song0674

Hi

 

I will be in Phuket this week and renting a car. I usually enjoy a beer or glass of wine over dinner.

 

Wanted to check if there are usually police checkpoints in Phuket? If yes, where usually?

 

in Bangkok the police are out every night. They need to make up their losses during covid 

23 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Hey, at least the golf courses are still open.

For now.

 

Golf courses are closed too, well in Bangkok all of them are close

20 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

Sixty three year old Rupert Auernig - who Tnews said was Australian but was listed as Austrian on a fan page - needed surgery on his left leg.

 

   Hopeless, they'll never know the huge differences between the two countries. Rupert Auernig, a typical Australian name? 

 

Australia is a multicultural nation. Despite of what many people think, not all Australians are white-skinned, blonde hair anglo-saxons with anglo-saxon names.

 

In fact, in Sydney (Australia's most populated city), most common surnames are not all anglo-saxon types. In Sydney, 6 of our the top 10 surnames come from asian ethnicities, not from an anglo-saxon background. So your 'typical Australian surname' can be Lee, Nguyen and/or Chen. Yes, they are 'real' Australians. Myself also being Asian Australian.

Sydney 2010/11(most common surnames)

1. Smith
2. Lee
3. Nguyen
4. Chen
5. Jones
6. Kim
7. Li
8. Williams
9. Brown
10. Wang

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/most-common-names-in-australian-white-pages-by-city-20100909-152cs.html

My former neighbor in my condo was a ladyboy. I didn't know she was a ladyboy for over a year. She brought home many different guys every week. In the end she married a Swedish guy . I don't know he knows....


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Bangkok has absolutely no city planning. This is why incidents like this always happen. I would be angry too if I was a resident.

In a planned city there would be designated areas for entertainment and designated areas for residential.

But not in Bangkok nor in Thailand. If u have enough money and influence, you can build 50 storey hotel in small soi of 8 storey condos or build a house then told the next day a highway is coming through it...

I think the sad and unfair thing would be that taxpayers will have to bail them out. The Thai government cannot let 1.4 million teachers be declared bankrupt. The whole Thai education system will collapse.

In the end, the government will continue to use taxpayers money as 'bad non-performing loans' to teachers. There is no way the teachers can pay 1 trillion baht nor can 1.4 million teachers go bankrupt (therefore be fired as a teacher). Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for a completely mismanaged scheme.

Worrisome how much debt the country is in: rice scheme, submarines, teacher loans, etc.


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Currently are there any air mouse remotes where it does not interfere with Nvidia Shield TV sound output and can use the microphone on the air mouse?

 

Past posts seem to say A3 interferes with the Nvidia Shield sounds output. The A2 lite does not interfere with sound output but has no microphone. 

 

Any suggestions on an air mouse where sound outputs works and can use a mic?

 

Thanks in advance

Maybe he stole the paintings because did not have enough Monet to buy Degas and make the Van Gogh.

And a fire truck crashed and overturned on the way to the crash site closing the runway......

I thought this was a joke then I saw the overturned truck on the runway when watching the news!

What her family except from me

Money?

He's 100% right. Money talks all languages. If they think ur stingy, tight on money, not generous....doesn't matter what u do or say. They just want see how much will u give

I think this has partly do with Thai frugality. The more reasonable (but more expensive) way would be drive a day early and take ur time. Rest overnight at a hotel. Wake up and spend a day at graduation, have dinner, have another good night's rest. Wake up early and then drive home. But this would cost 2 nights accommodation and hiring van/driver for 3 days.

To cram 9 hour drive then a whole graduation (where u will be out in the sun taking photos) and drive 9 hours back - just because u don't want to pay for accommodation, airfare or more driver/van time is small-minded thinking. Whilst it is driver error, he is only human. Just driving one leg of 4 hours (let alone 9) is exhausting.

Save some money but risk ur lives. If u can't afford to travel safely/properly then don't go...

I'm completely sympathetic with the OP. I can empathize with the annoyance and anger when ur trying to sleep and they are inconsiderate idiots making a racket.

It is also because of Thailand's complete lack of town planning and regulators. I think the job "town planner" doesn't even exist here nor does any job title with the word "planner".

I live in BKK and had to tell people at 2am to stop their sawing, drilling, playing music etc. But it's ongoing battle.

I also don't understand why the Thais have to turn up the volume so LOUD. Like when I go to a shopping and the lady MC is shrieking in a high voice "Awwwwhooorrrr!!!". I can hear her in all damn 6 floors!!!

Where are all the criticisms of Prayut, the army and the current government? So many people are vocal when the current govt and army makes a mistake or mismanaged something. But when they do something right and trying do things well, no criticisms or praises for the army.

