pattayadingo

Am I the only one to find 'Scum' in the topic disturbing?

There is nothing wrong with walking street when cash is wearing a hole in your pocket.

And when a swollen part of your anatomy is trying its best to make another hole between your pockets

O.K., I was due to fly (one way ticket) with Jet airlines the other day to Thailand for some fun, sun and other stuff.

I went to bed and developed severe stomach ache so got very little sleep. When I got up I realised I was not feeling too good. Maybe best not to travel. I phoned Jet in the U.K. to ask about getting an alternative date or cancelling the flight. Very short notice as I would be flying in under 12 hours time.

They gave me two alternatives. £400 to change the flight date (on a £308 flight at time of booking) or £193 refund if I cancelled. I told them I'd phone back.

I started to feel a little better. I decided to travel.

Train to London non-stop from York. Slept well. Felt even better. Tube from Kings Cross to Heathrow and pains started right hand side. Felt queasy.

After walking to check-in I felt reasonable again and checked in. After 30 minutes sitting, pains getting worse again and I opted to see an airport Paramedic. End result was he said I could not fly - that was fair enough, his decision. Ambulance called and I was taken to hospital.

Airport security went to Jet and cancelled my flight on medical grounds and to cancel my checked in baggage. Security told me they have a rule to put me on another flight when doctors say I cannot fly (better than £400 to change the flight).

Turns out it was acute appendicitis. Operated on and now sent home.

The point of the post?

Maybe I should have had travel insurance but in all my years of travel have never had any incident. Another point being is that I get a free transfer of flight and not have to pay £400.

Most of all I am so glad I asked to see the Paramedic. Imagine what might have happened say 2 hours into the flight if the appendix had burst or whatever (the surgeon did say it was a bad case after he opened me up and had a look). Also could have been very expensive to have hospitalisation and operation 'somewhere'. Or, heaven forbid, death.

And all from stomach ache the night before the evening flight.

See, you never really know what might happen.

Don't be so harsh. I liken it to a birth defect. The people you are referring to (notice I don't specify nationality) have a missing gene. It is called the "what if?" gene. i.e.:

What if there is a bus coming at us as I pass another bus at high speed on this blind corner?

What if a vehicle is coming down the lane I want to pull into without even looking?

and your example...

What if I spread jam on a piece of bread and then turn it on it's side or upside down?

Happens all around the world just seems to be an intense concentration of the defect in this general area...

Now aint THAT the truth. The missing "what if" gene. Yup, that's got to be it. I've got to remember that one.

I'm standing at the top of this high cliff... what will happen if I take two more steps forward?

And the Thai g/f / wife / etc., thinks, 'What If' I just push as he is looking over the balcony?

You Still There?

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yes

for the next 3 hours

After 01-00 here now and I cannot seem to find the time (and number) of the last bus to leave Swampy for Pattaya on an evening.

Anyone recall what time and number, please?

Thanks

A search on DuckDuckGo for campfire and basecamp helps with some base understanding but the OP needs to re-read the topic and maybe make things a bit clearer.

Maybe the Op's first language is not English and also that topic might be better off in the internet and computing section.

Hmmm, some of the posts here have me thinking a bit.

Odd really. In the U.K. and terminated relationships seem to be bitter and filled with acrimony. Yet here, I have had a couple of relationships that lasted a couple of years each and they still phone me and we remain friends. I am often told that if I need help all I have to do is call.

Reading some of the posts it may well be that they are genuine.

More on topic, I do feel people can have a decent and loving relationship here but that the rules are slightly different to what we might expect 'back home'. Maybe all it needs is some adjustment to our way of thinking?

Cheers. I'll take a look.

That is crazy. Even if there had been a meeting of any sort previously that is no reason to be shooting like that from moving m/c.

Maybe they need horses and some cowboy hats.

2 crimes...

Being a Yellow shirt apologist.

Being a Red shirt apologist.

Punishment?

Being forced to get on your knees and apologize......in front of a gang of ladyboys.

The sh*t some of them spout forth I think they should be on their knees behind the Ladyboys

2 crimes...

Being a Yellow shirt apologist.

Being a Red shirt apologist.

Punishment?

As the topic says. Are Tomato seeds available in Pattaya? Preferably the smaller cherry type tomatoes. I'd like to grow my own in hanging baskets.

Hahahaha.... some of you posters might have to clean your own apartments when the maids go back!!!

Maybe I might party on and on and....

When is Easter? I now just anticipate ( with trepidation) Songkran!

Good Friday is April 6th. Easter Monday April 9th.

He asked when it was Easter !! So ?

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When is Easter? I now just anticipate ( with trepidation) Songkran!

Good Friday is April 6th. Easter Monday April 9th.

Just out of curocity, is there any game hunting in Thailand, birds etc...?

Never heard about any hunters butwhat do I know?

