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8 hours ago, thailand49 said:

If the Thai leaders had any shame and brains wouldn't be so fast to brag about it.

Try reading the article before frothing at the mouth.  Who's bragging about what??

"Malaysia’s Malay Mail news agency recently reported that a Berlin-based travel startup, Tourlane, had carried out a study on August 10 to determine safe holiday destinations amid the outbreak"

Honestly, you see headlines on this site and you know before you click on the link it will be full of the usual rabid responses by people reacting to the headline rather than reading anything.  Every single time, it is so predictable.  It's quite sad that some people spend their lives in Thailand in a semi-permanent rage.

8 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Good.  The death penalty is barbaric.  Why doesn't Thailand just join the civilised world and ban it altogether?

It is very rare for Thailand to execute anyone.  One person in the last 11 years.

8 hours ago, bodga said:

Thai media  propaganda at its  best

British media propaganda at it's best.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-53797951

1 hour ago, essox essox said:

they have already had dome days off.....IN JULY !!!

One.  One day in July.

11 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

Supply and demand - people love the island and come in greater numbers, more things spring up to accommodate or service them.

Just because people want to come doesn't mean nature has to be destroyed to accommodate them. Look at what happened in Maya Bay; destroyed by Thais bringing too many tourists to the beach because of greed.

Countries like NZ don't allow rampant, unregulated development in areas of exceptional beauty, and still manage to have a tourist industry that enjoys those areas.

Samui was well and truly developed in the 90s, and no one was pooping in a hole in the ground. The only reason for ruining it was greed.

If it continues, it will be like Penang Island, which is really awful.

 

BTW, package tourists don't go anywhere because they love the place. They go because they believe the lies in the travel agent brochures. People used to love the island ( including me ) but no one could love the horrid place it became. They probably love the night life and the parties, but hardly nature. No one that loves nature would go back for a second time.

 

Yes, the flights over where I was staying ruined it for me, along with uncontrolled hawkers on the beach. Thankfully, the jet ski scam had not arrived before I stopped staying on Samui, but the long tails did their best to destroy many other beaches even without jet skis or speedboats.

 

Would you have a vested interest in property on the island, by any chance?

Ok, so you completely ignored my question.  You blame "Thai greed" which is a popular refrain on this forum.  But again, I will ask you, if you were left a valuable area of land on the beach and you were offered a couple of million dollars for it (or more) would you take it and not care about what happened to the plot, or would you resist the "greed" and say no, you like the island like it is, not sell, and leave your coconut plantation alone?  We both know the answer.  Any human would sell the land and retire happy and know their kids are looked after.

So it is not Thai greed, it is human nature.  I would sell the land and I wouldn't give a fig if they built a 50 story monstrosity on it and Samui became Benidorm.  I wouldn't.  You wouldn't.  I would have sold my land on soi 38 and kissed goodbye to the street food.  I would have sold Hemingway's to a hotel chain and laughed all the way to the bank.  And so would you.  Unless you were / are Bill Gates.

Tell me you would resist the money and leave the coconuts to live in peace - and then you can can talk about Thai "greed".  It is so boring to read that term in post after post, along with "brown envelopes" - another "hilarious" TVF favourite.  

So, care to answer the question honestly?  What would you do?  Would you turn down the money?

And no, I have no property interests in Samui, absolutely nilch.

 

On 7/11/2020 at 9:48 PM, thaibeachlovers said:

The island that sold its soul for greed got its comeuppance!

I for one have no sympathy.

I stopped going there last century when it went trendy and expensive. Kicked the cheap places out ( like Charlie's hut ), destroyed the old Ark bar and built horrid concrete places everywhere.

Couldn't believe it last time I sailed past on the ferry to Phangan- concrete villas destroying every hillside. Used to be a great place to holiday- Chaweng is one of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen, but ruined by greed and aircraft.

Only people to blame are the Thais that destroyed it to get rich.

Although you got a lot of likes (which must make you happy - rants always get them) why not answer an honest question.  Supply and demand - people love the island and come in greater numbers, more things spring up to accommodate or service them.

The island is booming, you own some land near the beach.  You could develop a resort and make a lot of money.  You could sell your land to someone else to develop and make a lot of money.  Or you could refuse because you are not greedy and you want the island to remain as it was when everyone had to defecate in a hole.  Comments like "Only people to blame are the Thais that destroyed it to get rich" sound incredibly bitter and jealous.

And one flight an hour ruins the island for you too?

3 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

Talk about misleading headlines!  I was expecting some great news, because:

 

 

Only to read that it was a dead body decomposing!

 

Not to be an <deleted>, but how did you expect someone to have survived underwater in a sunken ferry for four days?

5 hours ago, thequietman said:

Exactly, and will Thailand provide them with the necessary help when there are psychological issues later? If they get into difficulties underwater and maybe don't resurface, will Thailand step up and compensate their nearest and dearest - Nope. ????

