BobinBKK

On 4/7/2021 at 6:01 PM, scubascuba3 said:

Good job the vaccinations here are a major success ????

Seems the only thing they are successful with is failure. Once a 3rd world country, always a 3rd world country...

On 4/7/2021 at 9:59 AM, Niteowl45 said:

This is another example of why it will be a long time before I visit Thailand again.

 

People who spend thousands of dollars to come over now have to also get expensive health insurance, quarantine, tracking etc, while in the meantime they let in workers from nearby countries for some payola and then they tell locals to go traveling in the country during another wave....

 

Screw them and their idiotic way of doing things.....

Thailand should be the last country on Earth telling foreigners on holiday or expats what to do. They can't even control or clean up their own mess with their own citizens and corrupt officials accepting money allowing migrant workers to enter the country.

On 4/7/2021 at 8:11 AM, Thaiwrath said:

But travelling home for Songkran, many on crowded public transport, is not a problem, according to the Health Minister Anutin !

Maybe he should have consulted you before making his stupid announcement ?

Experts in stupidity, every single one of them ????

23 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Welcome to the land of scams...please feel totally confident in making a major investment.

No thank you ????

On 3/31/2021 at 8:22 AM, ubonjoe said:

It is only a requirement the MFA came up with due to covid 19 and etc. 

It will not be required when the need for a certificate of entry (COE) ends.

Thanks for the information ubonjoe, keeping my fingers crossed ????

15 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

It only needed for those with non-o visas or extensions based upon retirement. The 400/40k baht insurance is only required for the length of stay you get when you enter the country. No insurance will be needed for your extension.

For marriage and etc it is not required.

Is this 400/40k baht (and Covid-19) insurance a permanent requirement for a non-o retirement extension everytime we leave and return? For example prior to Covid-19, I would fly out and back into Thailand several times a year (multiple re-entry permit) for short holidays here in SE Asia with no insurance requirements. It seems odd if I (we) never leave Thailand there's no insurance requirements, but now take a short 2 day trip to Laos for holiday and all of a sudden insurance is mandatory?

20 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Oh come on Pipat! Where's the sport in that? It's been tourisms duty for decades, ripping off tourists! I'll bet old habits die hard! Don't try and alter the image!

 

 

Please ???? don't take away my excuse to swear at the racist ???? ???? people ????

On 3/28/2021 at 7:10 AM, YetAnother said:

thais do so few things right that this is a really spacey idea; they have great difficulty even governing themselves

It is in fact true that our smartphones have more computing power than the computers that were used when NASA landed on the moon in 1969 with Apollo 11. Thai logic would dictate that they can get to the Moon with a tuk tuk and an iPhone 11 ????

On 3/28/2021 at 10:40 AM, Pattaya Spotter said:

Should be completely doable...seeing how Thailand consistently ranks last in English proficiency, the language of science, among Asia Pacific nations. (It's because they were never colonized...so they say.)

No one wanted it ????

How can we join the "Mor Phrom" Line group?

12 hours ago, Janner1 said:

Where do you get this junk from?

Even the worlds finest scientists do not have an absolute answer to whether or not vaccinated people infect others, but they are saying that current testing and investigation appears to provide a much lower risk, however investigation is on going and assessment is being carried out on every registered vaccine brand.

Whilst one notes that you allude to the word COULD it has to be said that unless “and one doubts it “ you are of a seriously greater scientific ability than the worlds finest one suggests that you stop spouting FAKE NEWS and you allow the scientists to carry on with the sterling work they do without being undermined by the likes of you.

If you have absolute 100% corroborated proof that what you say is true I will stand corrected, but not before you show everyone here who reads Thai visa the scientific documents to back up your aspertions.

Do you have proof of the nonsense you spew?

On 3/25/2021 at 1:01 PM, Taswegian23 said:

One needs to be practical. If someone who is known to be truthful refuses to name countries, after having made a statement about them, then give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are being truthful. 

 

If someone who is known to be liar or who comes from a culture in which habitual lying is acceptable, refuses to name countries, after having made a statement about them, then don't assume they are being truthful.

