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They should have lynched him. Impound and auction off the car, lock him up and throw away the keys. But it will be the 500 Baht deal again and nobody talks about it next week already 😞

Irrespective of ownership impound the vehicle for three months, release it against a juicy fine of 40,000 Baht. The culprit enjoys a week in the morgue in the first instance and if repeated, then book him for a month with the compliments of the justice system of Thailand. This has to and must stop here and now; I am absolutely appalled that not more accidents happened here in Nong Khai. Some drivers were completely wasted before noon, getting more booze at Makro and would have fallen over if not supported by the shopping trolley to the booze section. In bright daylight ..... so no wonder!

Thank you for the correction; we're talking of a lady here - a fact I completely overlooked 😉

Thank you for making my day again; "virtually everyone condemned the spectacle" just made it to the joke of this year (so far). Either the spectators were a bunch of religious brainwashed geezers, do-gooders or tree huggers - me thinks! "Authorities now probing the incident" (good luck with that one) while "it was the first occasion such a performance gracing the rafts" - gives the word "grace" a completely new, welcomed, meaning. "Coyote dancing hovers in a legal grey area, employing scantily-clad dancers ........ seems a significant misstep, causing ripples across Thailand" (ripples across Thailand - now how is that for the Thursday?). You simply cannot make up such stuff, hilarious, thank you!

a) the education system is there to non-educate the children and I've been asking myself for the last 40 years, what the ministry of education and its "skilled" team of teachers are hammering into the young brains b) the banking system is medieval and all local banks suck. Regretfully all international banks which operated on private banking in the past (Deutsche Bank, Bank of Asia, Citibank, Hong Kongand Shanghai Banking corporation etc) - became very timid or closed/sold off their business to a Thai entity (latest was Citibank's departure leaving an extremely powerful customer base lost in the inability of UOB's incompetence). c) how can an SME access credit if the SME staff/owner is completely untrained? They are literally buried under piles of bureaucratic forms and impossible conditions at scary interest rates Bottomline is once more again, this particular lady, while defaulting on payments every normal person could predict before she was given the money, is completely lost - as she got nicely shatfed by her education and absence of basic business practices. The bill collectors should be taken to account, compensate of the damages they created before parked nicely for a few months into the slammer 😉

Good luck that I am retired as I am lost for understanding and comprehension. Thai Airways clocked an accrued 300 billion Thai Baht loss, has retired aircraft parked literally all over the country and now goes shopping for 45 new toys. This airline, once a pristine sparkling star on Asian aviation sky, went downhill after 1992 once Chatichai Bunya-ananta and his team of professional airline chiefs were forced into mandatory retirement (with 60 years of age). The vacancies were filled with absolutely incompetent clowns from the air force and the ministry of finance who all had two things in common. Not the slightest clue of how to run a (professional and very profitable) airline and extremely skilled in daylight robbery and stealing anything which was not screwed, nailed or bolted. Thai Airways became the country biggest 7/11 store with the sole exception that "customers" helped themselves from all those horns of plenty and left the store as there was no cashier to tally the financials. Likewise the arrogance of ground and cabin crew grew in line with the decline of the airline. During/after Covid 19 Thai Airways had tens of thousands of staff grounded, the planes were parked all over the aerodromes of the Kingdom compiling massive costs/losses while Thai Vietjet managed to operate a reliable schedule and finished the year with a black Zero. My refund application from a few years ago over a cancelled long haul flight remains unattended to this day. I wrote this off and consequently keep accruing 100,000+ miles a year on any other airline but Thai Airways. Lets see, where they want to go with the new fleet of 45 dreamliners; wondering also, if it is the same purchase crew which managed to cream off millions of pounds like in the first stint with the Rolls-Royce engines 😉 Mysterious are the ways of the East - indeed!

Decades of political misuse by all those crooks and gangsters will pay off sooner or later. I think that we've reached the suburbs of that disaster and much more is yet to come. Partly it is the world' economy, trade wars, political stand-offs, the Israel-rest-of-the-Arab-world-mess and total imbalance of power; the rest is Carabao "Made in Thailand" where the few selected eliterian oligarchs get richer and more powerful while the growing huge majority of the remaining Siamese are facing bleaker outlooks with every new sunrise. Their call but, for once, I agree with Dr T; his outlook unfortunately might be spot on .......

