Tropicalevo

The expression 'pizzing into the wind' comes to mind.

Not sure how Koh Samui is going to manage that. The airport has been pretty much at full capacity for most of this year. eg full capacity yesterday and today - 50 flights per day.

After two accidents I would probably think twice about boarding a third coach. (Bad luck comes in threes!)

80 years old and possibly having to choose between suicide or a loan shark. Life is tough for most Thais.

Maybe time to impose Marshall Law methinks. Send a few under-worked Generals down south?

I have taken my bike on the ferry a number of times and never had to show anything. Maybe take the copy of the book just in case.

Elephants often stop trucks so that they can 'grab a snack' from the load. The elephant was merely looking.

Does the money from drug purchases actually get into the local economy, or is it kept as crypto/deposits whatever.

I doubt if they are interested in someone without money.

According to the government site, Canadians still need a visa. https://vietnamvisa.govt.vn/requirements/

When you dance with the devil, do not be surprised that the devil wants revenge when you tread on his toes.

Rubbish. No one checks the details that the traveller puts on the document/app whatever. For years I 'stayed' at the Holiday Inn whenever I was travelling to Thailand.

I wonder where they are buying the 'lead-based materials' from? China perhaps?

They have already started exploratory drilling for the bridge. We have noticed that when there is a cruise ship in these days, Grab and Bolt are useless and even our regular group of taxis are difficult to hire if not pre booked. Hopefully, I will be a pile of ashes when both of these are actually finished. It certainly will be 'tricky' living here with those amounts of traffic. Here in Plai Laem, we know when there is a cruise ship in when the small convoy of coaches arrive at the temple. (They take up all of the parking there!) The crazy thing is that there are not enough vans and taxis for that volume of people, but if they bring more to the island, there will be too many when the ships have gone. We already have four Grab cars/vans parked permanently at the entrance of the development where I live. They are there more often than when they are driving. They have even set up a small camp under the trees with chairs and a table. https://www.cruisetimetables.com/cruises-to-ko-samui-thailand-2025.html

Well, they were not wrong in this instance.

Translates as "I am happy with the size of the brown envelope, so sod you."

Then maybe insist that sprinkler systems are installed on these cannabis farms?

But a tad too close to Russia

If I was born today, knowing what I know now, yes - suicide at the earliest opportunity.

This could possible seal the deal for Thailand becoming another remote Chinese state. This government have pizzed off their second 'bestest friend'.

Vapes and cigarettes are not comparable. When folk buy fags, everyone knows what is inside them and they are taxed and controlled. When folk buy vapes, there is no control or tax and no one really knows what they are buying. Quite a few stories around the place about vapes containing 'drugs' in one form or another.

Nice one Fier

Thank you for the update. Couldn't happen to a nicer chap.

As the previous poster wrote - a good idea. But why do I get a slight whiff of a brown envelope here?

I just tried that it it did not work. I always log in with my user name. I tried to log in with my email address but the same password and it failed. 'Display name or password incorrect' So I tried to sign in as a new user with my email address and the same password and it failed. 'Display name is used by another member' I guess that means that it is good bye AN