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5 hours ago, welovesundaysatspace said:

When you say “Brussels”, what does the city of Brussels have to do with Brexit? Or did you actually mean the EU, which Germany is a member of?

Point taken, the gifted reader though might have figured that I refer to Brussels as the head office of the EU and not in the context of being the Belgian capital. 

7 hours ago, oilinki said:

Is that what do you say to your wife in case do divorce? "Shut up woman, this is my divorce and you don't have right to say anything!"

 

Yeah, we don't really need your kind of people in the EU.

Well, to start with, I am still married after 36 years.

Secondly, Britain is not getting "divorced" but terminates a political trade deal and not an emotional bond.

Thirdly the separation is from the EU and not from Germany alone - a slight difference as far as my irrelevant knowledge is concerned. 

And, to please you, I am not holding an EU passport ???? 

Another embassy with common sense; the Thais will have to rewrite their list of how to make retirees lives more difficult again ???? 

Wanted to fine me THB 500 for having a carryboy canopy on the back of my pick-up. These canopies need to be registered in the blue car registration book.
I told them that the canopy is registered which they did not believe. I gave 'em copies of the registration book clearly showing my statement. 
Then they wanted to charge me with not having the original car registration book with me in the car. Upon asking to see the original instruction showing that not having the book would cost THB 400 the guy in dark sun glasses and mouth mask just walked away. I took a photo of him on which the number on his helmet was visible; he turned around, took my phone away and deleted the photo without asking. Gave me my phone back and walked away.
Beware of these highway robbers; I meanwhile can turn my dashboard camera inside the car to face the driver's window/seat and before they come and ask I tell them that I am recording. Works absolute wonders, trust me! 

11 hours ago, HamonRye said:

Evisa, so cannot extend. We are also on bikes and just got our India visas which for some reason start when you get them, not when you arrive.

Well, then leave and re-enter; the rules are written by the host country and not by the visitors! 

Is Uthai Thani known for its meatball factories? The Laotians, Cambodian and Vietnamese would be delighted  .......... 

To save money, move Thailand into the 21st century and facilitate life for everybody maybe an alternative would be to do away completely with this 90-days nonsense, rent out the existing facilities to McDonalds or another fast foodie - everybody happy! 

Google the subject and you'll see that the first 90 days are USD 3/day, after which it increases to USD 5/daily. Wondering though why you dont get a visa extension like anyone else? 

Out of curiosity; how do you check-in 500 kgs of anything onto a flight to Australia without being noticed? Assumingly it was brought as excess luggage it must have cost  fortune as the fee is 1% of the single first class tariff. Just wondering .............. 

I do not get it. Those visa runners spending THB 30K/monthly were numbered earlier on with 900'000. This would amount to THB 324 billion yearly proving that almost one billion Baht daily would come from this tourism segment. 

The Chinese arguably are the worst tourists Thailand ever had so maybe, maybe, some clowns at the TAT-circus now realized that they've been shooting themselves into their own foot! 

No worries here - all OK. The men of the cloth are divine and have no earthly assets so there is nothing to declare except a clean conscious, a clean soul and an eternal glow of wisdom.

Wellllllll, strict enforcement of this law means that all streetfood kitchens will have to disappear. 

Good on me because I got hit twice already by passing motorbikes as the pavement was occupied by all those hygienic, law-abiding streetfood operators paying their tributes to the higher-ups. 

They did not state the year; that Terminal is used for arrivals for a year+ now already.

The taxi/bus situation is a disaster. Arriving from CNX on the first morning flight I had to wait for the flight arriving from Udon (old timetable that is) and the „taxi“ offered for THB 250 was actually a minibus for which I had to wait 130 minutes. The driver must have been paid on the speed. Wanted to get dropped off at Central downtown Pattaya; ended up getting off the van at 2nd road/South Pattaya road as he intended to go North first and then only to Central. 

Never again; ever since I‘m back to Bangkok. The Udon-Utapao flight would be perfect for me but I cannot stand fools gladly and those birds at the taxi stand in Utapao are just too much. 

But there again, somebody is making big money with monopoly while providing just yet another f“*ç%d-up service for which this country is known. 

Quality tourist - explained!

Not knowing where you are I can confirm, that my two grown sons went through 40 hours of driving lessons in Bangkok; in two different schools close to home. 

The instructors told me (that's more than 15 years back) that they would have new cars with power steering and automatic gear boxes. I insisted on the odd old pick-up outside, no power steering and a manual gear box. The boys went through 20 double lessons, the first two of them I attended as well; theory was worked in at home and they did an actual driving test (and passed). 

I thought them myself how do drive off if you stop on a ramp (or on a bridge not having reached the top yet), driving backwards, parking (with water filled plastic bottles) as well as using the hand brake for certain maneuvers (like driving backwards up a parking ramp etc.). 

The driving schools in Bangkok learnt something, the basic training was good once I explained them to not please the student. 

Never had an accident they are responsible drivers with (meanwhile) driving skills so there is proven hope that they will pass on that to their kids ???? 

All this will end up as a perfect examples to be presented in universities lecturing on tourism promotion on how NOT to do it! 
The mother-of-all-tourism-promotion-ideas, well done! 

It would help if the government could make up its mind. Mr. Puttipong Punnakanta refers to a decline of 10% over the last three months (most likely compared to last year) while the Tourism Authority of Thailands circus directors report double digit growth.
Suvannaphum airport records over the last three years period JAN-SEP a steady decline from 3.1 million via 2.2 million to 2018's figure of 1.7 million. 
The total number of tourists were (according to TAT) more than 30 million, take ¾ of that and you have 22.5 million less the 3.1 million at Suvannaphum = 19.4 million. Take the entire capacity of all other international airports UTH, CEI, CNX, HKT and DMK, just to name a few then 60% must have entered overland. Overland tourist arrivals from Myanmar are negligible, Cambodia, Laos - albeit more but still irrelevant and entire rest floods in from Malaysia?
 

12.69 million students registered - and the bells never rang???????? 

The bottle neck is always on top of the bottle and trust me, the duplication amount in question is inviting enough! 

Big Joke is practicing for the real big job cleaning Thailand from all those criminals, petty first like no driving license, drunk driving etc. and once everyone has a driving license is no longer on the bottle he will go after the big fish. His life expectancy is assumed to be somewhere between 500 - 600 years. 
In all fairness, clearing Thailand from foreign slime and crime is a good thing, for Thais and the legally staying aliens alike but it makes you wonder, if he is the only working person within the police force (the immigration is under the police which is under the Ministry of Interior).