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19 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

Dont think insurance would pay anything to him 

yeah, i remember insurance company doesn't pay in suicide cases. Anyone work in insurance company here?

23 hours ago, aussienam said:

I wish that the Prime Minister would please allow retirees back.  We are not tourists.  Tourists come at their own leisure and convenience.  As expat retirees we are desperate.  6 months stranded abroad.  Still paying rent in Thailand and abroad.  Sleepless nights filled with anxiety and losing hope.  compassion is needed.  Please expand ASQ facilities and help us get back.  

Would the Bangkok Post publish a letter with all the names of expat who wish to come back to Thailand? A letter requesting the PM to let them return to their wives and children.

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

They also bite children; cause accidents on the road; spread rabies; disturb the peace; defecate all over the place; block entry to 7-11s and steal oxygen.

Yes, indeed, there are always bad dogs.

I am not Thai so I cannot get much informations due to language problems.

But I do believe Thai businessmen who put their money in 7/11 know that if they failed in the business there is very little sunken costs.(sunken cost are install structure that cannot be removed if you quit the premises).

They just remove all the fridges and cupboards or even lighting fixtures. They may have paid for renovation for floors and walls. But that's peanuts.

No sunken costs means no heavy investment.

By all mathematical calculations the risk is worth it. Anyway, those businessmen who are in this game are super rich, what they put on 7/11 is such small money investment but the return is good. Better returns than when they flew to Macau Casinos to try their luck, in the long run that is.

If the shop gets busy, money comes in non-stop. The one next to my guesthouse in Bangkok is open 24 hours and always customers in there.

If you try to open a shop selling the same stuffs you will most likely fail because Thais are so used to going to 7/11 they wouldn't notice your shop.

My guesthouse owner owns 4 of this 7/11 in bangkok, i guess he is printing money.

Please, please don't ever ask the Thais to make bread or pastry.

People who normally put the least effort into doing anything cannot possibly make good breads or pastries.

Good delicious breads or pastries are made by people who are proud of their job and take pride in making good quality products. I have not seen such people in Thailand rather unfortunate I must say.

I have eaten a couple of nice thai dishes but generally I find them rather disappointing. Just watery , watery stuff here and there. Using lots of factory made paste or ingredients. Mind you, I am talking about middle-level class restaurants- not those fine dinning types.

You know, if you don't know how to make sauce you are a failure in cooking.

Making sauce is an art- the french have master that art. Well, the Italian too. I am not Thai bashing , please, I need to speak the truth(at times the truth hurts) and in the art of cooking you do need to be honest.

11 hours ago, Jimbo2014 said:

Sh$tty way to go ???? 

Is that guy being blown to bits? I see pieces of things falling all over the places. I am talking about that guy cleaning the big round thing and something blown out from that big tube. He must be death I think.

Now, where do I buy the ticket?

Please anyone knows, I am desperate to get out of

Thailand.

What's the point of keeping foreigners in Thailand?

I have been trying to get back to Malaysia without success.

I arrived on 26 February 2020. The lock down started a week later. Until now I am

still in Bangkok.

When I see the travel agents they said there is no flight to Malaysia. When I check the train ,there is no train going to Butterworth(Penang) only as far as Hatyai. The border is not open.

When I was in Hatyai I met a few farangs waiting for the border to open to get out of Thailand, it is not for Visa run, they want to get out.

I wonder how do the brains of the government official work. Do keeping the farangs and other foreigners in the country help with the virus problem? Keeping them out for a period of time until the virus problem improve, yes, that makes sense. But keeping them in and not allowing them to leave Thailand is just simply ridiculous.

Now I hope I get the virus and die in Thailand I have enough of being kept here like a fool. So my virus will teach them a good lesson when I died.

I didn't believe when people told me Thailand government officials have brains the size of golf balls, now I am beginning to think along this line.

2 minutes ago, Expat Tom said:

It is amazing that Thailand is successful at all given the number of completely stupid people in the government. 

"Hey! Let's buy some more completely worthless submarines while the people in Isan starve". Maybe we can engineer the country into a Chinese debt trap and formally become a vassal state. IGNORANCE ABOUNDS

Thailand is not the only country like what you describe. In South East Asia, there are other countries having very similar problems and the government behaving in same manner.

What do you expect from a police state?

Many south american countries are having similar problems. It shows bad people outnumber the good people in this world.

3 hours ago, Dukeleto said:

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" "Let them eat cake" Im starting to see a similarities between 17th and 18th century French aristocracy and the bunch running this place...and we all know what happened then. You reap what you sow. Never mind I guess because tourism is less than 9% of GDP???? yeah right!

"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche"-  if it is broiche then it is not a  cake. A brioche is a bread made with butter and also yeast added. I used to make brioche from recipe I got from cook book.

Anybody make brioche here? It is a nice bread because it got butter in it.

On 11/18/2019 at 10:39 AM, colinneil said:

Fully agree mate, amazing Issan, never stops amazing me.

Yet there will be no leg over for you, not bowing to the monks, tut, tut, that is a serious offence, you naughty farang you.

I think you mean diary of a farang though, not dairy.

No, he meant dairy, that's the milk he collect from the cows or water bufflao

Anyone knows when I can leave Thailand? I came on 26 February 2020, and since the lock down until now I am stuck here.

Today 28 August(friday) I went to Bangkok train station to ask for train to Penang (Malaysia). They said no train to Penang only to Hatyai.

