Woof999

We did? I've not read the whole thread between when you posted this and now, but did you list them?

What a surreal video. Moral of the story, drive with increased awareness while transporting your kidnap victim.

That was all lovely and kum by yah, but being an animal lover while being a stray dog loather is far from impossible.

Unless the definition of percentage has changed, "2.2% of all vehicles manufactured" means that 2.2 out of 100 vehicles manufactured, not 1 in 250. Did you mean that, of vehicles on the road, only 1 in 250 is an EV (due to the rising EV production % being recent)?

I think that sounds very reasonable. I'd go for it in a heartbeat.

Exactly this. Apple's model is pretty much that you buy into their complete ecosystem. This offers some benefits but, for me, some show stopping drawbacks. I'm a software dev and have been for decades. My customers are typically PC/Microsoft/Windows/SQL Server/IIS. Macs and iPhones don't fit well with that model. Android does. Android also gives me a choice of 1000s of models, from the cheapest of the cheap right through to higher end and more expensive than Apple (so I don't know where all the "you can't afford it" rubbish comes from). If you like iPhone then that's great, it doesn't affect me in any way. If you like Android then that's also great, it doesn't affect me in any way. Also interesting is a YouTube channel such as Louis Rossman. If you think that Apple are all high end, well designed, well built, customer centric wonder machines then you are living far from reality. Memory chip on your phone gone bad 1 day after warranty expires? Tough, the repair bill will be as much as a new phone. Plastic welded keyboard on your high end Mac Book has broken... ouch. Soldered memory chips all over the place... BIOS written into that same memory... they don't do much that isn't designed to extract significantly more wedge from you as soon as anything goes wrong, which, but much of their design ethos, can be often. Monopoly might be the wrong term, but the Apple ecosystem is far more closed, ringfenced etc than others. For some this can be a plus. For me, not.

We were drawing parallels with the Pattaya > Hua Hin ferry and why it failed. This is that ferry: It was 100% not a car ferry.

I was looking forward to using it until I realised it was not a car ferry... not even motorbikes if I remember correctly. The inconvenience of a couple of extra hour in the car over the use of a foot-traffic only ferry was a no-brainer for me. I never once used it.

Their banking app is actually pretty good. Very useful for transfers, scan to pay etc. I'd very much recommend it. Worth the slight pain to get it setup.

You can use PayPal here as a foreigner, you just can't have a PayPal account with Thai details. I still occasionally use my PayPal account when there is no other choice, but it's getting harder to do so. I'm sure once they fully realise I'm no longer resident at the address my PayPal account it registered at they'll bin it the same way the bricks and mortar banks did. Interestingly they haven't batted an eyelid for the 8 years that the account has been linked to an Asian (not Thai) bank account though.

No prizes for guessing which of the brothers eats the most pies.

Digital Nomad has become a common term but is far from accurate for many. Nomad implies that they are regularly on the move, rather than just working from a location that wasn't their original home. No comment ????

This post aged well.

Used to get this as a child when taking a bath. Turns out it was Uncle Pete.

I hope return thank deeply women remarkably.

I believe that, to the best of our knowledge to date, it has happened only once out of many trillions of opportunities. That is, of all the planets orbiting all the stars in all the galaxies, only ours is currently known to contain intelligent life. Turn that argument on its head. Who created the meaning of intelligence? Who are we to regard our level of intelligence (well, some of us) as the absolute gold standard? We cannot say for sure that there is not a far more intelligent (based on our own measurements) creature existing in the cosmos that was not created in the image of your god. A being that, by any measurement we know and all that we don't, beat us into oblivion. That would make your god just as irrelevant in the grand scheme of things as the human race is. I am not a believer and there are many like me. To maintain being a non-believer, there is no requirement for me to join/visit/support an organisation that spreads the word of the non-believer movement. No organisation that has become powerful, rich beyond imagination and exists almost solely to retain that power and those riches while preying predominantly on the poor and lesser educated to maintain the absolute inequality. Having said that, I guess McDonalds might fit? If your god was not the god of the bible, or of the koran... a religious god, I'd be far more open to respecting your beliefs as those of a rational, intelligent adult. Regardless, I do still respect your beliefs in so much that you have the right to hold such beliefs. A right which many organisations that brainwash the younger in our midst to believe in the same things that you believe would rather see taken from us. Back on topic. There is such a thing as a ghost in the same way that there is such a thing as an elf, but they exist only in fantasy, far away from reality. Amen

Going a few years without a military coup might start to make people sit up and listen. Having visa laws that are followed uniformly at each and every immigration office might too. Starting a business in Thailand is already an investment without having to jump through any additional investment/other hoops set by BOI. There are too many restrictions on smaller / medium sized businesses. If I ran a business here I'd want to hire the best staff for each role regardless of their nationality or anything else, not be instructed how many I must hire and where they must be from. How then might I attract the best talent for my business? Perhaps Thais might fill many of the roles. but if I want to search further afield then potential staff would have restrictions on owning their own home. I like the sentiment of wanting to attract investment, but words are just words. Show the world that Thailand can be trusted as a progressive, investment option and business will arrive without any further effort. Pretty much every large international business was once a much smaller local business.

...and what percentage of foreign prisoners in Thai prisons are British? There is a big difference between Brits being over represented in times of trouble and Brits causing the most trouble. Gottfrid posted one of his (I believe) quite regular anti-Brit rants and came up with what I believe is a pretty ridiculous percentage (75%). To lay cards on the table.... I don't dislike anyone automatically based on their nationality. However, statistically, if I was to dislike someone on a forum like this, they are most likely to be American. That doesn't mean I dislike Americans because they are Americans and I make sure I'm aware of that potential bias. It doesn't mean I dislike Americans at all. So... when someone makes a post here that makes it seem pretty clear that they dislike people solely based on their nationality, i'll drill down on their biases. Maybe a Brit stole their wife, took their job, punched them in the face, spat in their beer or something far more mundane. More likely they are just ignorant, hate filled idiots.

Are you saying that you agree with Gottfrid's 75% figure or... What exactly are you saying? That a disproportionate amount of Brits get into trouble in Thailand? - Not sure I could disagree with you. That you think your dead reckoning skills are any good? - I think you'd need a second opinion. That you dislike someone based on nothing more than their nationality? - Then your opinions don't really carry any weight in the first place. Might be something else. Why don't you state your position?

Are you still insisting that ~75% of Thailand's issues with foreigners are caused by the British? If so, the last thing you should be worrying about is my ability to read. Bless you yet again, for the final time today. I can almost feel you shaking with hatred when you write about the British, or reply to someone who you believe is a Brit.

10 stories over a period of around 16 months. 1 of them clearly not relevant... so 9... leading to a claim that ~75% of Thailand's foreign issues are down to the Brits. A case against the absurd doesn't get much stronger than that.

You messed up in a post and somehow it was still the fault of the British. Bless you once more.

You think that ~75% of crime in Thailand committed by non-Thais can be directly connected to a Brit perp? The figure would be at least an order of magnitude smaller. Your bias is strong, perhaps for good reasons, but strong nonetheless.

Bless you for trying to blame a US ENGLISH TEACHER on the Brits.

What's your point, or are you just itching for conflict? If so, move along.