Sydebolle

Well, it is party time then - most perfect timing just before Songkran .......... Happy New Year to everybody 😉 

Well, he'll be booked for a while with a permanent address for the time being ......... meanwhile some other crooks tried to smuggle 128 buffaloes from Myawaddy to Mae Sot. 

The mind boggles, very active smuggling in and out 

Apart from the endorsement you will need a re-entry permit; question is, is this the same form for "non-immigrants" as for "immigrants"? I hold a PR and prefer to fill in the forms at home after downloading ...... 

22 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

As a holder of PR you are exempt from doing TM30, TM28 and TM47 forms. You are also not required to have a TM6 card.

Wrong, TM6 still required if you travel overland into/from Thailand (at least in Nong Khai at the Friendship Bridge) ...... 

Well, bananas are for such low levels like him; real politicians believe in a political agenda and programme - less about money and certainly not about monkey food, Sir! 

But as long as this country is run by such banana lovers, what do you expect, seriously? 

I remember the old airport very well and also used it. Once they moved it out of town - completely unnecessary waste of hundreds of millions of Baht - most of my staff and myself were faster in Korat than flying. The capillary logistics to/from the airport = not in place; just another big mess. 

Going back to the old airport is more than sufficient for the air traffic, the commissions on the new airport must all have been not only paid but also burnt up so there is nothing to prevent the return to a much better solution. 

+697 and +698 are VoIP, voice over internet - all spam calls. Had a few Philippinas on the phone and told them to wait for I was just too interested on what they had to offer. But I had to finish another (non-existing) call first. Kept the receiver next to me, my radio playing in the background and every once and then I spoke into the phone that I would be with her soonest. 

The longest wait was a solid 48 minutes - time she wasted and could not make other calls ........... 

5 hours ago, Dcheech said:

 

Pretty sure the Thai government knows exactly who is responsible and that is why they confuse the issue with as much gibberish as they can. The media helps, like this confusing gibberish filled article above.  Sure their are evil Finnish berry farmers & Swedish blah blah blah. But the first skinning is the money these poor people must give the Thai recruiter, to get a job. A job that may or may not exist. Many of the poor, likely  get in hock with loan sharks and worse. That is where it starts and that is what needs to be stopped and that is why Thailand seems unable to do anything about it. 
 

These  Thais who take advantage of their fellow Thais seem to have an immunity, never prosecuted, rarely mentioned. 
 

My words exactly, the biggest problem of Thailand and its people is ...... their fellow citizen ...... Their country, their money, their disaster - how sad indeed. Everybody knows it but there has never been - so far - any action. Let's see what 2027 might bring after 2019 erased 6+ million votes and last year some 14+ million votes were disappeared by the dinosaurs! 

Well, that is a LOT OF MONEY; wondering if anyone in the audience was able to professionally analyze attempts to slip in some submarines, aircraft carriers, funny rail or road deals etc. 

I just wonder, where they want to get all that money from ........ 

a) the Thai government has not realized, that the problem is with them and those "agents" who skinned the workers alive - financially.
b) Keep the Thai government's fingers out of the cookie jar and let those applicants apply directly for visa etc. with the Finnish authorities (Embassy/Consulate). If they cannot speak sufficiently basic English, they will be lost in Finland anyway.
c) Hence maybe the Thai government, having meanwhile freed up human resources in their bureaucracy, might offer English classes to them on a free of charge basis
d) financing those English classes could be done with a submarine less and maybe you try to get all those native English teachers back which former governments threw out of Thailand

The Finns can hardly be shocked - that is just yet another but*ç%*t statement. There are plenty of English-speaking workers from the Philippines or India etc. available and have filled all those ranks, where Thais were leaving/missing (Middle East, North Africa etc.). 
In addition to that, they can get all those illegal migrants/asylum chancers to do the job, so do not over-estimate the importance of Thai labour on European soil.

Last but not least, berries have no influence on shortages of yogurts. Should certain berries be in "shortage", then you always have other producers more than happy to jump in. Until a generation ago, there were no berry yogurts on Asian shelves and ....... it was not only not the end of the world but people were happy with whatever their fields and orchards produced. Despite all this, when yogurts started to hit the Thai market some 40 years ago, I never came across an i.e. mango yogurt - which has nothing to do with Finland 😉 

"500 meters away from the Statue of Thao Suranari" ..... really? What would be the "appropriate" distance then? Gives you the medieval mindset of the protester - nothing more! Uneducated grannies and uncles now can be collected in upcountry busses and driven into city centres for protesting, free Somtam and a 500 Baht note once dropped off home in the sticks of 19th century again. 

