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2 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

 

I take that back, one complaint:  Bangkok Bank went union pay only for debit cards for awhile.  Union Pay isn't accepted every where so if only one card that could be an issue.  I think that is resolved now and they offer Master Card but I am out of country for awhile now and have not tried to sort it for a new card. 

I hated that Union Pay card.  In the UK you can only use it in Barclay's Bank ATMs which was always a massive pain whenever I visited.  Earlier this year I went and asked to change and got a contactless Mastercard version which is infinitely better.  Although not many places in Thailand are accepting contactless payment yet it's brilliant in other countries where it is the norm (Singapore, UK etc).

41 minutes ago, ukrules said:

Yes, this part is very interesting...

Why?

16 minutes ago, polpott said:

This is a modern Thai law. Brought in by the coup to stifle dissent against the "government".

Totally incorrect.

Defamation has been a criminal offence in Thailand for as long as I can remember - it is not a new thing and has nothing to do with the coup.

2 hours ago, Jordan anth said:

Never seen a stunning Thai women yet

Either gay or blind.

10 hours ago, Jordan anth said:

Dave Marshall is a very good freind of mine he is from East Yorkshire England he maybe went to far throwing her off the balcony but it was a very devilish thing she did and in the heat of the moment you don’t think about what’s you are doing 

Yeah, perhaps he might have gone too far, just maybe.

On 5/29/2020 at 2:50 PM, Raymonddiaz said:

Poor guy, people never learn. Never buy anything  you can’t put your name on, that’s my policy for 10 years in LOS.

Poor guy???   Did you not read the bit where he attempted to murder his wife?  Poor Guy??

6 hours ago, djayz said:

What does that have to do with anything?

Surely you're not suggesting that only after a person has held a particular office for X number of years that he then becomes aware of the environmental problems around him? Only then is he allowed to voice his concerns and disgust? 

I voice my concerns and disgust at the state of the environment in this and neighbouring countries on a regular basis. Do you want to know how long I've been in my role? All my adult life and most of my childhood years. 

 

You really missed the obvious point of my post, almost certainly deliberately.  Why do you think I was suggesting you had to be in a role a certain period before being allowed to voice any concerns?

You said:

"And this problem has passed his attention over the past how many years?"

....implying he has been in that role for several years doing nothing and has only now noticed the problem.  And I asked you how long has he been in the role (as you seem to know and it is obviously several years or more?).

TVF: the only place on the internet in which a positive story generates negativity, bitterness, and pointless unrelated moaning.

2 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

yes typical Thai. talking about a problem of a leaking roof thats been leaking for years , and when the house is ankle deep in water, the owners say, "perhaps we should do something about that hole in the roof!"

So to you and @djayz, how long has this guy been in his role?  

29 minutes ago, Martinxx0630 said:

I did try to apply Amex platinum but they rejected me. They didn't tell me a reason but I think I only provide them one month salary record and bank statement that's why they rejected me. ( at that time I only have one month salary record in bank) 

Yes, you would need a minimum of three months.  And generally you will need to show payslips, not bank deposits.

It's not that hard - I have three.  I got a Citibank Visa card even though I don't bank with them - they gave me a really high limit and then later upped it further (without me asking).  All I needed to do was fill out a form, show visa and work permit and (if I remember correctly) three months of salary slips.  They had a booth in Emporium one day and I went and asked and applied and a couple of weeks later had the card.

Amex also really simple and I have got two of those, again similar application procedure, although they gave me a lower limit than Citibank, but still pretty generous.

So I would suggest starting with those two.  You don't have a lot of work history but if you have three months of slips you should be ok, but they might just give you a low limit to begin with until you prove you repay in a timely manner.

19 hours ago, trucking said:

In 1979 I arrived in Bangkok. A week later I had to wade in water just below my knee to my apartment in soi 22 Sukhumvit. Only way to get there as there were no talks or tuk tuks.

 

Not much progress in 40 years.

Tons of progress, don't be ridiculous.

Throw down the volume of rain that fell that night anywhere and see how it copes.  Generally the floods drain away pretty quickly these days, often within an hour or so of the rain stopping.

