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5 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

Alcohol causes more misery than almost anything else that is legally available. it is responsible for thousands of deaths on the road, both here and abroad, every year. A minor restriction is a small inconvenience. People can't buy alcohol for a period when the schools are finishing, which is also the time of the most traffic on roads here, as people pick up their children.. It is noticeable how the drinkers on this forum think they have the right to tell others how to live, (eg the criticisms of Marijuana being legalised), but hate it when others criticise them, especially when the drinkers are wrong! One only has to see the posts decrying banning alcohol sales on special Buddhist days, to see that.

Did my 90 day report yesterday, it was nice to see the Immigration Officers again, and have a chat, and a joke (my next report date is Xmas day!).  Perhaps you need to have a look at yourself, and how you live your life, maybe the problems you have are self inflicted.

Wow, how is it up there on your high horse?  What a hilarious, self righteous load of nonsense.

Where did I mention problems?  I merely said they are both pointless rules with no logic to them and they therefore serve no purpose and should be scrapped.  You attempt to justify the 2pm-5pm ban with a load of twaddle about schools and roads but we already have laws against minors buying alcohol.  And the ban is also in force at weekends when there is no school.  Does it affect me?  Mostly no as I work during the week but I find it annoying when I go to the supermarket to buy stuff to cook for dinner but can't buy a bottle of wine to go with the dinner for me and my wife.

And the 90 day reports don't bother me either.  I've been working here for 25+ years, have never had a problem with immigration at all.  But you can't argue it is a pointless rule and I don't think anyone knows why it exists.......it just does.

If you look forward to your 90 day reports because you get to see immigration people then I think that says a lot more about your lifestyle than mine - I recommend you get out more.  Just make sure it isn't between 2pm and 5pm as there are all these cars on the road.  And try talking to people rather than preaching to them, you may end up having more people to talk to than just immigration officers every three months.

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It is noticeable how the drinkers on this forum think they have the right to tell others how to live, (eg the criticisms of Marijuana being legalised), but hate it when others criticise them, especially when the drinkers are wrong! 

I bet you have absolutely no idea how hypocritical you are being here.  

6 minutes ago, Bday Prang said:

there's also an actual abortion pill which can be taken up to 11 months so there are many options available .

So you take it after sex and it kills your baby when it is two months old??

37 minutes ago, Donga said:

Think many posters are missing the point that Thailand quietly assisted the lady to gain asylum, rather than return her to Myanmar, as their leader requested. 

Good to see some give kudos to Thailand, in contrast to knee jerk Thai bashing. 

Yes, the people who can read all reached the same conclusion as you..  The automatic bashers made the opposite one.

1 hour ago, 2 is 1 said:

Maybe soon coming METOO campaign where womans want men delivery babys also!

Western problem is that woman dont want to be woman anymore! 

If ever there was a post that deserved the negative emojis coming back, this is it.

So "women should be women" and plop a baby out no matter what the circumstances?

And they want men to deliver them too?  Eh??  Actually it seems you think men should decide what is best for women.  Right?  By capitalising "Me Too" it is obviously where your thinking is.  A total misogynist, loud and clear.

24 minutes ago, MrMuddle said:

You were doing so well, until the last line! 

Why?  It was a partly tongue in cheek post, but is a pointless law that serves no purpose other than to inconvenience people.  I have a proper job, I am not hanging out for a 7-Eleven beer at 2pm, it's just a silly inconvenient rule that should be abolished.

90 day reporting too.  Is that better?

14 minutes ago, mberbae said:

Quite a stain on the integrity of Thailand , to not grant the lady

asylum themselves. 

She didn't apply for asylum in Thailand.  Should they just randomly grant it to people at the airport?

39 minutes ago, George Aylesham said:

And change the 90 day report to 180 days - it'll halve the paperwork.

Ah yes, forgot about that one.  If they are in this kind of liberal mood let's get rid of the reporting entirely unless you change address.

6 minutes ago, atpeace said:

Reality is it is happening in mass.  Some employers are actually charging employees that claim they have COVID and take time off.  GF's sister son has to pay 800 baht a day and he only makes 500 baht!  He now works but with patients that already have COVID.  Interesting workaround but not sure if it makes sense.

 

My point is stop being a righteous signaler and see reality.  As for not having respect, my bet is you have rarely garnered any respect throughout your life.

Weird, I wasn't even replying to you, but was replying to someone who slags off Thais constantly then complains they don't respect him.

I have nothing to prove to you, but I have have 30+ Thai employees who have worked for me for 15 years in three different companies (they resigned and followed me when I moved, twice).  I don't have a problem with any of them being lazy or lying about having Covid.  

I guess you get out what you put in.  No respect to the Thais means you get none back.

2 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

Does this also remove the 10 day quarantine requirement if one tests "positive" on a home ATK test ?

 

Have had a gut full of lying employees sending in via a sms a pic a positive covid test... saying see ya in 10 days.

Your employees have so much respect for you, you must be so proud.

(Earlier posts saying Thais are lazy, you seem to inspire people).

On 9/24/2022 at 12:54 PM, josephbloggs said:

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.

Josephbloggs reporting from Manila - 95% mask wearing.  Pretty much exactly like Bangkok.

5 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

"The anti mask warriors are just selfish individuals at the end of the day."

 

Surely if an individual is free to wear a mask its fine, but vice versa, an individual is also free to not wear a mask and that's also fine?

 

its not being selfish, its just personal choice?

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

6 hours ago, NorthernRyland said:

It's called not being a coward and getting on the right side of issues early on. It was masks this time and next time it will be some other nonsense to comply with. Something you're totally opposed today will become mandatory, the majority of people will take it up and then you'll comply in order to make them feel comfortable.

 

That's the pattern people are stuck in today.  There's nothing rational or moral about it.  Just the sheep following the Shepard.

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

5 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

"He offered background and said the dogs were a “little bit neglected towards the end of this.” Stephens left the dogs with her father, and Blackwood said; “he wasn’t taking care of them – it wasn’t his responsibility.”

The dogs, who were indoor dogs, were moved out to the kennel where they stayed "in the cold."  Blackwood said that with Stephens coming home maybe five times a week, the dogs became more isolated and only had contact with each other."

 

 

 

Ah, that's ok then, sorry.

6 hours ago, Knocker33 said:

But we are Thai and are easily brainwashed Into being controlled 

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?

3 hours ago, bristolgeoff said:

Reading the story she should have stayed in vietnam,now she is arrested in thailand and probadly going back to burma/myanmar.

Genius.  Read the thread.

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

agree .....   years ago when I was 18 ....  we were fencing from daylight till dark, weeks on end,  carrying posts up hills on my shoulder, lugging wire, drilling holes in posts all day ....  splitting posts with gunpowder shots,  it was hard work and I was fit,  I doubt you would get a Thai to do that. 

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

5 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

I don't really want to get out more. But when I go to Udon Thani next month I'll look out for the leccy cars. Are they easy to spot?

 

ZSs & GWMs??? TBH I don't know what you are talking about.

 

In my village of 200 dwellings, there are only 12 or so pick-ups, and three tractors. Most are old. Not a lot of money up here to indulge in new stuff. Most families are in hock to the bank for a few hundred thousand baht. Poverty is the norm here.

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!

14 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Yes, but the new-blip states 17k+ taking advantage of the govt incentives, means ordered since incentives available.  That's a lot of EVs, in less than 6 months.

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?