Briggsy

I fully expect them too! A lot of hotels have a price list for damage.

Soi Arunothai is not a soi to be speeding on. No margin for safety.

Was this random or was this a targetted attack? We will probably never find out as updates are scarce.

Isaan News?

Checking for hidden cameras?

There is a myth that paying for a tourist visa will gain you entry to Thailand whilst visiting repeatedly of visa exempts will get you denied entry. This is not true as many, many have been denied entry with tourist visas as have those attempting to enter visa exempt. The metric they are looking at is staying in Thailand for a considerable percentage of the time over months and years without using a visa they deem to be 'a proper visa'. It is likely to be true that tourist visas give people a slightly higher chance of gaining entry than visa exempts but tourist visas should not be viewed as a safe bet. Entry certainly can be denied if de-facto living in Thailand on tourist visas.

Many posters just immediately assumed he was from an African country. How wrong they were. It doesn't surprise me he is British. They are very soft on crime in my home country and criminals are very entitled constantly playing the victim card knowing that they will likely not be charged. If they are charged and convicted, the penalties are very light. Hopefully the Thais will deport him in due course. I can't understand why he was not held in custody.

Parents shot dead in front of their children by a drunken man unknown to the family. 🙁

They whine, they cajole, they try to get as stupid drunk as possible, they negotiate, they become a real pain in the arse, they ignore anything they don't want to hear but over all they continue to ask 700 more times after being told "No." Easier to just bring a limited amount on board and run out quickly.

Is this part of the NP network? If so, the rangers are usually very strict about allowing unsuitable vehicles on steep dirt roads. This may be a private operation. I have never heard of this mountain and I have done a lot of them in Thailand. Does anybody have co-ordinates?

It may have been picked up from Indian media which often writes in a colonial-style jolly japes style of English. Or more likely somebody has provided the outline to AI and told it to write in a positive style.

Actually it is pretty much every one.

The Myanmar military rulers have a great deal on their plate at present and need to keep anyone they can onside. They are in an extremely weak position. You can be sure that Thailand's actions towards the junta's enemies particularly the KNLA came up in the negotiations.

Did they really run out or just lock the cupboards? 🙂 Given the behaviour of groups of South Asian men on planes when confronted with 'free' alcohol, that is what I would have done.

Is he okay healthwise, he seems out of breath doing nothing but strolling.

So, we have a severe chronic alcoholic using spirits rather than beer, drinking over 40 (UK) units (1 cl of alcohol) per day, who miraculously survived to 44, and drove every day to work. The point about spirits is for alcoholics the liver damage is greater in those that use spirits rather than those who medicate using beer or other lower abv. drinks even if the alcohol volume is the same. Spirits users will on average die sooner.

I think Thai signage is excellent. You want to see no English language or just non-existent signage, try Laos or China. Well done Thailand. Your road signs and signage in general are great.

This is what he wanted to emulate, and didn't do a bad job. Even though he wasn't born at the time.

Why did this news story immediately become a polemic between the pro-weed and anti-weed crowd? The story has nothing to do with weed! You guys are still at it on page 4!

Bump To say this sub-forum has died a death is the understatement of the year. This website used to be full of informative and erudite comment. Now it seems to be little more than monger central. That's a shame. Can anyone advise good online forums to discuss Thai language. Cheers Briggsy

It is definitely shown on Google Maps and is also clearly visible on Street View. Try กะเพรา ตีพุง

There is so much wrong on every level here, absolutely every level, I do not know where to start. The only good thing as others have pointed out is that there were no fatalities which is miraculous.

Quiet as ever, the manager rules this place with an iron fist.

I get confused with the terminology. A "transwoman" is a kathoey, right? p.s. How is the last paragraph at all related to the initial story???????😀

Is Rosie O'Grady's in Soi 7 still going? I last went there in 2018, maybe, and the food was quite good.