jonclark
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I would love to know the interest rate on a 172 billion baht loan and the total repayable over the loan's lifetime.
If the government can get a loan of 172 billion interest-free, I would gladly give the entire cabinet a <deleted>.
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11 minutes ago, Korat Kiwi said:
Embassies don't step in with cash. They may help with information and offer advice but that's about it.
They could get in touch with her family if she wants but that doesn't guarantee anything. Based on what has been reported, she hasn't asked for assistance and ran away from her family when they tried to help.
Some people you just can't help.
Thata the sad thing with people with mental health issues..they often dont think they need help which in itself is a symptom of their mental health issues.
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20 hours ago, BangkokReady said:
This happened now. Not 50 years ago. That's why people have a problem with it. People don't go around with their t*ts out anymore.
Oh i wouldnt say that, my saggy old man boobs are always on display around our farm.
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57 minutes ago, transam said:
Yep, farangy's planning a long and expensive trip to Thailand and 300 bht will put them off, I don't think so......🤭
To be fair though - it may put off the some of the tens of thousands of Chinese tourists on zero baht tours....if zero baht if their going rate for a holiday, then 300 baht is a fortune by comparison 😀.
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2 minutes ago, TheFatOne said:He is right.
It is by not caring about small assault on your money that you end up being poor.
Same goes with services like Grab or tipping, etc...
Better not have the poor idiot's mentality.
Wise words indeed - look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves as the old saying goes.
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1 hour ago, webfact said:During peak season, these popular destinations suffer from traffic congestion and water shortages, with international airports running out of slots for airlines. Adith suggests a key strategy could be to divert tourists from these hubs to the country’s secondary cities. These cities offer numerous potential attractions and have adequate space to accommodate an influx of tourists.
The problem with that plan is that the tourists in all likelihood don't want to go to secondary destinations, otherwise, if they did want to go they would be going there already. It's the consumer who chooses where they want to go for their holiday. Not Mr. Adith.
Alternatively, one could suggest that maybe the people who have profited handsomely from high tourist numbers, put some money back into the proverbial pot so that it can be used to improve public transport, water storage facilities etc as it's their customers who are partially to blame, but are nonetheless actively encouraged to come - Just had three weeks of highly publicized and globally promoted Thai 'soft power' songkran and now.... Sometimes feels like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Maybe if they do press ahead with the 300 baht tourist tax - they could include domestic tourists in that as well as they also play a part in traffic congestion and water shortages fairly easy to implement - any hotel within a primary destination location has a 300 baht tax added to the cost of each and every room irrespective of nationality or length of stay. Domestic tourists are more likely to go to secondary destinations as well.
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57 minutes ago, Pesche said:So, @tomazbodner you definitely are not aware that your graphics are based on wrong models buddy! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Tfxiuo-oM
And this one in just 4 minutes: https://twitter.com/FatEmperor/status/1654244932763123712
But your graphics and videos are not. They are based on the right models. The models that fit your PoV.
The average temperatures across Thailand (and remember that averages have extremes at either end) are not normal. Yes, we have El Nino, but science does not full understand the dynamics and complex interplay of factors that lead to El Nino strengths or formations, so dismissing global warming/climate change as a significant factor for El Nino would be very poor science as both are impacted by and affect the atmospheric system.
However, rising global temperatures are not the only effect of climate change - increasing ocean temperatures (mass bleaching events in the Great Barrier Reef), increased ocean acidification (due to the formation of carbonic acid as CO2 dissolves into the oceans) more extreme and frequent extreme weather events - (currently 1 in 100 years flooding going on in China for examples), melting of ice sheets especially Greenland and Antarctica leading to rising sea levels (arctic ice sheet is melting but does not impact sea level rise) shrinking glaciers, loss of biodiversity.
Earth's climate has always changed due to biological processes - remember plants and autotrophic organisms provide all the oxygen in the atmosphere, and also physical factors - milankovich cycles, sunspot cycles, and volcanoes. However, what is alarming is the rate of change. So dismissing human activities as a causal factor in climate change is very short-sighted, when it is know that speices can impact climate and our atmospheric systems.
Climate deniers will always rebuff climate change - which is fine, as disagreement drives scientific discourse, but wouldn't it be wiser in the absence of definitive proof, which is the counter arguement in the videos presented by yourself, to take a more precautionary approach? we have a population of near 8 billion people most of whom are relatively poor and cannot adapt to any potential climate-driven events - a precautionary approach would be wiser, even if you fundamentally disagree with it.
The average Bangkok temperature data for the past 12 years in April is 34C - currently for April 202 its 42. An 8-degree divergence from the average is an abnormality so significant that it cannot be pinned on El Nino alone.
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4 hours ago, bob smith said:
…I’m sorry.
But that is the funniest thing I have seen all year!!!
when you gotta go, you gotta go!
😄 😄 😄
Hope he’s got a fresh pair of undies in his room!
much love!
BOB.
I'm with you on this one Bob. That is just plain funny albeit very inappropriate...getting a shower from the security guard while standing naked in a shrines water feature after being filmed taking a <deleted> on a busy bangkok street.
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29 minutes ago, transam said:
Me, depends.......😂
Fair play.
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3 minutes ago, proton said:Cracking down on the foreign rat bags paying bribes to immigration via agents to get extensions they are not entitled to should be a main priority, that would get rid of a lot of bad guys.
Surely a government offical accepting a bribe should be the focus, especially when they are charged with protecting Thailand borders.
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8 minutes ago, transam said:Thai folk belong to this country, the rest of us don't.
