1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

The RTP should just publish a menu which describes the "offense" and the price for the bribe.

 

Also include payment channel options, and name, bank and account numbers.

 

And waive that facial recognition requirement so we can pay more than 50,000 at a pop.

 

 

And/or implement a prepayment option which includes a sticker we can flash to get out of that day's potential arrest.

 

Good one sir. Brought a smile to my face. However there may be more than one menu used according to nationality.

Indians for example may be offered a 2 for 1 solution.

 

 

 

 

27 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

They cannot get anything done properly ...

No other country I know creates so much confusion about election results .

Confusion in politics leads to confusion in the ' financial markets  ' .

The result is a feeling of insecurity that leads to a falling baht and stocks .

I've had a gut feeling all along the Mr Pita will not be the new PM...maybe I'm wrong but there's news every day of more opposition and Tony making noise in the background...wants to see his grandchildren,ya BS

6 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Not so sure about that one.

Leave the kids alone <deleted>

49 minutes ago, digbeth said:

if you went to the casino, you actually made the border crossing yourself, so hardly a 'ghost run' is it?

A ghost run is probably where you don't need to inconvenience yourself with going to the border, staying in Pattaya or Bangkok and have your passport sent to get the stamps

 

It used to be that only big border crossing and airports have the camera that records your face when you're being stamped in/out, it'd be pretty obvious going through the records and see if you had stamp without matching photo of the entry/exit

I recall some boys doing that on Samui years ago.Myself I thought it was risky because the runner had to leave the Island by boat with all their passportd. .Too many things to go wrong.

Hardly a day goes by when we don't see another case of corruption either by police,gov't officials,school lunch skimmers,on and on. It's a never ending headline.

And this is only the ones that are made public.

How crooked/corrupt can a counrty be and still function? I love living here , oh well.

8 hours ago, khunpeer said:

it's just a bs reason, he wants to stir up politics here, because only his daughter won't be enough, her father needs to coach her!

but when in prison there won't be much coaching...

If he spends more than a token hour in prison I'll eat my shirt...Limos will be waiting on the tarmac

8 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I wonder if his daughter really wants to be PM, and be a servant of her father?

Maybe she is happy that she wasn't elected. Maybe soon she can live a quiet life away from dirty politics. 

She should talk to Yingluck and see how that went...leaving in the middle of the night ...

11 hours ago, 2baht said:

Unless.............................he's stitched up a deal! ????

Exactly...the big fat brown envelopes have already been dispersed...TIT done deal..

11 hours ago, jcmj said:

And just one more reason Thailand is not a suitable place to push for retirees. This rears its head every few years then goes away, but you never know when they might go full force. However, don’t be fooled that buying in FQ is 100 safe. If the government doesn’t want foreigners to own property they can revoke that as well. And if you don’t believe me look what happened in Mexico many years ago. They took everything back. Sure hope they wouldn’t go that far, but this is Thailand and they do what they want when they want. 

As a matter of fact I remember a Canadian couple who bought and paid for a condo years ago when this happened.When they went south to stay at their condo they were not allowed near the place.Total loss and zero recourse.

2 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Need to avoid blanket discussions of chemo for "cancer". Cancer is not one disease but many with widely different treatments and prognoses and the utility of chemo varies enormously according to type of cancer and stage.

 

In no case can chemo be termed a "scam". But its value varies greatly  according to cancer type and stage.

 

Chemo is completely curative for some cancers (e.g. leukemias).

 

For some other cancers , if at early stage, it extends the chance of long term survival/ decreases risk of recurrence, but the issue is by how much and to weigh this against the risks of the chemo, which do vary by drug and by the age and general health of the patient

 

For still other cancers/stages, chemo is only "palliative" (put in quotes as one could debate the definition of "palliative" in this instance) i.e. extends survival, sometimes by a lot and sometimes by just a little and at a cost in terms of time spent in hospitals and side effects.

 

What is largely lacking in Thailand, unless one is very pro-active in seeking it out and assertive in claiming it, is for patients to be fully involved in the decision making process, given full facts and then allowed to decide. Especially in the public system, but also in the private if the doctor has not been socialized to western approaches, the norm here is still for the doctor to "tell' the patient what should be done and the patient is expected to passively comply. This is not because of an intention to "scam" the patient, rather it is an mindset which does not consider quality of life variables sufficiently nor accept that patients are the best agents to ultimately decide whether a particular treatment, all considered, is worthwhile.

