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On 5/13/2024 at 1:38 PM, FritsSikkink said:

Rich Thai people don't have any problem getting a visa to the US or EU.

Yes, but it still needs forms, photographs and visa procedures and that's what these rich Thais do not like as it puts them in line with the commoners. Some are even called in for interviews ......... 

But, as said, it would facilitate everbody's life and cut a lot of bureaucracy if Thais would be given a month visa exemption in Europe. And crooks are crooks and always find means and ways to circumvent whatever regulation there is - possibly without North Korea though ........... 

"Petchcharat Hua Hin" - well it will become "Petchcharat Intercontinental Aerodrome" anytime soon. We have "Udon Thani International Airport" already yet the internationalism remains a pending element ... or pure megalomania. 

However, I am soooo glad that the PM has no other issues on his plate so he now can focus on the tinier elements of tourism promotion. My only query is, how do the dirty farang, who cannot speak Thai, tell the cabbie to take them to Petchcharat ....... unless of course a professional phonetic English version is rendered 😉 Suvarnabhumi and Don Meuang (from formerly Muang) spring to mind 😎

Smoke screen - no pun intended. Wondering what the real script is behind Anutin's pushing FOR the weed and the RETRACTION once Anutin moved from health to interior ministry. Interesting script which I have not completely deciphered yet. Retaliation of any kind by the puppet master? 

1 hour ago, Dan O said:

Your thinking is all off base because your throwing out what if scenarios rather than sticking with facts 

.... thank you, every day is school day. And what exactly is "factual" in this case? I must have missed something it seems. 

Well, studying the impact of Cannabis was apparently concluded some years ago - when Anutin was Health Minister. Now, as Interior Minister, the very same person is doing a ...... study of impact?

Keep up the good work, the excellent choice of ministers and possibly some data recording. Next will be the convicted flour trader in charge of ..... naaahhh, don't let us get there! 

What good weed was smoked, when they hatched this idea - honestly?

I've ordered a plastic screw which came at 84 Baht incl postage from China. 
So now the platform will add 7% or 5.88 Baht on check-out, run statements with order details and VAT accruals - you must be joking. Imagine the mess when an article cannot be delivered/cancelled by seller or goes for refund compensation due to wrong delivery? That would apply to local platforms only. How about eBay, AliExpress et al? eBay will not collect 7% on behalf of anybody and can easily just do without the Thai customer base. 

The statement, that "this adjustment in Thailand will help local businesses compete more fairly" is total BS. If local business cannot compete with foreign supplies and respective logistic costs, then the locals have to go back to the drawing board and start homework all over again. This of course only under the assumption, that the local businesses have clean taxation procedures in place as well - yeah, I know - a silly joke my end! 

How many local sellers copy/paste a product from overseas and just double the price and only order it, once an innocent loser ordered the seriously overpriced article (equally imported). 

Free market economy - Thai-style - explained

Follow Anutin, arrest all those illegal dirty farang, book them into the slammer and lose the keys - the rest will be OK ........

So Zarathustra spoke - again!

Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul orders the arrest of foreigners operating cannabis outlets illegally in Thailand. 

I did not know, that a minister has such power without an arrest warrant being issued by the competent authorities (possibly the court?). The statement leaves open, what happens to all those Thais operating cannabis outlets illegally. I - for one - am not affected in any way as I never tried the stuff as a kiddo 50 years ago and today I rather have a glass of good red wine 😉 

Yesterday's arrival from Frankfurt in Bangkok was the last nail in the TG coffin. The crew was too busy with being so overly important and the food was absolute rubbish; some tiny meat chunks inmost of some overcooked rice and two tiny carrots and had to ring three times for some water refill. 

TG charged EUR 450; SQ would have been EUR 320 - albeit via Singapore. Trust me, next time I rather opt via Johannesburg if I can avoid Thai. 

Good luck he is Thai. In Vietnam and PR China they hand down the death penalty for those who "enrich" themselves too much! Wondering though, how the treatment is at Klong Prem ......... 

5,000 lashes with the cane, 214,709 years and 3 months in the slammer and 500 Baht fine. 

If the immigration would be really doing their job, they could run a complete list of overstay alien and go after them. But it always needs a whisteblower, envying the alien or being jealous over something. 

The Austrian clocked almost three years and, if staying at hotels all the time, I wonder to whose nuisance he was living. Irrespective of that, that's the local law, cough up the fine and move on, Mr. Rothauer (that's his name actually as per the picture). Sans griesst! 

One of the reasons why I sold my business and took it elsewhere. Apart from an ever increasing number of local holidays the productivity dropped even faster. I was afraid that the moment would come where we would have to train the staff from scratch after extended holidays. 

If the government wants to declare more holidays, then they (i.e. taxpayer) should pay for it. But it is rather populistic to announce ever-more public holidays and let the private industry pay for it. 

But Thailand has lost its plot as a production base once you need human manpower. The education system got stucked somewhere in the Middle Ages, the motivation is mostly zero and the reliability and loyalty of the locals is gone for good (with most of them). The really qualified cost you more than a caucasian and the labour law is more than labour-friendly. They walk off a job - no reprimanding would make sense. The employer terminates the employ, they (correctly) have to settle severance payments. In addition some file for "unfair dismissal" and the judges usually try to "compromise". 

