Bangkok Barry

My experience (two) is that they totally ignore me and speak only with my wife and take ID details of the neighbours from across the road. They don't enter the house, but sit out the back with an ice-cold cola before leaving with a bag of mangos or passion fruit. All very amiable and stress-free. Others' experience might differ of course.

Some on here are expressing concern. Don't worry. A proposal to have casinos in Thailand comes around every now and then - including only a few months ago when 'they would be situated in Chonburi'. Then those involved in the proposal are taken aside and reminded who owns the illegal ones, untouchables who lurk in the shadows and who have no intention whatsoever of allowing others to dilute their massive earnings. As happened with the recent proposal. And it all gets forgotten until the next time.

Sounds just like Thailand

To help you understand, brake failure in Thailand is known elsewhere as driving too fast for the conditions. But drivers who do that in Thailand find it impossible to admit the real reason for an accident - their incompetence - as they would lose face.

An example of people unable to understand the difference from playing a video game and driving like that in real life? Plenty here seem to drive like that. I was nearly killed outside my house by two pickups racing.

No. My punishment for anyone committing crimes such as these would be to break their kneecaps so that they suffer for what he did for the rest of their life.

Not on my many years of experience, either at the Melbourne consulate or Savannakhet. Of course, as we know, different offices do things differently. I always had to write multi as there was no 'relevant box'.

The paper form has never had a place to request a multi. I had to write multi, back when I used that method. As far as the form is concerned, you were unable to apply for a multi. Except, of course, that you could. Just Thainess, making something that should be simple confusing.

I think that reflects that contributors don't really care about the 'reputation' stats. Do any of us actually know how the numbers are calculated? Do I care? Not in the slightest. Others might like to amass as many points as they can, in a similar way that some 'friend' everyone in sight on Facebook to build huge numbers for no practical reason. Just makes them feel good, I suppose.

I had to fill in the form once at Kalasin. Can't see the point of it, as it isn't universally required (like many immigration rules). Same as the 90 day report, as if you're a criminal on probation, serves little to no purpose. In the real world you would inform if you moved. In Thailand you have to inform that you haven't.

Never a good idea to throw petrol on a fire. Maybe nobody told him.

Did they ask him why he was on the wrong side of the road?

Thailand has a very, very, very long way to go in the area of people's rights. Deny deny deny from the Electric Authority that an electric shock from one of their electric poles is anything to do with them, and then what? I assume they set up the faulty pole, but as always in Thailand no-one takes any responsibility. That's something in my country that most grow out of by about the time they begin school. In Thailand, that's about the age where development stops. Spineless juveniles.

Maybe, like in the UK, the prisons are full up.

No it doesn't. Yod said Chokchai (the husband) had been subjected to Wongduen’s (the wife) violent behaviour throughout their relationship.

One of Thailand's most successful exports and foreign income earners. You can find such enterprising young ladies throughout the world, ready to please.

Read the linked article. Interesting that it happens Thai on Thai as well as Thai on Farang.

I know that the airline is behind in so many things - like aircraft and service levels, unimportant stuff like that - but shouldn't they be aware that the pandemic has been over for at least a year, and a lot longer in many places?

Where did you read they had overstayed by one day? The report said they were on overstay and there were other legal violations.

I am not the only one reporting this problem, and every other site I use has the same-sized font as before. So nothing at all to do with my browser settings and everything to do with what was done during the recent maintenance. Someone messed up and needs to accept responsibility and revert it to the size the font used to be it.

I sent messages to Contact Us on both the missing Up arrow (now reinstated) and the font. When I've done that in the past I've received a reply, not these times. I had no idea there is a Support Forum. Finding how to post to some of these forums isn't exactly user friendly. Would not whoever receives messages sent to Contact Us forward the query to the Support Forum? And let me know they've done so?

You could be right.

Before they 'fixed' the font that didn't need fixing I wrote and asked why they'd got rid of the up arrow on the right. Again, AN couldn't be bothered to reply, but the arrow did re-appear a couple of days later, and in a better position. Maybe they'll revert to the previous font size. And also, maybe, AN might have the courtesy to reply to messages sent to them. It seems they only bother writing to you now to give a warning rap over the knuckles over something you've posted.

Is it just me, or did Asean Now reduce the font size a few days ago? I wrote to them and asked if they had and how I could change the size and my message went unanswered.