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In some countries running over a zebra crossing costs your license and a heavy fine of the juiciest order. Here the old geezer is being blamed. He was wrong, you do not kick anything but his kick was a RE-action onto a wrong action. The Thai pr1ck should be thrown into the slammer for a while, fined royally and warned that if he had any other traffic offense over the next 24 months, his car would get impounded.

As Mr. Prawit Wongsuwan seems to be a democratically elected army-general-turned-politician, I sometimes wonder, why he is still referred to as a "General". A little bit like Dr. Thaksin Shinawatra, who is a fugitive in the legal context of the Thai law. Yet still they refer to the latter as former Prime Minister rather than "fugitive". Boggles the mind as, where I come from, they do not refer to me as "former Grade 2 student", nor "Doctor" but simply by my name as I am retired and the only official title could be "Grandpa" - just thinking ..........

"Survey Shows Thai People Using Savings during COVID-19 Pandemic" Survey will also show (one day), that Thai people WITHOUT savings will use the savings of those who had savings. Petty crime will explode and the bigger pictures are around the corner. The writing is on the wall!

Among Thai destinations, that is possible. Compared to the rest of the world, those few fellas touring Bangkok and Phuket are hardly seen on a statistic, if you compare it to Barcelona, Vienna or other completely open places. In addition, TripAdvisor is a private company and hardly a neutral source of unbiased facts. In the days I had a restaurant, I was offered 100 top ratings on TripAdvisor by a digital nomad in Vietnam, if I would pay some money. I informed TripAdvisor on this "offer" and the first enquiry went unheard. A repeated enquiry from my part resulted in "there is nothing we can do about" and "yes, we know". Just in case you care to know the professionalism of some online platforms ranking destinations and services .........

Why the detour through local licensed production if imports of tens of millions are no problem (anymore)? The day will come and they will have to destroy millions of jabs, all over the planet and in some countries they even throw in a premium, if you get vaccinated. Las Vegas/Nevada in the US shells out USD 100 per vaccination they can administer to the beneficiary - most likely to be spent in any of those countless casinos immediately afterwards. The Germans are more down to basics; there you get a freshly grilled Bratwurst (sausage), if you get vaccinated. Something is seriously wrong on this planet and the public health care of the various states ..... me thinks!

Well, that is one way to get a name into the news - stoic trust in the impossibility ........

"asking 100 people in all 1,484 police jurisdictions " Is this 100 people per jurisdiction, i.e. 148'400 people asked or 0.06738544474%, i.e. one answer per every 15 jurisdictions? Either way, why not ask me; I could tell you all about how nice, friendly, population driven and honest all those officers are. I - for one - just never met anyone and trust me; you do not need to do any such surveys. Fire the entire lot and get a new bunch of honest, young and preferably women officers. If they look nice, that would be a plus. We do not expect fairness in a quarrel but if they are beautiful, at least it pleases the eye ........ On a more sombre note, are these guys for real? Unless you really fire most of the entire rotten lot, there will be zero changes ever ..........

Well, we're reaching the end of the buffet and the piggies are ready to take off ...........

Interesting is the source of this (renewed) same story I've been hearing over the last 30+ years in the Land. This time it comes with compliments of PR China, Xinhua .........

And what happens to the other hundreds of thousands of unsold units plus all those which will be thrown on the market anytime soon? People are returning their unpaid cars and bikes and move out of their unpaid condos so no rush to invest here anytime soon. Another nice element for the non-Thai crowd is, that the exchange rates are moving in the right direction to where the Thai Baht actually belongs. And if you really want to fan sales then talk to the fellas at the Foreign Ministry on visa issuance and the goons at the immigration under the police under the Interior Ministry. The 90-days-joke and the TM30, as example, does not go down well compared to other countries .......

