The Deerhunter

13 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

A man is stabbed by a bigot and the thread turns into the usual islamaphobic, vitriolic, chicken licken “the world is falling on our heads” BS by post 3. 

 

For pity’s sake. 

We are all glad to entertain you, as always.  And of course your opinion is the only one.  We all agree on that.

3 hours ago, Sid Celery said:

Why does this muppet keep giving the 'horned god' sign popularised by Ronnie James Dio and others.

 

He's obviously slavishly copying Thaksin, who also thought it was a sign saying Í'm cool'. At least Thaksin was popular enough that people didn't mock him for a piece of dumb theatre.

 

He's clearly on the campaign trail, while hypocritically preventing political parties from competing with him.

 

This guy must have the IQ of a potato.

I doubt that Thaksin was ever very popular in the south, particularly  after all  those arrested people died in the cattle trucks.  Do try and post sensibly.  Apart from the Muslim separist's the south has always been a democrat stronghold. 

6 minutes ago, Enoon said:

 

On one side there are intolerant,violent people, on the other side are tolerant, peaceful people.

 

 

 

Yes and these intolerant violent people don't like the humanitarians letting more intolerant violent people of a different culture (not to mention religion) in to the country.   Denmark, Sweden & Belgium (and more recently France & Germany) are already starting to reap the whirlwind.  It is an extremely difficult situation.  People should not be humanitarian to the risk of destroying their own safety and culture.    Gosh I hope I am wrong as many liberal people will tell me I am.  Time will tell.  Just Google rape in Scandinavia.  Statistics going through the roof and to be correctly P.C., it is all being blamed on "Asians."  Asians!!!!  Yeah right!!!!!

4 hours ago, observer90210 said:

Scary methods of extremists !

 

Scary to what the current climate is leading to... on one side people are fed up with a refugee situation that is getting out of control and on the opposite side, others are plainly trying to behave with humanity.

Even if that humanity will in the long term ruin their country, if not the entire continent.  An extremely difficult situation

4 hours ago, keith101 said:

probably not the the four wheel kind but the way overweight 10 wheel kind that we see every day , right .

And Every night.  Carrying trees after dark.  Whole trees into Thailand, dirt & all.

3 minutes ago, Reigntax said:

 

I believe you may mean a talking witch!

Just drop the R out of wrench, is all I meant.

4 hours ago, lonewolf99 said:

yet another lift falling in LoS.......... The real safety systems in a lift should make it impossible for it to move never mind fall.

There was a report of an escalator falling apart the other day !

 

Reminds me of when I was "on the tools" working  with Indians and Arabs. I could get 3 or 4 more turns on a bolt, nut or screw more than any of them.

They are made of gristle not muscle.

I think the Thais are pretty much the same and probably never use torque wrenches.

Talk wrench is girlfriend on Facebook or line.  

16 hours ago, Thailand said:

Yingluck does it better with more style.

MUCH!  And better physical presence perhaps.  Both were deluded,  but this one probably REALLY believed her own stuff.  I am not sure which is the worse attribute.

17 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

We are going to miss that wacky chick.

Gone to join Inspect Clouseau.    We will miss her for the same reasons we miss him, for comic relief purposes only.  For practical ability to do the job?   Good Riddance.

On 23/11/2017 at 5:59 PM, Naam said:

because some of us don't trust our governments who might change tax laws or don't like investment restrictions.

Some of us don't trust our own governments or retirement countries either.  Convenience and exchange rates be damned if the sum is big enough to be worried about  What if someone with any level of suitable power decides you have a nice big lump of money here and freezes your account on some trumped up charge and deports you or puts you somewhere you cannot access your money, possibly even permanently?  Then they don't have you in the way any more.  Just one unfounded charge of kiddie porn...... and all your troubles start.    You are a lot less attractive target except for a simple criminal ransom, if your money is not all here already.  Why do the Marcos', Shahs and  Arabs move their money to USA or European countries?   How likely is that something to happen to your assets in your home country, if you are "over here?"   I am a lot more paranoid of most of our non "home" retirement countries that most of our "home" life countries.  Choose your most  likely enemy and have your assets in a form and location  least vulnerable to possible/probable threats. 

1 hour ago, sanuk711 said:

yer -& maybe I am getting over sensitive about it Deerhunter--would love to see it done tongue in cheek or with at least some humour.....The Brits have some great humour....you just dont see it for some reason, when it comes to talking about Thailand

 

What do you call 10 Englishmen  in a basement? ...  A whine cellar......

 

Where I come from they are called Moaning Poms or Whinging Poms.

On 24/11/2017 at 7:48 AM, sanuk711 said:

If it was the banter that you get with different things ---I wouldn't  have any problems Deerhunter I am a football nut & a Brit/Oz...so of course I want them to do well--usually they don't, so the good nature banter comes in  -

"What do you call an Englishman in the knockout stages of the World Cup? A referee".-----We all want them to do well--usually they don't-

 

This is not the case with most of the negative posters on here---they seem genuinely upset that Thailand is improving its living standards/infrastructure/& appeal to the rest of the world as a desirable destination . Every tourist figure that comes out is a conspiracy / yet not one link in all the years that I have been reading this stuff, to counter it.

