Liverpool Lou

Was he? Do you know that he was wearing sunglasses when he was driving?

A sick attempt at satire? Nothing "sick" about his comment that clearly wasn't intended to be, nor was, satirical.

Kids? There were no kids involved in this accident, only two adults.

3 persons on a motorbike/scoter...suit yourself. For a bottle of water? Irrelevant. At the time of the accident there were two on the stationary, parked bike.

Why "So much for banking apps"? If the butcher took 10 seconds and checked his app he wouldn't be out of pocket. The situation in the OP cannot be blamed on banking apps, the banking app didn't confirm payment, he relied on the woman's LINE app.

"So a tourist visiting Pattaya, would be a sex tourist..." Only if they are banging the locals, not all visitors to Pattaya are. If I shagged a Spanish girl in Ibiza would that make ne a sex tourist or just a holidaymaker?

Yes , but in doing so it speeds up compared to all the surrounding traffic and the speed of it doesn't resemble speed of someone just moving into the next lane . A sudden swerve to the next lane does not mean "a sudden increase in speed" and there is no way that you can see "a sudden increase in speed" from the one second view of the car's manoeuvre in the video.

What is the required time and distance for signalling under Thai law?

Several posters mentioned it, as did the OP.

What "sudden speed increase" does the cam show? Do you mean "swerve"?

Nonsense.

As much as it hurts me to agree with you, I agree with you 100%.

"...just highlighting a very vocal minority". Not on this forum, where the very vocal majority of commentators do moan about Thais and Thailand tediously and consistently.

Would he be in this position if he had decided to rent somewhere? No. Not rocket science. One example of a Thai employing a Thai builder who can't follow plans is a lousy justification for renting over buying. That's not rocket science, either. He wouldn't be in the position that he is if he'd chosen a different builder!

Blame those two for what?

Why not? This thread is about a Thai having his house built by Thai workers, what's the relevance of the buying vs renting argument?

Rarely but that's not the point. Exactly, I think that is the point. How many times has that actually happened to you when you've been trying to buy something?

"The first thing they'll do is..." "They'll also make..." Says who?

That is rapidly becoming a commonly quoted urban myth! "...some half-wit at the register..." Some people (not I) might say that the real half-wit is the person who falsely claims with exaggeration that some people actually take "several minutes" to work out how to pay with their phone. If these alleged incidences occur so frequently to be such an inconvenience how come there has never been a recording published of one of them taking place? Perhaps you have some showing the many times that you have been inconvenienced in this manner that we could time?

And how often is your internet service down?

You've proved that you actually don't know much at all.

Another wrong guess...items are wrapped in bubble wrap but are not also "sealed with copious amounts of duct tape" as the poster to whom I responded claimed. I very much doubt that anyone with normal facilities would need 10 minutes to check 20 grocery items!

I just wanted to point out that your claim is boIIocks.

Cobblers.

Departing.