Censoring is the duty of the government and quite obviously this ad it is either admissible or overseen. The rest is a matter of (possibly bad?) taste. 

The advertising agency though needs to be awarded a medal of solid gold for the fact, that their campaign is being not only noticed but meanwhile gets carried in the dailies all over Thailand; possibly also other media like TV - free of charge.

Remember = there is no bad advertising! 

 

Thais are excellent in many, many things - traffic planning is definitely NOT on said list. When they built the Amari Airport Hotel 40+ years ago, I remember that cars had to do a 10+ km trip for a simple U-turn; if you had to drive north of the airport = same U-turn. 

Result was another few hundert cars unnecessarily on the inbound lane and, due to the Thai inability to merge two lanes into one by driving a "zipper" (one left, then one right, then one left again) the mess was perfect. Don't think that this has improved and there was a direct branch-off to the north considered, even when they extended the elevated highway past Don Meuang airport. 

Makro on Sukhumvit Pattaya; you drive all the way to the Theppasit intersection before going to the Dark Side .... or outbound Pattaya - same, same. 

58 minutes ago, Sydebolle said:

Head to court AFTER the visa were revoked? Interesting indeed! 

There must be a flip side of the coin; complete nutters or the copper got out of hands and started to brandish his gun around. I had nasty experiences driving a van between Saraburi and Korat up a hill. The engine was not a V8 7'000cm3 and hence not racing material. I overtook a truck and all of a sudden a sedan pulled up and kept honking. I managed to get back onto the left lane, the sedan car passed me and shot two bullets in the air. I kept the car registration which named a police officer living in Ekamai.

I opted a Thai-style reaction; had a letter written in Thai referring to the incident and closed by saying, that if it would ever happen again, I would shoot him dead on site. It might have scared him as not everybody can find out a vehicle owner's details and address. 

Anyway, lets wait and see - most likely the boys will have to cramp a "Wai" in front of the assembled media, pay a fine and then get thrown out to rid Thailand of such farang elements! 

The spell checker again .... should read "would shoot him dead on sight" 

Head to court AFTER the visa were revoked? Interesting indeed! 

There must be a flip side of the coin; complete nutters or the copper got out of hands and started to brandish his gun around. I had nasty experiences driving a van between Saraburi and Korat up a hill. The engine was not a V8 7'000cm3 and hence not racing material. I overtook a truck and all of a sudden a sedan pulled up and kept honking. I managed to get back onto the left lane, the sedan car passed me and shot two bullets in the air. I kept the car registration which named a police officer living in Ekamai.

I opted a Thai-style reaction; had a letter written in Thai referring to the incident and closed by saying, that if it would ever happen again, I would shoot him dead on site. It might have scared him as not everybody can find out a vehicle owner's details and address. 

Anyway, lets wait and see - most likely the boys will have to cramp a "Wai" in front of the assembled media, pay a fine and then get thrown out to rid Thailand of such farang elements! 

Exceptions against the rule; see Charlie Chaplin who was 36 years older than his last wife Oona who were married 34 years and had eight offsprings. 

It rarely works, agreed, but if there are no financial interests by either party ......... 

Well, that means that the First Sealord and all those Admirals have to learn how to swim - or borrow the submarines from the Lao Navy for the time being ....... 

Maybe he rings the miracle man running the agricultural ministry; the latter seems to be an expert in conversions ....... and let's face it; ending up as a minister after having served four years in a "dirty farang" slammer in faraway lands is quite an achievement on the curriculum vitae - me thinks! 

If the picture shown is the accused gentleman's residence and the police has to "negotiate" 20 minutes prior to being granted access ...... the salary slip must be wider than tall 😉 

Paying respect to all those metal and concrete figurines paid back nicely - the neck brace is gone and the wine glasses are on the table - nice going while on parole, Sir! 

That money would put Thailand on the forefront of overland train travel; combining all those ideas of the men in uniform would be digging the Kra channel between the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman sea and really bring home the bacon ........

But the generals, admirals, commodore and sea lords would have to live on their official income ......... nahh, no option = no chance! 

Maybe time to clean up yet another hive of money wasting if not money destruction. The aircraft carrier was a total waste of money, now they start nuking their own boats and I just hope, it does not culminate in a battle where the new submarines without engines start launching torpedoes against each other. 
Yet another governmental part which should be closed, everyone sent home and the arsenal sold off as scrap metal. Latter revenues to be used for better education, social welfare of the underprivileged etc.