NanLaew

Thanks for that. I left Thailand early 1990 and didn't come back until around 2005/6.

The indolence of the consumer has got nothing to do with the companies or their lawyers. Absolutely nothing

This "youtube documentary" was before AI.

Use their app? If it is anything like Lazada, their website is not as good, or as secure as their app on the smartphone. After the (repeat) experiences of my mate's wife in Malaysia who has been taken to the cleaners twice after dealing with vendors selling something, either via Facebook or LINE, the penny has finally dropped. You shouldn't shop on social media.

I'm middle aged, in my 50's I am not, but this isn't a contest. I never had immigration business at their Beach Road Soi 8 location, but I recall an American friend of mine going there in the early 1980's Does anyone know what year they relocated to their current location in Jomtien Soi 5? I didn't need their services until about twelve years ago.

Good grief! You're that old? I recall that location too.

I'm defending free speech. Don't worry, you'll get the hang if it eventually.

The professor is alleged to have tweeted and advocated for Israel's destruction in social media discourse that happened before, and is thus totally unrelated to, the more recent events at Kings College.

Who's claiming the "supposedly intelligent, educated" will believe it? It's a university, where students are encouraged to be more than a slave to mainstream media, conspiracy theorists and the political extremes. They are being encouraged to think outside the box, embrace the alternatives and weigh the pros and cons. That doesn't make them idiots. You probably recall those awful radicals at the Sorbonne back around 1968 and how they were portrayed as a threat to freedom and democracy and the vanguard of global communist domination. How did that work out?

The professor asked the students, as part of their studies, to view Hamas as a liberation group. That is not the same as the professor claiming the terrorists are a liberation group. Freedom of speech will always defeat lack of comprehension.

He? Ignorance truly is bliss, eh?

Since she was born in Gaza and carries a passport issued by the Palestinian Authority, chances are... Her blog is lengthy and very informative. In one in particular, over ten years ago, she wrote the following, "Sometimes I regret not having allowed myself to accept Gaza alone as my homeland. The loss of the homeland is a terrible experience. It is the irreconcilable schism between the person and the feeling that they have an identity." I sense someone who learned and eloquent but is maybe still battling their own personal convictions?

Now you are just being obtuse. Nothing to see here, move along now.

With regard to MY incident, it has been suggested that by my attempting to remove the parking barrier, I was escalating the situation. The way I saw it at the time, by illegally placing the barriers to block my leaving, they had already escalated things. They were PROVOKING an escalation. This was a classic case of a bar owner illegally blocking off the street frontage of their property, very common in many parts of Thailand and not exclusive to the bar business either. This was not a no-parking zone and the barriers they had placed, although belonging to the city or the police, had been stacked there after being used to block off vehicular access during an event at this bar the previous week. The street was open to traffic and parking. I had parked outside this bar, but along with my friends, went to a bar directly opposite for about an hour. The bar I had parked in front of was double shophouse with steps leading up to a frontage shared by other businesses. I had not impeded customer access and indeed, his bar was already busy. It was only after returning to my car that I found my departure impeded. The rest, as they say, is history and a valuable lesson learned.

You are mixing the incident reported in the OP with a similar incident that happened to me almost 40 years ago in Pattaya. No barriers to parking have been suggested in the incident in the OP, but violence resulting from the victim parking in the "wrong" place has been mentioned as a possibility. I posted about my incident to counter another member's earlier assertion that because he has never personally witnessed such an altercation in Thailand, the possibility of it happening is unlikely. I hope this clears some confusion.

On my fifth ASUS laptop since around 1996. Despite being retired, the previous four were all still working when replaced with a newer model. The latest one is two years old. I only ever needed one warranty repair (new motherboard) that was handled well by ASUS in Bangkok as the laptop was bought in the US and, although having an extended international warranty, the model wasn't marketed in Asia. Took six weeks with a new mobo coming from Taiwan. My office computers all had ASUS mobo's too. However, the new one is a Lenovo ThinkCenter mini which is very good.

Yes, you are correct. When they refused to remove the barriers they had placed, I started to move one myself. Then they assaulted me.

I am happy that my youngest is now six and can carry home four large beers for daddy from the mom-and-pop shop. For the previous couple of years, he would struggle with four cans. The way I see it, I am making up for the Thai school system being unable to include PE classes or any real physical exercise in their curriculums.

Where is "here"? The whole reason the taxes on clear spirits are low is so the great unwashed can stay inebriated, numb and easy to manipulate. In Isaan, before the scourge of yabaa, it was lao khao that was the "problem", probably still is for the boomer generation. It's these younger ones that are getting toasted on methamphetamines these days. Going back about thirty years, we had a couple of mechanics from Buriram that were hired for a project I was on in China. They quickly found the local equivalent of lao khao and, just like back home, they started their working day with a couple of large shots, like they would do back home. My brother-in-law totally abstains while he's at work in Istanbul but when he's home for his annual one-month vacation, he's permanently soused on the stuff. Thai governments, of whatever colour, always seeks to portray this overly pious, quasi-religious stance on alcohol, looking down their noses at those who drink, and whatever is permitted is only to pander to the influence of those pesky foreigners and tourists. To say that the locals don't like to drink to excess is incorrect. It is more likely that they don't like to be seen to be drinking to excess and getting drunk. It's that face thing again.

Wow! A (w)hole day? That's cheaper then a Soi 6 short-time. Or so I've been led to believe.

I bought a couple of cans of beer in the domestic departure lounge at Udon airport at about 7 am, ahead of my morning flight to the big mango. I was very happy at being able to have "breakfast beers", but some of my friends have chastised me for paying 1875 baht for the plane ticket, just to enjoy that privilege.

You can visas at the coconut bar? More information please.

Speed reading again are we? From the same news article.

I parked where I was legally allowed to park. I had nothing to apologize for, but I did ask them to remove the barriers they had placed to prevent me leaving. Then they assaulted me. Pity you weren't around way back then to witness your first ever completely unprovoked attack.

Small pot of Phu arabica coffee. Waitrose porridge oats with cinnamon, honey and splash of cream. Two small sausage patties and a 2-egg omelette.