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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..

Not new. Unless they stopped it while I was not looking, there is already a 700 baht charge in every air ticket (collected by airlines, as it has no small-print exceptions). This latest nonsense would just increase this Passenger Sevice Charge to 1000 baht for most arrivals.

Bit harsh on Serbia. I don't have any other rice-based beers to compare, but after 30 years here my palette is so jaded I don't like English ale (in cans) even at 3 times the price. Been going since way back, before Prayut was even a cypher in the families' eye. So it makes the "disruption" claim in the OP headline rather mystifying. As for wine, its obscenely inflated prices for indifferent stuff - as well as the other restrictions on alcohol such as times of purchase etc - is another aspect of the sanghas and their odd influence. You can understand prohibition in the middle east, but fundamentalist Buddhists? Cheaper good-quality wine would be a boon for tourism too, no? Per-lease......

What is your problem here? Changing the flight a couple of days earlier may well be both cheaper and less inconvenient than other options. It's an obvious one to consider. Explain the "utter absence of logical thought" here, cos I am sure I am not the only one not seeing it.

Odd. I just did one, for around one million baht, and it took me less than a minute, although admittedly I have my details already in my phone. Maybe this was your first transfer and it has to be set up?

OK. But I am about 24 hours from making a large annual donation to Thailand and when I saw that I nearly shot myself..........

Bangkok Bank has never limited me to that sum. You sure? - this must be very new.

that was my first thought. Plus I have neither tools nor Thai language (and Somchais only tool is a shouldershrug that suggests next new year...) Lazada has made-up cables with ball and swage but not long enough. I need 4.3m.

Anyone know who can replace a snapped multigym cable in or near BKK? Our gym has the usual no-brand multigym and the management is scratching its heads and pleading ignorance. Grateful for any useful input, ta.

Yes and no. The only thing that has changed is what the people want, and they don't count. "Pita must prevail" meets "the families must prevail" (one of them of course being the one we cannot mention). Only the families have the big nasty weapons. The families do not have to give a 4x about the people.

Nonsense. The link between BTS and the new line (at Samrong) only exists at one end of the former, so you'll have to negotiate smashed pavement as usual to get there from Samrong itself (eg the very popular market), but if you manage that you'll find "construction site" and hoardings that - you suggest - will be miraculously ameliorated in the next 12 hours. Hold your breath. The development is execrable. We still await, with no sense of optimism, any common ticketing or real integration as you admit, but the mere fact that this is a 3-year late "development" says enough for me to know why and where the money was spent. I've been here a year or two. The design of station access along the line is also absurd, expecting any victims (sorry, passengers) to walk and climb long distances at all stops. God help anyone with bags or, even worse, any disabled passengers. Yeah, there's a lift. That paid another envelope. That's how these things work - get used to it or move. Also, note how popular the existing BTS line is in that area. Still free to ride between Bearing and Kheha and even then it's usually deserted. After Bearing it's a mere 15 baht to On Nut, but locals prefer a bus at 8 baht.

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