Gilligan In Drag

Because Thailand is dependent on "The City of London" not to be confused with London itself, meaning the world banking interests who call themselves such who manufactured the pandemic to destroy humanity and who Thailand is dependent upon.

 Thailand has a chance to get in on the ground and boost its economy by welcoming tourists as normal, as before the pandemic. Other countries have done so and more to come, others have much fewer restrictions.

These countries have dropped all COVID restrictions within their borders and for arriving tourists. You can go to these countries and not face any hassles at all stemming from the pandemic restrictions with the exception of Mexico where  some businesses are asking for proof of vaccination and requiring them as allowed by Mexican law. Not many yet but growing by the day, the lockdowns are  over in these countries an COVID is of no more significance than a cold or flu:

UK, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Hungary, Romania, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mexico, El Salvador, Gabon, and Yemen

Well it takes one simple step Thailand:

LEGALIZE IT!

Ganja, alcohol (it is only semi-legal here)  and dancing in the bars and the human free will and mind. You do that unambiguously and sincerely and you will be not only a tourism #1 but a world super power a star, but you won't do it. You like being a lackey to the City of London, and they know what I am referring to but do you Thailand, and you prefer to be dictated to by China by senile Joe Biden and so you have few tourists because there is nothing else than prison planet going on here isn't it?

Man, I want some of the strain that you were doing when you wrote this!  ????

Its poppin up everywhere right now and I MEAN EVERYWHERE right now in Thailand on cow and buffalo poop upcountry and maybe in the city too who knows ! hehe! Enjoy but get yourself a good field guide and don't anything that doesn't bruise blue-black! Eh hehehe!

3 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

I wonder if the same applies now to cannabis? I never hear anyone getting busted any more, and in my neighborhood a coffeeshop/bar sells high quality buds of several kinds which are openly sold in fancy bags and named weighed and labelled and you order it off a menu. Prices start 500B/g. Signs are outside the shop advertising the service. This is about 50m from a police station.

 Interesting times.

Yes it is interesting to hear that. I guess in your area they are paying the cops off well enough or the cops are the ones running the ganja business. And For you and I who live here, yes, we know the various local situations and how to navigate them to an extent and can choose to take calculated risks or not. Tourists cannot and they are, as of this laest article being led to think by the bald headed ostensibly Dutch spokesman for ganja tourism that Thailand is just like Amsterdam or other countries where they can't be bothered with enforcing ganja laws. According to an article I saw a few months back 80 percent of the overcrowded Thai prison population is there on drug related charges, no doubt most of that is yaba, but a good chunk I'm sure are there for possession of a bag of weed. There are enough Banged Up Abroad episodes for anyone to watch, we don't need more cases. I don't happen to enjoy smoking ganja, plus I am a dedicated Dzogchen-Vajrayana yogi, so such things as smoking pot are trivial and not worth the attention deficit disorder short term memory problems to bother with, give me a blow torch, a quart of tequila, a thyrsis of dvine protective San Pedro cactus, two hits of  ALD-52, a locked and loaded burgmansia and salvia leaf cigar, any day, on the rare occasion I do want to get high, why muck about with ganja. And indulging in any of the aforementioned would not only blow the average Thai government prohibitionist's head to smithereens permanently but they are also legal in Thailand because the prohibitionists  have no clue, otherwise ganja would be legal here. Of course if I were say perhaps a Shivaite, a moon ornament pin holding up atop my head a volcano like beehive of dreadlocks housing 100 billion buzzing and tamed microcosmic demons trained for the purpose of liberating sentient beings then  it would be a different matter. I would then perhaps add a garnish of a sprig of datura stramonium to my chillum and utterly lose my mind for a week.  But I enjoy and prefer life in my wild psilocybin infested garden  garden growing various kinds of peppers, multi-colored nearly extinct varieties of corn not to mention all kinds of cool orchids and other local plant oddities and exotica such as Spanish moss and other air plants from South America . Ganja is considered a wrathful entity by us yogis a manifestation of Shiva and it does promote powerful energies and the kind of transformative fuels and highly explosive spiritual car bomb nitroglycerines that are good for practice just by it being there growing. That they are gorgeous and highly charismatic plants whether you like butchering them and chopping their heads off and smoking them or not, you cannot help but be mightily impressed by their awesome power and priceless value.  So in addition to my fierce family of lovely village dogs who protect my hutch glittering with invisible astral  jewels sprinkled as though they were a seasoning powder where me and the witch Nang Nak live and who accompany the hutch and us on walks as it stalks  the forest at night moving as it does on giant chicken legs, I would like additional protection from theives such as overly zealous and corrupt government. NGO and bank officials who seem to grow more blood lustful, pedophiliac, not to mention arbitrary and logic challenged  and generally cannibalistic and rabid by the day so in addition to my very bity and protective ferocious dog-lions, Foo Foo, Fee Fee, Ha Ha, Oh Oh and Ho Ho who so nobly and regally stalk my yard littered with the pig skeletons and cow femurs of feasts gone by, I would like to plant a jagged broken glass like forest wall  of purple black giant 4 meter high guardian Cannabis sativa ganja plants to grow from out of my boneyard the fangs of their colas oozing and dripping hallucinogenic and incisive oils on patches of spontaneously sprouting blue Panaeolus cynascens mushrooms growing at their imperial feet whistling in the winds bizzarre Pelog scale and Angklung scale tuned Christmas carols in August their irredecing bracts exploding in slow motion with world melting seeds for all the wrathful crows and mynah birds cawing "Kill! Kill! Kill! Klaus Schwab! Eat! Eat Eat Bill Gates!" to feast upon, that would be just the thing! And  a good luck bestowing and enticing habitat too for the local lottery winner bestowing naga! So as you can see, in my case, ganja? Who needs it and all the gogdamned games they are playing in government places with it and all the other things. They toy and mess with the mighty planetsized ganja being at their peril these fools! And besides I get more of a thrill staying at home taking care of and chatting with my pet skull Yorrick than attending Korean pop music festival not high on dispensary procured CBD oil pills. I don't believe for a second the legalization will be clear cut or even happen. Thailand the trickster will remain as it ever was.

