Lemsta69

interesting. I was just going by what I read in some random website. it said that prawns and shrimp are different species and have different body shapes and egg-laying mechanisms. dunno what's really true, I was just having a laugh hence the winky at the end of my comment ???? here's the article. tl;dr both are very yummy grilled with chili and garlic sauce... https://www.10best.com/interests/food-culture/shrimp-prawns-different/

yep, always had a hankering to visit. but with a heap of money and a local guide/bodyguard. i expect it'll be a very long time before that itch is scratched, as you say one does not want to be a Westerner in Putin's Russia right now. even if he does shuffle off his mortal coil I'm not at all confident his successor will be any better.

being Aussie, I've long wondered what the difference between prawns and shrimp was. ever since the Paul Hogan "throw a shrimp on the barbie" tourism ad for the US market following his Crocodile Dundee rise to fame (we use the term prawn for both species). I decided to look it up a few months ago and apparently shrimp are exclusively salt water creatures but prawns live in fresh or brackish water. so maybe the young lady was on to something ????

thanks. I hope they put in some decent food stalls because i want to test the place out the next time I'm in Pattaya. no Thailand Pass needed right? ????

is that up and running yet? last time I went past was end of Jan and or was just the shell of the plane (747?) and nowt much else. is it an actual plane or just balsa wood ????

there was another user that suggested something similar and as you'd expect they were hit with a wall of FUD, so brace yourself for the nattering nabobs of negativity ???? I too am trying to unbank myself but it sure ain't easy. you still have to interact with TradFi at point some so it won't simply be a matter of rocking up to the 7-11 with your Ledger Nano and swapping a hundred sats for a tray of eggs. good luck and of course DYOR ????

nah mate, just calling out the bullies for what they are. kthxbye.

this is good advice. I'm not a very good driver so I ditched my license some years ago and use public transport or taxis to get around. there's not a chance in hell that I'm ever getting behind the wheel of a car or motorcycle here in Thailand.

my old man used to burn the leaves and fallen branches every couple of weeks. the stink was awful and mum used to go off at him big time. but the council didn't have a green waste collection service at the time, you had to go to the tip yourself and pay money to dump your cr@p and the old man wasn't having a bar of that. composting was too much work I guess, plus he seemed to take great pleasure in watching the piles of cr@p burning with a glass of red wine in one hand and a ciggy in the other. maybe it's the same here? ????

if the shoe fits, wear it. ps. I don't think you really understand the phrase I used but I CBF explaining the nuances.

I've already mentioned above, and in other threads that no, I sleepwalked through the SHIB and DOGE pumps and therefore missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime. I'm not a superhero investor like some on here claim to be / have been.

tl;dr

I use the term 'hater' kind of loosely but there's definitely a few in here that are anti-crypto purely for the sake of. some of them readily state that they don't understand even the basics but continue to put the boot in. it's rather tiresome but that's TVF for you ????

Jomtien is where you go for immigration stuff. real hard men stay in cheap digs in Soi LK Metro in good old Pattaya. i-rovers for breakfast or if that's too cheap for you it's only a short walk to The Sportsman on Soi 13. having said that, their pork sausage was a bit sub-par last time I went. but I'm Aussie so anything that's not a generic Astrayan snag impresses me ????

oh no ser, I missed the SHIB and DOGE pumps because I wrote both of them off as joke coins, much to my chagrin. but as I've mentioned in other threads I'm not a particularly savvy investor, nor do I make myself out to be the cock of the walk like some of the haters in here. random thought...if all the crypto haters in here are so successful at investing in TradFi then they'd be multi-gazillionaires by now. so what are they doing on such a lo-so platform as TVF?

agreed, TIT. pointless to get in too deep. hic sunt dracones.

LOL

bro, just enter visa exempt and go the agent route for a non-immigrant O visa plus extension. I did this myself in Patts in December, easy peasy.

I'll take a Bus over a Chaaaang. the latter ain't the same since the good old days of '97.

pffft. just pay the roi neung and move on with your life. only poor people and moralists worry about such trivial amounts ????

indeed I do. it's pure hate, no more no less. sounds like you might be a bit of a hater too. or just bitter and twisted because you didn't make a billion dollars on SHIB or DOGE ????

and at one point it was 9.75x up. savvy investors and people who are in on the pump and dump groups have been making an absolute killing on crypto. literally millions of dollars from nothing. tbh I'm neither of the two, all my gains have been through pure dumb luck. but at least I don't present myself as some kind of know-it-all like the haters on here. if they're so damn clever why didn't they ape into and out of say, SHIB and DOGE at the right time. then they'd be shouting us all Dom Perignon at a rooftop bar somewhere instead of whining about the price increase on a bottle of Beer Chaaang ????

haters gonna hate.

nothing personal but if you don't know which president bought the dip then you're really not worth talking to about crypto. kthxbye ????

Gold and silver should be banned because of all the environmental destruction and massive energy use that arises from the extraction and refinement thereof. as should cellphones (rare earth minerals), Aircon (global warming) and computers (e-waste). did I miss anything. I bet all the BTC haters have massive carbon footprints. as for our resident Wolf of Wall Street, what can I say? sounds like he mos def didn't buy $10K worth of SHIB at ICO and sell it all at ATH, despite being the greatest investor ever to walk the earth ????????????