Bangkok Barry

This thread is not about production. It is about promotion of the product. But yes, I agree with what you say.

Singha and Chang are subject to the same anti-advertising law.

No. Just people with a brain who don't believe for a second that showing a photo of a beer bottle will have people jumping on their unlicensed motorcycle to shoot down to the local store to stock up on said beer.

The beer monopolies are also banned from promoting their product. When did you last see a beer commercial in Thailand? The same stupid law applies to everyone in this case. Makes a change, I suppose.

That's the problem, isn't it. No-one doing anything to change things. Thailand - Hub of Apathy.

That thought crossed my mind, but the billionaire-owned two major breweries also cannot advertise their produce. I remember a while ago Singha would show tv commercials with people dancing and ecstatic over being able to drink their water. Just more proof that Thailand is a lunatic asylum run by idiots.

Perhaps. But similar actions take place at other times too. It's simply to show who is in charge, similar to when men in uniforms descend on places such as Soi Cowboy and close bars down at midnight, just because they can.

Is it? I haven't read that, but you do know this a forum about Thailand don't you?

Where did you read he was out at 4am with $5500 on him?

I bought an item advertised on FB, which turned out to be fake, PayPal got me a refund. So, never again. FB doesn't appear to check on anyone who advertises a business on their platform. Anything goes.

Should have had an accomplice walking around with a box to collect donations from the onlookers. It could catch on, but preferably not involving those of confused gender. Enough to pay the fine and plenty left over, I'd guess.

Don't you love the way the victim's face is blurred in one photo of the linked article but not in another. I'll never understand this country.

We also have frequent power cuts, while across the road they don't. We now have a brother-in-law working alongside the elected politician for the area, so I asked my wife to get him to ask the authorities why this happens (for at least the 10 years I've been here) and what they are doing about it. She won't even ask him to ask. Thailand - Hub of Apathy. Which is why the country is so backward in so many ways.

Thai Sriram Company’s tour bus from Ubon Ratchathani to Bangkok lost control No it didn't. And isn't this a normal route with nothing to do with tours? Two errors in one sentence? A Thai journalist I worked with made three errors in his opening paragraph, so probably not unusual.

I remember many years ago the police did one of their re-enactments around where Mor Chit BTS station is now, and the crowd there tore him to pieces. Can't remember what he had been arrested more.

I found this interesting, from the linked article: Yuthasak Supasorn is working with tourism industry agencies and business groups to try to find a solution relating to snags being encountered by tourists in China seeking visas but there is, as yet, no breakthrough. So, Thailand is making it difficult for those who it is trying to attract to actually come here. And with no solution in sight, it appears. Just another way to discourage, alongside the weekly on average this year abductions and murders of Chinese. The number of high-profile cases that have been reported since the start of the year involving Chinese nationals being abducted, extorted and even murdered comes to over a dozen

That's step two thinking, which Thais are unable to do. Any potential consequence of his action would not have occurred to him. They only live in the moment. We read of this every day when people kill or maim others over next to nothing.

UK pension/still alive-check is done via letter-post? I can't believe that. But wait, it's UK. They send a form to complete, countersigned by some local person of importance vouching for me. Rather like (still?) having to have a person of standing countersigning a passport application?

It's just that you ignored the part I wrote, which was this: I've never heard of security forces touring tourist areas demanding to see proof that they have a right to be in the country. Instead, you ranted about something entirely different, which you obviously have strong views about. But that has no similarity at all to what happened in :Pattaya. none at all. And rather than discuss that, you go off in a huff because I called you out and you can't win the argument.

Yes I do. You know, you could answer your own questions if you were motivated enough to do some online research. Most countries have reasonably aggressive immigrant policies. I'm from the US and the things they do to immigrants there are horrendous - taking little kids away from their parents, deporting the parents without keeping track of where they go, and keeping the children warehoused in chain link cages. They are still trying to unite families that were separated under Trump in 2017 - 2020. No health care is provided and children have died from such things as the flu, migrants have been shot and beaten to death by ICE guards. Totally different circumstances. The whole world knows how the USA treated those people. But checks here are on people having a night out while on vacation, not because they might have sneaked across borders. Being Thai, they imagine that the world is queuing up to settle in their paradise, when in fact the situation is the opposite, with Thais trying to illegally stay in other countries to enjoy a higher income and better lifestyle. Foreigners do not want to come illegally to Thailand so they can suffer a lower standard of living. Except from neighbouring countries, but those people are often not the target of the authorities.

Certainly ends his money woes. Free board and lodging from now on.

I've had that problem from UK Pensions and others that I have pensions with, checking that I'm not dead yet. A quick email to them explaining the delay in responding does the trick.

Yes. We discovered that for about 18 months, a period during which we received almost no mail, the postman was burning it as that was much less trouble than actually delivering it. He was replaced by a nephew, so now delivery is assured. In my native UK the errant postman would have been arrested for interrupting the Queen's mail. In Thailand, apparently, nothing happened and he was allowed to retire.

I assume you meant to say 'your address in Thai'. And nor does anyone else in the entire world outside of Thailand. Which is why the postal authorities need to/are supposed to understand English. As it it, I wanted to send a letter from the Nana post office in Bangkok to Kalasin, and she wanted to know what country Kalasin is in. So they appear to not know very much.

Interesting.