Marco51

Right! Any local inhabitant I know goes to the supermarket at the beginning, well before 11 AM when the hillbillie pickups with water barrels and drums start rolling in, stocks up for 2 weeks and locks himself in. Hoping of course not to have another open air karaoke , live "music" beer sales, band stand to promote the surrounding shops and malls and other "happy partying tourists" anywhere near their nightly accoustic circus they already have from racing motorbikes and screwed up, sorry, tuned up cars. And surely the opening hour zones are just a slight idea , nothing serious, after all who needs to sleep or watch TV or even, the gods beware, read a book. Cheers and down the hatch. May the boozers run each other over and leave the grown up people alive. Chaio!

.............what does the bank account say? First these 36 million tourists (quote TAT), they will take most of the pm2.5 with them in their lungs, just don't tell them...............average cough sputter spending per capita wheeze, spew is THB cough cough aaargh !!! ...it got me....wheeee......zzzzz..........oh god, look at .......the piles .....of ..................baaaahhhh...t.......

Here's Luigi's story who shared you attitude towards women and ended up like this : Luigi is sad, his friend Giorgio talks to him . "Luigi, you are so successful in all you do, why are you not happy? " "Listen Giorgio, I have built most roads in this town, everybody knows , they are good and do people now call me Luigi the road builder? No! Now look at all the houses around you. Remember what it looked like 10 years ago? I renovated and built almost all the houses in the center. Do people call me Luigi the house builder? Of course not. But when Luigi once in his life <deleted> a goat......."

....well, of course not, they consider the costs , the beauty of the buildings, the managed unchallenged kickbacks, the opinions of politicians and other dinosaurs , the revenue by Kingpower, the amount of people forced through the funnel and the quality of the Kuai Thiao in the cantene............all reasonable criteria stupid eejits in , say, Singapore , would not consider. Hah! Uncorruptable, polite Taxi drivers ? Anyone can do that but adventurous, sticky ones ....? Who has that? Oh yeah, Chiang Mai airport. Rather they go for obsolete ideas such as customers' satisfaction, processing time, modern and functioning equipment, baggage handling and equally silly things. Then there is Schroedinger's cat: when one talks about it (negatively) the condition changes automatically and the report becomes inaccurate. I haven't flown anywhere for several years if I had tp pass through Suvarnabummi and my wife is petrified every time she has to go home to Isaan via "that one" despite so far no one asking her for fingerprints and face scan or immigration hours. And in anticipation of the generally accepted level of humour : this is a parody of course and in no means mirror the Thai reality.

nope, mistake, hard power first, soft power later. Heard there were 69 opponents on each side?

use pegasus from Israel, you have it . just no idea what to do with it except follow Move Forward members around so far, so you know where these damned tourists are that complain......then allow the evil empire to assist in the QRC scanning of every passenger that boards a taxi and install cameras with AI face recognition ind mikes in all taxis , one with noise filters in TukTuks (after all Pi must also know what they are talking about, <deleted>, English, damn................).........................oh, I misunderstood, sorry. Maybe some specialist could hop over to Singapore and see how it's done? (people actually queue up for a taxi patiently and a sign says NO TIPPING and please report any discrepancies) ? And when Indonesia doesn't accidently burn, the pollution is very limited despite being an industrialised nation. Seriously ??? The dickering, the clogged sidewalks, the potholes, the nana plazas, the free round trips to "my cousin's very cheap gemstone gallery" while one wanted to go eat...................why was it again you guys came to Asia on holiday? To see a hotter version of your own country and more shopping malls ?

Living in a residential , upper middle class area, I cannot stop noticing that within a diameter of maybe 2 km there are no less than 1 dozen curtain hotels that do thriving business daily, these hotels that foreigners rarely know about and where one can drive his or her car into a port, the employee pulls a curtain in front of it, hands out condoms und unlocks the door to the dimly lit room , often a jacuzzi and the TV with porn movies .....well, the quality is rather rabbit style, Pornhub is better, but then again the attention is more on the......jacuzzi of course. Years ago I remember, there were even motif hotels with rooms like Snowwhite , Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, Little Red Riding Hood (hope there are no Texas Chain Saw Massacre rooms) and the like.............of course all this was not for Thais, they would not know what to do in all these places 😜 and would shudder at the TV program😃 and call for a monk to let the bad spirits out. It is time for an asteroid to eliminate the dinosaurs , the pope and the talibum would be proud of you guys (yes, almost always guys with almost always mia nois from some school or uni).

public disorder ?????????????hmmmm..............next is a green/yellow/red signal system as in China which will bar publicly disorderly from certain areas

YOU for one

What? No more "selling Thailand by the pound"...to triads and evil emperors by Thailand's self declared 1st salesman? He must have a cramp from grinning broadly all the time, grit your teeth for a change, the end of real estate sales is near.....