When is the government going to open the border for people to go to Malaysia?

Is this really going to work in the long run I mean.? They can get non Buddhists to put down those stray dogs and cats on the streets .

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

When the annual flu season is just kicking-off in the countries that provide most of Thailand's tourists, it's probably not the best time to start opening the borders. The shops, hotels and bars might get a decent month or so of business, but as the virus starts spreading out of control the authorities will have no choice but to impose a lockdown again. The lockdown will seriously hurt most businesses, not just those in the tourism sector. So what do you do, give the tourism industry a brief respite at possibly enormous and unnecessary cost to the non-foreign tourist sector, which makes up 85% of Thailand's GDP remember? That doesn't make any sense to me, why would you risk inflicting great damage on the largest part of your economy just to try and boost a relatively small part of it?

u r right.

2 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

high fructose corn sirup drinks & junk food

Exactly, there are different kinds of carbohydrates and sugars.  Sugar seems to be culprit. We all react differently to sugars: i.e. bread, pasta, fruits, etc.

If you take the trouble to slowly check out how your body react to foods. Like if you eat a lot of veggie and low carbohydrate and see how your energy goes. I did that and I lost weight very fast. It was not good for me because when I lost weight I became underweight.

3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Answer: Forget it, it ain't gonna happen, you ain't going anywhere.

Oh, please don't say that. I am dying to go to Penang for some good foods. I am a foodie. A self style foods critic.

21 hours ago, Kay McDonnell said:

I was at immigration yesterday and today.  they said that tourists will 100% have to leave on the 26th September or apply for a student visa.

Good day everyone, from what I read the border will be open end of August? Or is it September? I am talking about the land border in Pedang Besar(malaysian border).

My question is "Would I be able to take a train to Penang?" If Yes, exactly when I can do that? End of August? In September?

I believe there will be quite a few expats going to Penang to do their visa renewal, they perhaps know something wouldn't they?

Don't forget the big brother said, "Everybody must leave"-

Oh, by the way in Kuala Lumpur Thai Embassy they want you to download the application form from their website , fill it up and bring it to Thai Embassy to renew your visa. I am not sure what they want in Penang. Anyone knows?

I believe I have to look for an internet cafe in Penang to download the application form I supposed. They know you love Thailand so much and dying to get back in: so you will search for the internet and do whatever they want you to do- that's the feeling I got.

Have all the Penang internet cafe closed & out of business because of our I-phone? In Hatyai very very few internet cafe. I may have to go to the public library in Penang to get it done. I am sure the Public Library has the facilities.

I don't see overhead cables or wires in Malaysia and Singapore. Is it too expensive for Thailand to have them wires lay underground?

How deep do you have to dig for cable laying anyone in this business knows?

6 hours ago, Dexxter said:

I don't mind Chinese as long as they are in small numbers but when they swarm they are a major pain in the <deleted>. Our local market in Din Daeng had become so overcrowded with Chinese tour groups that it took 20 minutes to struggle through the crowds for the 200 metres from the MRT exit to the first few market stalls. In the pre-Chinese tourist days it would take 2-3 minutes at most.

 

A few grasshoppers are fine but a swarm of locusts is a disaster.

20 minutes for 200 metres? Really? Did you look at those young ones with nice boobs?

9 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

Well I'm not sure about Thailand, but I certainly don't think you should go to China.

Ever.

You could be wrong Johnny boy. In China they have the re-education program, never heard of it? For dissidents . But I am sure they would be glad to admit a farang to re-educate him along with the other dissidents.

1 minute ago, richard_smith237 said:

This unconscious desire... does it manifest in ThaiVisa forum members to spout outrageous rubbish ?????

Of course it does manifest in ThaiVisa forum, every now and then it would rear its ugly head by quite a few members of the forum.

There is a large number of Thais who have the unconscious desire to kill themselves. This unconscious desire came from their dissatisfaction with life.

Of course they will not admit it. Often we are not aware of our unconscious desire. They can deny it but it doesn't help, to top it up with their arrogance, selfishness and anger does it surprises you accidents happen all the time? These are not accidents, most of them are manslaughter in criminal law parlance.

Everybody is wrong when it comes to traffic accidents: the police is wrong, the driver is wrong ,the government is wrong even the court of law is wrong. The whole system is wrong. A good example, driver who killed someone when he drink & drive is free walking around town after paying a fine.

If you drive carefully obeying all the traffic rules there is a chance you may get kill because you are doing the unexpected by the other drivers.

Making bread is like making love. If you are good at making bread you are also good at making love and your missus is a happy woman.

Honestly you need good timing ,patience, good technique and right temperature .

Bread making is a culture thing. So I don't expect Thais to make good breads and it would take about half a century( 50 years) for them to learn how to make good bread at the present rate of their I.Q and learning ability to follow instructions, this is no Thai bashing it is based on observation and experience living in Thailand.

For Asians eating bread like eating cheese is an acquired taste. Thais eating 7 eleven bread think all breads are like 7 eleven bread, see what I meant? No big deal, they said.(how sad when something nice and good is misunderstood and forsaken).

From: a genuine bread lover who will perpetuate the art of making good bread.

On 8/21/2020 at 8:54 PM, impulse said:

 

Is that good or bad?

 

Imagine the police knew about your missus jewelry and cash hidden at home the police then rent out his gun to the bad guy who comes to your house. Is that good or bad?

The Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted.