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22 hours ago, madisongy said:

If you head over there, go up to the very top floor.   They have got an amazing selection of classic VW Beetles, Karman Ghias, Porsche, Ferrarri, motorcycles.......and what appears to be a couple of the Royal Family Rolls Royces.....early 50's vintage.   Every single one of the cars in in amazing condition.  

The noise level on the first few floors is laughable.....the typical Thai blaring music and just the din of all the people.   But once you get up to the top, it's very quiet and they've got some classical music playing, so pleasant environment to view the cars.

 

Cool, thanks for sharing. Like the other poster above I had found the supercars but by that time I had spent about 7 minutes in the place and had lost the will to live so I left. Couldn't imagine any reason to ever go back (if I want IKEA it's much easier to drive to Bang Na), but now I have one - would like to check those classics out.

45 minutes ago, smedly said:

notice how there is not a mention of the current virus spreading in China and overloading hospitals there, have no lessons been learned these last 3 years

Yeah let's lock down and cripple the country again - brilliant idea!

20 minutes ago, stoner said:

 

so you fell asleep at the wheel. nothing micro about that. you simply lost control of yourself. 

Disagree.  I was perfectly fine, not distracted, not doing anything to "lose control" of myself, just driving and concentrating. Then suddenly I felt very drowsy so I opened a window whilst looking for somewhere to get off the motorway, when suddenly for one or two seconds I nodded off then came back with a jolt. I was powerless to stop it. Never experienced anything like it since.

It is a real medically defined thing, and is nothing to do with "losing control" of yourself, sorry.

https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/what-to-know-microsleep

https://www.thensf.org/what-is-microsleep/#:~:text=Simply put%2C microsleep is when,day%2C not just at night.

 

24 minutes ago, khunpin said:

I hope, the tree didn't suffer from any scratches. 

14 people (mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers) just lost their lives in a horrific manner and that is all you can say. You should be ashamed of yourself, disgusting.

This place really has some sickos, as someone else rightly said "bordering on mental illness". Count yourself among them.

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

What Thais call a microsleep is what most of us call a lack of concentration, the mind drifting off. 

No it isn't. A microsleep can happen to anyone. I have experienced it while driving on a UK motorway many many years ago, driving along feeling tired then suddenly realising you've been asleep for a couple of seconds. Damn scary. Of course I pulled off the motorway immediately afterwards and found a place to rest.

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Anyway, shouldn't the driver be alert at all times while operating a vehicle, instead of having a microsleep or dozing off.

As said above they can happen to anyone on a long journey. However if you are well rested the chances of it happening are reduced by a huge amount which is why we have strict driving limits for commercial drivers.  It remains to be seen how much rest this driver had had and how much driving he had done in the past 24 hours.

4 minutes ago, kiever said:

I want to get turkey  visa for my Filipina girlfriend. Turkish embassy is in  Bangkok and we plan to fly Phuket. She needs to leave passport in embassy for 2-4 weeks for visa. But now we can fly to Phuket from Bangkok if she doesn’t have passport ? Passport will be in embassy. And I don’t want to wait in Bangkok. Any advice?

I applied for a UK visa for my wife this year and they needed it for 4-6 weeks; however we had a trip booked to Hong Kong during that time. My wife told them this on application and they were very amenable and said to send an email stating that and if the visa wasn't ready in time we could "borrow" the passport to go to HK, then drop it back afterwards. As it turns out the visa was fast and borrowing the passport wasn't necessary but I would call them as I am sure this is a common thing and they will surely have a process for it. Pretty sure it won't only be the UK that can accommodate such a request.

On 12/2/2023 at 11:14 AM, ChipButty said:

I've been through some airports in my life but I have never bought anything on arrival

Thanks for sharing.

On 12/2/2023 at 12:19 AM, Jingthing said:

He goes further than I would but the comparison to Henry Ford is apt for those that don't know the history.

 

 

 

Sorry, I know it's wrong, but when I hear that accent I just think "right wing redneck" and can't get beyond it.

1 hour ago, ChipButty said:

I met that slimy little runt "Tony" I used to live in Sukhumvit soi 2, he used to hang about in different places where farang go, 

Is that runt with an "r"?

Met a few Tonies in my time, horrible little leeches who think they are untouchable.

32 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

I recall a number of reports all around the time... in one (or was it two) of the examples, it was reported that the defence was that the alleged shop-lifters walked from one area of the duty-free to the next with an item in hand and were accused of shop lifting - it wasn't clear where the boundary of one shop ended and another started. 

 

There were a few cases at the time with some videos circulating of definite shop lifting with people putting things into their bags etc, but also, others charged for shop lifting for inadvertently exiting the boundary of the shop.

 

What strikes me as strange is that at the time there was a spate of accusation (mainly from Phuket Airport), and since then, there is no news of anyone shop lifting at an airport... possible reasons for that.

