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If the weight of handheld luggage would really matter for the planes balance, fat terrorists would just board as a team and midflight rise from their seats simultaniously, and move to one side of the cabin to bring down the plane. No weapons needed.
Damn, now i gave them the idea . . .
 

On 4/18/2022 at 5:30 PM, Tropicalevo said:

Thanks Neilly.

That never came up in my searches on Lazada.

Ordered and bookmarked. Let's see how quick they are.

I recently discovered, that when you just enter the plain brand-name of any company you´re searching for, into the search bar, the first suggestion which comes up, is the link to their particular "Flagship Store", if there is one for that brand.

Anyway, otherwise Lazadas search results are the usual hopeless endless mess of hundreds and hundreds of price-phishing shops, which all offer the same rubbish (reselling from Aliexpress) for fantasy prices. Tedious.

I love Lazada, i hate Lazada.

It´s just their solution to higher gasoline prices. They try to reach the destination quickly, saving gas by driving faster . . . ????

5 minutes ago, gejohesch said:

In spite of all the media coverage, that risk is very small to the point of being negligible. Which foreign visitor would ever dream of going to Sinaloa???

You´re probably right. And in Mexico it´s some criminals, whereas in Thailand it´s stupid government policy.

1 hour ago, gejohesch said:

That's another thing I forgot to mention when I made a few points comparing Thailand with Mexico : I cannot remember Mexico having different entry prices to museums or parks for foreigners and Mexican nationals. Having different prices, like Thailand does (India too btw) is like posting in big letters : "DEAR FOREIGN VISITORS, WE ARE SO GLAD TO WELCOME YOU AND RIP YOU OFF". As an impression made on international tourists, one can think of sthg a bit better....

Well, in Mexico, they probably stick a gun in your face, and just rob you directly ????  The result is the same . . . .

6 hours ago, wombat said:

no bars no booze no, bless their cotton panty, entertainment ....why would you bother coming to Thailand?

You´re supposed to visit temples and overpriced national parks, and play golf, don´t you know ?
 

On 9/14/2021 at 6:43 PM, RickG16 said:

Cheers.

 

Was there a notice saying it was free or the hut was closed so you had nowhere to pay?

Closed, nowhere to pay. A hundred meter before you reach the motorbike area at the first checkpoint hut, i asked, and they said: "Just park there, no pay. No pompem".
Well, that was a month ago, but i bet it´s still handled this way . . .
 

"And as we, Bangkok Airways, know, that many of you will suffer losses in various shapes and forms, because of our incompetence in internet security, hereby declare, that we will reimburse you all costs, and damage done to your life, which we brought on to you".

Not.

Whenever something like this happens, we can consider ourselfs lucky to even get an official notice (sometimes even years after the incident)

If Farcebook, or other big company gets hacked, all we ever get is: "We´re sorry, it won´t happen again" (well, until it does).

Can i buy me something with "We´re sorry"?

If i harm somebody by negligence, i´ll probably go to prison, but there are never any real consequences for the big companies (as if it´s all just "force majeure"), and we´re stuck with the damage.

On 7/3/2021 at 6:48 PM, gearbox said:

A few months ago they were still there. Also if you are just going there to see the pigs, there is a similar pig at Than Sadet beach, Koh Phangan, it is roaming around the Mai Pen Rai restaurant. It was there 2 weeks ago, so probably still alive ????

Excuse my ignorance, but have you guys never seen a pig before? Just asking.

If you are that easily excited, you can go to Koh Tan, the "island without dogs". There you can go to see, well, no dogs . . . ????

On 6/15/2021 at 11:22 AM, MyThaiYou said:

A Thai friend was there today and made enquiries:  for Farang no online appointments.  My 5 year license expires in August so they said call back and ask again next month....

I always applied for my 5 year renewals only AFTER it expired (up to 1 year over expiry-date no pompem).

That way i got nearly 6 years out of it every time, because it´s issued from your birthday to birthday.

Don´t know, if that´s still the case, but worth a try . . .

21 minutes ago, khunPer said:

My next door neighbor drives electric BMW – there seems to be a few of them on the island, BMWs – so might be a good idea; especially since the nationality of my next door neighbor, and the next, next door also, are from those countries generally increasing in percentage of foreign Caucasian guests, and in higher number than many "old-time" Europen countries, even when summing Top-3 of them. TAT seems to read the future well...????????