Thanks guys, very good to know.

I wonder if it is possible to go to Cambodia by any of the land crossings. Boat to Ko Kut then to Sihanoukville? Maybe that is my imagination making that up but it seems that was one way to go to Cambodia in the past. Perhaps they would be laxer at that entry point and you just get a visa on arrival? The two times I 've been to Cambodia I flew in and got a visa on arrival. I guess that's not on anymore. I recall as well you could get a van from Poi Pet to Phnom Pehn, though last I read, probably 10+ years ago, those operators were super-dodgy, would basically unload you en-route in the middle of nowhere and you'd get picked up and put in the back of truck and have to pay the new driver dood to take you to Phenom Pen (phenomenal writers there, hence the name) or something like that.

On 2/20/2022 at 1:36 PM, konaboy said:

did NOT HAVE THE SAME SIGNATURE BY THE EMBASSY EMPLOYEE!! They wanted the same employee to sign both documents!! Of course I was never previously informed of this Thai technicality.

Yes, that is kind of my main stumbling block, pet peeve in Thailand, and it is especially and without fail problematic at immigration: They won't tell you until it is too late what they need or want. Press them on it, try and iron out before hand any ambiguities, and it's something like,  "Oh no no Mr. Too Smart for Thailand, you're no getting out of it by trying to establish clarity either wise guy, heheh." Saying more than a few cursory, rote, polite phrases and expressions often doesn't go down well, they feel pressured or cross examined if you start trying to find out what actually they want and anyway it will change depending on which staff member you meet, or at least at my rather obscure Isaan outpost Immigration office. The info sheet in Thai and English don't correspond, there is different requirements listed on both so, Immigration here is arbitrary, that said they end up granting me an extension everytime so far. And At least this year they called me and asked me to come back and do it again instead of waiting till the last minute and saying, "Oh sorry, no visa for you this time, you didn't do x,y,z..."

Thaksin has been rattling around in the shrubbery again of late peering in the windows and what not, I was surprised to see him putting in a plug regarding meat hoarding by, I think, the big distributors and making the meat prices artificially high, which is actually not that helpful a comment, you can guess as much and he can't trusted to actually be confirming that, but you never know.

