Scott Tracy

Litter is ubiquitous. Stop bashing the Thais and look to yourselves and the countries from which you come.t

Would it be better if there was a working recycling policy, a bin collection service? Probably not, as we have seen in other countries, some people don't care.

And if someone mentions Singapore, yes, in the main areas of is clean and people are better at litter disposal, but in the less touristy areas, have a closer look.

The Pope isn't Catholic. He's Bishop of Rome amongst other titles and styles, but Pope isn't one of them.

25,000 troops is almost the same size as the UK army reserve and 1/3 of the regular army. As a direct comparison.

Just over 10% of the Royal Thai Army...

Blimey I don't know what to think. Leo is determined to end this disenfranchisement. The state of being denied a right or privilege, for example, the right to vote. 

Forgive me, I'm a Brit. But don't black people have the right to vote in the US? If they do, how can they be disenfranchised? 15th Amendment, I believe.....

As for so called celebs, if they spend too much time out of the public eye, they always come up with something the papers think will sell. Whilst everyone has the right to an opinion, no one has the right to force it on others.

As for the comments about the UK, no one is forcing you to clap or bend a knee, and for sure no one is forcing you to commit incest.

Goodness me, such desperation.

Who checks the checkers? 

Ah, those damned foreigners. 

According to this article, the cost of living in the UK is very high.

The phrase 'Very high' is subjective and has no place in journalism. It's an opinion not worthy of publication.

According to the Cost of living index for 2019, UK is 19 out of 99, Cambodia is 42 and Thailand is 38. More expensive than some European Union countries and no doubt they would classify the cost of living in Cambodia as 'very high'.

https://www.worlddata.info/cost-of-living.php

Collusion at the highest levels to ensure that those who protest and criticise from abroad pose no further threat.

quid pro quo, I should imagine.

Certain North East Asian and Central Asian countries would be so proud.

Apparently 180,000 people are reported missing in the UK every year. In 3 years, that would be 540,000 people.

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/latest-news/1018-missing-people-publishes-latest-uk-statistics.html

I am surprised that it's only 21 people that have been missing since 2017 in Chonburi.

I'm not sure the Irish would appreciate the term 'British Isles '. Just saying....

I noticed the drop in auto fuel prices, but nothing of note in any shop or suoermarket. Prices for items I bought were the same or increased.

So am I and my wife and children and their family....

What happened to market forces and a capitalist economy? Isn't this similar to what good old Taksin et al was accused of? Pay the farmers more than the value of the commodity? Can only sell at the market rate and lose shed loads of Thai people's cash?

I'm English and a commission is something paid to someone for a service rendered, based on the value of that service, normally a percentage of the value of the service. Usually to an agent in a commercial transaction. Someone sells something and the purchaser pays for it. The vendor pays the seller a percentage of the purchase price of an agreed sum.

A rebate is a sum paid back for an overpayment. I.e. Tax rebate. An amount credited to a payer of tax that is in excess of that required.

A discount is an amount the vendor reduces the recommended retail or wholesale price. 

No video clip, so I can't make a judgement.I

if true, it's not good. 

Holy moly. 

It's the lamp post's bigger brother.....

I agree, senior to me means high ranking. Anyone above police colonel, for instance.

The circumstances seem suspicious and at least one of the vehicles was in the wrong place.

At least the ubiquitous lamp post didn't play a part this time.

No nation has friends only interests.

Charles de Gaulle

From Lord Palmerston, (2 times Prime Minister): “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests”.

When politicians spout about countries, they do not mean the people. Most people don't care and just want to live and get on with life. Most people are sick of politicians and their eternal self interests. Countries don't have freinds. People have friends.

To be honest, I'm not surprised bikers have noisy exhausts on their bikes. The state of driving here is appalling and anything a biker can do to make him/herself more visible or audible has to be applauded.

The article referring to a driver who failed to yield to an emergency vehicle as the driver did not hear it, is a fine example. More noise needed...

Failing to yield to an emergency vehicle.....is this a law in Thailand?

As I have said before. White minivans, with blue and red lights, that might not all be working, worse than useless sirens....

if ambulances were large like in UK or America, painted high visibility colours, had a decent siren fitted, wigwag headlights, it's still possible people would not hear them or see them, but a lot less likely than now.

As has been said here too, the constant use of roof lights for no apparently good reason sows complacency. That having been said, see or hear an emergency vehicle, yield. We don't know the reason for the lights and siren.

I have known ambulances in UK transporting critical patients travelling lights only under certain circumstances. That may well happen here. 

The above seems to have nothing to do with the app topic...

We're in Si Saket province. Still waiting for these tiger teams...

There are, in my opinion, certain things a country should not be reliant on another for. It seems that PPE has to be one of these now. 

I'm glad Thailand has developed the level 2 PPE and is now working on Level 4. A pity they seem to cost the same as imported PPE.