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Apart from all those online platforms there is a shop (in Pattaya) carrying all those batteries and gizmos: Far Eastern Supply Co., Ltd. (บริษัท เฟิสท์ อีสเทิร์น ซัพพลาย จำกัด) https://www.fes.co.th/en phone: 038-422 815 or 038-424 034 open MON-SAT 08h00-17h00 GPS: 12.945259 100.904380 Unclear is, if they would mail stuff to you against pre-payment but, as said, if existing platforms don't work, you might want to give these guys a try - good luck!

Unless the stuff (which would need to be specified as well) is available over the counter at each and every 7/11 I seriously wonder, where the drugs come from. Next question is, what kind of money do these recruits spend; many of them are unemployed and quite glad being listed in the army.

The subject is Thailand's tourism and not yet another rant on Trump; plenty of other forums and threads on that as well ......

Someone should knock on Pichai Naripthaphan's door and share some insight of the problem. The manufacturers and vendors of air purification gizmos deal only with the symptoms being dirty air. Of course - in good old traditional Asian (except Japan) fashion - the customer is taken for a ride more often than anyone would expect. The problem (not the symptoms) is burning of sugar cane, corn and rice fields in an ever growing manner. Lock the owners of those plots up, slap very painful fines on them - irrespective of who triggered off the arson. Then you will get the people to avoid such nonsense; educate children in class rooms, less soap operas and more announcements by the health goons at the ministries of health etc. Everything else is the usual manure lip service for which (also this) government is known for. While it is a good thing to try to clean up the market from all those fakes the root of the problem is not the haze but the "creation of haze".

Call me old fashioned but food does never improve by having it raced across town in a thermo box. Notwithstanding people with limited or no mobility I still believe that taking time to go to a restaurant or cook it yourself is a (psychologically) much better way to provide your body with fuel.

I do not really understand the commotion; at Makro 4 out of 5 "sa-caen" the screen for cashless payment which, in my opinion, takes longer to clear the bill than with cash. Given the instability of the internet (it still happens on and off) you wonder how all those scan-customers will grind the entire operation to a screeching halt. Cash is the customer's last anonymous choice; in a modern tax environment (like Central Europe) the customer will have to explain one day, how (s)he could buy all that stuff with what kind of money. The (taxable) income is one thing, the proven spending another - mark my words as Big Brother is watching you 😉

They come/came in droves and the very same way they will leave one day. With the Chinese, South Asians and the Middle Easterners in you scared away the (financially) better quality tourism. The Russians are here as long as Zelensky goofs around; wait for that settlement and the Russians disappear into thin air. The Chinese are a more sensitive group of business with herd character. As long as Thailand considers itself semi-divine, above the rest of the entire world, as long as Thailand First and everything else Second ......... but explain that to the Grannies and Uncles who are busy selling their votes for the upcoming municipality elections on 11 May all over the land 😉

Go with the flow; Cameron's second legislature was secured over his referendum promise on the subject of Brexit which he vehemently rejected before. Politicians are like sunflowers, turning their heads wherever the sun shines. Next please; this Stramer follow is no different otherwise he would not occupy Downing Street 10 - questions here are only two-fold: - for how long will the UK be seeing Stramer goofing around? - what is next; i.e. after Stramer?

40 years here, some other assignments of 6 - 9 months in India and the Philippines before that. In essence I can attest, that I left my native country (and have not visited it for meanwhile 12 years) yet never really arrived in Thailand. My kids and grandchildren live here but the interface to the locals is almost impossible - not a language issue (I'm fluent in Thai) but social values, common sense and priorities in life and family differ greatly 😉

The sheer fact that such nonsense is being discussed and occupies courts is more than proof enough, that society went down the pan quite some time ago. All this gender rubbish is brainless and serves the 15 minutes of fame these trans-people try to get. Degeneration of society - of the finest order, me thinks!

Are we having sensitive moments here? What a sissy ............

Scary - bureaucracy creeping up new heights ...........

My pathological understanding does not cover the situation, where post-mortem insect bites do not suggested external assault or struggle. But then, who am I and why should I query/doubt any official statement. Possibly he got epsteined as he had less motivation to noose himself rather than all those who benefit he no longer collects Italian sport cars ..........

