Sydebolle

Another highlight of politics in the 21st century, although not a unique Thai thing. Keep religion out of politics ........ or educated all of 'em. Unless you can agree to disagree without murdering each other - your call!

Same trough seeing new swines due to rotation of feeding time? Never ending ..........

Splurging tax payers money again ......... Every year the very same swan song. The flatlanders see their unpaid TV, unpaid fridge or unpaid microwave swimming by in the sludge passing their houses, latter being under water and, due to the lack of education, cannot work out, why they see the same mess each and every year. Hydropower and water dam management is not a subject, where Thais pass with flying colours and that is part of the problem!

Paetongtarn - the heroine of inherited democracy then. You can take a penguin, paint it green and assume it represents a frog while actually nothing apart from the irrelevant colour has changed. You want real changes and inch this country a little closer to the 20th - hell beware - 21st century? Education is the key and if started today, 1 December 2022, it will take one to two generations - at least - to kick in. Do non-Thais care? No. Does it affect non-Thais? No. So I might suggest to leave this permanently hot potato in the gifted hands of Khon Thai; the more changes are anticipated the less will change!

It does not affect me as I am usually in bed by that time. But the "early" closing allows the boys in brown to do their rounds - not to their financial disadvantage. Most of those bar hoppers after midnight or 2pm are using public transport, be it pillion riding on a bike, taxi or one of these blue pick-ups converted to minibuses. The decision will be made after this "high" season is over and might remain on status quo to allow the semi-divine law enforcers to ply their trade ????

Well, ask Thai people; while politically incorrect these days I actually liked their straightforwardness in certain cases. The decent of Mohammed from the Middle East were not allowed into certain establishments; sign boards at the entrance read "we respect your culture and your values. Here we serve alcohol by staff without veils or beards". In Chiang Mai's downtown area I saw more than one sign saying in English (and most likely Hebrew which I cannot read) "Israel peeple no welcome, always trouble with bill and rude to staff". Some establishments (including my restaurant back in the day) would politely turn away mainland Chinese customers for them to change nappies on dining tables in a packed restaurant, burping, spitting and shouting around. Once they left you could almost renovate the restaurant and the rest rooms looked like godzilla just left after Montezuma's revenge! When in Rome then do as the Romans. So it must come as a tremendous relief that Iran will not blow their "arch enemy" by prescription out of the universe when the latter, the chosen people, should decide to leave the promised land for a sojourn in the Land of the semi-divine ........... How comforting!

You're toast if you do anything in that direction in Europe. It shows the character of this "flee the scene" pig, the lala land law enforcement and how Thailand meanwhile works. Such manure is an absolute disgrace for land and people. The fellow can be lucky he did not hit me; I would make it absolutely crystal clear and ensure that he would never ever own a car by suing his beautiful bottom to the very end. The money would go to a hit-and-run foundation. And once the first f"*ç)=r is booked, the rest will follow - trust me! Remember the days, when Thais had to learn to queue in banks and offices instead of squeezing in? All a matter of upbringing, character education and principle!

Not that I care (anymore; due to age) but it is a proven fact, that if the government works against market trends ........ In Thailand it is slightly different as "bending" rules and regulations usually result in some token of appreciation in mostly monetary form so guess, who benefits of NOT extending operating hours despite contradictory market developments - your call!

Well, the men of the cloth again .......... In Thailand there is at least an alternative career afterwards by becoming a mule and find a new spot as a politician, as long as you are not getting thrown into the slammer in the Land of the Semi-Divine ????

I am so glad to be finally enlightened to the true word of democracy in Thailand. The chosen few representatives, working overtime in the interest of the Thai electorate, operates endlessly and very dedicated to the cause with vocabulary like renegade, conditional basis, partisan sources, "no longer name Prime Minister" and all under the umbrella of the "Thai Economic Party". I am sure that this is exactly, what the Thai voters voted for and desperately want.

Has ever anyone renewed a driving license here - same b"*ç%"it; you get treated like a kindergartener on Day One and if you don't sit upright, Khun Mae (that's the vulture supervising the video jokes) reprimands you irrespective of her being half the naughty, naughty Thai lady's age. The governmental breath down the citizen's necks ..........

Can someone enlighten me over the query, where that one billion Thai Baht went to which was discussed as official fees allowing broadcasting in Thailand? Ah, me idiot, the money got transferred from Thailand but has not arrived at the coffers of FIFA yet, how inconsiderate of me ???? Maybe check the beneficiary of the transfer then?

Emperor Prayuth has decided to "RULE"? I was always of the opinion, that the government runs a party policy presented during election campaigns in adherence to existing laws and regulations. So Prayuth is not governing but ruling? Most interesting; makes the rest of the clowns pretty obsolete - me thinks!

It shows you, how powerful those corn and rice buying agencies are. The haze is a consequence of burning fields which have been harvested from their corn and rice. Take a few of those hundreds of helicopters all those government agencies fly their big kids and VIPPPPPs around and identify the location of the fire. Next, get the details of the land owners (another government agency, so it cannot be TOOOO difficult to find out who owns the plot) and fine them with 20% of the value assessed by the department of land. Said money is to good use for public hospitals in the neighborhood as that is the place, where all those coughing and sicks "neighbours" of those ignorant land kings live. I would assume that within less than a burning season all this comes to a screeching halt. The helicopters can go back to the warehouses and shuttling the local bigwigs ...... Your call; quite obviously nobody really wants to do anything about it. Interesting might be though, that tens of thousands (including my family) decided NOT to move to Chiang Mai for this very reason; if I need pollution and coughing, then its Bangkok for Thailand and an array of choices in South Asian countries like Pakistan or India. Any more questions?

