nausea

It's not a Farang thing, i've never met a girl in the sex trade here who wasn't there voluntarily; in fact, quite a few have other less lucrative options, the accountant and the college girl spring to mind.

5 hours ago, DJ54 said:

That is a very true statement..... I had a safe that looked and felt rugged enough better than the hotel type. The lock function is a 

set of batteries inside the safe if the batteries fail you can unlock 

with a key you keep separately by taking of the center cap on lock.

 

Batteries stopped working and didn’t know where the key was. Looked at he manufactures website to see if any information on 

how to open. Nothing

 

Youtube I gave basic information of type and searched. Two videos

the second sounded corny and didn’t think it would work. Involved 

hitting the on top about the area of lock below...

 

ok tried it ..hit the top of safe with bottom of my hand.... it worked 

it took like 3 minutes

 

 

Thanks for that.  My birth certificate is in a similar safe at home in the UK, often wondered how I'd open it given I've forgotten the combination, lost the key, and the batteries, after 10 years, are no doubt f@#ked. Considered throwing it off the top of a high rise and seeing what happens; the youtube solution seems a lot more practicable.

A difficult one, complicated by the whole trans issue, when does a woman become a man or vice versa. As with disabled sports we probably need a third category - clearly male, clearly female, mixed. 

Yeah, the big question is was this a protest vote or a vote for remain. Should we get to the European Elections I guess we'll find out the answer. 

Yeah, hit just now, very pleasant; a bit late in the day, I spent most of the day in the shower. Shower, fan, shower fan. Nontanburi speaking by the way. 

The guy was no loser, that's for sure. I suppose only those close to him might have an inkling of what prompted this. Hopefully, there'll be a full investigation. I mean, did he go to the station specifically to jump, or was he en route elsewhere. On the surface, it all sounds highly suspicious, without knowing the ins and outs. Certainly, if I was going to commit suicide, jumping in a public place is the last option I'd choose, unless I wanted to make a statement.

From my reading of the original Thai article (google translate) he's still alive and they're waiting for his condition to improve to get the full story; also the English language article says "is stressed" and "is suffering", which would suggest he ain't dead.

14 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

Yes but on the other hand if he got away with it he would have been richer than his wildest dreams. It's a gamble some desperate people take.

Am I missing something? 30,000 bt?

Always wondered what the attraction was, as it seems ubiquitous here. Now I've found out, so I thought I'd share:

"You become more sociable… You enjoy music, cigarettes and sex more. In Bangladesh there's a very unhealthy association between yaba and sex - you're awake longer, you've got more energy, you feel more confident. If you stop using yaba, there are no withdrawal symptoms, it's not like alcohol or heroin. But it's the effects of yaba that are really addictive. It's a very, very dangerous drug."

As for me, I'll stick to cigarettes, and whiskey, and wild, wild, women - old stick-in-the-mud, me. Still, interesting I thought, worth sharing.

51 minutes ago, Crossy said:

and you know what it is.

Actually, having suffered ill-health myself, where all the various tests come out no problem, it's something. 

15 hours ago, yellowboat said:

Most Thai companies lack innovation. 

I agree, they're good at copying; I've yet to see anything Thai where they took something and improved it - Japan being the obvious contrast. As Picasso said - bad artists copy, good artists steal.

On 4/24/2019 at 3:29 PM, jollyhangmon said:

O well, pussies ...

Heat stroke is no joke.  Ask Lance Corporals Craig Roberts and Edward Maher and Corporal James Dunsby.

Basically, it doesn't really matter. Whether God exists or not changes nothing, for your individual moral decisions. Making a decision so you'll get everlasting happiness, is no different from the bankrobber getting a short-term gain from his crime.

Stop them coming, probably not; you have to be here a while, before you get that Thaivisa cynicism. Personally, I went from Stickman, to Ajarn, to Thaivisa. What I would say to the newbies, enjoy it while you can. You will eventually get to the Thaivisa cynicism. It ain't a good place to be. I would pose one question - if it's such an awful place why stay here? 

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The Thai tourist market is very resilient, but mark my words, the tipping point will come. They'd better have another plan in place when that happens. 

11 hours ago, Lungstib said:

Nothing more than an admission that income inequality is so high that something needs to be done. But not like this. The trickle down theory which has been suggested for several years just doesn't work, the rich just go on getting richer. The ordinary, poor Thai worker doesn't have a car to pack his/her family into and will not be spending money visiting the mountains and beaches. With 14 million people already on welfare this is nothing more than a smokescreen to suggest someone cares about the fifth of the country in poverty.

Yeah, I'm sure the old lady who picks through the trash every morning, will be thrilled by this. I guess, she's making plans already.

And infinitely more dangerous. The big plus about Western tourists is that they're here to have a good time, their chances of taking over the country are something between 0% and zero. History is repeating itself. Why do you think you can't own land or get citizenship, and it's nothing to do with your status as a Farang.

If you're gonna do a runner, then do it; don't muck about spending one last night in Bangkok. As a thought experiment I often wonder what I'd do if I got in deep sh#t. I think it'd be a race to the airport. One argument for carrying your passport and a credit card at all times, against the perceived wisdom. Swings and roundabouts really, you risk losing them cos you're taking precautions v. a very unlikely event; on the other hand, it happens.

We all know Facebook is a joke, the problem is that it's become so integral to modern life that it's difficult to live without it. Like, people think you're weird if you don't have a Facebook page, and rely on realtime connections; what are you hiding? 

I used to pay for the sauna in the UK, here I get it for free. What I can say is that heat bothers you more the older you get. Whereas before I welcomed it, now I have to shower, have two fans, and a water-sprinkler on top of the shack, for when it gets really hot. And going into the 7/11 can be a real treat. Air-con might come when my other two pensions kick in. Not sure that'd be a good thing, you're blood thins with the heat, making you better able to cope with it. Living in an air-con environment means you never get used to the heat here. As an aside, getting used to the heat means you walk slower and sleep a lot; good for us retired guys, not so good for the go-getters, dashing about and getting knocked over by motor-cycles coming from unexpected angles. 

Like this is a Thai thing. A&E the world over have this problem, in the UK certainly, in the US I think they brief their staff on various gang symbols.

2 hours ago, mikebell said:

I read this column every time.  Increasingly I am getting a little browned off at the autobiographical references.  I liked it best when the column was about Thailand not Rooster.

Writing a column every week must be a bit difficult, finding new stuff to interest the readers; the only guy I can think of to do this successfully was Jeffrey Bernard, and even he had to be unwell every now and then.