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19 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

If you are not Thai you don't need to. Non-Thais usually have the common sense not to drive if they are sleepy. Thais need to be reminded, and then they ignore the sign anyway.

Yeah absolutely, it is only Thais that fall asleep at the wheel.  The 53 fatal crashes per year (and 350+ crashes in total) attributed to it in the UK are obviously fake as they are non-Thai.  Just more unjustified bashing of an entire nation, with some smug superiority thrown in, well done.

https://www.actuarialpost.co.uk/article/quarter-of-fatal-crashes-due-to-falling-asleep-at-the-wheel-15162.htm

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Strangely enough... the fines always end up at my In-Laws address (in Bangkok) and they bring them round...  My Wife and I are both registered at our currently address (Tabien Baan etc) and my Wife’s ID, driving licence etc... all registered to our address... but for some strange reason the fine is send to her parents !!! (we can’t work that one out). 

Mine always come to my work, even though the car is registered at my home address and the work permit I supplied when I bought it is a digital work permit which doesn't include a company address.  No idea either why or how that happens.

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

I think Lou was asking a question.

Really?  Which part of this is a question?

"The gantries show speed limits, they don't show the speed of your vehicle as it passes!"

1 hour ago, Mansell said:

The cop is nearly a dollar billionaire…..nobody see anything wrong with that?

This was a frontal hit on the car, airbag is designed to deploy at that type of impact. Something wrong with this cars features.

No it doesn't.  Look again at the picture.  Barely a minor dent on the front of the car, absolutely the airbags should NOT be deploying at that type of impact.  If they were they'd be exploding in to people's faces and chests left right and centre and probably be killing dozens of people each month.

6 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I just posted numbers, twice the price in UK. Talking about taxation levels is irrelevant, what a person pays at the pump is the marker. Babbling on about profit margins and what the oil companies sell it for is just looking for an argument. It is 34 baht per liter, cheap as chips.  I can fill up for about 1500 baht..... not bad at all. Get some coffee.

Several other people have also posted global "facts and figures".  I am sure Excel will be along any moment now to thank them for their information and apologise for being wrong and offensive.  Any moment now.   He's just busy with his coffee, he'll be here soon.

On 3/12/2022 at 2:14 PM, CanNot said:

Just ordered! Thanks for the hint

 

Would you come back to let us know how they are after you receive them?  I'm also looking for super high quality hotel style towels but too wary of ordering online as I can't pick them up, feel them etc.  Especially considering that company has not received a single review.

Would be great to know if you're happy with them.

13 minutes ago, JeffersLos said:

I'm going with English. 

Farage supporter?

3 hours ago, starky said:

Are you implying this has never happened? Because i can attest to at least a few people i know personally that it most certainly has.

So you know several people who have had accidents that weren't their fault and they were told that because the accident would not have happened had they not been in Thailand then it was therefore their fault?  Really??    Sorry I do not believe you.  Please post details and what was said.  

I have personal first hand experience of the police taking my side when a Thai tried to blame me for an accident that wasn't my fault.  Thonglor police too!

48 minutes ago, starky said:

We all know how this plays out. If foreigner hadn't been there accident wouldn't have happened. Simple.

Not this tired old nonsense again.  How many times in this thread??

5 minutes ago, Kinnock said:

Which means in addition to using gas (or coal if it's a plug-in), it also has toxic batteries to be disposed of in future.

 

So are you saying nobody should be allowed to drive any kind of vehicle if they own a green energy company?  Or just nobody should be able to drive any kind of vehicle full stop?

I assume you walk everywhere.  Must have taken you ages to get to Thailand.

57 minutes ago, radiochaser said:

Your comment reminded me of when the car I was driving last year was hit at the rear, here in the United States.   Over $10,000.00 in repairs (1/5 the cost of the vehicle).   

It did not occur to me until reading your statement, that the airbag did not deploy!  Makes me wonder about what it takes to make the airbag deploy.

 

Front airbags won't go off for a rear collusion unless extremely severe.  A number of years ago I was driving a brand new car (a beloved Subaru Impreza WRX), red plates, only had it a week. Sat in the right hand lane waiting to turn right in to my condo when I was absolutely smashed from behind at high speed by a pick up truck.  Sent me several metres up the road, span me 180 degrees and completely crushed the back of my car.  The CD in my CD player ended up on the back seat, the tins of tomatoes I had bought and put in a shopping bag behind the driver's seat were completely crushed.  Luckily I wasn't hurt.  It took six months to repair the car (can't believe they didn't write it off).

My airbags did not deploy.  I didn't hit the steering wheel so they clearly weren't needed and when I asked about this I was told they were designed not to go off if rear collision unless it is super severe and there's a good reason.  Let's say they did go off but the collision had sent me into the oncoming traffic and I was then hit head on by another car - I'd be dead as there would be no airbags, so that is part of the logic when hit from the rear.  So they are very intelligently designed.

The guy who hit me was blind drunk by the way, tried to blame me saying I had no lights on and wasn't indicating (it was at night - I did have lights on and I always indicate).  I also had red plates and you are not supposed to drive with red plates at night, but the police completely took my side.........just a little anecdote for the "they'll always take the side of the Thai" brigade.  

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Well to be fair it is claimed the guy had a brain injury ...

Surely the point and design of the airbag should prevent this.

No, that's what seat belts are designed for.

1 minute ago, cardinalblue said:

no activating air bag - Porsche better be worried

Worried about what?  Have you seen the car?  There is minimal damage meaning the impact was no way severe enough for airbags to deploy.  Do you expect airbags popping off after every little impact anyone has??

1 hour ago, billy54 said:

I'm waiting for the "if ahmed had been in his own country this accident wouldn't have happened " so his fault case closed 

When has that ever actually happened?  It only happens in the imaginations of TVF posters.

15 minutes ago, bbko said:

Did those same "stuck overseas" Russians speak out against their evil despot? NO, nuff said.

You interviewed them?

2 hours ago, Stygge said:

The russians are not bombing Ukraine. They are conducting a surgical military operation on the patient Ukraine. And 70 % of the russian people love it.
Also the west is only conducting an economical operation on Russia. It means that russian luxery tourists have to pay cash for their umbrella drinks. My heart goes out for them.

Where do you get your information from?  Fox News I guess?

So any Russian hit by these (hypocritical) sanctions is a luxury tourist with an umbrella in their drink???  Not sure what you have against umbrellas but Russian citizens are being affected all across the globe for something they have no part in.
 

9 minutes ago, TropicalGuy said:

like those savages were shining beacons of human rights & democracy who never hurt a fly & followed civilized rules ????????ZERO equivalence between such barbaric places where no rights exist at all & Life held at zero value & Civilized Ukraine..

Wow, just wow.

10 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

No, they got their payback when they elected carrot top.

Good come back!

6 hours ago, JBChiangRai said:

Except my businesses in Chiang Rai, we’ve taken a stand and banned Russian citizens.

 

what a complete lack of morals we are seeing in the Hotel Industry, appalling!

Yep, complete lack of morals in that industry.........as you clearly demonstrate by your actions.

Did you ban Americans for their illegal occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq?  

2 hours ago, Tropposurfer said:

What time is it? Oh! Its smoko and Facebook time .... BOOM!

Hilarious, just hilarious.  Let's laugh at the man who just died in horrible circumstances.

38 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Sexy eh?

They do look cool.

9 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

But that does not explain why prostitution and pimping is considered to be human trafficking, does it? 

It isn't.  They are two very different things.  Really not that hard to get your head around is it??