 

You pays your money, and you takes your choice.

 

No mystery involved really.

 

 

I agree, he's lying!

On 3/22/2021 at 11:32 AM, edwinchester said:

I live in Kanchanaburi. My local Health Centre phoned this morning and asked if I wanted the covid-19 vaccine when they were issued their supply. I was told it would be free.

How and where can I/we find information on getting vaccinated as foreigners? I live in Bangkok and haven't seen anything in the news about it...

On 3/23/2021 at 11:40 AM, ThailandRyan said:

Songkran will help the numbers to stabilize, with all of the washing of family and statues occurring.  

May I propose a bikini car wash? ????

17 hours ago, Desire2016 said:

I don't know where they come up with the income figures 33,000bt per month as an average wage my wife is a pharmacy assistant and earns 16,000pm 

Staff in restaurants take home around 10-12k a month 

Their numbers probably include doing short time work after normal working hours.

18 hours ago, Mak25 said:

So foreigners are again to blame...????

As always ????

On 3/20/2021 at 7:23 PM, bwpage3 said:

Perhaps during these poverty stricken times, Phuket needs to revisit poor treatment of tourists, scams and all the other bad things. 

I agree with you 100% These ???????? thieves don't deserve our money and I have ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY FOR THEM ????

On 3/19/2021 at 1:28 PM, harada said:

I think they may be a bit optimistic on this, most of the people that I have spoken to, who, like myself have traveled around Asia quite a bit over the years are talking of 1 to 2 years to see how things pan out before they return.

I wouldn't count on the vast majority of Thais being vaccinated for a very long time, and the foreigners living in Thailand are last on the list if at all. Given that reality, many countries will ban their citizens from traveling to Thailand.

On 3/18/2021 at 8:20 PM, Lacessit said:

If you have never been there, what makes you so sure you will dislike it?

Horror stories of foreigners being cheated, overcharged and dual pricing everywhere. More than anywhere else in Thailand.

4 hours ago, AlQaholic said:

As for the chairman making the manager leave and putting another management team in place, that can only happen through a vote in the AGM, as is clearly stated in the Condominium Act. The AGM has to vote for the manager or management company. I do not see how the land office could have approved of the AGM agenda with such a blatant violation of the condominium act.

This is just another reason why I would NEVER buy property of ANY KIND in this country!!!

8 hours ago, Andrew65 said:

I'm currently in the UK drinking a can of Stella Artois. I bought a box of 18 X 440ml cans for £13 in Tescos. £0.72  a can.

Obviously pub/bar and supermarket prices are different.

I have literally paid less for a bottle of Chang beer from an Asian market near my previous home outside of Dallas Texas then what I pay for it here. America honors its free trade agreement with Thailand, the Thai government not so much on items imported from America. I see items are priced 300%-600% higher in Thailand than what we pay in America.

On 3/18/2021 at 1:47 PM, Ramdas said:

Oh dear I feel sorry for the Japanese victims to this scam, clearly you’re far better off and safer in  a civilised well functioning country as Japan, I don’t get it,  why wasting your time and money in Thailand’s land of scams and corruption ????????‍♂️

When are people going to learn? TIT and we are living in a den of thieves! I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPATHY ????

1 hour ago, Nanaplaza666 said:

So everybody arriving at the airport has to let the IO catch their sweat put it in a "canned vessel" write your name on it then let the dog sniff them to find out who has the virus . I see big lines at the Immigration at the airport in the future . People have to take 2 extra days holliday just to go thru immi arriving and departing . On the other hand , the dogs might be more effective in detecting the virus then the PCR test of wich the inventor said it's not for detecting viruses . 

Do we get to choose what body part we can give them for a sweat sample?

On 3/15/2021 at 9:07 AM, Mister Fixit said:

Clot.  What is more natural than enjoying having sex with your loved one?  ????????

So just because I am 72, I should suddenly stop having sex?  That sounds remarkably like a little bit of jealousy there ...

Jeez, I have read some idiocies on here but that one takes the biscuit!  

There's biscuits?