Bangkok Barry

This is nowhere near an isolated incident. Open YouTube and search for Pattaya fight and take your pick of similar incidents in the family-friendly resort.

I can't argue with a closed mind. And it seems you feel you have the right to criticise anyone who uses the platform. Why you have that agenda, I have no idea. In your mind, if you don't like it then those who do use it are fools. Take a look in the mirror.

I've since edited my post, added to it. And the fact it is of zero benefit to you doesn't entitle you to insult those who use it. Does it. Live and live and all that.

Your totally pointless and unnecessary putdown of the billions who use Facebook only serves to reveal your own ignorance of how to use it for your benefit. If you don't like to use it then fine, but to then insult the billions who do makes you an arrogant idiot. I for one have made a considerable amount of money by using FB to track down many people I've then interviewed as a journalist. It only needs a modicum of imagination to get the best out of the platform.

You are titled to your opinion of course, even though it makes you look stupid and out of touch with a real world in which billions use it to interact with distant family and friends, or join interest groups or countless other things.

And the police have done what, exactly? Have they begun negotiations for their cut yet?

They appear totally unable to grasp the concept of customer rotation and that, while they are collecting their food, tables will become free. I've read over the years of people leaving their things to 'reserve' a table, like a bag or phone, and returning to the table they abandoned their things on to find them stolen. I for one find their naivety quite amusing.

More great reporting. But nothing to see here. Just another government U-turn. Maybe next week they'll U-turn on vaping.

I think you need to read the post again. It didn't say that she tried to pay the bill. When I went to pay the bill with my credit card they told me that they don't accept foreign credit cards.

Islam - the religion of peace intolerance.

How do you know she was fined 5000 baht? That isn't in the report.

If they are now demanding that foreigners pay tax, will they provide forms etc in English, the main language that foreigners understand? I have in mind no longer transferring money over for living expenses from my UK income each month, but charging supermarket shopping to my UK credit card. If I bring nothing over and have no income in Thailand, they can't tax nothing.. Credit card charges are not that high and the bills would be paid monthly with no interest, and I also wouldn't pay the (admittedly modest) transfer fee to Wise. Any expenses can by paid from what money I have here now.

The usual Thai reaction to anything negative. Never happened, nothing to see here. At least he received an apology. Blocked him speaking with the media to protect payient welfare, my ar*s. There. Fixed it

Is this a U-turn of the U-turn?

That is your opinion, without knowing anything about the location. What do you regard as a 'decent' gated community? And how would you guard against a rogue employee, which might exist in any business in Thailand. Including banks, I might add.

Traditionally in Issahn sinsod is paid by the groom or his family and the groom then moves to the brides home and becomes a laborer for her and her family. I would hardly regard that as selling their daughter or human trafficking. So you are saying that the groom pays her family for the privilege of living in her home as an unpaid worker, to serve his wife and her family? All a bit archaic, isn't it, with no place in reality in the modern world.

There . Fixed it.

But weekday afternoons are fine. No thieves or accidents about then.

Why isn't selling your daughter regarded as human trafficking in Thailand? Ah, Thai culture. Okay. That's fine, then.

About two seconds on Google will answer your question. I'm surprised you didn't think of that. It's a great way to get instant answers, rather than ask on a forum. Actually, I have a suspicion why you posted such a question, but I'll just leave it there.

While there be warning notices at all entry points into Thailand that vaping is banned and could lead to a prison sentence (as it already can, by the way, but like all laws in Thailand there is no enforcement)? Just as a warning to ignorant tourists who might be stunned to discover that what they can do freely in their own country, buy vaping products in every high street or mall, could land you in hot water and offer an income opportunity for the local boys in tight brown uniforms.

They aren't denying the charges, then. Just saying they were caught out by 'deception'.

Neither is good. In fact, both are downright dangerous.

Not really. The security guard vanished the same day my friend's house was broken into and stripped. The police refused to investigate unless he paid them 100,000 baht. That's when he decided to leave this s**thole for good and return to Australia, and his Thai wife was only too happy to get out with him.

I was at Don Mueang Airport last week and wanted a McDonald's breakfast. Used the order screen and it tried to include something I didn't want, I think as it was only two baht extra. I'm trying to cancel and swearing at the screen and an employee comes over. I said let's go to the till, I told her what I wanted and it was done and paid for in cash in less than 20 seconds. 20 seconds instead of two minutes. She saw the funny side, bless her. On another note and related to businesses that refuse cash, s it even legal to refuse legal tender? If so, the world has turned upside down. Here's a thousand baht note. Cannot accept. Madness.