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7 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

That's his last holiday for a while... 

He will be getting free accommodation, breakfast included.

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Drinking at work also common, my editor used to drink a bottle of whiskey every day, bottle always on his desk in the newsroom. Taking cocaine at work, also common.

Way back when I worked overseas my boss would walk around at 6.45am at work with one of those big plastic mugs that had a sealable-top on. It was full of whisky & coke. Because he was the boss he could get away with it.

8 hours ago, ericthai said:

those people are called alcoholics just like someone that needs to smoke all the time is a drug addict. 

Normal people dont go to work and drink or smoke. 

 

Back in the 80's smoking (tobacco) at work was very common. In fact in the 80's people seemed to smoke EVERYWHERE!😊

1 hour ago, ericthai said:

so because someone smokes you think they will smoke at work too?? do you think people that drink are drinking at work??  This is the stupidest post I've seen. 

I've  worked with people who drink at work.

There are people campaigning in the UK to have cannabis classified as a class A drug. One of the main reasons being stated is that it induces psychosis in some users.

Just now, Spock said:

You misunderstood me. I too have to get repeat prescriptions, but the quantity prescribed lasts me 3 or 4 months. I wouldn't imagine you are getting prescriptions on a monthly basis?

Ah ok, I see what you mean.

Mine are every 2 or 3 months. Heart condition.

Just now, Spock said:

I get my medicinal weed in Australia through a pharmacy, but the scripts are for 5 or 6 lots of 10mg, with a 30 gm limit per month. I suspect the 30gm a month limit is what will apply in Thailand when weed goes medicinal. Forcing people to get a monthly prescription would be ridiculous as the condition for which it is being prescribed will not change month to month.

I have to get a repeat prescription for my meds in the UK, and my medical condition hasn't changed.

It would seem that many non-users don't like the smell of it wafting around public places. It's a 'pungent' and not very pleasant smell. In the UK recently a colleague complained that he could smell it when his neighbours were smoking it (in their back garden).

(I'm not virulently anti-drugs, I've had a smoke a few times before, partly out of curiosity, quite pleasant).

5 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

I was expecting Nana 4, but not.

Soi 23 (Soi Prasarnmit) is to Soi Cowboy pretty much what Soi Nana is to Nana Plaza.

In the day time I quite like that soi, plenty of shade trees, and some OK expat pubs. (I used to send my 90 day report from the Post Office there too).

😊

On 6/13/2025 at 12:10 AM, watchcat said:

 

All cars can't be Ferrari red.

Red,  green, black. Also, there are so many amazing colours for cars today. Battleship-grey seems V popular in the UK!😪

5 hours ago, factual monk said:

The monk who sold his ferrari...

😆 🤣 😂 😹 

A Mickey-monk, lots of 'em about!😁

Lambo's are beautiful cars, but why do they seem so often to be finished in such awful colours!?

27 minutes ago, loong said:

 

I didn't say that I have never heard of them. I said that I didn't really know what they were. I see them referenced in stories such as when poor students survive on ramen noodles, Th's why I wondered if they were something like Mama noodles.

 

The place, as well as the food that you show photos of does not appeal to me at all, so no, I would not pay 300 Baht for a bowl of noodles.

Maggi brand noodles in S E Asia.

4 hours ago, jaywalker-2 said:

Come to Florida where there is a State 6% sales tax + a local 1% county tax, plus an "expected" 15-20% tip. If the bill is $20 USD...just call it $30.

 

How do people afford a plane ticket if they are that cheap?

 

Saving 20 baht on every meal????

 

 

It's not really about the 20 Baht, but that it seems as though the advertised price is misleading.  In the UK it tends to be the price you see is the price you pay.

I remember often seeing beer advertised as 99++ Baht in Bangkok.

Over the years I heard quite a few people say that they wouldn't go in a place if they saw "++" on their advertising board. In the UK we're used to 'the price you see is the price you pay'.

Just pay an agent XX,000 per annum, no problemo?

10 hours ago, save the frogs said:

finally a bulgarian in the news.

 

i didnt even know that was possible.

 

some of world's best hackers are from that part of the world. 

 

Some years ago it was reckoned that many of the best IT people come from Russia.

4 hours ago, happydreamer said:

SEAsia is possibly one of the worst places in the world to mess with drugs....for reasons ranging from penalties to poor quality.  In a land of fakes and knock offs just why?  I dont even trust the weed here. 

As an old British friend used to say "In Thailand, everything's bent" (crooked).

11 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

I lived on the Kao San Rd in 1990 for a year. 50 baht a week, no AC and the walls didn't reach the ceiling. It was a fun place then but I believe it's been sanitized now. In those days you could buy all sorts including H. The Hello bar was open all night till 4 or 5 in the morning; plus it was full of girls; Thai girls AND the peripatetic European and American girls. It was a rocking joint. I'm not surprised to hear of these unfortunate & sad deaths. In my day it was about 45 ODs a year on the KSR.  It just goes to show that things don't really change.

Apparently nowadays some heroin is cut with Fentanyl.

5 minutes ago, pacovl46 said:

Not only has coke a different color than coke, unless it was China White, but it also tastes completely different. A little taste beforehand goes a looooong way. 

I thought that China White was heroin?

(Or "Golden Brown" as in the song).

I know of an American guy who lives in Bangkok who admits to "slinging dope" (heroin) when he lived in Philadelpia. I've long suspected that people who get in trouble over illicit drugs in Thailand were involved in them in some way or other where they come from.

1 hour ago, connda said:

This is old news.  Seen it before.  Don't do drug cocktails.  If you die, it's your own stupidity.  

Sorry mom.  At 36 your kids are full grown adults.  There are consequence to actions.  Like death. Your kid f'ed up.  Other 30 somethings will come to Thailand and do the same thing regardless of your dire warnings.  Nothing you say is gonna change the behavior of an adult who wants to walk on the wild side and ends up dead.  

 

Back during the COVID (vaccine) years I heard some younger people state that they didn't want the vaccine cos they were choosey about what they put into their bodies. But I suspected not so choosey as to not buy (dodgy) drugs from dodgy people in nightclubs or on the street.

18 hours ago, 1happykamper said:

A rolled up banknote? 20 baht or 100 USD?

Wouldn't a plastic straw suffice without going full HOLLYWOOD? 

 

RIP kids. 

Many years ago it was found that a surprisingly high %'age of £20 notes had a trace of cocaine on them in London.