If there is a family dispute and the man kills the woman---then its Thainess/or "only in Thailand" yer someone killing his wife--- it never happens in the west.

Lots of things I am not happy with here----more things that I was unhappy with in the west--hence that's why I am here.

 

At risk of starting a riot......  am I allowed to say?   "Once a whinger always a whinger" or more likely that  for those people, "The grass on the others side of the fence always seems greener."  One of those surely describes me, I am sure!!!!! 

3 hours ago, simoh1490 said:

The downside is that you have to make frequent transfers and what if the exchange rate moves against you for a protracted period, as it did with GBP/THB which went from 75 plus, down to 43, that resulted in people having to leave the country and change their life plans.

Good point.  My own home currency us up and down against the baht all year every year

On 21/11/2017 at 6:58 AM, Briggsy said:

1. Currency depreciation/inflation (reducing the value of your assets)

2. Exchange controls (stopping you taking money out)

3. Insider bank fraud (Not uncommon here)

4. Financial institution collapse (BBC)

5. Compensation limits (measly)

6. Data protection / Confidentiality (not respected, expect your bank details to be revealed)

7. Don't advertise your wealth (see no. 6, not a good idea here)

8. Poor returns when factoring in risk

9. Investment options (limited)

10. Asset management fees (higher)

11. Regulatory oversight (virtually non-existent)

 

If you have a significant worth, all of the above reasons not to bring money here would be less in Singapore.

 

The real question is if you had, say, 2 or 3 million US $, why on earth would you want to invest it all in Thailand? Who knows what changes may occur in the years to come?

 

I think this first reply should set the ball rolling and boost the activity on this site.

 

Totally agree except why not leave at home and bring it over if and when necessary.  Why Singapore?  All my bits &  pieces are still at "home" and I bring a bit over every month or three as exchange rates allow.

4 hours ago, aguy30 said:

Absolute stupidity!

 

If a person (think farang) smokes a cigarette on the beach, he can get a fine of 100,000 baht. This is absolutely absurd and even more so when you consider that a Thai can violently assault a farang and receive a whopping 500 baht fine and then walk away without jail time. I'm all for "no smoking" but the realistic fine should be about 1000 baht.

 

Seems the government is trying its best to destroy the Pattaya beaches frequented by farangs. The beaches were enjoyable more than 10 years ago. Now they are dirty, very compressed limited seating and soon no more food and beer. Doesn't anyone in charge know what beach users want?

 

The people in charge of Pattaya need to go to Bali (Kuta and Legian) for a few weeks and learn from them how to make a success of the beaches both daytime and also allow night time use. Bali beaches are far better that Pattaya. They might also investigate why Bali's night life is prospering while Pattaya is in a downward spiral.

 

On second thought these are not a reasonable suggestions as Thais already know everything and have no need to learn anything different or new from non Thais.

 

Absolute stupidity Absolutely agree with every point you made.

On 21/11/2017 at 1:38 PM, Berkshire said:

While it's certainly unfair to generalize about a whole nation of peoples, I have experienced the deplorable Chinese tourists firsthand.  Most are fine, but some can be loud, rude, inconsiderate, and just plain bad manners.  I've heard that some of these Chinese in big tour groups are traveling abroad for the first time and behave as they would back home because they don't know any better.  They don't even realize that they're behaving badly.   But with nearly 2 billion Chinese worldwide, they will be hard to avoid. 

Agree!  It's just the 95 percent of the budget tour party groups that give all the rest (who perhaps might not be in tours) a bad name in hotel breakfast rooms and swimming pools.  In one country I could never (yes, not even once) get into the breakfast room as they monopolised it for the entire time.  Yes part of the problem was the hotel management but the Chinese had it aced.

11 hours ago, steven100 said:

agree ..... their are some whingers you just can't please ...  doesn't matter what the government does , they'll never be happy in LOS.

Some of us love it here but whinging is an important cerebral sport for those of us who do not like Dominos (except the pizza) Scrabble or playing cards.   555.

11 hours ago, Orton Rd said:

Even the Airport was not designed by Thais, 'The terminal building was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy / Jahn Architects. It was constructed primarily by ITO JV.' They are spot on when it comes to anything in bamboo, breeze block and asbestos roofing though 

Don't forget welding really thin box section steel with a too-powerful welder.... 555

On 21/11/2017 at 12:35 PM, sanuk711 said:

I know that Orton---just as the High Speed rail will be built by the most experienced country in the world----a country that has built over 44,000 klms of it.

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That doesn't stop the posters tipping rubbish on the  Thais about it----and it didn't stop them when they were building all the other projects.

