sandrew33

It’s not that much for a family holiday for the founding partner of a decent sized law firm. I mean I’d be shocked if he was making less than $1.2m per annum

News reports are that he was staying with his family

Well yes, and yet as I explained this is vanishingly rare from a massage in my experience and the experience of everyone I know. Hence me finding a drive by on much of the Thai massage sector unnecessary and driven by the need for clicks rather than anything much useful.

I think you’ll find there are several borders through which this chap could likely make a successful exit especially with willing financial backers.

The problem with content creation is that the need for new content is endless. There are many of us with 20+ years in Thailand between ourselves and our networks would have had tens of thousands of all manner of massages up and down Thailand (and in other even sketchier parts of Asia) and we’ve never seen anything like this. That skin irritation/infection can occur is obviously true anywhere but that’s not really the focus here. It’s about a content creator looking for a niche for content. No context, not especially useful but scary images and broad brush tars an entire sector. Because content must be created as those DTV’s aren’t going to fund themselves. Has anyone else noticed that much of the newer content is either just lazy stereotypes or, increasingly just negative nonsense like this?

In an unrelated matter I’m dying for a Red Bull 🙂

Bang Kwang is typically what people are referring to when they say the “Bangkok Hilton“ I’m surprised anyone who has spent any time in Thailand doesn’t know this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Kwang_Central_Prison

Yeah it’s only the Shins that are devisive and certainly not the absolute clown show that always finds a way to replace them right?

Bloodless sure but those who stand up against it and are then destroyed in other ways. And the people bear the cost of a country that never comes close to achieving its potential because of the endless power struggles.

This is frankly the boot licker view of the last election (hiding behind rhetoric). The young educated, the young poor and much of the middle are onboard with the PP notion that the countries method of government needs to be modernised. That’s why they got so much of vote in a fairly gerrymandered process. The LM assertions are just the old guard crushing modernity. Again. And so we ended up with the current sub par govt. Again. Change is long overdue.

They probably buy planes for their subs TBH 😉

This is both accurate and idiotic. If the tax is definitely being charged then not including it in the price is an idiotic approach/system. I do however agree that this is quite common and it’s unhelpful that the US does it, as others tend to follow suit. The approach in countries such as Australia where the price quoted is the actual price payable is by any measure the vastly superior one.

So nothing has changed, they’ve added some LTR visas that are easy to get but require higher income or assets? I mean this is one of the more poorly written articles I’ve ever read.

These are the package Chinese tourist that nobody wants. All Chinese owned and paid and little money to local economy. That Cambodia would allow itself to bent over some more by the Chinese for the inevitable sole benefit of the ruling family is no surprise and should be of zero interest or concern to Thailand. Cambodia has vastly less tourism infrastructure and they are targeting the budget tourists, maybe they can take some of the similar group of Indian tourists too? 🙂

This is largely just BS though. I’m Aussie and not anti vaccine but the Covid vaccination program has materially negatively impacted views of vaccines all around the world including the UK. See attached You are likely quite old and so even relatively mild respiratory illness is potentially an issue for you but let’s not say increasing lack of trust of vaccines and public health officials more broadly hasn’t been widespread - it’s far from only Americans - maybe at your age you are just out of touch with reality 🙂