 

 

I defer to you Sheryl

You are the expert on these things.I shouldn't have responded like that.Fact is I had a poor relationship with the surgeon.He refused to reverse the colostomy until I submitted to the chemo.(I had renaI failure) got another opinion with a Dr at Sinakarin hospital and he said he would make arrangements for the surgery only if the PET Scan came out negative which it did. I eventually had the reversal done at Ramatibodi by a colleague of his in Bkk.

15 hours ago, fceligoj said:

In 2021, I had open-heart surgery at the Queen Sirikit Heart Center of the Northeast.  I won't go into details but I felt the care taken from admittance, initial testing, the surgery, recovery, 2-days in a hospital room, and the continuing follow-up (including in the emergency department to replace the gauze bandages from the removal of the leg vein and the incisions into the body cavity as well as appointment with my surgeon (now every 6 months)) were all first class. Also, prior to surgery and during recovery, my wife was allowed to stay with me, had to sleep on a couch bed though.  (I had a private room.)  All costs associated with this illness was out of pocket other than a small hospital insurance policy with AIA.

 

From your description, even in the US, the medical profession would prefer, from the patient's point of view, for the patient expiring to be in constant contact with their nearest relatives at home.  If not, they would 'push them out of the hospital' and suggest the family put the patient into a hospice.  So, really no difference.

Did you have bypass surgery?2 days seems quite short of time in the hospital.I had a quadruple bypass 13 years ago.It was at Bangkok Pattaya because I had insurance with my employer.The total bill was about 30+ pages and north of 1 million baht.They charged per aspirin and anything you can imagine.

I was discharged after 7 days.Interestinly they took the veins from both of my arms? I often wondered why as most Drs take them from the legs.

23 hours ago, PeterA said:

"Wifes mum has severe cancer and is in hospital, she cant poo or pee by herself and her kidneys have shut down now as well,  they want us to take her home to take care of her ."

 

Most hospitals I assume will give the home patient a morphine drip or equivalent to stop or minimize pain, and show you how to maintain it, as well as come by to check on the patient. That's how I have seen it done in Nakhon ratchasima.  From my experience, they give enough to keep the patient in a "near-coma" like state.

Cancer here is real common and is usually not caught until late stage 4. When symptoms occur, it is usually too late to stop it. Unless you have big money for treatments that might give a little extra time only. Weeks, not years.

 

 

 

 

The old chemo scam has been going on for years around the world.After my cancer operation the Dr insisted I go for 2-3 months of chemo etc. treatment.I'd been having severe kidney issues post op and reckoned that the chemo would finish me off.

Eventually I mostly recoved from the kidney issue and paid to have the PET scan at Princess Chulabhorn in bkk. Not cheap but they detected no cancer at all.We all know of people who underwent long periods of painful Chemo to only survive a couple weeks or months if at all.

Yes there are some success stories out there but no many.

On 6/15/2023 at 11:15 AM, brianthainess said:

Not only rooms, but when I was in Gov Hospital upgrade for 500b a night to a different ward with extra space and a fold down sofa. but none of this helps if they just want to send you home. 

I had a cancer operation at Sirikit hospital in Sattahip.Somehow I ended up in a huge ward.Worst experience ever.Zero privacy and patients yelling and screaming at all hours.Staff was very overworked.

My wife had to sleep in some waiting room infested with mosquitoes.

I asked for a private room but none were available for a week or so.I gladly paid the extra 3k/day.

I did have one intern who kept wanting to up sell me all kinds of tests that were unnecessary. 

5 hours ago, RandolphGB said:

There's a grey area with these things. Firstly, assuming this was an oil massage with her clothes off. The customer might have been in the mood during the massage and gave body signals that suggested it was ok for the man to do it, but then regretted it after and complained .Or the man may have proceeded without any kind of consent. 

There's no way to tell and no legal recourse because it's Thailand.

Yes who knows? But she must have been quite pissed off to drag him to the cop shop.. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall.I wonder if it was unclad and a male masseuse? mmm poor judgement maybe? I'd have to sit that one out as I do like the Japanese females...

