Totoandlilly

20 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Thailand has always had a high murder rate.

Wrong. Search it up, homicide rate is at 4,8 per 100,000 same as the USA.

brazil,Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador have a really high homicide rate.

another poor fella bashing Thailand because he is miserable in his life.

53 minutes ago, HeyHeyHey said:

Pathetic

 

A country with GDP per capita $6600 while most of the government are billionaires and the who you shall not speak about one of the richest persons on the planet

It’s more correct to use GDP per capita PPP which is almost 17.000$

https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/gdp-per-capita-ppp

Because many of those that are working in Bangkok have private healthcare that the employer pays for, why use. Public hospital when private are much better.

44 minutes ago, Tyrant said:

With all the arabs now in EU, a little more and Europeans will be banned from the rest of the world.

 

True. We must end the EU dictatorship 

It’s safe to let kiwis,aussies,yanks and moose in, but please don’t let any country from schengen/EU us the automatic gate, to many terrorist and criminals there, Europe have become lawless continent , when I’m leave EU they should be allowed to use it though.

4 hours ago, cmsally said:

Isn't there a choice of GRAB and GRAB ROT DAENG on the app?

So some red truck drivers do go through GRAB I presume.

The songtaews are licensed as they all have yellow plates. It seems that GRAB cars are not licensed to take passengers and therefore paying passengers would not be covered under their insurance if they got into an accident.

If you are in a accident with grab the insurance cover the passenger, when my gf applied to be a grab driver she had to prove she had a drivers and the car is insured, the whole process with the training, documentation etc took well over 2 weeks, grabcars have to be in a decent standard, and of the money the driver make 25% goes to the grab company.

grab is legal all over asean and it seems to be that people prefer grab because of convenience and safety.

Let people choose what they want to use.

22 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

pushing the consumption of the worst drug in the world is not what Thailand needs, they need less not more alcohol addled pinheads running around the streets..

Let people choose how they want to live, and you choose your way to live, that nanny state thinking should be left back in the nannystate.

Thailand is literally the nannystate of Asia, Thailand is so anti-smoking. Go to Malaysia,Indonesia and Vietnam and you can smoke everywhere, they even have cigarette advertising. 

But please respect those that don’t smoke, you really don’t smoke in the middle of a crowd or at a bus stop etc.

1 hour ago, darksidedog said:

I flew out of Suvarnabhumi late last week and the queues for people departing were just shocking. After a crafty last minute ciggy, I went to immigration at 10 am for an 11.40 flight. Got to the gate at 11.25. Flight was delayed for half an hour as many were still stuck in the queues, and they weren't using the fingerprint scanners, which would have taken more time. Of 10 possible desks, six were open. I am really not looking forward to my flight back again in a couple of weeks. When I arrived at Heathrow I was through in less than a minute. All desks open and very efficient. You really can't put the problems at swampy down to anything other than pure incompetence.

Everytime I arrive  Norway from Thailand at Oslo airport there are long queues there same as Suvarnabhumi...

I heard that they were screaming mama mia! 

That’s a cute dog ???? 

5 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Here's the results of this year's Thai-PAN testing of organic fruits and veggies sold here. The red means they had levels exceeding those allowed, orange means detectable levels within limits and green means clean.

 

As you can see above, in their limited sample, HALF of the "Organic Thailand" products had red levels of pesticides, as did HALF of the Thai GAP certified products.  But by comparison, all of the internationally certified products tested came back entirely clean.

 

 

Reference to that they come clean

20 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

That's the problem... The various Thai-based "organic" certifications have been shown to be pretty much meaningless and false. All too often, products here that claim to be organic are in fact not.

 

It's kind of pointless to develop better channels for marketing and promoting "organic" food products that aren't really organic... And I'd dare say, a lot of the folks here who actually care about eating organic foods are all too keenly aware that the Thai government certifications are meaningless.

 

Wait till they start trying to export Thai-certified "organic" products to developed western countries, and the inspections and testing there start setting off danger alarm bells.

Time to get off the barstool and visit some organic farms, plenty of them in Chiang Mai. 

There is a crack in the concrete near the water meter outside the gate, which mean I don’t have water In the house I rent now, I don’t want to wait for the owner to do something about it so my question is, where can I buy something to fill those cracks ?

2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

That would end your non-ed visa entry. The you would have to out for another for a longer stay.

Same as I thought...