1 hour ago, userabcd said:

In 1994 in Rayong, one evening about 18h00 after work went for a swim in the sea. Came out of the water and noticed my body covered in black oil/tar splotches. That was the first and last time I have swum the sea in Thailand and never will never again.

 

Wow.  Just wow.  There was an oil spill in Chonburi in 1994 after two ships collided and because of that you have never, and will never, go in the sea in Thailand.  

Amazing.

I assume some bad experience with getting newsprint on your fingers in your childhood meant you vowed to never again touch or read a newspaper for as long as you live.  Otherwise you would have read the news about the oil spill and not gone swimming.  

What a strange post.

 

43 minutes ago, rickudon said:

All the plastic rubbish on Thai beaches didn't come from China. Yes, the completely over the top use of plastic here was a bit of the shock when i first arrived - far worse than the UK ever was. As was the litter and fly tipping in the villages. 

 

Yes, things have improved over the past 10 years, even before the ban. But plastic use is about 300% more than the UK ever was, and there is still a mountain to climb. I guess it will be one small step at a time for the next 30 years. In Thailand, they haven't even started to think about microplastics from washing clothes - and they wash a whole machine load every day. Is Bangkok filtering that out of waste water?

 

There are many simple steps that could be taken easily - they might have only minimal impact on the total, but anything helps. The first that comes to mind is cotton buds - plastic sticked ones now banned in UK, cardboard instead. Simple, small and no impact on the customer.

I have lived here 25 years and the plastic use shocked me too.  Going to the supermarket and coming away with single items in plastic carrier bags - eggs in one, bread in another, and anything heavier than a tin of beans double bagged.  However they have made enormous strides in the last 12 months and that is to be applauded.

The single use plastic shopping bag is a thing of the past.  When that came into effect at the turn of the year you should have seen the hysteria on here.  Embarrassing and shameful to see the majority of posters saying it will not last, the supermarkets will be back handing out bags within two weeks and - shamefully - so many posters saying they will never shop at a 7-Eleven or particular supermarket again if they don't give out plastic bags, and that they would dump their groceries at the till (after they had been rung up) if they couldn't get plastic bags.  Childish, selfish behaviour.  Those posters are still here, probably reading this thread.  They must be pretty hungry by now as they haven't been able to shop for months.  I would love to dig up some of those threads and ask the guys how they are doing but I have better things to do.

Anyway, I digress.  Meanwhile the Thais quickly and quietly adapted and within days were bringing their own reusable bags to the shops.  And now it is so completely normal it is hard to imagine it being any other way (apart from the posters who are still dumping their shopping).  

Thailand still needs to do much much better as you said.  Go to 7-Eleven and you can buy a banana, and each one is wrapped in plastic.  Why?  Vegetables, fruit, individually plastic wrapped.  Again, why?  At the turn of this year though all single use plastics will be banned and I have faith it will be enforced just as the plastic shopping bag ban was.  Even now, when buying street food or delivery food maybe 40% of the time it is served in cardboard containers rather than plastic.  So, again, the Thais are adapting.

Change is happening.  Years too late, but at least it is happening now.

 

20 hours ago, khunPer said:

  

Quite unlikely to happen in the Dusit area, belonging to The Crown Property Bureau...

There are loads of shopping centres on CPB land.

2 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

Are they letting dirty covid ridden foreigners back on the buses now then?

This line is really getting old now.  

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

11 hours ago, Ruamari said:

Thailand is not having a battle against plastic. I could go to HomePro right now and buy it by the square meter. It is on the floor below the paints and solvents.

 

Thailand has adapted one element of the Western PC approach of causing people pain and inconvenience for some meaningless symbolic victory.

 

If you even really thought there was a question of winning, you would have put more effort into defining goals and metrics. The main objective mentioned is ocean plastic, but Bangkok has near 100% collection rates. 90% of plastic comes from 10 rivers in China and Africa as well as the Chinese fishing fleet. But by ignoring that and harassing Thai citizens you are only imposing a useless colonial framework on them. No wonder they laugh at you.

 

"From the 2 million tonnes of plastic waste generated by Thailand per year, most of the waste is single-use plastic bags from malls, supermarkets, convenience stores, local markets, and street vendors. " This statistic is clearly made up. It is not accurate. Please provide a link so that I can disabuse it more completely. 

