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And i thought Germany is bad :-)

The first time ever where I'm happy to not be in Thailand. Wow.

Maybe nothing for you but if you are are around there why not take a pic.

There is a "plane graveyard" with an old 747 and an MD80 in Soi 103 Ramkhamhaeng Road | Hua Mak, Bang Kapi.

Gets less and less worthwhile because the planes rot more and more so maybe take the chance.

14 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

What have his visa requirements got to do with anything? How does a one way ticket invalidate your travel insurance? 

 

If people want to help let them, I would rather my taxes go to helping real people like this guy other than funding CEOs and corrupt politicians. There should be emergency health care for everyone. 

Dont expect ppl to have same feelings. Not on Thaivisa. Only the special clever ones are here, doing everything 100% right in their lives. I feel same you but i guess we are low in numbers nowadays.

To the rest:

So many comments here make me only laugh... I wonder where all you wannabe clevers hide, in Sukhmvit Soi 5 to use woman i imagine. But then come here and crap talk others. 

Sometimes it seems only the worst of characters meet in Thailand. No wonder Thai ppl laugh about you in your socks and shorts. And no, im not talking about ppl like the guy who needs help. I talk about all the wannabe celvers who did exactly the same, go to Thailand on a 1 way ticket and think they are special now. Maybe got rich and can afford it but not spending  1 sec to help other people. Your are the worst this earth has to offer. Dont spend more time being proud of yourself if theres 0 reason to be proud of. 

You may learn there is some way of Karma, the day comes where you are in such a situation too if you continue to be arrogant fools only thinking about yourself. But wait... i forgot, it cannot hit you since you are rich. Lol. Lets see

Germany.... look at the world and how they do it.... Even Thailand, noone would have expected this. I think we have to wait 10 more years here....

On 1/9/2019 at 5:36 AM, cyril sneer said:

I drink 4-5 large bottles of water a day so not sure if hydration is the issue

 

Water actually triggers it first thing in the morning

i didnt read all the pages and in no way im a doctor. I also dont know whar you do on your day, maybe you do a lot and sweat a lot.

But one thing i do know and that is that 4-5 big bottles of water (what you mean with big, 1.5 liters?) is way too much. Yes you heard me right, too much. One can drink too much too, not just too little. If you add other things (in case you drink them) like you mentioned Alcohol maybe coffee too and whatnot, you get 8-10L of fluid per day?

I doubt you are running around and do Muay Thai or something so i also doubt oyu need that much of fluid. The problem here is that it washes all of important things out of your body.

You can read about it if you dont believe me. Now also what could be a possibility is that the water you drink is simply not good.... Quite a few reverse osmose suppliers are not really the most hygienic thing .

https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/water-intoxication#1

https://www.danvillerehab.com/blog/3-reasons-why-drinking-too-much-water-is-bad-for-you

https://www.thisisinsider.com/am-i-drinking-too-much-water-2018-11

On 10/25/2018 at 6:23 PM, MRDave said:

I'm not sure where he got his information from, since they remove the part that gets you high from the medical versions.

What?

I wonder where you got that from..... One cannot remove "things" of a Cannabis plant that make one high. Either you grow them already as hemp for clothes/usage for other things, then they have no THC/Cannabinoid but if you have a normal seed and a plant grows out of it you can not do much for it to loose its TCH after while leaving the buds intact. One would have to do chemical dissolution to get it out...
Sure, the buds have less impact than the leaves but i hardly doubt that they sell the leaves only in Thailand lol.

Where would that be? In Germany medical Marihuana is the EXACT same thing and of course makes you high. Its standard, good Ganja, same like everywhere else in the world where its allowed.

In the USA, in Netherlands, in Switzerland, in Portugal, everywhere. Its same same. Its fully working Ganja. And everywhere its opposite as ppl say here. Where in all names you get infos from? 

The accidents sank, the mental health incerased, the alchoholics lessened and it overall has many more positive effects after legalisation. Please take the time to read how Portgual was nearly lost until they opened drug use. THat LOWERED every rate there is out there, to a positive effect. Same with USA.

Its exactly as dickjones2018 said, if someone is against this then he has clear reasons that are for sure not bound to concern for the society. Its own interests. Or doesnt know anything about Marihuana living blindly with Alcohol as the "good" thing in mind.

they allowed you to keep both passports and use both? Thats not what has happened to me in this case. Im from Germany too btw. They cut the edges of the other passport so only one at time can be active. And so far thats what i thought is normal since the women inside told me in Germany one can only have one passport. Though they gave me the old one and said i should carry this with me when going to Thailand. There was no retirement visa involved though.

