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1 hour ago, Ombra said:

Aren't there always fewer deaths on the roads during long holidays than on other days. I thought that the normal average was about 40 - 50 a day. Congestion saves lives.

Exactly. OP headline is completely wrong.

WHO numbers - 2016 is their most recent easily accessible year - showed 22,491 deaths, or average 61.6/day. Around 80 percent motorcycles.

18 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

A long weekend with two dry days (bars/clubs).

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

56 minutes ago, sungod said:

Couldn't give a toss what you or anyone else does, makes no odds to me.

 

Just puzzled why you are questioning the usefulness of VFS doing their checks, thats what the 'duh' is for.....

 

 

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.

4 hours ago, ravip said:

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

6 hours ago, Lite Beer said:

It is actually nearer to 9 years.

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.........

3 minutes ago, BritTim said:

It is rumoured that they still do, though unclear what its purpose is these days.

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?

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

It was best when you could go to the embassy in Bangkok done and dusted in 4 days

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"............]

1 minute ago, Crossy said:

 

Ah, the more long-term members know who I work for

 

I'm afraid your lady is mistaken.

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!

16 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Nope, the Bunny works only on the Green, Yellow and Pink (when it opens). MRTplus works only on the Blue and Purple. Neither of them work on Red.

 

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.

14 minutes ago, n00dle said:

I really dont see how it is an inconvenince to carry a couple of cards.

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?

6 hours ago, bignok said:

Compared to a tuk tuk driver are you better off?

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

53 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I take it you have never eaten any Wisconsin Cheese then

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?

57 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Is that what they call an oxymoron?

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!

1 hour ago, 473geo said:

Go for the women and Jack

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.

29 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

You are either a troll or someone who needs medical psychology help.

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

On 7/8/2023 at 6:59 PM, bamnutsak said:

The ticketing thing is a gigantic black-eye, what doofii can't fix this?

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.

3 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

That would include people getting on and off at every stop.

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?