iko

Hello all, is it true that international postal deliveries via registered post (from Thailand) are currently not possible due to Covid? If so, what are the alternatives? 

1 hour ago, chrisinth said:

Doubt that would be tobacco only in the 'cigarette', unless they were down to the last one in the packet.

????

 

1 hour ago, toper3jr said:

Someone please start a petition or MORE, to hold the thai government responsible for their lies on this matter and to temporarily ban flights n tourists from most affected areas!

too little, too late.

16 hours ago, ukrules said:

Wow, amazing.

 

I guess this is why immigration are so paranoid - they think we're all doing the same as they (Thais) do all around the world.

Paranoid? Are they though?

On 1/25/2020 at 12:58 PM, fforest1 said:

The solution is simple.....Ban All Chinese.......

Or all those 'coming' from China.

Check Bangkok Phuket Hospital.

Thanks. Any doctors in particular?

Hi all, I'll be back to Phuket soon. Since I need a pretty delicate dental implant job, I was wondering if anyone can recommend someone in particular. It's just one tooth, but I've been butchered by a farang dentist back home and the situation is pretty delicate now. So I'm in need of someone really skilled in this kind of treatment (implant + bone grafting).

Of course, after this past experience, I'm a bit terrorized and paranoid and need first-hand advice. Price is not a concern. Ability is.

thanks in advance

Thanks everyone. I saw the page. Anybody with personal experience with elitesmile?

Hi all, I'll relocate to CM soon (from Phuket). Since I need a pretty delicate dental implant job, I was wondering if anyone can recommend someone in particular. It's just one tooth, but I've been butchered by a farang dentist back home and the situation is pretty delicate now. So I'm in need of someone really skilled in this kind of treatment (implant + bone grafting).

Of course, after this past experience, I'm a bit terrorized and paranoid and need first-hand advice. Price is not a concern. Ability is.

thanks in advance

IKO

A straight case of attempted Murder,

resulting in GBH,poor guy was lucky to have woken up before he bled to death.

Happens too often in Thailand,but I only recall 1 case in America,guy called Bobby Lovett? or something like that.

"hel_l hath no Fury like a woman scorned" certainly takes on a new meaning with some Thai females.

I believe he was John Wayne Bobbit. Later on he shot a porn movie too. Women are much more violent than men. Have you evere seen 2 women fighting? It's scary.

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Wow...I guess I better just lie low

However, as a point of law, I will just say that Thailand's legal codes are modeled on the Continental European model (i.e., Napoleonic Codes rather than English common law) and as such there is generally NOT a presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law for people arrested for criminal offenses. I believe the burden of proof is on the defendant to prove his innocence, rather than the State.

Your idea about what you call "the continental european model" is quite weird. Please tell me one 'continental" country where it doesn't apply the presumption of innocence. Just one. thanks

My last girlfriend had a habit of beating her own daughter for trivial things, I had to restrain her on a regular basis. She has now left me, a better offer elsewhere, or so she thought. It didn't work out, so she tried to get back with me, well I don't accept such behaviour and have moved on. The new one has also attacked me after getting drunk, I will forgive, just the once, does it again, she is out.

This is a warning to everyone, sweet faces, pretty smile on the outside, dangerous, black hearts on the inside, we are little more than a Ferang with an ATM.

I wonder where you pick your girls...

I never have any physical fights with my Thai wife whom I have known since 1989.

same here. although my wife can get so upset and angry of the strangest things (this is like any woman in my experience) she has never come at me with violence nor have I done so with her. it pays to date and marry a woman who has an education, is fluent in English, and has a professional job with a respectable company and even..... a career.

Been living with my thai woman for almost 5 years. She has 0 education and I "picked" her in a bar in patong, but she never showed any violence towards me (or others). A good heart has little to do with education (and less than little with schooling). Some people are good, some are bad, just like that. And violence has nothing to do with booze or drugs too. Some drunks are violent, some are not. To spot a violent woman is not so difficult though, if you're not 15 years old. Some think they can change their wife/husband, but, then again, people don't change and the stabbing-type will never be the non peaceful one and viceversa.

BTW, to be more pedantic, it's กิ๊ก and not กิก and the correct transliterationis gík.

Well, any website can be viewed, in most of its parts, on websites that keep record and save on the pages their server.

I did know nothing about those websites before reading this post, but looking at their homepage, there is a picture (cartoon style)

with 2 naked boys not older than 8 years. I'm not sure is convenient to attach the picture here. Anyway it looks very underage-oriented.

VERY

I really get annoyed with the constant berating of Thai society I see on this page. I understand the Thais have different values than we do. The legal system is corrupt, as were all of our legal systems at some point in history. Every EXPAT residing in Thailand is here VOLUNTARILY, and most of you because your MONEY is more valuable here than at home. Even the highest minded person on this page likely takes advantage of his privileged status within Thai culture, and yet you seem to be the first to berate the Thais for aspiring in their own way to attain a small piece of what you have. I am not one of those pie eyed tourists infatuated with Thailand, having never left Sukhumvit. I have been here for some time, and I have seen all the good and bad Thailand has to offer. The bottom line is, as distasteful as I find some aspects of the culture, and as baffling as I find some Thai behaviors I realize that this is THEIR country. I have to conform to their value system, they do not have to conform to mine. Please I ask all of you economic refugees to stop taking your bitterness out on the Thais. They are living their lives, their way, in their country. We are all guests, and alot of us seem to forget it.

