Tycoon

Unless you are experienced with the ocean and can swim to a decent level. Don't swim in the ocean as conditions can change

within minutes. Growing up in Australia I learnt from a young age about swimming in the break and it claims good swimmers from time to time.

Many asian people each year who can't swim to a decent level play Russian roulette with their lives and the ocean and lose out.

Glad to hear it, I'm so sick of getting quoted flat fees just because of my skin color, I might have to start using this myself. On the other hand I heard that Uber was banned in Bangkok. The legal situation seems ambiguous because it is clearly listed on their (Uber's) website as an active city.

"I'm so sick of getting quoted flat fees just because of my skin color ..."

They probably assume you're a tourist. If they don't want to use the meter, you can counter with your own offer.

If you ask in Thai "how much?" And reply to the offer in Thai that it's "very expensive," most will drop the price. Your skin color shouldn't prevent you from learning a little "taxi Thai" at least. If you stay in Asia you need to learn to negotiate in good humor and not start fuming & going apoplectic.

Sometimes they just enjoy watching a farang turn red and throw a hissy fit as he fears the loss of face ... a major problem for many farang. There are some cranky taxi drivers (who wouldn't be ... after dealing with Bangkok traffic day after day), but I've found most to be reasonable people. Same applies to tuktuk drivers who tend to get you there is half the time it takes a taxi.

What a load of crap, basic 101 in living life anywhere

Now we just need people to stop drying their pubes with the hairdryers in the gym...

It sends a shiver down my spine when warm pube air washes over me as I pass.

Do people still have pubic hair ?? Thought that was all long gone.

Thai male drivers = poorly skilled and no road training pre 2009 to get a drivers licence

whats going on the broken tree in the top of the pic ??

Somchan Ravago sets up a roadside stall outside the temple with a 40 kg un-consecrated bell, rents out steel capped shoes, and charges 20 baht a kick.

Chinese New Year to make the bell rang. < Thai and Chinese language removed >

Every morning as the first tour bus disgorges he wipes the bell down with 20 baht notes.

Foot massage vouchers available for next door. Soonopen Massage.

Opportunity doesn’t have to knock hard in Thailand

Get a monk to say its extremely good luck for a cut of the money.

Bang instant Karma and good luck for all Chinese kickers

Its more bad manners and bad behaviour that in general is on the low end of the scale.

I find them disgusting in personal habits but nothing like the tattooed roid freaks walking around with

no shirts on intimidating people.

90,000 and say 10 fools, I can cop that.

Take a look around Pattaya, Phuket and Bangkok during the holidays and you'll see

some of the lowest toe rags on earth with a few drinks in them doing much worse.

Tattooed roid freaks walking around with no shirts on. I went to the bike week last weekend and the place had 90.000 tattooed roid freaks walking around with no shirts on! ''none of them where intimidating anyone''. Maybe it is your own personal uneducated and bias opinion you are trying to spew out to us all. People with your views are the real trouble causers in this world, maybe you should learn people skills and stop stereotyping people.

Thats your opinion, bike week has decent people and also has many many low life's and criminals attached to it as well.

They picked up 3 wanted international criminals at it during the week.

2 were posted on here and 1 on the pattaya mail.

Maybe you need to take a look through your average mans eyes.

If you think roided shirt less tattooed fools walking around drunk are not a blight on the farang society then ask your average middle

class Thai what they think.

I've lived here over 20 years and have a good handle on myself as well as a high end job with a international company.

Sorry if the facts hit a raw nerve with you but most of society would agree with me that the under class farang here is in the many and your

probably one so it does not sit well with you that other people don't like being surrounded with scum bags.

Imagine sitting next to this that toe rag for a 9 hour flight.

he just wanted help to get the snake off

The alcoholics aren't going to like this.

So they buy before 1:59pm. Sorted!

1.59pm, mmmm bar man I'll have 11 long necks of leo please and can you open them 1 by 1 every 20 minutes.

