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You cannot have your cake and eat it. See Foodmart, which is closest do you most likely, or Friendship. If that is too expensive or too far away, then you eat salads in variations with chicken or tuna. Fresh salads from the market last easily a few days. If that is not possible either - just forget about salads then!

Nail the car owner and if it was not him/her, then (s)he has to reveal the name of the person who drove the car. Then book the culprit for drunk driving and fleeing the scene; two times a juicy jail sentence would be appropriate. The damage to the Mitsubishi is to be executed in a Mitsubishi workshop, payment by the culprit, if not possible by the Toyota owner and if no luck there then sell off the Toyota for spare parts which hopefully covers the Mitsubishi expense. Until the local authorities have understood the above modus-operandi, nothing will ever change and Thailand will remain a banana republic!

It is not government or city council which pays. It is the taxpayer who will be burdened extra with this. If payment delay interests are accrued, they should be collected from the pr-i-kc who refused to release the contractually agreed payment in the first place.... Yeah, I know, wishful thinking as we are in Thailäääääännnnnn

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is yet another pencil-pushing nerd. A) Ukraine is NOT a member of NATO B) Zelenzky is fiddling around with Brussels for the last few years without getting anything inked C) NATO serves solely to DEFEND member states of NATO against outside aggression. It is nothing but an extremely well-oiled money printing machine, the bills are paid by NATO members and contributions by the EU (which in essence is very similar coverage) and hence feeds the never-ending hunger of the war industries of the United States and some European countries to the burden of the tax payer The Swiss, in their absolute disorientation lately, ran a peace conference in Switzerland some 5 - 6 six months ago. Unlike all other such (most successful) conferences, which usually take place in Geneve, this particular conference was in Central Switzerland. Big wigs and some self-appointed VIPs from far-away lands in Africa etc. attended this Ukraine Peace Finding Summit and the Swiss president was sooooo happy to have a selfie all over the news. What she forgot is, to invite one of the two fighting parties - the Russians were never invited in the first place. Once the media picked that up, she said that Russia would not have attended anyhow. So, unless someone is putting a screeching stop to all this Ukraine nonsense and getting the parties to the negotiation table, it will just burn more billions of (mostly) European tax money. Mark Rutte and his cronies should step down, go home and start peeling potatoes or anything else which would make more sense. What a hopeless farçe all this is .........

4,7 is the average reading when the Missus did not walk away with a winner from the latest lottery results 😉

All this rannygazoo serves only one purpose; to make those behind the desks collecting possibly billions of Baht in a year in all those agencies. That money then goes nicely distributed from top to bottom - an endless flow from the horn of plenty. I will no longer be around but it will be interesting to see, how Thailand will fall into the 3rd world status again in a generation or two. See the Philippines, 40+ years ago they were way ahead of Thailand but the people's greed, endless corruption and blunt disregard to existing laws resulted in the destruction. Thailand's government agencies would be here to serve its people; the opposite is happening and Thailand's worst enemy is its very own greedy, lying and cheating people. Their country - their call; their grandchildren will damn their forefathers to death one day!

The most often reason is the sheer greed of landlords massively inflating electricity bills to their benefit. While a unit is 4 Baht, the top I've heard of in an apartment on Sukhumvit Soi 71 was a staggering 25 Baht. Go figure - you're welcome! Clarify that question before signing a lease; get the electricity bill straight from the provider, in Bangkok it is MEA, the rest of the land it is PEA!

The most often reason is the sheer greed of landlords massively inflating electricity bills to their benefit. While a unit is 4 Baht, the top I've heard of in an apartment on Sukhumvit Soi 71 was a staggering 25 Baht. Go figure - you're welcome! Clarify that question before signing a lease; get the electricity bill straight from the provider, in Bangkok it is MEA, the rest of the land it is PEA!

While the Red Bull grandkid still roams the world despite being accused of murder, massive drug offences and possibly other wrong doings.

Without having my family here I would have left with a oneway ticket many, many moons ago - this country is in total overdrive

Yet another nuisance to disguise the inferiority complex of the semi-divines. Given the fact, that a large percentage of Thais do NOT live at the place shown in their house register, the racist element becomes apparent. Another joke is the TM30; most landlords renting out premises to alien and dirty farang could not be asred to follow TM30 and, subsequently, the tenant gets the blame. The bureaucracy here is second to none, marred with incompetence, arrogance and corruption; normally government officials are here to serve the public - in Thailand it works, like many other things, the other way round.

Hunting in droves - no work permit in selling fake goods ............ what a farçe. Or is this particular profession excluded in the alien business law so only Thais can operate in the fake goods business? Asking for a friend .......

It is not the weakness of the laws but rather the intended non-action and intended inability to ENFORCE the law. Your call .......

Correction: It is not the weakness of the laws but rather the intended non-action and intended inability to ENFORCE the law. Your call .......

Well, a simple example of law enforcement is the notorious Pattaya beach road. Nightly you see the 3rd gender semi-divines roaming the road and the side lines. Nightly there is disturbance by those 3rd gender nuisances stealing whatever from passing by foreigners (and that is their own fault). The transgenders get arrested, taken to the station, a big wai and some pocket money changes hands and off the 3rd gender disappears just to take up its duty next evening. In the statistics, an arrest took place. You're welcome!

