[Electricity and fuel prices are expected to increase next year]

6 hours ago, BritManToo said:

The answer is to use less electricity and fuel.

Get out of those SUVs and buy a Honda Click (50Km+ per litre).

Get your shopping delivered (MakroPro very easy, Lotus almost impossible for foreigners)

Turn off those Air-cons, get yourself some fans and solar panels.

No aircon in March, April and May, in Udon at night would be cruel.. What's the point in living here, for a better life, and melting through the night?

If people can't handle a few hundred baht rise, maybe they really shouldn't be here. 

 

Just an opinion

[British Nationals Among Many Foreigners Involved in Overstay Crimes in Thailand]

1 hour ago, Goat said:

But the thai government generously recognised the situation and introduced Covid visas.

 

The Australian government just told everyone to leave. https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/go-home-scott-morrison-tells-international-visitors-20200403-p54gu2.html

 

Nice people the Thais. Sensible and good hearted.

No.. The Australian govt didn't "just". Can you find anything a bit more current than 3 years ago? 

[Tourist Takes Action For Being Slapped, Handcuffed By Pub Guard]

5 hours ago, malibukid said:

plumbers are not looked down upon in America.  what planet are you living on?  what century.  last time i called a plumber it cost me $500.  they can easily make over 100k per year.  its obviously you have never lived in America.

In Australia plumbers are lionised and worshipped if theyre your mate or relatives. Otherwise we hate them because they're in short supply, and charge like wounded bulls.

I've a couple of mates at homewho are plumbers.. No good now.. I live in LOS, not Oz. Anybody know a good one here? ????????

[Emergency Room admissions for cannabis up 566% as parties call for it to again be criminalised]

27 years an ambulance paramedic in QLD. Took in or treated Heroin, speed, ketamin, Phentanyl, prescription drugs, arsenic,..Resuscitated many, lost a few, but in all thay time, i seem to have been lucky enough to have avoided anything to do with weed.

I should have worked here to get experience of the dreaded "pot overdose".

Load of <deleted>.. 

 

 

[Australian Dollar is collapsing]

4 hours ago, Adumbration said:

Sigh.  Nationalism wont displace the economic realities that are currently unfolding.  Two things are a certainty moving forward:

 

1. The AUD is toast

2. The Australian residential property market is toast

 

If any single external country enters the Ukraine conflict you can amend my above statements to badly burnt toast.

Sigh. Australia is in a much better position than most, mate, that's the point. "in the land of the blind, the 1 eyed man is king"

The Australian residential market is toast was first heard by me in 1981 when I bought my house in Brisbane for 35k. Sold last year (not mine anymore) for 1.2 mil.

Try a glass half full attitude sometime. 

 

[Australian Dollar is collapsing]

The Oz dollar was at 19 just after covid hit the markets. Now nearly 20% higher.  The Oz has been at roughly 50c to USD while Keating was boss, and hit 57 in 2020.

Its a commodity currency, and waxes and wanes with the cycle. Its exports, agricultural and materials and energy, are priced in USD, so all are getting premiums on exports. Oz has had a windfall in the last year of approx 50 billion AUD due to this.

We'll most likely have no recession there (looking at you, US, UK, EU) and energy supplies aren't a problem (UK, EU again).

Oz is in better shape than the EU, UK and most of the rest of the world. NZ is heading for big trouble.

 

Check your facts instead of just mouthing opinion and dressing it up as fact. OZ IS the lucky country, maybe not deserving, but is. 

[World Bank said Thailand is in a significant plastic waste crisis]

2 hours ago, Isaan sailor said:

Kudos to Singha Beer in small aluminum cans.  The six pack uses a reinforced cardboard—to replace those plastic rings.

Now if they could change the taste to something like ber Lao, I'd give them more kudos????????

[Tourist Police in Pattaya]

I was an ambulance paramedic until I retired her 10 years ago. I noticed that nearly every batch of newbies had a failed copper in it. You know, starched his uniform, carried the mag light holstered, wore aviators, etc.. Couldn't get into the cops 'cos they recognised the guy was a over the top nut job, so, not giving up on their dream of power, they tried something else in a uniform.

