Sydebolle

I never touched the stuff and have no intention to start with it now. 

Yet, typically Thai, while the SMEs try to make ends meet ....... the authorities come and move the ends. Of course 90% were optimists and try everything and everybody well knowing, that they might fail due to lack of experience, working capital, marketing, the works ......

Some others might have tried and were steamrollered by all the incompetent "competition" which just f-a-rted into the trade until there was no air left to breathe. 

Billions of Baht down the drain again but, as long as the horns of plenty are replenished with taxpayers money to inject programmes like the digital wallet or the presently limping half-half-tourism-promotion .......  

There are more than plenty of jobs anywhere in Thailand even for lower skilled staff. All this whining over the poor left-behinds at Pattaya's walking street is barking up the wrong tree. 

Almost any restaurant anywhere in Thailand, be it Korat, Udon, Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai, has signs out "looking for staff". 

All those do-gooders and tree huggers might have to learn Thai reading and then tell those suffering underlings, that one has to WORK for money! 

a) apart from huge, mostly broken, screens along the beach one still has to find public toilets available to anyone along the beach
b) I've seen hundreds of Thais, mostly drivers, peeing along wherever they stopped to poles, walls and if someone wants more detailed studies, visit the food stalls along lower Sukhumvit after 11pm. Most Soi going off Sukhumvit smell of urine as none of those food vendors offer toilets
c) while the stench is less than pleasant it is noteworthy, that if this is the only liquid "pollution" being released in public, then Thailand might just have become the cleanest country on the planet.

Stop this bashing of non-Thais, if your own people do the same or even worse. Stop splurging money into absolute nonsense as long as there might be the possibility to erect 50 - 100 toilets along the beach in Pattaya, Jomtien as well as all other beaches facing the Gulf of Thailand. 

The source of Krating Daeng envelopes to keep the next generation out of trouble? Just wondering and asking for a friend 😉 

Given the fact, that Thailand entered another 1st in the Guinness Book of Records on Thursday ...... no wonder. The entry was for Thailand being the first country to have the third Prime Minister in a week since Monday, and that was yesterday  - Thursday. 

Well done, keep up the good work and carry on serving people, nation and monarchy to the best of your abilities - what a farçe and shame for Thailand and its people who certainly would deserve much better than this circus show of poorly acting muppet puppets 😞 

Yet another case of "cat corpse desecrator"?   Bon appétit - in that case!

With every new day there are more things I completely fail to understand; this one might be the winner for the 1st half year 2568 😞 

16 hours ago, DezLez said:

B.S,

Every countries in the world  deserve a good and honest Government!

The problem is where you will find such a utopia?

 

PS; Does one exist?

Regretfully you are spot on with your statement 😞 Could not agree more! 

In all fairness, Thais do not deserve a better, more honest government.

If you see all this manure coming by the trainloads and still nobody stands up against all this cheating, corruption and inability to get anything right for their own people, then they have to accept what they get - if at all - and that's exactly where we are today. 

The third prime minister in a week and it is only Thursday 😉 

It starts with the lottery tickets pricing. Prayuth with his big mouth proclaimed that those are sold at face value ... well, after a few weeks the 80 Baht tix were 100 Baht again - your call! 

Well, if the gifted goons of the government seriously consider war issues with its neighbour, then it might be helpful to fill the vacancy ......... or start talking common sense - your call!   

I - for one - would suggest common sense for the time being; the defense ministry runs also without a minister for a moment .... or two .... or more! 

On 6/30/2025 at 2:02 PM, johng said:

Yes foreigners can also get a Thai drivers licence..no need for a Thai ID card which 99.9% of foreigners do not possess.

Not quite so, in Nong Khai the DLT insisted on a pink ID card for the issuance of an international driver's license based on the Thai license. Was a walk in the park though, giggling and laughing for 60 Baht and an hour later I was back at the DLT. Officer there had changed (first one out for lunch/pipi break?), the new guy did not even look at it and gave me the blue-inked copy back "no need". There you go. 

Thailand's bureaucracy is in absolute overdrive and their inferiority complex towards anything non-Thai is reaching new heights daily

Alternatively go for a permanent resident permit (TM17); doable and not quite 100K if married or not quite 200K without Thai spouse - official fee against receipt. 

Once you have that, Bob's your uncle and the only thing you require is a re-entry visa (usually valid for one year). No more visa, 90-days, TM30, TM47 and whatever else the mother-of-all-bureaucrats come up with. The IO will not visit you either as there is nothing to check. 

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Consumption is not banned, only SALES.

Explain that to a tourist who is not fluent in Thai by crooks in rent-a-cop-uniforms 😉 

a) Prawatch did not move an inch despite various calls of stepping down from his napping sedan chair
b) the military is not here to think but to execute; the thinking is done by the government under which the military serves on the behest of the voters who put the government into power. But maybe he napped during those basic classes of democracy as well 😞 

The Men of the Cloth and their relation to donations ............. 

The only thing which is most likely is, that the bank is not at fault. The bureaucracy of this medieval banking system here does simply not allow such "deviations" to happen. 

Maybe some brethren in saffron robes residing in the same temple might be able to shed some light onto the subject, who knows ..........

Put Premchai in shackles please ........ he apparently has a certain history on this particular subject 

Just another example of American arrogance, marred with ignorance to the disadvantage of that particular bookstore. If that rule would apply, most shelves would be empty. 

Anyhow irrelevant as the Americans are not know to be a reading nation to start with! 

Children, come fast and have a look, the pudding can talk ............ 

Go back to nap, old geezer, focus on things you understand something. Sure she got lured onto thin ice which broke in but what does one expect from an inexperienced "politician"; Thaksin and Hun Sen, both are to blame for having thrown her under the bus. 

The old toad geezer now puts up his unsolicited frat while Anutin with glossy eyes thinks "knives out".

All this has nothing to do with governing a country, Thailand would deserve soooooooooooo much better than this concentration of clowns

Praise the Lord, two id10ts less on the road. One for sure and the other one .... well, future will tell! 

Moral questions and Somchai - contradictory in the same sentence 😞