JonnyF

I wonder if the trough is empty and the kitchen is getting too hot? 

Maybe they prefer to take 10 years off to enjoy their loot? Let someone rebuild the country to some semblance  of normality before they return to pillage it again ?

23 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

But it leads to the next problem,. What happens when the vaccine runs out in three days time?

If I had to guess what happens?

1.  Confidently declare there are plenty of vaccines for everyone.

2. Reduce testing.

3. Stop reporting the vaccine numbers.

Incredibly sad, but unlikely to stop especially when you consider that the military who run the country set a terrible example when they also partake in this practice on it's young recruits.

1 hour ago, Excel said:

Don't need to open. Whist expats working here and those with family may need to return I doubt that many tourists will wish to come to a country where not only their governments have warned against travel, but where it is easy to see that the virus is running amok with no clear signs of it abatting, nor government concerns about understanding true numbers manifested in their sorry state of poor testing numbers

Exactly.

My Facebook feed is starting to fill up with pictures of friends and family sat in the sunshine in pub gardens in the UK.

The last thing they'd want to do is spend thousands of pounds to jump through hoops so they can sit in an aircraft for 12 hours and spend 2 weeks in a country where they can't even have a beer outside their hotel room and most of the tourist orientated places are boarded up.

The cherry on the cake is that they face quarantine when they get back to the UK. Who needs that after 15 months of lockdown? No chance...

Cautious optimism?

A bit like celebrating victory in the marathon after starting an hour after everyone else and having a good first 500 metres.

13 minutes ago, bannork said:

As I said in another thread, it's a pity the Thai girls didn't shout out 'Srebrenica' in response.

Well first that would have required the Thai team to have a knowledge of history outside the borders of Thailand. Highly unlikely.

Secondly, the Serbs would have wondered why the Thais are shouting "Leblenican" ????.

6 minutes ago, Keesters said:

I do and I can't swim. But I always have a good swimmer in attendance.

Good idea (as long as they're not the primary beneficiary to your vast fortune).

50 minutes ago, khunPer said:

Perhaps because the relatives in this case didn't see any suspicious, but only an accident...???? 

The same relatives that stand to inherit Billions?

Maybe police work isn't for you.

33 minutes ago, GroveHillWanderer said:

The kneeling is no longer linked to the Black Lives Matter movement and the players no longer have the BLM name on their shirts as they did when it first started.

 

It's now just a gesture indicating disapproval of discrimination and racism of all sorts and in favour of greater equality. Southgate went to great lengths to explain this after the first game. So anybody who boos the players now, is indicating that either a) they just don't understand the message or b) they're OK with racial discrimination and inequality in general.

Southgate can say what he wants, taking the knee has long been synonymous with BLM. As most people know (even the so called "stupid" fans) BLM is a radical left wing political movement and should never had anything to do with football. We already had the "Kick it out" campaign to deal with racism in football, which was very successful and there was no booing from fans, only support. Same as the fans cheer their team's black players week in week out. Same as they chant the black players names and ask for the black players autographs.  

Even black players like Wilifred Zaha have distanced themselves from this pointless gesture.

Southgate's virtue signaling only creates an 'us and them' feeling between the fans and the players and it could well undermine the whole England campaign. Essentially he is saying he and his team can make their point but the fans must simply shut up and not make theirs. The plebs are there to pay the players wages and support the team, not to have a voice. Stupidity beyond belief. But the fool has backed himself into a corner now, so the divisiveness will continue.

Fans go to watch football, not be re-educated according to some left wing, woke doctrine. I couldn't agree more with the article below, I hope the booing continues until this ridiculous posturing stops.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/03/three-cheers-for-the-booing-england-fans/

Anyone who thinks the government is incapable of killing off Pattaya should take a look at Khaosarn Road.

By trying to make it 'better' they took away the very thing that made it popular. 

One day they might realize that the best thing they can do is leave things alone. If something isn't popular it will eventually die a natural death and be replaced by something that people want. If it isn't broken then don't try to fix it. 

17 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

IF families go to Pataya, while walking along the promenade, The children will ask,

 

"why is Dad looking at all those girls?"

"I think he knows them, dear". And some of them are men"

"Dad...

 

Mum says, "let's go shopping, I need a new handbag"

Similar thing when my sister and her family visited Hua Hin. I popped down for the weekend and we went out for a meal and stumbled upon Soi Bintabaht.

My 9 year old niece (at the time) spotted them a mile off and kept asking why the men were dressed as women. To compound that awkward conversation, my sister turned around to see a bargirl giving the universal "BJ" gesture to my brother-in-law behind her back.

Lovely place for families.????

47 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Open the doors and those girls will stop planting rice and be back to Pattaya to open-up again faster than you could ever imagine.

Thailand can open it's doors any time it wants. But until it's population is vaccinated it won't be on the green lists of foreign countries and hence most tourists will go elsewhere.

How will an Aussie come here if Australia won't allow international tourism? How about a Brit, who faces 10 days quarantine on return to the UK because Thailand isn't on the green list? When will China allow it's citizens to travel without major inconvenience?

This isn't Thailand's decision to make but their hubris prevents them from seeing this.

All hat and no cattle.

I'm not sure I like where this is going.

First there was no vaccine, then there was only the Chinese vaccine. Then they were stretching 10 doses to make 12 doses. Then, 16 weeks between doses.

Now, they want to mix and match different vaccines.

Let's hope the private hospitals bail the government out of this mess by offering a professional solution, because Mr. P and his posse of clowns are clearly incapable.

Every well heeled foreigner dreams of coming to a junta led SE Asian country where in times of a pandemic they are placed alongside the homeless in terms of importance.

They can also be insulted by Anutin as part of the bargain. They can be called dirty and unwashed by a corrupt politician.

Then they can report every 90 days like a criminal on parole.

What a dream for the wealthy.

I've heard there there are loads of cheap properties in Monaco as the super rich sell up and flee in their droves to unvaccinated Thailand to be treated like shheeit.

The change from GM to Great Wall is a none too subtle symbol of Thailand moving away from it's longstanding relationship with the US and into the claws of China. Coinciding nicely with another move - away from Democracy into another word starting with D that is verboten.

As others have noted, using AI will reduce the need for Thai labour. But hey, it's not like China or the Junta care about the serfs is it? Profits for the elites is order of the day under the current regime.