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jaywalker

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  1. 2 minutes ago, gunderhill said:
    6 hours ago, jaywalker said:

    How about the idiot in the blue truck that pulled out in front of the drunk idiot?

    It's  ok  he  wasn't  drunk.:crazy:

     

    After working on a jug of Jack Daniels at an old time friend's (that lived in Thailand 30+ years) we got on the subject of drinking & driving as he asked his sober wife to give me a ride home - he said "Sometimes, over here, it helps!"

  2. 6 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

    Yes i am serious. 
    Everything that avoids hours of waiting in a queue, I would find good.
    Nothing does speak against setting up machines with waiting numbers.
    The arrival hall (before immigration) could indeed be made more customer-friendly.

    And...you expect Chinese, Indians and Pakistani's to actual play by that rule book?

     

    Nothing wrong with your idea in theory, it just wouldn't work in reality.

  3. 3 minutes ago, Italian guy said:
    1 hour ago, jaywalker said:

    That this is even a news item is pathetic.

     

    Anywhere else the opposite would be news.

    Here IT IS a quite piece of news. Btw do we want to talk of corruptions in other parts of the world like South America or Africa?

    Fair enough about other "developing" countries, but that doesn't make it any less pathetic.

  4. 6 hours ago, starky said:

    "for Thailand at least,"  is what I said and if you have been to a gun shop or bought a gun in Thailand you would possibly have better understood my reference. This ain't the US mate. It's apples and oranges...Google it. A glock 19 will run you @500 in the US seen the same model here up to @75000 baht what's that? @2200? Big difference 

    Just because something is stupidly expensive in Thailand doesn't mean that they "should be" more expensive or that it is somehow engraved in the cosmic firmament (though I'll admit that getting it to change has no chance).

     

    Does it make sense that a bottle of mediocre wine costs the same in Thailand if not more than a bottle of premium wine in the US? No it doesn't.

     

    Somebody else mentioned import taxes. So the gov't pays import taxes to itself???

     

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    I know it is what it is, as I used to involved with a Thai company that imports parts for the Thai military, and they had to mark up the prices by 200% - 300% just to be able to afford the back handers to get the contract(s).

     

    It is what it is, but that doesn't make it right.

     

     

     

     

  5. 17 minutes ago, connda said:

     I know what you mean.  A phone was something attached to the kitchen wall or on a desk.  There was no Internet.  Kids went outside to play.  I spent a lot of time in the woods with friends, fishing, building forts, playing games, and as a teenager I had paper routes, washed cars, painted houses, worked at a grocery store.  I was always busy. At night I'd read - books - made of paper.

    I got addicted to reading books young also.

     

    I've loved them every since.

     

    I recall my Dad getting angry with the phone company and he ripped the phone off the wall and tossed it in the back yard.

     

    I think it was about a year before we ever had a phone again.

  6. 46 minutes ago, greatwhitenorth said:

    back in the day, when you where out of the house, no one could each you.  miss a party and you had to wait to Monday to find out what went down, have an "enemy" and when you got home from school the hassle was over.  Nowadays everything is in your face 24/7..  the cell phone and social media have changed what is important.  Just go to a tourist attraction, everyone is facing away from the site taking a selfie.  Young people are lost without social validation constantly.

    I recall when my company sent me my first Blackberry. I thought it was slicker than snot, till the company 8,000 miles away started trying to micro-manage everything I did.

     

    I have shunned smartphones every since. I despise and detest the damned things...but that's just me.

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