Well, when "complete absence of common sense" meets "loss of face", it escalates to the present status. Solution is flower basket, big apology and "wai" with reference to misunderstanding under stress. In private hospitals one can witness, more often than not, complete overstaffing which results in a bureaucracy of titanic proportions - and explains part of the huge difference in treatment costs. But, as long as there is plenty of lose change for submarines, destroyers, Air Force toys and interesting bridge ideas between the main land and touristic islands ...... we all can assume, that public healthcare, education and basic utility provisions like electricity and running water are all ticked off to the fullest satisfaction of everybody 😉

I had a restaurant who served everybody. The fidel followers of the faith had the choice of either following their faith and whatever rules their imaginary friend (like all other religions, by the way) would allow/forbid. Others drank red wines, feasted on pork; same with the Kosher crown which came for shellfish. They had understood, that even Thailand had been inching its way to the 20th century with refrigeration and were educated to know the difference between a glass and and entire case of beer, wines or firewater. If a "fidel" thing in the attire of a Christian or Buddhist, would do something the moslems allow but Christianity prohibits (i.e. four wives) it would be considered possibly as bad taste but I cannot see the Pope going over the moon (as it happens anyway).

In most Western countries there is no need for the "pourboire" as nobody would arrest a Thai guide accompanying a group of Thai citizen. Nobody speaks Thai better than a Thai, nobody knows the Thais "dos and donts" as well as a Thai. A professional guide (that does not mean those commission-hunting crooks around the Grand Palace) is an asset to the group and the host country. I still have to meet the Mongolian, Bhutanese or Suaheli-speaking Thai guide who knows the "dos and donts" of the visitor and can act as a valuable "go between". But in the land of the semi-divine it is, of course, a completely different thing (see "commission")

Pol Col Nakhonpathom Plod Phai lives of what? The usual little brown manilla envelopes or discreet charging of batteries? They have money for such stuff so we can look forward to the incident, when Pol Col Nakhonpathom Plod Phai arrests Somchai the police man anytime soon?

Interesting enough no names are mentioned - again - as everybody from bottom to top is scared. Only once such incidents are properly reported with name(s) and picture(s), then a proper clearance of name - if applicable - is possible. Any foreigner misbehaving is being shown in full regalia, usually with their name(s) spelled wrong and, in many cases, with photos which will allow those who know the culprit .... to identify the culprit; that is the way it should be. Being the son or daughter of anybody is irrelevant; the person at fault is to be taken to the bench. Will never happen here; I am aware of that, regretfully 😞

Should it ever happen again, contact the superior(s) in their office for correction; saves you the time wasting trip next day.

Thailand's fifteen minutes of fame in the ridiculous theatre of irrelevance - a yearly occurring occasion 😉

Well, a significant drop from +/- 24,000 reported in earlier years. Maybe get the figures right, impose existing laws and clean up this s*ç%"hole once and for good. It is like fish, starts stinking at the top first 😉

The sensational surprise of Songkran festivities over three days in Korat is this? Good on me, that I also missed this particular occasion during the silly days. How backwards are all these geeks and goons - seriously? Next please!

Surprise surprise, of course is the idea of a private 200-seat cinema an absolute realistic possibility. There the goons in beige uniforms could have daily screenings on how money can by siphoned from tax payers and state budgets for ill-gotten ideas of more private nature, lining of pockets and general misuse of public funds. To keep the majority of the sheep quiet, the same screening area could show, how the government kindly enough was generous in distributing money among the semi-divines as the latter would not understand, that these crooks would distribute tax payers money as the government itself is nothing but a dungeon of money destruction in the first place. If the boys in blue can buy airplanes to play war and their brethren help themselves with submarines, destroyers and ... coming up anytime soon most likely ... a new aircraft carrier .............. Next please ....... nothing new here - me thinks 😉

They should have lynched him. Impound and auction off the car, lock him up and throw away the keys. But it will be the 500 Baht deal again and nobody talks about it next week already 😞

Irrespective of ownership impound the vehicle for three months, release it against a juicy fine of 40,000 Baht. The culprit enjoys a week in the morgue in the first instance and if repeated, then book him for a month with the compliments of the justice system of Thailand. This has to and must stop here and now; I am absolutely appalled that not more accidents happened here in Nong Khai. Some drivers were completely wasted before noon, getting more booze at Makro and would have fallen over if not supported by the shopping trolley to the booze section. In bright daylight ..... so no wonder!