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There are more DIY-stores than customers. In all those stores it is usually the case, that the staff standing around for no reasons outnumber the customers. More than once they followed me all the way through the store just to flip their ID card at the cashier for the commission. Hence make up your mind at home and order it online; I never came across a professional sales staff being able to coach me through anything like that 😉

a) sleep without a/c but fan only b) set the temperature to 26, 27 or 28 centigrades c) get an air-conditioner, which adjusts the temperature in the morning hours by increasing temperature automatically (i.e. Trane)

Once paid up, throw him out - simple as that.

40,813,511 is, according to Wikipedia, the total workforce of Thailand in 2023 (I don't know though, where the 11 at the end came from). The bureaucracy itself is 1,513,722 and clocks 3.71%. Now, instead of looking for more money one might want to see, what do these 1,5 million work, are they really necessary? Little I know but if you rid the immigration bureau of the TM30 and TM47 stipulations, you will save thousands of FTE (full time equivalent). If you get any non-Thai to sign a form, that Thailand will not cover the alien's back in case of health care or financial bottlenecks, then you can facilitate all this ranigaxoo on the yearly visa extension drama. Instead, screen the applicant for criminal issues online and a bank book without extra letters from the very same date and take it from there. Charge THB 15,000 for a one-year visa with automatically includes are multi-reentry facility. Department of Land Transport; be more stringent in the issuance of a first-time driving license and re-introduce the lifelong validity - as in the past = another hundreds if not thousands of "civil servants" drop off the payroll. As roadworthiness can be done by appointed third-party services, do the same with tax payments and mandatory government insurances. Bill the vehicle owner for roadworthiness check, tax and insurance and, once paid, send him the tax sticker and a voucher for a free roadworthiness check-up anywhere the owner chooses. Non-compliance results in getting the vehicle impounded for a month against a fee of, say, THB 10,000. But yeah, if there is no will then there is no way. The biggest problem is the implementation, as usual. And now, before everybody cries foul again; no need to fire anybody. Uust to not replace retirees or those who resign and within a short time you're getting a fantastic saving - in those particular departments alone. If the government would have to run like the private industry, they would have been there LONG time ago already.

I will only look into this subject again, after Thailand confirms having reached the minimum of 10,000 Generals ........

Now - I for one - have not seen this coming ........ surprise, surprise

The costs will be ferocious and the paperwork the character of a huge avalanche. This apart from the fact, that EVERYTHING for the dog will be different except you; be it water, temperature, humidity and likewise the food. I wonder, if you do the dog a favour relocating him to the other end of the planet or if you could place him with a canine-loving relative or a real fan of Goldendoodles. Latter might be better for the dog alone; you'll miss him but in the interest of the dog ..........

This racism does not stop anywhere, does it. It might be worthwhile to hint, that Thai Airways International was born out of a joint venture between Thai Airways (a tiny domestic carrier flying around with ashtrays on wings) and SAS from Scandinavia. I remember back in the day, that most captains were alien back then, until Thailand had trained enough semi-divines to fly Thailand-registered planes. Once SAS and the management (Thai) team they groomed was gone, Thai went downhill all the way. They still have not understood it; the best applicant should get the job, irrespective of race, gender, religion etc. And the latter does not apply to the flight deck but to literally anything else. A friend (a pilot) once chuckled, when he heard, that Thai domestic routes may be flown only by Thais. His deadpan comment on that was, that a non-Thai could not ask for directions nor read the sign boards 8-)

Last weekend in Nong Khai, this weekend in Mae Sai ........... what a waste of taxpayers money. Was it him to instruct the Nong Khaian powers-to-be to pump the water from the city centre ......... inland flooding rice fields and orchards which were not flooded before? The Mekong levels sank considerably and anywhere else the water would have been pumped into ....... yeah, the Mekong river. Where will Anutin spend his next weekend?

"The man thanked them and drove away." Well, he must have been meanwhile well rested; parked at the red light at 4.45am and got the wake-up shake at 6.20am. Are you serious, they let him drive away; possibly without even knowing anything about him/his medical condition nor his car's license plate details? Most likely he came from a nice piss-up somewhere ....... Do that in the West 😉

Well, well, what do you know. Why did that sweet heart of a son need to open a mule account in the first place in a place through a person far from home? If she pinpoints exactly, who was asking for the bribes, then the file moves a little closer. Somehow that money changed hands so, if the boys in brown would be serious to clean up the mess and come out as a winner, they will follow through. But, like in most other cases, the story will fizzle away and the recipients of the payments will be visited later on for a slice of the cake. The looser is the whining mother. The story with the boy has more chapters as well; start with why he needed a mule account and what did he intend (or done) with it. Not newsworthy, happened and will happen again as grieving Mummy wanted to take the short cut instead of letting her son stand for whatever he is/was accused for.

