Sydebolle

I just hope that this terrible immigration office in Phibul Mangsahan is no longer the only place in Ubol. Years ago I needed a re-entry permit and was sent back to Bangkok to get it. In Bangkok they laughed and said, that a re-entry permit can be obtained everywhere. Driving all the way back I passed the Phibul Mangsahan office again and told the lady in no uncertain terms, how much fun it was to waste two days for something she was supposed to do within her line of duty. Answer was, that Bangkok can say, what they want and that they knew what their duties are and what not. If the same people would be in charge of checking vehicles on paid road tax or valid driving licenses ........ but let's not go there - me thinks!

Counting is one thing, accepting individuals in a party another ....... let's wait and see, if the counting and re-counting was worth the endeavour ????

Now that's a LOT of cash for all those promising statistics, forecasts and their daydreaming of zillions of tourists spending 10, 20, 30 or 40 thousand Baht a day ......... Keep up the good work - entertaining all the while ????

You're too kind; among the other 10% more than half would have expired licenses, ID cards or operate with the paperwork of a "friend" ????

I am always appalled by the number of poisonous snakes around the government house .......

I would rid planet Earth from such elements; a cold blooded murder = death penalty. You will not reduce crime but you will ensure, that this person will never ever even have a parking fine and relief the state's coffers of the expense to lock up such pristine elements of our society!

As long as medical doctors, lawyers, teachers and government officials are being hailed as semi-divine, do not expect any changes. I've asked each and every medical doctor on how they got to the diagnosis they made and, more than once, I was verbally reprimanded for querying their professional competence. I replied in all cases that this is certainly not the case but I would like to understand, what is going on. In two cases I went for another opinion just to hear, that the first medic's diagnosis was completely off the sheet. And in both cases it happened in one of Bangkok's top rated and very expensive hospitals ...... Bottomline is, ALWAYS go for two, eventually three opinions - in your own interest ????

Well, immigration and bureaucracy is a Thai things but it gets a nuisance only once you have a non-Thai tenant. Some landlords simply cannot be asred to deal with non-Thai-related bureaucracy. I - for one - have my tenants in my wife's properties to access the TM30 software themselves and they all manage. But it is time to throw this silly law overboard as well as it only makes life miserable. Thais themselves have such a tremendous mess in their civil registrar so maybe they start cleaning up that act first by moving the entire registration closer to the 21st century.

They violate their very reason for having been granted a "license" to operate a cab. Revoke the license for good, confiscate their driving license for a cab and ensure a juicy fine. After 10 - 20 indictments I am sure that the message will get across. All that pussyfooting around the semi-divine Khon Thai has to stop, in the interest of Thailand and its people (of which the visiting tourists can only benefit as well).

... as popular as a pork chop in a synagogue

Well done boys, well done indeed! It will fan further racism and hatred against those dirty farang and alien; but maybe that is what the whole thing is about. It is absolutely ridiculous to breathe down the necks of alien and landlords renting to alien as ......... the majority of Thais do NOT live at the registered address. I had various businesses; the top was 14 staff of precisely one was a local lady from the same municipality; all the others - legally speaking - resided hundreds of kilometres away from the address they were actually living. Your call, dinosaurs, keep up the good work and drive this important segment of economy further into the ground - you're doing great!

Either way Pheu Thai is in the boat - and I get the feeling that this was intentional from the start. Should the younger voters make it, it would rejuvenate Pheu Thai; the opposite would please the dinosaurs. Sometimes you win and sometimes the others lose! Simple as that!

Give the lady a medal. Every person above 18 - 20 years of age does not need to be babyfied by a self-centered corrupt government hiding behind Buddhist philosophy. There is no other Buddhist society banning alcohol, unless of course the Myanmarese, Laotians, Cambodians and some Vietnamese have changed their point of view since yesterday. It is just yet another tool to keep the uneducated underlings at bay while the boys in brown roam the places for their little bakshish to look the other way.

Well, the saying goes, that all good things come/are three. Maybe, in four years from now, most of those dinosaurs are senile or cremated. You can nullify 6+ million votes (2019 springs to mind), you can attempt to nullify almost 14 million votes (rumours refer to 2023) so next time it might be 20+ million - which would be the third attempt. Unless, of course, a civil war would break out before that; latter would tear down the entire establishment and might bring those long overdue changes on the political stage to carry Thailand out of the Middle Age straight into the 21st century. Or - as happened over and over again in the past - tanks roll up, the censors are trying to block the printed and electronic media; May 1992 spring to mind. The old guard is playing with very hot fire and the whole thing can backfire in a way Thailand has never ever seen before.

Get it from the horse's mouth then and show up at your local DLT office for details ????

Trust me, never ever seen having a problem. As long as it is registered on one of the back pages of the car registration book (blue); 2x4, 4x4 on 2-, resp. 4-door vehicles. Without registration the highway robbery team along the highways of the Land cream you for anything between 400 - 1000 Baht.

You're living in a country, where bikes (full cash price THB 47'000) cost THB 1'500/monthly - for the next 72 months; for good measure the finance company is kind enough to throw in a bike to ease the pain 8-). MLR hovered between 6% - 8% on a mortgage of a million while the collateral was worth 150% - now you go and figure!

And if you take the one smelling of Toorian, then you get extra points. What a way of self-ridiculing bureaucracy ????

600 (reduced) generals save THB 1'400'000'000 - quite an interesting amount, considering their actual postings into the Ministry of Inactive Posts. This clocks up to be almost THB 200'000/general/month. Explains possibly the lavish spending of the army on toys like aircraft carriers (parked in bright sunshine in Sattahip for the last 35 years), the three submarines (initially ordered without engines), the aircraft (the Thai air force wants to replace while the very same planes are being delivered to Ukraine by the NATO war chest), helicopters of which countless are not working anymore due to lack of ........ let's not go there. This tax generation, to feed those hungry army boys, might explain partly the doubled booze pricing, the exorbitant prices on pick-ups and vehicles etc. etc. With all that money they could make so much better use of it .............

You're right, there is a difference between a mortgage and a consumer credit. Here in Thailand though you hardly find anyone who knows the difference and a mortgage at close to 10% annually is higher than a consumer credit in most European countries. So, in all fairness, the banks/finance companies borrow you money and throw in, for good measure, a house, bike or a car .......

Yawn again, just publish the weather charts - more interesting than this repetitive nonsense on army, police and corruption in the same sentence/article. Too much of a bad thing is ........ not only bad but boring 8-)

Many more such stories could happen; too many people leave their unpaid houses early morning, drive with their unpaid cars to do a job they do not like and if anything goes wrong ....... like losing the job. Cash is King and never spend money you do not have.

It's throwing siht at random again; the dinosaurs will use every possible, legal or not, common sense or not, to stay in power. If Pitha Limcharoenrat gets disqualified, then there is a fair chance of a civil war. Last time round the boys in uniform just nullified 6+ million votes, this time it is more than double that; Bangkok alone had ONE candidate elected in who was NOT MFP. The army plays with very flammable, explosive issues this time round ...... and all this has absolutely nothing to do with going forward with Thailand, which is in the doldrums of political, touristic, monetary and economic crisis ???? The writing is on the wall in big red capital letters ........

Let's celebrate this possibly last day of no booze on Buddhist holiday. All other Buddhist countries do not have a "no alcohol" law to suppress the underlings for no reason. And, should the 14 million voters get their government, there is light at the end of the tunnel, that also this nonsense comes to a screeching end. Not, that I care but it is overdue to get rid of all those nappy governments to tell you to open your fly prior to go for a leak!

What was Nipit Intarasombut's rank in the military - if at all?