josephbloggs

Another well though out and reasoned post. Have you got anything intelligent to add to the debate? What's the con? And what's all this marketing we're all falling for? I don't remember seeing any, I just remember driving an EV for a few days then getting back in my ICE and feeling like I'd gone back in time. What's your experience?

Looks impressive.

Where is it then?

I agree with you that it shouldn't be a criminal offence, it should be a civil matter, but those are the laws currently. I disagree with the rest of your post. It wasn't "a bad review". It was a multitude of them full of lies, accusing the hotel of modern day slavery - seriously which business would or should take that lying down? They also got in touch to ask him to take the comments down and that would have been the ned of the matter, but he refused and continued posting his lies. That is slander in any country. Filing for defamation was a last resort, even the hotel said this and didn't agree with the severity of the punishment, but they had to protect their business, and rightly so. I said in another post that I have left a bad review of that very same hotel on TripAdvisor. Did they sue me? No, the manager replied publicly to say he was sorry and he would look into what happened and make improvements. I didn't bombard review sites with lies and I didn't accuse them of slavery. See the difference?

So now posting foreign language videos with no context. Care to explain what the guy is saying? How old are the videos? What is the context of each one? Admit it, you have no idea, you just like it because it a series of random fire videos. I used AI to translate them and he is on about EVs needing charging every 100kms, so it is either very very old, or he is talking nonsense. Incidentally I used two AI translation tools and in neither of them does he use the word "fire" or "flames" or anything related to burning. Anyway you posted a useless video but it obviously got your interest so care to explain to us what they are about and what is being said and why exactly you posted them?

Yawn. The Koh Chang hotel didn't have a tourist arrested for a review. He brought his own booze in to the restaurant and didn't want to pay corkage and caused a scene when the staff explained the 500 baht charge. Corkage charges are standard globally. The manager explained the policy but he got angry. Eventually the manager agreed to waive the corkage fee to keep the peace as it was disturbing other guests. Sounds quite entitled. He then went on to post a series of fake bad reviews of the resort on many sites, included accusing them of modern day slavery. The hotel contacted him and asked him to take them down but he refused. They asked him several times but he refused and doubled down and kept posting over several weeks. The hotel then made an complaint and the law followed its course. That idiot actually lived in Thailand so he really should have known better. I wish people would stop peddling this nonsense that you get arrested for leaving a review.

I don't think I can elaborate any more. Which part are you having trouble with?

Try reading more than just the headline. Or is it too hard for you to get past the big letters? No one in Thailand has ever been arrested for leaving a review saying the service was bad, or that the food wasn't good. I have done it myself for Sea View Resort in Koh Chang (yes, the one who prosecuted the other idiot) and the management responded and apologised for the incident and vowed to improve service because it was a fair and balanced review. This moron had a dispute over access to his condo and (allegedly) bombarded the restaurant with one star reviews and also got his mates to join in, such that their Google rating dropped from 4.9 to 3.1. That is obviously going to have a negative effect on their business and is a form of defamation. I don't believe it should be a criminal offence, but it is in this country and some others. Don't defame businesses or people and you'll be fine. He was stupid, vindictive and petty.

Says it all. You didn't believe someone who summarised the video and you asked for a link. You got the link which supports the summary given an all of a sudden you don't want to share your opinion despite having asked for it. Magnanimity is not one of your strong points is it...

Yes it is. A lovely day to make yourself a cup of tea, sit outside, enjoy the sunshine, watch the video you asked for, then let us know what you thought about it.

Never trust any video that is that low resolution. You are easily fooled (which explains how you believe any anti-EV rubbish that gets posted). Fact check: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-biden-karine-jean-pierre-553342159944 Or if reading the article is too much here's the actual, unedited, exchange: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-biden-karine-jean-pierre-553342159944

Hello? @transam? You asked for the link in a dismissive way, you got it. What are your thoughts? Hellooooooo?

