Valdezugar

As usual the Phuket Gazette and TV promoted a sensationalized article. According to another and IMO a much more reliable source, which can't be named here, there is no manhunt, but Immigration was alerted. It also said the guy everyone on this thread says was an ass, was. He started fighting with his Thai GF and when some others tried to intervene, he took exception and went off...

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There you have it then folks. Though from what I've seen; Thai GFs seem to set off even softies.

I guess that's your opinion, not mine. It all depends on the person, not whether they are Thai or not... Obviously there are whacked people of all genders and nationalities.

As usual the Phuket Gazette and TV promoted a sensationalized article. According to another and IMO a much more reliable source, which can't be named here, there is no manhunt, but Immigration was alerted. It also said the guy everyone on this thread says was an ass, was. He started fighting with his Thai GF and when some others tried to intervene, he took exception and went off...

Earlier on someone said "if it looks like a prick, acts like a prick etc..."

There you have it then folks. Though from what I've seen; Thai GFs seem to set off even softies.

I competed in the biannual WKO event in Jomtien in 2008. Wearing the t-shirt around Pattaya; I got quite a few challenges from crackpots "testing the fighting guy". Even while inebriated I managed to smile my way out of it; worst that happened was some fool spat on my shoes, I bought him a beer and his friends calmed him down.

This guy has problems; and if he doesn't watch out; he won't see 30. Not everyone wants to just test their skills against you; some will want to make daisy food of you. You don't have to react like an a$hole to an action from an a$hole.

On the other hand if 10 guys tried to climb me I would do my best to take them all down hard; no mercy.

mma fighters do it in the ring, to rules and with a ref. on the street there are many guys who use nasty weapons and won't stop when the opposition says "ok i submit" or loses consciousness.

if you meet one of those guys, it won't need 10 of him to hurt you bad - before, during, or after your "take-down" technique.

True. However the majority are not looking to risk getting hurt; even if there is ten of them.

Let's hope this guy learns something from it (although his conduct in the hospital indicates chances are zero)

I competed in the biannual WKO event in Jomtien in 2008. Wearing the t-shirt around Pattaya; I got quite a few challenges from crackpots "testing the fighting guy". Even while inebriated I managed to smile my way out of it; worst that happened was some fool spat on my shoes, I bought him a beer and his friends calmed him down.

This guy has problems; and if he doesn't watch out; he won't see 30. Not everyone wants to just test their skills against you; some will want to make daisy food of you. You don't have to react like an a$$hole to an action from an a$$hole.

On the other hand if 10 guys tried to climb me I would do my best to take them all down hard; no mercy.

RIP Marco.

OP; I'm a newbie.

How did you do it, man? I'm so jealous. I want to be rich and an a$hole just like you ... please PM me your great recipe.

I've also got a great idea but no capital ... why not venture some of your millions and I'll make you even richer with my idea ... I'll PM you my account number ...

Shhhh! Don't tell anyone!

Don't encourage him,he might just Pm you his latest useless get rich quick scheme!

which was probably all his Post was about,in the first place.

Please God no! I'm already spammed enough. OP; just send the money ...

Or shall I wait a year or two until your wife cleaned you out and you'll be asking for advice on what to do here ... from all these (old) wingers?

OP; I'm a newbie.

How did you do it, man? I'm so jealous. I want to be rich and an a$$hole just like you ... please PM me your great recipe.

I've also got a great idea but no capital ... why not venture some of your millions and I'll make you even richer with my idea ... I'll PM you my account number ...

Shhhh! Don't tell anyone!

If I had to choose from all the chronic illnesses one can have at old age; I'd pick being nuts ... I'm nuts but not aware of it. With the others you suffer and you're living it every day.

Being nuts is someone else's problem

Alzheimer's can't be that bad you won't know when you going to die and you can watch your favourite film over and over again.

It can be bad, my relative could only remember that her children never visit, even when they visit that day.

She cry much because always lonely.

I'm 40 and I don't have any kids (yet) ... one less thing to be sad about when they don't visit. Besides; I'll have too many friends at the home. My gran started going off at 85; but she was fun to be around because the faux pas were quite entertaining and she was a good sport.

Not all of us live miserable lives and remember only the &lt;deleted&gt; times ...

If I had to choose from all the chronic illnesses one can have at old age; I'd pick being nuts ... I'm nuts but not aware of it. With the others you suffer and you're living it every day.

Being nuts is someone else's problem

Yes it will, I can smoke it when I'm in pain.

