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You would think it would be at the top of the list of Thailand choices ("B" for "Bangkok") but it's not, you have to look down at the bottom of that list.

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It is just as unlikely and improbable that a bird struck the windshield of the flight deck causing it to shatter and the two pilots to be sucked out of the airplane.

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Hahaha...at any rate, sudden decompression of an aircraft does NOT automatically cause all objects (and people) in the plane to be instantly "sucked out"...that's something invented by Hollywood, kids.

Haha, yeah, they cover you anywhere in the world...AT THAI HEALTH CARE RATES!! Read the fine print.

Great insurance in Thailand, I used them for years. But worthless outside the country. Unless you can find a hospital room in YOUR country that goes for $60 a night, hahaha... etc.

Oh dear a Thai talking to westerner like this how dare they, the should be kowtowing down at your feet saying "yes boss" you littered dear boy and were called on it

As regards "I am a big guy and can handle myself" grow up you silly man, you will not be so big if you have 10 of them coming at you to beat the sh*t out of you

All over a piece of cucumber.... Grow up, how petty

Please don't feed the troll...this is exactly the kind of response the OP is looking for. Do a search on his topics/posts and you'll get his number fast. It's simple: ignore these types, and they go away. They live for attention and "controversy".

i am referring to those IN pattaya and those IN bangkok

simple enough

No, that's not "simple" at all. What POSSIBLE qualities do you think could be generalized to women who migrate from various parts of Thailand to Bangkok, as opposed to women who migrate from various parts of Thailand to Pattaya? And remember, we're not talking about sex workers here--because we're not allowed to.

End result: you're being ridiculous and wasting bandwidth.

Can be difficult to find a good complete massage in Thailand.

I have a bad back and sometimes want real help!

90% of the time these Thai girls start massaging the toes and slowly work their way up.

They usually don't get above the waist!

Feels good, but doesn't help the back much!

Unless this is a joke post, you're simply not going to the right places. Legitimate traditional Thai massage is plentiful in every town of any size in Thailand and very easy to identify. No. 1: PRICE. The Thai price for 2 hours of TTM is between 200 and 300. No. 2: LACK OF PRIVACY. Massage is done in a large room , curtains open (except when you're changing, by yourself), with multiple other massages going on nearby. No. 3: With very, very, rare exceptions, the masseuses are, how shall we say this, NOT women you would consider doing anything sexual with in a million years. Young cute girls go into sexual massage; unattractive older women do TTM. Almost to a person.

I second that...if you're not in a hurry, PayPal works like a charm, and is by FAR the cheapest method. Yeah, you get shaved a little on the exchange rate, but that's true with any electronic bank transfer as well.

I send money (several hundreds of USD) to Thailand every month using PayPal; costs me about 1.50 USD to send $300. Just have to wait 3-4 days for the (free) transfer from my regular bank to PayPal, it goes to my friend's Thai PayPal account instantly, then my friend has to wait about 4-5 days for the (free) transfer to their Thai bank account.

Thanks dude. Does the recipient have to have a PayPal account to receive the money? Been a while since I used Paypal...

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Yes, the people on both ends have to have PayPal accounts linked to the bank accounts in their respective countries.

You need a bank account on both ends to take advantage of the cheaper (for larger amounts) regular bank SWIFT wire transfer. And it can take 2-5 business days to clear.

WU takes a hefty amount but is instant, just need the correct name to match ID and the transaxtion number they give you.

For something like 6,000 baht how much would they charge?

Tiny money like that you're better off setting up PayPal - but that takes time

I second that...if you're not in a hurry, PayPal works like a charm, and is by FAR the cheapest method. Yeah, you get shaved a little on the exchange rate, but that's true with any electronic bank transfer as well.

I send money (several hundreds of USD) to Thailand every month using PayPal; costs me about 1.50 USD to send $300. Just have to wait 3-4 days for the (free) transfer from my regular bank to PayPal, it goes to my friend's Thai PayPal account instantly, then my friend has to wait about 4-5 days for the (free) transfer to their Thai bank account.

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As for the 2 altercations, wrong place wrong time, I guess as I am only small I look like easy prey. Drugs, the place has become rife with meth and ice,even in Isaan.