 

Perhaps I also should consider electric next time, if there is free charging on Chaweng's beach road...???? -cool, then both my car and myself can charge batteries in the nightlife...????

I didn´t say "free", there´s no such thing as "free" in this country . . .

On 5/30/2021 at 12:56 AM, khunPer said:

"Electro box" is probably these fine transformers on the beach road in Chaweng, the photo is from before the took the hanging wires down – enjoy them here for a last time, they are good-old-days now – and painted a nice Samui-landscape on the "electro box"...

 

"Electro box" comes if different varieties, so you can always find one you prefers, and also in different sizes, which makes the sidewalk walks more amazing – wow, look at those good-old-time wires at left, we gotta miss them...

 

-especially during Covid-lockdown, as the street lights also disappeared together with the posts for the hanging wires – this night-time photo is from april 2021 – and be aware when heading home after a night in the town and wet after party, it's not the beach you are reaching, it's a landscaped "electro box"...????

Yes, those are, what i meant with "electro boxes". As they seem to cause some confusion about what they really are for, i´ll tell you the ingenious plan behind placing them where they are now:

You all know, that the TAT is famous for their innovative, ultra-realistic ideas for reviving tourism. So they said, let´s make Chaweng future-proof and install "electric car charging docks" in front of every major business there. This goes in line with their wish to only attract "quality" tourists in the future, who will drive down beachroad in a Tesla, and while they spend their quality millions in quality shops and restaurants, they will charge the batteries of their electric cars on those boxes.

Ingenious, right? Think about it, we will be the hub of hubs of electric car charging docks.

And forget about those pesky pedestrians. Well, to make them happy too, the "electro boxes" will have multiple USB charging sockets, so the chinese can charge their smartphones when navigating the footpath with google-maps, without going offline . . .

So, there you have it. All well thought out by TAT, as always.

????

11 hours ago, RickG16 said:

What did you put as reason to travel on the form?

 

Cheers

Permanent residence on Samui, which probably made a difference, compared to "just" being a tourist (and they can see the retirement visa-extension in my passport), but i don´t think the covid virus would care about my visa and residence status . . .

22 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Friends just flew back to Samui after being in Bangkok.

Again, just scan the QR code and check temperatures.

No documents or PCR test results asked for.

Same happened to me one week ago, from Bangkok back to Samui. I had no PCR test, so i was expecting home quarantine.

But nope, nothing. Waived through, after just filling their form on arrival . . .

I can´t wait to see the outcry in all samui forums, when chaweng beachroad will be back to semi-normal, and thousands of tourists will permanently jump up and down and up from the footpath into the slowly crawling traffic jam, because of the hundred newly installed electro boxes, making it impossible to properly use the footpath anymore.

It will be a sight to behold ????

(or they are planing a car-free beachroad anyway, who knows . . )

16 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

True, but this is not divided by zero, instead it's divided by 2... you know, 100/50=2...

However... 50% of zero is still a zero...

C´mon, give him a break. He is probably just a Home Learning victim . . ????

5 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Education, they all know the national anthem, they all know how to march, they all know to respect anyone wearing a uniform and they all know Thailand was never colonized, what more do they need?

Yep, it´s this system of trying to learn by just mindlessly memorizing everything, and never, ever, challenge the teacher with questions, which he possibly is not able to answer, making him loose face. The damn authority and face thing.

38 minutes ago, UncleMhee said:

Only if you're standing on your head...... apparently

Great painting. Yeah, i´ll give it to myself, baby !

(At first, i tried it standing nacked on my head without the picture, thinking you´re suggesting a new technique. Didn´t work out so well . . . ????)

I´m just happy, that i´m allowed to touch myself. Or, am i ?

1 hour ago, phetphet said:

I have picked up a couple of Samui specific TM.7's and TM.8's. Scanned them into my computer as .pdfs, completed and printed them off. I have to renew my Non O retirement extension this week, so will see if they will accept them. Or not. Will take hand  written ones along. Just to be sure.

Even if they will not accept it, it´s good that you and others don´t stop trying this again and again, just so they become aware, that this non-downloadable-superspecial-form-craziness is getting on everyones nerves for absolutely nothing. Good on you.