Going to have to smoke the jacket and pants to get any effect; if you're lucky.

Mate of mine wears his off road body armor over a t-shirt. It looks pretty gay, but dam_n effective.

SAffer ... don't tell me ... you hauled ass before the "Swart Gevaar" can take over everything right?

Nelson Mandela was jailed for treason, not for violent activity. And the armed struggle started when he was in prison; there were others who led the ANC at the time and campaigned for an armed struggle. Or are you saying the burning of dom passe is violence?

Amazing the &lt;deleted&gt; people spout on an open forum.

Next you'll be telling us how your Thai GF there has five degrees and comes from a rich family, and you're the first farang she's even spoken to. Does her family have a trilingual gardener too?

Ghandi ran the brits out of India with nonviolence. MLK changed America for the better with nonviolence. Those are two examples of success at changing the world through nonviolence. I have a much harder task of finding where violence ever produced sustainable change for the better.

An eye for and eye leaves everyone blind - Ghandi

Nelson Mandela, however, did use violence.

Fancy a spin on this? 

Well, I like wearing shorts because its hot in Thailand. And I got great legs!

Huh? Wrong thread?

Okay ...

Not really, maybe on some topics they're not familiar with, but they know more than I about things Thai.

Some think so ...

Depends on what your idea of intelligent is.

Bad drivers all over the world, don't need a particular nationality

No

Your kidding right?

No

because it is

Which nationality is?

Some posters feel the fact that they have more money than Thais also mean they have more of everything else ...

I couldnt find the videos, but im not tellin porkies......I just cant remember or find my way around. Happens with old age, im in the last years of my 30ies.

Mate, you were wearing shorts at the time?

Might be the problem ...

I remember seeing something like this thread on youtube.

Some pratt was going about Bangkok or Chiang Mai or something filming expats wearing shorts & posting the videos on youtube mocking them. I will try to find one of the vids and post here later.

I wondered why somebody could be so concerned about such a petty thing. I think he also had a swipe at people wearing thongs and in some of his videos he followed thai gurls walking to work on their way to Nana or Pat Pong or something like that.

Not you is it Semper?

Methinks when we say people should get out more, we mean in a meaningful way.

Some people are just made like that, no life ...

Mate of mine got ants in his pants after another mate came home with a brand spanking new R6.

This mate of mine, lets call him Andy, had a 954 Blade, and wanted a new ride but his wife was the minister of finance and he didn't know how to get it past her. So he managed a performance bonus (don't ask) and he could trade his Blade for something new. Long story short, he settled on a new Sprint 1050 (dunno why) and in trepidation, rode it home.

Wifey, as usual, came to the garage door when she heard him arrive, and as he rode into the garage, she just looked, turned on her heel and went back into the kitchen.

Later that evening, she casually noted that his bike looks different. Gulping, he replied that he had scratched it weeks ago and that he had the panels resprayed. He had mentioned it to her! She just nodded.

Helloooo! Urban legend stuff.

Hahahahaha!

Man I had a good laugh!

Thanks Forethat and the rest ...

Hahahahaha!

Man I had a good laugh!

Thanks Forethat ...

I actually have a very good 'game', and have never lacked female company in any country I have lived.

When I left the UK I had three gfs aged 22, 27 and 60, but it was just too much effort.

The 22 YO had been in the same class as my son at school , "dad don't, I used to go to school with her"

The 27 YO was my former wifes best friends daughter, "you mustn't ever tell anyone about us"

The 60 YO was a former model, and my postman's ex, surprisingly the most fun of the three, but I just didn't fancy her much.

I just never had the urge to give any of them an entitlement to half of everything I still owned.

In Thailand I find that most of the youngsters doing the old, fat, bald routine are the social outcasts in their own country.

When they come to Thailand they become terribly distressed that the old, fat, bald brigade (with a bit of cash behind them) have more choice in cute, hot, women than they do.

It's so unfair they all post/cry (usually on TV but also in my local), we should be getting the cute chicks!

The number of young western guys only able to make it with bar girls, and only then with extreme effort, is just too funny.

Just have a look at the thread about the young guy having a'relationship' with a bar girl who is leaving him for an older guy ...... typical or what!

pjclark you dog!

Let the youngsters be, when they get old, fat and bald there'll be some youngsters jealous of them.

On the other hand, there are plenty of fine assed Thai females who have old, fat and bald partners and husbands who seek proper "satisfaction" from these jealous youngsters; maybe that's why they rag the old, fat and bald guys?

