cbluck58

Smart - I love it !!

The purpose of the post was to enquire about pleasant experiences not to start a chain about the dangers of cigarettes but then that is the nature of reformed smokers - only too quick to let everybody know what outstanding human beings they are because they have managed to quit.

They forgot the golden rule of scamming in Thailand - the cops get theirs first...

Tragic because it was avoidable - I use ferries a lot in LOS and am also a professional seafarer - I look in complete horror at the inspection dates stamped on the life saving appliances such as lifejackets, life rafts etc. as they are invariably at least several years out of date

The Pak Bara - Koh Lipe ferry lifejackets are still in their plastic bags......

The responsible authorities need to be very much more vigilant in enforcing safety standards if they are to avoid further incidents of this kind.

You will almost certainly be asked to produce your return ticket and likely be refused if it is 30+days from your arrival with no visa.

You can get a visa same day in Hull.

Asian Tigers - not cheap but very good.

Lucky you didn't get hit up for more than a paltry 5800 THB - you need your brain tested.....

Very sad indeed - unfortunately due to the culture of blame, far more attention will be devoted to finding a scapegoat than to the welfare of the victims and their families.

Ah yes - the Germans - only recently been taken over by the Americans as the least popular nation on the planet ......... Alles klar Herr Commissar !

It has to be said that it does make a change from a lot of the mundane stuff we get posted but it is still a load of old cobblers..

even better - tell them to stay at home !

Wait and see - the do-gooders have made the world into a place where right thinking people's opinions no longer prevail.

The idea of castration is a waste of everyone's time - he should just be taken out back , shot like a dog and left in a dumpster.

This of course will not happen....

Good job they weren't smoking or they would have been pixelated out...

No medical required - been on retirement extensions for years and no checks of any kind to my knowledge.

The worst thing that has happened in the LOS over the last five years or so - Russian tourists.

NO the whole nation is afflicted with foriegners who dont and cant understand their culture and their ways and are intolerant of same.

Live and let live, chill out, it doesnt last that long, "mai pen rai". And remember "these people" allow you to enjoy their country.

This is bollucks - consideration for others is not a cultural issue , it is a human issue... by the way use a spell checker.

Seems to me that if you have paid up your NI contributions, they have no case with which to refuse treatment.

Been there , seen the elephants, been ripped off - there are better places to see elephants.

In any case, the Asian elephant is nowhere near as impressive a the African fellow..

I don't think that this guy would have been in a Farang Bike Club - yet again the anti-biker rants previously seen on this site are wrong.

It tastes like shit but you stand the spoon up in it for a few hours....

It is just as bad at the airports and in planes - what is difficult to understand about ' remain seated ' or ' please board rows 12-30 first ' - they even announce it first in Thai and then in English .

Also , it is not just Thailand it is the whole of Asia.

If the attitude of the Thai people you have been in contact with upsets you there is a simple solution - take your stamp collection and piss off home....

I used to go over every diving season without fail but have now diverted my attention to other, quieter, safer places - my children now dive and I don't need them exposed to places like Patong right now.

It is a tragedy really because it used to be such a great place.

Greed is really one of the least attractive attributes of the human race.

You are not going to win that's for sure.

It is not a question of Thais trying to bloody minded , it is just that they are completely unaware that this type of noisy activity disturbs other people.

If you were the one grinding , your neighbour would simply sleep through it and so he, quite naturally, expects you to be able to do the same.

I have been out here since 1984 and it has always been like that.