Please provide a link that Bangkok has 100% collection rates and that 90% of plastic comes from 10 rivers in China and Africa so that I can disabuse it more completely.

Easy for you to demand, so easy for me to do too.

On 9/18/2020 at 5:45 PM, PatOngo said:

With a population in excess of 65 million, why does Thailand even need to bring laborers from neighbouring countries? Could it be that the neighbours provide better quality, more reliable/energetic labor! ???? 

 

 

I can't be bothered to read all 15 pages of (no doubt) irate responses to this obvious clickbait, but can respond to this one.

Labourers from neighbouring countries cost less.  They are not better quality, more reliable or energetic.  Sorry to smash your racist preconceptions about Thais.  They are simply cheaper.  That is why they are hired.  Pretty simple really.

By your same logic, why does the US import so many Mexicans to work in menial tasks?  Because they are better quality, or because they are cheaper?

33 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

It ain't the cost of the visa.  It's being locked in that hotel room for the 14 days.  Not quite so normal...

 

56,000 baht and 14 days of my life locked in a room are a steep price to pay for a holiday.  Unless it's a very deluxe suite, and then it's not 50K.

 

So make your mind up man.  Originally your were complaining about the cost of the new visa:

So stupid. What is the different between Tourist Visa and STV ?? NOTHING ! STV is even more expensive with all the drama !!!

you get in total 270 days with STV but have to pay 6000 bath and with tourist visa you can get in total 90 days but cost only 1900 bath for one extension 

Now you're on about Covid quarantine.  Given what is going on in the world I think Thailand's measures and compulsory quarantine have been prudent and worked well so far.  Seriously, who in their right mind is thinking about travelling abroad anywhere for a holiday right now?  No one, apart from you so you can complain about it.

Very few people will come for a normal package holiday with a 14 day quarantine and then potentially quarantine on their way home.  No one.  Everyone knows that.  Some might if they have 9 months ahead of them and they can afford to be here that long, then it could be worth it - that is who this visa is currently aimed at, not your two week package tourist (they don't exist anymore).

1 hour ago, ThailandRyan said:

But @Yinn the doors are still shut, and no one can get here without doing circus acrobatics, please tell me WHY?

Heard of Covid?  It's been all over the news recently.

1 hour ago, alianware said:

yes i understand 270 days but it also costs you more. This model is just to lure tourist to earn money. Alone the hotels cost you minimum 50000 bath for 14 nights. Plus another hotel services and your private data through that stupid APP. 

A 60 day visa is $50, so around 1,500 THB.  30 day extension is 1,900, so total for 90 days is 3,400 THB.

For 270 days the STV will cost you 6,000.  So less than double, for three times the stay.  What's your problem with that?  Longer visas cost more in any country in the whole world.    It is really not a lot of money for a 9 month visa. 

And yes, hotels also cost money, that is quote normal.

55 minutes ago, alianware said:

So stupid. What is the different between Tourist Visa and STV ?? NOTHING ! STV is even more expensive with all the drama !!!

you get in total 270 days with STV but have to pay 6000 bath and with tourist visa you can get in total 90 days but cost only 1900 bath for one extension  !

Er you ask what's the difference, then you go on to explain the difference to yourself whilst seemingly getting quite angry.  

A Tourist Visa gives you 60 days which can be extended by a further 30 to give a total of 90 days.
The STV visa gives you up to 270 days.

Got it now, or do you need to explain it to yourself again?

49 minutes ago, Henryford said:

What's so idiotic about expecting a decent train service from Pattaya (one of Thailand's major cities) to Bangkok. Ever tried getting a train between these cities? Even when Bang Sue is open there won't be one.

I'm sorry, you said:

"Nice station but no trains. Amazing Thailand."      And that is idiotic as the station is not open yet, and is just a silly bash.  When it is open it will have trains.  

What you just said above is something completely different.  Had you posted, "Nice station, however I really wish there was a decent train service between Bangkok and Pattaya" then I wouldn't have called it idiotic.  I would have found it strange and unrelated the the station but I wouldn't have called it idiotic.  

You are right, there is no decent train service between Bangkok and Pattaya although they are going to be building one (which all the negative bashers on here have called useless, pointless etc).