Callmeishmael

I've been saying all along that the two reasons for pushing the digital wallet is 1- to buy votes and 2- to start tracking income/expenditures so that taxes can be collected more easily!

That could really shoot Trump in the foot. According to the last election, while 50% of Democrats are 50 & older, 56% of Republicans are 50 & older!

After having a heart attack I stopped drinking entirely. Before that I didn't drink during working days, but on Friday nights and Saturdays I would have a couple of beers or a couple of glasses of wine. When I first came to Thailand, more than 20 years ago, I would drink a LOT more, but still only on weekends or during long holidays.

5348 baht for four 50$ bills??? That's an exchange rate of less than 27 baht to the dollar!

Up to a month ago I was always given the senior discount when riding the subway. As of about 3 weeks ago, I was told that only people with Thai ID cards (Bat Prachachon) get that discount.

I know that I am nitpicking here, but Hua Sai is in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, not Surat Thani.

Are they putting out an album or just a single?

Why is there no pointing happening in that picture?

Trump has no real core political values. He is greedy, selfish, bigoted, narcissistic and basically amoral, but politically he is an opportunist, not a real committed conservative. Those who expect him to be a right-wing savoir will probably be just as disappointed as those who dread him being a right-wing dictator! It will be interesting to see what he does during the next four years, but is suspect that his second term in office will be just as chaotic as his first term was.

I notice a couple of posters referring to the 'school management' helping to deal with the problem student. Traditionally in Thai schools, discipline begins and ends with the teacher in the classroom. The school administration would not appreciate being asked to deal with an undisciplined student nor would they really have any experience in doing so! The western system of detention, probation, suspension and ultimately expulsion is unknown here.

So here is the answer. Like it or not, we will see massive amounts of immigration from the blue countries to the the tan colored countries. Obviously some tan countries are more desirable in the eyes of potential immigrants, but when push comes to shove, immigrants escaping from the overcrowded hell-holes will settle on the countries that they view as second rate!

I used to occasionally eat some Muesli for breakfast, but I prefer a hot meal at the beginning of the day, so now I usually eat poached or scrambled eggs with guacamole or salsa on whole-wheat buns.

A bag of dried beans that you can easily cook yourself costs about 1/20th of the price of the rather tasteless canned beans.

I'm just puzzled by the 306 baht fare.

The phrase "worthless without pics" comes to mind when reading this thread!

We are all waiting for clarity on this issue, but I am going to go out on a limb and say that clarity will not come any time soon. In the first quarter of next year we will probably see one Revenue Office interpreting the rules one way and the office in the next district interpreting them another way! Eventually, the head office will issue directives that will bring most offices into uniformity, but, just like immigration, there will probably be some rogue offices that will have their own interpretation of the rules! TIT

A lot of Thai dishes are cooked with palm oil, which is high in the wrong kind of fats. If the cook uses a lower fat oil, like coconut oil or light olive oil, many of the standard stir-fried dishes would qualify as low fat.

So, will they be tried and imprisoned in Thailand or will they be sent back to China to get the bullet in the back of their heads?

It seems that every new car my neighbors buy is a BYD or a GWM product. It's not surprising to see the Japanese/Thai car companies shutting down.

I had some trouble with that one, but passed on the second try. The machine that I used didn't show the same red-yellow-green colors that traffic lights use, instead they had a sort of orange and then two different shades of green! Once I figured out which green was supposed to be yellow, I had no problems.

If the taxi had hit a 15 year old Toyota Vios would the police have been as helpful tracking him down?

This is the key to the whole incident and explains the police inactivity. His family is rich and probably well connected. The police will do nothing to offend them. Rich families usually have a couple of people in business, maybe a politician or two and some high ranking police all as family members who work together.

The SWAT team? Did they come in with guns blazing to retrieve the rocks?

While there are exceptions, if you leave out the chillis many Thai dishes taste like, well, rice. A lot of Thai cooks add a ton of spices to hide the otherwise bland and tasteless nature of many common Thai foods. For the OP, start with: "Pad Gapow Guy, My Pet".

I wonder what his AN username is? 😶