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It's a no-brainer buy a new one from a reputable brand. With electrics in the bathroom, you shouldn't take any chances with.

It was a long time ago and most of my information was gained second-hand and he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer - maybe he went here without informing the authorities and got slapped down - I honestly don't know. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/advice/sex-offender-registration-information

He did/does and it's the gospel truth. I only found that out later as well - mildly underage girls rather than very young kids. Whatever he was a nasty piece of work and had a kid with a bar girl in Thailand but I believe after he did his time for this offence he couldn't travel here anymore.

Thailand has always screwed the poor that's why it's so cheap to live here relatively. As a quid pro quo though they should probably have just one price at the parks and attractions. After Covid virtually every counrty is in big trouble, half the councils in Britain are going bust as well as most of the public servies in one way or another so it's not surprising that every goverment is looking to shakdeown all the money that they can.

His time inside was for kiddy fiddling I believe apart from the fact he paid sod all and took as much as he could from the state.

Surely if they were to realise these ambitions and were still in a state of war with Russia - they would just get attacked by Russian missiles/drones or sabotage.

And a Russian pothead nearly drowned last night at Jomtien. The pot carnage continues....

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Probably thought because there was a senior Thai who did time in Australia for heroin smuggling he would be amongst friends.

Abu Dhabi has just laid out the red carpet including a flypast with Western jets to welcome Putin to the Kingdom. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/06/putin-makes-rare-visit-to-the-uae-saudi-arabia-to-talk-relations.html

I do believe that there is a cohort of the US electorate that will vote Trump in for a laugh. When I was at school we had an election for head of the 6th form and we voted in the class joker who was a recalcitrant rebel. He won by a landslide and then the headmaster basically annulled the election on the basis that he was unsuitable.

I knew a jobbing builder who spent a lot of time in Thailand, he worked for cash for most of his life and was on the sick for a bad back and depression and had done a spell at Her Majesty's Pleasure. He had a council flat in an outer suburb of London and was on pension benefit so his flat was paid for and had pretty much a full pension and still did odd jobs for cash. Was as white as you like and racist to his bone and spent 3 months whoring in Thailand whilst being the tightest person it was ever my displeasure to meet.

We need to have a coup to stop a coup - that or a "controlled demolition" ! A probable KGB person of influence is looking at a second term and pulling out of NATO scary stuff indeed.

I've gone from hating Trump to thinking if he wins it's going to be the greatest political sh1tshow ever with the Clinton's in jail and more. Real end of Empire sort of stuff. RIP USA.

He's trying to flog off this forum he can't be that stupid!

These 2 events were a severe wake-up call as to Iran's capabilities in the new era and the US projection of hegemonic power. They put long-range missiles onto a US base with pinpoint accuracy defeating AD systems on a US military base and setting 5% of their oil reserves on fire. Then add Russia to the mix with satellite intelligence off the scale of mad. Cheap drones are a real game changer - Ukraine has been the theatre where a lot of lessons will have been learnt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Martyr_Soleimani https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq–Khurais_attack Oil would go to the moon and global economies would crash. Buy gold now if you think that could happen expensive as it is.

I almost didn't believe that then I looked it up.Bleedin' hell - what should we carry to the beach just in case such an event was to occur? https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-016-1931-8

Thanks but not to worry she does all the money side of things in Thailand I just do due dilegecne asking you excellent gentlemen for your collective wisdom. Much appreciated. The banking cartels here rob the peole dry. In the UK I'm getting 5% interest on easy acess with Tandem app only bank and commercial interrest rates are around 6% so roughly 1% is their cut. In Thailand I think they are charging similar for loans and giving at best 1.5% - a hefty cut indeed.

A sneaky way of selling it - she was with the teller for a long time whiklst I sat at the back playing with my phone and initially she was convinced it was the 10% annual. In the UK this would be rank miselling but then TIT !

<coughs> smoke !

It is when you have the rose-tinted spectacles on and a peg on your nose. It's the Ryan Air of cheap places to live - you wanted cheap and you got cheap but don't complain because it's cheap. We bought a condo in Jomtien so I'm invested but only for 3 months of the year - that's enough. It ticks all the boxes though - cheap condo, cheap transport, close to the airport plenty of markets and malls and plenty of your home folks to talk to when you need to. But if my wife wasn't Thai I would never consider it. Just too hot, too dirty and too mono-cultural. There are only so many cover bands playing the hits that I can take before going mad!

Lovely thanks for the answers will do.

Just that point in the question - when we were here last year I saw some on Thepprasit Road and it seemed like a useful thing to have to save carting around loads of heavy water bottles. Should add beer to that supplier as well for good cheer !

It's a shame particularly since they will be smoked out terribly up there. A lot of them are very woke and can't stand to see in your face prostitution but if Pattaya falls then so does Thailand.

Hats off to Dan he talks Pattaya up and is right about the direction of travel for the wider area so what if he riffs along and gets somethings wrong? Starting to see some young and healthy looking digital nomads who realise that it is a good cheap hub to work out from.