I absolutely agree. There is so much more fun and eroticism with the howling, drunk to the hilts, aggressive, brawling, drooling, blubbering and testosterone driven male hordes in shorts, underwear, socks and sandals stumbling over and shoving each otherlike silly school boys from gogo bar to gogo bar . On a less serious note : the "stuff' on sale everywhere, not just Thighland, has nothing to do with what was called grass in the 70s to the 90s . "Stinks" is really what comes to mind and the power of the <deleted> is beyond the effects of black afghan or red lebanese of the 80s , just much less pleasant unless this is the mindset of the new millenium, might well be when looking around and thank you very much. Give them a little finger and off comes the arm.

Thank you, the 1st relatively clear and complete explanation despite asking "tax experts", paranoid, panicking and fake news informed expats and of course Thai tax accountants :-))

villagers that didn't keep their mouths shut

oh, really? Somewhere on the road where she has to depend on help from whoever comes along?.....................this is not the Thailand of the 80s/90s but Thailandistan of the 2020s after the chinese plague and during the next maoist invasion, putting everyone on economic and emotional edge .....not unlike the rest of the world.

the THai educational system only requires students to attend and repeat what teacher says, then accept diploma and frame it and go get foto with robe, framed diploma and family in front of reputable university front....................not being able to think and count gets you a job with government or public service including the cucumber troop....congratulations, you are then entitled to little brown envelopes

What do you mean? Pattaya, parts of Bangkok, Phukeit and definately Chiang Mai are already a Disneyland, Chinese style " we are playing THai culture..." and there is no sex, not allowed...............if there is, don't say it, the fundamenrtalist blind people need to pray and .........ach, whatever. Get real people and quit repressing free speech, free ideas and free lifestyle......sex is not wrong in case you think so, and even living off it is not as long as rules of human rights are regarded. Aaah, what was that again? No, nothing to do with little brown envelopes......and one cannot eat it either.....

maybe extending Songkran to 12 months without closing time . Additional revenue from tourism will be 1000 %, guaranteed, TAT has calculated already, signed off by the PM. And send in the chinese police when brawls do occur.

......and then there is this urge of government(s) to sneakily push for online banking and crypto currency of some sort, tax reforms (in the name of "fairness"...for who?) desperate for extra money. Covered up by crypto wallet schemes trying to dupe the average Sombat into thinking this a present (since when is a loan financed, tax paid feature a present?), when actually this is supposed to convince him/her of the "convenience of a cashless society" (convenience for governments and revenue departments to keep a constant hold over your money via AI, (remember : cash is yours and yours alone, also to know how many bills you have in your pocket) suddenly arising fees for paying bills at bank counter rather than online , a complete and thorough grip on bank accounts for transparency and taxation and a glass citizen overall. The argument "income from abroad has never been taxed" is B.S. Wealthy people keep their wealth and money where the return is good , don't need cash but have credit and always have means to have cash when needed , governments never argue with the rich. All this is targeted at Sombat and Bob and Naomi Average, the lower and middle class have always been and always will be the ones to finance governments and completely incompetent ....es. And now we wonder why the bigger part of the previously democratic world is turning back to authoritarianism, this Mr. and Mrs. Average are tired of fighting and believe a leader will do that for them......................oh, he will, but not as they think. Quite possibly in future we will all wear ankle bracelets because it is so much cheaper to control via AI every citizens move and thought than do their job, while they are throwing around all the requisited monies. This is a worldwide phenomenon, the local real estate PM is no exception just a special cheeky example, Germany for example has a complete nincompoop in charge, England a Goldman-<deleted> banker, etc......and the many Lord Voldemorts are hinding in the wings......on y soit qui mal y pense.......Cheers.

And here I am believing this is the job of the plod, silly me, I forgot that after midnight they don't leave the constabulary , envelope time is only until 2400.