Mate... Selling your daughter to a foreigner for a few bucks is ethically accceptable??

Sure, we have to conform. And the fact is that having sex with a child is still considered illegal here, and immoral too, as strange as you can find. So, where aren't we "conforming" here? Spare us, please.

The accused has admitted to carrying out some of the acts of which he is accused, but told investigators he had never had the impression he was forcing the girls to comply with his wishes

Excellent point indeed. As a matter of fact, it's pretty irrelevant when you bang a 8 years old girl.

iko,

You are right on the spot. Why then have a consulate office? Why then warn citizens not to visit a country when in danger? The health and welfare of the citizens should be its concern not only shaking hands with Foreign Minister and ambassadors of other countries.

Have you ever heard of travel insurance agencies?

Of course embassies also offer a certain services for their fellow countrymen, but they are not a welfare institution.

So sad and tragic individual cases maybe, that is not the job of an embassy to help here out.

Yes, i've also heard othat "stuff happens", and btw also if he had an insurance, maybe by now he'd be already over the coverage limit. Anyway, I think cases like this don't happen everyday and don't jeopardize the financial state of any state (let alone the strong germany). And I'm pretty sure that germany has a good welfare. So this guy can be hospitalized and helped till he stays within his country borders but cannot be helped anymore if he crosses the borders? Lawful or not, it sounds very inhumane to me. Who's the third world country now? Thailand, or Germany?

I quite don't understand the embassy at all. I was under the impression that an embassy must provide financially to countrymen who are in trouble aborad. I'm pretty sure an englishman (friend of a friend) got his ticket paid from the embassy to go back to england. I was under the impression that they Must help you out and then you have to give the money back once resettled. Am I wrong then?

You got that wrong. The main idea behind an embassy is to have a established diplomatic connection between the two involved states and not to be an emergency service for fellow countrymen in distress.

If it were just that, why bothering openin the consulates "to the public"? I'm investigating now what is the state of the art in Italy. Let you know if they must provide or not (obviously this has nothing to do with the german embassy).

This sounds awful. Good to hear his condition is improving. I'll take my hat off to the Thai hospital. Anyone knows what happened on the the airport that caused the injuries?

"another paper" has said he was injured in a fall at the Hat Yai airport. He has a mental illness and in a apparently confused state climbed and subsequently fell from an overhead passageway that ran through to a utility room at the airport. This happened last October.

I agree its extraordinary of the hospital to have provided such involved care for such a long time without remuneration and kudos to them for doing so.

I understand the German Embassy's (among others) policy of not providing financial assistance to its citizens in a foreign country, but given that the Thais have done so much for him already, perhaps an exception is warranted in this specific case and they could finance his return home.

Short of that, an offer of assistance from one of German ex-pat organizations in Thailand would be a terrific gesture.

I quite don't understand the embassy at all. I was under the impression that an embassy must provide financially to countrymen who are in trouble aborad. I'm pretty sure an englishman (friend of a friend) got his ticket paid from the embassy to go back to england. I was under the impression that they Must help you out and then you have to give the money back once resettled. Am I wrong then?

"in fact, the Thai Education Ministry has a massive annual budget"? Graft, not education is our department motto.

Yes the Education Ministry does have a massive budget, but the facts are that of each 100฿ of that budget only 2 or 3 baht ever reach the classroom.

Whilst I agree with the point - please verify these 'facts'. Love to see the source!

My friends child in Lopburi is taken to school where the teacher promptly puts on a TV and then goes away. There is nothing taught for hours every day! He has brought he to BKK now and is teaching her English at his apartment and she is doing fine now.

As we can see, technology can be dangerous, sometimes Joking aside, I really think that the most important thing is good teachers. My teachers had nothing but the chalk and I'd venture to say that they did a very good job and when they didn't it wasn't because of lack of "gadgets". Sure, Internet and Pc are important for living in a modern world. I've been working in this field (Internet) for more than 12 years now. I learned to use a pc just before graduating (I needed it for formatting my thesis, mainly). It takes few days to any normal human being to learn how to use a pc and how to surf the web. To learn how to think and to memorize it takes years. And it takes good teachers (along with good parents). Technology alone can also be "dangerous" (in terms of atrophying a brain) if not accompanied by a good education. As for the "chalk and talk", for a guy named Plato (who was pretty well-endowed intellectually) the worst thing one can do is writing down the lessons. There's a famous anecdote when Socrates, to a a pupil who was complaining about having lost his notes, says something like: "You should have written the lesson onto your mind".

Education has little to do with internet, personal computer, cd-players etc. When I was a kid I had none of those things but I had an excellent education, because the teachers were skilled and very committed. It comes down to the teachers. If they are good and committed, the pupils will receive a good education. If not, not. Unfortunately, it looks like sometimes it's difficult to find those teachers. My girlfriend attended a school (near Buriram) where the teachers were never fully sober, or simply preferred reading the papers than giving the lessons. 