As a non-American I hope that the Americans - for once - come to terms with responsibility. If I look at all the manure flying around on the internet, then I wonder, why at all there are elections. Give the rest of the world Trump; not because he is better but he is less bad. If here moves back into the White House, then WW3 will not rage over Europe and some serious crooks holding Europe as hostage like Von der Leyen, Stoltenberg and all those Central European governments of clowns will have to look for new jobs. Harris, well it might take a little more than being a female with coloured ethnicity for such a job - or not?

The US requires the "defenders of freedom" to add 15% to the consumption - compulsory. As earlier on said, the VAT applies to all businesses with a turnover over a certain amount (THB 1.6 mio. as far as I remember), below that VAT does not apply. Service charge is not compulsory; yet if it is on the menu, then you get charged for it - alternatively vote with your feet and dine elsewhere.

Another, completely bloated out of proportion, arm of the government ......... nothing will happen while the above shown aircraft, a prestige luxury version, is shuttling some big wigs up and down the country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce81e2zq0jjo was the source of the 60kgs, his arrest in Scotland and the rest. There are no flights from Bangkok nonstop to any Scottish airport and hence he landed in Stansted. Anything else you want to bla, bla, bla me with?

Well, exports are dying as well. But it is more noteworthy to quote tourism as that is, where the goons in Bangkok want to introduce a landing tax upon arrival in the land and likewise, they are toying around with taxation of retirees pensions et al. Make up your mind but even in Thailand you cannot have your cake and eat it. Give a potential tourist or retiree a reason why to come to Thailand with fees and taxes while their currency's values go through the roof and the West is in a huge crisis?

In all fairness, Thailand has legalized cannabis for medical purposes some time ago and the next thing you saw is cannabis shops literally everywhere. Some feared "medical" trips to Thailand by all those nationalities coming from countries, where cannabis remains illegal. Some 2 - 3 years into the modus operandi here in Thailand, I can say that 80% of the cannabis shops disappeared again as the market got saturated pretty quick. I also cannot see an increase of cannabis users. Given the fact, that the term "medical use only" is interpreted rather loosely, nothing really changed. So I consider the move as a very positive step in the right direction; it decriminalized the business, the government gets its share of taxes (or not, but that is another story) while the crime rate etc. did not move an inch. Well, well, never enough it seems. Jay Emmanuel-Thomas arrived from Bangkok with 60kgs of cannabis and I seriously wonder, what did he really expect when getting off the plane in Scotland. Scottish liquids are banned in most islamic countries and cannabis is banned in Scotland; make up your mind what you want to do where ..........

Lets put Bugs Bunny onto the political stage ............. If a country may choose between two candidates for presidency while you have fifty young women queueing for the title of Miss America, then you know that it must be a weird country. The result is evident and, in many cases, a catastrophic impact for the rest of the planet 😞

Meet Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, the chief of the secret police under the days of Stalin. Beria was a prolific sexual predator, who serially raped hundreds of girls and young women, and murdered some of his victims. His home is today's Tunisian Embassy in Moscow who had some utility works done in the cellar of the building just to find decayed bones, pelvises and skulls of women buried there during Beria's days. Beria got executed in part for that (some political background as well into which I am not going into here). It should be possible in the 21st century to do a psychological analysis of applicants. Air crew undergoes this, not only flight deck but cabin crew applicants and the same could and should be implemented for applicants of privileges jobs. If this CIA man would have been caught outside the US with a diplomatic passport, the host country could not even touch him. Repatriating him back to the US (where is immunity does not grip) and do a cross border trial with Mexico - I wish you good luck with that. In this particular case it gladly surfaced; in many other cases it gets wiped under the big carpet of diplomatic immunity. May this rapist rot in hell; I still opt for the death sentence in such cases as you cannot un-rape a female, you cannot un-pedophile a child and the same applies to drug dealers. And let's see, how many years this prime example of a government officer is really serving in jail; it is certainly not 30 years - me fears.

I referred strictly to Thai banks. If you want to understand banking - see Switzerland

Throw all those officials, who look the other side, into the slammer for good; you will need to built a lot of new prisons though. All those officials dealing with the stuff = death penalty! As long as one side abides by the rules and the other side can do what they want ..............

Well, that's where the officials kick in. Working without a work permit has a fine and being in the land with the wrong visa might have another fine. Fine the boys, tell them to get work permits (if the alien business law does allow so) and close the file. Really newsworthy - I wonder?

Hot potatoes usually get passed on; maybe the interior minister Anutin can help or the minister of health or the top cop in the land? I would pass it on and publicly state, that due to a family related possible conflict of interest I passed it on. I have full confidence in Thailand's statement of no corruption, no nepotism and everything according to the law and above radar 😉

Never change a winning horse - enjoy the ride while it lasts 😉

Wan Muhamad Noor Matha is not up to date. Prawit is known as the toad which dozes off on a daily, if not hourly basis. Sometimes it happens during house sessions and the rest of the time it happens everywhere else. What else do you expect from a tattering 79 years old geezer - honestly?