Sydebolle

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!

I just want the money back which I paid to them more than a year ago. I - for one - will never ever set foot on any of their aircraft!

What a relief, not as bad as 2011. Yet, still the same pr1cks and 1d1ots at the controls of the dams, most likely = flood recurring!

Battery finished and out of warranty! Somnana .......

Good luck with that one. So, what happens to those +/- 2 million "entertainment workers" who made a direct/indirect living of working in Turish Baths, Karaokes, Bar Beers and the like? All going into BLUE now? Just asking for a friend!

The vaccinations, initially for Thais first and non-Thais last, saw a complete change overnight. While Thais still wait for whatever they are getting vaccinated, all of a sudden the non-Thai crowd could get vaccinated free of charge in an orderly manner with the vaccination of their choice. But you might possibly have missed that initial complain and overseas pressure put on Thailand. In saying that, I also disagree to the present system of preferential treatment of non-Thais. With much less bureaucracy and open vaccination centres on a walk-in against ID basis (Thais = ID card, non-Thais passport) all this rant would be over long time ago already.

Those where the days, when HM Rama V, as an absolute monarch at that time, wisely created Royal State Railways of Siam which facilitated logistics and control over Siam. This transportation department then changed its name in 1951 to today's SRT. The agency is listed as a state enterprise and hence belongs to the people, if I am not mistaken. Land given by HM in the past to this state agency was a gift and not a purchase and, most likely, to be used specifically to run a railway. SRT dodgy if not shady land deal with Central Department Store in Ladprao springs to mind which got renewed after the first 30-years-lease expired. Up to then, the land was leased to Central at apparently THB 8 million ...... a year that is, while the market relevant rent would closer to a billion. See what King Power has to shell out to the Airport Authority of Thailand for their duty free monopoly. If SRT considers offloading assets given to them - as they have no use of them (i.e. land) .......... then this state agency (belonging to the people of Thailand) should return the asset to either the Crown or to the people of Thailand - me thinks! Wikipedia tells us, that SRT's budget from the central government for their financial year of 2019 was 9,987 million Baht. In 2017, the SRT lost 17 billion Baht and had "suffered" a loss every year since it was turned into a state-owned enterprise under the Transport Ministry in 1951 - to this date approx. 100 billion Baht. Its annual operating losses are estimated at a minimum of 10 billion Baht. In 2017 the military government budgeted more than 76 billion Baht for SRT infrastructure investments. All this for a network of approx. 4'000kms of tracks or - compared to highways - a hefty 1% (one percent) of the 390'000kms of highways ...... the mind boggles and if they now start to dispose of assets they never bought, you might wonder if not closing the whole shop and privatizing it to some real professionals might be the answer. So happened in many other instances on public transportation losing money head over heels yet, once privatized, started minting money.

Just to spell it out in clear ENGLISH: The State Railways of Thailand is sitting on assets given to them by the government. The Government is chosen by the people. So the SRT sits on assets given to them by the people to operate their business. If they now go and sell any assets (which do not belong to them), then it is nothing but stealing from the tax payer for personal enrichment of all those corrupt pigs and clowns running the show there. What a disgrace for a "modern" country in the 21st century! Despicable!

Has anyone told Anutin that he is a part of the problem and not the solution? If he and his cronies, underlings, helpers and assistants would have done his job, then the entire country would have been vaccinated over already.

Well, you cannot make money on donated jabs, can you?

The picture by the OP is more than clear, in what kind of situation the entire healthcare in this country is. The selected few get whatever they need, the dirty farang audience had to bark very loud and finally is at the beginning of the queue. The small fry in the countryside with genuine health issues is killed by bureaucracy; sent from A to B to C to D, back to B and finally ...... they cannot help him. One hospital charges for CD-scan and the patient is sent to the next hospital, which cannot read the CD - back to Square One and redo the job etc. etc. Endless stories on healthcare dramas, better than any soap opera! Above picture clearly communicates, that for a fraction of construction costs of a health temple in Bangkok (i.e. the facade of the Bumrungrad hospital) the entire land plot (where above hospital is built and subsequently drowned) could have been professionally filled up and piled - prior to the deluge!

Third world country listing!

Music is allowed, but not for lunch - yet another pristine example of id1ocy ! Well done, keep the jokes coming

Clean up your country, your politics, your attitude towards anything non-Thai and apply common sense when dealing with "high skilled alien dirty farang" (™30 or 90days spring to mind) before using big words

Who else has such a big database?

Thammanat was possibly the most unpopular politician in a very, very, very long time. Convicted drug dealer who did four years in an Aussie jail and also spent some years in a Thai prison ...... Seriously wondering about the pot and the kettle and something with black ...... Thailand should be able to find more qualified, less childish and bickering kiddies like this prime example of total idiocy!