Thank you

Really this country has some very strange practises

dumb leading the blind

My wife also had a lesbian relationships before me. In some ways though it has added spark to our relationship and I certainly don't feel any jealousy if she 'fancies' another girl. I know people are joking on here about 'three in a bed' scenarios but there is scope to have fun with this to make sure every one is happy.

Please remember that even if your wife has lesbian tendencies (as indeed my wife does) it does not mean that you cannot have a happy life together. Look for positives.

Sorry but your nuts if you think its ok for your wife to have the occasional homosexual fling.

Once again, your a visitor here, know your place and worth. No way would a Thai do this in the forecourt of a temple

And we are not talking about rogue one off thais making an ass of themselves either

Another example of an overreaction by a Thai.

At least a monk isn't slapping them, they are not drunk and are not in a bikini.

This is a absolute joke, herbal doctors ruling on possible life and death circumstances in flight.

IATA clearly states it must be a medical practitioner that volunteers or trained medical staff i.e. RN nurse.

I'm a airline flight crew with 20 years experience and can say this is a breech of IATA regulations.

I wonder how many German expats (and all the other nations represented here) speak Thai at home in Thailand? Or Thai anywhere? Perhaps Tycoon's statement "Well its true, fit in, embrace the country 100% or F off" would apply to expats too lazy or superior to at least try to learn Thai....

They are talking about migrants ..... those that attain German citizenship (and can stay in Germany forever).

Expats in Thailand will never be migrants, but for those few that become migrants it would be fair enough.

Why would anyone learn the language of a country they only have permission to stay in for 90 days?

At last somebody can read and comment with a few brains. Never known a forum like this for misunderstandings and misinterpretation.

just because this man lost the fight and ended up in hospital doesn't mean he is an innocent victim and did not start the fight. I've had similar Esperance here.

<deleted> do some research into the case. Kid was king hit with a glass ashtray and it was witnessed by more than 4 independent people.

His crime ? dancing with a girl he knew that the 2 rich prick kids wanted.

Before he was belted from side on he never spoke or even had seen the aholes before.

That's a new level of detail not previously reported. Word on the street?

I know the family and have posted many times here about what happened to him. Straight up it was an assault with a weapon.

What would be the purpose, or sense, of partly demolishing the building?

Come on, common sense please as it means they want start on the building being knocked down and want to see some progress on the demolition.

Wait...Im kind of slow but....

That chick don't look Thai.

More like an average English gal.

I mean, even for a hlf-Thai/farang, I can't see a trace of Asian in her.

What's up with that?

My mixed daughter does not look mixed at all either. Tell me your smarter than the statement you made seeing the daughter had

a Australian father and clearly has a Thai birth certificate and passport.

Maori_1629467c.jpgmike-tyson-tattoo-1.jpgAny fool that tattoos their face should be jailed for life.

I would suggest then that you never fly into New Zealand with that attitude and say that out loud to a Male or Female Maori. Or an even worse decision, to Mike Tyson. Ouch!

Thats funny moron as I live with a maori flat mate and surely know more about the mookoi (facial tattoo) as I'm from that part of the world. Tell me your not that naive that you

thought that I was talking about the indigenous tribal markings and not some fool that has a dope leaf in the middle of his forehead.

mIke Tyson and Sharky have been the threads examples so far. Point proven, nut cases get tats on their face.

Any fool that tattoos their face should be jailed for life.

Yes, she obviously should go to jail!!

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Note : if people expressing themselves with their own bodies really bothers you, could I suggest going back 100 years or 1000? Nope that won't work.

Jail the Maori? The Picts?

I'm not talking about traditional tattoos of the native peoples from various countries. I'm talking about the gang member, roid freak or drugged out looser with

a skull and cross bones on his forehead. Get it, its about lose canons like Tim Sharky etc. You cannot be that dumb that you thought the above statement included

native people.

Any fool that tattoos their face should be jailed for life.

SIR

Go tell that to Sharky

I rest my case, Sharky is a nut case.