Tornado

In the state that he was, I don't he could even figure he was being robbed.

I guess this farang was drinking some Heavy lao-khao with the Tuk tuk driver.

Being a loser or not, this story clearly tells you the honesty of Tuk tuk drivers. Right?

i disagree entirely,

you are saying all tuk tuk drivers are dishonest which is a rediculous statement and worthy of no respect.

you guess the idiot farang was drinking with the tuk tuk driver.

another assumption and you do not know.

the only fact you have provided is the farang was a drunken fool.

please provide fact and not assumption.

Please read carefully before posting.

I said about 80 to 90% of them are not honest, or Did I say all of them? Does it mean all Tuk-tuk drivers?

thats fairly close to all of them. 80 to 90%.

but thats ok mate as your entitled to your opinion but i dont agree with it.

I agree with you Thug as do the majority of people who actually know Thailand. The majority of Tuk Tuk drivers in Phuket would rip you off.. For a fellow farang to keep posting that the majority arent like that, is ridiculous.

In Phuket, if you park your car in a n area that the Tuk Tuks dont like they scatch it down the side, if you take them to task on price, they want to fight you.... They act like they run this town and by the look of how the last governor hid in his home after they surrounded his house, they most likley do. Phuket has to get rid of these lousy scum bags... 200 baht for a 3 minute drive in ludicrous, especially when the national average wage is less than 200 bhat per day.

Terry, keep sticking up for them mate, but I agree with Thug.

Drunken yob rips off driver, then assaults him. Driver fights back and gets charged.

ofcourse it wouldnt have to do with the overcharging of tourists...

Im glad to see that the powers that be have taken away your moderators button. A person that "works for food" can no longer dictate to the people that have a life.

You can see by this post, your an unimformed goose.

Back to the post... 100 baht is plenty for the time it takes to go from Bangala to The Royal Crown.

You can get a motorbike taxi for 20 or 40 (if tourist) baht...

I wish the new governor would step in an get the baht buses up and running, kick these "mafia" low lifes to the curb..

Im going through a dicorce at the moment myself, I was lucky I never registered the marriage, otherwise the ex would of gotten a lot more than she contributed - in a lawyers hands that is..

Splitting up assets to seperate a relationship is a horrible position as you once cared for the woman (still do to some extent) and you want the best for both of you (in my case anyway) without losing years of saving and collecting to ensure a quality of life.

I have asked my ex what she wants, but she is stubborn and says she wants nothing.. That I will not do to her, as she was a great part of my life and she deserves a portion of "our" assets.

My position is probably a little unique but also a worry for me. Im going back to our house today to try and make here keep a few assets to make her life as easy as I can.

It is a funny word retirement.

If your not a golfer or a beach person, what is there else to do?

I tried to retire a couple of years ago and got so bored, I was back at work within 3 months.

Retirement is way to over rated, it feels like your waiting to die.

I personally would only buy a free hold condo in my name, with the current situation, free hold condos are being sold daily. All free hold condos are walking out the door hourly in Phuket as this is the only "safe" option. I unfortunately dont have any left to sell as I sold the last one I know of this morning. Ive sent the boys out searching for others.

Investor advice: buy free hold condos off the plan and put it back on the market at a 20% increase after build (or during). I bought one in an exclusive place in Surin and made money within two weeks after putting down my deposit (4 mil). I bought for 13 mil and sold for 16,200,000 - After taxes, a nice profit.

Not much has changed since this first post. An interesting look back in this short history of Thaivisa.

Where would you get a licence in any country?

a member since 2004 - deary me.

Congratulations to George and the Doc.

4 years of bliss

nothing to see here, move along...

His pet name for her was Eileen

Her actual name before Mills was Dover. She also has two brothers, Ben, Neil and also the family dog, Run.

I thought it was funny Georgie!

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men, said ###### him, hes only an egg

Bloody swear meter, takes the punch out of the joke.

I feel a lot better now.

Mr ****** had wanted these stalls gone for a few years and the vendors would not leave - I wonder...

I wonder if the head of TAT bought all of the land and is trying to market it for his own benefit. He did it in Koh Yao Noi as well.

Good Luck to him!

that is funny!

what a country this is. I remember the singer "Bert" being sent away for a few years as well.

poor old Thaksin, no country wants him.

