Scott Tracy

7 hours ago, Whale said:

Maybe they should tell us who is NOT entitled?

Extrapolate...those without work permits are not covered under this anouncement...No one else is 'entitled'.

Still bored and still waiting for expatvac finger back to me.

Got a message from the British Consulate that there will be an opening for registration of AZ in Bangkok tomorrow for vaccination between tomorrow and 25th. Fine, but I'm not in Bangkok, nor even close...about 280 miles...

And who, pray tell is legally allowed to sell snakeoil?

How is unemployment defined in Thailand? Does anyone know? I see many people digging the canals wider and deeper so that they can take more water than their neighbours. A few  people weeding in the rice fields, a few working in shops they run and own. Fast food places. Mostly though, drinking and talking. Are these the employable ones who are counted as unemployed? Kids, in my eyes anyways, 20 ish year olds doing nothing all day apart from lounging around. 40 to 60 year old men, drinking, running round on motorbikes getting white whiskey, beer and ice. Are they classified as employed? 

The numbers of employed seem to me to be picked from the air. 

Ah, the old 'politically motivated' ploy.

Political opportunism, political motivation, political this, political that. What does it actually mean? That someone does or says something for political gain? Well, in my view, and don't hang me if you disagree. Politics and politicians have provided me with merriment and mirth for a long time, and rank alongside lawyers, used car sales people, estate agents. More lately, alongside bank think tanks when spouting about tourism, economists, analysts and countless others categories of occupations.

I read FET and immediately thought Field Effect Transistor. Must the way my brain is wired.

Why do we even give these people credibility? We predict this will happen, but oops, we <deleted> up, but it doesn't matter,  we'll adjust the numbers. No one will notice.

We used to punish charlatans and soothsayers and fraudsters. Now we give them the oxygen of publicity. Can't this be classified as fake news?

Bloody Nora. What is going on in this world? 

I haven't got enough, but I borrowed some from someone else and you can have some of that, even though the roll out here is not going well. 

Someone somewhere has got to get a grip.

17 minutes ago, oldcpu said:

I have friends who are antivaxers.

I'm sure some of them have good reason for their firmly held beliefs. But I will have no truck with those who, unless there is good medical reason why they should not be vaccinated, decline the offer.

I'm my view, they are selfish, dangerous to themselves and others. 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

A press conference with three spokesmen outlined the latest arrests, contained a denial about live round use, spoke of stop and search techniques and announced a demonstration of tear gas and rubber bullet use for the press today.

I'm sure the press does not need a demonstration. They have seen it in action on the protesters. I'm also sure that they do not want the demonstration used on them, either. 

If the old Bill's not careful, tear gas and rubber bullets will run out. Not available on Lazada either.

In error? In error...?

Blimey O'Reilly. Can these <deleted> holes get nothing right? 

Mind you, at least some have got a response, even if it was 'in error'.  I'm still waiting for my in error message.

Around 5 million foreigners? 7% of the population? Wow, didn't realise there were so many.r

around 350,000 Brits, 350,000 Americans, 350,000 French and so on...I'm surprise the number of French people who have not been vaccinated, as the French Embassy was going to import the vaccines and arrange vaccinations for the French citoyens...non?

Not a problem for me. 

Sorry. Not changed the way I shop...or rather, the way the wife shops. Takes the car, does a 10 minute journey to get nom cheen noodles. Just that, the noodles. 15 baht.

Grocery shopping from Macro once a month, Big C and Tesco Lotus perhaps once a week. Local shopping is an excuse for the wife to get out of the house...once a day.

Oh, and fresh markets anytime we go to the big supermarkets, too. And sometimes the local markets, Monday, Thursday and Saturday. 

Altruism doesn't exist. Stop the export of the vaccines. Who ever decided that exporting vaccines was a good idea wasn't thinking straight. Experience around Europe and US should have sounded alarm bells as soon as exporting was mentioned.

4 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Takes brains to do such things but even then i can just imagine almost nobody turning up at the Labour Exchange; a few Women maybe but the majority of Men around our way are not interested in any work, just send the Mrs out to work all hours in the Local Market to earn enough for Beer, Fags, feed the Kids etc.  The Teenage Boys have little interest in any work; much easier to live off their Parents backs while they lob Yaba down their throats and lay around all day !

Sounds like you live near me...Same here.

Can't find the survey that says Cambodia is fourth...

My BIL is mentally ill, according to the medics. He couldn't be prosecuted for attacking people in the village with machetes. They wouldn't section him. Not sure if that's a well known term outside UK. It means place him in mental institution. Forever. Same as nephew next door, talks to himself, and when high on drugs, destroyed his mother's kitchen, cut down the trees in their garden, is violent towards his sister... In jail for possession with intent, now, though. So much for mental illness...I guess his was drug induced.

What's a ping pong bomb?

The guns in the pictures look like war weapons to me. Unless air rifles are modelled on automatic rifles....

A lot to be said for correct PPE now. Assume everyone has covid and plan accordingly. Boys in brown PPE suits, I can see it now...I

Hazmat suits with wings and lanyards, silver bullion around the face masks for higher ups.

Seriously, though. 30 people in quarantine for want of correct protective equipment. I'm tempted to say, sufficient baton rounds, water cannon,tear gas grenades and such like, but no PPE...

I noticed no brown bread and very few eggs in the local Lotus's early last week, around 3pm. They were putting out more white bread... Plenty of rice and seems to be loads of other stuff too. No food shortages, as far as I can see.

Still bored and still waiting for expatvac...