HappyExpat57

Next vacation I suggest you find another country to visit. You and Thailand are obviously not a good fit.

I try to help you and you respond like this? What you need can't be provided by any pharmacy, that's for sure!

And I'M telling you if you do, you have to go public with a recorded statement. Proceed at your own possible peril.

You need to be extremely cautious doing the "name and shame" cha cha in Thailand. Even if what you claim is 100% true and verifiable, it can backfire on you for doing public defamation. Case in point: I know a guy who owned a bar in Jomtien years ago. The manager he hired ripped him off, all the way to tearing the copper pipes out of the wall. When my friend reported it to the police, this bastard manager took the OWNER to court for public defamation for the things he put in the police report! All true and verifiable. My friend spent Christmas day that year in court defending himself. I recommend telling your friends and avoid patronizing the pharmacy. Anything more public could put you in harm's way.

The likes of OSHA and Thailand aren't even nodding acquaintances. How many times have we seen arc welders working with knockoff Rayban sunglasses, or electricians working with bare feet on wet cement floors and no grounded tools, or . . .

And Darwin looks on, quietly nodding his head.

How can we miss you if you won't go away?

Nothing in 7/11 gives me wood.

I really wonder if this kind of idiocy has always been happening and we just didn't have instant worldwide communication to report it or ... ... is the human race really degenerating so rapidly?

Taking preschoolers on a trip to Vietnam?!?!? I could see a trip to the underwater aquarium in Pattaya, but Vietnam?

I found out there is no central approving office. Jomtien folks do Jomtien, Chanthaburi does Chanthaburi, and so on. Approval times are as stable as the people performing them. 🙃

Just waiting for the first post about how this is a sticky situation. Oh, that would be me.

Credit goes to Stephen Colbert.

This is MY opinion, nothing to really back it up, but I think the BiB were getting sick of having videos taken when they were extorting cash on the roads and being called out for it. This now makes it OK.

I imagine that's up to the professional discretion of the arresting officer.

Gawd, they're publicly legalizing extortion!

I never thought I'd live to see it, but I think that low life is finally gonna get his come-uppins. Too many walls closing in, too many co-conspirators pleading guilty. And to anyone still trying to defend him - C'MON! You can't make this stuff up, he can't be the ONLY ONE not guilty, for cryin' out loud!

You're trying to make a case about the real world. The tangerine traffic cone of treason has lived on planet Earth-2 his whole life. I am sure if his name was attached to a deal, it was assumed to be dirty but it better damned well go through or that maniac could make your life hell. How many lives has be destroyed, how many careers failed because he gave a thumbs down? We'll never really know.

I've lost track - how many times has this been a news article?

Excel spreadsheet gives me -458. Were you shooting for 42?

No. Example: I wanted a 5 meter usb cable. I went to both only to go home empty handed. You want to upgrade your motherboard or buy extra ram? Not there. You can't compare any mall stores to Tukcom.

I've been living here for a little over a year. Nice place to ride a bike. One Big C, one Tesco, the obligatory Makro. NO Tukcom or anything CLOSE to it. The only reason I am here is for the teaching gig, and once I finish that, I will never return.

Kanchanaburi isn't Chanthaburi.

"One hub to find them ..."

Just about out of hub topics.