Well, if the employer is losing one of their overseas customers due to the unreliability of staff then go and define "unfair". As said, I sold my business and the Lord may be praised for that. I would never ever start a labour-intensive business in Thailand again - for above reasons! 

Well, talk to the tourism goons of Thailand; they successfully managed to downgrade the quality of tourists into a bottomless pit. 

On the other hand, be reasonable and apply common sense (yeah, a big word in the Land, I know). This is a child, a small child, and given the fact, that toilets might not be clearly signed, in English, Chinese or whatever, might not have helped. 

It is certainly not a sign of disrespect towards anything. But, if the semi-divine Khon Thai are soooooooooooo sensitive, then forget about the millions of Baht entry ticket revenue, close the temple to the followers of the faith who, by birth right, must be Thai nationals - and Bob's your uncle. 

You cannot have your cake and eat it; the child for sure had no insulting thoughts and the same might apply to the parents being eventually too stupid to ask their child for a toilet visit before leaving home/hotel or whatever. 

Also wondering, if those elephant trousers are genuine. Yet another rannygazoo on copyrights - what an oxymoron in Thailand. If fake, arrest the culprit, park him in the slammer for 25 years and fine him 500 Baht to teach him and the rest of those expected 40 million tourists a lesson on how things are done in Thailand 😉 

Thailand did it again. When you think that they hit the jack pot on anything - Thailand comes and surprises everybody again. This time on the reclassification of weed. Let's see how that ends as it is clearly nothing but a political push-me-pull-you; very much between Anutin and his so many friends everywhere.

Another thing is Thailand's tick on uniforms; this time round Anutin shows up in yet another set of official wear; with lots of medals, coloured ropes, hats, more regalia ........ which leads me to the question, if there is a ministry of uniforms? 

Tik Tok Tik Tok - the clock is going Tik Tok

On 5/8/2024 at 8:18 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

BS

Young girls are (relatively) innocent - that's part of the attraction.

Maybe they want an expensive phone or something like that, but they are a lot less likely to have a masterplan how to get all his money compared to older Thai women and also western women.

 

Life with a cute innocent girl can be wonderful. 

Obviously, you should not make any stupid decision - just like with any life- or business-partner.

 

 

Well, correct me if I am wrong but the innocent little lily of young beauty normally has plenty of relatives sharing advice. Specially the lady of the house, all the aunties and uncles, are more than helpful in opening new avenues to shortcut the path to the next splurge of cash.

It is also quite rare in the land of the semi-divine, that an 18-years old girl of virgin Thai roots starts dating a seasoned middle aged man from faraway lands ....... but, as said, I could be wrong. Never saw anything the like and have lived here for four decades. Even within the same culture and zero barriers on the language front a relation between 18 and 40 is a tremendous challenge. Throw in linguistic burdens, cultural issues and the difference in social structures of (extended) families and Bob's your uncle. 

Wishing the happy couple the best of luck though - exceptions are always an integrated part of the rules 😉 

15 hours ago, Puccini said:

 

Leave a dog in a closed car in the sweltering heat for hours without air conditioning and you get fined for cruelty to an animal, but leave passsengers in a plane under the same conditions and it is "not to be taken seriously"?

The ground handling failed; disembark the plane, get it fixed (or change the aircraft) and get on with it. The decision to keep the bird on the ground was right and the delay justified.

What is (no surprises here) staggering, remains the kind offer of a bottle of water and a doughnut instead of spending the extra buck to get the passengers off the microwave into the terminal. Comes with the LCC strategy of killing each other over airfares - I guess. 

While the pick-up on the photograph looks toast, the Maybach's repair can never ever account for 11+ million Thai Baht - wondering what kind of quite obviously excellent weed must have been smoked when those figures were thrown up into the air .......... 

This amount results in EUR 281'000+; the whole car brand new clocks up a suggested sales price of THB 18.7 mio; throw in an extra million for the special paint and you're just short of 20 million Thai baht. Go figure ........... 

Well, at least Thai citizen is trying. 

Unclear remains, where are Dr T's interest; he is not known as a do-gooder without a direct benefit to him and his clan. 

Irrespective of this, he tries and the Burmese people might be the beneficiaries of a more peaceful future 😉 

Good luck to him, irrespective of consent or not. 

Always the same script:
- he has the money, she has the experience and during their relationship that changes to:
- he has the experience and she has the money
As a bonus; if an offspring is the result, then the life insurance bells go off and congrats are in order for the young enterpreneur lady. 

Do your mate a favour and try and talk some common sense to him; he might hate you at the beginning but will love you for the rest of his life! 

Whoa, doubling the salary in 10 years must result in double the output - or am I seeing something wrong again as usual?

Needless to say, that with pocket money like 400 Baht per day, a Thai can barely exist but does not live. One of the reasons possibly, why the motivation for work has gone out the window looooong time ago. 

The 1% of the oligarch elite keeps creaming off the cake so conveniently provided for by 75% of the population. The writing is on the wall and bigger international employers will reconsider staying or potential employers to stay away completely!