Marco51

Don't get upset people, it won't happen......this way. It is just another example of someone near a microphone who's tongue is working independantly of the nugget , is probably in the election race and had a bad dream . In a day or 2 someone else who is watching and seeing how he can profit from the general uprising and daftness starts issuing other daft propositions and versions of the same until nobody speaks of any of them and the next cow is chased through the village. The old exit tax of 500 Baht by the way still exists but you do not notice any more, the airlines grab it for them. And who said the 300 Baht entry tax is entirely off the table............very likely the empire's zero Baht tours will receive a voucher for some noodles as compensation. ????

It does not? Then it is about time, after all half of Bangkok, all of Chiang Mai and most of the plod belong to them already. Not even mentioning Sihanoukville , Pnomh Penh and anything in Cambodia that does not belong to Hun Sen and affiliates. Malaysia....well, they'll have to build re-education camps first such as in Xinjiang so someone can work in the car factories . All hail to Winnie-the PoohPooh. Need a licence for irony , mate?

So the Muslims of Thailand take the side of the emperor of happy ending massage ? Or does an end justify the means? Hope the gods did not catch that, there would likely be a reckoning.

No, if they were russians they would be called so. As all other nations. If chinese they are called foreigners. The chinese object to being named as wrong doers as that would identify maoists as being capable of doing something wrong.....and we all know that is impossible in a socially ulterior system.

How much does it cost to carry more than 4 ? Water barrel are extra? Full or empty rates? Depending on how many uniforms are at the checkpoints? If the directives are not clear before the fact, there won't be same rates everywhere................... makes planning so much more difficult. ????

since the year 2000 , a true millenial disaster, it was 1 Shianawatra relieved by a coup relieved by a Shinawatra relieved by a coup ad nauseam, especially nauseam. Ok, so it is time for a Shinawatra again , in or out of jail................here we go 'round the lemon tree, well actually in Thailand it would be the Saa tree?! Natural resource for all the paper tigers. Adhesive reverse side sheets too.

Whereas the fires burning across the borders from 150 to 250km away from greater CNX- also those locally from the hills and from EGAT burning sugarcane residue and lignite- would be the major culprits, it is always enlightening to see rows and rows of monster busses , standing empty at the roads leading in and out of CNX, at the parks (well...) and zoo and up and down Huay Keow and the University campus, parking and waiting for the zero Baht chinese group tours plus tons of locally government promoted inland tours , 400HP diesel engines running non-stop for hours for the lonely but sweating driver to be kept cool while waiting. Similar rows of the small Toyota Commuter "busses" in the way everywhere crisscrossing and these are even allowed in to town. And then there are the dubious red scrap metal smoke belching red whatevers..........It is also remarkable how in Thailand different mathematics apply where our dear leadership changes a WHO standard of PM2.5 max of 12 valid for all other countries into a max of 50 for Thailand after which it does indeed get a touch unhealthy even here. Thai peoples' lungs and hearts must be very resilient, my dog doesn't even want to go for a walk. Right, and 1.3 Million people effected are simply hypochondriacs, stop coughing and wheezing you silly little children. Stay indoors if you have one, that's what it's for. This questionable record of being the world's most polluted city used to belong to New Delhi and "our Maoist brothers and sisters and whathaveyou" in Peking, maybe can ask how to get off that pedestal again, in case of doubt simply by decree to the press?

I need to make sure before judging, can someone please give the URL video link . The rate (1 to 10) of obscenity is hard to tell from the pixelated picture.

In the EU , specifically Germany and France, there have been studies lately that show an immediate and direct connection between noise (construction, traffic, music, neighbourhood) and sneaking in cardiac problems and psychological feeling of threat. Some wisecrack , I realise, will now immediately say : a tough guy never feels threatened but he will be very wrong , he just is too daft to realise there is nothing he can do about it. I purposely do not gender here, women are generally smarter. It is not a question of civilised or not but a question of what speaks louder : money/vested interest or rule of law. If both are in the same hands, then......And quoting maoist China as a civilised country that has the wellbeing of it's citizens in mind and heeds any study to that effect coming from outside of their ministries of funny talks ...............right you are, mate.

