Middle Aged Grouch

We all would agree, quite a few heinous crimes do plainly deserve the gallows, no arguing about that.

But it's always the same dilema.

How to be 1000% sure of the guilt of the sentenced ?

Quite a few inmates in the death row were declared innocent after 20 or 30 years in the US jail death row and not knowing when their day would come. The tech progress in DNA sequencing and Crime Scene analysis has avoided quite a few lethal errors from the law.

Quite amazing to hear the americains give out lessons of humanity, law and justice to the world,  when they have enough to settle in within the US Criminal Justice system. 

An exemple would be in the statutory laws of different states that allow police to use lethal means ( shoot at sight), plainly when the officer "feels" threatened. No need for the notion of proportionality like many other civilised nations require before use of lethal force.

In other words, you pull out your ID a bit to fast from the glove box, the US police officer only needs to "feel" threatened and by law can shoot.  In other nations, lethal response from Police needs the suspect to carry either a firearm or a weapon and engages in life threathing acts.,  for the police to be able to shoot at sight.

When I am dressed like a tourist (t shirts-shorts), I have the security fellows who try to discreetly stalk me at some malls in Bangkok like Central. The girlies hardly look up or plainly change lanes on seeing me approach in my Sports bar attire🤣

But..but when I am dressed like a hi-so Thai (linen pants, well cut linen shirt), quite often I get more female looks and it's the gold diggers who start to hoover around with the usual little smiles and grins. Of course, I politely smile back and then just ignore them as I do not want to end up like so many other falangs totally sucked out of their ca$h and what ever else that's there to cum !

In such a case, no place for lessons of humanity or morals.

The dog is obviously a threat and human lives come first. It needs to be put down, no matter how sad that is obviously.

Golden rule n° 1 is does it offer COD. If no COD forget it.

Hyundai is good but the aircon seems to be weak in all the models and never feels as strong as in a Kia. It's rather surprising as both the brands are built on the same production lines but just relating my personnal experience.

These motorised suitcases are very popular with the Chinese and Koreans.

Booze is a absolute source of fat after 55 years. Same for food that ends up in a greasy belly. Just look at most of the elderly foreigners and how overweight they are.

Drink a few glasses of wine only once or twice a month. Stop all the daily beers, soft drinks, ice creams etc..

Avoid the Sunday Roasts, fries and meat. Meat is same, only once or twice a month.

Ban fast food and anything that is packed like instant noodles etc.

Restaurant eating is ok provided you avoid daily consumption of meat, fries. In fact stay away from western food.

Do regular exercise. Even a brisk 30min walk will do the trick.

We all want to feel and look good but it has a price with age...

Scum is scum. Be it Brits, Americans, East Europeans, Chinese, Aussies, Germans, NZ, Africans, .....

The usual drunks of course will rush  for a quick indian on line bashing but scum remains scum no matter from which country they are from. And there is far to much of the scum from all over the world that ends up in Thailand unfortunately.

Even the paid fasttrack scheme is not as good as before at Suvarnbhum Bangkok airport.

Before they would greet you right at the gate at the exit of the walk through tunnel out of the plane, and then accompany you to the closest fast track counter and then meet you after the immigration passage.

Now one needs to walk a bit, find another specific gate and meet and greet the staff who will show you a empty hall with a immigration counter. Last time the chap just showed the counter and vanished. Never saw him after crossing immigration.

And the immigration chap was in a bad mood as i maybe disturbed his nap and was trying his best to ask all sorts of rubbish like show cash ? show bording pass ?...anything to make a fuss but at the end as I kept showin all his absurd requests with my stupid smile and cooperating, he let me pass.

And when I exited this specific gate, the other people in the plane going through the normal immigration channel had already passed and were waiting at the luggage belt. Not worth to use the paid fast track service at all at Bangkok.

Thailand cannot become a world class with such 3rd world ways of managing the airport.

BBK did the same thing to me, blocked my account with no warning as their system showed that my passport had expired. No warning on this and when I went back to Thailand for the winter break I had bought cash and was about to deposit but thank god I asked before if all was ok and only then they told me that the a/c was blocked.

Of course at the Bangkok Branch near Nana.,  they would not make things simple and unblock with the new copy of my new passport, as the account was opened in another city. Needless to say I kept my cash, and closed the account and went to another bank.

During a visit to a friend in Hua Hin who lived in one of those posh pool villa residences in Hin Lek Fai, I ran into stray dogs at least twice.

Not to mention the rude falang dog owners of the residence who were allowing their dogs to <deleted> and urine in front of other homes,  where the owners were absent.

15 hours ago, bob smith said:

Not as cheap as it used to be though apparently!

 

My mate tom ended up down soi cowboy last month and he said they were quoting 10,000 for long time.

 

ludicrous!

 

bob.

10'000 thb for a long time and the special bonus in waking up drugged, robbed  and with a STD as a souvenir ?

Due to such idiots, they will start asking for a mandatory overpriced special search-rescue insurance to be taken by all falangs in Thailand.

No problem for staff when the thai's don't leave a penny as a tip. But when it's a farang and he or she does not leave a tip, it's the long faces and better not go back there the next time. Such behaviour is damaging the image of Thailand and preventing tourists to want to come or come back.

Communist ? I would not go to that extent.

But definately the Biden cronies are applying the worst from both worlds, communist and capitalist liberal.

If you can't peel it, cook it, boil it...forget it.

Do the update. If not, on the next visit to the bank the teller will have a message given by the system that the previous passport has expired and you will not be able to draw, assuming you are in another town then where you opened your account.

On 8/5/2024 at 2:29 AM, jcmj said:

I’ve had insurance here for years and it has paid for water damage from a water pipe bursting, tv and other electrical appliances from a power surge and damage to the house after a tree fell. It’s up to the owner to decide if they want it and to check the details of what they will cover. I’m sure some cheaper policies don’t cover much but it’s your choice. 

what would be that fine insurance company's name if I may ask ?

6 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

You really need to give more information if you expect a sensible answer 

A person having a bank account in Thailand with money in the account but who does not stay more then few months here....

In many places of the world, various flus are causing havoc amongst the cattle and poultry. Other places it's the fish. But it seems more important for developped nations to spend trillions in feeding wars rather then cleaning the places up.

If the polls are supervised by the CNN wokes, Trump has no chance obviously.