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Get rid of them and tell all those tree huggers, do-gooders and doggie-rescuers, that a dog is a dog and a human being is a human being. And unless they are all vegetarian, there is absolutely no reason for not putting such "pets" down in the interest of public safety. It is absolutely unbelievable, to what extent stupidity and ignorance and grow in this country, really!

If being dishonest and unethical would be a real criteria in a government position, then Thailand would not be able to get 10% of the present workforce together. What's the difference between submarines, 515 Baht for a stainless steel meal tray (10,000 pieces per order) or F16 planes for the boys in uniform on one side and the "don't forget the cake" reference in an immigration office. The amount and the impact; basically corruption is what keeps this country under its rock in the medieval days of the dinosaurs. Suit yourself, it is your country and your future which is being flushed down the haligalli!

Could it be that Thaksin and the boys in uniform do not see eye to eye?

Correct! Yet read the lines properly, I referred to the fact that other "experts consider the world flat". As I am of the belief, that the world is not flat, it makes me automatically a non-expert. Hope that clarifies the statement earlier on 😉

The reason why 99.9% of such relations do not work is very, very simple: - he meets a girl, pays the bar fine and fees for services rendered - at least at the beginning of the relation. She knows exactly, that he bought her and can buy any other girl if he likes and she becomes history - she meets him and he falls in love hell over heels. Once the pink glass outlook wears off he realizes, that she came with him initially for the money and should anyone else enter the race with more money, promises or better looks, then he becomes history So in short, the mistrust is seeded upon them the moment they meet. Good luck to all; some very few might work, the big majority is marred with frustration, pain and sadness ......

And for all the other long staying non-Thais there is the Permanent Residency. I opted for that back in 1988 and never regretted it; never went for citizenship for mainly two reasons. The bureaucratic endeavour is endless and an absolute uphill battle. If an officer changes it is -more often than not - back to Square One. The second reason is, that all the quoted points were not really relevant for me personally; the work permit is a given guarantee as any country allowing a non-citizen to stay indefinitely in the country needs to be given the possibility to earn his living - as stipulated by the WTO.

See See Tea Wee - CCTV is the answer; irrespective it those cameras are dummies, broken or not been watched at the secret surveillance room ........ Absolutely irrelevant, next please ...........

Like most governmental websites ...... a non-functioning joke in (mostly) Thai only with photos of the drummer of the banana boat, some festivities and blessings by the resident monks!

Maybe look how other countries in Europe issue licenses. The Thai procedure is tedious, bureaucratic and outright ridiculous. I've had a license for 48 years which was issued back in the day as a lifelong license. Moving to Thailand I had to do a driving "test"; a hopeless joke if you ask me. The theoretical part was all in Thai (which I had no clue of back then) and a kind officer "helped" me by pinpointing the multi-choice answers with a nod or shaking. Get proper driving instructors, take license applicants for a full hour into real traffic, get into a car park and drive backwards up the ramp, park sideways and open the bonnet and let them explain basics like battery (and eventual distilled water to be replenished), windshield water tank and what the oil stick in the engine is for. Let them change the spare wheel too. I come from a cold country and I had to mount snow chains and once all the afore-mentioned was accomplished, I was given the license. Touch wood, haven't had a single accident despite doing 25,000kms a year still today 😉

Other experts say that the Earth is flat .........

As repetition to my earlier statements; in Northeastern Indochina dogs, among other canine, are on the menu like pork, chicken or beef. A novelty though seems to be "dog meat balls" or - adequately translated into the local lingua "ลูกชิ้นหมา".

Get the TAT to smoke more weed and look for yet another trillion of animalistic Chinese tourists and you're guaranteed to get there ......... collateral damage to be expected though! Less can be more

The customer tells the supplier(s) what they want and they choose. As long as there are different tariffing and ticketing systems, one line does not connect in the same station to another line ....... The MRT does not take the rabbit card and uses tokens, the switch on Bangkok's main railway station needs skills and weekly, monthly or even yearly passes might make all these public transport products more attractive. Look at any European public transport system and learn, why it is so much more popular ........ No rocket science here!

There are plenty of airframes nicely parked at Bangkok still reading "Orient Thai" ...... just in case these boys want to enlarge the fleet. On a more serious note, they cannot be serious. Thailand has very, very competitive surface logistic products with normal dry cargo, chilled cargo and frozen cargo at suicidal tariffs. A box of ten kilogrammes of frozen food at 305 Baht took 17 hours from Pattaya to Nong Khai. While Phuket is farther away, there must be existing couriers (Kerry, NIM, Flash, J&T etc.) apart from regular bus services to compete. Good luck to this endeavour though ......

Point taken, sorry for that. Suggest upcountry though as they turn literally anything moving into meat balls and other delicacies - apparently.

The boy is a Thai national with a Thai passport. Latter has a maximum validity span of ten years. Well, if he got a new passport on the day prior to the "accident" then the kiddo would be without a passport for 23 months and 24 days (today). He is in England apparently so who extended/re-issued him a new passport? The whole story is one of the bigger farçes of Thailand, very very thick envelopes passed already and this latest exercise will make sure that the flow of manillas will not stop. On 5 September 2027 the statutory limit is reached - and then it is "welcome to Thailand's long lost son"? We will see .....

No EU and Von der Leyen, no NATO, no American interest and no Zelenzky nor Netanyahu - simple as that!

How about reading the plate details off the posh car and summon the owner for clarification. If (s)he does not know, then just slap a very juicy fine onto the owner - will work wonders. Make sure that the whole exercise goes viral on social networks. Naaaahhhh, me satumpid, cannot. Data protection, a Phooyai car and missing evidence (the garbage bag) as well as explicit laws (not from said bridge) are all a non-starter; how could I forget!

Fine the owner 50,000 Baht and put the dog into a dog-befitting environment upcountry somewhere. Any "domesticated" pet should be in the custody of a person/persons who know what they are doing.

It is absolutely amazing, how incompetent, ignorant and self-serving those websites of all those immigration offices are. Immigration countrywide should operate on the same set of rules and regulations. Who needs the immigration? Most likely the potential visitor is non-Thai and in most cases those non-Thais cannot read Thai. Many pages of the various immigration offices are in Thai only. Make ONE website with all the rules, regulations and ideas; put a directory of all the forms to download and a map of Thailand with all the provinces shown; captions of the province name in English. Clicking onto a province it gives you the immigration office(s) responsible for the area with opening times, exact location (Google Map and GPS coordinates) and phone number(s) where someone answering does speak English. Cannot be THAT difficult, if you ask me .........

Thank you for your unsolicited advice; rest assured that I will consider if I take it or not. Next please ........

I condone nothing as I am not in a position to verify any corruption nor killing by Dr T - directly or indirectly. That is left to the competent authorities of this country - me thinks!

18,000 plus shared tip, a free meal, six days working 7 hours a week for the janitor ........ so much to peanuts 😉

Hunt down the Danish in full force of all available police officers ..... and rest assured, that this story - on the internet - is also read OUTside Thailand. Thailand, the country of jokers .............

"When the foreigners arrived at 6:50 PM, they waited outside until their queue number was called at 8:10 PM." Really, nobody in his right mind waits for more than a few minutes when the place is pre-booked. So much to the Thai understanding of "Michelin" - well done, keep up the good work then 😉