I get your drift and mostly agree.  I just wonder what the final format the so-called hi-speed train will be and a few other details that they never divulge except calling it Hi speed and everyone then assumes it will be a bullet train.    The one thing Thais definitely cannot do is communication/ competent press releases. Anyone who answers the phone considers himself to be spokesman on anything.   However I am constantly amazed how much Thai workers can do and how good a job they can do (but don't always do), with a few hand tools and a Makita 230v drill.   I have  tool shed here full of stuff to do what they can do with a hammer a saw and a Makita drill with self-drilling screws.  Necessity and mother-of-invention, I guess.

11 minutes ago, The Deerhunter said:

Been Jack Rabbit (or  was it Jackalope) hunting near Tucson & saw a big mob of mule deer and lots of nasty cactus.  Killed a moose in Russia (delicious) and lots of deer in a few countries where they are pest proportions.   I was staying at the time in Tucson with an ex airforce colonel namesake of yours, (since deceased).  In the 60's I also knew his dad who lived in in Costa Mesa, Ca.   And here was me thinking you were more a pax romanus kinda guy.

2 hours ago, Bill Miller said:

Yeah I used to be death on ground hogs on our farm in New Jersey. Some folks in my new digs in AZ regularly decimate the local prairie dog populations, but I do not keep horses anymore.
 I think I suffer from late onset "Bambi Syndrome", of maybe an attack of incipient Buddhism. I would probably prefer to plink an assortment of US pols these days if I was in a vermin plinking frame of mind.
Good points about the reptiles here. Several articles lately about large pythons being rounded up, and released into the jungle. I always wonder just how far did they go to the jungle? Happily they so far do not seem to like the eighth floor. 
Pax vobiscum.
 

Been Jack Rabbit (or  was it Jackalope) hunting near Tucson & saw a big mob of mule deer and lots of nasty cactus.  Killed a moose in Russia (delicious) and lots of deer in a few countries where they are pest proportions.

5 hours ago, balo said:

Actually if you have a back problem the monk will succeed in a few cases , with trapped nerves he could get lucky and hit the right spot.  Just like my physiotherapist . 

 

 

 

I was nearly going to post the same thing.  It will help certain people  for exactly the reasons you say but it is a risky treatment.  Too hard on the wrong place or the wrong patient with fragile or decalcifying bones and it'll be "OOPs.  Sorry.  What do you mean you can't feel your legs?" 

The sad, difficult and ironic aspect of this relates to the layers of generations of corruption that exists in various police, military and every other government sector or aspect of Thai life.  Many of the senior officers tasked with rooting out the corruption in various places have their own bodies buried, some times (literally or figuratively)  and their subordinates sometimes might know where they are buried.  It makes it very hard to crack down when people know similar things about your past.   Many of these senior officers or public servants,  right up to the top, regardless of how anti-corruption they might have become now, were previously forced by a broken system to buy their earlier promotions or appointments with family or borrowed money and/or had to pay them off with bribe money.   It will take generations to clear this mess up.   Of course, many western countries have similar problems but Asian & African continents seem to have it in a different scale.

1 hour ago, Bill Miller said:

Very few people have such large accumulations, but it is ridiculous that anybody does.
I have one rifle, one shotgun, and one revolver at my farm in AZ.
I also live an hour away from town in an area where we have mountain lions, badgers, rattle snakes, and at one time meth lab operators.
I have shot one snake that was too interested in a box of newborn kittens... he really should not have come into the house. I have fired rounds over the heads of persistent coyotes, and twice to shoo off cattle that were trying to help themselves to my horses hay.
Although it would be legal I do not strap on a six shooter to go into town grocery shopping, though some do. I do not understand that mind set at all.
 

Some people are really genuine gun collectors where it is legal and never do anything awry.  We mostly try (tried) not to widely advertise our possessions.    I think I must have shot quite a few thousand more pest animals than you, but all introduced noxious pest species in my home locale.   Your restraint is to be admired.  I let some snakes around our farm in Thailand alone but dangerous pit vipers and cobras around the house with pets and children get the chop.  Killed a Malayan pit viper 2 days ago near the houses.  They have a reputation of being venomous and unpredictable with a high rate of fatal attacking this part of Asia.   We let a biggish python go a year ago but now he is even bigger and killing a local sister in laws chickens, ducks and dogs.   Perhaps we made a mistake letting him go.   Maybe he should not come back here if he thinks he will get a second reprieve.

29 minutes ago, Bill Miller said:

No argument at all that something was amiss and awry. I was attempting to be a bit humorous, thus the Crocodile Dundee reference.
I still think you were wrong that there was a second cache of weapons not shown in the photo, though. Why ever would the cops, having impounded the stuff and transported it to headquarters, make a point of saying "Oh, no, these were found in Prachan's house. We cannot allow them to all be photographed together!" Or are you under the misapprehension that the photo was taken at one of the suspect's houses?
Still. I must say I do not have a good handle on Thai police thought  processes yet. Perhaps they would go to the extra effort. You tell me.

Thanks for the reply.  No I have no further insight.  I assume that some were found in each house and as they were arrested as part of the same investigation the goodies were displayed together.   Over & out