But yeah well, Pheu Thai, that's him innit? Will be interesting to see how he handles insinuating some sort of proxy this time. Wouldn't be his son, would it? Things are so whacky these days I would almost be not surprised if say Bill Gates backed Thaksin up to run himself as he is and suddenly Thaksin becomes untouchble or else no World Bank support!

Just don't say you didn't hear it here first on the non-existent forum piggy backing it here on this forum, "Wild Foaming At the Mouth, 3rd Eyes Blazing, Prognosticatory News and Views from the Psychedelic Troll From Betwixt the Stalks and out on the end of a twig  innis Mushroom Habitat! Skull!

Very good. Bangkok is a small town on Hainan island. Surely "Bangkok" has long since outgrown the sentimentality for such ancestral hamlets as that, Why not Thonburi though? That was the original Siamese city, Bangkok was the city of the immigrants, foreigners etc across the river.

That said, its already known locally as Krung Thep. So yeah, why not let the world know, here we call the place Krung Thep?

Pot?...Meh...

Got acid? ????

I wouldn't know or care about any of it. What a crass uncouth baboon! It looks as though the police have amputated his arms to boot!

I come to Thailand for its sparkling, empty shelved and conveniently small libraries, its cemetaries and quaint old dysfunctional tube capacitor testing parlors. Thai candle parafins are unique, the exquisite and diverse plastic bags the list goes on and on what more could one want? Why don't you just stay home in Australia if parafins and tube testings and empty white elephant corruption detritus posing as museums or universities are not your thing?

This whole thing about allowing marijuana, or opening Thailand up to legalization has always struck me as though they are trying to confuse people and then get them growing a few plants and then busting them. Now, I'm almost sure that is an aspect of this. Sure they may sincerely be wanting to get people growing medical marijuana, but there is this angle involving Anutin where rather vague and permissive sounding hints are dropped to entice you you into growing illegally. Seems we've been through this before.

Around here they are as draconian as you wanna get just as of two weeks ago. The cops were on a manhunt in our village for some yaba dealers. The guys disappeared into the woods, and in their search the cops discovered some granny's garden with some kitchen marijuana for soup and they grabbed grandma and the mother of two kids, leaving the kids to fend for themselves. As far as I know grndma and mom are still in jail and probably going to get a few years in prison.

It wouldn't surprise me if it turned out the big alcohol manufacturers are behind some of the constant decade after decade hypocrisy from public health "experts" in Thailand. Seems a reasonable speculation that the big boys can weather a squeeze on alcohol better than their less moneyed competition. Of course, also too its a political game that ministry people feel they can win by being against drinking and bars and alcohol and sin at every turn and for any excuse year after year.

Don't think it is because they are Buddhists either, proper Buddhists don't shoehorn others into what they think is right and wrong. Proper Buddhists would have much better discrimination and wisdom due to caring about actually benefitting others and having the clarity of mind and focus to act and lead wisely. If you are just looking out for your career and working in the government and banning drinking or limiting it stupidly year after year, you ain't no Buddhist, it doesn't matter how often you go to the temple and pray for your wealth to expand or often you look up at statues of the Buddha and feel something. No, at the end of the day you are just a puritain/hypocrite perhaps and/or a self-centered opportunist.

Disallowing people from going out and meeting friends year in and year out is far more harmful than allowing people to drink and get together. I doubt people in the ministry curb their quaint drinky winkies with Mr and Mrs. Hobbs the Nob and have many nice smug laughs.  As human beings our life depends on our being to socialize and meet with each other, it goes without saying and they know that.  You cannot get rid of alcohol and the problems it sometimes causes by disallowing people from congregating because they might have a drink or two. Its obvious to any reasonably intelligent and sensible adult. So, these ongoing lockdowns at this point are really kind of an outrage at this point. Any virus has long past its due date as being any threat to anyone. If the hospitals are over-flowing, I don't know, but if they are it is something else.

