bender92

I had the same problem and I noticed that about half the people needed to get another copy done once they reached the desk. The ladies at the copy places know what to copy, just tell them what you are applying for.

Making "a stand" about something, especially something as inconsequential as pricing, is never a good idea in Thailand, especially if you're drunk. I would say you were lucky and hopefully you know better now.

Funny enough I don't regret it, but it won't happen again.

I already said I was lucky, so don't need you to say it again.

You were really lucky.

All business is not done in cash here. Only the crooked business.

I bought my car via a bank transfer. I pay my rent via a bank transfer. I pay my utility bills via bank transfers and it was buying a property here it would be with a cashier's cheque made out to the vendor and crossed a/c payee. And if I couldn't do that then I wouldn't do it at all.

A cashier cheques here are not the same as in other countries !

I just tell you what is going on !

I also think it is total crazy, but even some of the real big companies do it that way !

Maybe a lot of it is tax fraud, but for sure most is because people don´t trust each other.

Most car companies does not accept cashier cheques, i seen that, i tried that, but i took the car salesman to the bank and gave him the money there, then i not have to go anywhere with them 5555 !

I call bullsh!t KBAA. I just bought a new car and was TOLD to get a bank check payable to them.

Just curious how so many ThaiVisa members know so much about how everyday business is done by Thais. Most members have limited experience, usually consisting of 7-11, paying rent on their room, beer bars and Tesco Lotus. If you don't have facts then don't present it as fact. Just because you say it or think it, doesn't make it true.

I tried to give a bar girl a check once....

I talk to many Thai women who moved from Isaan to Phuket to get the meager jobs doing massage and prostitution on the side (sorry, it's not such a hidden fact). They spend 14 hours going on a bus to Bangkok and then onward to their villages in Isaan. They can't get jobs they say back in their part of the country, so they must resort to leaving children and family behind and selling themselves for such low wages. This is one disenfranchised group in Thailand that should at least be addressed and helped, and by providing high speed rail to these areas so these people can begin and attempt to get out of the poverty and prostitution and exploitation, at least the Populist-leaning PM can begin to change the lifestyle of the impoverished in these exploited parts of the Thai population.

Add short time rooms on the new trains, 2 problems solved at once!

Maybe they can convert the busses into hot dog stands, or is there a hot dog mafia in Phuket?

If not, there soon would be!

For me, the only thing surprising about this is that it got as far as it did. I would've guessed that the tuk-tuk/taxi guys would have crushed it long before this point.

No, because someone made a lot of money selling the buses to the city. We know and they know, the bus service will not happen.

Men who patronize prostitutes are supporting a system of abuse of trafficked women and children. Think about it.

Miss Pirich?

Pro-nounced....per-rick

That orange and white one looks rather modernesque.....presume the orange end is the handle.

The handle is white, the small prong is for anal, the big prong is for vagina.

So it took the Chinese for action to be taken. THAT is worth noting.

No action was, nor will be , taken.

Thai's, Chinese Thai's, and Chinese, all superstitious and believe it is okay to kill indiscriminately whether rhino, tiger or elephant for their beliefs. Make the law severe enough to stop the poachers or it will simply continue. We all know about the 'education' aspect, but that won't happen. Ignorance is bliss.

I agree the poachers should be punished, but in cases like this and the protected wood and drug shipments, it is the little guy who gets caught and the real bosses never get named.

Here is the lunch menu for each day.

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/en/2012/03/02/7-days-7-themes-lunch-at-edge-restaurant-hilton-pattaya-2/

I think that I have been in the sun too long....I have spent 5 precious minutes reading this thread....

Time to get into the garden I think

My problem always seems to be getting rid of one baht coins......those I sellotape together in 10 bahts....and am still embarassed trying to spend them

"That cofirms it" now I have wasted more time by replying

Why are you embarrassed? Small shops love one baht coins for making change.

Give a B20 note to the Baht bus and wait for the change?

Do you do that regularly? That would be my last resort but yes that's the best option if you don't have change. I kind of feel you didn't get the gist of the OP to even ask that question though.

Works every time for me, never had the guy drive off. Just buy a motorbike.

"THIS IS GYM MUSIC and if I do not like it I can train elsewhere."

He is right, you can stay home or go elsewhere. Music helps keep up the pace, and covers the sound of my farts when doing situps.

What do you expect from a country full of over 60 million people who don't know that a world exists beyond their borders and who generally despise non-Thais? Nothing new here for those of us who live here. Let the 2 week tourists be surprised.

funny you should say that.....I went to a country...250 million people or so..... that didn't know that a world existed outside their border...or even outside their home state....now...what was it called...United States of something or other.

Get your facts straight, it's 300 million people. But actually I don't find that the average European that I meet is any more worldly than they average American or Thai that I meet.

I stand corrected...300 million people. Thanks for pointing that out. Agree with your comments re European ...can be levelled at any ethnic group in my opinion.

320 million now

Oh, the hitler thread again. Whoopee. All we need now is a thread full of raging farang complaining about being called farang and our day will be complete.

Yesterday a couple of Thai kids laughed as I went past them and when I asked them why they laughed they replied because you are farang that looks like Hitler. House is on the market, car on the market and I'm leaving and going back to UK.

Maybe you should shave that little mustache.

Two guys sharing a room and a bed, must be good friends.

Lovers' quarrel???

Note to would-be apartment renters; if not installed already, ask the landlord to install a fire extinguisher or two, especially in these multi-level units. You wouldn't expect any less in a hotel or in your homeland.

I've never seen a fire extinguisher in a US hotel. Sprinkler system more likely.

Integrity required...

The whole of Thailand is watching ...

For once can the justice overcome fame and wealth?

Failure, in this case, is not an option.

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Another fellow who drove into a bus stop and killed someone just got off.

I have often wondered how many accidents are caused by baht buses.

Here you have hundreds of vehicles on the road constantly slowing quickly

and swooping over to pick up a fare. Thus pretty easy to run into the

back of them.

Never drive on the left side of any bus.

Did the pictures show that he was doing bad things? I do not think so, he is over 90. Did anyone of you had a booner at 93? Who knows about computers at that age?

Where is smoke there is fire.

I think it's an money issue again.

People over 90 can have sex. They can also use Viagra.