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When you lift the carpet in Thailand. Underneath, there is always something nasty!

"Lift the carpet" indeed! If you are going to try to devise a way to turn the news into a Thai bash you at least need to be intelligent enough to use the correct metaphor. You see the metaphor in question insinuates that something underhanded and unseen was going on. In this instance please note from the article: They have followed all the processes to erect a legal entertainment building. We have checked and approved everything already. Not very "under the carpet" now is it?

Now "lift the carpet" in the expat community and you will find lots of unpleasant critters who like faulting the locals but make real jokes out of themselves when they try.

What a load of BS.I look at the maps and I see the Typhoon actually heading AWAY from Thailand.What the devil is all this about

Its about people who do not know what they are talking about blabbing and making fools of themselves.

Probably all PTP ministers with their attitude being the familiar 'We can take what we want because the rules don't cover us'.

Yingluck can drop hers at the airport on her way into exile.

dumb post of the day

We can see [from their passport stamps] if a foreigner has stayed in Thailand too long [on tourist visas].

But once again they did not say how long is "too long"...

Up to the mood of the inmigration officier.

No rules. The Thai way ;-)

Negative. It is fair because it gives the passport holder a chance to speak to immigration and justify his repeated entries. This is better than simply refusing people over set maximum limit of entry stamps. It is a very subjective situation and your interpretation is without merit.

You offer no intelligent observation.

The cretin Thai basher way ;-)

So what's it gonna be then,

A slap on the back of the head, a few thousand Bahts, and save-FACE-settle it?

As I was reading the OP I was wondering when the first post would appear saying exactly what you have just said

Do you honestly believe that the killers are going to get away with a fine and a telling off for this? Honestly?

Yep. No justification for that crack. Some people however seem to think that any low speculation they make about something- regardless of how idiotic- makes them sound astute.

If they would have built the third runway (have a google earth look, you will see it) and a second terminal there would be no need for two airports and no one would need to get their schedules -up and travel 50kms between two airports

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That is your solution. How much education and experience do you have in civil engineering and airport design?

BTW- you are off topic.

Just the opposite. Have noted great extremes in many venues here and the many other countries which I have lived or visited. Certainly back in the States. I cannot believed you used there as an example.

Refusing entry to all people with tourist visas, how can you obtain a visa and then be denied entry to the country unless you fly into it?

Classic Thailand

"Refusing entry to all people with tourist visas..." Ignoring the fact that your opening words indicate that your reading comprehension skills are sorely in askance, there is nothing "classic" about this article because it is regarding a system that is in a state of flux, considerable change. However the lack of insight, propensity to stereotype and overall absence of intelligence make your post a "classic Thai bash."

So many ignorant folks ready to condemn Thailand for food hygine. Food poisoning incidents are not unique here. Rather than all your aggressively ignorant blabbing why don't you just open an internet search engine and look up food poisoning stats in any country?

Must be salmonella or cross contamination something. Poor preparation . and I mean really really poor preparation.

No not necessarily poor preparation. Sometimes horrible things happen and you always have a bunch of sanctimonious types looking for someone to hang.

Even in the West

http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2013/sep/salmonella-wales#.U8J64XhCAdB

Prayuth could use good ole Chalerm as his poster boy for this campaign. Too much booze will turn you into a pathetic scumbag like this.

I wonder if a plan to have off-duty cops wearing balaclavas and driving round Thailand on motorbikes executing on sight anybody drinking or suspected to be drinking alcohol would have the Thaksinites crying Hallelujah as they did during his war on drugs? Double standards, much?

Good grief ol' boy. You sound like you have been into a bit of some hard lao yourself today!

Opening POST = SELL signal for Thailand SET Index? aka The Newsweek Phenomenon

hehehehehe, we'll know soon enough.

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The Magazine Cover Indicator

When Barron's released its Time to Buy cover this past weekend, I knew it was time to go short both financials and the overall market.

And it's a good thing I did. The market would fall 250 points on Monday, led in part by financials.

You see, magazine covers have a history of leading investors astray.

http://www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v63.n2.4520

More on magazines horrible market timing (akin to Financial Cris thread here at thaivisa) -

scroll down to the bottom section to see all the famous magazines who had terrible timing - hence the use of them as contrarian signals

http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/magazine-covers-the-contrarian-indicator/3268

I really don't see a point here. No successful investor is going to by stocks simply because a magazine article gives a thumbs up.

Wife says that many Thais who kill others believe that they are giving them a better life when they are reborn.

Explains a lot as to why life is cheap here.

Not to be rude but Somebody get a stage hook or something! get this guy outta' here!!!

The street vendors are something that many tourists seem to love. On one hand the nation is pleading, rather unsuccessfully to date, with tourists to come back, and on the other they're removing the sorts of things that make Bangkok so attractive to a large percentage of those that do come here.

I agree...street vendors are a part of the culture and a definite attraction here..not just in tourist areas, but everywhere in Thailand and provide a huge number of people with a way to make a living.

Chinatown has been a maze of crowded sidewalks since long before Bangkok became a tourist destination.

About 6 or 7 years ago,an attempt was made to delineate table areas along lower Sukhumvit; lines were drawn and spaces allocated. Unfortunately, enforcement was non-existent and it soon returned to the chaos it is today.

Do you really want Bangkok to be like Singapore? Yes; clean and easy to navigate sidewalks but also sterile and boring. I hope a happy medium can be found.

Around that same time when Bangkok was trying to project the image that it was just as clean and efficient as Singapore, that island city was running a campaign promoting its nightlife and convince tourists that it was just as interesting and fun as Bangkok.

