Bangkok Barry

The phrase 'Boys will be boys' doesn't always apply in Thailand. Tourists beware.

Not directly connected with this thread, but I've noticed that since January 1st Wise no longer show the year on the transaction date. It was useful for specifying exactly when I receive my monthly payments, and now I have to keep a screen shot of my BKK Bank statement to marry up the date of the transfer. No big deal, but why the heck would they do that, I wonder. Trying to email them to ask just sent me round in circles.

That might be because in the real world all government offices follow the same rules and don't make them up on the hoof as they do in Thailand. Takes some getting used to, officers making up their own rules. As @Liquorice wrote, show the OP the 'rule'.

If someone did this in his home country, which is unlikely, I doubt that he would be set upon by a bunch of people acting like rabid dogs. So we have one of the many examples of human trash that Thailand attracts, together with locals who over-react and take delight in attacking a foreigner. Both sets are not people I'd want to be around.

The screenshot I took was from the bus company's own website. So, I guess, Thai-style reliability for accuracy. But as I'm staying in a hotel right next to the bus terminal I'll ask them when I arrive what time the buses actually return. Thanks.

You recommend a van? The last time I used one I seriously considered asking to be let out after he was tailgating three or four metres behind other vehicles while going at 120kph.

I'm off to Pattaya next week and looked up the bus times. They are frequent enough for it not to matter that much, but I noticed a curiosity. Fifteen buses go there but only 11 return. They are hourly from Bangkok but two-hourly from Pattaya. Bizarre. Anyone have any idea why that is/how that can work? The Case Of the Disappearing Buses... BTW, nice that you can pre-book on-line these days. Haven't used the service for years so don't know how long that has been in operation.

I get money sent over every month, transferred from HSBC in the UK to my Bangkok Bank account. I can't see any way that the new rules will change that. It appears that they mainly affect those sending money out of Thailand or who keep money in a Wise account (something I don't do).

I have no doubt at all that the human race will destroy itself. Again. There is plenty of evidence of civilisations in the past that disappeared, leaving signs that that they had existed. Why we willingly invent things (now, AI among other things) to assist in our destruction is baffling.

The leader of Reform UK is as reliable as a wet paper bag, but one of his policies is that if someone is convicted of a crime three times then they receive an all-life sentence, having proved by then that they are unable to live in civilised society. I'm all for that. Prompted by, among other things, a young woman being murdered near where I used to live by someone with 38 previous offences who was still allowed to walk the streets. This piece of human garbage should never be allowed out of jail again.

Sproutcall. Used it to call the UK and it was perfect.

Any verification? Quotes from outraged members of the public? No, I thought not. If those who the article says are disturbed by seeing such things on sale in plain sight then the police can see them too, but they clearly have no interest in reacting to the imaginary public outcry. Same in Sukhumvit in Bangkok. No-one cares.

I wonder how many will think that the suspension/ban applies to tourist visas, as opposed to those seeking to emigrate to the US. Many might see 'USA suspends visa processing for Thailand' and think everyone is banned. That's how a Thai family member here read it at first.

Were we warned about this? Or was it just thrust upon us?

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