Wow... 4 pages of posts of like "Whats wrong with ppl there", "whats wrong in Thailand" etcetc. (with a few exceptions) And 4 pages of posts from farangs who want to do the same to the guy, cut his arms, let him bleed out and whatnot.... Sometimes its very hard to not loose faith in humanity... ranting over something that they do the very moment (or "want to do") is beyond me...

Now let me ask you: Whats wrong with you?

13 hours ago, NextStationBangkok said:

So, they are pasa Thai call centers, i was wondering how Thai's can operate call centers to make fraud in UK or US, i would be glad if they can get any penny for calling in English.

 

That means Thai callerID system is weak, people from somewhere can call to Thailand without noticing their identity.

I think your into a big mistake to believe noone outside US/UK can speak english. Ot that UK/Us people are so high qualified to not fall for these scams.

I would like to lead you to a few twitch or youtube pages where so called "scambaiters" baiting the nice guys to scam them to fool them, waste their time and basically turn the table. If you watch that for a while you will see that there is no end. He can call hundreds per day, he can close a few of them even by leading the info forward of methods they use and still there will be new callcenters each new day.

There are hundreds of callcenters with thousands of people who fool US and UK ppl every single day for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Every single day. And every single day its call centers from India, Thailand, Asia at all and other nice places where you probaby think no real UK or US person can fall to it. Believe me, they do....

Google "kitboga" and watch a few of his vids to get a bit of insight. It interesting to see both worlds fit together like a fist on the eye, like we like to say. The "naivety" of "educated" "rich" and the bit higher criminal minds of not so educated countries.

Sorry for all the "´s.... 

There are a few possibilities. Since youve said you dont use that mobile for internet we have to believe that. Otherwise the most easy step to give facebook the mobile number is by creating an account over the mobile. Many mobiles have Facebook preinstalled, like Samsung S8 etc. If you create an account over this or log into one at some point there will be a permission-reqest from the app where it asks if you want to give permission to read contacts etc. 

Then there is the possibility, as others stated already, that it was simply spam/phishing. Maybe have a look on the message, if theres a link (that link may be hidden behind a few numbers but if you click it it directs you somewhere)) in it that you can click then it may lead to a phishing site, trojan hosting page or other stuff. They want that you login on that page so they have your account. Etcetc. Can be many things behind this, social engineering too  etc (not saying this is happening in your case)

Then its also likely that you gave other companies your mobile number and in the privacy policy of them (if they even have one)  probably mentioned somewhere that they may hand out data to third parties. Some companies dont check too well what third parties are that who request data as long they pay for it. So a black-sheep, or a grey one at least may be one of those third parties.

But the one thing that most ppl dont know. YOU DONT have to be a facebook member to have a facebook account. There will be one for you anyway. Its called "shadow-profile". 

https://www.cnet.com/news/shadow-profiles-facebook-has-information-you-didnt-hand-over/

What also should be kept in  mind: you dont even have to brwose facebook once in your life to fill that shadow-profile of yours with data.
Every page that has a facebook-like plugin (you see them everywhere) for example automatically collects data. All this data is accumulated over time and will be added.

This facebook-like-button is only one example. And no, you dont have to press that button. You only have to browse the page that has this button included.

20 hours ago, Russell17au said:

The majority of foreign teachers are here to teach English and the biggest failure is in the standards of teaching English because there are no standards. An American teacher will teach the American grammer and the American spelling which is incorrect while the Australian teacher will do the same and so will the UK teacher. Australian teachers use the same spelling as the UK which is the true English spelling. There needs to be one set of standards to teach English by and that should be by the original English language and spelling as is used in the UK. Even on a computer the English language that is used is the American English language with the American spelling which is not the true English language, it is a modified language and spelling and unless the true English language and spelling is set as the standard it causes confusion amongst the children because one child goes to a different school to there friend and is taught by a different teacher who teaches a different English. This is not good education.

