Buying time is not unique to politicians and leaders.
Most of us have experienced this at one time or another either hoping that money invested will eventually grow or the illness from which one has have been suffering will eventually get better.
People who are impatient and wanting elections now should also realise that buying time does not necessarily mean the outcome resulting from the buying of time will be favourable.
Brian Corrigan
Is a poll the answer?
President or prime minister? What's a modern dictator to do? All I know is that a hugely expensive national election seems like a big production for a change of business cards
Roger
Dangers of watching
I should have spoken up sooner. I thought the issue would have disappeared by now. Imagine my dilemma as a visitor to Thailand and having brought along my US$47,000.00 (1.5 million baht) diamond encrusted gold Swiss Rolex watch.
I considered wearing it in order to show it off to the Thai people and enjoy the admiring looks I might receive as they were awed at my fine taste in time-wear. Fortunately, a failed theft attempt by a person who appeared to be a foreign tourist alerted me to the dangers of displaying my prize chronometer while a guest of the kingdom.
Concerned with security for my timepiece I considered the safety boxes at the hotels and rental facilities but thought "can you really trust a thing of such beauty to a flimsy metal box"? Plus, who will get to see my handsome ticker if stuck away in such an untrustworthy crevice.
Fortunately, I thought who can I trust to take care of my watch where it will have plenty of security and still allow people to enjoy enviously seeing this stunning timer? Then it struck me like a tonne of bricks!
Who better than Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon? Just like me he loves fine luxury watches, to my knowledge he is honest to a fault and of course he enjoys constant personal security. I knew I had made the right decision until the news media became curious about my watch and others the deputy has on loan.
Well, I'm heading home in a couple of weeks and now I'm facing a new dilemma when I return to my country. You guessed it -- who am I going to loan the watch to back there? President Trump already has several watches of his own as do most every politician I've voted for. I doubt Hillary Clinton would wear a men's chronometer!
Phil Sparks
Don't blame the dead
Re: "BMA says cremations pollute city", (BP, Jan 31).
I think the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration blaming cremations for the recent high levels of air pollution in Bangkok is a grave mistake. The BMA needs to look no further than many old city buses spewing out filthy black smoke which they have done for years and continue to do so without any apparent intervention by the authorities.
Martin R
Police state in making
I see the Immigration Department in Phuket has resurrected and is enforcing a law from the 1970s that a foreigner residing in Thailand must re-register his address every time he leaves and returns to his province of residence if he stayed in a hotel while away.
In other words, if I go to Krabi overnight I must go to immigration immediately on my return and register my home address again.
If I go somewhere every weekend I will be spending a lot of time at immigration.
Plus I still have to report every 90 days.
What's next?
How long before we need a permit to travel inside Thailand?
If Thailand is trying to attract foreigners with skills to work here, how many are going to bother apply when they hear about immigration policies that treat foreigners like parolees.
It is getting to be more like a police state every year.
A visitor
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