jaywalker

She is cute as a button. Bless her heart! She actually cares about her job!

I have to wonder though, can she blow a trumpet? 

3 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

4 hours ago, webfact said:

“If we use trashy gadgets, are we going to keep up with [other countries]?”

 

 

Perhaps the answer is to stop buying trashy gadgets?

Oh they buy top of the line equipment. They just won't allocate money for maintenance.

I have been there, done that, err... went there did that for many years, trying to work w/ the RTAF, RTA & RTMC. They have about 1,500 HMMWV trucks (Hummers). That's an enormous fleet & they are 30+ years old.

I've looked at/inspected literally hundreds of them. They have fluid leaks out the wazoo. BRAKE calipers leaking yikes (the brakes failed)!

I'd always get the same line... "No hab budget".

41 minutes ago, chrisinth said:

What was the purpose of the dog inside the private premises of the factory?

He's a guard dog obviously.

I walked by a car dealership in Pathum Thani (quite a few times) at night & 4 or 5 vicious mutts would terrorize me. Loads of broken sidewalk tiles all around, so I lunged at them and managed to nail one in the head.

That scared all of them away. On my way home the "security" guard replete with uniform, badge, hat & flip-flops asked why I'd hurt his dog???

It was him or me pal.

3 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

I can imagine this woman discussing with her friends what to say in reply to their stupidity. I guess the mantra would have been, "Can't admit fault - can't admit fault". Looking stupid is not as important as not taking responsibility for your actions. 

 

Let's hope these people never get their hands on a bottle of bleach. Bleach also has small warning signs on, but it looks like a liquid that could be drunk.  On the other hand........

Sounds like Lao Khao. That retard in the video looks like he's had a few shots of bleach.

4 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Would have been so much more fun (and profitable), had it been a farang!!...pity!

He would have his head stomped to a pulp, by twenty flip-flops, had he been a farang...probably.

On 8/3/2017 at 4:02 AM, thailand49 said:

As noted RIP,  but one can basically take a dummy same weight and height up to the location where it all happen and determine if it was a accident or he was pushed?

I've been watching a lot of rerun C.S.I. lately.

Or they could just push a cop off up there.

Same same but different.

On 5/14/2017 at 8:27 PM, canuckamuck said:

It's like when they pull you over and refuse to believe you weren't speeding, despite the fact they weren't using radar.

Yep. I had a $500 USD radar detector on my dash once. Used it all over Kuwait speed cameras & it went bonkers around the DMK airport radar, so it worked for sure.

Got pulled over for speeding & it never made a peep.

I'm shocked that there are such massage establishments in Pattaya! 

It wouldn't last you 10 minutes if you rented a jet ski.

1 minute ago, jeab1980 said:

  2 hours ago, jmccarty said:

interesting that it is in Thai and English.  I did not realize that Thai's filled this document in also?  Or do we need to complete it in Thai and English now?

My Thai wife signed hers in Thai once. The IO made her sign it again in English.

Everything else she wrote on it was in Thai.

NCC1701A said it best when he posted this.

6 minutes ago, terryofcrete said:

Sleepwalking into a mess that the country is turning into year by year.

Eerily reminds me of Pol Pot's YEAR ZERO.

36 minutes ago, superal said:

I wonder where it is all going and why there are no adoptions of western ways that are proven to work .

My thoughts EVERY DAY when I worked for a Thai company.

They HIRED me to show them the Western way of doing things, then proceeded to completely ignore everything I said.

Luckily there was a Mom & Pop shop nearby, & I had a big plastic cooler/drink holder. I pretty much just sat in front of a fan, in a junkyard, in 4 inch deep water, and kept my eyes on them, drinking beer out of a straw.....it was all I COULD do. They were rebuilding diesel engines.

They never listened to me about procedure/production...just when they got stuck (which was often).

I was their crutch & a token farang in the company's brochure is all I was.

Nice guys. I hope they learned something from me, but my job was less than fulfilling.

I moved on.

4 minutes ago, Rc2702 said:

Surprised there is no line ID request.

 

No line what you mean no line????

Must to give us your Facebook, Line, LinkedIn, MySpace PokemanGo account names and passwords.

2 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumatran_tiger

You grammar cop you! I sentence you to 90 years hard labor!

I was wondering if they had Tigers in Samaria???

Thanks.

6 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

Absolutely spot on.

 

I am keeping my eye on an interesting situation at the moment. Singapore branch of international company using unqualified Thais to service a contract for major international client in Thailand. Client has intimated to me that he is not satisfied with the service provider yet service provider is all over the internet boasting on how well the job went. Then I came across numerous linkedin and Fateboo posts of the Thais mucking about, posing for selfies and general back-slapping activities in dangerous areas on the project. Needless to say the client ain't impressed. 

My Thai boss told me to never yell at them, or they'd all 5 quit.

I REALLY WANTED to fire a truly worthless one, but no, no, no! His brother might then quit also.

His brother was the sharpest of the bunch.

Never again will I work for a Thai company.

12 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

All honeymoons start out that way.  New and interesting and exciting.  And just like ladies (and guys), the very things that attracted you at first are likely to be the things that drive you up a wall later.

 

Put my wife over my knee once & spanked her ass in a half serious/joking manner. I totally forget what she'd done....Something ludicrously STUPID..