From what I recall the King made an edict regards the killing of birds some years ago when they were in massive decline from being slaughtered. But I stand to be corrected on that.

Luckily for me the local Tesco are doing most of their eggs at greatly reduced prices. Some at 50% off. That means I can make a pig out of myself here and bring a couple back to feed to a certain young lady

Yum yum

One time when I was not at my best and getting really bad service over repeated repairs to my car that kept being bodged. I started to lose it. I started swearing and calling the mechanic and his garage Kwai and several other not so nice names in a conversation with the Thai friend I was with. He advised me not to ever say those things to a Thai or they would be very liable to report me to the police and I would be arrested and made to pay.

Maybe not quite defamation of character but as I understand it you can be arrested for calling some Thai Kwai to their face in front of others. It seems there is a need to take care.

Slightly cheaper at home. Beware, when giving a Thai foreign gold you might not receive the same gratitude as you may expect...

It can never be traded or sold in a Thai gold shop inside Thailand.

I'll agree and disagree here.

When I was a total newbie here in Thailand I bought a ring in the U.K. for a Thai woman I'd been with for a long time. That gold ring was not acceptable. It was not Thai gold and of course, Thai gold is much much better than other gold.

Yet when I took the ring to a gold shop he weighed it and made me a reasonable offer. So I sold it. much to the chagrin of the family. Yet they cannot have it all ways.

OP buy one here, keep the receipt too, you may need it.

That sounds like one of those joke e-mails you can have sent to people, especially if they have some personal data about you.

On the other hand as the blether says, do not reply because you are then on their mailing lists and making money for them.

You also have a 'spam' box

The Thai people I know or family of the current woman in my life refer to me by name.

I see Farang as a gerneric term. For example someone might talk to my g/f and say something along the lines of, 'I see you have a Farang boyfriend.' How is that derogatory? To me it means having a foreigner as a boyfriend. If we are out together some women might also refer to me as Farang but they do not know my name, so they use the word they find most suitable. After all they cannot say things like who is your boyfriend / husband or whatever because they may not know what our relationship is.

Farang can be meant badly in terms of speech depending on the context. In the same way I might see some white guy out with an asian woman and ask who is that asian bird you are with. That is not derogatory either.

I think you have serious problems here, OP. You appear more like Victor Meldrew than Meldrew himself. You need to learn to chill out. Go smoke some dope or whatever

I agree. If it's said as an insult then yes it is otherwise it seems OK to me. I sometimes hear young children use it particularly if it's an area where whites aren't often seen. I did hear it in Pakse, Lao from 2 0r 3 young kids who seemed quite excited. I was a bit surprised as there are so many westerners there.

When I used to go around villages many young children would turn to their mothers and shout, 'Farang!' and they would point and stare. Many of these children had rarely seen a white person before. In my mind that does not make them malicious or racists. I suppose if someone is sensitive they could take offence. On the other hand I thought it amusing and would wave to them.

In the 50's and 60's many English people rarely saw a coloured person outside the main cities so it was a novelty. Those people would stand and stare at this new, strange sight. We had all seen pictures of Africans, Aborigines, Pakistanis, Indians and others in books at school but to see one in real life was a rarity outside of that environment.

Also many called them for what we saw them as before these P.C. days came about because that was a generic term for their race.

If we really wanted to insult them we too knew how to do it in the same way a Thai can use terms that are meant to insult. I do not think we will change Thai attitudes with P.C. And I actually think it is refreshing that Thai people are as they are and not dictated to like we inthe U.K. are by those Liberal idiots.

The Thai people I know or family of the current woman in my life refer to me by name.

I see Farang as a gerneric term. For example someone might talk to my g/f and say something along the lines of, 'I see you have a Farang boyfriend.' How is that derogatory? To me it means having a foreigner as a boyfriend. If we are out together some women might also refer to me as Farang but they do not know my name, so they use the word they find most suitable. After all they cannot say things like who is your boyfriend / husband or whatever because they may not know what our relationship is.

Farang can be meant badly in terms of speech depending on the context. In the same way I might see some white guy out with an asian woman and ask who is that asian bird you are with. That is not derogatory either.

I think you have serious problems here, OP. You appear more like Victor Meldrew than Meldrew himself. You need to learn to chill out. Go smoke some dope or whatever

so if you where in your own country would they say who is the asian.. no they would not

Well, if they are asian and you do not know what country they are from what do we say?

If I saw someone I know with a blonde bird on his arm I'd ask him, ' Who is that blonde bit of stuff I saw you with?'

There is no point is simply asking who the woman was because he might have been with more than one. He might have been with a friend from work or a cousin or any other amount of women in the last week for example. So we use an adjective or several in the sentence. That way he woulkd know to whom I am referring.

So how can we post a cynical remark towards the Thai on this one ? Maybe they dont know the next letter ?

Hah will do followed by a Santa Claus ...... Hoh.