rattlesnake

Of course, I'm surprised you should even ask.

It is my understanding that several people had this issue, a remnant of the previous moderation on TT, which, from what I am told, was terrible. They have now changed the moderating team, which is friendly and fair, I can confirm that. So you could drop a line to the admin team and it should be quickly resolved in theory.

Folks, Owl has migrated to Thaiger Talk and will now be posting here: https://talk.thethaiger.com/topic/35763-life-in-the-isaan-boonies

Oracle.

Nobody regrets not taking it.

If it was his dad, then it could very well be a face thing. He never buys anything for his kid and a farang humiliates him in front of his friends? (This could be how he interpreted it). Mix heavy boozing with it and there you have it.

People have a tendency to forget about stuff very quickly. As soon as the media stop reporting about something, the collective mind moves onto something else…

I have to agree. I have been told twice recently, "But the law has been enacted!!" Yes, it has been enacted, now the question is will it be applied? Based on my 15 years of experience in Thailand, I am 75% confident that when they actually realise the insurmountable problems this causes, they will just not do it. But hey, we will see…

I was in Vientiane, Laos a couple of months ago and got chatting to a taxi driver. A friend of his bought an EV and after a couple of years, the battery died and the price to replace it was apparently 200,000 baht, a sum his friend could not even dream of and therefore the EV was rendered useless, a big source of stress and disappointment. EVs are the product of an ideology, which, as all ideologies, is full of contradictions. It is gaining traction in Western countries because of government subsidies (Macron, for instance, has implemented a scheme where the average French household can lease one for €100 per month), but I am not surprised that it should quickly hit the wall of reality in the third world.

More and more people are going nuts everywhere. Rule no. 1, never go into confrontation with anyone.

She is so bad at debating that she dropped out of the 2019 primary race with less than 1% of voting intentions.

It has recently come to my attention that this individual has an obvious boozing problem.

Major T.D.S.

I agree, except for the scary bit. It's great fun.

Trump would tear her to shreds in a debate.

The Dems are screwed, whatever they do.

The next four months are going to be very entertaining.

Coincidences springing up like mushrooms.

Says the lying media. If a critical number of people think the system is broken, then the system is broken.

Where did you see Biden was exiting?

Very true!

Okay, I'm sure it does happen. I've often asked staff about stuff at Home Pro and Thai Watsadu and never had a straight out "mai mee". To me, it seems what the OP is describing is the awkward "no have" that Thais will say when they are out of their comfort zone facing a farang, but I could be wrong.

They tend to do this with farangs because they are not confident enough in their English speaking abilities and are scared of embarassment. The solution to that problem is to learn to speak Thai, I'm pretty sure you will get a lot less "mai mee".

That doesn't mean you can't do it :) It's usually the mountain bikers who wear them, but given the environmental danger in Thailand, I believe it is justified even for a road bike, but each to their own of course.

It isn't that impractical, it's just that nobody is used to wearing them. They are pretty light, from what I remember of my mountain biking days a couple of decades ago. Agree with you about the Thai driving rules, I literally have two driving brains, one for here and one for back home.