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"I hear you are a lot more likely to have a problem with immigration if you enter via Bangkok." Everybody has "heard" that. ????

Member since 2014 and you still haven't worked it out? You obviously have difficulty distinguishing Left from Right.

"Serve and protect" is a slogan that originated in the USA. It has not travelled well to underdeveloped countries. It only takes a little research to establish the sheer folly of expecting to find it in places such as Thailand. Amazing to find people still quoting its tenets on these pages.

There are two prime elements of Thai "culture" that need "shifting" out of the way first. They will not go quietly. "There is no peaceful solution".

You sound like you haven't got a clue and shouldn't be out on your own. Maybe go back home and start all over again?

They are probably flying the missions on behalf of Tatmadaw. Reporting on withdrawal/reinforce/supply activity of pro-federation forces using border area and opposing Tatmadaw . That way no more (one already) compromising/embarrassing incursions into Thai airspace by Myanamar aeroplanes for media to pick up on.

Given the number of coups, which are successful because of the threat to use violence, the answer is obviously yes. More of it is required from those whose peaceful and democratic aquisition of political authority is persistently overturned by those for whom violence is a profession. There is no civil solution to their continued aquisition and maintenance of power by its threatened and actual use.

"Thainess" is what has resulted from Thaification: Thaification - Wikipedia Thainess - Wikipedia Not much place for foreigners, of any ethnicity, within it. Many paying guests in Thailand prefer to live in everyday denial of it.

Forget it.

Hopefully the trend will continue with someone sticking one on Toad Prawit.

What happened to your explanation of why you originally posted.....I can't be bothered to look for it.

Re the OP: At the moment my inclination would be to go back to Colombia. I spent a week with a 23 year old girl there at the end of September. I would tell her the situation and ask her if she would like to accompany me on a world trip to all the places she told me that she dreamed of visiting.

Enjoy yourself:

OP Average incomes, for any country are a poor indication of life situations anywhere. "In what range do most peoples incomes lie?" is a more useful question. Divide income in Thailand into tiers and you will see that most people in Thailand spend a higher % of their incomes on neccesities, and have relatively less disposable income, than do their counterparts in the West. To paraphrase J M Keynes: "Life is ****, and deeper ****, for a proportionately greater % of Thais in Thailand than it is for Westerners at home in the West" Had you really not worked that out?

"1 Flee Hide and Fight - designed to create awareness and ability to survive an emergency situation" .........is the FBI doctrine for adults in such situations. You can find the training video on the FBI website: Run. Hide. Fight. - FBI "By employing the run, hide, and fight tactics, as well as knowing the basics of rendering first aid to others" It has little relevance for children. As per usual, a Thai "institution" grabs a foreign "invention", with no regard to its application in real terms......but it sounds really cool. And, of course, they do not acknowledge it's true origins. They really are complete *****.

I can't seem to get the video so I don't know what sort of energy was involved when the motorcyclist decided to place himself in front of a moving 18 wheeler truck. Consequently I can't make the first presumption that entered my mind........that he likely would have been no better off in a Yaris ( "a car") given the mass/speed of the vehicle that he placed himself in the path thereof?

Travel insurance issued in the UK will not cover you for operating any vehicle in Thailand unless you possess a licence to operate such a vehicle in the UK. If you use a 250cc in Thailand and you do not possess a licence for a 250cc in the UK your travel insurance will not cover you. Whatever Thai licence you possess is of no interest to your UK insurance company.........they know Thai licences are worthless as an indication of adequate rider/driver competence. If you can't pass the 125cc test in the UK before you go to Thailand you are ****** as far as coverage by travel insurance is concerned, because the smallest you will find to ride in Thailand will be 110/115/125cc. But don't let that stop you.......Thai MC rental companies are completely irresponsible and don't give a **** if you live or die. They will rent you whatever you want and you can easily bribe your way out of any speeding or minor to medium infraction (real, or invented by the RTP) that might involve the uniformed scum that comprise said RTP.........they really are the "Filth". See you on GoFundMe.

The point of the exercise is to further consolidate the wealth of already "overwealthed". individuals and institutions. That is official socio-poltical doctrine in Thailand. Anyone buying into Thailand buys into that policy. Even the most well intentioned buy into it.

Dont holiday in Thailand, go to a country that has condemned Russia. Cambodia, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Maldives all did. Vote against a country that thinks a demonstrably murderous, power crazed thugbeast deserves "fair" treatment.

Yes.....it's perfectly OK to punch Srisuwan. He is an ardent supporter of the most reactionary individuals and institutions of Thai society. He is representative of everything that keeps the Thai peoples faces pressed in the dirt while the individuals and institutions that he supports gorge themselves on the wealth of the nation. They all deserve a good punching.....and then a bit of spitting on....and then stringing up.

Eeek! What is the creature?

Violence has never been more needed to rid the people of ***** like Srisuwan......and all they stand for.

Perhaps the driver had unwisely used his horn to encourage the Thai (who was meandering along the road very slowly) to move over so that he could pass? Mr Thai, in typical fashion then brake-checked the Porsche, got off his contraption and started to vent his rage at the driver for having the temerity to use the klaxon.......they do that so I've heard. Driver gets out to remonstrate, Thai starts swinging and ends up in IC. (Nice to see the Gallophobes, not yourself, out in their all too predictable, knuckle dragging, dribbling masses, as per usual on these pages)

Right, it's just a motorcycle. A moderately interesting, archaic piece of machinery......a bit like the ancient designs of flat four aero engines that continue to power the majority of US light aircraft. It's the people that ride them that are the ****. PS Do you remember what actually happened to Hopper/Fonda (the people that the Saddos like to fantasise themselves as) at the end of ER?: Help yourself.........it's your fantasy after all.

Just sending it airfreight indicates a remarkably high confidence in it getting through. Confidence born of previous and ongoing experience? As the previous post suggests the special "export tax" no doubt usually facilitates the rapid expedition of the goods. And they do have to pull something out occasionally........for appearances sake.