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Sydebolle

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  1. a) he will eventually get arrested for ............ not holding a work permit
    b) what he is doing, is ...... wrong, yet if the authorities would focus more on copyrights, trademarks etc. and less on digital wallets, special tourism zones and 300 Baht landing taxation for tourists ....... There is not a day in the calendar where I am not offered fake watches, fake viagra, illegal copies of movies on CDs and the usual offerings of fake hand bags and purses in Bangkok on the way to/from work

    Lock him up and start educating your own people that ........ if a deal seems to be too good to be true then ........ the rest is history 😉

  2. I did all the calculations; a single house with a 8x4 swimming pool (i.e. a pump running 2 x 1 hour/daily) and comfy air temperatures by state-of-the-art inverter units cannot be fed with solar power to reach a breakeven point. 

    Even if the swimming pool pump works on-grid only (i.e. no sun = no electricity), you still cannot make ends meet and hence it is with the money-greedy government to do its home work on the taxation of solar power equipment imports. 

    All this is of course a big joke considering the fact, that we live in a country with 250+ sunshine days a year while in frozen Europe with not even half the solar power they manage to run the latter with efficiency and profitability of the equipment owner - go back and do your home work! 

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  3. It's about an accused, the mother of a rape victim, the police, inefficiency and/or corruption, face and the saving/loss of the latter and 5 million Thai Baht. 

    The main subject should be the 5-years old little girl who, quite obviously, went through the most terrible experience in her life and that is not even a subject here anymore. I can only hope that she can blank out this memory. 

    What have we become; we're monstrous greedy self-centered creatures and I am thoroughly ashamed 😞 I do not feel guilty over the incident, as I am not involved in any way but honestly, can society only focus on the first paragraph above? 

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  4. What an excellent opportunity to drag feet across the monkey plague - this time in Lopburi or, as a sideshow, in Petchburi. Culling is the only solution as even the local big faces have to make a choice. Are cities here for people or primates. Once you've defined that (will take months for countless working groups and committees studying the situation) then the next step might be kicked into action. 

    Handbags, fancy shoes and watch straps are made of crocodile leather which are groomed in ..... crocodile farms. Why not let the crocodiles roam freely - like the macaques? 

    Honestly, you have to do something here and now without further delay; feed them with tranquilized goodies, round 'em up and cull them. It cannot be, that macaques terrorize anything just because the semi-divines are - again - too lenient to put a plan into action. And, for all the do-gooders out there, if you disagree, then you're certainly most welcome to catch a monkey or two for your own private little garden - if you can 😉 

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  5. What a load of ......... 

    Bhutan does not charge a tourism tax; you have to spend USD 200 (not 100) per day and that covers hotel, transportation, the works. The reason behind this is, that the Bhutanese have understood the basics and want the upper crust of the tourism cake. 
    Thailand, on the other hand, has lost its plot quite some time ago and is facing the zero-dollar Chinese avalanche and the mostly hatred Southasians; don't even go further West to the Middle East. 

    Put the industry back to where it was, teach your people languages beyond "you buy drink for me", clean up your petty corruptions literally everywhere and get the semi-divine Khon Thai to understand the word "service" and "friendly". Upgrade whatever you do and clear out all that cheap s"ç%t everywhere; will take time as falling down is always done much faster than climbing back - Thailand is a pristine example of that! 

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  6. On 4/22/2024 at 10:43 AM, BigStar said:

     

    It's only mind-boggling that you've never noticed that your passport doesn't use the Thai spelling of your name and that it doesn't show your address. Yellow books and passports serve different purposes.

     

    Your post says more about you than about Thai bureaucracy.

     


    It would be helpful, if you would read what I wrote and then only comment.

    A translation of a passport does not automatically add an address - to my limited knowledge. As I can read Thai fluently you may rest assured, that I came across the most hilarious translations, partly or completely wrong.

    The ultimate winner, 10 out of 10, is and remains the following straight off a menu in a restaurant. The (European) sausage "Cervelat" got translated into ไส้กรอกเสียเวลา. Translate the Thai back into English and you'll get the "time wasting sausage" as "Cervelat" got understood as "เสียเวลา" ... or wasting time.

    Another beauty is the reversal of translation. The beach towards the South of Pattaya is called หาดจอมเทียน; the English signboards all over Pattaya refer to Jomtien, Jomtian, Chom Thian, Had Shomtian, Chomtien ... among others. 


    The only valid reference to spelling of a name is ...... in its original spelling; the rest is linguistic juggling. 

  7. In any other country, the army is the executing arm of the legislative - called the government. So, if a colonel goes apes1h4t, then you could nail him for treason, unless the government managed to sneak through the backdoor of the government house due to a botched election. Treason stands for การทรยศ and, in many countries, will result in losing the nationality or a hefty decades-long jail sentence. 
    Those who disagree with the government to that extent usually seek political asylum elsewhere ........ 

  8. In any other country, the army is the executing arm of the legislative - called the government. So, if a colonel goes apes1h4t, then you could nail him for treason, unless the government managed to sneak through the backdoor of the government house due to a botched election. Treason stands for การทรยศ and, in many countries, will result in losing the nationality or a hefty decades-long jail sentence. 
    Those who disagree with the government to that extent usually seek political asylum elsewhere ........ 

  9. Mind boggling; any passport holder entered Thailand with a valid passport, got stamped and could manage to the a one-year visa (as this seems to be the regulation). 

    Along comes the municipality office insisting on a translation of a passport, legalized by the respective Embassy and notary-stamped by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. So, what is good for the permit to enter the country as well as to obtain a one-year stay visa .......... is not good enough for the municipality.

    Maybe Srettha or any other goon in the government might want to wonder, if this is the most efficient way to deal with (mostly) NET spenders like retirees. 

    What a farçe and reconfirmation of the absolute brainless operation of these government offices where left does not even know of the existence of a right. Bureaucracy seems to get worse than all those loose cannon states in central Africa - well done! 

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