Current government and army are not perfect and sure there is likely to be corruption in their ranks, but at they are doing things other governments never even bothered with. And they remove incompetent police officers! Surely some people have to acknowledge the good job out of this!!!

To be honest the army doesn't even have to bother with gambling dens. They could have shut down the den and turn a blind eye to the commanding police officers. Doing something like creates more work and enemies for the army. Yet people here still criticize the whatever the govt and army does, and they are not even citizens of this country...

The Thai's never know what's good right under their nose....

Tony Jaa et al, should just film this whole family feud saga! A 'from the bronx" kickboxer makes it big, but has all these feuding family members. Someone assaults his wife, he gets p*ssed and becomes a one-man-Thai-army and kicks some @ss! Totally pay to see a movie like this, especially if it's a "true story"....

But IRONICALLY, when the Thai's do try to write an engaging. realistic movie they write about some kickboxer who goes all the way to Australia just for an elephant?!!? Seriously???

If Thai engineers were liable for prison terms nothing will get done.

Trying to impose a high standard of quality on Thai's by making them liable for poor work doesn't motivate them. They just won't do it if they think it's too hard or could go to prison. So nothing will get done.

That's what so frustrating with the Thai work ethic. The concept of having 'pride' in your work in absolutely a foreign concept to them. The Thai response is always "it's too hard", "you're being too fussy", "it's too much detail", etc

I know cause i've worked with the Thai's, dated Thai's girls and part of my family background is Thai.

The Thai's are ingenuous at being lazy, they can spend hours thinking of 'the easy way out' or to do the bare minimum instead of actually doing the work properly....

when the thief has soled all the shoes, he wil be stinking rich!

when the girl discovered 20 pairs of shoes missing, she knew something was afoot.

The police just really need to stamp out these petty crimes and stop tip-toeing around the issue because this criminal is their new arch-enemy.

If it was the policemen's boots were missing, it would be a case of the shoe being on the foot.

and the old trick from one of the bronx DeNiro movies test:

open the door for your woman and let her get in the car - close her door.... slowly walk around the car to your side and see if she unlocks the door for you before you have to put the key in the door.... now THAT is the test to see if she really loves you or not....was great forget which movie A Bronx tale maybe?? anyway back to topic...1.2 million cars maybe up to 2 million I heard....wait till the payments have to be made..and gas paid for ... oh and the 2 year drive to the malls now on saturday cause there is 800,000+/- more cars on bangkok streets 5 5 5 I live and work out in Rangsit area and the volume of traffic is way up some days....and the t

TV article today that the gov is out of rebate money....also a thai friend told me if the car gets stolen in 5 years you have to pay BACK the 100,000 bt.....anyway - any people that have money certainly come out ok... son or daughter gets a new car.... just wait till the payments start kicking in.... there are tons of vehicles already sitting second hand out in the burb's car lots that are low miles and the owner just couldn't pay the monthly payments...will be a lot more by the end of the year with the rebate scam....ar ar ar how to bankrupt a country and still get re-elected should be Badluck's motto....

I don't understand why people are beating on this guy. In Canada assets are split equally when a marriage ends, it is understood that both partners contributed to the accumulated wealth. In Thailand your wife gets it all, nothing wrong with having something in your name. I love my wife, we have been together for 7 years, I hope we're together for many more, but when I buy a new car it's going in my name. I have a lease on our home to protect me, she owns the house, 2 parcels of land and our current vehicle. When a woman, Thai or not, objects to you having something of your own, you have a problem. I think a good test is is to suggest that instead of buying a house in her name, that you buy a condo in your name and tell her to trust that you will leave it to her in the event of your demise, see how much she trusts you.

the Bronx tale/DeNiro test doesn't work anymore.

This was back before there was central locking remember. So each door had to be unlocked individually. These days with keyless entry, one push of the car key remote open all doors. So if you open her door for her and walk around to your/driver's door - it's already unlock. Its pointless for her unlock and already unlocked door!

yeah i'd take you up your offer

I'm not very good either, been playing for only a year. I shoot around 110, broke 100 recently once but think the caddy felt sorry for me..haha

If you don't mind playing with someone at my level, more than happy to meet you for a round a golf or two. You can PM me and we can confirm a date/s.

I'm not an early-riser by the way!

Cheers

let's not kids ourselves....this lack of social skills goes went into adulthood...

I've seen and experienced completely grown 30 year old Thai women pout, cry and throw tandrums when they do not get what they want!

I should know....my mother is thai and i've had thai gf's....

To ALL the adult men who have dated thai women - i know you're nodding head to this comment right now!

I agree - my girlfriends loads the salt/fish sauce/maggi sauce on everything.

Every food either has to be very salty or very sweet or both

Every time i cook she's either adding salt or sugar to my finished dish!

'Subtlety' in all in its meanings, does not exist in Thai vocabularly.........