 

Their problem - let them figure it out themselves. After all, they continually say that Thailand is for Thais. ????

Get over your bitterness, really.

3 hours ago, narisarasgroove said:

 

Maybe next time I go to a supermarket I will try and see if I can get someone to hunt down the individual grocery items for me while I have a relax outside. 

Don't forget to ask them to check your produce by making it in to a sandwich for you.   I mean no one should buy a 39 baht packet of ham without having it tested.

If you don't like it when you get home and make a sandwich get straight back on your mobility scooter and give them hell!!

4 hours ago, ronaldo0 said:

 I haven’t heard of any air search going on which would be obvious way to look but wife said they did find two people today alive on Koh tan .

Three helicopters in the search, of course there was an air search going on!  Why wouldn't there be?  Idiotic comment.

Yes, two people found so a small mercy.

5 hours ago, khunkarl said:

And now he will have to take the full responsibility for what has happened. 

He's dead.

6 minutes ago, evadgib said:

My son has just crossed in the other direction and says the sea is flat (@1445hrs) despite the continued wind.

It is pretty calm now, but this morning there was a pretty ferocious storm for a few hours.

8 hours ago, DirtyHarry55 said:

Why because it's a Drama of course all designed to distract our attention away from other important matters such as the governments ban on protests and arrest of protest leaders under the Emergency Decree.
now lets wait for the next episode.
 

 

You didn't answer the question.  If someone wants to go through the difficulty of assassinating him, why would they chose to do it in such a way as you have virtually no way of pulling it off - night time, no way to identify the motorbike as you see it is right next to another one and is coming from the opposite direction on the other side of the road, firing from a great distance away with a single shot whilst riding at speed in the opposite direction, right under a CCTV camera.

If you wanted him dead you would ride alongside him and shoot from close range - probably with several shots.  Look at all previous cases of people being shot up and that is the way it is generally done.  Why make it almost impossible for themselves?  Ah because it's a drama to stop government protests, right.

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P.s why is the Media so quite about it?

Not sure about you I've seen it on the news, seen it on here, seen it in the BKK Post, seen it on Khaosod and basically it is all over the place.  You need to work harder on your conspiracy theories.

For the record I do find it extremely suspicious, but to suggest it was done in the James Bond way people on here are suggesting is ridiculous.

To all the amazing TVF detectives - muzzle flashes, trip wires etc - please answer one simple question:

If someone wanted him assassinated why would they ask the assassin to do it in front of a CCTV camera whilst riding in the opposite direction without knowing exactly which motorbike out of the two it was, only allowing him to fire once (the hallowed muzzle flash} from a considerable distance.  Amazingly it all worked out!  

Why wouldn't they do what nearly all other assassins do in Thailand and drive in the same direction as the victim, pull alongside and identify the target, fire several shots to ensure the job is done, then speed off and not have it on CCTV?

Anyone?

2 hours ago, Lakegeneve said:

You'll read in my previous posts on this section (in the previous thread) that I am very critical of the plan to extend the line to run exactly parallel to the ARL - in fact it is stupid. The plan is to build a new viaduct and new stations adjacent to the current ARL viaduct and stations. The whole plan is patently flawed, why would you build a new line to compete a current one that you operate? If you need more capacity (as the ARL has done so for many years) you just expand the rolling stock and/or increase frequency on the existing line.

 

This section really makes no sense. Then again this is the SRT which has the Bangkok commuter lines master plan which initially proposed the following 3 lines;

1) ARL line - standard gauge EMU,

2) Light Red line - narrow gauge DMU,

3) Dark Red line - narrow gauge EMU.

All of which would have has rolling stock incompatible with the other lines!

 

Given that the next 2 exts (Dark Red: Rangsit  to Thammasat Uni) (Light Red: Taling Chan to Salaya) are still yet to be tendered (approved by Cabinet in July 2016 planned for late 2017 tender), now subject to further delay while the govt considers PPP tenders for these exts, we won't be seeing what happens with the Huamark section for a few years. Add into the mix that the SRT is losing the ARL which will now become the Eastern HSR line. 

Plus the fact that there's isn't enough physical room beside the ARL to build another viaduct.

3 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Lumpini has a trailer parked which shows the AQI PM 2.5 readings.  When I jogged this evening it showed 15, I just finished and  I live about .25km away from the Park and my Pm 2.5 meter reads 5 right now outside.  Of course in the house with the air purifier running its at 1. 

Thanks for posting!!  Not sure what the point of it was but I am curious - what is the difference between your recorded POWER WALK and, er, a walk?

20 hours ago, Redline said:

I wonder what would have happened if it was a foreigner that did that?  Didn’t he drive the bloody smashed car back to his house trashed out of his mind?  Some people got a big payday

If the foreigner was equally as rich then nothing - just the same.

Sorry.

13 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Still behind the rest of the world.... these have air-con

Not behind the rest of world, behind Dubai - which has temperatures of 50 C in summer.