Mr Meeseeks

Just now, BritManToo said:

Even for foreigners only staying for 90 days?

I'd make it mandatory for tourists.

Survival of the fittest.

4 minutes ago, Mattd said:

No, I see it completely differently, somebody has to do those jobs, the money isn't even close to what people imagine it to be, it is hard dangerous work, it is essential work.

Sanctimonious much?

2 minutes ago, Mikeasq60 said:

Thats OK its their choice but when the farang husband finds out the money stops and then she can have her Thai boyfriend maybe all to herself whose probably a drunk on thai whiskey and waisted on yaba. And is probably screwing around on the farangs former wife. Thai men will screw around on their wives or girl friends ask the ladies working Nana or Soi Cowboy!

Is that an element of worry I detect in your post?

From the cases of men working offshore that caught their wives screwing around that I am personally aware of, most of them never even dumped their Thai wife or gf, and just pretended it never happened.

Some of the women still continued to do it after being caught and as soon as the mug was away back on the first hitch!

10 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

Those workers choose those jobs and they are making a killing doing it. Life is all about decisions and that's the jobs they choose.

In a nutshell.

2 minutes ago, Mattd said:

<deleted> are you going on about, who said that they (or me) are special?

The OP is about those Farangs that are stuck overseas away from their families, some posters seem to think that this is the persons fault, which, in some cases may be true, however, it was pointed out by myself and others that not everybody had a choice, some had to go to work to support their families, whether that be before this all kicked off, or after is irrelevant, for people to state that they should just have popped home before the ban is ridiculous to the extreme.

A lot of people simply have no appreciation of, or simply do not care, how difficult it can be. Selfish springs to mind.

 

Right now PR cannot enter, my Boss is stuck overseas, he has PR, work permit, the MD of an essential business etc.

Everyone had a choice.

You made the wrong one.

You went to work when it was plainly obvious that there was a high risk that you might not be able to return to Thailand to your family.

2 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

I honestly wouldn't. I would just go.

Yep, but there are those that think they should be allowed to stay just because.

Speaking the national language fluently should be a requirement in any country that you wish to stay permanently. 

It certainly is for the UK and Australia and you have to take a test to prove it.

Indeed there is a Thai language test for PR here but you can get assistance to translate the questions which I thought was a bit of a cheat.

Interestingly Bill Hienecke the billionaire CEO of Minor Food Group is a Thai citizen  and I believe he does not speak Thai... could be wrong on that one but.

5 minutes ago, Mattd said:

The naivety of some people is astounding at times, please think before you write, some are on fixed installations for one, cargo ships can't just pop in to port, offshore vessels are carrying out essential tasks and some cost 100,000 USD per day ++++ to operate, they cannot just stop what they are doing, plus a lot of countries have, like Thailand, stopped seafarers from carrying out crew changes, meaning that those onboard cannot get off as they have no relief joining, there are a huge number of people displaced due to this.

I do hope you all think of that the next time you put fuel in your car, cook, write on your imported computer, watch your imported TV, the list goes on and on, without these guys the world would be in dire straits, the supply line is essential.

These workers are sacrificing a lot so that we can live.

You are not special and neither are they. 

Why aren't you getting the joke here?

3 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

Unfortunately, Thailand has little respect for such marriages.  This story just highlights the continuous insecurity of such relationships and the problem begins and ends with 'temporary visitor' status, which is an absurdity since marriage and parenthood is quite obviously something that is long term.  It's really a human rights issue imo.

There is an easy way to eliminate the hangers on and the ne'er do wells and allow a robust process of residence through marriage or parenthood.

Make it a requirement to speak, read and write fluent Thai.

Mandatory criminal record check for felons and warrants with home country and in Thailand.

Proof of income.

Without those, it would impossible to allow, due to the number of foreigners that would abuse the system.

After all, who wouldn't learn Thai to remain with their wife or kids?

Never going to happen though as the root cause is a fear and distrust of foreigners in particular Westerners.

3 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Ironically, I wouldn't mind being 'stuck' outside now. Cooler climate, a chance to re-valuate things without distractions, missus not in my ear, proper food available, etc. But that's just me.

Re-evaluating is what every foreigner should be doing now, especially those stuck outside the country.

Think about what you are doing.

Assess the risks going forward.

1 minute ago, Darksidedude said:

A lot of people work rotational work in other county's especially oil workers like myself fly in fly out month on month off or whatever, people who were due to fly into Thailand for their R & R back to their family's cannot get back in, there are also many folk on retirement visas they may have had to go back to their home country's for business reasons or visa reasons, i can only get a spouse visa outside of Thailand, think before you speak man.

Again back to recognising your status.

None of that matters.

9 hours ago, daveAustin said:

The nobs up top actually dream of a sterile Thailand.

Which, given the current situation at the very top, is hypocritical in the extreme.

It's as if they are ashamed of what they really are. 

12 hours ago, herwin1234 said:

Good post. 

I never understand the cynical anti Chinese comments of the forum farang.

China is almost a neighbour of Thailand (unlike far far away western countries), Chinese immigrants have helped build Thailand, integrated perfectly, so many Thai ppl have partially Chinese roots. (unlike farangs who do zero integrating, are negative to the bone, and live in a bubble and are not part of Thai society). Besides this, believe it or not, but Chinese ppl (tourists) dont display the negative and cynical behaviour of farang, so its only natural that Thais would welcome Chinese ppl more than farangs.

Farangs unfairly trashing Chinese is a bit like an unwanted woman trashing her more succesfull rival! 

Total and utter nonsense post.

15 minutes ago, LeamchabangLarry said:

Speaking of which, I'm due for getting one of those checks.  Does a doc checking your prostrate also bring happiness and success?

I know a place in Pattaya that does 'milking', whatever that means...

Gonna be fun when they realise that this is only the tip of the iceberg.

13 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

The only answer is for the airline to be sold to an experienced foreign group. They’d turn it around within a year and it would become profitable. 
 

Of course, that would never happen as it would it would expose the systematic corruption and cronyism rooted in the airline, which no sensible business group would tolerate and immediately set out ending. 
 

Plus, the loss of face would be too much to bear to have foreigners running their national airline.

The clever Thai companies, and nearly all foreign owned ones have foreign executives either running them or advising. 

Outside of the usual monopolistic and corrupt practices most Thai entities are lost. 

Always exceptions to the rule though, but Thai Airways certainly ain't one.