Other than that, we've been a perfect match for 16 years.

13 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Imagine paying for a business/first class ticket or an Elite visa or an expedited arrival service and still facing almost an hour in line.

 

Been there done that w/ a business class ticket. It works for check in and on the plane. You also get off before the hoards of Genghis Khan do.

That's about it. If Air India just arrived before your flight, then.....you wait, and wait, and wait.

Those VIP cards, which I thought would last about 6 months till they decided to change the rules again might actually be worth it....or I could (truthfully) tell them I have a bad back & get a wheelchair.

I feel weird about that though. I can walk 5 miles, but standing for 20 minutes makes me want to almost die.

I need a soapie massage.

No worries anybody. It will change, be recanted, be redacted, be re-written, by October 3017...maybe.

8 minutes ago, terryofcrete said:

 

 

 

Sent from my iPad using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app

 

 

 

And.......you quoted me why?

You need to type in your reply so others can see it.

Don't mean be a smart-ass, but I'm confused.

6 minutes ago, masuk said:

Do any of the International airports have a queue for those of us with tin knees, and other problems with standing for a couple of hours?

China Immigration have a section for over 65s or disabilities.

I think they do, though I've never used it.

Just stagger out of the plane & tell them "Old man...Cannot walk". 

Dye your hair brown/black the next day and hit Soi 6.

3 minutes ago, Cats4ever said:

Just came in from Phnom Penh. Was looking at a monster queue. A kind lady suggested I go to priority, due to my venerable age. I did. I hope it was an improvement (still yook over 50 minutes). The queue snailed along. Only half the booths open. doesn't help in positive decision on whether to return to Bangkok.

You're making my back hurt to think about it.

17 minutes ago, jonclark said:

I know what a luddite is. No need 

for a link.

 

But I am glad you agree with me that there are too many IO doing too many unimportant tasks. The UK has approx 8000 officers in its border force (which i suspect os alot less than Thai Immigration) which includes immigration at airports. It has more international airports. More tourists and one could argue equally difficult and complex issues with illegal immigration as Thailand. 

 

But the use of tech has streamlined their functioning giving better results all round.

Don't mean to argue jonclark, but you are preaching to the choir.

Things get STUPID though, when you try to streamline any agency set in their ways. In Thailand, you get the pouty look at best. On the street, you get your head stomped in.

I have tried to....well tell a few that worked for me they were idiots and showed them the proper way to do their jobs.....Ways that would make their work WAY FASTER and EASIER. They just huffed & puffed & pouted for a few days.

I never actually told them they were idiots, I'd just demonstrate something simple, like how to use an air ratchet instead of a manual ratchet, and how keeping my tools organized made me be able to do in one day what took them a week.

They could CARE LESS about efficiency, production, quality etc.

It was all about "Let's milk this job for as long as we can, & if we screw it up, then it might last longer".

3 minutes ago, isco said:

haha ridiculous on all levels. why on earth anyone bothers still coming to thailand is beyond me? went to Cambodia last week (the real land of smiles). got through immigration, visa processed and in a tuk tuk in less than 5 minutes, greeted by happy polite smiling people. then spent 5 days enjoying beer a quarter of the price of thailand. haha no brainer!!

You'd love Thailand too....way deep down if you'd been in Thailand 20+ years ago.

Quite amazing how fast they've managed to make a mess of things.

Cambo is OK though...to each his own. I recall when they had no ATM's and road bandits/highwaymen in Cambo. 

The Cambo IO's are/were corrupt as they get.

Pretty women though!  Have not been there in a while, so mayhaps it is better than Thailand by now at the airports & land crossings.

I was a serial visa-runner on 30 day Visa-on-Arrival with my US passport 2001- 2004.....actually I traveled a LOT around SEA & the Mid-East for a US company & it was cheaper than flying me across the Pacific or Atlantic every few weeks.

I'd hit Koh Kong for 15 minutes, then take my lady to Koh Chang for the weekend. Life was good!

I tried to do some consulting with our Thai customers....They always said "No hab budget"..

Good old days when Swampy wasn't even a twinkle in somebody's eye, and DMK was fast & friendly, as were the IO's.

4 hours ago, missoura said:

Yesterday afternoon at Don Muang domestic departure. Fastest, I have ever seen. All lanes seemed open and the Thai staff were waving people through. Maybe 5 minutes at most.

Only saw one other post about this Missoura, but flying from DMK to Pitsanolouk (or wherever within Thailand) does not require immigration nor customs checks.

2 hours ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

 

Really?

You need to check out lower Sukhumvit. The "litter police" are handing out fines all day long.

Why are they not in Pathum Thani (and many other places) along the canals?

It's a flippin' cesspool. Nah. They just want farangs who drop a ciggie butt = easy Hong Thong money.

11 minutes ago, mikiea said:

if you can afford a thailand vacation , you can afford a taxi to the hotel  .. do not be one of those foreign  assholds that drag two suitcases and a carry on's up and down the MRT and BTS  . i see these assholds every day pushing  and shoving their way onto the cars . have they no shame ? i think not . pathetic they are ......

That's why I never tried it. Not too bad in KL, as all is at ground level and the airport is 50 miles from nowhere & they have luggage racks on the train.

Helps if you have your gun-bearer (wife) to help you though.