Scott Tracy

Betting in a casino will probably be found to be unconstitutional. Not possible to change that. Discuss all you want. Nothing will happen.

16 hours ago, jvs said:

They are ticks.The small ones but still ticks.

In the OP's pics, I can see the insects have 6 legs. My understanding is that ticks have 8, not being I sects, but being arachnids. Spiders in other words. I know it doesn't tell you what they are, but I suggest they are not ticks.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

General Komkrit Tantravanich said this tariff increase is the result of the weakening currency exchange rate

I don't know what he's looking at, but the Thai baht to Dollar exchange rate has improved recently.

2 hours ago, itsari said:

How can i disagree as it is certainly my largest bill per month . But I have to say the job of distributing electricity around a country is an expensive business  . The infrastructure and maintenance costs are huge without calculating  in the raw energy costs .

It's the power poles leaping out in front of drivers that costs the money. Stop them doing that and all will be a lot cheaper.

Risk taker. Hope it pays off. Still, it is a lease, can walk away any time. It's not as if he owns them.

Tough <deleted>. Should have carried out a proper risk assessment before taking the punters' money. 

Do not, repeat, do not repeal the instruction to Insurance companies. They made their bed, now they must lie in it.

14 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

As an anti-vaxxer, you are aware that the unvaccinated may infect the vaccinated, although such infections are rare. So, it would be reasonable to protect oneself against an unvaccinated family member.

Perhaps it is the other way round. The vaccinated can still be infected, but the vaccines reduce the impact. Perhaps If a vaccinated person who is assymptomatic visits an unvaccinated person, the former will infect the latter, and the unvaccinated person is at greater risk of dying. So perhaps the person saying he and his wife will not visit his unvaccinated mother in law is protecting her, rather than his family.

No they won't. No points taken off licenses. No one to stop them to take points off their license.

How you going to do that, huh? Plod going to get off their big fat shiny behinds and patrol the roads? 

Hah. 3 pickups and one lorry ran a red light this afternoon at the junction of the 24 and 221. Where were Plod, where are the red light cameras? Don't make me laugh.

Shut up, will you? Just shut the <deleted> up. No one believes you, so what's the point?

As someone a lot more famous than me once said: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

And in addition to the above, cultures evolve and change. But only if the climate to permit change is in place. Those in power are never privy to the real culture of a place.

I haven't figured out what my country's culture is yet, never mind trying to figure out Thai culture. 

I do know though, me first, last and always is rife, as is abuse and violence if rule number one is not obeyed. Is this culture?

Domain name for sale.

Admin busted, big boys probably out of country and untouchable.

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

. I just didn't see any point in taking it further as he had no money and no documents and I wasn't going to get any compensation so why get a young guy in trouble, maybe cost him his job in these dark days, when I've got first class insurance and can claim? In the end, I had to pay 1,000 Baht excess on the insurance policy, and although the annual premium was supposed to go up to reflect the fact that I'd had an accident the next payment was actually quite a bit less than the one before the accident. Don't ask me. Anyway, I may have done the wrong thing from a legal standpoint, but I'm pretty sure it was the simplest solution for us both and probably the right thing to do morally in the circumstances.

And there you have the nub....it's ok, you ran into him but he ran the light. Had he done this to another person, injured or killed them? No insurance, maybe no license, maybe no redress to the injured party. 

Ah, but it's ok, this is, after all, Thailand.

3 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Not inferior in Thailands' view.....just rejected by the western world!

No they are not. And the so called western world is not always right.

The whole issue hacks me off no end. If a UN body approved the vaccine, why the <deleted> can't countries run with it? Why do they have to be different? What's the point of a WHO approval?

It's pathetic and puerile.

Kindest regards, Grumpy Old Man...

Once again. Countries go their own way.

If the WHO approved it, why do countries not? If Sinbad and sinopharm are good enough for entry into Switzerland, why was he refused and why can't anyone get a covid cert?

It reminds me of aviation regulations. All driven by a UN body, but everyone has their own ideas and none are compatible or accepted without 'special conditions'.

Ridiculous.

Putting aside the accident for a moment. I have to agree with what some people have said about personal responsibility. 4 up on a motorcycle is not good. 

The full circumstances of the collision are not known to me, but I have seen some motorcycle riders in Thailand put themselves needlessly at risk of collision by lack of awareness and anticipation. Not treating everyone as being out to kill them. Failure to look anywhere other than where they are going when pulling out of a side road. Putting themselves on the left of a left turning lorry, or even the right side when the lorry is turning right. Mind you, fair to say this happens world wide. What seems to be more prevalent though, lack of helmets, no rear lights, sometimes no rear plates for lights to reflect off. Overtaking other riders without regards to other traffic, no mirrors or lack of use of those fitted.

The list is interminable. Or so it seems.

Pistol or revolver at 50 meters? Wow. 25-30 meters is the average effective range.

Problem is, and what some.people fail to realise is, that firing a weapon will injure someone sooner or later. Even if you point the weapon in the air, sooner or later, the bullet will come down. 

The bloke down the pub syndrome...

25 minutes ago, Robin said:

Give the arresting officer a bonus of 500B for every m/c he stops.

Ah, but that pre-supposes that the 'arresting officer' is not a crim himself. After all, some ride their police motorbike when not in uniform or on duty. I have seen some without helmets, riding the wrong way, they seem to be afflicted with the Thai way of doing things.

Jeepers. A crack down. For his long, and why haven't they been doing it from day 1?

I admit, I grinned when I read this. But, reality is a bitch. The WHO approved Sinovac in June. Why aren't the Swiss accepting that?

Errr. Why not?

Which COVID-19 vaccines allow entry to Switzerland?

People who have received one of the following vaccines can enter Switzerland:

• Pfizer/BioNTech (BNT162b2 / Comirnaty® / Tozinameran)
• Moderna (mRNA-1273 / Spikevax / COVID-19 vaccine Moderna)
• AstraZeneca (AZD1222 Vaxzevria®/ Covishield™)
• Janssen / Johnson & Johnson (Ad26.COV2.S)
• Sinopharm / BIBP (SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (Vero Cell))
• Sinovac (CoronaVac)
• COVAXIN®

People who have been vaccinated with two different vaccines are considered to be fully vaccinated if:

• the vaccines used have been approved by the authorities in Switzerland (Swissmedic) and the EU (EMA) or are on the WHO emergency use list and
• they were administered in accordance with the regulations or recommendations of the state in which the vaccination took place.

https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/empfehlungen-fuer-reisende/quarantaene-einreisende.html#231667184

"No plan of operations reaches with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main force.”

as was written by nineteenth-century Prussian military commander Helmuth van Moltke.

Or paraphrased as 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

A plan is just a plan. Nothing more. 

I plan to live until I'm 100, just to get the most state pension I can...just a plan boys...