NanaSomchai

No national embarassment no... embarassment would require one to have manners, ethics and "have a face" to begin with of which the Thais have neither.

4 hours ago, khunpa said:

Who wants to go a place where you can get arrested for having a glass of wine with your steak dinner and have to go to bed at 9pm because everything is closed?

All that while being GPS tracked and monitored at your own expense 24/7.

Thailand is done.

6 hours ago, terryp said:

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This now confirms at 100% that Thailand has entered a totalitarism authoritarian era.

GPS, facetracking, position tracking, no cap, no sunglasses, no eyeglasses, must be turned on at all times, uses your dataplan at your own expense, etc, etc, etc.

We have now entered a new era, the Chinese masters will be pleased.

I'm done with Thailand. I know I've said this before, but this time, I really mean it.

Post junta era? Maybe.

Right now? Not.

4 hours ago, nchuckle said:

Thais do not have the skills nor education to embrace more sophisticated technology and the relatively low skilled tourist industry was ideal for them.

Lack of skills and education you say? Do they even WANT to embrace a different World than what they are being trained through public school?

If only the lack of skills or education were the only hurdles to overcome, we could eventually with time get past it.

The reality is that Thais kids are being sent to schools at their youngest age and are being trained like animals in a circus, they are not being educated or taught how to do any criticism thinking, every morning they have to stand in uniforms right in front of the flagpole and must recite the national anthem, then while in class they are being fed lies about how privileged they are, how the Kingdom is the greatest nation on Earth, how the Thais are supposedly superior to the rest of the World (anyone not Thai) during the course of the entire scolarship, thus creating a false nationalistic rhetoric in the mindset of almost nearly every Thai.

The damage being done at a such young age is going to leave marks, most of those "cases" are irreversible as the years go by, this is essentially what creates the "farang must pay double" mindset, giving us the "farang must pay" analogy that we must deal with when later we encounter them in the nightlife entertainment areas or across the touristic zones.

The harsh reality is that out of all the bar girls I have sponsored VISA-wise over the years, bringing them over to Europe, none of them ever wanted to return back to the Kingdom, not a single one.

Once they mature at a the age of 25+ and the reality hits them back, realizing how they have been lied to their entire lives, well... they just don't want to return to the Kingdom as they finally get to see what kind of deceptive cesspit it actually is.

Fun fact: The first Thai girl I brought over to Europe, it took me weeks of arguing with her and explaining to her the general concept of "what a retirement pension is", she somehow could not understand no matter how hard she tried the general idea and concept of having your government essentially paying you a pension at retirement age based on your work history. She kept repeating "pay me for what?", "pay for what?", "I too old already pay for what?".

It is not just a skills or education issue we are dealing with here, the issues arising today are rooted way deeper in the Thai society than just a matter of skillset or education.

This is Thailand.

1 minute ago, smedly said:

well some head of TAT said 2 weeks ago - bars are closed forever we don't want them - that was probably one of the stupidest statements I have ever heard come from a Thai official ever and that takes some doing

Indeed that was a daft statement.

Simply put, the military goons have to go and the xenophobic resentiment and rheotoric towards foreigners along with them.

7 minutes ago, smedly said:

The puritan Prayuth and his merry bunch of CCSA tea sippers are demolishing what is left of the Thai tourist industry brick by brick - why can they not see it

Oh trust me my friend, they see it.

They definitely see it, but they couldn't care less as they are not the average Somchai, they are not affected by it by any means.

42 minutes ago, fusion58 said:

You mean no one wants to deal with the constantly moving goal posts and jump through the interminable hoops required to enter Thailand?

Let me fix your post:

You mean no one wants to deal with the constantly moving goal posts and jump through the interminable hoops required to enter a deserted, devastated entertainment adult industry, shuttered down for good all across Thailand?

What a surprise!

Imagine jumping through all the expensive hoops only to end up on a deserted Walking Street, Soi Buakhao, Patong, Phuket, etc with a nasty curfew, no alcohol being served in restaurants/dining places and no nightlife at all.

What a bargain!... NOT.

11 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

No quarantine... yet they still have to book into a "Sha hotel" for one night while the arrival test is checked?

Curfew will be dropped in certain locations yet bars/clubs will still be closed?

Come for what?

Come for what did you ask?

- The "beautiful" slimey beaches of Pattaya?

- The rabid but very friendly soi dogs roaming everywhere?

- The warm weather with a free very high 2.5PM unbreathable air?

- The gigatons of plastic trash washed ashore everywhere?

- The atrocious never ending Bangkok trafic jams?

- The farang double pricing policy?

- The "farang must pay" attitude?

- The RTP sponsored, "plastic bag over your head" life-changing truly unique experience?

- The ladyboys of Soi 7?

Plenty of reasons to come to Thailand!

Take your pick!

3 hours ago, candide said:

That should be the list

Pay attention as how the list is Alphabetically sorted but then Hong Kong which starts with the letter H is listed as very last on the 46th spot.

The Chinese masters will be pleased.

1 hour ago, Salerno said:

You don't at the moment, it's not live yet (and it's another website not an app, allegedly will eventually be at https://thailandpass.go.th).

In the meantime, for the most up-to-date information (updated hourly). I recommend visiting https://asq.in.th/thailand-pass