jesimps

Bet you a pound to a piece of doo-dah that the hoards still descend on the place for the next few days. Has inter-province travel been banned? Far as I know, it hasn't. 

Another thing, the house across from me which is inhabited by half of the village of the German guy who owns it, has been playing loud music and partying in the garden for the last couple of days. A case of the locals not taking this outbreak seriously. It's one of two in our community which farang built and then went away and left their wives in residence. Before you knew it, they'd sub-let it to half their home village. The majority of the community is farang owned executive houses, but we may as well be living in a kampong.

When covid first hit, they were very quick to close the borders and ban inter-province travel. Why on earth they haven't stopped people moving around the country is anyone's guess. From the beginning of January, the virus is really going to take off. Pattaya, which is fairly covid free will suffer after the usual hoards of Bankokians decend on the place for the New Year holiday.

At the start of the virus last March, the Thais did the right thing and stopped people from entering the country. Why don't they now stop inter-province travel to contain the spread of it? There'll be a huge amount of people on the move at New Year, people returning to their home province and more importantly for me, families coming on holiday to Pattaya.

8 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

They where planning to sell Moderna, which price will be 10 times more when ordering low quantities. So you are talking nonsense.

He wasn't talking nonsense, AstraZenica can be stored in the fridge so that the overheads are very low which makes it a cheap vaccine. However, the article was talking about Moderna, which I assume has to be stored at very low temperatures, which bumps up the selling price. Nothing like the hospital were hoping to charge though.

Backtracking already? That's quick even for this place. Makes my decision to purchase a case each of 100 Pipers and Sang Som seem even wiser. Thailand, the land of backtracking.

On 12/26/2020 at 3:44 PM, keith101 said:

I think the Government is waiting to develop its own vaccine so they dont have to pay another country for theirs and while there is no deaths as of yet they will more than likely keep waiting .

Well if they're planning to send a rocket to the moon, then I imagine making a covid vaccine will be easy peasy.

After that latest statement, it makes me more convinced than ever that I did the right thing buying two cases of hooch a few days back. 

I'm surprised that they have the cheek to increase caddie fees at a time when the clubs must be suffering from lack of players. In a country where land prices and wages are very low, I still can't understand why golf here is so expensive. Although a keen golfer in UK, I seldom play here because of the price even without caddies. Because I am forced to hire a caddie, it means I only play once in a blue moon and then on the cheaper navy course.

21 hours ago, Dmaxdan said:

Getting. used to your local supermarket stocking your favorite, western products and then one day  discovering that they have all been discontinued...

The faux cheap Marmite in Big C Pattaya Klang which is nearly identical to the real thing. Hasn't been on the shelves for months now, have to buy the expensive genuine stuff.

Can't stand smart alecs who say "live with it". Pointless reading any more of this thread.

16 hours ago, djayz said:

Reading through this and other similar threads, I often wonder if the locals are as critical, cynical and outraged as we are? 

Not my wife and daughter certainly. The normality of it is ingrained in them.

Fell off a motorbike there some twelve years back going up a very steep hairpin bend. Some idiot coming down cut the bend and I didn't have the speed to swerve out of the way, so I just dropped the bike. No real injuries but had to pay for some bent parts and scratches (on the bike that is).

Well now, there's a surprise, I thought they'd find him guilty. (Sarcasm.)

In our previous house, we used to have them come by every day in the early hours to sign the book in our letterbox. We didn't have any problems with ka-moi, whether or not that's down to the police presence I'll never know. The big advantage was that we got to know our local coppers and when we had problems with noise in the vicinity from a tin shack village of builders, they sorted it instantly. I forget how much we paid them, but it wasn't a lot.

22 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

I don't understand everyone retiring here knows what is required of them to stay. 

If you have 800,000 in the bank and the pension keeps coming, I don't see the problem. 

If you are married you only need 400,000 for extension. 

The "smug git" crowd appear to be very active on this thread. They seem to have a coming together whenever it's suggested that retirees are  being hard done by.

4 hours ago, polpott said:

In the UK never, in Thailand always.

Never had a mould problem with Marmite or Vegemite, even though they sometimes spend months in the cupboard. Never put in the fridge because it makes them almost impossible to spread and don't have time to let them warm up before breakfast. 

In view of the very low cost of land and labour here, golf is still way overpriced. I can't imagine, what with the price of a round, caddy and cart fee, how much profit the owners were making out of us golfers. Even if they chop their fees right back, offer free carts and optional caddies, I reckon they'll still make a handsome profit. Just not the fabulous riches that they made pre-covid.

One of my biggest disappointments on arrival here thirteen years or so back was finding that I couldn't afford a round of golf on a regular basis, especially as my house backs onto the course. I have to make the half hour drive to the cheaper navy course.