I quoted that earlier on already. Once I was in a crowd of people and a girl was talking to her hubby/boy friend by the nature of her discussion. Extremely loud, the whole thing on speaker so everyone could share the pleasure while she was talking directly into the microphone of her phone which she held horizontally in front of her face. Enough of this rubbish I went closer to the girl (who could have been in the age of my grand daughter) and said equally loud in Thai, that she should stop now and come back to bed. Priceless; I am absolutely sure that she never ever did that again while onlookers looked at me with a smirky smile - one of the rare occasions when all those by standing Thais must have just loved, what the Farang did this time 😉

It remains the responsibility of the passport holder to check each and every time, if/what those goons behind the immigration desk are doing. One in ten stamps are wrong - my experience - but if addressed IMMEDIATELY while still close to the immigration desk you get it fixed always. Address the officer polite by asking "I am not sure but don't you think, there should be an entry (or whatever stamp, signature, entry or date) here?" Prevents a complete loss of face which in this part of the world means the total apocalypse 😉

A "transgender convicted paedophile" manages to bully out a nurse? Really? Please tell me that this is a sick belated April Fool's joke. Such manure should be put up the wall; paedophiles, drug dealers and rapists all should face the gallows. Throwing in this whole transgender bull manure just rounds off, what the West in general meanwhile became. What a bunch of wnakers are running these medical facilities (and the rest of the gender mania rubbish)? The nurse in question should be given a medal and I would hire her without further questioning as there is nothing but two genders and the whole pronomian nonsense a brain fart of the 21st century .....

a) what has his professional past to do with his present breaching of the Alien Business Law? b) how easy is it to find Hebrew speaking guides who are familiar with Israeli/Jewish issues like Shabbat, the difference between kosher and trefa as well as why the ultraorthodox need a Shabbat goy. Latter is a non-Jew who performs actions that are forbidden to Jews on the Shabbath due to religious law. c) touring children does not result in hefty shopping commissions of up to 30% which is backhanded by vendors, if a bus of money-dripping grown-ups arrive at jewelry stores, tailors etc .........

........ "conscript abuse will face disciplinary action" ......... Well, the Ministry of Inactive Posts will have some new members shortly; usually they are assigned to Thailand's biggest Ministry for a few months only. I've been told that a little black token (exemption) can account for 60,000 Baht and yes, cadets and recruits mums, aunties and grannies don't like the red tickets (conscripted for two years). Those with a red ticket though are, more often than not, being "abused" as servants, gardeners, drivers and other work assignments as seen fit by the superior colonels and further up.

I did not know that Chiang Mai has only one restaurant ...... If you have a problem with this concept, then vote with your feet and go elsewhere - the choice is yours.

"(emotionally) warmer, more budget-friendly pastures" than Samui is pretty easy these days. Samui's problem is copy/pasted from Phuket and other holiday destinations. How many Thais visit Samui compared to the non-Thais? Samui has lost its plot many years ago, completely overpriced in line with a service attitude in free fall; high logistic costs and, apart from some beaches, not much else to do. The Samuians have yet to understand, that there are many more attractive beaches, play-for-fun ditto and culinary offers in many many other places. Previously I spent sacrosanct all Christmas breaks on Samui until I got properly ripped off with mandatory Christmas dinners which were a total disaster. Some local "musicians" almost blew the loudspeakers to pieces, the (local) food buffet was unisono cold as cooked already early afternoon and the whole ordeal came at 2,500 Baht/person; with two small kids below 10 years of age (at half the price) this most memorable Christmas "treat" came at 7,500 Baht - back then the exchange rate was 23 Baht to the USD. Taxis, beach chairs, a cold beer at the beach - all available at prices of Saint Tropez or a pristine Mexican beach. Never again - despite not being a friend of Mr Trump, you cannot stick tourism problems of Samui onto his back!

What a name, Titty and Porn - as a first name. Well done by his parents. It is yet to be seen, if all this is nothing but a big misunderstanding, the amount in question is half while the other half disappeared into thin air while the damage parties will go empty as usual. Next please 😉

The puppet master at work, publicly and in full vision of the media. Look at Von der Leyen, Lagarde and all those poisonous destroyers of Europe; not elected but commissioned. Unlike Thaksin, equally not elected, their actions are all to the disadvantage of Europe - that cannot be said about Thaksin. Putting his sweetheart daughter in the driver's seat might require his ongoing whispering on how to overcome the next speed bump ahead of her ....... and there are plenty of those. This country is a failed state, rotten governments to the roots with an uneducated electorate not having the slightest clue of what actually happens around them.

