I think you are saying Thais don't waste time on small talk?......Correct.
I would say they don't do small talk and reserve their conversations for money, food and bitching about their neighbours.
Good to see the authorities are on top of this kind activity.......unless the come down, hard, on people like this, you just don't know where it might end.
Point conceded............ tourism to Chang Mai might be affected, but I imagine people just go elsewhere in Thailand.....so overall numbers still stack up.
Sadly, two week tourists are blissfully unaware of any of this......it will have zero impact on tourism......if it did, they might do something about it.
Closing schools, telling people to work from home, monitoring AQ and declaring Red Zones............is not a strategy to deal with air pollution........
.......what can go wrong?
I'm struggling to think of anything that might go right.......you really need to take a step back and think about what you are doing.
The first thing to remember is the law in Thailand is just a rough guide to be interpreted by the police and courts as they see fit.
I would say a penknife is fine......and the fine is only 500B....although on a bad day you might get life....555
Just had two identical (by the sounds of it) molars do the same thing.....sides effectively fell off........both repaired with crowns......although this was in London and cost 80k baht.