Captain Monday

With the absurd excuse of being on the rag admitted guilt. Sounds like a fair adjudication, like what the defendant/culprit was a Thai lady ? A Thai woman done same. So would she have received the 15 day suspended sentence also or just “500 baht and a wai” ?

Time for a defrocking

The 12 baht is probably for the electricity used to pull the lungo. I was at a meal on the terrace with large group of Farangses once’s. One of the children broke a juice glass. How many thousands did we spend? It does not matter some staff come out first with a bill for the broken glass. This is Thailand.

Last time I recall. When I had the Covid virus My company would pay unless I had a Dr. note, telemedicine was OK and a lab report. No report it would have come out MY sick bank so I had to traipse around to a clinic maybe possibly infecting others. Visiting a clinic is probably where I got it 😂 actually turned into a cluster where I had to rent a car and go to a drive thru test as there was no other way to get tested where I stay in USA

Maybe for the future. I got this wallet holder for an AirTag to keep in wallet. “Saved my bacon” once

It happens to many people. Nearly every time I am in BKK I am approached by a well dressed Western man who lost a wallet and "just need a few hundred baht" for bus or taxi fare. Grifters

I have had my passport stamped when entering the US twice in the past 25-30 years. Once at EWR I can remember airport this sullen Mook opened up a near new passport and haphazardly put an entry stamp in the middle of it. Then it was "If you want to not have your passport stamped you have to ask". So. I says to him I says, "this is my job I enter who knows how many times per year and I have never heard that" . He then looked at me as if he could not possibly care less. The only thing more irritating is Gate agents who attempt to use my passport as their writing surface while making useless marks on boarding passes risking the pen marking the data page of my passport with their ham-handed daubings. I can not tolerate that. Thank god for mobile boarding passes.

I have the Alipay app on a US iPhin 📱 linked to a US debit card. Me used it once at PVG airport. Is this something that could be used at Convenience stores in Thailand?

Don’t worry about the dullards posting here who lack reading comprehension skills or the ability to understand even simple statements or questions. 90 percent of the posts I make on this site get the confused mark. Most of it is trolling behavior.

There are warnings on the official site to such “agents” who charge a lot of money for something near free that takes minutes to apply for . You can still get the K-ETA if you want I have it. The only benefit being as I can tell, You don’t have to fill out an immigration card. Customs forms were abolished completely last year.

A generalization, not even theoretically true for US any longer. There are no non-stop flights to the US anyway and airline won't board you even if there were. The process is to get an ermargency travel document or new passport. U.S. citizens will not be allowed to use their expired U.S. passport for direct return to the United States after June 30, 2022. https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article1861?language=en_US

One cannot be a “dullard” with such intellectual curiosity. Nor the rich internal dialogue on display in your varied submissions to AN

Since the same can be said of Arabs , Chinese, Indians and a dozen other nationalities this worn out old prejudice seems almost harmless. Sounding like the passive bigotry of the average dullard who has never actually met a Jew nor done any business with Arabs Chinese, Indians, etc. However it does not negate the fact you are trading in antisemitic tropes.

What if only the lad had behaved properly whilst traveling in Thailand, like the vast majority of tourists who don’t make the news here? Is smoking allowed on trains? Is it allowed to enter the gap to hang out between carriages on atrain? It is 2024, what kind of Canadian uses cigarettes anyway? Unfortunately now his family must grieve the loss so he could enjoy his “smoke and a view” 😞

Finally something good to come out of “Briexit” ?

Criminals have privacy in NZ? What happens after they are released from jail go get a job at a bank or grammar school?

Take a midol.

A Covid test? After some resistance realizing the loss of your valued custom the dentist eliminated their primitive local customs and unnecessary testing. Thank goodness there are foreigners here to help Thais to start thinking for themselves!

When I applied I don’t know how they could have done any home country criminal checks. Just take peoples word?

The reason your central critique of your OP post regarding shoe removal is being ignored is the half-baked concentration on the actual "hygiene" of ingrained cultural practice. Then in your vainglorious attack to deny the sense of entitled self-superiority whilst simultaneously stating "the majority" of Asian people are "sheep" who don't think for themselves is beyond hypocrisy. Surely you cannot not be that gormless and are just having a pull of one of my legs. Nice one.

You won't catch me kissing a dog. There is a large designer lamp/lighting shop in Chiang Mai with slippers available no shoes allowed. As I remember it is carpeted. So, "This is your living room, look around and imagine the possibilities", more than "hygiene"

For get about "hygiene" part of visiting other countries is experiencing and adaptation to culture. I don't hear Asian people making a big deal about it. People who visit Thailand then show hostility about removing shows before entering certain dentists, pharmacies or shops are boorish clods barging around with an air of superiority, or worse. Example whilst I go to the US I shake hands if proffered even if I don't particularly like it. I'm particularly disgusted by people who kiss animals on the mouth and sleep with them. Creatures that seem to spend a lot of time sniffing around for others discharges and licking their own genitals. I do not know if that is really that unhygienic. I read somewhere that a dog is cleaner than the long beard of a hipster. https://www.livescience.com/65293-beards-are-super-germy.html

The family are described in AUS media as "millionaire property tycoons". How many of these stories end up disappearing from the news with no follow up on the legal or financial outcome? Like the two times in past 6 years deranged foreign passengers have pulled aircraft emergency slides at Chiang Mai airport? The lads may learn only the lesson that money can buy you out of really big trouble before being kicked out from Thailand persona non-grata. How will the police officers face be restored if they are simply sentenced to long jail then deported? He'll fare better fending the jabs in the provincial police squad room arriving from a new home in new Mercedes https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/09/travel/canadian-plane-door-slide-thailand-hnk-intl/index.html https://www.fox5dc.com/news/crazed-thai-smile-passenger-rips-planes-emergency-exit-door-open-before-takeoff

Maybe cut the rubbish get rid of “visa exempt” and require criminal record checks to get visas at consulates ?

There was a real sriracha sauce shortage in US a couple years ago. https://reviewed.usatoday.com/cooking/features/sriracha-shortage-2023-is-the-sriracha-shortage-over-and-where-to-buy-huy-fong-sriracha