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As of reading they pay people to do it in bunches, we could safely assume that a few would have made it trough as well? In that case we have a issue as there will be enough profits and enough idiots in europe to keep doing this. They likely are told they get away with nothing as it is just weed too, which is wrong. Anything above even 400 grams in Thailand you would need a license when carrying it around. Which btw is a very decent limit, I always buy per 100 grams myself at 25 baht a gram. And yes we are talking the 'top shelf' that costs 400-600 baht retail for tourists. A 100KG transfer would be worth like 500K-1M USD in Europe. Damn, I mean that kind of explains people taking the risk I guess, you could be retired at one trip while it is just weed. So if organized crime does this already with paying people their trips, you can be sure they would do up to dozens of people at once from all airports in the same day and some make it trough. Once again the failure of Thailand to properly legalize things and have proper licensed growers etc in place. There is no control at all now. Then next in politics the ordinary shop owner and smoker will be blamed for it again or has to pay the price etc. I guess the combination of cheap rent, cheap electric + all hardware from China around the corner is very interesting for weed growers. As it otherwise makes little sense, they could do it in eastern europe or europe in general too + ship over land safer. Just like hasj coming from marocco. Unless all this is 90% focused on the UK, i guess it is. In that case the retail value is even up to 2.5M USD. Maybe the solution is that the UK legalizes it, makes it worthless for criminals to be interested in it. Same as that is in Thailand a open market, a benefit of little regulation, what started with 400 baht per gram being normal is now already down to 20-30 baht. Same as with parhma medicine..

You over think what happiness is as of being smart, and trying to control it. The truth is that happiness is just a state of mind / emotion, similar to feeling anger. That's why a Thai can get as angry as it can get happy in the same speed. Empty minds are generally happy.

You mean they would not fit in with the local lao kao parties? I guess that would be true. But nobody fits in for real with any locals, those who think that always look like a clown invited to a birthday party, like an accessory. I always tell myself; oh look another gandalf!

You realize almost anyone in the west doing the classical not much saying IQ test is scoring above average right? Specially once adult? It says zero about your true intelligence. All it says you are not an absolute moron who can only do manual labour. I also score 130+ on those.

There is a huge difference between 'school smart' or 'school IQ' as there is not really a word for it + general intelligence. I know many people who scored very high on school tests but they are actually quite dumb in reality and also do a job they not really like until they are 65-70 years old etc etc. Guess the question is what true intelligence is in general. Just to be school smart, emotional smart or street smart only, is really not cutting it. There is quite a few people who only excel in one of them and then think they are above average. Like you have many school smart 'intellectual' types who can't even start a conversation with a stranger. That is essentially a dumb person to me just as much, as of having too much on the school smart side and too little on al other sides. Same what does grammar say at all? You can only do that with English while others might speak 4-5 languages with 75% performance. Is not even a IQ thing to begin with, you just have to be very bored and memorize all rules or words. So a smart person with a very bad memory would fail most tests too.

Local value is 10-15K per KG or 20-30K if buying just a few KG.

These tests say very little, many children are simply still playing a lot outside when having to perform on such tests which then defines the future school as well often their future life and career. You get marked stupid, smart or very smart and that is about it. This while most adults once they are 30-35, not even remember most of the things they learned in school. Same that these adults never learn more once they get out of school and just repeat the same job over and over again. This compared to plenty of people who keep developing themself. Anyway, I have very little with these types of tests or to then measure someone their average intelligence with it. It's also just a momentum test that one can prepare for very well, which in reality also says little about actual intelligence. It just says someone is disciplined to learn + remembers. This is in a way why most Thais hate school too, it is all about reading books and theory. They might be able to answer you in Thai all grammar rules of English while not being able to tell you it in English.

You realize your comment is super dumb itself right? You measure intelligence based on Thais knowing their own culture? lol. Perhaps what you are trying to say is that Thais have a pretty good emotional intelligence but that is not true either, more like the opposite hence they are like kids forever. They only still have a good natural instinct / reading someone their mood etc.

Not really hard to consider yourself smarter if in fact the more 'stupid westerners' are in fact already smarter than your average Thai. This is also why these kind of single older male idiot types thrive so well here. The average Thai thinks in 2D: black and white thinking, mainly responding etc. All this has little to do with education as well, it is just the default average IQ levels. I think the differences here can be as much as 40 IQ points between people while a difference of even 20 points is very common. This is not a issue with a 120 IQ and a 140 IQ person but it is a huge difference between 90 and even just 100-110.

Enough to buy ones that taste a lot better than those that don't and to have minimal headaches.

Update: I just see these screen shots again but this tourist has booked a metered version taxi, that is based on estimate prices. So what is the scam even? That is not a fixed price fare booking at all. Just a minor construction drive around and traffic jam could justify the extra 100 already.

