TallGuyJohninBKK

Back for many years right up until COVID, I could pretty regularly find RT flights on my preferred airline between BKK and the West Coast US for under $1000. Last month, I was lucky to find the same flight for anything under $1500.

I'd say, she does a pretty good job of making the most of her assets:

https://www.tiktok.com/@huanxi59 So, more than 1 million views apiece on several of her baht bus TikTok clips -- far more than any of the other similar type content she's posted. Thailand is being very very good for this young lady.

I think it's important to remember that people who actually live here see the place thru a somewhat different lens of experience and awareness than the tourist who merely pops in for maybe a couple of weeks per year. Thinking back to my past tourist days here, the attributes that stand out in my mind are ones like CHEAP, EASY and FUN. Back then years ago, easy to travel visa exempt, air fares and hotels not expensive, and my encounters with the locals back in those days were more pleasant and genial. Today, while it still may be easy to come, the airfares certainly are not cheap, the hotels have become less so for the quality of what's provided, and I'd argue the FUN element has declined considerably over the years. My perception is, the Thais you're likely to interact with have largely lost the prevailing sense of "sanuk" that used to pervade this place. Perhaps it's partly due to years of military rule, their policies to curtail the nightlife, the economic declines and financial struggles brought about by the COVID pandemic, etc etc. These days, rather than the focus on how to have happy and satisfied tourists, it seems to be on how the locals can make a quick buck thru whatever means, and attitudes toward service, safety and infrastructure upkeep that are marginal at best.

I was leaving the rest to you.... ????

Not to mention, Biden also has NOT tried to foment an illegal insurrection against his own country and its established rule of law. That counts as one pretty big positive in my book.

The news report I posted above makes it clear Biden for many years has known exactly what he was saying and why.... And it has nothing to do with any failure of memory on his part, as you baselessly claim. "In 2016, then the vice president, Mr Biden said his son’s cancer could have been caused by the toxic burn pits he was exposed to during his service in the Middle East. The New York Times reported that Mr Biden said he was “stunned” when he read a chapter concerning the death of his son in the book The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers by Joseph Hickman." https://news.yahoo.com/critics-biden-lied-son-beau-140742614.html

That's a frequent and familiar right-wing attack regarding the death of Biden's son and what the president has said about it.... Not surprisingly, there's more to the topic than your posted comment above suggests: "Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015, more than five years after he returned from a year serving in Iraq. Joe Biden has attributed the cancer to Beau Biden’s proximity to burn pits in Iraq, though sometimes conceded he isn’t sure,” tweeted CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale. In 2016, then the vice president, Mr Biden said his son’s cancer could have been caused by the toxic burn pits he was exposed to during his service in the Middle East." https://news.yahoo.com/critics-biden-lied-son-beau-140742614.html

Fact check: Studies do show face masks and lockdowns slow the spread of COVID-19 March 2, 2021 "Social media users have been sharing posts online that claim there is no evidence that face masks or lockdowns slow the spread of COVID-19. This claim is false. Examples can be seen here , here and here . ... VERDICT False. Lockdowns and face masks have been proven to slow the spread of COVID-19. The CDC and the WHO recommend the use of face masks, social distancing, frequently washing hands and other measures to reduce the spread." https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-masks-lockdowns-covid-idUSKCN2AT3JQ

The real lesson here should be.... government officials AND the general public should take seriously public health measures that helped prevent deaths and kept more people from being hospitalized from COVID. The UK government officials who enacted the correct-for-the-time and recommended COVID public health measures as laws or policies -- and then proceeded to ignore them in their own lives -- should get all the scorn and derision they deserve.

Also, contrary to claims by some posters here, there were very substantial number of people dying from COVID around the world during 2020 who weren't in the oldest 80+ age group. Yes, the 80+ group was the largest single group, but lesser but still large numbers of people in their 50s, 60s and 70s also were dying from COVID during the 2020 period referenced here.... not just the very oldest folks as has been claimed. See the following WHO age breakdown chart for reported, official COVID deaths worldwide during 2020, with deaths shown in the right-hand column: Although the above graphic appears to show COVID deaths in the 40-49 age group as relatively small, the actual death numbers in the chart for that age group for 2020 were 41,057 men and 20,201 women. The age 50s, 60s, and 70s COVID death counts as shown are even larger, and people in those age groups absolutely were at risk at the time, as the chart shows. Source link:

Among the various potential reasons, getting an account balance letter from the bank to give to Thai Immigration. Also, for the future, most of the account update details that a person might have to do down the road, such as updating a passport number or personal phone number, typically have to be done in the specific branch where your account is housed (i.e., your "home" branch).

