Hi Tea

On 9/12/2020 at 9:39 AM, lopburi3 said:

There have also been major computer ransomware attacks this week.

Which banks have reported their computers being hit with major ransomware attacks this week, it wasn't reported here, was it?

On 9/9/2020 at 11:38 AM, geriatrickid said:

The penis sits over the scrotum and was protected.

Only if your penis is that small.

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

There are scores of bars that practise this technique and quite shamefacedly.  I stopped going to one when I realised I was being short-changed by the mamasan on a regular basis.

"There are scores of bars that practise this technique and quite shamefacedly". 

You're claiming the the owners/managers of bars plan to rob their drunk customers after they've left the premises in their vehicles?  Seriously? 

Presumably, you mean "quite unashamedly", the opposite of "quite shamefacedly"!

On 9/10/2020 at 3:00 PM, anchadian said:

500 baht fine and a caution.

Original.

On 9/11/2020 at 9:07 AM, ezzra said:

Happening all over this city but this poor schmuck was caught on camera..

What is "happening all over this city"?  Assaults by taxi riders?  

On 9/10/2020 at 11:41 AM, ChipButty said:

What about Thai fishermen using dynamite has been know in the past

If they film it, put the video on the internet and identify themselves, they get arrested.

On 9/10/2020 at 11:33 AM, Keyser Soze666 said:

People on here are actually gossiping about what visa he might be on?? Genuinely never known a sadder, more bored bunch of people than that pollute these fair boards.

Well, the original story reported that this married, dive business owner had been here for years on a tourist visa, kind of relevant to the story.

On 9/10/2020 at 11:16 AM, Accidental Tourist said:

Is EATING sea cucumbers in a Chinese restaurant safe? Or would you fear deportation...

Only if you caught them yourself, in Thailand, and put videos of it on the internet.

On 9/10/2020 at 10:00 AM, connda said:

In the meanwhile, Italian-Thai tycoon Premchai Karnasuta who stood trial for hunting a black panther and other wlldlife in a Thai hunting reserve is still roaming free.

He's not "roaming free", he's appealing a jail sentence and a multi-million baht fine.

On 9/10/2020 at 9:38 AM, ChipButty said:

Not able to apply for bail? not like the guy in Cha am 

You think that bail is readily available for someone with a revoked visa and due to be deported?

On 9/10/2020 at 9:32 AM, ChipButty said:

So they want to split the family up? wonder what his wife thinks about that?

Maybe she thinks that he was stupid not to have got the correct visa that allowed him to operate a diving business but tried to screw the system by living here on a tourist visa?

On 9/10/2020 at 7:53 AM, MartinL said:

 Next time anybody wants to touch marine creatures, make sure you have somebody of the status of [...] Premchai along to appear in all the pictures. Very little problem then, it seems.

Very little problem apart from a jail sentence and multi-million baht fine.

1 hour ago, Kenny202 said:

You are a foreigner here and the same as in a car / bike accident here. No matter whatever happened or who ever started you will likely end up in the wrong.

"No matter whatever happened or who ever started you will likely end up in the wrong".

Garbage, that's just an urban myth.

On 9/10/2020 at 9:21 PM, chopper23 said:

I have seen Thai with big knife they carry for protection can Farang carry also?

Neither Thais nor foreigners can carry a "big knife" legally, depending, of course, what a "big knife" is.

3 hours ago, Jack Mountain said:

Money cleaning involved, so no banktransfers?

Which condo developers accept full payment in cash and which Land Departments do not require a Foreign Currency Exchange confirmation letter from a bank for a purchase by a foreigner?

56 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:

 I am not going to argue the meaning or words with a random person on the internet.

Why not, you are nothing more than just a random person on the internet?!

7 minutes ago, Laughing Gravy said:

On 9/9/2020 at 12:12 PM, Hi Tea said:

Most countries' basic education system does not include map reading on the curriculum so, using your logic, most people in the world should not be able to read maps.

Using technology is on the curriculum. I imagine if there was an app on Facebook that showed how to use a function to Google maps or Garmin with likes added then Thais would no much more. I have had this many times over the last few years.

 

At least he asked you he way normally the driver would not ask, in case of losing face, carry on and get lost. You were lucky.

No, I wasn't, I commented on someone else's experience.

"...normally the driver would not ask, in case of losing face, carry on and get lost..."

Normally?  Nonsense, my experience is that it's very unusual for a taxi driver to not know which way to go.

1 hour ago, Don Mega said:

Thai bashing is what it is.

I know.

4 hours ago, ballpoint said:

Thailand does not have a large income tax base with which to fund the government with,

Thailand's Revenue Department's THB2,000,000,000,000+ in 2018 would disagree with you on that!

23 hours ago, xtrnuno41 said:

In TVF some years ago there was an article of cars in Thailand waiting to be paid tax by the importers.

The custom storage facilities were loaded with these cars, just standing there. Not being payed for.

In the meantime customs had to take care for the cars.

There was an auction this year, the same cars? No 300% tax? 

Cars sold at government auctions are sold at the winning bid price, they are not subject to import duty, no reason for them to be as the sale proceeds go to the government anyway.

On 9/11/2020 at 12:39 PM, JIMHILL said:

On 9/10/2020 at 1:09 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

Was is beautiful or was it orange?

Punctuation is a rare art

...and that includes those awkward full stops that "JIMHILL" hasn't mastered!

On 9/11/2020 at 10:48 AM, elgenon said:

On 9/11/2020 at 10:25 AM, AlfHuy said:

just back from the morning prayer (in style)

 

Why show a car that, clearly, couldn't have been in Thailand and a 'monk' that, clearly, wasn't a Thai monk?  What have either got to do with Mustangs in Thailand?

On 9/11/2020 at 9:41 AM, Mansell said:

Driving on the main highway to Jomtien and at the side of the highway was a nice new Mustang that had broken down. One more reason I won’t buy a Ford.

Yes, those Fords are the only makes that break down.

On 9/11/2020 at 12:58 PM, NanLaew said:

On 9/10/2020 at 11:09 AM, Hi Tea said:

A lot of Ferarri owners in Thailand would disagree with that generalism.  Ferarris do not "need pristine road conditions" anymore than many other cars do, they're all designed for road use and they all move about on those wheels that you seem to think is such a big problem.

Obviously you've never done the trip from Nong Khai to Udon (and back) in my flash Lao buddies Countach. Rough as guts, picks up every seam in the pavement and the bloody thing rattled out more teeth fillings than I thought I had.

Obviously, I haven't but then there's not a lot to compare between a modern Ferarri, that was the subject of my comment, and a possibly 40 plus-year old Lambo.