I can't remember - it was about 15 years ago, but it was in Sydney. Oily and nasty. I have also had excellent fish and chips in Manly, probably the best I have ever had. Can't remember the name of that either. My point was isolated incidents of bad service can happen anywhere but we don't go creating whinging posts about entire countries based on these random incidents. (Well, one person does)

I think we know why no-one has replied, right @transam?

Will you please stop with this nonsense. Rips can AND DO flow straight out to sea. They exist in small pockets so of course all the water doesn't immediately disappear out to sea. Are you really that dense? I have been in the exact rip that sadly killed this guy and it almost killed me and I wasn't drunk or "on qualudes". Educate yourself. Speculating on the sobriety of the dead guy (who came from a land locked country) based on zero evidence. You really are a class act.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Pan Pan?

Your timelines are out of whack. Thai Airways stopped direct flights to the US in 2008 due to the high cost of operating them (thirsty A340-500s). It stopped "one stop" routes to the US in 2012 also due to financial reasons. The FAA downgraded Thailand to category 2 in 2015. And they were not banned from landing, they were just not allowed to expand their network or launch new routes but Category 2 countries to continue existing routes. But seeing as they hadn't had routes there for nearly four years that was moot anyway. Not sure what their status is in 2024. I certainly trust TG much more than other regional carriers and pick them above others for regional flights. I prefer other airlines for long haul but not because of any safety concerns.

All their modern planes have lie flat biz seats and have done for ages (A380, A350, B787). Older aircraft don't.

Sukhumvit 39.

The title of this thread is "Why is Thai service so abysmal?". Not, "Why is service in Thailand occasionally less than I would like", or "Why did I get so bent out of shape by a couple of minor service incidents in Thailand?".

Some petty gripes yet you slander all Thais / all of Thailand. Overall I would say the service in Thailand is pretty good - much better than in the UK at least. Of course like everywhere things can be hit and miss but I rarely have service issues here. My friend's wife just flew from Bangkok to Auckland with their daughter and 80 kgs of luggage. It got lost, and five days later they have not found it. Not only that but after the initial complaint in the airport they said someone would ring her - they never did. Her husband is a gold member but there's no office in Bangkok, he had to call Sydney and spent 35 minutes on hold before getting through to someone who said they are trying to locate the bags and would call his wife to explain. They didn't, they still haven't. This is Qantas by the way. Oh and when I last visited Australia I got served rancid fish and chips and they still charged me. However most other places in Australia I had decent service - just like here. Think I'll go and make a butt hurt "Why is Australian Service So Abysmal" post because I've has 2-3 bad issues.

I used to go there a lot back in the day and it was always superb but haven't been since it reopened. I have friends who have been though and the consensus was food was ok (so-so) but service was terrible. Not my first hand experience though so take it or leave it for what it's worth.

I won't say what I really think as I would get a suspension, but you clearly have not a single clue what you are talking about - you are completely and utterly wrong. And your earlier ridiculous post saying Thailand has small waves - riptides have nothing at all to do with wave size. Please take your misinformation and pathetic drivel elsewhere, what you are saying is potentially dangerous.

Very easily. If you haven't learned about rips and how to survive them your natural instinct is to swim directly to shore and try to fight it, but you still keep going backwards, you get tired and you drown. It happened to me many years ago at this very same beach and it was terrifying. I was lucky and eventually caught a wave that got me to where I could tip toe and I just got back to shore, collapsed, exhausted. Since then I know what to do and also how to spot a rip to avoid it in the first place and I have taught my kids, but many many people don't know. And let's not forget this guy was from Uzbekistan which is a land locked country so he certainly wouldn't have been taught.

Oh my God, here we go again. 1. That is not a BYD. 2. That is not an EV. 3. It is not real. 4. It is a stunt from a movie set. 5. Did you not think it odd that people were filming before it happened and didn't flinch once? The mind boggles about how gullible people are who will swallow anything no matter how ridiculous - as long as it fuels their anti Chinese / anti EV viewpoint. And that awful YouTuber posts it as fact that this was an EV vehicle that exploded while charging. And morons lap it up without question. It is very very sad.