Almost everything you've p[osted here is incorrect. I think you need to do a little research on the headings you've chosen - but why bother? - it would break the TV tradition of writing rubbish.

No point in arguing with a youngster bumming his way around the world with a TEFL and little else, you already know it all.

Yes you are a very hansum man, and many women will want you (for a short time as a sex toy)

(until you too are old, fat, bald and more importantly broke)

So basically your saying young guys get it for free but old fat guys are a better catch for a lady because they don't mind paying for it by buying houses and cars for the ladies affections.

To be honest i rather get it free because of my looks then knowing i have to pay for it. But hey if your happy like that then who am i to judge.

I'm looking forward to being old, fat and balding ... Isn't it inevitable?

Although my dad's just turned 75; he's 6 foot 1, weighs 74 kilos and has a full head of grey hair.

Should I be worried, dear ThaiVisa knowledgeables?

BTW, he's popular with quite a few widows and divorcees ... no 20something Thai honeys though. dam_n!

This forum is nogal baie entertaining ...

:lol: ...I was asked a few years ago how did the South Africans cope with the elephants/lions etc walking in the streets and did they cause problems in the traffic ?...

I worked at the African Athletic champs in Durban in 1993. The Two Egyptian decathletes arrived with hunting rifles and were most annoyed when they got to the hotel on the beach front and there were no wild animals!

I've seen elephants in the streets in India and Thailand ...

But yes, Africa is not for sissies.

My sister has an electric fence running around the top of her 10' wall in South Africa. Once over that, you've got the dogs to contend with, the steel burglar bars and there's also an alarm.

She's not been broken into yet!

(In South Africa btw)

Is she happy with this arrangement

Native born, white South Africans tend to be a tough and resourceful lot, and they deal with things on a daily basis that would scare the bejeysuz out of most Europeans and North Americans. Deadly snakes and large beasts that can kill you are an every day occurance. And, of course, there are the black Africans that look at every white person as a source to plunder. Africa is no country for the weak, but it has a LIFE about it like nowhere else in the world..

Deadly snakes and large beats ... source of plunder ...

(Is that why English guys take their new brides there to have killed cause its just a jungle there?)

Fark me sideways Mr Forbes; what are you smoking? Where can I get some?

This forum is nogal baie entertaining ...

I have lived in few countries in Africa and it is quite common there as well to have broken glasses on the flat top of the wall to discourage thieves from jumping into your house. Also, when we drive, we don't let our hands out of the window unless you want your watch snatched from you. The grills on the window are also meant to discourage break-ins but mine was not successful because the thieves used a car jack to widen them and enter (I shot them). I am just lucky that I had no fire situation since all exists are blocked with either a grill or a thick iron door, locked three times. It is an awful choice: die from smoke inhalation or get your family hurt/killed/rapped by gangsters who have nothing to lose. Soon, I had enough of it and left the continent for good.

Thailand is much richer than many countries in Africa but it is still developing and I imagine the poverty also makes people desperate to steal to survive or pay for drugs. In Africa, due to corruption and break down of laws, thieves caught stealing are usually burnt alive (given a necklace - a burning tyre on their neck) or beaten to death as a warning to others. This has not stopped them from stealing of course. I am glad, at least in Thailand, the level of poverty is not as low as in Africa and I can go about in relative safety in most corners of the country as a tourist. I am also happy not to see any "street justice" done to the suspects.

If it wasn't for the strict fire codes being enforced, i imagine many people in New York or London would have done the same to protect themselves and their families. It is also wonderful feeling to know that you can depend on the operator to send you help whenever you need it. Sadly, I have had more break-ins as a university student in Boston than I had in Africa. I didn't know that my huge apartment complex was also partly used to subsidize welfare recipients and with that, came the pimps, the drugs, and prostitution to my door step.

Max2010

So where exactly in Africa did you live where this happens? I'd like to avoid it, if I can ...

Amazing, they steal the watch from your arm if your hand is out the window of the car; they must run really really fast

They jump from the wall into your house? Amazing. I saw a movie about that once; but that was made in France. Guys jumping walls and stairs etc; they got a name for that that I don't recall now.

So do the lions really roam the streets and eat the locals? Must be scary ... good thing you hauled a$$ outta there ...

Not in Los now but back at home this is my ride:

Try leaving them.

You'll find that they are not quite what they seem once they see their cash-cow disappearing. Hence the OP's post.

Has it's flip side tho.. The 'take me back' bj's are the best ya'll ever get..

Amen! That and more ...