18 minutes ago, silent said:

He's American isn't he?

I'd guess he's from Issan...or maybe Australia 

I've blasted thru 20,000 baht in an afternoon in BKK.

9 bars or so later, (booze and women) I managed to come back to earth.

Most of my money I just wasted though.

I took a moto-taxi once in Pattaya....80 baht there & 80 baht back. He waited 3 or 4 minutes for me at point B.

160 baht right?

I could see the cogs of reason & math battling it out in his head as he tried to add 80 + 80.

I felt sorry for the guy (nice enough fella) and gave him 200 baht. I was planning to give him 200 baht from the start, but it was a lot of fun watching him try to do math.

Oh yeah. I speak basic Thai, so it wasn't a language issue at all.

Must be a tropical thing. 

10 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

In a way. In reality the ID card does nothing, it's "smarts" are rarely used.

 

Your spending habits are logged by Visa / MasterCard etc, travel by Rabbit and the like (although this is theoretically anonymous reload it with your credit-card and a link is formed). Your phone gives out loads of information about your location etc.

 

It's difficult to stay incognito in the modern world.

 

I still have a flip-phone. Whew!

7 minutes ago, Ruffian Dick said:

I'm finding that if someone's elbows line up with your ribs, then your elbows line up with their jaws. Just makin' an anatomical observation....

Did that a few times in Abu Dhabi & Dubai.

7 minutes ago, Crossy said:

• All Thai ID cards are "smart" so the card reader can be used to ensure correct ID, location, vote once, rather than long paper lists as is the current method. Voting itself is still X in a box.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_card if you have a Rabbit, MRT or EasyPass or any modern bank card you already have one.
• No need to do anything with a computer, insert the card into the reader.

Big Brother eh?

10 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

For election preparations, the discussion included making voting easier for the elderly and handicapped, online candidacy, voter registrations, the uses of smart card readers in polling booths and online voting.

I've been online since 1998. I fail to see how a "card reader" can be used for a thumbs up or thumbs down vote.

What is a "smart card" anyhow?

How many elderly Thai's even know how to turn on a computer?

I could go on & on with this article.

1 minute ago, yellowboat said:

Makes perfect nonsense.  Judges know nothing of the law. 

Precious few folks do.

The USA is about as bad as Thailand in this field.

41 minutes ago, webfact said:

The legislation was drafted by the CDC. It is among 10 organic laws needed to complement the new Constitution, which has been in effect since April 6.

I thought the constitution was the law.

Silly me!

No worries.....they'll have a new constitution in a few years, after General Political Potentate has kicked the bucket.

2 minutes ago, webfact said:

 “I’m quite concerned that in the future newly graduated students, who are still selecting jobs, will be under unemployed, being replaced by robots,” said Suphan.

They are raised to BE ROBOTS!

Completely idiotic.

I did this when I was 8 years old (1975 or so). There was an ancient train that came by twice a week in front of my Grandfather's house.

Oh yeah.....He's appealing to 4.5% of Thai folks (3.2 million/ 70 million). 

Where is his stupid hat in the picture above?

Just now, webfact said:

ALIBABA GROUP founder Jack Ma has urged Thailand to “move much faster” to implement digital projects.

Good luck with that.

Had to get my neighbor's wife to drop a few hundred baht to the internet "Installation" guys in Pattaya a while back.

Otherwise it was going to take them 3 weeks to bring out a modem & plug it in.

300 baht later....it was installed the next day. They're worse than the cops!

Got it from AIS.....Pattaya TOTALLY festooned w/ BBB internet  posters & a giant, honking phone number to call.

I called...and called.... and called. No answer.

On 12/7/2016 at 11:35 PM, JoePai said:

Simple - double park (but leave the handbrakes off)   

But...The brakes failed!

What an absolute joke of a customs Department!

YOU!. You must to give me money! is all it's about.

Amazing Thailand indeed.

A field raking contest?

All the rakes are down on Soi 6.

54 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:

EVERYONE has an accent - to people with a different accent.

Just watching Housos (whatever that means?)

Just like a bunch of Florida or Georgia rednecks, but the accent makes it funny.

I say Viva Australia!

Oh yeah...I grew up in Florida, so I know.

Folks always accuse me of being from Texas...Close enough I guess?

I worked in Indiana for a while & nobody could understand me.

3 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Correct. I have a friend whose house was broken into, and they found the keys to his SUV and stole that along with his other stuff. He was in a so-called secure complex with a guard at the gate, who lo and behold vanished on the same day as the robbery. The police refused to do anything at all unless he paid them 100,000 baht. He's now left the country as he's had enough of Thainess.

Don't you just love the "Security Guards"? Dressed to the nines like a commando...wearing shower shoes.

17 minutes ago, Thechook said:

Us Aussies are unique, no other could meet our standards.  We love to bash and hang it on ourselves.

 

Trip to Thailand.

 

 

Thanks!

7 hours ago, oldhippy said:

Thailand Wants More Tourists Who Act Like Australians

 

These guys sure act like Australians:

 

 

I recall going through security at Sydney airport once in 2000. My pockets were empty & the guard started asking me "E-oohaveaobile?"

He said it about 5 times. I apologized profusely & told him we theoretically spoke the same language, but I couldn't understand him.

I finally got it..."Do you have a mobile phone?"

6 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

wish i hadnt read that; really ? 'you dont buy my fake crap, so i beat you up' ?

Usually, after about 18 vendors have pestered the living shit out of someone, they start telling them to F*^k off.

I've wanted to do it more than once, but usually I just move on to someplace else.

1 minute ago, carlyai said:

Yeah, the Poms are cheap charlies.

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Aussies apparently have more MOJO & drop the other 1,455 baht on an afternoon soapy. 

4 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

Extremely dumb and arrogant. He clearly has no idea what rape really is and how serious it is. He's made it all about him. 

 

In this guy's little head, he thinks he's so good looking that all women want sex with him. Unfortunately, rape is taken less seriously in societies where women are taken less seriously. 

I'm not fluent in Thai, but it seems he was just joking.

Why does everybody want to "throw their toys out of the pram" when somebody cracks a joke?

My 84 year old Aunt recently saw Blazing Saddles for the first time & thought the part about rape was hilarious!

1 hour ago, webfact said:

requires thorough thinking

......I think this is where it all starts to fall apart.

One of the funniest lines in history was Slim Pickens.

3 minutes ago, Laza 45 said:

The Australian tourist.. like the wombat...he eats, roots and leaves...

Aussie's are decent folks....I'm from Florida & have met many. Been to OZ a few times.

Certainly beats Chinese tour buses.

You should try a breakfast buffet in Taiwan.

I got more elbows in my ribs than Dust Rhodes ever meted out in a lifetime.