It seems the Phuket raido station with the farang music is no longer... it was 90.5 on the dial. oh well!

My wife payed 470,000 for the one with nice wheels, the J I think? It was 1 1/2 years old.

It is a great little car, perfect for city driving.

why not put it on long term rental? 15k per month.

I can tell you who not to use in Bangkok.

If a member here PM's you and his nick is only 4 letters long, do not use him - a big warning.

This "*******" is expensive, builds crap websites and then steals your domain name and has the hide, to use it for his own website.

I was charged 60k and paid for my domain name using his credit card (paid him in cash as I didnt have my cards with me). He is still using my domain name for his own website.

In the end the site looked like <deleted>!

I had the website made by another company for 22,000 Baht and it looks and functions brilliantly.

I would suggest you refrain from "naming and shaming" as there are always two sides to every story and we have only heard yours. You state that you "don't play that way" but continue to drop hints and make accusations.

Any further discussion along these lines will result in posts deleted and the thread closed. Capiche?

IT aint Tawp ! :-)..

I would love to put his name here, but I dont play that way. **comments deleted***

edited by sbk

Dear UBC My List of Demands,

Upgrade you Set top Box it is at least 3 generations behind the rest of the world and your neighbors.

Give us a decent usable EPG (electronic program guide) that will display more than just an hour into the future. And have it change to the channel i placed a reminder on instead of asking me if i want to change it.

Make the set top box a DVR (this is to compensate for time difference sports events and the movie channels showing crap when I'm at home and good stuff when I'm asleep or at work.

That little Mail feature that the current boxes have, USE IT!!! tell me when there's going to be a service outage, tell me of new features/channels, tell me when my bill is due, use the feature that came with the hardware.

I know you've opened up some advertising, i see it on AXN and Discovery. Want to make some money?? Want to lower our rates?? solicit/put up local advertising how about a Siam Commercial bank Ad , True Internet ad, (insert Thai bank, vehicular manufacturer, or cell phone company of your choice here) ad.

I want more channels for what I'm paying for. I can list a few suggestions; Discovery Travel and living, TLC, UBC Series 2 (you know you can do it) Discovery Health, A&E, Nickalodian, Disney,

And though i doubt it i would go Ape Sh*t for Comedy Central

I like to know how i can influence HBO/Cinimax/Starmovies programming decisions(UBC is putting better programing on their movie channel then the others IMHO)

If i have to watch (actually i don't watch and i'm paying for it) one more Direct to DVD B-movie about the Komoto Vs the cyborg anaconda secret government forces project in the Bermuda triangle while tunneling to the earth's core to save us all from a killer earth quake that can only be stopped by a nucular weapon I'm going to flip!!!

Oh, and who is going to save us, that's right Steven Sugal

Now my comment on the MTV/VH1 thing

I wasn't aware that MTV wasn't already a Thai Pop channel. I rarely, if ever found Eng lang programming on it.

I did however watch VH1 and i will miss it. I live in Phuket where we have no English radio. While i do have an extensive music collection i do like to hear something new now and then and now aside from the net and watching the charts to see what's new i'll have no other way to experience new music. Yes it's sad that you depend on VH! for new music but i'm sort of limited for choice out here.

It is all about to change soon as a few of us here are in talks for a new station. Lots of red tape at the moment, but hopefully after 18 months of negotiations we might get what we wanted.. still early to tell, but............

There is also a good channel, I think 90.5 or 98.. sorry I actually forget it now - anyway, from early morning till 1pm that plays "old favourites" and top 40 ish. It isnt a bad station, music is ok.

regarding UBC, BBC Prime was good, BBC entertainment is crap, but as others have said, what is the alternative? If I go to cable I will have to endure Fox News - that aint happening.

I feel bad for you mate, you sound like a nice bloke.

You will get through this, but you have to get her out of your life first, that is a cert.

I hope it all goes well for you.

I can tell you who not to use in Bangkok.

If a member here PM's you and his nick is only 4 letters long, do not use him - a big warning.

This "*******" is expensive, builds crap websites and then steals your domain name and has the hide, to use it for his own website.

I was charged 60k and paid for my domain name using his credit card (paid him in cash as I didnt have my cards with me). He is still using my domain name for his own website.

In the end the site looked like <deleted>!

I had the website made by another company for 22,000 Baht and it looks and functions brilliantly.