So, that "huge German" who threatened you was an Isan ice or yaa baa drug dealer, huh? That's a new one... I gotta say, from what you've written so far, the part of you that sounds really "small" is your brain...

they have tazers in patpong night market with up to a million volts but they are not law enforcement style

where the prongs shoot out a few metres

they are the type you need to be close enough to touch someone with

some are even disgusied as mobile phones etc but of course made in china and nobody knows their exact voltage

also worth remembering is if you shock someone they could hit the ground and die from head hitting concrete which would

leave you in a world of legal shit

whats wrong with a good old fashioned kick in the balls ? it works in any language...english ,thai ,chinese ,german,russian etc

Yeah I already have a couple I just bought for novelty reasons. But they are (obviously) not the "REAL" thing. The unit I am looking at is about $1500 I think. As for the kick, I want to take it out BEFORE it is a threat thanks, I'm getting older and heal slower. It doesn't matter how good you are there is ALWAYS someone better !! If they hit their head well I'll take my chances the intent was not their to kill them and it would be self defence. These units are all but impossible to use in a crime when you fire them they "spray" coded micro dots everywhere which can be traced back to the owner of the weapon. These are not toys !!!

Hence, can they be licensed as you can with a firearm?

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Several posters have already told you that they CANNOT be licensed as firearms. So why do you persist? Are you really so stupid as to plan on zapping a Thai body with 1,500 volts of electricity and think there will be no repercussions? And are you really so daft as to think, in a country where people LOVE to pin things on farangs (even when it's not our fault), that you're going to "get off on self-defense" if you [very likely] seriously injure or kill someone?

Furthermore, you put up a post like this on a forum where it is expressly forbidden to encourage or discuss committing illegal acts. I'm surprised the moderators have let the post live this long.

Another responder suggested you learn to kick people. I've got an even better one: learn to WALK AWAY. Or if that fails, RUN. That's what I do, and I'm 2 meters tall and 100 kg. And at any rate, I've only had ONE near-altercation in over 14 years traveling to/living in Thailand. And that one was quickly solved by my going to a bouncer in the club I was in and notifying him of the runt (a farang) trying to start a fight with me. Those bouncers are trained in muay Thai and LIVE to pummel a farang. Make use of them. (I assume from your description of your two altercations, you frequent places where males are drunk and rowdy).

So give up your plans for illegal activity in Thailand. It will only come to no good end.

The first two can only be used in reference to living beings; the third one can only be used in reference to inanimate objects or abstract concepts.

You address the forum as if everyone is one person and thinks the same.

Can you post an example of this alleged racism ?

Well, I can post an example of the classic opening to a troll post: "I am just curious why do some of you or maybe most of you..."

Please, don't take the bait!

Edit: oops, that's what I get for reading a post from the beginning and replying to one of the first replies...this nonsense has gone on for 3 pages now? I guess it's too late for my "don't take the bait" advice, sigh...

For legumes in Thailand, go to Indian groceries; all kinds, dirt cheap. Pahurat has tons, also a good one on Sukh soi 16. Thais only eat legumes in desserts.

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You must be kidding. What planet do you live on? This is Thailand. If you want to pay premium prices for Thai food that does not taste like Thai food should, go to any 5 star hotel here. You want authentic food, go to a street stall.

Get a life.

Seriously, most Thais don't even go to street Stalls unless incredibly poor. The stalls are disease factories & not recommended by the educated Thai. The Stalls are there are mainly for the tourists. Many a restaurants outside of tourist areas have good Thai food & of course stay clear of any Redlight areas for the best quality. Though can see the short lived or short researched here can think food stalls represent the country's base.

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You are SO wrong. So many Thais--including middle class Thais--eat a huge number of their meals every week at street stalls, and so go out of their way to eat at specific, well-known street stalls. They're one of the greatest things about Thailand!

Apologies to the OP for encouraging/contributing to this guy's attempts at thread-hijacking, but I just couldn't let that one go...

In all languages, the words we use in intimate contexts are the same ones we use to hurt and offend. Think about bedroom room talk with your lover, "I'm gonna &lt;removed&gt; you so hard," etc., versus walking up to some huge, muscled, tattooed lug in a Pattaya bar and saying "&lt;removed&gt; you!" Or calling your daughter "honey," versus addressing an adult female you don't know that way. Human communication is all about context, the language doesn't matter.

Yes, definitely make sure you have Thai selected as an input source. You also might want to try Libre Office or Neo Office (free Word-replacement word processing programs)...but you really shouldn't have to. Make sure the fonts you downloaded are in the Fonts folder in the Library for the user you're logged in as, too.