Bit of a moot point until you provide more info on what job,salary,job description etc.

I worked for an American O&G company outside of Udon years ago but knew exactly what I was getting into. 21/21 on off for example and hotel,meals with car and driver all in.

1 hour ago, Gecko123 said:

I'm in love. I'm almost ready to poison my wife and bury her body in the woods for a chance to meet her.

 

Miss Am is quite busy these days...

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

LT I am sure is the starting job level for a forensic person.  The fact that it is a police rank maybe to some confusing but remember everything here including teachers is a uniform government job.

 

She will start out the same as any new hire anytwhere in the Western world doing the menial jobs in the lab and grow.

Maybe she can show some tips to old Porntip the GT 200 gal...

On 12/30/2022 at 12:08 PM, worgeordie said:

You must be stupid, posting the fact you lent/gave a Thai woman a lot of money,

opening yourself up to ridicule ,best to suck it up and put it down to an expensive

experience ,and hopefully learn from it. take solace your not the first and won't be

the last.

 

regards Worgeordie

 

Yes this is to become a "lesson learned"

4 hours ago, JoePai said:

And that boys and girls is why the US will not sell the F-35 to Thailand 

Uncle Tu is getting pretty cozy this Zi...wasn't there a USN just a carrier group visiting here recently? interesting 

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Why is this news? Theft happens all over the world. The Swiss are not an exception. The only reason we know about this, is they they likely have alot of "followers" on their travel page. 

555 several years ago I had a red plate PCX stolen from outside a bar I was in.Didn't you see the article in the Bkk Post?

13 minutes ago, Dene16 said:

we will have to agree to differ. of course its a cost to taxpayers we pay into the foreign aid budget which is covered by the tax payer. The UK reduced that payment because of the increased costs due to our present circumstances. It is still a cost to the taxpayer.

It is only now that you state that there is no extra cost to the taxpayer. Maybe I am being pedantic?

However those costs or payments the UK government has held back are only acceptable for the first 12 months after which the UK  will then have to bear the costs.

once asylum has been granted we will have to bear the cost. Most will have to take unskilled jobs unable to provide enough income for housing etc and will require extra welfare payments at best  So in answer to your statement(if it makes you happy) there is no immediate cost to the taxpayer but we will have to bear the future costs for many many yeas to come.  So if your statement simply implies there is no extra cost to the taxpayer then you are wrong.

 

i am sorry you will need to humour me as i have no idea what relevance this holds.  I have already stated I was encompassing the welfare state and the migrants affects on our society/country as a whole. For some reason you seem to have a fixation about the cost of unemployment and now comparing it to the cost of retirees. 

So your simple statistics are wasted on me. whilst I have no interest in googling irrelevant information 

I don't care if the budget for retirees was 10x the amount you state, they have been paying their NI for the last 30+ years and most still paying tax on their work pensions which is probably not taken into account

I thought we were talking about migrants and immigrants in the UK in a slight tongue and cheek response albeit true( I was anyway), however you seem to need to put the world to rights while implying that people that read the sun and daily mail are idiots

Don't worry there is always one

 

In Canada the Trudeau gov't is importing 500k migrants a year officially but add 200k by other means.A large percentage will require assistance over the long term.Their credentials aren't recognized in the Cdn system hence they end up working as fast food or taxi drivers.The average house price in Toronto/Vancouver is over 1 million $.So much for the dream of the good life.Of, they are also in one of the highest taxed countries in the world.

On 6/11/2023 at 7:08 AM, save the frogs said:

yeah, there are pros to doing that. no requirements to meet. 

 

but a lot of people are not that fit in their later years to be constantly moving around.

 

and more expensive than staying in one place. 

 

 

TBH I recently tried relocating to Phnom Penh after living in Pattaya for about 20 years.After a couple weeks I realized my error.Thankfully I never severed my ties and returned unscathed.

I had fond memories of past visits there when younger but was expecting too much.

At 72 it just wasn't in the books.

On 6/10/2023 at 10:25 AM, ezzra said:

Half of those country are as bad as the UK and even worse.

You better have deep pockets and a warm jacket if you intend to retire in Canada