- There have been no more shop lifting cases.

- There has been shop lifting cases that haven't reached the media.

- Bad apples too eager to accuse innocents of shoplifting when they walk around duty free have been recognised and removed by AOT.

 

 

This was the BBC news report...    there were numerous reports of the scam at the time... 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8154497.stm

 

 

Smoke without fire and unfair accusations ????

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I remember the reports, and no doubt "Tony" is a shady character and there is clear bribery at play when people get detained (there's something about that name and shadiness). But I also never saw any real evidence - I only saw the CCTV that clearly showed people shoplifting.

Not saying it didn't happen, only that people jump on these bandwagons without doing any research. My research was very much inconclusive and in many cases the rumours were proven false.

59 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Apparently you've never browsed through and saw their pricing.  Some have mentioned, along with the well publicized scam that ran for years.

 

To other post, yea, King Power folks are loaded with money.  King Power Mahanakhon is your obvious 'local' clue to that.

 

Mind boggling how some of the 'TH expert' are, well, a bit ignorant, but happy to chime in.

 

Have a nice day 

Yes I have browsed their pricing and no, I generally don't buy from there. Their prices are slightly cheaper than a normal shop for booze, but hardly anything in it. I have a couple of times bought on arrival for convenience, not to save money.

Yes, they are very rich, not disputing that. Yes, the monopoly is stupid, I already said that, there should be competition, although as another poster reported it is not uncommon in the aviation retail world.

Not sure where the ignorance comment comes from. I was merely contending your comment to ban them in arrivals to help people save money was a bit silly. People don't need you to make their decisions on what to spend their money on.

On 12/1/2023 at 8:48 PM, KhunLA said:

I hope so, people would save a lot of money IMHO 

Let's just ban shops, full stop. Imagine the savings!

If people want to buy something at a cost that they deem agreeable, what's the problem? Why would you want to ban it? Personally I would like the option.

On 12/2/2023 at 7:45 AM, mikebell said:

They used to have a nice little side-line in shop-lifting accusations an hour before your flight was due to take off.  An English-speaking lawyer was provided to handle negotiations.

Yawn. Another AN myth. Seriously, do you guys just regurgitate everything you read on here? Do you never actually search independently to see if something is true? It really is a sad reflection of people that they just repost whatever fits their narrative without doing a jot of research.

A simple Google search will show you that the people in question were actually shoplifting. King Power released the CCTV footage and it it as clear as day - I have seen it.......when I was researching to see if the rumours were true at the time - like any reasonable, open minded, non prejudiced, person would do.

Yes, you could pay to have the charges go away but that is usually the case in Thailand and it was nothing to do with KP. If you don't shoplift you don't get in to any trouble. And for the poster who says you literally cross the boundary of their shop with something in your hand and you get arrested, read my first paragraph again. Ridiculous.

6 minutes ago, Melpomene said:

More electric options coming to the Thai market.  Likely to be an interesting motor show this year, with a few new models being unveiled...

I like the Ioniq 5 - it's a cool looking car. But that is expensive for the spec!

Wonder if we'll get the 641 bhp Ioniq N............with fake gear changes and noises (the reviewer actually likes them)
 

28 minutes ago, Wobblybob said:

he was there as a journalist covering the peaceful demonstration 🥴

Ah, so he's a journalist now?

On 11/12/2023 at 3:10 PM, Crossy said:

 

I've not ridden it yet, but I doubt it will be any less bumpy.

 

Monorails on concrete (rather than steel) beams do tend to be a bit rough.

I went on it today. Circumstantial but it definitely feels smoother than the yellow line. Not smooth, it is still bumpy, but seems less so. Also seems the pink line trains run a little bit faster.

Could be in my head as they were both built by the same people so ti wouldn't make sense that they would be any different, but that's how it felt (and I went on both pink and yellow today).

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Tommy Robinson probably feels he can safely let the police do their jobs when it comes to white pedophiles as they do not have a history of ignoring this or blaming the victims in this case, whereas there is clear evidence that they did not do their jobs when it came to the scandal of the muslim grooming gangs.   

Oh my, this is hilarious. So he didn't call out the white paedophiles in his organisation because he knew they were white and the left wing police would take care of it because they hate white people????

What an absolutely deluded fanboy statement of the highest order. I have never read anything so ridiculous.

Good old Tommy protecting the children!

1 hour ago, gerritkaew said:

she invited him at her apartment, sleep in the same bed, she not wearing a bra and then she angry he touch her ?

There wass No sexual intercourse ...

No rape in my eyes.  He not in jail.

Finally, we hear from someone who was there! Thanks for sharing what you witnessed.

21 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

I've not ridden it yet, but I doubt it will be any less bumpy.

 

Monorails on concrete (rather than steel) beams do tend to be a bit rough.

Thanks, I guess the bumpiness is to be expected then.