josephbloggs

It is personal choice, yes. So is farting in a lift.

Right, not wearing a mask is not being a coward, it is being a brave freedom fighter. Gotcha, thanks.

Ah, that's ok then, sorry.

And the others? And how about these well trained, well cared for friendly, sociable and fun pit bulls who killed and ate their owner? https://www.wtvr.com/2017/12/19/longtime-trainer-stunned-over-grisly-dog-mauling-they-were-very-passive-dogs

Yep, consideration for others is nice. Personally I found it weird when I visited the UK a few months ago that no one wore masks. But I came to like it. And when I came back I adopted mask wearing again because it is what makes people comfortable here. When the Thais are happy to shed them I'll happily do the same. The anti mask warriors are just selfish individuals at the end of the day.

Why do they keep printing this kind of nonsense, right wing propaganda? It seems we have one a day. We get one of these and a Thaksin article daily. "Thaksin says something". "Thaksin eats food". "Marijuana kills you". "Marijuana gives you schizophrenia". "They have increased from only 122 cases in all of 2021 to 103 cases within eight months of January – August 2022." Extrapolating that gives 154 cases for the year, an increase of just 34 people. In an entire year. In an entire country of 69 million people. And there is no proof of causation. These extra 34 people have mental illness because of marijuana?? I don't think so. And even if they did, think of the millions of marijuana users nationwide. Again, 34 people. With absolutely no proof of causation, at all. The last paragraph in the article says it all: "“Therefore, it is important to remind patients that those who are suffering with certain diseases, especially psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, substance-related psychosis, and schizophrenia, that they are not suitable for cannabis use because it will affect their symptoms in the long run,” the doctor stressed." Well, yeah, duh! Just like schizophrenics shouldn't get drunk. What a pointless, ridiculous article. I wonder what the motivation of publishing it is, it is a waste of internet space.

The mask mandate was lifted months ago. All other Covid restrictions dropped. How are they being controlled exactly? No one can ever answer this question, can you be the first?

Genius. Read the thread.

More rubbish. Plenty of Thais do hard physical manual labour.

You're late to the party. Several other bores have posted the same predictable, nonsense comment already.

So when I said there are loads around in Bangkok, why even comment that you have never seen one when you live in the sticks in a village of 12 pickups and three tractors?? Of course you haven't seen one!

Not really. Considering there were nearly half a million car sales in that same six month period, then 17k is a tiny fraction and seems about right. And for people living in BKK who say they never see them (impossible), do you even know what they look like? Genuine question, would you know a fully electric MG or XV40 over a regular one?

Don't know where you are but in Bangkok there are tons of electric cars. I see a lot of Teslas on the street, full electric MGs, lots of Ora Good Cats, quite a few fully electric Volvo XC40s. Literally every time I go out on the roads I will see several of them.

Any you know this, how? You just made it up.

Actually that's not the usage here. "Pee" means ghost.

He hasn't even got a glass.

Yes, plenty. I dare say most of Asia. In the last two months I have been to Vietnam - mostly wearing masks; Singapore, still very common; Malaysia, mostly wearing masks. I will be in Manila next week where I am told everyone wears masks.

No, I am sure he encourages his son to play with soi dogs. What a weird and pointless comment.

The good thing about Robinhood (in fact it's whole raison d'etre) is that it doesn't charge the restaurants anything at all. Food Panda charge 30% commission which is a lot. RH is actually giving back to the restaurateurs.

Another one who has problems reading? It clearly says their vehicles need to be classified and registered as Public Transportation vehicles, they need to have insurance cover, and drivers will have to have public transportation licenses. In other words your "ungoverned" and "unroadworthy" and "unregulated" cars are clearly going to be governed, roadworthy and regulated. In fact that was the main point of the article and the conditions they have to agree to to be issued licenses. How on earth did you miss that? Or did you just read the headline and bash out a critical post?

These are arguments are like people saying "I never wear my seatbelt - we didn't even have them when I was young and it never did me any harm." Yeah, never did you any harm, but what all the kids who are dead after being thrown through the windscreen? Same thing. "Pitbulls are fine because mine hasn't killed anyone" is a flawed argument because pitbulls have killed many other people.

Actually it is not forbidden. You are permitted to pass on the left if the road has two or more lanes in the same direction. From the land traffic act: No driver shall overtake another vehicle from the left side unless:1. The vehicle to be overtaken is making a right turn or has given a signal that it is going to make a right turn. 2. The roadway is arranged with two or more traffic lines in the same direction. (Fine of 400 to 1,000 baht)

Of course it does. Construction workers for one. There would also be infrastructure development. Tens of thousands of people needed to actually create the Expo. Then the Expo itself would bring in millions of visitors meaning everyone benefits from hotel staff, restaurant owners, food sellers, beach vendors, drivers. Why do you imagine that building and servicing an entire Expo of that scale would not benefit ordinary people?

Good for you. Expo 2020 was estimated to create 275,000 jobs. I am sure this would not be nearly as big as what was built in Dubai, so 117,000 doesn't seem far fetched at all. It is not only the construction but all the support industries to support it. https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-expo-2020-creating-thousands-of-jobs-in-dubai-industry-experts

They are in Malaysia. And much as I despise the pair of them what she is doing is not rude - it looks like she is just pointing to what she is ordering. "Two of those please, and can you throw in an amnesty for the hair dye guy? No? Oh."