Mr Meeseeks

One of my UK passports (the red one) is the same and is full of stamps. When I arrived back in BKK the other day, the IO, a pretty young Thai trainee, said my passport was beautiful. She was quite smitten, as was I. 🥰

She's obviously a bit of a backpacker and travelling about on a budget. Nothing wrong with that. When I came to Thailand in my late teens, I didn't have the kind of money I do now. But boy, was I young enough to enjoy it properly back then! Those adventures I had in Thailand and Cambodia in particular were legendary, and priceless, because any amount of money could not purchase those types of experiences back in the 90's.

It's not, but there are proper requirements for HSE in the UK, places of employment are regularly checked, there is proper enforcement of the laws and appropriate punishments for offenders. Accident still happen, but I would wager that the UK is a much safer place to work across all industries than in Thailand. If Thailand actually could produce reliable statistics, we could prove that as absolute fact.

They have the OSH Act, the Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Act B.E. 2554 (2011). The act clarifies responsibilities and duties of employer and employee as well as those of governments. Employer shall provide a safe working environment for employees. It's a bit of a joke really, as with most things here.

In the UK under HASAWA, employers are required by law to protect the health and safety of your employees. This means employers must risk assess all activities and if you employ more than 5 people you must document your findings. Abuse of HSE laws in the UK results in harsh punishments and even custodial sentences. Thai OSH Act has similar principles, but they need better regulations, a lot more enforcement and much harsher punishments for offenders. At the moment, I would suggest it is an impossible task.

From experience, that includes the government OHS training providers themselves. At a Thai offshore service company I worked for, not one person had a proper industry recognised safety qualification e.g. NEBOSH, IOSH etc. One guy had a degree in OSH from a local university, but had absolutely no experience and couldn't even do a simple risk assessment. The state of the place tells you everything you need to know about their attitude towards health and safety and as there is almost zero enforcement of the insufficient regulations, nothing will change.

This is Thailand, they are only interested in money. Hope that clarifies.

In the UK? In the UK turning right you give way to the left, entering a roundabout give way to the right.

Like father like son?

Even the batteries?

They did not anticipate that the Thais would not protect them and would drop their trousers when the Chinese came calling. Again, you cannot trust Thais in business and this has been exemplified at corporate level again and again over many years see Carlsberg, Pepsi, Walter Bau, and more recently Stark Corporation.

Good video pretty much sums it all up.

It's still in billions of dollars worth of debt.

Thai culture dictates that the well off deserve everything because of what they must have done in a past life. Ergo, the poor deserve their fate also.

👆 100% this.

So it continues. Subaru pulling out, Suzuki pulling out, Mitsubishi lay-offs, and now Honda downsizing.

Just a soft warm-up for the gulag.

Loan shark, thug for hire, gambling dens etc.

Who though? The Police are too incompetent and lazy.

I know fleeing the scene is a national sport here, but hitting a disabled person then fleeing the scene is another level of immoral cowardice.

Nearly every arrest is following a tip off. Trust is a rare commodity here.

Arrest and deport this kaek immediately!

I get mine from Expat Foods or Siamburri's. Heinz are usually 90thb, but Branston are cheaper and similar quality. The Ayam and Brooks brand ones are sub-par in comparison imo.

Baked Beans win wars.

They could use a snorkel.