JonnyF

I'd say it starts with education, and ends with strict enforcement of laws (irrespective of wealth, connections and social status).

Somewhere in the middle you have the issue of over-confidence, arrogance, impatience, selfishness etc.

Good luck fixing all that.

I saw a passenger van today with a huge sticker covering the back door/window reminding people of safety and to stop for pedestrians at zebra crossings. I guess it was a recent addition following this 'hot topic' with the pretty young Doctor.

I noticed after he aggressively moved into my lane, forcing me to either brake suddenly or swerve to collide with oncoming traffic.

1 hour ago, robblok said:

What is baffeling is that people like you keep bringing up ancient history and think that voting new crooks in is going to change anything. For voting to work you need clean politicians and there few of those in Thailand. I mean having a choice sounds nice but if you choices are between being shot and hanged does it really matter.

 

Its just a minor change (not saying voting is bad) but for voting to work you need a functioning democracy. Besides i supported the coup and changed my mind. That is what people do they change their mind review their decisions. People like you are stuck in the past bringing it up time and again. 

 

Its ok if it makes you happy.

You have to allow Democracy to mature. After the people have voted for corrupt leaders a few times, sooner or later they will see the error of their ways, new candidates will emerge that are less corrupt and people will vote for them. This is the way that things improve, although it takes many decades.

Things will never be perfect, even our own countries have corruption. But by resetting the clock with the illegal theft of power every time people like you disagree with the democratic choice of the electorate, we end up with the current regime, taking down their political opponents and generally ruining the country for their own ends. 

It certainly doesn't make me happy. I'm just pointing out the irony of your criticism of the regime when you supported them stealing power. I know you'd rather not be reminded of your support of the illegal power grab now that you've finally seen what was blindingly obvious to most of us in 2014, but that's life I'm afraid.

8 minutes ago, robblok said:

They are like all the people in government only loyal to their own wallet. 

That's why it's good to be able to vote them out.

That's also why it's so baffling when people like you support military coups. These coups simply replace corrupt politicians that can be voted out, with corrupt politicians that cannot be voted out.

Buying online is no problem. It makes sense to have a guy on a little scooter deliver it alongside 5-6 other deliveries for people at my condo than for 5-6 of us to sit in our cars individually going to the store.

The other benefit is that I pay the correct price. Unlike Mom and Pop style hardware stores, markets, local furniture shops etc. where everything is unmarked so they can pluck a price out of their head, often based on your race.

1 hour ago, robblok said:

Now I won't be touching pot as it screws up my diet (know from experience) but if i had to choose from the two drugs then it would be most definitely be pot as its far milder on the body and can actually help with some problems. Now if someone is a heavy pot user it would be bad but not as bad as people who use alcohol a lot. 

 

Why choose between the 2? They actually compliment each other quite well (in moderation of course).

This is great news if it happens, I'll definitely have a small allotment on the farm for some.

Great news. So it's legal to grow it and the only stipulation is if you make the extract, which I won't.

I'm in like Flynn.

Make up your mind guys. I've got a few nice spots on the farm earmarked for the devil's lettuce. Just waiting for the green light...

14 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

"He built  something from nothing" BUT "paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

are again contradictory statements.. lol

I'll let you into a secret. When company A acquires company B, company A doesn't typically lay off the key employees that made company B such a success in the first place ????.

Really, some people are best off just collecting their old age pension and keeping quiet on things they know nothing about...

12 hours ago, Kaptain Asia said:

My point was that "Stickman" "Not Stickman" and "Stickboy/Mike McKay" are completely different people. Introducing the former two into the context of this thread is misleading, confusing and irrelevant.

 

It's very clear that they are not the same person (unless it's a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder given that one interviewed the other in length on the Stickman website). If that was your (very obvious) point then maybe that's what you should have written. 

Instead of "Stickman" and "Not Stickman" are nothing to do with "Stickboy/Mike McKay" which is factually incorrect seeing as Stickboy acquired Stickman so they are intrinsically linked.

I was simply correcting you. 

What was that? Oh, you're welcome.

15 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

First you write: "Stickboy bought the StickmanBangkok website and then paid the previous owner to continue writing the column for him"

Then you wrote:

"He built something from nothing and had a good run of it."

Contradictory nonesense!

Surely nobody is really this clueless  ????.

He built up StickBoy over a period of years and used the revenue from that to acquire Stickman several years later. It's like saying Bill Gates didn't build his empire from nothing because Microsoft acquired Linkedin in 2016 ????. 

They need to decide on a policy, make it clear to everyone and then stick to it.

All this ambiguity over Test & Go being available, what the insurance requirements are, what the insurance covers, what will be open when you finally get here, what happens if you test positive etc. is a nightmare for tourists. 99% will just book something easier. 

Ironically, the only tourists who will put up this are the mongers desperate for a bunkup after 2 years without. The very tourists they claim they don't want.

Most of the time it's just a literal translation from Thai. They think how to say it in Thai and then change every word to English without restructuring the sentence which is why they will say close the fan or close the power instead of turn off the fan/power. It's also why they often don't use "the" and will just say Close Door instead of close the door.

I get the impression they spend more time in school on vocabulary than grammar/pronunciation as they often know the word for most things but don't know how to use it properly within a sentence or pronounce it properly. They all make the same mistakes so it must be what they are being taught by Thai teachers.

Reminds me of when I started work here and the girl I was working with was called Apple. She said I could call her Pun. I asked what Pun meant and she kind of rolled her eyes and said "short for Appun" ????.

I had my Pfizer booster 2 weeks ago. Since then I've had flu type symptoms for 2 days followed by a sharp intermittent pulsating pain that moved from the injection site to my shoulder blade and is currently at the middle of my back.

Think I'd rather have had Covid.