I thought that within the Grab application both users always need to first agree to make changes before being able to do so? Like if you want to change your ride, mid-ride, that is possible too, but the driver usually would need to accept that first. Not sure how they could change the ride to have a higher or extra custom charge instead? That means the entire ride would have changed? Maybe this is the actual scam and that tourists accept that part, not knowing it also costs more. So someone books a ride to X destination, the driver accepts and the customers gets in. The driver now says he needs to fix the location and shows your location which you nod to yeah that is the one. You then get a small pop-up again with destination, perhaps not showing the price now also changes, and then it is charged once you arrived and review. Or how would this work? In Hanoi they were way more aggressive, they would just ditch you half way and not care about the grab ride at all, knowing you are then either paying them cash a lot or stuck in the middle of nowhere in some suburb of hanoi. I use grab daily since it exists so I would not know how a taxi could scam me with the actual fare of a ride I already booked.

In this case there is custom instructions: take a photo where you sleep, take a photo where you eat, take a photo together with the container. Then next for this specific situation: take a photo together with your construction workers smiling, take a photo with your wife together holding the drawing plans :D Just make sure you buy some mailbox and put your (future) house number on it and take a picture with that one too. Long story short just get up to 10 photos in different settings at and around the land / house + one at least with the container and the mailbox / gate / house number. I hired a photographer to do it as i got sick of it, and then we just did different clothes to have 3 sets at once for 3 years. Anyway welcome to the rest of your life in open prison lol.

Sounds like when I was in juvenile jail a few months ago for a interview obtaining parental rights. There was russian kids locked up in there due to their mothers overstaying and/or working illegally... Quite insane that kids get locked up here in jail as a result and their embassies seem to barely even take action on it.

They are also good in creating costs aka the uncle has free hospital care and can take a 1 hour bus for 40 baht with 1 relate BUT they decide to go with the diesel slurping pickup truck as well as 7 people, who all then not work too, and need to eat, making the entire ordeal now cost 2000 baht. Even most of those costs would not be direct costs, it is missed income, and this always snowballs over to then have shortages later on again. It is a never-ending cycle due to having a traditional family structure with helping out while most abuse that in the modern world.

Sounds a bit like the Dutch coffeeshops boss who was jailed with his wife for 100+ years. He was released and now sues the Dutch state, one of the things already known is that he was offered to leave jail pretending that he would have died but he refused as his wife would remain in jail in that case. Yeah you read that right. I am pretty sure that case is going to create some noise in the near future. Anyway at first I thought the guy just killed himself but now I started to think twice ....

No mention of the actual weed shop owner at all. It is interesting on that island that there is just this 1 guy who runs the entire cctv and tourist police and somehow all these dozens of illegal working yoga course sellers and others can continue without being caught. With plenty of drugs, rape and other vices happening inside those circles. You always see him on the news photos.

Get your facts right, asked the police in BKK several times, fly with it since years etc etc. The ban on sales officially ended sine 2019 too, there is just a consumer protection thing in place only as well it is illegal to import them from abroad only specifically. The same that personal use (if not in public areas) can not be fined / penalized (ensured even more since the incident with the Chinese model). This also explains why you see sellers regardless. Like 30% of tourists alone vape. If it was different than this there would not be debates in the first place.

Vaping is not smoking.

This move is a bit like what they also did during world war 2. They always eat from all sides. It should be punished one day tho, they forget there is no longer the interest for Thailand being neutral as it was back in the day with us being in Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

What is the outrage about, personal use is allowed. That certain people want to ban it does not mean everyone wants that. Child behavior.

Absolutely freaking great, now I just did family court they come up with this while i did do a Buddhist wedding at the time. So soon the latest addition of the big stack of immigration papers will be that regardless I now did that family court, they also would like that document please. Country of papers. Then in 5 years from now they blame transnational crime groups to abuse this by having 'fake marriages'.

Lol the hawaiian shirt as evidence with sunglasses. Guess it can't end that bad for him as no posession.

They basically just do a chatter job by just copy pasting random things to all guys in their current list. They not really read or care what you write them except for just giving you a short reply to make you feel good. Then once you are warmed up as a lead, and it is also known you are no longer there and a real tourists, they will go for the exit scam which always is medical bills, funeral, a friend they share the room with cheated her etc etc. This is essentially how they spend their day aside from sleeping and eating. Actual customer interactions are not that much until a sucker arrives. Also it can often even be partly or entirely true but this still has zero to do with the guy or that it suddenly would rely on his donations. Just play it along and (pretend to) be broke, and see if she will keep talking to you as much. But even if you just send 50 euro a month that's a subscription. There is always a wedding, funeral or buffalo sick in each village almost every week. If it is not general drama with loan sharks, debts or medical. And most times all these costs actually go to alcohol for those events lol, you essentially pay for a party you are not attending. Coffins are cheap.

This is just entire madness. They virtually live together with all their neighbors on a 400-500 square meter plot. And then by adding a little <deleted> pool they think it is worth 100-140K USD? You could buy like a 40 foot 3 berths near new sailboat for that money too.