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And to think you called other people "brainwashed idiots" and then you come out with this! Poor little persecuted Tommy. Has a better ring than Christopher Yaxley-Lennon doesn't it? Did you donate to poor little Tommy? That is all he cares about.

I generally agree with you. But vehemently disagree with this: "This forum is quite a positive space" It really isn't.

No. It's a monorail. Also it doesn't go along the Hopewell route.

Another vote for Peppina - it's very good. The best I've had though is Pizza Massilia. Amazing pizzas. The Pattanakan outlet used to be from a truck with a wood fired oven in it parked outside the Londoner which served incredible pizzas. However when they made a permanent base there they went with an electric pizza oven, sorry it's just not the same. Still very good but you lose 15% of goodness from it not being wood fired. So my advice is try the Suk 49 or Ruam Rudee branches, you won't regret it. They use the absolute top Italian ingredients. https://www.pizzamassilia.com/

Reading is obviously not your strong point. Maybe you don't live here and don't understand how it works. Go back and read it again, slowly. I said Easy Pass serves the same purpose as M Pass. And that is correct.

Moronic post and nice attempt at baiting with your "one week Pattaya" jibe, grow up. Lived and worked here for 27 years, speak fluent Thai, and know Thailand very well thank you. Now move along.

And the guys that grow their little fingers' nail long.

Yawn.

So then it's an M-Pass problem, not a Thailand problem. M-Pass have obviously decided not to issue new tokens for a service that is being replaced. Seems a bit premature but there you go. Why not try and get an Easy Pass as it serves the same function.

Nobody walked me, they just pointed me in the right direction.

Sorry that is simply incorrect. You can use fast track, they stamp you out then you walk to the re-entry desk and get your re-entry. In the "normal" channel you do re-entry first then go to the immigration desk to be stamped out, but in Fast Track you do immigration first then go to get the re-entry. I really hate to see people stating things here as fact when they are wrong, especially when they do it repeatedly in the same thread.

I'm pretty sure this is not a problem with Thailand. What a ridiculous thing to say. Seems like K Bank are not supporting M Pass any more as it will be shortly superseded. But yeah, blame it on Thailand. I have M Flow and Easy Pass and I can still top up my Easy Pass using my banking app very easily. And M Flow works perfectly. Maybe try blaming the people you spoke to or perhaps yourself for not being clear, but you can't blame an entire country, that is just stupid.

Not sure where you were but you don't need to lug anything across tracks anywhere. The trains leave from inside the station and the MRT is in the basement and directly connected, you don't need to exit the building, you just go downstairs and there it is.

You can. Doing DIY in your own home is absolutely fine.

Maybe pay them better? I employ many Thais and don't have a problem with any of them - extremely hard working and no trouble and we have a very minimal turnover of people (lost one or two in the last five years). I have only sacked one person in seven years. Then again we pay them properly and give them proper benefits and we get loyalty and hard work in return. It's no different than anywhere else.

...as is using childish terms such as "the aaaah boys"whatever that means.

They are Thai. However the Indian Thais you speak to in the shop are just middlemen, most of the tailor shops use the same bunch of Thai seamstresses (and whatever a male seamstress is called) out in Pratunam if I remember correctly.

That's all you've got? She has answered this question many times in an open an honest way. And your best response is that? Not a single hint of evidence that she doesn't write them herself? It's really quite childish to be honest.

She has been asked many times and categorically says she writes them herself. I have no reason to believe it is not true and no-one has ever come up with evidence to suggest the opposite, nobody. "And yes, I write my own speeches. But since I know that what I say is going to reach many, many people I often ask for input. I also have a few scientists that I frequently ask for help on how to express certain complicated matters. I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I don’t spread incorrect facts, or things that can be misunderstood." If only people on this forum could follow that idea. And to anticipate your next question, no, I haven't ever sat and watched her write one.

Exactly. A 16 year old child giving a speech to world leaders and the world's media might have notes. What is the issue there? Even experienced presidents have a teleprompter (and also usually have their speeches written for them). She wrote it and delivered it herself. And it really triggers the nasty old men which I find endlessly amusing (as well as very sad).

Here we go again with making up random things and stating them as fact. It's well known that Greta writes her own speeches. Please give your evidence that she was reading someone else's speech. And if you can't you have to accept you are a liar and / or a troll.

Hilarious. "Crazy conspriracy theories" says the man who said "climate change is a hoax" (or words to that effect. "Emotional Outbursts" says the man who has had a post deleted for calling her "retarded", who constantly calls her names, makes fun of her "mental problems". "Lies constitute facts" says the man who keeps spouting lies and conspiravy theory nonsense with no evidence to back himself up. Just keep calling her names and feeling good about yourself, it is a very sad sight to see a (I assume?) grown man behave in such a way towards a young girl.

Not exactly. First of all if you want to hire someone you first need to apply for permission to hire a foreigner for that role. Whether you get permission or not depends on your company status and the details of the role. If you receive permission you can issue documents for that person to apply for a Non B visa and travel to Thailand with the intention of working. Once they arrive you then apply for that particular person to fill the role you have approval for. Wether permission is granted or not depends on the qualifications and experience of that person. At least that is the process for BOI companies, I assume it is the same for non BOI companies (I have never worked for one). Sorry, I thought you were being facetious. No, none of the examples you cited would be classified as working.

Do you really need help to understand? Really? They are published, unambiguous, specific and clear. You can look them up. You cannot legally employ a foreigner without a work permit. To obtain a work permit you have to meet certain (published) criteria. And some very specific jobs are reserved for Thais only. This list is regularly updated and published, there'll usually be an AN article about and everyone in here laughs at it.

Other countries don't punish foreigners working illegally?