Yes, people should tell the Thai women to leave folks like me alone.

Some people on this board need a sort of re education. They have minds as narrow as a car antenna ( the old type).

Phobias about Black men give people the creeps.

You would not see me even dead is some parts of Bangkok. That includes soi 1 to soi 23 sukhumvit. I have always had the belief that all the white/black/Arab/Asian people that hang around those sois are up to no good. So I would not touch a thai girl from such areas with a ten meter pole.

This story have been coming up for years now and nothing seems to have been done about the problem, and there would still be a new case come next month and next year.

And you would think that a young woman who would sell her dignity and her body for a few baht without minding the consequences for a few baht would not jump into transporting illegal drugs for a few dollars?

I followed a case about someone that was charged for recruiting mules here in Bangkok, after two court appearances in 3 months, his visa was revoked and he was deported. Quite intriguing as I would never know if he was guilty as charged or just a frame up to remove him.

And how would characterize a mule as being deceived or being ignorant of the content of her haul if she was nabbed on her 4th trip?

Or how would you expect to live your life in freedom with easy cash from questionable trips, when others are working their butt off on a 9 to 5 jobs.

Why would you want to point fingers of blame to another people or group of people, when your life choices include partying every night and waking up 3 pm everyday and still expect you would not end up in some sh-t?

The mules, their masters, addicts and the Chinese hangman all deserve one another. As you make you bed ........ you should shut the <deleted>-ck up and lie on it.

The blame could go a lot more way around, whoring your body away for years could make dealing on drugs just another ill that could be done, so blame the sexpats, divorce could bring hardship which might make easy drug money a way out, so blame the ex husbands, and so on.

Caught with hands in the cookie jar, don't play blame games.

Drugs are bad. Live a decent life.

And you would think that a young woman who would sell her dignity and her body for a few baht without minding the consequences for a few baht would not jump into transporting illegal drugs for a few dollars?

They rent their body, they don't sell it. And this is what happens with any kind of job (you rent your mind, if you do an intellectual job), so i don't see any difference. I've never understood this acrimony against women that usually don't hurt anyone (just the opposite). Maybe you were a bit angry for the "black guys" comments; maybe you should know that considering a woman a bad person just because she's a "ladybar" or considering a guy scum just because he's hanging out in a soy you don't like is not so different than considering "black guys" pushers, robbers and stupid monkeys.

It's a pitty really but it's hard to have sympathy for people that know what is going to happen if they are court and hopefully know that the chances of being court are pretty high. They must have been pretty desperate for money!

Frankly, to me it's not too hard to sympayhize. I pity those poor thai girls. They did the wrong thing, sure. Do they deserve to die for that? i don't think so and nobody with a heart would.

From experience - press in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand are all controlled. But I still think Thailand has more Freedom than the two former. I would think Cambodia would also be heavily scrutinised as well as VN. Asia in general is simply controlled but I believe Thailand has far more freedom now that under Thaksin when he shut television stations etc. Overall I think the article is much to do about nothing. Not much has or will change.

From experience - press in North Korea, Cuba and Thailand are all controlled. But I still think Thailand has more Freedom than the two former. I would think Burma would also be heavily scrutinised as well as Loas. .................................. but I believe Thailand has far more freedom now that under Thaksin when he shut television stations etc. Overall I think the article is much to do about nothing. Not much has or will change.

This govt has shut down TV stations, internet sites blocked youtube wikileaks etc .. who gives a flying <deleted> what Thaksins govt done, he is not in power this govt has to take 100% responsibility for its actions, though as in the west no one is accountable, its just easier to blame Thaksin or some other previous govt.

Just because Thaksin wasnt very nice doesnt mean you can try turning it on its head that this govt are anything other then freedom fearing rich communists who wish to control the media that people can access that suits their agenda, no need to bring Thaksin into it.

This govt would love to be as Totalitarian as China, fortunately the people wont stand for it, the people i am refering to are the ones you and this govt wish to call terroris

Communists? Ah yeah, like Obama. Communists everywhere. We're surrounded. Listening to fUx News, at least.

I fear nobody helped this poor bloke. He was alone. Mourning the death of his baby kid in his room. Coping in a situation like this can be impossible. If he weren't in a foreign country far from his family he wouldn't have committed suicide. My guess.

I fear you're right. We all could come in a similar situation. Who'd help?

I think in similar situations one should go back to his own country as soon as possible and try to stick to his family and friends. I got some friends here, but if I had some serious psychological situation, I'd take the first flight to my country and seek help from my brother, my mother and my old friends. Staying in Pattaya and meeting "beer buddies" is not the same thing. He could have had some real friends there too, but in my experience it's most unlikely. Also if he had, for sure he could have find more help at home, with his family. with his longtime friends.

I fear nobody helped this poor bloke. He was alone. Mourning the death of his baby kid in his room. Coping in a situation like this can be impossible. If he weren't in a foreign country far from his family he wouldn't have committed suicide. My guess.