Note: be sure to read the PS

Maybe this breaks your dream now about English language but the fact is (doesnt matter who you ask in various countries) that this "real" English you talk about is the one that noone understands outside of UK. Opposite to American "English". Ive been in soooo many situations everywhere, in Thailand, in my home-country Germany and whatever place there may be where UK people roam, if someone starts his Oxford dialect or even better Scottish or Irish, wich sounds identically to the Hardcore UK for us outsiders, the opposed conversation-partner starts to stare in awe because he really didnt understand a single word, even he thought he can speak English until this moment. Happens to myself too always, i simply cannot understand it even i understand every foreigner/non-UK person who speaks English fluid in the way most Americans do, or the rest of the world. Many countries ppl have a lot of problems to understand that "real" English you talk about. So im not sure how much it helps if you teach a language that only UK people understand. Maybe not so bad to teach it in a way that the whole world really understands?

PS: what i said here is in no way against UK people or other mentioned persons/dialects. These dialects are in every country where other groups have problems with it. In Germany that may be dialects like "Sächsisch" etcetc, Germany know what i mean. So please please, noone take this serious and personal. Sadly "real" English sounds for a typical German like the German "Sächsisch" for a non-dialect speaking German, im very sorry to say that.

8 hours ago, BasalBanality said:

A side from the mild arthritic discomfort in my left knee, I am in relative good health. 

 

And how are you today?

I hope, and I really do, (what I usually never do), that you with your mild arthritis will be the next one that gets sorted out. Wonder you will be fast enough to run from them.

Then we also see if you still make clever statements in the forum about this kind of attacks.

17 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Sorry, but she must be handed over to her embassy who in turn must either pay for her in Thailand or have her sent back to her homeland....

 

Try begging as an alien in the streets of some western nation and the same will happen...

 

Another quality farang who will plainly justify all the hassle at immigration counters towards other farangs on normal visits to the Kingdom...

Hmm, come to germany. There all over, noone cares. Goverment helps, gives them money,  room (shared first, but at least something) and whatnot, seems not all western countries are same.

I rather think the 18-40 is the preset value when registering and they just not understand to change it :-)

Kidding... But in fact I had this problem many many times in a company I worked for (I'm webdeveloper and create this forms a lot). Many customers complained about things related to date but failed to understand that they have to enter a real birthdate to make it work...

Doubtful that it's the case here of course hehe. On the other hand, there are for sure some women who think like "men men, where are the men. Just let me register." 

19 hours ago, partington said:

And what about all these French speaking African tossers around Lower Sukhumvit, who hang around all day and all night, saying "how are you?" to selected random foreigners, obviously up to no good, and what's more blocking me from getting home fast with my shopping in the bloody pouring rain.

 

Eh, answer me that!

Very easy answer. They pay more.

It's a completely different group anyway. Mostly Nigerian ppl. With connections to Pakistan. And to lumpini police

1 hour ago, cyberfarang said:

If they done it to Chiang Mai then they can do the same in Pattaya, Bangkok and anywhere else in the country.

 

This time I really do believe they mean business, this is the beginning of the end for the bars in Pattaya.

Lets hope it.

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12 hours ago, steven100 said:

oh yeah ...  legalize it so we can have more like this nutter running around 

 

9 hours ago, giddyup said:

  alcohol doesn't make people run around naked and end up crazy

 

Are you for real?

 

you guys..... so funny sometimes. Knowing nothing but try to be part of the conversation.

Both coments are basically just some thrown sentances without having the littlest amount possible to say about it. 

To the first one, in the article they talk about Ice. And the guy talked about Mariuhana. If you think the 2 things have even a little to do with each other, think again or do a little info first. Noone will be ever running around from something, doing crazy things from  Mariuhana alone. Noone, if the person not has anything like a sickness before already, like epileptic stuff. And then they dont run around because they are so drunk, they do it for other reasons, same as if they have the epileptic seizure.

There are 2 other possibilities basically, where one can suffert from Mariuhana. One is if start smoking too young. Then the brain may or may not be affected by the consume. Noone can say for sure, even after years of watching it. The other is if one smokes so much that he put Mariuhana to his number one thing in his life. Then he may get unhappy if he cannot get it, or may unable to sleep. Such things. Or he may let important things slip and go on a downhill way somewhat. Maybe he will sit alone in his room without friends after 2 decades. Its stuff like this that Mariuhana does, and then only if too much or too early or mixed with Alcohol (again, Alcohol...)

