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2 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

They had planned this over 2+ years ago. Just never implemented to date. But yes it is coming and I will stop going to 7-11

just wait until their Chinese peers finally show them how to do it, there won't be a single place left anymore for your shopping

14 hours ago, northsouthdevide said:

I went in my local lotas to grab some red onions for missus northsouth. 

She almost finished cooking dinner and realised she didn't have any, so it was a bit of a red onion emergency. 

I also ignored the que to sign the book, and though I understand the reasoning behind it, I don't intend to pick up a pen that 100 strangers have just been handling. 

Will avoid lotas for the time being. 

in Lootut, fresh pens on the left, used pens on the right (will be sanitized before being moved back to the left)

3 hours ago, sahibji said:

it baffles me that these europeans visit thailand for holiday or relaxation but end up in fighting, misbehaving and in this case murder.

I think quite a few foreigners (not only Europeans) don't come for holiday but for settling more serious things with "business partners". Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese shady figures are a well-known breed for sorting out things in TH

prices up, of course. "we did not have proper income for a long time!" ... somehow understandable...?!

17 hours ago, CNXexpat said:

I am curious if Thais have to pay this too. I guess not because they will say "I can´t understand the English sign".

or Thai "me thinks: written in English so for English- reading people only"

do we have to fear that any of the T.A.T. gentlemen (and gentlewomen) read the results of this questionnaire?

2 hours ago, SkyFax said:

Everyone? Not everyone is in the daily "gotcha" mode.

right, my mood about all this figure- crunching b.s. is on level "couldn't care less"...

On 4/28/2020 at 10:45 PM, ukrules said:

I went to Villa Market a few days ago, I notice that they are running low on some imported food items.

 

I like the Oscar Mayer sliced turkey, none of that left at all.

"Oscar Mayer" ... probably just changed the name

5 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

They should really be paying the 5k for 6 months+, opening massage shops but with no customers won't help enough

"massage shops but with no customers"

wait! I'll be there!  ????

19 hours ago, 473geo said:

There is of course the pink ID card in existence

 

But guess what? it appears to be far too much trouble for many to obtain, so they whine about the time and effort it takes to be processed and about it being of no benefit

Add an approximate price of 60 baht well no chance that is just the final straw!!! No way Jose over a a quid/ a couple of dollars surely taking advantage!!

 

My wife set it all up for me yellow book and pink card - considered it might be a good idea - is it? don't really know, but it means I am on record at the local amphur, having got married there also, a 'known' person so to speak which is always a good start

 

Permanent residence, why do you need it? comfort blanket? oh to resolve the hardship of immigration controls, give us a break, if it's not worth the effort then..... do one!!

 

 

The PINKY is half-good...problem has been it does not have a magnetic stripe or chip so it is really just a piece of printed plastic (often valuable, though)

one more thing: it is issued by your local amphur not by the government so often it is looked at as a "local card --- means what?"

58 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

haha, my mother in law still calls me 'the farang', and that's after 23 years  of being married to her daughter, and she visited us twice in UK.  I look upon it as a term of endearment  as she always says it with a smile on her face !  

"...with a smile on her face" while counting her monthly overseas income...

was there any peculiar smell about you? sometimes you won't notice yourself n then it helps to ask your neighbour sniff you out before you go shopping, just to make sure...

24 minutes ago, Black arab said:

We have to get a cert when leaving tbe village and say where we are going and when we will be back.Also temp check when going out. Had this for over one week now in isaan chaiyaphum.

6 hours ago, VYCM said:

Many Thais also, not just foreigners.

the new breed of world-wide hapless, poor, abandoned, homeless people

so exciting again...muua muua

2 hours ago, Kaopad999 said:

I think it should start from 8pm. I'm not really sure if 10pm is going to make a huge amount of difference now that bars and other nighttime entertainment has been closed. But time will tell. 

thinking about a sanitized life up-country it should start 12noon: This is when all the cowboys get drunk watching their cock-fights and else...and, not to forget: one drinking vessel for 12 people...

went to Khorat Immi today for renewing my annual: they do a phantastic job there, check everyone's papers in an outside sheltered area with clear distancing. Once through, you get your paper bunch back with a waiting no.  Move to an outside shaded waiting area and only go inside once your no. is called. Inside = 5 officers with 5 distanced chairs (i.e. theoret. total of customers not exceeding 5 in that wide room). I was out and done after 45 min. = hope they will stick to this procedere after Covid!

On 3/30/2020 at 2:05 PM, Brunolem said:

But are you representative of the average Thai citizen? 

the "average Thai citizen" esp. up-country hasn't seen a doctor for ages, because 

a) she/he wants to save money  

b) she/he knows better

so they buy all their medical supplies otc and administer to/by themselves (sometimes asking relatives or a priest for proper application...)

47 minutes ago, steven100 said:

how do you work out a stimulus for 1000 hookers

just donate to all the sick buffaloes in their families and thus "lease the animals"...

4 hours ago, Tayaout said:

In some article I read they say less than 5 years and over 70 must stay home. 

 

Som Nam na

"older than 70: strongly advised to stay home"

the "deadly Italian strain" surely developed in the Prato area in northern Italy with a Chinese community of over 60000 (!), so it is a Chinese sub of the deadly Chinese Wuhan virus Covid-19; nothing much Italian about that strain... 

12 hours ago, DaRoadrunner said:

Anutin's strong point is obviously not mathematics. We have a pandemic and this is the best man they could find for the job?

but his company was involved in building Suvarnabhumi AP...

22 minutes ago, glennb6 said:

Remember Purachai back in the taxin days? Anutin must be trying to out-do him.

 

If the govt declares the bars in Pattaya must shut down, stick a fork in it and say goodnight. Property prices will crash, businesses will close and throw people out of work, and crime will increase. Maybe half the locals can take up rice farming again...

 

I can't believe this is even being considered an option. Govt MIGHT be able to pull this off for a few days or a couple weeks, but if it's longer or indefinite, forget about it.

"...and crime will increaseand crime will increase"

hmm, most probably nothing left to be pinched = not interesting anymore for gangs, touts, governmental and local figures

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

I am 75 and live in a small village in rural Khampaeng Phet.

 

The big village is 6km away and fairly normal but I have a hospital appointment in KPP 65km away. The furthest I have been since Xmas is KPP and locally everything seems pretty much normal though I see fewer people around and rarely anyone wearing a face mask apart from the ladies working in 7/11.

 

I am mostly self isolated anyway, so do I need to go into a headlong panic mode yet?

don't forget even small villages have seasonal workers going berry-picking in Europe, illegal Thais in Korea, construction workers in BKK and the inevitable local girl working bars in Pattaya...