Sydebolle

So much to Sandbox and all the other bu11sh1it we've been hearing from those pr1cks all the time!

If I summarize your statement (which I - by the way - share); get out of any business in Thailand as long as these geeks poke noses with the sole intention to give you a hard time!

The job is offered on a platform and the first one accepting is the one who gets it. If it is not taken within X, then the fare goes up - inch by inch - until it has a taker!

Well, do not forget the paperwork in relation to be permitted to play live music in a restaurant; if it is a gig with a dirty farang/infidel/alien among the musicians (who would possibly get a beer or two in the past as remuneration) then the governmental saga of complete stupidity continues. Get out of hospitality business while you can - this country is in free fall down the halligally! And all the others ....... enjoy the ride!

We've heard it from official sources last week "farang have money and are richer" - once the subject of hospital bills was touched. I - for one - never ever saw a Thai drinking boxed wines, the few and far between were customers in an eatery where "wine" was sold by the glass. The discerned consumer either imbibes on smuggled stuff, meanwhile offered on i.e. LINE, or abstains. In all fairness, if you look at the quality and pricing of local beers here and compare it with the quality and pricing of a first world country brew in a first world country store ................

That explains the vintage Honda Goldwing which I saw the other day with a green bag doing food deliveries all over Thailand. Some are just bridging unemployment or enjoy getting (partly) paid for roaming while others struggle to make ends meet. The latter group is - me thinks - definitely the bigger slice of the cake.

Well, two years ago they were busy at wet markets in Wuhan and other places to ensure sending something Chinese around the world. You cannot expect the Chinese to come in person or in lieu on a yearly or bi-yearly basis, can you?

"Pheu Thai MP cries foul over corruption watchdog’s bribery finding" A case of no smoke without fire?

What's wrong with beautiful Turkey? Fact is that you enter without any avalanche of bureaucracy and enjoy skying or beach leisure - depending on the time of the year!

A soapy gone bad; misunderstanding on the fee? I would be very careful with such accusations - yet if true - put him into the slammer and throw away the keys. Question is - will the truth ever be found?

100K to 150K is realistic; take away all those returning home to families and/or work - go figure! All those visiting foreigners I usually see in winter half have chosen different destinations of Sri Lanka, Turkey, Caribbean etc. - all of them. Nobody spends a day in a overpriced quarantine with swabs, being welcomed by locals wrapped in transparent garbage bags after being vaccinated, COEs, Visa, insurance of far-above anything a local could cough up ....... go figure!

What a load of Krap! An average fare tops 40 Baht, with ten trips a day less fuel, costs for jacket, box, flag etc - go figure!

The first time I personally regret, that Thais ferment only the small fish. If possible I would have advocated a sperm whale in fermented stage for the Prime Clown!

Mind boggling, how many "experts" are in "tourism" ............

I predict, that the Chief pr1ck of the Tourism Authority of Thailand Yutthasak Suphasorn should stop predictions and tell all those tourist venues, hotels, restaurants, historical sites and national parks, that: money comes from tourists tourists do not want to be cheated but treated fairly same price for same service (no dual pricing) That, Mr Chief pr1ck, might be much better prediction than anything else I've heard in the last few years from your dream factory

I'd like to share your optimism with "next high season in 2022" - I sincerely hope that you're right though!

Water dam management is actually very easy, explained to the Thais over and over again - but they do not listen as usual. As an example: A dam has a capacity of 100, the remaining level is 20. So you need to replenish 80 by the end of the rainy season. By historical figures (and Thailand is quite well documented on that) you can expect 110 over the coming rainy season feeding that particular dam. So the mathematics are rather easy; release today 3/11th of yesterday's rain - and you do that every single day or accumulated every few days (do not wait longer). Towards the end of the rainy season you still have ample opportunities to fine-tune and pay close attention to the water levels. That is, how dams are operated in i.e. Switzerland and the US; no rocket science, and smaller dams are managed fully automatic. In Thailand though the system works differently. Once it starts to rain, close all the valves and keep the precious water. Once the level reaches 90+, they start to realize, that there is more water coming than they wished for. Given the fact, that 35% of the water rains during the last quarter of the rainy season, you see them going crazy and various work groups, committees etc. are starting to feed in "advice". The disastrous result is evident - every year!

Perfect news for Al Jazeera and other Middle Eastern countries which have fed the Thai healthcare with billions of Baht every year. This - note well - is a clear statement on how the superior Thai semi-divine pr1cks and 1d1ots running the country and the courts are thinking. The reasoning is of particular interest - a total admission of inferiority ............

Beautifooonnnn - velllly goose!

3.6 million, or 71.679384093742543254890781 % of over 5 million students have been vaccinated. Which planet are we talking about?

NO problem for the AoT, they cream off a fortune at King Power's duty free emporium on a minute-by-minute basis .........

Well, nobody really cares; I've seen beers and Saengsom etc. being served in each and every restaurant I pass. The establishments owned by non-Thais, of course, have to follow the law and are being held at gunpoint with "fines" of anything between THB 20K - 50K if caught. Hence non-Thais follow the law, unlike the country's own people. Question is a) why and b) who cares!

Yet another proof of absolute brainlessness of those 1d1ots running this country. Either it is a Buddhist reason - only applicable in Thailand as Buddhists in Burma/Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam have no such booze ban on any Buddhist holiday. Or they pack it up behind "health" issues like the present virus desaster! To prevent more infections, Thailand has banned booze - quite obviously the virus is an alcoholic! Are these people for real?

Shoot those dirty farang - because of them the target was not met - how dare they misbehave like that?

Never mind, it was just an honest mistake - what a stupid 1d1ot!