Farangy's that don't behave have only themselves to blame when the..........
But this is a minor road accident - not worthy of deportation - like taking a hammer to kill a fly tbh.
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8 minutes ago, transam said:
Are you making excuses for naughty boys because you are one.....?.....
No..are you?
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8 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:I'm new here and have never been to Pattaya, could you enlighten me as to all the other negative traits displayed by all ( or lets say 80%) of the millions of people who "typically" choose to visit that city every year. Or are you just posting rubbish to try to fit in with the growing lynch mob?
This website has been taken over by zealots who try to be more right-wing and extreme in their belief and parroting of the official line as they mistakenly believe this will somehow make them more Thai or more in touch with the locals.
Its become an echo chamber of self loathing and hate sadly.
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15 hours ago, bbi1 said:
Looks like a grey nomad from the blurred picture. Charge & deport the drunk old fool, ban him for 5 years and cancel his retirement visa. Seems every day it's the grey old nomads making the news for the wrong reason.
So should we strip Thais (like this one) who drink and drive and cause death and destruction on the roads of their citizenship and deport them too? Seems fair right? Chucking out the trash right!
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1 hour ago, Captain Monday said:
Never agreed with anything this Pineapple ever said until now.
Face facts Mr. farnung. Unless one holds PR or Thai citizenship you are a permanent short-term visitor.
Every proplem and hassle that has been increasing over the years is partly the fault of these foreign crims
scroungers, and scofflaws. Heavy fines then Thai Jail and then deport. "persona non grata"
LOL - A german tourist in the country for 1 hour who has a falling out with a taxi driver is the cause of all Thailand's woes - Hilarious.
Please explain how Thailand's biggest problem - the extreme political polarization of the population, is the fault of foreigners? How have foreigners contributed the the vast inequality in wealth between rich and poor? - because obviously, probelms these fall under the "Every problem and hassle.." category you so elequantly refer to in your rant.
BTW whats a farnung my little yellow friend?
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You always know a country is having a tough time economically when it starts blaming foreigners for its woes. Classic political misdirection tactics - to keep the public from seeing what is really important and rally the citizens to the flag.
It's important to remember that the 'crimes' that have been committed are minor,(no one died, no one was raped, no one was kidnapped, no one was sexually assaulted, no vast amounts of drugs were seized or pushed). Watch Thai national news on TV, even if you cannot understand Thai, and in a week you will see far more violent and frequent acts in a single week than all the foreign tourists will commit in a year. Yet Anutin remains silent on that.
This is a political deflection to keep the public engrossed - remember Brexit - one of the main theme of the Brexiter's argument was that UK sovereignty was under threat from foreigners - and that argument, though wildly untrue won.
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Here's an idea Mr. PM - How about raising tax on recreational cannabis even further. I think taxation on tobaccois between 25 - 42% depending on the packet size - There your 500 billion baht black hole is fixed and a huge chuck will come from tourists and provide a limited burden to Thai tax-payers....and it will continue to give taxation money long after the 500 billion is repayed.
Suggested taxation threseholds.
1 - 5g = 25% taxation
5g plus = 42% taxation
Now go forth and deliver on your election promise.
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10 hours ago, AndyAndyAndy said:Why when it is a pedo in Thailand why is it always British? 🤔
Sadly though it is not. There are a very high number of local Thai men who have predatory sexual relationships with underage girls. Often reported in local news, but it never makes it to English news channels.
Very easy with the limited number of English news outlets, all parroting the same stories to think westerners are the only pesos in Thailand. They are most definitely not, in fact western pesos are the minority of reported cases.
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5 hours ago, Celsius said:love it.
Jail and deport.
Hope you'll be first in the line for the jail and deport. Thailand doesn't need your kind here.
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21 minutes ago, ronster said:
Make sure they pay 3 times the cost for wine and 10 times the cost for visiting certain tourist areas 👍
Yeah...that'll teach em.
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1 hour ago, Tazmo said:
you can’t do that in Thailand, you have to pay upfront a large sum of money ( depending on the credit limit you want) before they will issue you a credit card!
Really - I have three Thai bank credit cards and have never paid upfront, even when issued. Signed the documents and the cards arrived a few days later. Makes no sense as if you deposit does the credit card not now become a debit card?
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Only 700 illegals. Thats a shocking number. The Cambodians, Laotian and Myanmarese are slipping. They need to get some advice on how to add to their illegal number.
Maybe Thailand could give this advice considering there are over 100,000 illegal workers in South Korea. Thais seems to be experts at working illegally in foreign countries.
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7 minutes ago, jesimps said:
I disagree. In your house you allow your family a certain amount of leeway for their transgressions, but if a visitor came and got out of order, especially of the violent sort, you'd turf them out on their ear. Similar situation here, visitors are expected to exhibit good behaviour in a country where they are guests, whereas locals are as a rule shown a bit more leniency.
Awful analogue. Basically you have said one law for thais and one for foreigners. Which is not how the law works.
BTW. Do you make visitors to your house pay tax, room and board or provide your family members with jobs???
Terrible analogue.
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52 minutes ago, jesimps said:
The Thai woman is 8 months pregnant and the Russian kicked her in the groin twice, as well as giving her a load of verbal abuse. She should be jailed for violence and then deported imho.
My comment was in response to the Swiss man and Dr incident on a Phuket be. Thanks.
Thai Government Contemplates Loan for Digital Wallet Program
in Thailand News
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Also if anyone who is literate on this can explain how "digital money creates a multiplier effect" I would love to hear that explaination