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13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

And that just about sums it up.  A 1,000 page thesis could not explain our current state of idiocracy more completely.

In another thread I offered to eat my flip-flops if 2022 incoming tourists reach 2 million.

I'm raising the stakes and am now offering to slam my personal appendage in a car door - repeatedly.

Am I the only one that confuses swedes with turnips?

Maybe it's just me, but I'm unable to notice if they're driving drunk or not.  They don't seem to drive any differently.

Maybe they found a floater.

On the other hand, necessity being the argument of tyrants and the creed of slaves, it is only appropriate that the tyrants and slaves follow their natural inclination.

The tyrants rope off the pool because they can, and the slaves keep out because they must.

Apologies to William Pitt (the younger) for plagiarism.

Maybe Thailand will revert to a modern day system of feudal serfdom......oh wait!

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

More important, I'd be asking if she were such a good catch how come, at 40, she's single?

And the answer is usually one or more of,

1. drowning in debt,

2. a nightmare to live with,

3. mentally ill,

4. frigid,

5. unlucky in love.

I've not yet encountered a 5., but there must be a few.

Not to mention her children......

He should just ask her.  Thais are not generally backward in coming forward about money (or lack thereof).

They need to know the pecking order so the wealthiest person is the one that pays the restaurant bill.

In fact she'll probably consider it an insult that he hasn't asked her yet.

I just had a vision of these dudes calling a Grab delivery rider (on a fossil fueled scooter) to deliver a replacement battery to them when inevitably the amps run out and they are marooned.

It's a bit like unwrapping your Christmas present to discover an over ripe banana.

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Used to see many sun-baked foreigners in Tesco, often wearing a Chang singlet, with Baan Nok Thais in tow throwing anything they want into his trolley. This breed has largely become extinct, much to the dismay of the Buriram Nois. 

Seriously, I don't think referring to the Chang singlet wearing sun-baked foreigners gives us the overall image of the true breed. 

I think we need clarification as to the size of their beer belly, their relative level of baldness, and if their knuckles did or did not drag on the ground.  

26 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Yesterday I went to a Lotus's , a former Tesco's , I had not been

there for a few months , and was shocked and surprised , lots

of the small shops in the carpark area and inside had given up, also

2 large book stores ,Black Canyon , gone ,not looking good for

the Thai retail sector , and it's not over by far. This was in Chiang Mai ,

same happening in your areas ? 

 

regards Worgeordie 

Same happening in Pattaya.  The government for years have under estimated the trickle down effect of tourist spending. They are too xenophobic to admit that although they begrudgingly have stated it may be "up to 20%", in reality they knew it was more like 30-40%.  

If you count the multiple times every dollar sourced from overseas passes through a Thais hand, the trickle down effect is huge.  That means that while the immediate impact can be seen and felt in the businesses dealing directly in accommodation and hospitality, the wages and profits that would otherwise be sourced from these industries have dried up and cash is not for discretionary purchases.

The discretionary spending of the bottom 50% of Thais has disappeared.  Whatever money they have is spent on basic survival and to some extent the food supply and necessity spending of Thais lays within it's own circular economy and the same limited money supply circulates within it.  That closed economy does not include medium retail or anything remotely related to discretionary spending.

The one exception being phone shops.