You people in the public health ministries have a problem with your whole life perspective and you perenially put it on the whole rest of the country. You are utterly out of touch with nature and  the cosmos and yourselves and your people, or the depth and awesome horror of even your own mind. Did you dream those things last night? You probably don't dream either, you'd lose your blinking poodle's diarrhea  if you remembered any of it. What if you had one of your own thoughts? What would you do with yourself? Perhaps go out and have a drink with a friend? Yeah, see! What a dangerous and risky universe we are surrounded by. Even your own mind can be the most dangerous weapon that your mind has ever thought up. There is no way out.   Nature is everywhere but you people screw everything up trying to save us from the universe we were born into, to try and put us all in a safety bubble. If you want to live in a florescent lit box with nothing but dusty photos of your authority figures festooned with all manner of dusty garlands for company and perhaps some soap operas for a little screamy argy bargy and wife beatings and an illusion of connection with society then have at it but don't push us all in there. I accept my mortality even welcome it. I don't want to live forever, I want to move on when I've had enough of the party here. You want to live in a funeral parlor with formaldehyde cocktails instead of alcohol to preserve you and botox injections and skin whitener treatments afraid of your own shadow go ahead but most of us don't want that.

The Sun would absolutely fry the entire planet in a second if it were close enough. The moon might be hollow and house millions of super intelligent lizards that like to eat people, you don't know do you oh Health Ministers. The sun is unfathomably enormous hot and horrifically dangerous, its power makes a nothing out of the Ministry of Health indeed all life on earth, but get rid of it and you'd never have been born. What the hell is a few drinks then?  Alcohol has no power by itself nor does drinking behavior. It completely depends on who is doing it. Its utterly foolish and insane to year in and year out like the Mad Hatter sit up there with your insane illogic about drinking and creating bans and rules that the authorities grow weary of enforcing in 6 months, or if not just never enforce at all. Things like turning the labels around in shops so people can't see that it s beer and what not and banning beer ads in bars and internet sales of alcohol on and on.

Automobile accidents kill many. Do we start wringing our hands about the horror of drivers and cars and start jumping up and down "You selfish nitwit you endanger children's and senior citizen's lives by going out and driving!" And start banging pot and pans with spoons on the veranda about it? No. Do we  lockdown the highways and say, "So many people die in car accidents! And cars are what enable  people to go long distances and meet others where they infect each other with disease! So we cannot allow you to drive anywhere anymore. You'll have to stay home! Its for your own good!" That doesn't seem that much more absurd or different to my mind. It is all so frustrating and stupid and aggravating. Lots of luck getting tourists to come here, And if you are worried about Omicron maybe have a chat with the medical authorities in South Africa where it started. I think they'll tell you you are not rsponding sensibly, not even remotely, especially when the economy is battered and people so tired of all of this.

44 minutes ago, Morpheus42 said:

Well, but I did my part anyway. In my way. I took their money, all they got, 90.000 THB, and put it into crypto.

Took me around 30 mins of work.

Cashed out 150.000 THB of it already, while still having 350.000 THB left at the moment. They are very happy and think I am a genius money-multiplier, while I just helped a bit with my experience, same what I did to all my friends who made a <deleted>load of money with crypto because of my tips already as well ???? What is the point, why not?

Good for you! That's great! From what you say in your book that I read and enjoyed reading, heheh, you are more active and more of a wheeler dealer with crypto than I am. For example I would never dream of taking out leverage, its too scary for me, sounds like you can roll with the consequences and handle it, can't say that for myself. I fret for weeks about making a single trade, I get my buy or sell signals and i always screw them up and start second guessing and over thinking and revising them. I do get those right more than I should but it takes me a lot of just sitting for hours and staring at the same chart and looking and looking and doing nothing for weeks.  I just can't very easily trust the technicals. So I just hodl mostly.

