Liverpool Lou

What's a "farang bank"? All banks in Thailand are Thai banks.

All SCB branches have to get the ok from Head Office for new (foreigners) accounts, I tried ten days ago and was told that I needed a "certificate" from my embassy, everything else was ok and then they'd forward the application to get the final go-ahead, a formality. Can't blame the staff for their bosses directions.

When you look at the stats, it's fair to say that he's the greatest to ever play the game. Most AN commentators don't pay any attention to facts or stats! I think it may be in the rules, somewhere.

What rubbish. Which other pro player would be able to, seriously, contend that title?

His wasn't the only one whose head the "humour" went way over. That would be because there was no suggestion of humour, sarcasm, satire or irony.

Middle-aged women do not qualify as "quality"? By whose standards? Her friend rode past, what makes you think that she was out alone? Even if she had been, so what, she is an adult, isn't she? Where was the confirmation that she was drunk? She didn't speak English and had just gone a_rse over tit into a ditch from a moving, then suddenly stationary, bike, perhaps she was shocked and disoriented maybe making her sound incoherent? Maybe she had been drinking but how does that make her not the required "quality", are only teetotallers quality tourists now?

Were the police there to test her?

Perhaps the police weren't there, they don't attend many accidents.

What was it carrying and how much was it carrying, then? You were there? It was a pickup truck, not a "lightweight van".

Garbage.

"The World Bank In Thailand Thailand is one of the great development success stories. Due to smart economic policies it has become an upper middle income economy and is making progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals". https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/thailand/overview

New or used, it makes no difference to whether import duties are imposed, it's the CIF value of the dutiable item that is considered.

mostly rotund Much the same as police officers worldwide, then.

My sympathy that it's too much for you to read about but no need to be so hard on yourself.

You need to check your interpretation of the Thai laws. they sure do not state that "it is unallowed [sic] to film others". Your breaking someone else's phone would be a criminal offence so you may find suing someone from jail (or hospital) a little difficult.

That makes a difference?

Elected members of the GOP have stated they wish to be referred to as ‘Ultra MAGA’. https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights Which "elected members" of the GOP have stated that they wish to be referred to as "Ultra MAGA"? That requires names. Your link does not confirm that there is any attempt to "erase LGBT people" nor does it corroborate Jingthing's claim that there are "vicious" governmental actions against them.

I forgot how much you like to quibble. My commenting with facts is not "quibbling". The club was the "Club Khaosan", that was reported. The guards involved were Thongchai Saengchan and Krissada Chotechan, that was reported also. The name of the owner, that was not published, is irrelevant and I don't know the name of the cleaner who was on duty that day either. There has been no hushing-up of the incident.

The Ultra Maga party controls the house and the majority of state governments. They are passing vicious anti LGBT laws all across the country. Yes that is government. Maybe you lack understanding of the US system. "The Ultra Maga party..." Doesn't exist. "They are passing vicious anti LGBT laws..." Such as? Specifically. Maybe you lack understanding of the US system.

Congratulations but you'll always be a 'farang' and second-rate human in the eyes of Thais no matter how much you defend their culture. "...you'll always be a 'farang' and second-rate human..." 1. That's nothing more than your opinion, it's not factual. 2. I'm not trying to be "rated" or uprated. 3. Where have I "defended Thai culture"? 4. My comment was entirely factual.

The US government is not "trying to erase" anyone, nor any aspect of society, regardless of their leanings or predilections.

It has been hushed up. The local businesses got together to make sure no names leaked out. The guards were sacked from their jobs to appease the man attacked and the authorities. It has not been hushed up, following media reports it's a subject here and in other publications, for God's sake, and, if it had been hushed up, it wouldn't be in the press that the American has announced the ongoing legal action against the attacker. How could you know that the sackings were just appeasement?

This has not been "hushed up", the legal action against the guards is ongoing.

Reading how the events actually unfolded is usually a good place to start rather than posting inaccuracies.

All the security staff and the manager were fired.