Regyai

I see stupid people...

Just another day in paradise

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Mish mash of two different things

You can get an International Driving Permit (IDP) which 'validates' your UK licence for use in Thailand (and elsewhere). One being officially no use without the other. Essentially the IDP is supposed to translate the issuing country's licence (but of course you'll see no Thai script in it).

The other (long term) route is to obtain the Thai Licence as above - though if you strike unlucky and lock horns with a clerk who knows you should have the IDP too you may have to do the classroom/test and driving test a la khon Thai

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Made me think of another ad I saw recently. Seems Black Man Cleaning tools, migh be pushing it a bit farther than the DD advert.

As I said earlier

And also as I said without a 'Blackman' corporation within CONUS waiting to be terrified by these whingeing Winnies it will not come to be mentioned

they only changed one letter and the symbol remains the same.

No

They made the logo black guy in the big hat with the smile into a white one to appease the PC wailers

You can still buy 'Blackman' mops etc in the Kingdom with an unadulterated logo

Ssssh though an American might hear about them

UPDATE:

Dunkin Donuts Apologizes For Blackface Ad In Thailand

BY REBECCA LEBER

Dunkin Donuts has apologized and pulled advertising for its campaign in Thailand that shows a model with blackface makeup and the caption, Break every rule of deliciousness.

The Thailand branch of Dunkin Donuts initially responded that the outrage amounted to paranoid American thinking. In fact, Dunkins Thailand CEO Nadim Salhani noted, their sales have been up.

Its absolutely ridiculous, Salhani said.. Were not allowed to use black to promote our

doughnuts? I dont get it. Whats the big fuss? What if the product was white and I painted someone white, would that be racist?

But Human Rights Watch said it is unacceptable that an international brand adopt this line of marketing.

Full story: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/30/2558371/dunkin-donuts-pulls-blackface-thailand/

-- THINK PROGRESS 2013-08-31

Yea, according to this, the American home office stepped in and started grovelling almost immediately. Some PR flak named Karen. Probably a 20 something just graduated from Brown or Bryn Mawr or the likes.

--"The corporate office responded more apologetically than the Thailand franchise and announced it would end the campaign. Dunkin Donuts recognizes the insensitivity of this spot, Chief Communications Officer Karen Raskopf said. On behalf of our Thailand franchisee and our company, we apologize for any offense it caused.

Well there you have it

Doughnuts that gastronomically and in ideology stick in your craw

I don't quite understand all the brouhaha raised by an agency in California. How does this affect the market in Thailand?

It doesnt in the slightest and if DD wasnt a presence in 'merica they wouldnt be listening

Raise the 'racist whip' in the west and watch any corporation tremble.

If there was no domestic target in his sights the hand wringing complainant would not have bothered

+1 some liberals are so overtly protective of minority groups that they "invent" supposed harm ...

or else they are terrified witless over 'offending' them (vis the widespread placating of Muslims) they will gladly allow perpetual pissing up their backs just so long as they're told its just a spot of rain

......... and there is *nothing* any woman anywhere can do or not do to reduce the risk. Ever.

Being American would be stout defence in my book

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Just more pandering to the lunatic demands of the PC brigade

Should have told them to <deleted> oof and then run ads n doughnuts in every other colour (which of course would garner no angst from these myopic leftist brainwashed imbeciles)

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Send him back to his dole scum environment.

Soi Bhuakhao ?

Dont you wish you had the resources to hire an idiot to do all that keek for you

Scratching around laundromats isnt that something the homeless or destitute do?

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Last week a pack of katoeys beat a farang to death in soi 8 in broad day light apparently after giving the finger to a one of the katoeys as he walked by.

Post a link to this

Agreed. Pls provide link

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/662139-norwegian-beaten-to-death-soi-7-pattaya/

If you just dont get it, you just dont get it....

sleep on..

Glegolo

Oh they probably do get it

Soliciting friendships with spurious deadbeat falangs in the LOS can only lead to dealing with loan applications in the future

This thread keeps having me reminded of that sequence in Crocodile Dundee where gud'ole Nick tries glad handing everyone in New York 'Hi, Nick Dundee'

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Millions of people you'd routinely ignore back in the West

So

If they ride a 747 they become long lost friends

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He 73.....her 37.......Hmmmm!

Wow you guessed it

Off to the Hua-Taidin before the stop taking on these numbers

Chok dee

'No rat' glue

Anyone got any stats as to how many members the thailand flying club has?

No round trips in that club.

First rule of flying

Keep your take offs and landings in equal numbers

Just playing catch up with Etihad

While the middle east carriers try and score points off each other the passengers keep on winning

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I think its pretty obvious that there's no CSI investigation needed to unveil the fact that 'Free' Insurance given by the dealer is going to have the bells and whistles pared down from it. The dealer will want it as cheap as possible while retaining its perceived value. Obviously if you want to cast your net about the market place you will find cover with better benefits, but suffice it to say the self same cover will cost you more than the car dealership pays for it (in fact if you cozy up with the dealer you can - if he deigns fit - route the renewal via them so that you benefit from their volume discounts)

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I suspect that this limit on value is entirely down to fraud prevention on the part of the insurance companies.

Theres no suspicion to it

Thats exactly it

Could you just imagine if a total loss got back 100% of the value with no fiscal pain to the insured, the burning hulks at the side of the road would be like bush landing lights

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80% is standard fare for Thai insurance

But other anomalies to what you may be used to with vehicular insurance 'back home'

Such as

Its the vehicle thats insured not the driver (in that unlike the West where the proposer - and often any other drivers - have to be named on the policy. here in LOS any legitimate driver is covered)

Have a smattering of small claims and no swingeing price loading follows you around at renewal time

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<deleted> its a bit of fun

If you want to report with teeth, camera up the drivers window and post the incriminating on YouTube and start the ball rolling

No stomach for that

Stick a l'll flag on Bribespot (its all in good fun and the Boogie Man most likely wont get you)

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