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Thailand pass is up and running, just like the tourists except not to Thailand
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Came in 2005 retired at 42, married same year but unlike many who think you must love thailand its culture, temples, people, and way of life I have no affinity for any of that. I stay solely for my Wife and nothing else, could be anywhere really.
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The funniest thing is all the euro nations will go hell bent for this making them uncompetitive in virtually everything, meanwhile Asia will ignore all or agree but have such lax enforcement its " carry on as usual" for them.
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3 minutes ago, Moonlover said:
Like I said, it only needs a tiny fissure for the water to start flowing. Once flowing, water is very erosive and will turn that small opening into a gaping hole that can be seen.
Seeing gaps and holes after a breach is no evidence that they were visible before.
helps if they dont use concrete with so much water in its got no strength
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4 hours ago, mtls2005 said:
Meanwhile rich Moldovans are feeling left-out.
Coming soon 'Rich Tea's"
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4 hours ago, Burma Bill said:
Sand bags?????????
not that hi tech, they just dug a hole
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14 hours ago, webfact said:
The Council of Engineers of Thailand
Cant even build roads properly or repair them, take your life in your hamds round by me,new roads crumble after 6 months, theyll be needing the cave rescue team soon to get folk out.
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Meanwhile back in the real world passengers arriving greeted with appalause flowers and cookies.......... Thailand.......... hazmat suits and detention
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8 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:Isn't this outrageous?
A tourist family wants to visit Thailand takes a risk and loses out.
No sympathy from Thailand, just an opportunity to extort ridiculous money. There really is no need for this heartless "welcome"
It costs an arm and a leg for enforced incarceration - now enjoy the rest of your holiday here!
Thanks a bunch!
Funny when you can get ro
oms with aircon for 500 baht a night that it costs 350k even with nurses tests and food its overpriced ripoff
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1 hour ago, JustAnotherHun said:
you like to stay in an isolation cell of the IDC Bangkok until you get a flight back that you have to pay?
itll probably be cheaper
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1 hour ago, Radar501 said:
You should sink your funds into chairs, that's where the big money is to be made. If you're prepared to look around the market, you can pick up some bargains.
I would take a look at the industrial chairs as they seem pretty stable. You can pick up a few hundred here, a few thou' there, and just sit on them for a while, but keep checking the market. The secret is diversity. Different types of chairs are the way to go, but be ready to pull out if it look like they are about to fold coz that could hurt your bottom line.
Right now I have chairs in cinemas All about bums on seats you know. My ambition is to be up with the big boys, playing with the gold chairs Make sure you have somewhere safe to store them as even timber chairs are only made from paper and can go up in smoke in a Wall Street minute.
Why not form a company and make yourself chairman?
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12 minutes ago, Salerno said:Exactly, it's the excuse some are using and the figures given don't stack up.
"... the Thai health minister in 2019 said it was annually around 450 million baht or about US$15 million. This may seem a lot, but it’s chicken-feed compared with the 2 trillion plus baht spent by international tourists prior to the current lockdown."
The figures above actually decreased from those used in 2013.
"Thailand is considering slapping a 500-baht ($16.60) entry fee on tourists to help cover foreigners' unpaid medical bills, officials say...The unpaid hospital bills of foreign tourists cost the state about 700 million baht a year, the ministry said...The new policy might help prevent "trash" tourists from entering the country, Mr Pradit was quoted as saying."
So, now it looks like they're getting round to adding an extra 500 Bht entry tax, they're looking at around an extra 20 billion Bht revenue when tourism gets back to pre-covid numbers, pretty sure they could easily cover, on 2019 figures, a 450 million Bht loss to the hospitals from that.
Theyd save even more introducing a compulsoty crash helmet tax
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24 minutes ago, robblok said:So what is your suggestion to cover health costs of older expats ? I am waiting. (pretty sure most want someone else take the hit)
as they are not "permanent"..... residents they should slap it on arrivals like they already plan to do with another 500 baht x 40 million visitors = 20 billion baht pretty sure that would cover any eventuality...........but having read that they wanted to introduce a 300 baht charge last year on arrivals and then saying only 10% would go to pay for "tourists" who didnt pay hospital bills makes you wonder where the other 90% ends up.
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1 hour ago, PoodThaiMaiDai said:This shows they are still trying to make Thailand attractive to expats.
Hilarious. when bank account guaranteed to just 1million now is it.
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4 minutes ago, Will B Good said:
OMG....all that time wasted....16 years.....555
What a Huan-ker
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30 minutes ago, Will B Good said:
I have read it does genuinely reduce your risk......if not, I wouldn't do it........
The key is WHEN in your lifespan youve been doing it and up to 49 years of age then its a 20% less chance if 21 times a month after 49 yrs old seems it doesnt matter how much.............so if youre over 49 you can give it a rest.
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its neithers fault, get with the program it s Thailand...no one can accept responsibility
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ok i flew to the uk and got the 1 day passport............that probably doesnt apply to you but it was the fastest way, in an out in a few hours down at Swansea or Cardiff also got 40 odd pages whilst at it
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1 hour ago, LivinLOS said:
Top down patronage culture where seniority can never be openly questioned, where bad ideas become maintained and propagated.. Which in turn empowers seniority to become entrenched corruption recipients which the juniors must pay into (not only in money, in favors, work, respect). The entire structures of boon khun, greng jai.. The structures of nepotism and deserved right to incomes / benefits/ monopolies and cartels doled out to clan based networks..
This cultural format, the very bones, is whats holding the country back from advancement, modernisation, development, skills growth, wage growth, etc etc etc..
Its not just in the education.. Though it is there also.. It permeates every facet of the social model.as i said, the entire cuture
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too much hassle for most people, theyll go elswhere....and I dont blame em!
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12 hours ago, Gold Star said:
Major delays occur when they try to figure out how to extract brown envelopes from a vaccine given away for free.
no problem they get it free then sell it to the hospitals who already have a waiting list of thousands paid in full
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nah the key is dumping the culture per se
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Just 8 foreign tourists have visited Hua Hin since reopening
in Hua Hin and Cha-Am News
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Thats ok each one spent 10 trillion baht