DBath

9 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

You fail to understand that the Phuket Sandbox is not about revenue; it is about an experiment to pave the way for opening up tourism.

Oh no, I totally understand. What you fail to understand is that Phuket nor any other city that relies so heavily on tourism will be doomed to fail as a major tourist destination with those kind of revenue numbers. 
 

No matter how many failed schemes and experiments you want to try and pretend were a success. 

I passed thru there once and stayed the weekend, so I could get my visa. I had a nice ocean view room at the Renaissance there - the only nice thing about the city as I recall.
 

Have never desired to go there for any other reason, place strikes me as a SHlT hole. Maybe if I were young and stupid again…

1 billion baht is roughly 1/1900th of the 1.9 trillion recorded for 2019 International tourism revenue alone. 
 

That’s barely a drop in the bucket. 

9 hours ago, bangon04 said:

Quality Tourists...  preferably Thai domestic tourists.. and Chinese cousins buying real estate and failing companies, playing high stakes casinos .  No need for the dirty Farang....

 

Oh, they need us. Otherwise, who would they have to hold below themselves.

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

 

Failure or not, it's probably the lesser of 2 evils for returning expats.

True, it does provide an option for those with ties in Phuket, no argument there. 

10 hours ago, Joeb said:

I kind of like the Vaccine Tourism idea. Come to amazing Thailand. You pay for your airfare. You pay for your 14 days in a quarantine hotel and you will receive 2 free doses of Sinovac. How could it possible miss.

China loves that headline. 

9 hours ago, robblok said:

Whatever you think is irrelevant right now, because most Thai vets are like this. So its more likely to be religion related then anything else. I have had the same thing with our dogs. If you look into topics of vets putting animals down there are very few that are willing to do so.

 

So its clearly a religion thing, i feel they should put animals down but that is my western view. My dog might have to be put down and we found a vet willing to do so through friends. But its hard. I really think its not a money thing at all. 

It may or may not be a money thing, how can one really know? This scenario plays well into the hands of scammers - if this were another country it would be obvious, but it's Thailand.

Some religions need fixing, IMO. I believe in God, but I also believe most humans are corruptible when it comes to money and I am never quick to trust ANYONE.

Once a joke, always a joke. This administration should consider launching it's own comedy channel - would be a huge hit!!!

After this, I'll no longer waste any more of my time responding to this SHlT.

I'm simply going drop a laughing emoji or 2 or 3 on the OP. 

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!

That must be the last of the lot from Chairman Xi and his crew. I wonder, do they have enough toilets to handle the disposal of Sinovac that ends up as spoilage? 

8 hours ago, earlinclaifornia said:

 

…Nancy Biden and BS…

3 things that go well together????

3 hours ago, bamboozled said:

That's all fine and good but: why? Why is it stronger? If I thought to invest my money in Thai baht somehow, through whatever vehicle, I would look at the landscape and think no way am I doing that. Because there isn't anything good to see on the landscape. But either some people see something I'm not seeing which is certainly possible (the reason for the post) or that quick baht rise over the past three days was due to something else. And now I guess it's moving back to where it had been 3 days prior.

 

My guess is: he/she or whatever they identify as has no clue.

1 hour ago, Sundown said:

So your wife speaks to another woman then she speaks to you and then you run on a forum to gossip some story about some unknown person...Jesus Christ get an hobby

I like, but no need to bring JC into it

25 minutes ago, Red Forever said:

What a nasty judgmental post. "he should go home". How dare you! He is home with his, albeit untrustworthy, wife.

BTW I'm one of those people who "live pretty lean here".

Just a fool showing his ignorance. He thinks he can fully assess the situation without even knowing all the details. Maybe the guy has money in his home country and it's just a matter of him being able to season the funds, so he can renew. 

28 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Is she still your wife?

Surely, in his case, this scenario would not be a good example of a second chance being warranted. 

26 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

More chance or seeing a comeback tour in Bangkok featuring Michael Jackson.

…and Elvis

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

But possibly more knowledgeable and intelligent than most male posters on here

You won’t get an argument from me about that. 

On 8/12/2021 at 4:34 AM, tonray said:

So you're confirming he's not the brightest bulb in the pack then ?

“A few bottles short of a sixpack”, I’d say. 

1 hour ago, RJRS1301 said:

 

Her are all the Chief Health Officers from Canada, DR Tam is third from left top row. One would hardly consider her or any of her knowledgably colleagues obese.

IMO, one would hardly consider her or any of her colleagues attractive. ????

1 hour ago, ignis said:

Is that where people go these days for sex ?

I can remember a time when the grocery store was the best place to go if you wanted to find sex. The act itself, however, didn’t normally occur there. 

2 hours ago, oldhippy said:

The only porn movie I ever saw was Deap Throat.

It was funny, I still watch it sometimes.

All following porn movies were boring or imitations, never could bring myself to watch more then a few minutes.

How did we end up talking about porn? Oh yes, because porn is not PC or woke, so it must be a good thing.

 

I'll bet it's been more than 40 years since I saw that movie and still who could forget Linda Lovelace and Harry Reems? Debbie Does Dallas was another classic. I never saw that one, but my friends were always talking about it.

4 hours ago, stevenl said:

I am asking you to show why it is a failure, nowhere am I saying it is a success. Please don't twist what I'm saying.

You're saying, "I'm not saying it's a success..." and I'm saying, "It's a failure...", so let's not be coy shall we? And stop playing dumb, please. 

I've already told you why and I've not 'twisted' anything you've said.

1 hour ago, KarenBravo said:

So......your issue isn't with the actual sandbox idea, it's with government officials spouting nonsensical numbers.

Oh no. And if you read all my posts on this thread you will see it’s both.