I never thought, as a staunch Antifa all my life, that I would miss a military government. Is is meanwhile really the more democratic choice in the view of the bit by bit deteriorating society of the (un-)elected "democratic oligarchy of a 1family rule", CCTV and facial recognition, the secret test run of cashless society via a taxpayers' financing of a crypto wallet for everyone, the new banking and taxation laws that allow government to see every penny one moves ( ...and despite all the comments, this is targeting not farang but the Thai middle classes themselves, never the rich, they know how to hide their assets "legally", no problem when assets are large enough) , new opening times for entertainment areas which are defined by owners of a monopoly alcohol production and/or large entertainment chains,definitely not sleep deprived working class or students, undisturbed by thought-through rules such as : sound insulation to protect the environment , no open air bars , drivers' alcohol controls by police after closing hours and not asking pubs to do this ...LOL, mergers of the already limited amount of mobile phone and internet giants, Huay Wei in 5G networks reporting back to the emperor , behind the curtains agreements between a dozen Asian nations lead around by the nose by China (...or else...) to develop new financial systems to look into everybody's wallet and savings in future and control it, the official introduction of Chinese police -inofficially they had been surveying their country fellows already and unlike the Farang Tourist Police , they will not bother with advisory jurisdictions but create facts and precedence- how long until the 1st clashes with the unloved Westerners and guess who will have the controlled positive media coverage, etc. pp.......why don't Thailand just join China as the latest satrapy and hand over Phuket as first installment. Hey, isn't Phuket a part of mainland China already anyway, after all it is only thousands of miles away from mainland and as Taiwan, Spratleys and other islands has always been Chinese. After all they also allow their occupied SipSongPanNa areas the independance of wearing their own costumes and posing for quaint pictures in front of their old culture for the Chinese Disneyland tourists . Dance people, look happy! There was an album a long time ago called Selling England by the Pound................love the title.

<deleted>! There have been people who actually own a place , houses even. Why on earth wold they buy a house when in 20 years time it becomes city center and nightlife until the breweries have had their share. Your logic looks as if you have a share too......................flooded the grey cells , have we?

There are dozens smack in the middle of residential areas in the Changpuak district with appartment blocks, small moo bans , even schools .....who don't give a xxxx because they know every call to the local post of xxxxx is a waste of time . "What is it? Where is it? Right around the corner from us you say? Well, I never saw that.....we'll send someone...." And most of them have live bands and open air venues that operate way past 2400 (where trying to watch TV or go to bed even before that time is raising one's blood pressure .....making money, that justifies everything . Or some infamous Footsall places with unbelievably loud speaker systems where during the village boys' "games" someone who believes himself a sports reporter screams and hollers until the roof rises and after the "games" some peepee girls do their karaoke and drum on whatever is available , the neighbourhood loves it and a call to those who are not in charge is useless. And all these are allowed to open until 4 ? When everybody knows full well that each and all venues will interpret themselves into a "designated area"....the envelopes tell them that will be so. And as usual after the initial start there are no troops around to check alcohol levels of <deleted> getting on their motorbikes or tuned up Coronas and race down the highway. The parking lot of the police stations tell a gruesome tale.....after the fact. All this to sell alcohol from the monopoly companies. But then again, the marionettes are not in charge and " the family's" estates are far away from being annoyed by the pleb's noise and hullaballoo. And then one wonders why the aggression in society increases in view of all these "...but they only want to make money...." ideas of an unelected government that always unstoppably fail to listen to "the people" they are so concerned about.

Especially as little brown envelopes and a completely anarchistic attitude of people with and for money will ensure that zoning is interpreted by said "entrepreneurs"(as already with current closing times) ,schoolkids will be sleeping in school in the morning , workers will get their limbs torn off by machines from closed eyes and pensioners will die earlier of heart attacks and blood pressure. Not mentioning the extra portion of drunk driving, brawls and use of illegal guns , reving up of 2strokes after 4, the already increased aggressivity of frustrated and uneducated louts. Sorry, of course from 12 to 4 in the morning tourists will swarm out with their credit cards and wads of cash to throw around in open air karaokes, gogobars (if you haven't got 1 by 12 you don't want to wake up next to whatever you pick up later...) , live "music" chang promotion places, etc. Not talking about entertainment places s.a. discos that start at 11 , are built with walls and insulation, and have been doing this already with the help of said envelopes. Instead of making decent plans and developing the economy and country's production Papagallo comes up with Thaksinist harebrained schemes -early samples OFLOP or closing gas stations at 2200 to save gas- to be able to lay back and sell the rest of the country to China while everybody is out at 4 in the morning. Think you'll get the money for the other Thaksinista idea of the 10thousand Baht wallet together this way? All those "ideas" in general never find the sympathy of the people they are so concerned about, but what do "the people" know about what is good for them. And those people actually believed even the Buea Thai would be better than the cucumber troup reigning ............555, good one.

Especially in the Tourist parts of Thailand, where the zoning and licensing for open air karaoke, live "music"LOL or discos and getting- pissed-on-chang- then-rev-up-the-2strokes smack in the middle of a residential area where people have lived and invested money in their houses for 30 years, may be 70 or 80 years old , possibly not all that well , depends only on the brown envelopes or their connections to the local admin. After all they make money, what else is important ? Soooo much fun to hop up and down in bed with the vibration of the incompetently played bass and bass drum while some peepeegirl is screeching disharmony. Ah yes, my apologies, we should grow up to your age (what was that again ?15?16? you egotistical eejit) and enjoy our 2 or 3 hours sleep or simply take the rai plus house , put it on a truck and dump it somewhere civilised .

.....never come back airlines ................