Well, what do I know. Whales are seen in abundance, 24/7, at Rawai; they all fled the South Atlantic, where they usually roam. Pardon my French (pun intended) but to the layman's eye the OP picture published in Thailand can lead to the assumption, that it features tusks rather than boney left overs of whales plying their trade in South Atlantic seas ????

Well, the Chinese finished the part through Laos from Boten to Vientiane within record time, on time, and within budget. The Chinese started in 2016 and ran the first commercial services five years later; through rugged terrain, through mountains and valleys with countless tunnels and bridges. Thailand's decision-making boys are at the rudder since 2014 (two years prior to the Chinese start) and are nowhere close to anything indicating, that the Thai part will be operative in the second decade of this century. But Saksayan Chitchob and his gifted minions will walk off the stage one day, leaving a heavily delayed construction site way off budget ....... nothing new. If it works in Thailand then it works everywhere - and that you can take to the bank!

Well, which Somchai sold the stuff to the French gentleman in the first place and what is the ink between the "whale skeleton" and the "elephant tusks" in the OP picture?

Ah ..... the "Thai Foreign Business Act" again, much better known as the "Alien Business Law" - what a handpicked collection of completely outdated medieval nonsense written by stone agers and Neanerthalers alike. Among others you'll find architecture, ice carving and indeed, hairdressing and tour guiding being restricted to the semi-divine Khon Thai who are unwilling, unreliable or unloyal towards an activity called "work". Not even half of all those Thai tour guides (also protected in above set of laws) speak languages needed to accommodate foreign tourists. And I am not referring to Greek, Portuguese, Icelandic or other possibly more exotic languages but understandable English, French, German or Spanish. All of them are in for the 20% - 35% commission on purchases done by tourists. If the Chinese "steal" jobs, then go and hunt them down in droves to find the stolen items. In closing, anyone with a fairly decent eye sight can witness the skills of the local figari when passing i.e. a school yard. While indeed, strictly speaking, illegal, the subject is pathetic and serves for a good laugh at best! In closing, the really hard working people are found in i.e. the rice fields of Northeastern Thailand; their almost complete absence of education restricts those to hard labour.

Well, the US priorities are defined very clearly: - Cambodia was systematically destroyed by Nixon and Kissinger 50 years back and none of them faced the music. Biden must have gotten the wrong briefing or missed in geography classes, that Cambodia and Colombia are two different countries pretty far from each other - Thailand was definitely second choice as the granddaughter's wedding in the White House was given priority over APEC 2022 Go figure; the China man chuckled all the way over the US' handling of today's foreign policy - for sure!

I am surprised, that the Louis Vuitton store on Avenue des Champs-Élysées or Prada Milano Galleria Donna on Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II lets Thai customers sink money by the 10-wheeler withOUT passport checks. But then the customer base as well as the retailer segmentation is slightly different ..... Passport into a discotheque?

That happened faster than usual ....... some envelopes have not made it to the consignees in time?

Thailand’s Narcotics Control Board, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, a.k.a. the top dinosaur of an oligarch elite with zero touch to reality. Is this sweetheart of Thai politics aware, that there are (most likely) more weed stops than 7/11 and family mart outlets together? Or is it that some easy cash, which flowed in the past, has trickled to zero? Wissanu is quite obviously not aware that the internet can be accessed outside Thailand as well and the latest "idea" of the gifted few shows the absolute incompetence of the lame ducks; how ridiculous can this get? I, for one, never smoked weed and never will do so as there is no need for it; yet the legalization took the criminality out of the equation and hence is, to my irrelevant point of view, a good thing. Literally a day after legalizing cannabis one could witness sellers of plants along the streets (in Nong Khai); those super plants grew in a day, what would have taken anywhere else months! Mysterious are the ways of the East ????

It is possibly time for you to floor the gas. Finish the roof and tell your wife to shut up. She likes it = fine, she does not like it = fine too. Tell her, that those footing the bills are those who decide and if you decided to do the job yourself, you might have had your reasons. Alternatively leave the roof unfinished and tell the Missus to finish the job with whoever she wants as long as it is her money ???? After all it is a shed for her motorbike 8-) Make sure that the Thai expert gets a hand tip from you in compensation for the headache with your wife so he might be available in the future for less complicated work you do not want to do yourself.

Usually, such opportunities like conferences, meetings etc. are also being used to present the very best of local goodies from the kitchens and gardens of the host country. Correct me if I am wrong, but is sturgeon caviar listed as basic staple food, say like Somtam, Khao Nieaw, Laap or Gai Yang? Wondering if the wet market in Udon Thani features caviar in abundance; apart from most likely massively inflated billings to the tax payer ..........

Well, Prayuth's 15 minutes of fame; assume this exchange was done in fluent Thai. On a more sombre note, who pays for the wedding and the use of the White House infrastructure - just asking for an (American tax-paying) friend. Interesting also is the priority allocated to the wedding of a granddaughter over the attendance of the Asia-Pacific-Economic-Conference, known as APEC. Is the sweetheart in a sudden hurry so that this wedding could not be moved by an inch?