All that went wrong once already after the "retirement" of Chatichai Bunya-ananta in 1992. Thai International afterwards transformed itself to a 7/11 without a cashier on the way out. Everybody could simply help themselves - in the West we call it looting. Thais can, simply said, not manage anything properly and the selected few usually run their own businesses - preferably on a very monopolistic basis. Hire experts who have seen an aircraft from the inside, irrespective of nationality, to run the show as the 320+ billion Thai Baht accrued losses speak for themselves. Latter is being picked-up by the taxpayer, as usual, and not the moneyless government. See what Western experts did to various airlines by turning them from money-burning flying clubs to prime airlines. Look at other industries like Sony, which was successfully led by a dirty farang to its glorious excellence it enjoys.

Once the goons are done with this tax, look no further than to tenfold a juicy tax on sugar. Once the sugar brings in necessary cash for further submarines and aircraft carriers, well then glutamate springs to mind. Food in all forms is fuel for the body and given the present offerings of many restaurants, particularly those dreadful eateries in shopping centres, no questions remain. A statement though on the above is, that most of these overpriced food offerers in Central Udon Thani are ......... empty at lunch time and if, sorry I F , luck has it, an eatery might feature - few and far between - more diners than disinterested ignorant staff. Reason for those empty places is simply costs considering the monopolistic supermarket operations ensures rip-off of the finest order!

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna ........ some of those youngsters were simply exploited and some communes were hiding very profitable business operations.

Makro is the planet's biggest wholesale cash and carry operation. When the Dutch opened their first stores in Thailand some 30+ years ago, only registered businesses could access the store against a membership card which was issued in the name of the company as per the registration with the Ministry of Commerce. The Dutch left, CP reogranised the structure, that their existing mother company Siam Food Services took over the Makro operation and from that day on things went South. Any Tom, Dick and Harry could shop there, mostly retail customers with an apple and 200 grammes of minced pork clogging the cashier lines, ripping wholesale packaging open etc. In order to stay in line with the business licenses (most likely), they can only process a sales at the cashier against a membership card/number. Well, Russian tourists without a word of English, forget Thai, just get scanned on the code 9999999999 or some pre-defined membership numbers. In turn, Carrefour (Casino France) as well as Lotus (Tesco Lotus UK) meanwhile pulled out and guess, who is running Lotus's today?

Well, good on Grannie in India then; I am sure the locals enjoyed her sucking the bullhorn 😉 What a load of manure - and that is a presidential candidate? Does America have nothing better to offer, seriously?

Don't get me wrong but the sandwiches were absolute carp and the price/value ratio was beyond any limits. Apart from the franchise issuer the landlords in the shopping centres and department stores had their cut. Well, someone has to bite the dust. Stay tuned for Starwucks - to be next 8-)

The retirees among the readers might remember the Kibbuz scam by Israel. In the 70s it was THE thing. They charged youngsters airfare (on ElAl of course) as well as food and lodging, free guitar listening to a fellow Kibbuzian and after a few weeks or months the youngsters returned to their homeland. During their stay they had to pick grapefruit and other agricultural produce and all this was in the context of "hallelujah" and, in some cases, some steamy nights with a fellow youngster. The Israelis were smart enough to get free of charge workers from all over Europe and the workers even paid for their own airfare. Will not work in Chiang Rai and some Thais, having returned from the promised holy land, said that the work was very hard compared to very little pay - yet still better than the 300 Baht promised by Yingluck and - of course - not paid by fellow countrymen 😉

This country is drowning in its bureaucracy to keep all those ignorant pencil pushers in jobs and, wonder over wonder, it also applies to the DTV programme. Maybe it is high time to boot out 80% of all those goons, simplify procedures to the essential necessities; more money in the state's coffers at far less (human resource and customer frustration) costs! The only consistent thing in this country, for decades, are the inconsistencies in documentation requirements across Thai government agencies leaving hopefuls in limbo. A "full-of-tax-extensions" Bangkok-registered car book can only be renewed in Bangkok (which is 700kms away). Going back to the same office a few hours later trying with another officials - no issue and five minutes later I had the new book. A re-entry for a PR could not be issued in (very unfriendly) Korat but no issue in Sisaket. A driving license extension in Banglamung takes a gooseneck trailer of documents, a rude shake-down by the grouch behind the counter and "see you tomorrow tomorrow" (in two days); in Chayaphum I could wait for it with a copy of my passport only. The bottle neck is usually on top of the bottle 😉

At least it was worthwhile - much better than the highway robbery of a few hundred Baht for an offense never committed 😉

Rapists and pedophiles cannot be cured, drug dealers are murderer and hence put them on the wall and get rid of them. It will not make the terrible memories go away by those raped or misused by pedophiles nor does it sooth the pain over having lost a person to drugs but it ensures, that the culprit will never ever again attack again. In the above case, provided all this is true, the abbott can be booted out as well; possibly with photos and name to make it crystal clear, what kind of members are among "the men of the cloth". And that, by the way, applies to all religions so the Christian clerics should go through a proper spring cleaning as well!