So I am still waiting for years for the point where my family will see the results of my crypto investments which I will have to start cashing out on soon because I'm just about broke. But My niece is a very hardworking go getter and works as an accountant in Pattaya. I used to talk to her about crypto say five years ago, to try to point out she could do well and she would just gasp unfortunately, "Oh no not Bitcoin! They'll put you in prison for that you know! You're really crazy buying Bitcoin!" My wife has always listened to her more than myself and its always, "Well, I never see any money in our account that comes from Bitcoin so its all <deleted> as far as I am concerned." Yeah, she is right in a way, but I keep showing her the charts how our Bitcoin has gone up 15,000% in value, its mad and there's no way it will go back down to 300 dollars a coin that it was when I bought little bits here and there and still have them. She knows it is our only hope to get decent money back in our life and she is atrting to believe it as she hears more and more. I wish I could have cashed out some and showed her, but it isn't worth it losing the future upside even if we will soon be done with the bull market, you just keep riding it and making more. There was a period here where it was unclear about crypto and the law, a lot of negativity in the press and world-wide so that attitude was understandable. Now I tell my niece, "just budget for a little bit each month and buy a little bit, they say that is the best way to buy they call it dollar cost averaging and you could have a lot of money in ten years." She is sharp and is an accountant and everything so she gets it and knows it is legal to have now, but now just says, "I don't have a little bit," and that might be true.

Gecko123- Yes, if I had to compare back home being left out versus being left out here, yes I too would say there is more than likely something more sinister when Americans freeze you out of things and therefor its worse where there is a kind of cluelessness about it in Thailand. Its a weirder thing to me here, the whats me worry attitude,  leaving you out would never even register so its not even like its an error they can regret or apologize for in many cases, or its just, well thats how things roll, the sun is too hot sometimes who ever apologizes for that with any sincereity. But back home it can really be painfull, or it used to be, I've been gone a long time so my ties are pretty scant .  Yes my siblings and Mom do it, they don't like my view of the world, so I am not even really worthy of even being spoken to civilly, if i am spoken to at all, its retard this and moron that etc. who needs it. They have the problem not me. I have to say and i 'm sorry to say it, but I could care less about them now, they don't care about anyone but themselves and what can you do with that, not much. Sad people. I guess I don't really feel left out after a certain point. Though my mother once was a caring and kind person as were my brothers, I don't know, something happened to them over the last 20 years or so. I have decided they just aren't the same people who I appreciate and have gratitude towards still as they were in the past. It is my view on things that people literally morph into different people over the years, so we don't have to regret hating the woman who gave birth and took care of us because, no, I still do love her, I just hate the woman she later became who did such unbelieveably selfish and  spitefull things to me later in life out of her own bitterness which I had little to do with. She doesn't look, talk, think, do any of the things she used to, she even has a different name. So its not her anymore as far as I'm concerned. But Life continues and it is all really such a treat, we don't have long to live, and each day is a gift. Some say a human life is rare even if we do reincarnate, so yes you have to let all of your disappointments and other such things roll off your back as you say and relax and enjoy. Happy New Year to you!

Oh my gosh you're right Pritman...

Well, then I suppose I'll be off to go kill myself then right about now. Thanks for the tip, I appreciate it man. Happy New Year, enjoy!

Well, they'll probably just slam the golden goose's tits they forgot to milk in the barn door they left hanging wide open long enough to let the man they gave a fish that they didn't teach to catch his own fish and who rode  their prized magic purple cow into the eternal covid no tourist sunset is what i always say about immigration and the TAT and all of their other fine messes they've gotten themselves and us into this time. Well, thats what I always say anyway. Did I already say that? Well, I said I always say that didn't I.

On the other hand they could just grow a pair and admit to themselves they actually need to have something that they are able to offer and properly offer it if they want tourism to surge and perhaps may i suggest legalize drugs and alcohol (letting Boon Rawd and company control the beer and other booze you can drink at a semi affordable price is hardly legalized alcohol) and prostitution and say to the world "Hey the partanzio is on my babies! My babies! Come heah! Come on babies!" As it stands the whole thing is a cavalcade of bed wetters afraid of pandemics and dreaming of technology industry hubs and ideas about digital doormats or whatever the guy said. It really always boils down to, like it was said earlier in the thread, "they doan wanya round yoo furinners," but they don't want to cause a scene so the whole shaggy dog story drags on and on hubs and no pubs and no boobs and enterpronoors and visas for only the rich.