Well it is. The thing is, it is also 3 or 4 times more expensive.

You gotta be kidding? Yeah they got a decent strip with clubs but not a chance when it comes to intrigue, variety and excitement. BKK is da' town!!!

 

As usual Israel and its great army are doing war against civilians . Reminder , this state is occupying for more than 50 years and stealing land from another country , it does not respect even  basic international laws , it wants to completely annex palestine and does want peace at all, other wise it will not continue to steel land to make new settlements.The result is an apartheid system with ghettos like gaza which has and will have a boomerang effect.
Its lobby is so powerful that they never get international sanctions and are not sue for crime against humanity.
 

You need to catch up with current times . Israel does not build in Gaza , does not control Gaza , does not want Gaza .

Hamas is in control of Gaza , so your concerns of Gaza being turned into ghetto should be taken up with them and with brothers across the border in Egypt.

May be if Hamas spent all Iranian money on its people instead of financing their terror attacks than Gaza would not be a ghetto

If you going to post hatred at least make sure to have some factual information

 

Yeah, maybe history.  But also maybe this guy and his neighbors recently attended a khutbah in which some nut job with a foam flecked beard stood there in a raving fit of inflammatory propaganda and presented it as current events

The street vendors are something that many tourists seem to love. On one hand the nation is pleading, rather unsuccessfully to date, with tourists to come back, and on the other they're removing the sorts of things that make Bangkok so attractive to a large percentage of those that do come here.

Hey. I like the street vendors too. Yes Suwandi, show what a dynamic progressive type you are by screwing with a bunch of essentially harmless people who are trying to get by with next to nothing and have nobody to stick up for them.

While I have rebutted some dissenting opinions here about Starbucks I personally am very disappointed in them over recent years. The coffee has become less rich and weaker in strength although they deny this. The cakes and pastries are not as good tasting, higher in price and smaller in size. When they contract a bakery in a new vicinity I cannot imagine that they are any longer looking for quality, therefore a given item will be delicious in one store and lousy in another. Internationally they need to listen to customer feedback rather than just responding to all complaints that it must be a language barrier misunderstanding. Possibly most important is that the barista service now frequently stinks and it used to be primo.

Starbucks tried to go big time in Oz but we know what good espresso tastes like as pretty much every shop that sells food sells espresso coffee. A few years after they arrived they closed up several hundred shops and left with their tail between their legs. Even McDonald's makes better coffee in Australia.

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Agree. Starbucks is just overpriced crappy American coffee and food. The yanks have a hell of a lot to learn when it comes to making a quality cup of coffee, not at rip off prices. That is the reason they failed in Australia.

I am afraid that your take on SBUX is a bit negated on a planetary scale. They have around 20000 stores and almost 6000 of them international. Your palate is in a minority. But then from your post history you are not beyond making a boob out of yourself just to take an outlandish crack at the Yanks. BTW, the reason SBUX failed in Australia was because they did not anticipate massive competition from an already well established café culture.

Starbucks tried to go big time in Oz but we know what good espresso tastes like as pretty much every shop that sells food sells espresso coffee. A few years after they arrived they closed up several hundred shops and left with their tail between their legs. Even McDonald's makes better coffee in Australia.

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Agree. Starbucks is just overpriced crappy American coffee and food. The yanks have a hell of a lot to learn when it comes to making a quality cup of coffee, not at rip off prices. That is the reason they failed in Australia.

Australia is famous a beef capitol. And I am supposed to believe the opinion of a couple of people from there who are McDonalds fans?

Starbucks tried to go big time in Oz but we know what good espresso tastes like as pretty much every shop that sells food sells espresso coffee. A few years after they arrived they closed up several hundred shops and left with their tail between their legs. Even McDonald's makes better coffee in Australia.

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Yeah well, how much can I trust the judgement of someone who lives in beef country and goes to McDonalds for a frigging hamburger!

Have never seen stamps checked on busses. As to the rest you are asking information from people who have read the same stuff you have.

in the gulf , it wouldnt be able to submerge as its not deep enough, they would be stuck in the mud . These people have some very strange ideas, they need to realize you need deep water for subs to be able to operate as they are designed, I can imagine seeing a thai sub cruising along the surface of the gulf then suddenly coming to a grinding halt as it hits the bottom or the arse end sticking out of the water when it attempts to dive

I just checked and it is true that much of The Gulf of Thailand is only around 60 meters. However frankly I do not know if that truely makes subs of no value there or how much it limits their maximum potential. And neither do you. I am willing to bet you have cued off a bit of information here to manufacture your unimaginative, lame brained wise cracks. Just a "no life" trying to look savvy. C'mon "Admiral" tell us about subs in deepwater vs. shallow.

I am not a Buddhist. Does this rule affect me too?

I get the feeling that you imagine you have made a point about something. Negative. Drink until you pee in your shoes if you got it but the law says no alcohol purchase. Sort of like liquor stores closed in many places on Sundays back in the States.

I'd really like to know how criminal records are filed in this country. It is obvious there is no database, and anybody connected gets no record. I was going to suggest the culprit had done this before, but I guess it was too obvious.

So he knows a daddy or uncle or aunt, who employed him, and he's probably been stealing items to pay off his little pay back debts since day one! Glad they'll check the 90 employees of the one supplier of staff, and not the whole of Thai state railway enterprises.. Typical Thainess.. we'll take a short-cut, and all will be ok. No loss of face for us lot.... he was acting solo. to the lot.... it just gets worse every day, this lack of ability to do things in full!

You really seem to be into the details on this one fellow. Would you care to relate one item that is not your own personal speculation in that little dissertation?