Old Croc

From the link I published earlier: "A staff member accompanied her to an ATM, but once they arrived, she said she didn't bring her ATM card.' Staff accompanied the woman to her hotel to retrieve her card, but when she tried to withdraw money, there was only 100 baht in her account. She allegedly claimed 'the stock market had crashed' and continued to offer various excuses before being dragged back to the bar to explain herself."

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Aliens in the country fot more than180 days a year are considered tax residents.

You got one thing right. I attended twice, then told my mother I wasn't going again, it was rubbish, Later the same priest started bible classes at my primary school telling the same old stories about slingshots and jawbones of asses. I again pulled out and was forced to always spend that period sitting quietly on a bench. I assessed and rejected your gods and the idiotic stories before I reached double figures in age.

I rest my case.

Congratulations little Monte, you'll soon move up to the next level in Sunday School.

They really don't know how to react in the real world. They were brain washed from a very early age to believe in the absolute truth of their parents version of religion and learn to hate anyone who thinks differently. Basically anyone capable of independent thought and logic. There is no hope of redemption, they are too far down the path of complete loyalty to the sect. They really believe wearing flags, slogans and baseball caps is stylish and not the ludicrous costumes that amuse the world and indicate their tiny IQs

When unable to counter logic, truth or understand sarcasm, they revert to childish taunts and invented insulting words.

The guy apparently assaulted someone and hoped to get out of the country before facing the consequences. It seems the police had his name in the alert system which was triggered when he went through outwards immigration. He was then arrested in the departure lounge and transferred back to the Province where the offence was comitted. Not unusual circumstances in most countries. The use of half a dozen officers and the term "sting" is part of local culture. His immigration status will not affect the charges and possible punishment apart from enforced departure on conclusion.. This is not Gulag America.

Probably in basements of multi story car parks

Have to be unlucky. On monday I was sitting outside on the veranda watching the rain when lightning struck the road about 20- 30 meters away. The noise and shock was massive and my body was tingling and shaking for some seconds afterwards. We had a violent storm the day before which damaged buildings, flattened crops, brought down trees and snapped off 2 concrete electricity poles near our property. Loei Province.

It's hard to keep up, there's a backlog of incidents that need highlighting.

One of the consequences of a country invading,conquering and plundering other weaker nations in the past is the intergration of those peoples into their citizenry in modern times, There's something like 5m French citizens and residents with origins in North Africa. Not all from the colonies are beautiful maidens from Reunion Island.

What a difference a year makes. (And a change of government?) Number of Americans Moving to Florida Collapses - Newsweek

Hahaha. If he's training in martial arts his gym needs to be converted to a yoga and wellness center for their gross incompentence.

Great advice for normal thinking people considering retirement in a country other than their own. Completely wasted on idiots who can't even remember the name of their hotel and think their workplace and other people should be their personal entertainment venues and directors.

Felt it near Dan Sai. Loei. Had just sat down in a lazyboy and it kept rocking and shaking in weird directions. My wife didn't feel a thing.

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Used to take allipurinol (zyloprim), but still had attacks which I countered by increasing colchocin until it caused the runs, which stopped attacks. As stated in Thailand everyone has a tendancy to flap their wings when they find out you have gout, but chicken is no higher in purines than most other meats Lists are available on line giving purine levels for most types of food. Avoid the high level ones. My Uric acid level was 9 when I started taking febuxostat (Uloric) it nows sits around 4. Much more expensive than alipuinol, but for many considerably better.

I've lived here for 15 years, never started a fight in my life. I am a month shy of my 77th birthday. However, I can recognise there are many silly old farts here without identifying myself,or you, as one.

In my experience people nearly always exaggerate (or downplay) their version of an event particularly when talking with the media. There is much more to this than the Brits have revealed in their sympathy seeking interviews. I don't know what happened or who started the physicality, although it's clear how it ended. You don't have to look far into Pattaya or Patong news videos to find silly old farts starting fights with bouncers or whatever. It rarely ends well. There's no doubt the other couple went way too far in the altercation. They admitted blame and paid compensation. They didn't mention it, but presumably the old couple accepted some payment after the police took their cut. The Thai legal system is based on English Common Law but with their own versions built in. Many crimes and disputes are settled with agreed compensation without resorting to charges and courts. It generally works well for both parties. That charges were leveled at the old couple suggests they were more involved in the initial dispute than they admit. It doesn't indicate a corrupt breakdown of the Thai legal system. The couple were never going to be jailed, that was part of their sympathy seeking version. The Thai supreme court recently ruled that leases can only be for a 30 year period, any extension has to be renogotiated after that time. This will have upset many people all over Thailand particularly so in the HH region where many developers have been hawking 90 year leases.

Shackling of prisoners was common in Thai prisons until quite recently. It's still done with dangerous prisoners in the US. In the UK it's more of a sexual practise than crime punishment These guys entered illegally, were involved in drug running and attempted escape and were stupid enough to do doughnuts in a car thereby attracting attention to themselves. When they started singing I bet the cops wished they also had gags.

Why dont you declare your love and obscesion on his YT comments page and not cause many here to vomit in their mouth?

Soi Ta-Iad in Phuket is well known as the Fight and Fitness street because of its many gyms and training centers for martial arts devotees. Tough guys, some of whom dont necessarily stay on the right side of the law, and others who use roids, etc., flock there from all over the planet to train. Many would be reluctant to approach a naked nut case there because of the chance they may think you're looking for trouble.