Do you mean Nate? Or the participating police? I mean, regarding the latter, don't they have anything else better to be doing???

I'm confused here... The Thai Navy wants to evict various common folks for encroaching on a protected national forest.... So... the Thai Navy can come in with a 3,763 rai military development project in the same protected area consisting of.... "the 22nd Anti-Aircraft Battalion, the 2nd Anti-Aircraft Regiment, the Anti-Aircraft Command Unit, an Air Defense and Coastal Defense Center, and the 4th Naval Police Battalion of the Naval Police Department." If the national forest there is really a "protected" area, then it ought to be "protected" from the Thai Navy encroachers just as much as from the common folks encroachers. The article as written makes no sense, and doesn't explain how or why the planned Navy development should be treated any different there than any other "development."

I don't recall ever having seen any authoritative breakdown that divvies up the various levels of contribution to the air pollution problem here by country. Suffice to say, things would be a lot better in Thailand if Thailand got its own house in order for starters.

Today's COVID update from the Thai Ministry of Public Health shows a second consecutive week of declines in all the key COVID indicators -- the first back-to-back week of declines since the spring surge began at the beginning of April. From June 11-17: COVID Hospitalized patients 2,158 cases, daily average of 308 cases/day (down from 2,709) COVID Fatalities 60 cases, daily average of 8 cases/day, (down from 69) --------------------- 296 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition (down from 382) 186 COVID patients hospitalized requiring intubation to breath (down from 231) Key indicators for the past two weekly periods: June 4-10: June 11-17 (the latest update issued today): https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

Problems that make me not want to use them for my own use anymore. But not problems that would prevent some Thai person who might pick them up off the street to use them and do who knows what with the hard disks, if I were to leave them not securely wiped.

The first question to always ask in these kinds of cosmetic surgery gone bad cases is did the clinic where the mishap occurred have the proper license to be performing the kind of surgery that was done. And more often than not, the places that crop up in these kinds of news reports turn out to NOT be licensed for the procedure that resulted in the mishap, as apparently was the case here. "The health office said that the clinic has a license, but it had not sought permission for an expansion to provide plastic surgery services." In other words, they probably weren't licensed to be performing surgical procedures of the type that resulted in the fatality of the woman here. From past news reports of this type, Thailand seems to be awash with storefront cosmetic clinics that end up offering medical and/or surgical procedures without all the legally required elements in place.

The purpose of the vaccines, against the currently circulating Omicron strains of COVID, is to reduce people's chances of either getting seriously ill or dying from a COVID infection. Studies show the vaccines still reduce the risks of serious COVID illness and death, particularly if the person has had three or more vaccine shots, quite well even months after the last prior vaccination. The protection against mere infection, from the currently circulating Omicron strains, is much less and shorter in the duration of that protection, usually lasting only up to a couple months from the last prior shot. As time has passed and the virus has mutated, the more recent versions have become both more contagious and more able to evade the vaccines' protections against mere infection, which were much stronger against the original version of the virus at the beginning of the pandemic. That's one reason, the next generation of COVID vaccines due out probably later this year will be formulated against the currently circulating XBB strains of the virus, which hopefully will boost the vaccines' levels of effectiveness.

So "vigilant" that the first crook mentioned in the OP report allegedly had been operating as a criminal here for the past TEN YEARS! How much more "vigilant" can Thai Immigration get??? And as for "ensur[ing] the integrity of immigration processes.": How about, in just one case/arrest: "law enforcement officers found 64 Chinese passports (with counterfeit stamps and visas) and 41 forged government documents." What does that suggest about the extent of the Immigration fraud occurring here among foreigners of some particular nationalities?

I didn't realize Lyft was operating ride hailing services here??? Lyft wasn't among the list of 7 ride hailing apps that recently were listed as being approved by the DLT in Thailand.

Anyone keeping track of just how many different news threads there have been in recent days here with various government officials / so-called civil servants being accused of involvement in various kinds of corruption? It's a pretty LONG list. And whatever makes it into the news is just the tip of a much bigger corruption iceberg here. It seems to be embedded in the fabric of government service here.

I'm not sure "MUT" is really the acronym they want to be using in connection with this beauty pageant.....

Assuming that the above photo is mostly of folks who have been rounded up by Immigration somewhere, don't see many, if any, farangs among this group. Except that the couple of guys at the right edge in uniform look like they need some extra hours in the gym after work....

From my last online 90-day report, I don't recall the TM6 number being asked for there, anymore????