Sydebolle

Thank you for your most valuable input; kindly read my post again, slowly at that and then you'll get what I was referring to ????

Those 400 experts are planned to cover the government house only? Just asking for a friend ????

File a "manslaughter attempt" and see, what happens. But, yes, it always depends on who exactly is on the gurney in the ambulance and until this endless selfishness of Thai drivers does not get re-educated away ......... As a cop, he should be fined dearly and then thrown off the force to set an example; trust me, it woud never ever happen again with a semi-divine representative of the RTP ????

What is this ...... WHAT is this? Fined for parking the wrong way? The cops must have a field day at each and every 7/11 to start with; I never saw any country with such an inability to park a vehicle more or less right. See all those scooters blocking 90% of the space by absolute carelessness; be it in front of stores or restaurants. Just made my day with this contribution; thank you very much for it ????

Keep Thailand safe from all those most dangerous alien fried chicken sellers; likewise lock up the dirty farang for overstaying 16 days ...... while you're at it. Punish them, drain all their belongings and kick 'em out of the Land of the semi-divine. Once you're done with the perfect clean-up job in the Land, take binoculars and look for the sweetheart of a grandson of Mr Red Bull. Ah, and you can call Associated Press in case you need directions; they found him on first attempt in London. I feel so much safer in the Land of Equality where some are more equal than others ????

So Anutin (not Zarathustra) spoke .................. again and again and again and again! He is completely wrong in his illgotten assumption, that Covid-19 outbreaks are on a stark increase between 2am and 4am; likewise excessive drinking is more mind boggling between the aforementioned hours. Visiting tourists are mostly not motorized and use taxis and taxi-pickups, pillion ride on motorbikes, working people, most Thais and myself are in bed at that time anyway. It is about power, nothing but power as absolute power corrupts absolutely and this pristine example of a hard working man in the exclusive interest of land and people leaves nothing to the imagination. His statement of "maintaining balance in all dimensions"; a man with a private ranch and a private airport for his own personal use .......... puts all I learnt sofar into new light and dimensions ????

I hint, that the Thai PM has not understood basics of democracy. The question is not what he wants. He might want to hint, if his electorate would like him to even stay around another day. This question, of course, is not asked as the underlings, minions and the zero-divine; they are told form birth onwards in no uncertain way not to hint about anything. Exception to this rule are lottery numbers, amulet trading as well as trapeering at fossied dinosaur vomit left-behinds ...........

The Swiss had a rabies issue in the 70s in their forest and free roaming wolves. The answer was very simple and very cheap. They used (slaughtered) chicken heads and injected the drug into the head. The free roaming wild animals went for it and the area (Southwestern Switzerland) was rabies free within no time. But the 8'600 volunteers might be nothing but an employment programme; for sure it is more expensive and less effective but both were never criteria in this country!

Thais are mostly brainwashed thoroughly, which explains their attitude to literally almost everything. Underwear is not hung at the same height as the rest of the laundry, Wednesday is "no hairdresser day" and after the constant and immense hammering of Covid, Covid and Covid again ....... no wonders there. I saw people in a hotel swimming pool wearing a (completely soaked) mask, most scooter drivers do not wear helmets but masks. Why is that? They don't know but as they have been brought up like sheep following the herd's ram .......... Not asking questions, no querying anything has put the country into today's position and if you insist on dancing on one leg to access a department store ....... you might be surprised, how many would follow suit. Either put on the mask, use a different branch or change the bank altogether. They don't care so do whatever suits you best!

From where I come from it is called sarcasm; 36,829,499 million Baht though would be slightly more than 36 billion Baht but 36 trillion; in real money still 1 trillion USD. Of course not even the most gifted Thai politicians will achieve that which shows the worthiness of media articles - combined with the Thai understanding of numerals a devastating outlook. Whatever and how much is irrelevant; my comment was querying the professionalism of the article's editors ???? On that note - happy Father's Day to you too ????

I am amazed, that this little darling Vorayuth Yoovidhya has not been shot yet. After all, he assuringly killed one of those guys who should book him into the slammer and then throw the keys away. Money shouted many, many names in this particular case .......... But then, it is Thailand and an issue for our lovely hosts; and, as we all know, some Khon Thai are more equal than others ????

Did I just read 1,060,757,705,773.15 United States Dollar, in other words just a little over a TRILLION? Taking ransacking of state coffers to new heights, congratulations to this achievement. Give 'em a medal please?

I am certainly not a friend of the gentleman who hates dirty farang from alien lands but it remains a fact, that the health ministry is not in charge of upbringing and looking after children. Latter remains the responsibility of parents, guardians or anyone passing by. In good old Thai fashion, Banyat Jetanajan is grossly misusing this incident (and there are many others, I am pretty sure about that) for political reasons. Anutin is not an idiot and hence knows the truth about harmful effects of i.e. cannabis and, if asked, he would certainly confirm my assumption. It is like blaming transport minister Saksayan (also not my friend) for the death of a driver who got killed over not using a seat belt. While the driver chose not to use the belt, a child needs guidance, supervision as well as control - so if you blame someone it is the guardian, the bystander(s) as well as the person who took the photo. Rather than putting the kid(s) straight (s)he opted to upload the picture on Facebook. Mysterious are the ways of the East!

So the other 8'500 places managed to sneak through unseen then ....... It is exactly this extortion rip off by the RTP which ensures such laws like no booze from 2pm to 5pm or after midnight. Where else could they line their pockets that easy?

I do not quite agree to this. I've been dealing with all five big Thai banks on normal commercial business banking and can tell you, it is a tedious tiring affair. Apart from an absolutely unnecessary avalanche of papers, rubber stamps, copies of copies of copies etc. too many people are involved, have to initialize or sign off stacks of paper they don't even read. Given the limited education of most Thais once it comes to financing they opt to deal with the much easier loan shark. See all those offerings by all those motorbike vendors proclaiming to part with a brand new bike without down payment and it costs the buyer only 41 Baht a day? Work out the juicier details and you will see that you just got a very expensive loan and they throw in a bike for good measure. The average Thai cant work out interest rates ....... unlike the loan sharks. Latter gets a waterproof collateral (in most cases at least) and profits nicely in that niche between the holy banks and their rather uneducated customers. Back in the 80s I remember a South Asian gentleman in a Patpong bar who came to collect nightly 20 Baht from their customers in payment of bed sheets he provided. Only he knew by how much he overcharged those girls ..........

There must be more to the story and much more meat on the bone. I'm a regular on VZ and it is literally impossible to have "an extra" passenger on board. It is possibly a computer glich but each and every boarding pass is code-screened when leaving the waiting area to board the plane, the cabin crew (at least twice) count the passengers once they are seated ....... let's wait and see, if there is more to it ????

One way of keeping the kids at bay in Kindergarten ...........

Can you get a visa on arrival as at many other border crossing points?

The comment on education is simple; the first time it was a mistake, accident or just tough luck whereas every additional time it is a lack of consequences learnt from the first incident. While you sit on all-paid white goods it remains a fact, that many locals have lost lots of money and the next floods are in the making next year again - unfortunately. The regulation of dams is no rocket science but familiarization trips to the US and Switzerland have proven pretty useless as nothing got implemented of what the Thai experts were told during their trips. Latter served to explain, why there are no dam-related floods in all those countries ????

The purpose of this lobby was to be built; once completed ............... I assume that the planning, bidding, construction and now the subsequent destruction goes absolutely clean and above board ???? Their money, not mine!

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 ????