petedk

but how does the app monitor the 8 out of 10 taxis that refuse a pick up ?

It's not the route driven that's the problem it's the refusal of customers thats the issue ....

I really don't get it, with complaints like this. I have never been refused to be taken anywhere by a taxi driver in Thailand. I get in and close the door and tell him where I want to go. He takes me there and uses the meter. I see a lot of people ask the driver first before they get in, but I don't understand why they do that. I've never had a problem. I've lived here 26 years and use taxis all the time. 8 out of 10 taxis refuse a pickup? Seriously???

I guess it depends on how often you use taxis and where. I use taxis up to 4 times a day.

Just today a taxi stopped on Ekamai - I wanted to go to Ramkhamhaeng. The driver wound down his window and of course refused my fare. He stopped about 20 metres further along the road and a couple got in. I jumped into a taxi behind him. The first taxi drove about 100 metres and I guess he had a change of mind and the couple had to get out.

This has also happened to me. I stood waiting at a bus stop but decided to jump in a taxi. He drove about 100 metres and decided he didn't want to go to my destination. I was asked to get out at a very inconvenient place.

I think you are really really lucky if you have never been refused to be taken somewhere. I have had up to 6 or 7 say no sometimes. This happens often outside Central Rama 9. I find the taxis there to be very picky about the destinations.

I think the refusal really depends on where you are and where you want to go.

It can be downloaded from March.

I use My Tracks, which keeps a record of the journey.

I have used it once to complain about the route , but the taxi driver will always argue that Thanon xxxx "rot tit mak" and that his route is better.

Can't be bothered to wait any longer

Bang wa bts

Passengers are not allowed on at Bang Wa

It seems that they have closed the opposite track.

Only one track is in use.

At laat. After 15 minutes, moving again.

Now at Bts wong wian yai

All passengers have been ordered off two trains. Trains continued on empty.

Third train... ordered off .... and now on but not going anywhere.

Complete idiots. Some people have left the station.

No explanation from staff.

If they haven't damaged anything, what legal action can they take?

The trouble with Thai newspapers is that one day they report something and the next day the person being reported on says something completely different.

The original report says that no finger prints matched so they could be foreigners.

Today the Pol. Gen Prawut (according to Bangkok Post) said that he said that the two men spoke fluent Thai so they could NOT be foreigners.

Pity no one has a voice recording of the first interview.

It's just an excuse to start searching foreigners on Sukhumvit again, after the new order the other day for them to stop the searches.

I have been trying since lunchtime to connect to Thaivisa using my mobile app but it is impossible. No response from server.

I came home and tried on PC and got the same result and saw that the Internet was nearly at a standstill.

After doing a reset of my router, I manage to logon but it is still very slow.

What's happening?

Seems to vary by ISP

And even by time of day/date?

Today the homepage is being blocked again (ToT).

Guess they read Thaivisa

They are lucky they can read Thaivisa. I haven't been able to connect all afternoon

0 milligrams and your gone. harsh.

Makes absolute sense and there is no legitimate argument against it.

I agree, but like almost every other law in Thailand it will never be enforced in the long run.

I think it's an absolute waste of time and totally unnecessary! i can understand it for those " few farang " that live quite a few KM away from an immigration office but most of the farang that i know of live close to an immigration office and hardly live " busy lives " that they can't visit the office personally.I just think its " pure laziness "

Are you the " lazy type of farang "....?

F.J

Come to Bangkok.

Chaeng Wattana is not an easy place to get to.

It is at least a 4 hour trip back and forth. 300 or 400 baht taxi fare.

I always do it by mail.

That's why Thais only eat with a fork and spoon don't you know they are taught from a young age that knives are dangerous LOL

And KFC now use plastic knives and forks.

I thought it would be up to the seller to set the price, and up to the buyer to decide if the price is reasonable and buy, or not.

It should be like that.

A typical example is a small restaurant near my office. It used to be absolutely packed. Good food and single dishes at around 40 baht.

I didn't go there for a couple of months and then when I did go, I noticed that it was almost empty.

I wondered why until I got the bill.

My 40 baht dish cost 85 baht. Now I hardly ever see customers. Won't be long before it closes down.

I read it as they have some bones which they believe belong to a man they found in a canal.

How did he lose them?

Oh. Not ruled as suicide?

@ petedk If you insist on wearing Thais, no wonder you might have a problem at security. That's a bit colonial!!!!!!!!!!

@ All I've not been stopped in months and months. Yep I set everything off. Yep all the Thais set everything off!!!!!!!!!

Purely anecdotal, this, but is it only my impression that use of MRT has, fairly suddenly, gone way, way up. If that were true, maybe they've had to become more lax to sustain the throughput. Whatever, it's become, recently, way, way more lax than it was, whether that be with Thai or foreigner.

Oops. I don't know what happened there. I was on the MRT while writing, so maybe I was so obsessed with Thais that his word slipped in.

Anyway I also wear a tie sometimes.

He has got to admit that there has been an unusual large number of deaths on such a small island.

Some have dubious causes, some probably suicide.

I only drink hill tribe coffee from akha

1 kg whole beans 369

Where do you buy it from?

I have one 3 in 1 coffee every morning, a ST double shot, which I get from the "odds and sods" counter at the local Post Office. Never seen it anywhere else. Full name is Sangthong Chumphon Coffee.

17% coffee, the rest a bit more sugar than creamer, costs 100 baht for 20.

Yes this is one of the better instant coffees.

It isn't so sweet and actually tastes of coffee.

I have a Thai friend who often goes to Chumphon and brings me a few bags.

I prefer brewed coffee but haven't a preferred coffee bean yet. I like some beans from Starbuck's but tbey are overpriced.