got off and refilled at every stop on the line - pretty unlikely - it would be no more than 10,560 per trip. The numbers are nonsense.

Related: I have ridden the train, which starts near where I live in SP but goes nowhere I want to go. That apart, the ride - ie comfort, suspension etc - is appalling; non-stop bump-thump. I have used monorails in plenty of places, as well as all the options here, and this is awful. Anyone else think it's unacceptable?

30,000 passengers per TRIP??? Nonsense. The equivalent of a good-size sports stadium crowd on a single four-car train? No way. Per day? Just possiblz.

yeah, Starc is shocking. Took nearly one over just now to get rid of Stokes..