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Good luck, Thailand, good luck! Missing is Thammanat, the miracle traveller converting flour into illegal powders mid-air, then Chalerm "the boozer" with his three lovely sons is not shown yet as well. Glad to see Phiphat, Saksayam and the rest of the flock - in essence nothing has changed except the increase in disappointment of voters. Wondering now, how well, if at all, this might go down those 14.4 million who were ....... short changed, again?

So the Generalissimo had a field day; once a soldier always a soldier. Might have missed the big bangs though this time again. Wondering, where they got their outfits as the tailor must have been working on a tight budget, as far as the cloth material is concerned. Well, how sporty of them to save unnecessary waste around the waist ????

The two tier pricing with increased (partly doubled) ticket price for the infidel, second-class alien, will do the rest - welcome to Thailand!

If so, kindly share it with me - I am a big fan of Benny Hill ????

Vote with your feet. A beautiful trick is to show up at the ticketing counter. They will prepare the tickets for you, i.e. rip them out of a ticket block and tear them to invalidate them. Then they will tell you, how much. Smile back to the clerk and tell him/her, that you find it too expensive and will not go along. The invalidated ticket will be more difficult to explain as most would assume that the ticket got sold and the staff kept the money. Works wonders over time while you will have to deal with an extra lecture in Thai swearing ........ Never a dull moment but vote with your feet

Ah, in due time again - the lovely Chidchob family. This time round the English version of this rather famous name has been slightly amended to "Chidchop" to confuse the internet. His brother Newin (named after Burma's Newin) is the uncrowned monarch of Buriram and latter had an important political bullet in his gun when it was "shoot Thaksin" time. His father Chai Chidchob, meanwhile dead, was House Speaker who froze Thanathorn some 4+ years back. So read between the lines, some shuffling of a big deck of cards is going on and Saksayam seems to be the "target of the day". Thailands politics are more entertaining than any cabaret, albeit at a much higher price than what you would be paying for the latter.

Well, when I arrived almost 40 years ago, Thailand had a ceiling of not more than 13 public holidays. The cabinet's "gift" to the people of Thailand is not paid by the government or its tax payers (if you discount those millions of government employees) but by the private industry. They carry the burden of paying taxes (for the government employees holidays) as well as the absence costs of their own staff; latter being paid for not having to show up to work. That really has a great impact on anybody seriously considering investing in a labour-intensive industry in Thailand where it is questionable, which is the greater problem. The inability to find (semi-)qualified staff, the complete absence of loyalty among most staff or the unheard of high number of paid public holidays. Your call!

Don't tell me that the elite, the oligarchs, the selected few and the dinosaurs overdid it this time?

I just wonder what it takes for the electorate to realize, that they have been short changed for decades and cheated out of trillions of Baht. Thailand came a pretty long way to spell out a government and an opposition, i.e. a polarization of government functioning. But what I've been seeing over the last few elections makes me wonder, if not everything here is in "limbo", on purpose, to smokescreen the electorate as long as there is power and cash to be creamed off ......... at the voters expense?

The auto correction changed "pail" to "pale" - sorry for that ????

Ethical conduct rules of Thailand?

So the kindergarten is in full swing with Bhumjaithai's turn in throwing a tantrum. What this country and its present system needs is someone to smack all those childish fighters and tell them to stop their Hickhack and start working for the voters who put them in office.

Anything official in this country is a godforsaken mine field and chances are, that you blow yourself up whichever direction you go. But it is the Thai citizen with their voting rights grossly misinterpreting their power and so they just follow the gravy train of vote buying and smoke-screen governmental hand-outs. While 40 years ago I could understand the ignorance of the voters to a certain extent I am appalled by the ignorance of the generations which followed. Thailand as such is a failed state and could have done soooooo much better, for the improvement of the very same Thai citizen and Thai voter. There's an easy way and a painful path; the flock of sheep chose the stony way to the slaughterhouse operated by all those eliterian oligarchs, the BiB, the crooks in uniforms hiding between countless numbers of articles, be it 112, 272 or whatever else is well placed in the latest version of a "voter's approved" constitution. Thai people - it is your call if you are unhappy!