"MoFA: Hails "Sandbox" success - all systems go for 7+7 and all agencies onboard over CoE" 1) sandbox is a local idea = Ministry of Interior; so what is the MoFA doing here? 2) Ministries, agencies and God-only-knows-who-else being "onboard" over the CoE! All this does not work, as you forgot the culprit, the victim, the beneficiary = the tourist. Nothing understood, nothing learnt, too stubborn, ignorant and blowing its own trumpet. My comment to the entire drama "keep up the good work"; the more you do, the more all of you are out on the street and Thailand can start mopping up the mess and plan for a sustainable future for all those who lost out big time during this stint.

I wonder if all Cambodians will be looked down upon to some 40+ years after the Khmer Rouge regime finally ended. Question arises simply because in i.e. Germany, the WW2 hatchet of the Third Reich is still swung over the third generation of kindergarteners today. If they say anything not befitting the listener's politically correct ear, the reference to Germany's past is thrown immediately into the equation. Convict the guilty ones and once you close the subject, do not hold the entire nation for generations to come responsible! Nobody ever accused the Chinese who put the Khmer Rouge into the driver's seat after the sneaking away of the almighty United States of Cowards. A repetition of the script could be witnessed a week ago in Kabul .......... nothing learnt!

Well, did not know that sausage dogs can be that aggressive ........... I hope that the two women pay straight through their noses for their negligence - neither the old man nor the dogs were at fault - me thinks!

Everybody is equal in Thailand, some are just a little more equal than the rest of the flock (pun intended)!

Tell 'em in Bangkok that nothing is done for those Thai berry pickers; Finn come first, dirty farang next and at the bottom of the ladder then the rest. No; Thais can count on the Finnish care like anyone else - except non-Thais in Thailand, but that is another story!

The Swiss ambassador was quite obviously not informed as she missed this particular photo opportunity ...........

They have not understood a thing ........... It is not about Thailand's most important commodity = money. It is about locking people into a confinement, be it a quarantine hotel, a sandbox or any other funny little idea they might have. I would not spend a single confined day of my scare vacation in an overpriced hotel with crappy cold plastic-wrapped food served by aliens in transparent garbage bags. Open the country = you get tourists = your get money (much less, by the way, than you presently still think) Quarantine/sandboxing = no tourists = no money Is it that difficult to understand? Look at the Dominican Republic, almost entire Europe = open, no quarantine, no masks, no nothing. Somebody is grossly misusing this whole subject for personal gain and control of power here in Thailand - me thinks! So, make up your mind; open the country or keep it closed - your call!

These assumptions require basics like a complete revamp of the way this country is run. No checks and balances nowhere, conflicts of interest in whichever direction you look, the social structure with their "phoyai (ผู้ใหญ่)" which instigates authoritarian fear into the low(er) lives of this country which contribute 75+ percent of the population. Give fair, younger and professional politicians the stage and put everyone there where they belong. The present mess with all ministries getting involved in all business, monopolized license production of vaccines to please and seriously enrich higher ups are provenly completely counter productive - to the disadvantage of all those below the lowest rung on the Thai ladder of elitarian oligarchy. I am neither communist nor socialist but the disintegration of an industrial nation with a albeit stuttering but still functioning economy and tourism trade in the recent past to the attitude of a third world country is more than mind boggling, 100% self-made by all the crooks, thieves and gangsters. What a pity for a beautiful land with - in general - lovely people.

Quite a successful story on sandboxes, governmental interference with a business it has not the slightest clue and at the end blowing its own trumpet. Once the treasury is emptied they will disappear into thin air as most of their predecessors. Latter though were not as professional as the present crew; in all cases it will leave those left behind to mop up the biggest mess ever instigated and that will take a very very very long time. Just wondering if any when the hunt for a scape goat is on again ..................

So the dirty farang are ultimately to be recognized as their home countries went all the way to limit the embarrassment of this pristine political representative of possibly Thailand's most incompetent government? Wondering how the (il)legal Burmese, Cambodias, Laotians among all the other Asian non-Thais are being treated as they usually rank on or even below the bottom rung of Thailands ladder of social hierarchy.