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TechnikaIII, on 2012-03-19 19:30:01, said:

international passengers top 10 -
1. London (Heathrow), United Kingdom:  60.9 million passengers per year
2. Paris, France:  53.15 million
3. Hong Kong: 49.77 million
4. Dubai, UAE: 46.31 million
5. Frankfurt, Germany: 46.3 million
6. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: 45.13 million  
7. Singapore: 40.92 million  
8. Incheon, South Korea: 32.94 million
9. Tokyo (Narita), Japan: 32.16 million  
10. Bangkok, Thailand: 31.41 million

From the comments, it would appear that lack of planning and disregard for the level of convenience until after the event are key complaints. If you expect people to put up with something they consider unreasonable (sic), you are liable to be disappointed. Usually it is worth listening to criticism, and learning from it, rather than trying to suppress it with the usual catchphrases. Get used to it. Just ignore it. It's the local culture. If you don't like it go home, etc. These responses just don't wash. They antagonize and polarize, and achive nothing positive.

TechnikaIII, on 2012-03-19 19:30:01, said:

hope the cabbie gets to keep it!  Anyone who can leave 13 million baht in gold in the back of a taxi is firstly too stupid for their own good and secondly rich enough not to really miss it, i'm routing for the cabbie at least he will take his time blowing it all on wiskey, hookers and yabba.

Thais wouldn't need to worry about foreigners ever if they stood even a chance of victory in basic common sense evaluations.  They are right to fear foreigners, as it's highly likely that those foreigners would be significantly more savvy than your average Thai.  This is one country where I'm sure you could find an eager buyer for ocean floor properties or deeds and titles to land on the moon.  Intellectually, this country is like a person in a coma.

The usual parasites turn up to discuss spending other people's money on a non-problem -- the UN, major banks and finance houses, NGOs and Greenies, totalitarian leftists, government-funded scientists, academia, renewables corporations, mainstream news media.

These are people who have no value whatsoever in the free market, and so they prefer the methods of government, namely politics and coercion, rather than the voluntary transactions of the marketplace — especially when it comes to setting their own remuneration.

This "regulating class" of people promotes the dual beliefs that the “problem” of global warming is very scary and that it is caused by human emissions of CO2. The only solution they offer just happens to be complete regulation of the whole world’s economy by … the regulating class, of course. “Enlightened” self-interest doesn’t come any bigger than this.

It is one of the oldest scams in human history: witchdoctors go to the rulers and say “the Gods are angry, there will be (more) catastrophes … we know how to appease the Gods, but it will cost you.”

And when they start talking about earthquakes and tsunamis in the context of climate change adaptation, you know you've got a 24-carat Class A moron on your hands.

Living and working in Malaysia, having lived and worked in Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong I can only say Thailand should have been so lucky as to be colonised . . . they certainly would have a better infrastructure, laws, education system etc...  

I've met very few Hongkies, Malaysians or Singaporeans complain about having been a colony . .. perhaps they can look past their arrogant and childish 'face' and appreciate that it wasn't an all-together bad thing

What a shame that the colonial powers looked at Thailand and decided it wasn't worth it . . . preferring countries like Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and New Guinea

seaeagle, on 2012-03-12 09:12:57, said:

You don't know anybody in Thailand that would prefer an English speaking  medical practitioners, dental practitioners, nursing services, engineering services, architectural services, surveying qualifications, and accountancy services?

I think the medical dictors and nurses will have the greatest oppurtunity.

No surprise that  the majority of Thai Engineers/ Architects etc  will be struggling for professional accreditation, they have had a nice  wooly existence where they are and only they can do those jobs in this country-- hence no need to try to improve. I have known a fully qualified architect from the UK married here for years and years but unable to ply  his profession and a Swiss medical doctor who too was prohibited from plying her profession, both were reduced to teaching English. So in truth I have very little sympathy for the position of Thai professionals when it comes to ASEAN, as it is largely  been brought about by the xenophobic/nationalist policies of their government, which if you spoke to most of them in the past and possibly some of them now, they were or are quite happy to lap up.

Lammbock, on 2010-10-03 10:50:05, said:

If you don't like it go back where you came from.

500 is fair enough  -  people like you give the rest of us forigners a bad name.

wlcart, on 2010-10-02 04:20:56, said:

I agree completely. Spot on.

Alboy666, on 2010-10-02 19:25:48, said:

I Have a friend that is on a 2 years overstay he has a Thai wife and a child an is working and looking after them, If he returns to the UK and if he is very lucky he may get a min paid job and be able to send a bit of money back but will never be able to save the money to return to see his wife and child if he cannot find work which will probably be the case then his wife and child will go hungry so if that is a crime the I think the law stinks, I am amazed at the compassion you senior member's show its about time you lot got of you golden high horse.

Not everyone that overstays if a criminal

george, on 2010-10-01 09:50:54, said:

George and all people who 'are in the know' so well about the new situation for overstay..
Why not show a single case of those new rules actually enforced.. Where are the 'long' overstayers that have been jailed the past week ?

Because at the moment we all only see one thing , Thai Visa made a deal with Advert sellers  (oops sorry.... journalists) of Pattaya One ...
who claim to have inside info yet fail to come up with any source that actually is named ( or is this a deep throat story that we can not check)  

And George: Yes people actually are jailed every day for a short time but ONLY when they do not have the ability to pay the overstay fine or do not have a valid ticket out of Thailand.

My lawyer asked immigration officials and they were very clear : have your valid ticket, have your 20.000 Baht and DON'T have a criminal record in Thailand and they do not care even when you have 10 years of overstay.

Now proof me and my lawyer wrong and show me the overstayers actually being jailed and that have the above. I will eat my words.

it is a shame that Thai Visa is using sensationalism to create hits and sell a rag like Pattaya One , shame on you

Changian:

What's that sound? . . . Listen carefully and you can hear it.  Sounds not dissimilar to the bottom of  barrel being scraped.

Nope. I'm listening, but only hearing the sound of whirring computers around the world as people download our publication.

Here's to a reading 'Pattaya Mayor Abducted by Aliens' or 'Honarary Consul Ate My Hamster' exclusives in weeks to come.

Thanks. Now we have to rewrite the next two editions' headlines.

Renaissanc

You will be happy to hear the feedback in the real world outside of this enjoyably knockabout forum is incredibly positive and enthusiastic, but thanks for your support and wise words.

What's that sound? . . . Listen carefully and you can hear it.  Sounds not dissimilar to the bottom of  barrel being scraped.

Here's to a reading 'Pattaya Mayor Abducted by Aliens' or 'Honarary Consul Ate My Hamster' exclusives in weeks to come.

OMFG, another ridiculous marketing ploy, i for one will now be boycotting anything to do with this media outlet. It seems like even the expatiates have succumbed to the philosophy of do  and say anything to make money.