They never lasted long.

I've met a few tourist police in Pattaya, and Udon, where I live. More than a few remind me of the losers who joined the ambos.

Just my observations.. 

 

[Don't smoke weed and drive - it's the same as DUI of alcohol]

Stoned driving is worse than drunk driving. I can find my way home when drunk, but haven't a clue where I am when driving stoned.

I wouldn't try the 2 together. ????????

[Five year old girl savaged by stray dog: "Dogs are protected" says local official]

On 5/21/2022 at 11:09 AM, Photoguy21 said:

That is probably because you need to understand the important function they provide. Open your mind and read a little more, you could find it interesting

Feral cats in Oz provide no good function. They are an introduced animal. They're responsible for most deaths of native, endangered animals there. If they are wiped out in an enclosed area, native species thrive. The govt pays bounties for feral cat skins, for God's sake.

 

Open your mind and read a little more. Read grown up stuff as well. 

[Five year old girl savaged by stray dog: "Dogs are protected" says local official]

2 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Rats, snakes & cats etc do not make a row in the middle of the night like soi dogs do, so put them all down, it would be nice to have a restful nights sleep.

So you don't have male cats where you live?

We have Mexican standoffs going on for what seems an eternity around here. <deleted>#*s up your sleep as much as a dog. 

[Five year old girl savaged by stray dog: "Dogs are protected" says local official]

1 hour ago, Photoguy21 said:

Cats are not vermin but do kill rats and snakes.

The cats around me I consider vermin if in my yard. Some of them tend to disappear now and then.

They shoot them in Oz, feral ones I mean. They carry rabies, as well as dogs.. Just act differently when infected. 

[Frustrated with Pattaya beach deckchair businesses!]

1 hour ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Wow, that's what I call inflation! Only 4-5 years ago 'a chair' on Pattaya's beach was 40 or 50 baht. (A coconut cost about the same as mentioned.) - Looking forward to my beach holiday in Cairns...

Mate, the last time I was in Cairns there was no beach, just a small strip of sand. Crocs in the estuary, stingers in the sea, no deckchairs and, I think 4 bucks up for a coconut.

Maybe things have cha ged, but I doubt it. 

[Study rates Thailand as fourth most attractive global travel destination, with Thai massage as most popular activity]

3 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

700 baht 4 star rooms in krabi

200 baht massage

Range of food

Boat tours

Nice weather

 

I think you critics must live in some barn in issan and never seen the good stuff in thailand

Bit selective with your info, mate. I've lived here 10 years and been coming for 30.

The 200 baht for an hour massage would be Issarn, where I live. I'm in Hua Hin now and cheapest around me is 250..4 star for 700 baht? Maybe during the Covid-19 era. I looked around here and that's not even nearly the case. Check Agoda {after taxes}

Boat tours. Yep. Unique to Thailand, to visit ruined and overrun small islands.

Range of food? Depends on where you are.. And if its not Thai, its not cheap and not good unless classy restaurant .

Nice weather.? November through March.

I'm from QLD, so I can compare beaches, food, boat tours, and weather. Thailand is cheap. QLD isn't. That's the difference.

Try visit Issarn sometime as well, mate. Keow Yai, Beunkang, Mekong drives, Leoi District, etc, etc, before you put half the country down

I'm off for a 250 baht foot massage now. I'll see if they'll give me a farang discount. 

[COVID-19 leading many Thais into stress, depression, burnout or suicidal thoughts]

WA seems to believe that they can avoid covid altogether. The narcissistic Premier who is hugely popular there, for isolating the state from the rest of the world, has turned into a wannabe dictator of sorts. Of course when the population eventually catches up with the rest of the world, and covid explodes there, it won't be his fault. 

Mind you, my mob in QLD aren't much better, run by another narcissist. 

It has been a lot easier for me living in Udon, than it's been for my daughter in Brisbane. 

[Cost of imported wine and spirits set to be slashed in Thailand]

3 hours ago, GrandPapillon said:

We need to start a war with Australia over their betrayal ????

