Mr Dome

As long as your pants end below your moobs, it's sexy ????

Unlike others here, I feel for you. Thailand has never been known as the land of reason & common sense, it's all about appearances. Of course, it also depends on how "you lost it-face" when you did. The difference to other similarly minded countries is that if you point out that the emperor is indeed naked some local often gets seriously angry at you. Best to know this, before making a long term commitment. PS I live in Cambodia now and I haven't encountered this so far (apart from mentioning once that spraying the money isn't really necessary - but then, it's theirs after you hand it over, they can do with it whatever).

This just shows you that the most pessimistic assessment still rules. Quite incredible. In that spirit, I predict another mostly lost high season in Thailand.

Booking flights on airlines that just returned most of their BKK flights for the next 6 months is not easy. Anyway, just my opinion, the well prepared & vaccinated can come for a longer stay but it's not the time yet for a short Thailand vacation for most and I would advise everyone to wait and see until next year. We're not out if the woods yet.

I always thought we won't be out of the woods globally until 2024/5, the same time frame IATA had projected last year (when a lot of $$$ is at stake, forecasting really gets better ???? ) - and after that it really will be "just like the flu" - for the vaccinated.

I believe every drinking establishment - once they're open again - should introduce an Unhappy Hour ????

Those evil farangs with their big roosters, I mean cocks ????

I have a feeling this story hasn't reached "peak bizarre" yet. He must be the first intruder to actually bring cash to an illegal entry. ????

I seem to have missed the announcement that the unvaccinated aren't allowed in. Or did you mean without any quarantine, just like the vaccinated? ????

Hope nobody was fooled for a minute that things would return to pre-2020? That won't happen for years, perhaps never again our lifetime. I dread to think about what will happen once Covid clusters break out all over the place. It's going to happen, folks. And then, what?

OK, was that not clearly communicated by the airline(s)? Presumably, they had the passengers contact info.

Put it all down, don't leave out the best part but present the full picture: Organized by whom at the very top level, above Mr. White Uniform here and the likes of Hun Sen, the UK Tory government, Macron, Modi, Duterte, etc. (just to name a few) ? Who is orchestrating all of this then and giving them orders?

OP, I think you know the answer to your own question, if you have followed the country's internal politics at least somewhat.

Isn't that headline a tad over dramatic?

Why would you be "sick of it" if others are having a different opinion than you. There isn't just one taste & ours isn't the benchmark. While I felt the same/similar about Thai street food when I lived there and about Cambodian street food now, that attitude ruins the post. Eat & let eat ????

Sadly, honesty doesn't get you far in Thailand. The Swiss guy should have packed the intruder up - hopefully when still alive - and driven him in his tied up to state to some place out in the countryside with some water, legs not tied. Then, made a pact with his wife never to mention it again. "Never seen the guy, Mr. Policeman." If a Thai dies and it looks like you caused it, even if he/she tried to kill you, you're in deep trouble.