thecyclist

I often drink tap water straight from the tap in Bangkok. Never got sick from it .in regard to microplastics, if you are like a Thai, and buy boiling hot soups "sai thung" in a plastic bag to take home, or eat a lot of microwaved ,in cheap plastic, food from 7/11 ,you will be ingesting a lot more microplastics than you will ever get through tap water. That's only my guess. Some experts might confirm my suspicions.

The new application process for the Viet evisa on their new website is anything but simple. It looks like it was designed in a madhouse. It took me 9 hours of trying over and over again until I finally got my visa. Hopefully the OP is from a visa exempt country.

Spot on ,I remember Thaksin's promises of only the best people in my government. Talking about a clean break with the corrupt past. And then he did the exact opposite, hiring the worst instead of the best. Trump did the same in 2016. It's what fascists always do.

johnny come lately" falang sheep. ???? Sheep to what sherperd?? Education, reading books and papers, rational reasoning, not blindly following and idolizing somebody who gave me candy and handouts. Yes, then I am a Sheep. You might call it smugness, and it probably is smugness, but not of the lately kind, because I was here long before the rise to power of the square face ,starting as a police officer, amassing his first millions ,a couple of business failures, until he cut a deal with the military junta granting him a monopoly in the intial development of the telecommunications network. (Talking about going to bed with the devil)He was never about serving the poor people of Northern Thailand and Isan ,he used and manipulated them in his relentless rise to power..Keeping them stupid and uneducated is part of the plan. Have you ever talked to people in Kalasin ,Roi Et,Mukdahan. They are not to blame, put their reasoning capacity and knowledge is that of 6 year olds. Call it smugness, call it realism.,whatever, but you give them candy you have their loyalty for the rest of their lives. Pivot to the US, which is almost worse:,because with these bumpkins, you don't even have to give them candy, you just have to promise them candy (and fill them with hartred).How is it possible that tens of millions blindly folkow a hyper narcissistic, totally self absorbed, pathologically lying, retarded,orange ,wannabe fascist dictator, and see him as their savior. Well better be smug and a sheep to rational thinking than a stupid sheep.

Thaksin didn't do all this because he didn’t have any tanks at his command. He would do all the things you mentioned, and more,for power and money.He is no better than the generals, maybe worse. I am no apologist for Prayut and the coup crew, but ,at least, he can let go, much too late, but he got the message. Thaksin just cannot let go. Only I can fix it. Just like Trump he sees himself as the savior of the nation. These two are among the most hideous, most despicable human beings I have ever seen.

He doesn't have a heart.

Well, your sense of humor must be fundamentally different from the rest of humanity. Each to their own.

That is one of the most asinine replies I have ever read.

That is true, but he was better at it than most.

Golf elbow, the squared faced one doesn't engage in real sports.

Everyone's blood pressure fluctuates. That's what blood pressure does.

Actually, in contrast to the orange in the US ,he is fairly smart. Unfortunately, he has been using his smarts to screw the Thai people.

Neither, the fingertips, they weren't getting enough oxygen.

I have serious doubts that he is seriously sick. Insufficient oxygen in his fingertips.Give me a break. I get that when I ride my bicycle for more than an hour or two. High blood pressure, millions of people have that.You will see ,as soon as he gets his parole, he will be as fit as a fiddle again .

Of course, they are following trends. Wow, disgusting. She is absolutely right to reject this blatant racism. The whole of Sea-Asia with their millions of fans will be behind her. I take your word for it, but would like to know your source.

The question is, is she rejecting it because she thinks 40 million is not enough for the crap she is producing, or because she is getting less than the Korean members of the band. If the latter, it would be justified. Equal pay for Equal crap. All <deleted> stinks approximately the same, except,of course, one's own.

It's part of the charade. It started with him delaying his "triumphant " return by 2 weeks, because he "had" to see the doctor. Carefully choreographed every act. Much more to follow in this circus. I wonder how genuinely sick prisoners ,that are rotting in jail, feel about this.

Your father was wrong. At least in this part of the world.,rich girls marry rich guys.

And a picture of the bridegroom. The attractiveness differential is needed for an exact determination of the price. Of courses it has. Anything to do with sex and love in the farang/Siamese context always gets lots of impassioned replies, more even than the story of the squared faced godfather of CM screwing the Thai people over again.

I could not agree more. If she has real feelings for him, let alone loves him, she will not insist on the dowry .Refusing to pay up will be a test of her feelings. She ditches him ,it was all or mainly about the money. She stays she probably has at least some feelings for him. 40 years ago, when I first arrived in Thailand, it started with demands for a waterbuffalo, then a motorcycle, then a house.... Don't be a Kwai yourself.

Your naivete knows bounds..

No, just a small amount for condoms.

Yeah,but half the replies on this forum are more or less irrelevant. To quote the orange one. Farangland is not sending us their best people.

Possibly, that it will lead to calls for further restrictions of whatever type of visa they had. Knee jerk reactions is a Thai thing.

I am in Phnom Penh at the moment, and I can't even be bothered to go to the bars anymore. It has been going downhill ,and more expensive, for over a decade. The freewheeling days of 20/25 years ago are long gone, and they will never return. Disagree with Stickman on roads and rubbish. The roads in Phnom Penh are continuously improving, even the traffic is a little better now than 5 years ago. At least PP has recovered from the Pandemic at least as fast as Thailand. Battambang has not. Roads, pretty decent 10 years, are full of potholes. Looks like they haven't resurfaced anything in ages. As a cyclists you notice these things.