As the saying goes "there is no fool like an old fool" - serves him right. I am sure he also believes in Father Christmas, the Easter Bunny and Porky Pig!

The Saudi royal jewel disaster springs to mind, some 35 years are gone since and Thailand paid billions if not trillions in lost wages as the Saudis took Thailand off the map for decades. The office of the Saudi ambassador was empty from 1989 until 2022 as the fairy tales read by Thailand just would not go away 😉

Compared to Europe they are on the lower end of the scale despite top equipment and professional staff on the entire front. AMD can, if diagnosed earlier enough, be treated/reversed with monthly, six-weekly and ultimately bi-monthly treatments of (expensive) medication which must be administered in a sterile operating theatre at the hospital. Alternatively, a skilled expert, can try to apply sclerotherapy of capillary blood vessels in the back of the retina. This is done with a low energy laser procedure. In my case Dr Roy could help me and I shall be thankful for his endeavours for the rest of my life. The costs however are another thing. But while many have ample cash for snooker halls and beer, they turn stingy once it comes to health insurances. I opted for the second and thank the Lord for that.

We've all been there; local eateries do carry normally only a selection of local beers. If your preference is not available, they offer to get it for you - which I find perfect and very customer-friendly. I - for one - do not know anybody who would not be happy with this customer-oriented attitude and certainly the diner(s) will gladly wait for their drink of preference to arrive. Me thinks, that there is a flip side of the coin, lost in translation. Alternatively yet just another example where this Farang-bashing, taking place all over Thailands upcountry provinces - by default, education and ministerial point of view, has sank in. If Somchai is being told over and over and over again, that Farang are dirty, are rich and are an non-caring bunch of people which are tolerated in Thailand only for their money, it will eventually sink in over time. As said, there is a flip-side of the coin; I cannot see a couple of foreigners going over the moon while waiting for some staff getting their preferred tipple next door.

Go and get it from the horse's mouth. Make an appointment with www.rutnin.com - a hospital dedicated to eyes - and eyes - only. See Dr Roy Chumdermpadetsuk, fluent English (bilingual) with an excellent sense of humour and decades of experience. He is one of the few medical experts giving unbiased advice, explains everything in layman's language and details and a professional in his own right. Rutnin Eye Hospital is on Asoke and they are as "generous" with their patients time as in most other private hospitals. The (nice) flip side of the coin however it, that once it is your turn, Dr Roy has all the time for you, irrespective of whoever is still waiting after you. Treated me successfully on my AMD (age-related macula degeneration) and accompanied me 3 ½ years in regular sessions and restored my eye sight to 100%. See him and he will answer all your questions on the subject; price wise Rutnin is on par/below the other hospitals like Samitivej, Bumrungrad etc. Good luck!

"The _____________ department is actively engaged in addressing the ______________ issue." To facilitate matters, one has to just fill in the blanks. On second thought - forget about it as nothing ever happens anyway. Put the pen back where it belongs and have a drink instead!

Guess whose desk it is onto which one should put the enormous bill of health issues related to the haze in Northern and Northeastern Thailand; who runs the feed mills? But the nine digit cheque on a yearly basis, hand delivered, seems to smoothen the pain and suffering of 60% - 70% of the citizen. One day the chicken will come home to roost, it is on its way but has not hit home just yet 😞

You are absolutely right but it is guaranteed, that this particular culprit will never ever commit any crime ever again apart from saving millions of UKP, EUR or USD taxpayers money. It's like the death penalty on drugs in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. It does not eliminate the problem completely but it certainly diminishes it and, in case of a drug dealer, see above. The security and safety of the majority is relevant, so kiss the human rights goodbye and rid society of pedophiles, rapists and drug dealers - me thinks 😉

The only time window where an airline in Thailand can make serious money on domestic flights ........ and then they come and throw in a discount of 30% for good measure. I would have kept the airfares, dusted off the A380 (some five airframes were standing around for a LOOOOONG time) and get the show on the road.