Wrong title, it is not "General Sereepisuth Temeeyaves (centre), a former National Police Chief" but rather "pristine example of a dinosaur of the first degree farting around in politics". Not the slightest clue of democracy but sitting snugly on his previous "achievements"; as long as you have such old farts coughing in the direction of press and microphones, you will not get anywhere. He should play with his grandkids, go fishing and enjoy the few years left - before also he has to hand in his dinner pale!

Wondering what kind of excellent weed is smoked down by the Tourism Authority officers these days .........

Maybe Prayut and the Jurassic Park presently running the show should not call but listen - for a change ????

Honestly, does anyone think that Thailand ever cared about what others think about them? Thailand's interpretation of law and order can be explained very, very simple: A few weeks ago a German with a "tainted" background got butchered in Pattaya. There was an outcry by literally everybody and within zero time all suspects got apprehended and booked. For the outside world the law has been enforced and is now legal fodder. The very same authorities have been, (purposely or not?) hunting for the priceling of Red Bull, Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, whose declared wealth, according to Bloomberg, reads USD 27 billion as of March 2023. Even Associated Press found his whereabouts in London in their first attempt yet he has been on the run for more than ten years. A Thai passport has a maximum lifespan of ten years. All the rest is up to the gifted readers ........... and might depend on the relatively thick sizes of wrappers, so timely dished over and over again to make sure that the story does not go down in history of the Yoovidhyas. And, despite this legal "query", the yearly sales figures have exceeded more than one can of the sludge per earthling. Your call!

Is it not appaling, how medieval all this musical-chair-performance of all those dinosaurs appears? Anutin can "supply" MPs to get a political party into the driver seat. In a democracy voters are the legislative and the Anutins are the executives but here ....... Democracy in Thailand is confirming, once more again, the very own interpretation of the system without similarity to the proclaimed manifest. But it remains with the semi-divine Thai voters to live with the mess they have been voting ...... or for their unwillingness to change a completely rotten system so utterly misused all in the name of their nation, religion and monarchy.

So we're back to the same wick as 2006 and 2014; I wonder if it will be the same show again, when the army will dethrone Pheu Thai, under the guided puppet master leadership of the Brother in exile, with a little coup d'état? Stay tuned, the boys in uniforms will be watching until the watching is over ????

Years back I wanted a re-entry permit from the immigration office in Korat. As I was registered in Nong Khai then, the officer said that I would have to get the re-entry permit in Nong Khai and flatly refused to do it. I went on to Buriram, got my re-entry t here in order to cross into Cambodia. Quite obviously the entire immigration's revamp from scratch is overdue; if you are punished by dealing with a p1rkc of an officer, usually lacking thorough knowledge of the (arguably confusing and overlapping) rules and regulations or has an inferiority complex which is vented on such occasions .........

So there is the very last four years of stealing, lying, cheating and story telling ahead of us. 2027 then will be the year (latest), when Thailand is inching its way into the 21st century and will be sending crooks, thieves, oligarchs, eliterian dinosaurs and the likes into the abyss.

Well, if the government and its politicians did, what they were told by the voters, then there is absolutely NOTHING they need to be worried about. The government is executive, the electorate is legislative, i.e. the government and its branches like police and the armed forces are executive help to the government and the government is executing, what voters voted for at the polls. Or am I misunderstanding something here again - as so often in the past in Thailäääännnn?

All the while, the entire world is "concerned" about the US in general, its tattering president and the USD 886 billion defense budget approval for 2024. So, what exactly is the US' point? Thailand will fix its own problems in its own way by its own people. I strongly suggest that the American people and their government is doing EXACTLY the very same - clean up your own mess first, pay up all your debts in zillions of USD and then wait for someone knocking on your door, if and when help, advice and/or assistance is needed.

Regretfully you are absolutely right, Sir!

Many years ago I attended a wild party and, well, had it with a parrot. Seeing the picture of Thammanat I was wondering, if he is the result of that wild party ............ One billion Baht - nice going for a doctorate from a laundry shop in California who spent four years in an Aussie slammer for a miracle of leaving Thailand with flour just to arrive down under with illegal powdery stuff ........ As long as you have such creatures around (I also saw that Chalerm was popping up again) ....... good luck Thailand!