Galong

This is nothing more than your opinion. What was astounding (in my opinion), was the quick response by local small entrepreneurs. There was a tremendous boon for new businesses. What should be addressed or researched is in the economic boon from this new cottage industry. "public health will show too many people affected in absolute numbers" Hogwash in every way. Who and how are they going to be able to discern the difference between the health effects of smoking tobacco vs pot on the lungs? How are they going to determine the health implications being directly as a result of pot versus the typical unhealthy lifestyle, tobacco, alcohol, etc?? "ABSOLUTE NUMBERS" Come on, man. 🤦‍♂️

It's a supply vs demand issue. Locals are the suppliers of the demands of the visitors. Stop the supply and the demand dries up.

I live very close to an elementary school. Most of the time it sounds like a prison riot. At other times, there are events going on whereby the teachers or other adults are singing (very poorly) to the students over very loud speakers... like it's karaoke or something. 🤦‍♂️ When school lets out, the parking lot is full of vendors selling nothing but candy, ungodly sweet drinks, and junk food. Occasionally, the students are in class. Most often, you can hear them chanting rote rehearsal style. That's not the way forward. These poor kids haven't got a chance for a proper education and it's the adults in charge who have set it up like this.

Whatever happened to the good old days when if two men fought, they fought man-on-man with no weapons. Using a weapon is cowardly.

Um, you don't have to join forces to figure out how to make food higher quality. it's all online. Common sense goes a long way too. Hmm, on second thought, maybe they do need help.

Nailed it! I honestly can't think of anything other than the 10K handout that is directed toward regular folks... and we all know the underlying reason why he wants to give away other people's money. 💰💰

I'm still waiting for him to have one good or even realistic idea. He has recently pushed the commencement of the destruction of the Heroines' Monument in Phuket, which is the most important intersection on the island WITHOUT any apparent plan to have an alternate route. The result is an absolute tourism and commercial transportation NIGHTMARE! I've never seen traffic backed up as much as it is over the last few days. It will only get worse. I guess they could do the work at night, but that makes too much sense... no, let's do it when everyone needs to travel. Big buses and trucks are using all of the lanes and changing lanes constantly. the cops could force them to stay in the left lane to make traffic flow smoother, but there's not a cop in sight and they probably wouldn't do anything useful if they were. They'd find some way of making it worse. This is all to put in an underpass, instead of a more logical and quicker-to-construct, overpass. It's "scheduled" to run through 2026. I'm not a betting man, but I've got huge money on it taking much, much longer. In the meantime, Phuket life has been altered severely.

Probably at 10,000 baht/joint. The F1 scheme is all about high rollers.

Maybe he can get Mexico to pay for it. 🤔

Price for acting like an idiot = 500 baht. Cost to the image of Thailand for those tourists involved or watching = priceless.

I love cycling past stuff like this. I visit Isan a few times per year, but stay in nice hotels and eat at a wide variety of places. I do eat at rural roadside mom & pop restaurants, but I want the option of eating at a nice place. After a week or so of living in a hut and dealing with the inevitable noisy neighbors, I'm sure I'd be ready to a reverse 'Green Acres'.

The Thai male ego is truly something to behold.

Did the autopsies all say smoking pot was the direct cause? I know a girl who had a blue car who died of a heart attack.

The Palestinians are not Nazis nor German nor are they responsible for the Holocaust. 🤦‍♂️ Israel was GIVEN their country. Please read more. Israel was given a certain amount of Palestine and Israel has been steadily participating in THEIR unlawful expansion. Hamas has a legitimate point, however, attacking Israel is never the right solution.

You're making that up! You have no evidence and are only taking Israel's word for this. Netanyahu is NOT ALLOWING ANY MEDIA COVERAGE! He doesn't want the international community to see what his troops are doing. Besides, if 'some' Hamas terrorists are hiding among civilians, does that really JUSTIFY KILLING CIVILIANS to get to the bad guys? That's a barbaric position! That's the simplistic 'kill them all and let god sort them out'. That might look cool to some on a t-shirt, but it's evil. Hama should be tried before the international court soon. What Isreal is doing is happening right now and it needs to stop before anything can go forward.

False equivalence! Hamas, a terrorist organization, was completely wrong for attacking Israel. Israel had the right to DEFEND itself. Israel does NOT have the right to carry on indiscriminately attacking the civilian population of Palestine. There is a HUGE difference which is obvious to all but the most myopic. No media is allowed to watch what Israel is doing. That says it all. Oh, and Israel just killed some UN staff. The Israeli millitary is out of freaking control! Hamas was wrong and should be tried in international court. Israel is wrong for going way beyond what was necessary to defend itself. The US is highly unethical for supporting Israel and PROFITING from the deaths of civilians.

Yeah, Prayuth was dependably inept and mostly harmless. This chap is making too many ill-conceived plans/programs back-to-back. I have not agreed with any of his plans as far as them making a positive impact on the economy or the lives of the average citizen and certainly not for the expat community. Oh well, I guess I'll simply remain bent over for whatever the future holds.

Wow, that statement shows an abysmal level of intellect. 🤦‍♂️

Free Gaza from Hamas by blowing up innocent Palestinians with zero oversight (or international media coverage of what's going on). It's sounds like someone is pro "Kill 'em all and let god sort 'em out" 🤔 Israel, as always, starts out doing something that needs to be done, then takes it way, way too far, to the point of committing atrocities on their own.

So, they care about injustices in other countries and your solution is to send them to another horrible country as the solution. What compassion and logic... Rampant indeed. 🤦‍♂️

This is tuk tuk, not a baht bus according to the article. Here's a question: if these drivers are so poor and don't make much money, why do so many of them have massive stereo system, fancy lighting, and all sorts of other 'luxury' additions to their rides? Shouldn't their pittance to towards something like feeding their families and saving for the future? Inquiring minds want to know. 😉

He's obviously got mental issues. How sad that so many commenters here ASSUME that he's just being a jerk. He needs medical attention not chastising.

Sponsor tastes nasty and it's full of chemicals. In its natural state, coconut water contains electrolytes such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, and phosphorus. I cycle long distances every day regardless of the heat. I don't get dehydrated. I drink 3 to 4 liters of plain water per day. I eat a banana or two and some coconut water regularly.

I'm by no means a fan of Biden, but my goodness, that statement (if done by an actual human being) is simply absurd. Biden is at least steadily working for the country. The economy is fine. Corporate greed is keeping prices higher than they should be, but that's not something any president can change. Meanwhile, the other guy is either playing golf, sitting in court, playing golf and cheating while doing it, or sending mean 'truths'. Name a policy that Trump has proposed other than simply saying 'tax cuts' at his rallies. He has no policies other than revenge and self-preservation from the legal system, period!

Hopefully, it won't involve parallel parking.