Well, there's a strong neo-Nazi element among the Ukraine protesters. So the fascist protesters in Thailand have THAT in common with them...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100260665/ukraine-the-opposition-arent-all-angels-some-are-neo-nazis/

You should not analyze Thai words by what it's made up. Words containing ขี้ does not necessary mean it'll be an impolite word just because it contains this word which would normally by itself mean "excrement".

Would you for example say that ขี้เกียจ is impolite because it also contains ขี้??

I also see that you've simply looked up the word "whine" in the dictionary and got ครวญคราง.

I also did that before my first reply, ครวญคราง isn't really used in day to day speech.

Can you provide any examples of a 'positive' verb prefixed by ขี้ or are you just peed off because you got it wrong?

Mole didn't get anything wrong. You implied--quite wrongly--that the construction using ขี้ was somehow "impolite" *because* of the presence of ขี้ (where the heck did you get that?!) and Mole (a native speaker of Thai, in case you're forgetting) ably proved you wrong.

Deal with it, put your tail between your legs and scurry away, why don't you? Don't hang around and be a คนขี้หาเรื่อง or a คนขี้บ่น...which, by the way, is a very common spoken (and written) Thai phrase which I have heard many times.

Facebook? What percentage of the Thai population look at Yingluk's facebook page each day, or any day for that matter? Is television address out of fashion?

Her profile has 2.2 million likes, and each post she makes gets 10s to 100s of thousands of likes, not to mention comments. I think you need to get out more

How long are the files, total? If 5 minutes or under, I'll do it for $30 USD, via Paypal. If more, we can negotiate. PM me.

Don't walk down the street without ringing a bell, and shouting "unclean... unclean..."

Get real, there is no danger from HIV. I am astounded by ignorance in 2014!

Exactly...my two questions to the OP are: "oh, are you planning to have sex with him?" and "are you planning to get a blood transfusion from him?" If the answer to the above two questions is "no," then even if he is HIV+ (which, btw, is still a huge assumption on your part, at this point, and nothing else), then you're being ridiculous in your "worries"...

Hmm. This never happens in the US. My trips to Thailand regularly go 5-6 weeks, and I've never had this issue come up. When I used to live in Thailand, and would sometimes fly from the US on a one-way ticket, I got questioned a couple times (on the US end), but luckily I always fly Asian-based airlines, so the young and cute check-in staff were easily charmed, heheh...

Don't know where Ratchada is, if it's not in BKK, they may give you a quote instead. Always tell the driver to turn on the meter right when you get in, if he refuses, tell him to stop the car and get out, take another one.

3rd (departure) floor or the ground floor - doesn't matter you can get overcharged anywhere if you're naive, the only difference is that on the 3rd floor you don't need to stay in the line up and you don't pay airport fee (they still may ask you to pay it though).

Hint: If you go to the 3rd floor, don't take a cab that stays there waiting for someone to come out (there will be few even though they're not allowed to wait there), talk to a driver that just dropped someone off. Those drivers also are more likely to refuse turning on the meter.

You don't know where Ratchada is?! Seriously? Or are you saying the taxi driver didn't (100% impossible)??

No I don't know and don't care as it's not one of the areas that I ever visited.

As been already said, I don't need to know Bangkok to know how to get a taxi and not get scammed.

End of discussion.

haha...NO. The discussion is over when *I* say it's over!! Learn some respect.

While it is true that if one applies general world traveler principles (i.e. never get in a stationary taxi except at an official queue; if meter is normal in the country you're traveling, insist on meter use, etc.), one is much less likely to get scammed, it is also a no-brainer that THE BETTER YOU KNOW THE CITY IN WHICH YOU ARE TRAVELING, THE LESS LIKELY THE DRIVER IS TO TRY TO RIP YOU OFF. I mean, duh!

I would also add that, in Thailand, if one speaks Thai well, one will never even encounter taxi drivers TRYING to scam one, let alone actually get scammed. If you travel to Bangkok frequently, 1) know the city and 2) know Thai...or risk being called an idiot.

NOW the conversation is over. BTW: I was directing my incredulity in my previous post much more at the fact that a taxi driver wouldn't know where Ratchada was, and not you...but since you decided to be a smartass, you paid the price.