Yep. You'll need a few more reverse gears on your tanks first, so you can retreat in the usual mode ????

[Online learning opens up huge can of worms as parents get direct line into out of date Thai Education System]

3 hours ago, starky said:

My daughter got exactly that question in her online learning. Tbh it was ridiculous I have 2 daughters and I really don't want them learning that sort of bias. I'm not some mad SJW but we are living in a time where girls should be encouraged to achieve whatever they would like to achieve with a gender bias.

  I would love to post the lesson here as it was pages of absolute rubbish about boys do this and girls do that but unfortunately the well known private catholic school logo is on the headers and I would hate to risk defamation claims.

Wouldn't be DB would it?  My kids there, and the online stuff we're doing is woeful. 

[Tourists return to Thailand’s national parks in droves]

6 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

...and they're all quite spectacular! 

That is, unless one is a whinging and uptight Farang caught up in their own restless mind.????

Never mind the peaceful beauty of nature.

Change your medication, mate. The current ones aren't working. Also get an English interpreter to decipher your post. 

[PM vows to spend rest of year rebuilding the Thai economy and the country]

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

I hope that includes the Civil Union Bill or same sex marriage. It was approved by the parliament in July 2018 and it would not take long to be a law.. Now we are almost 4 years further and still nothing.... Delaying delaying is the Thai word for everything,

Is your marriage to someone of the same sex, being held up? ????????

[Phuket Sandbox progressing well says CoC: 19,000 foreigners/ billion baht spent - Russians next target]

33 minutes ago, kimjohansen said:

I am in Patong, Phuket now as part of the Sandbox program.  Five of the last six restaurants I have had dinner at over the past week have served alcohol; beer, wine, cocktails !!

I'm guessing you are spot on, mate. Same rules here in Udon Thani, and I'm spoilt for choice over which restaurant to have a drink in.????

[Thailand’s new school term postponed again to June 14th]

7 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Can I have my money back please ? Paid in full for a term for my daughter has never attended so far. 

Same here. Paid for compulsory summer school. Got nothing back. Now P 1. And get no discount. We've got online schooling now, with badly accented Filipinos teaching about citizens duties through an American cartoon. Best one is "respect authority". Sure... 

[Thailand Lays Out Bold EV Plan, Wants All Electric Cars by 2035]

3 hours ago, Rhacsyn said:

Hi

 

I think people in Norway and Sweden might not totally agree with you. Electric cars (including hybrids) already make up over 50% of market share in both countries....

Small population, rich, and the cars were subsidised. When subsidies are removed, the market in eV cars collapses. Denmark sales of ev's crashed 80% in 2017, or maybe 2016,when subsidies were removed. Thailand will never offer subsidies on cars. Its a third world country. 

 

[French musicians with no work permit/illegal party busted at Koh Samui "Hippie Festival"]

5 hours ago, Dagfinnur Traustason said:

2 bottles and some bills. That´s a really good days work for the police.

Oh, by the way, they nabbed 4 musicians too. I have always told them to keep low key. Do NOT sing!

 

Anyway, I am happy to hear that they did not have some one playing with an organ on the scene. The most vulgar instrument a musician can play with.

Worse than an accordion? I don't think so????

[Thaivisa Facebook page blocked to readers in Australia]

2 hours ago, GeorgeCross said:

+1 for facebook - tell murdoch where to shove his news. lets see how he likes it now the free traffic tap is turned off for a bit

 

 

Don't let your Murdoch derangement syndrome get in the way of sensible comment. Last time I looked, channels 9,7,10,ABC,SBS, the Fairfax news, Guardian, govt sites, emergency service sites, charities, domestic violence sites, etc, etc, had nothing to do with Newscorp or Murdoch. 

[Thai Cabinet approves two more long weekends for November, December]

Great. Only government employees and private school teachers get paid. Everybody else works. Parents at my kids school will blow up, in their don't lose face, Thai way.

There seems to be a disconnect between economic reality and wishful thinking here. Bit like Alice in Wonderland.

TIT.