A normal healthy person would have to smoke amounts that are not possible, to get any symtoms that are bad for health or visible for outsiders. Maybe someone has a bit red eays. Its stuff like this.

NOOONE can be so drunk from smoking Mariuhana that he doesnt know what he does if there are not some very wiered things come together. Like Very first consume, small body, other illnesses or mix with other things. NEVER alone on a normal healthy person that is not a child or whatever. Probably you guys dont know that a very big part of the world smokes without telling you guys, right? Because they know how stupid ppl can be. But be sure, if you want to put everyone away who somkes Mariuhana, the world will be empty and only a handful ppl like you are left, sitting there with the beer or whiskey in the hand and drink lol.

To the second .... this tops the first one by far tbh. 

Noone on this earth will be able to make drunk from smoking like you can be drunk from Alcohol. Its not possible ok? Why people talk if they dont know anything about it? 

If you never saw drunk people that do crazy things, ok,  good for you, probably you live your life in your living room. But everywhere else, especially in Thailand, are drunk people that do crazy things. 

I have many people as collegues, friends or whatever, they smokle since decades without having anything. They have a job, they have a life, they have eveything. But i also know 3 Person from my friends that are alcoholic. And guess what.,... They have far bigger problems as a smoker can ever have.


And please...... understand what is Mariuhana. And finally start to make differences. Not sure why Alcohol is ok for everyone if its the badest drug on the whole world. 


 

I dont know whats happened to this place... of course dozens other countries arent better or worse, no question. But what i experience the last years here in Thailand make me very very much overthink my whole "idea of Thailand" i had for the last 25 years...

I lived for the dream basically to live my life in Thailand, had luck and enjoyed it so much for many years, working and living in Bkk. But for some reason, the last 2 years i more and more see me overthinking this. The smile here is an illusion in some many regards im not able to put it into words.

Also, what happened to me (nearly got killed for an ipad, 45 stiches to be done alone on my head, 7 ppl hit on it with iron bars, on my home from work), to others, what i read on a daily basis, what i experience, i dont know....

Thai people can be very very nice. But some people here seem to be very far from what i call human and this makes it more and more difficult for me to see paradise in this place...

So finally they got a bit brain it seems...But when does this gets applied to fishes too? In uncountable places they catch fishes, hord them in hundreds in small pots to sell them to ppl to let them make merit.

Its beyond me how they even can completley neglect the fact that they hurt animals to let others do merit. 

4 hours ago, Ruffian Dick said:

From what I've been told, even if you're teaching golf, you still need a Bachelors Degree to get that visa.

A good example to not believe everything one is beeing told.

9 hours ago, steven100 said:

where were his credit cards  ?  

this smells fishy ....  he was 60 and a non smoker ??  something not correct here

So nowadays only smoker die in the age of 60? That would be nice but sadly its not true. There are millions of deaths per year of ppl nt smoking and not drinking....And doing sports the whole life.

I thought this is known by now.

Sorry to sound a bit negative but sometimes one could think on THaivisa ppl dont know about "natural deaths" anymore. Everything and everyone is suspicious.

Maybe its exactly the other way around. I never go there. I go to Thai places where usually the owners or waiters already know what i want before i open the mouth because they know me. Its also places where there is nothing to understand something wrong. When i order red curry i get ed curry, if i order green curry i get green one.

Some people make me be ashamed to be a "farang", really. Thats why i go far away from them in Bangkok usually. SOme of you guys are just arrogant, ignorant, selfish and whatever. You expect all people working in a Restaurant speaking english? Why english? Why not french, german or Japanese? They have at least as many people from that countries. Ahh i forgot... you expect everyone, also the other people from other countries to speak english... I bet most of the ppl complaining dont speak more than one language. And even more live in Thailand without to ever think about maybe learn some words THai to not run into this situations?

I live here no soon 5 or 6 years together and for some reason never run into problems in a restaurant. WHy may that be? Because i took the time to inform myself of the country and the language of the place i choose to live in.

Its a shame....

I never had bad situations beeing Senior Production Manager for a nowadays well known fashion online-shop. People always treatet me with respect (as i did too) and it was more a friendly, family like atmosphere. But when given instructions they still did it without any delay or whatever. Im german, so what one cals a farnag. Not sure how they treat Malay people.

I think it depens a lot on yourself. ANd the company you work for. If you manage construction workers it will probably a different as when you manage a team of programmers.