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2 hours ago, bluejets said:

All this crypto bs has to be up there with pyrmid schemes, just a new slant.

Prefer a chunk of gold in my hand any day.

 

There are a lot of crypto millionaires out there who would disagree with you. However, I wouldn't say no to a few bars of gold to use in a currency collapse.

3 hours ago, RandiRona said:

I am surprised what people dont do in their own country like driving flimsy bikes would do it here like they are born to do it. Driving Bike here is most deadly in case of accidents. Wish him a speedy recovery!

The guy may be an experienced bike rider. The car driver may be at fault and uninsured. I'm refraining from apportioning blame, or contributing until I read about the full circumstances. 

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

Strangely is that it is always brake failure and not driving like a lunatic, or playing phone.. What for me the most urgent question is... Did the car never stopped anywhere before?? and the brakes were not working too at that time? If there was a problem already he shuld have solved it and if not than it was no brake failure now too

My money's on texting or dozing off.

13 hours ago, ThLT said:

It's to confirm vaccination status, and especially COVID insurance.
What country wants tourists in hospitals due to COVID, half of them with no health insurance?

 

Sounds so logical the way you put it, but many are being scammed on expensive insurance and worse still, being landed with huge hospital bills purely on suspicion of them having the virus. If the insurance companies aren't given definite proof of Covid, they simply refuse to pay out.

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Let us hope the democrats are fighting the Anutin menace to society! 

The Dems gave the military the leg up in the first place.

I bring up my area on Google Maps then freehand copy it in pen on a sheet of blank paper. Same map, shakier lines.

Sounds to me like the OP is offended by the fact that he thinks foreigners should be offended, but aren't. I'd also like to know what offensive name Thais are known by in the US other than Thais or Asian. Just another non-farang trying to cause racial strife. 

2 hours ago, daveAustin said:

Good for boring autocrats and long in the tooth farang, bad for the young uns that want some fun I guess. 

Even when I was young I can't imagine me spending the whole day squirting water at people who were doing exactly the same thing without getting bored to death. I did just that in the first of my fifteen years of living here and swore I'd never do it again. Which I haven't.

On 4/12/2022 at 3:05 PM, richard_smith237 said:

Who nailed you? Foreigners or Thai’s ???

 

In Bangkok I find pretty much everyone to be respectful of motorcycle riders if they are not in the ‘main water throwing area’s’.

 

Close to the ‘main water throwing area’s’ the stereotype of the pi$$ed up idiot foreigner usually plays out and there is some western tool trying to ‘hit’ motorcyclists with a wall of water.

In the main water throwing areas both foreigners and Thais are the culprits, but out of town, it's almost exclusively locals. In the Banglamung area, both in and out of town, motorcyclists are fair game. In fact, they seem to be the favourite target. No way would I take my m/bike out during Songkran, which in the Pattaya area, has about another nine days to go.

Termites! Any plasterboard ceilings will start to collapse next, they eat the paper from them. I speak from experience. Get the professionals in. Quick!

1 hour ago, wealthychef said:

Does this increase the cost of the bribe?  If not, I don't see what it will accomplish.  

None of these remedies will work until they get rid of corruption. Make a noise like money and you can get away with almost anything. 

56 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

As a result, he said relevant agencies were reviewing the Alcoholic Beverage Act from 2008 to potentially enforce and enact stricter rules during the festival, including for advertising, promotion, and consumption.

 

That will upset Pattaya's alcoholic pensioners. ????

So those alcoholic pensioners in their jungle clearings in the NE won't be bothered?

I don't understand. Surely if you order and pay for food, you leave whatever you want. It's yours! Unless of course (seems strange) you just pay for the slices of meat you eat. Did they finish a normal order and then order an extra portion of meat, which they then refused to eat? This seems the more likely explanation.

2 hours ago, Asquith Production said:

 in the year leading up to March 2020 there were 619 crimes committed in the UK where corrosive substances were used – a 37% increase since 2017. Mostly gang related.

See my previous post.

3 hours ago, it is what it is said:

 

you completely miss the point when you describe this as a 'thai man' problem. it is a human problem. people do this in many countries, usually a man, but women also.

In most countries it isn't a normal occurrence and is usually committed by immigrants from countries where it is.

The bottom "lady" seems to have a fine pair of shoulders and horrible legs. Hard luck on the Kuwaiti, hope the coppers catch them.

I was a lifelong Liverpool supporter, but since they've been taking the knee to the marxist BLM, I wouldn't pay 25 satang to watch them. Same goes for Utd.

I don't care if anyone disagrees with me, I stand by my principles. I am by the way a supporter of "Kick it Out", football's anti-racism movement.