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That's genuine news to me! I'm not surprised though, but fair play, you've claimed he did his time, the question is, why are the very people who are now politically attacking him with 112 implications, also the ones doing exactly the same criminal acts with forever impunity? It's good old Thailand though and though, it's only a crime if/when you're not on the side of the guys in charge.

But tourists do! Not to argue your very valid points, just imagine how much more money they could make if they SPENT some money on those issues instead of Billionaire "advisors" such as Tourism Grandee Phipat stupidly and repeatedly announcing how they want quality (money throwing) tourists, and... that's it, that's his solution! Their business plan amounts to some old battleaxe with badly applied makeup hanging around a BTS backstage hoping to be a groupie.

Agoda self promotion much? It's a travel agent website, not the arbiter of ANYTHING. Thailand has many touristic faults, what place doesn't? But what Thailand does as a destination, in spite of the supposedly expert goons in Bangkok coming up with ideas like Durian KitKat and overpriced alcohol imports, it does incredibly well. It doesn't need more or new "attractions". It desperately needs more and new and enforced safety regulations. Too many balcony deaths, boat sinkings, bus crashes, club fires, and high wire ride failures.

Hidden in my steamy hairy man bits? Maybe it's time for an assault on Lone Pine.

This is an amateurish Op-Ed at best and a paid but clumsy smear tactic at worst. The majority have been swindled for generations. There's every reason for them to be pissed off, and demand there be no more slimy backroom shysters get away with business as usual. There's definitely a bit of fandom and euphoria, and much of it will fade, but I'm loving watching the flailing of the arrogant military loyalists who have such a toxic grip on Thailand, that even the foriegn press here can't have a mature and much needed discussion about the obvious fact that all roads lead to Rome.

Miss the moon by a millimetre, and you've still missed the moon. They won and that's that.

Bigwig At HQ: "You've been called here to explain yourself!" Usual suspect: "Yes Sir! But it's all a misunderstanding, and I was only following orders..." HQ Bigwig: "Silence! ...when you speak to a superior; now where's my share and why isn't it bigger?"

In case anyone missed it in the last ten years or so, the deputy chief of the RTP is also known as Big Joke.???? This nickname sadly, should apply to most of the entire police force. But the army is definitely the punch line.

This, dear Chomper, is what happens when people tire of experts. Why bother with every hard fought legal code since the Magna Carta, when one can just pull an "opinion" out of ones favourite Tory editors bottom?

Okay... What's the easy answer?

I would love to be optimistic, but this is Thailand, and someone in that coalition is going to screw up, remember Yingluck's Rice Pledging scheme? At that point, they can fire up the tanks for Coup 22. And we're back to groundhog day.

They're probably going to put up something large and luxurious, and the bars there are on the way out, but, some claim most of them are still there so why would an impending demolition make them quieten down? I was never a fan of Pattaya, but a mate (since dead) got me back there just before Covid, and I actually had fun. Another mutual mate, even younger than my deceased friend, wants me to go back, but I have obligations and I'm getting a bit to old for it all.

I was struggling to get the point, I'm still struggling! At first I thought he was on the establishment side, but apparently I was wrong, he is being harassed because he aired a shot of Lisa drinking this product, and respectfully mentioned it's connections to the late Great HM Rama 9 but apparently this is now slander, because a desperate corner of the internet decided it was! I'm still confused!

Well, over six months ago and neither of his alter-egos appear to have posted, so we never really found out! We hope he is well whatever and wherever he's moved on to.

No friends on the first date, no exceptions, it's perverse at best! I'll meet her mates IF we become an item, not before.

Missus had a government employee pal who was fired for corruption! We rented her defaulted and fully furnished Korat bungalow for 5K a month while our BKK apartment was refurbished to lease, the juristic fees on our apt are nearly 9K! The bank showed up early, but not before we had the apartment sorted. With owners permission, we had the aircons stripped out, and took them to our other place in Chiang Mai that we had to leave empty while BKK work was being done, as it was a days ride to the apt in Bangkok.

OP Just do what I suggested, there's no need to explain yourself to the forum. I'm not saying there are not some others valid thoughts to consider, but everyone knows banking here involves frequent physical visits to a branch, and that's not likely to change in our lifetimes. A new (moved) account makes perfect sense if it's more convenient.

I had one where she at least texted if the friend could join us, I was already there, at a bar I love, she was running late, I said no, deleted her totally, paid for my drink and went to my next favourite bar where I picked up! Another one agreed to lunch, I was supposed to meet her at a BTS, she was early, said she was at a restaurant nearby, fair enough, I get there, it's an expensive farang joint, she's already ordered a drink and starter! I sat down, just to clarify what was going on, quickly it transpired she just felt entitled to do this in the expectation I would be paying for a stranger in a place I had not chosen, and did not like, and I'm not cheap. I just stood up and said, bye! And deleted her butt too!

There are other contenders, but the problem lies with a hustings system that needs a complete re-boot. The newbs are not networked enough to have a shot at it. To be networked enough they need to be in debt for favours given on the way to the top. It's so open to corruption it's crazy, the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about because it's almost un fixable. And why should the turkeys in DC vote for Xmas anyway?

Zero! Please don't. Look at all the foregoing posts, what a headache! If you yourself were a professional from somewhere like Southern Africa, then you have a chance of making a fist of it, if it's for your Thai family to muck about on, apart from the above-mentioned intricacies, well, buyer beware. Rent a shack in the boonies, on a quarter rai, be a hobby gardener, with your good lady, Richard Breirs, Felicity Kendall, and die wise, rich, and happy.

Imagine the amounts they are trousering at the untouchable levels! Look at the skyscrapers and malls in Bangkok, it's amazing! And still going Covid or not, inflation or not, wars or not, and yet a farang with a condo will wait years to see a ROI if ever, just renting. I believe they've even gone DOWN in value while in the western world new buyers can't get a doghouse back home. London a trusted global financial centre, looks like toytown by comparison, even New York hasn't built anything to rival Bangkok in recent decades, apart from 9/11 replacements. Why is this place booming, but ordinary Joe's can't flip anything fast enough to make it worthwhile? The graft must be worth hundreds of millions of USD a DAY!

You go to your branch with passport and bankbook, tell them where you want to change to, it may be helpful to screenshot your new branch for them. I last did this years ago at BKKBBK, and it was a bit of a run around, I recall they start the process at your old branch, you then go to the new branch with the paperwork they give you, get that new account opened, then go back to the old branch, and they finalise it. You won't need to carry any physical cash, but you still need to do all the running around.

He's very annoying to us old farts, myself included! But the Thai millennials swarm his posts, which is a net positive for ALL farangs image in Thailand, and he's made himself a very wealthy young man with a hi-so missus. It could be worse, he could be a stinky drunk vandalizing KSR begpacker.

It's not over till the fat general falls.

They can still back off the reforms themselves, but 112 as it stands is just a legal Gordian knot and it's clearly misused and weaponised. The only institution that should be empowered to invoke 112 should be the Palace themselves, and even then, it should not be years and years of jail for a comment or cartoon. This sort of absurdity is more akin to the uptight Middle East than laid back Thailand.