Dear Ezzra, use the nugget: outside of nightspots there are very often people who work in the morning or simply have this rather silly desire to take a nap or just watch TV without shattering windowpanes. This being Thailand , zoning means nothing , what is allowed and what not much depends on envelope size and every little finger given results in the arm ripped off, I can tell you as victim of some unbelievable noise levels in a 100% residential area (LOL), bass drum activities and what is called T-pop and drunken , raucous behaviour (an increasingly aggressive behaviour internationally, not only in Thailand, a sort of understandable "end of time syndrome") , trying to read a book, watch a more quiet movie whithout shootouts or crashing cars or , the gods forbid, trying to sleep, As there are little to no (depending on envelope sizes) building rules or restrictions, and zoning are almost never taken into account , especially outside of the capital, most pubs, discos, karaokes or simply live music (music being rather flattering for what they perform locally) are constructed rather open air style in a way that the outside world will be more entertained than the clientel inside as every place has to compete with the other places around . One does get used to the midnight closing rule , insulates windows and walls (at the cost of one's own A/C electric bill) and adjusts sleeping habits . But meanwhile even these rules are being ignored and bit by bit pubs do what they like , trying every day to get away with another 15 minutes, meanwhile for example in our purely residential area WITH schools in the direct vicinity of 50-100 meters. Fading out live music (???) stops around 1 after the "bands" give their last drunken efforts. Calling police .............well, let's say after 2 calls they do not pick up or don't at all if they recognise the number that called before. The local admin rejects responsibility , too much complaining risks the visa or, being Thai, having one's car scratched or worse, and it's whoever has the money and is the cheekiest that wins. And you advertise for officially 4 in the blxxdy morning? May I ask if you own a pub ? Knowing full well, that a rule that concerns zones means only that other zones take a little longer to rip off arms. As this has developed it's own dynamics and the areas expand exponentially since the Chinese Virus has ceased, we should then be prepared to move house another 5km out every few years? Mind, I am not talking "nightspots, " whoever lives in one of those should know better than to complain. By the way, maybe for your own good , we had a saying 30 years ago : anyone you pick up after midnight you do not want to face over breakfast. And that is independant of gender .

"I have nothing important to say and I want to communicate this" Damien Hirst................................. They would be better advised to keep shut , right now they are the target -rightfully so probably being the visible executive and often ignorant to boot- and anything and everything will be ridiculed . Although one of the bigger parts of the meanwhile extremely large problem, the plod is indeed made scapegoat , for the much bigger amounts, the much more consequential , and at times the root of their actions in the first place.........up the ladder tesa baan, municipality, governing and administrating bodies, etc. pp. Examples like building loud and annoying entertainment and karaoke places into residential areas and/or successively keeping the eyes shut about live music until 1 o'clock , calling the police then .........what for? Yes sir, we will send someone ......to pick up an additional envelope......., ignoring zoning re. building whatever wherever whenever if the money is right, traffic violations apart from "no helmet, being hilltribe, no insurance.....ach, there would be an endless list. The point is that corruption starts at the most invisible parts of the circus and must then proceed up the ladder. It's endemic and can only be fought at the roots with better pay for the obvious people and hard punishment , the more invisible and higher up the ladder the harder. Plus a public campaign , possibly using the TV channels that are bombarding the country with instant noodle ads and replacing them with a regular spot on how much of their paid or unpaid tax money goes down the drain , how much damage corruption does to THEIR country and how in small pieces almost everybody participates, let's not forget that it's much more convenient to slip over 2 or 400 Baht than picking up for example the driver's licence at the cucumber troop's HQ hours later. Or x20 if you want your empty plot of land recognised as farm land with reduced taxes. Or, or, or..............Yes , this is asian and endemic in the region, that is why the red chinese are so good at the game but guys and gals : we do it too, look closely at your behaviour. There is no "never mind, it isn't much......." fight the beginnings. It might have been charmingly asian in the 80s, you can see what becomes of things. I remember one occasion where I was helped into my car by a friendly policeman at 3 AM or so because my key would not fit the keyhole anymore , he started the engine for me and told me to drive carefully , patiently waiting for the donation.....ach, those were the days, no? And do you really believe our EU or US countries are incorrupt...........LOL and 555, my bloody axxe............the prices are different, that's all.

.........and all this as not to affront the communist Chinese government (loans) after the Chinese virus was almost under control everywhere except China who royally screwed it up and told the world and their own population under threat of punishment that ,except for the great China and it's occupied territories, the rest of the world is lying, is decadent and the source of epidemics and evil....................I am so looking forward to the smoking busses again and hordes of 1st time motorbikers and gazillions of suitcase rollers from 1 chinese owned air bnb to another or a chinese owned club or disco or casino or restaurant or......................the memory of the Germans and Brits in Benidorm or the Costa Blanca is heaven in comparison. Then again, they also left their bodily fluids on every street corner and considered "if you don't hear us clearly we were not there..." Seriously , the owners of bus companies, large hotels, chain stores and shopping malls are of course happy to open the gates to anything and anyone. The drivers, waiters, tellers, shop girls sand service people..............hmmm, not so sure, I know of none that believe the hype of a trickle down economy in exchange for infection , especially in the tourism sector.