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Who meets someone then invites them sight unseen up to the room for sex? Wouldn't it make sense to meet them outside to check them out first?

Thai people cannot understand that magic behind a remote, phone, or television. They are completely oaralized if the white man's inventions don't work for some reason. 

Look for anger and violence to ensue.

2 hours ago, oldlakey said:

Why not

Why not what?

That's not dual pricing. That's cheating tourists. What I hate is going to the local market and buying vegetables that should indicate that I live in thailand(I.e. Broccoli, onions, etc..) and getting cheated 10 or 20 baht when they would make much more on making me a regular customer. But I think it gives many Thais a certain kind of sick happiness to cheat a farang.

I don't want to read all 16 pages in this thread. Did they get caught? Please provide a link if so.

He actually tries to show off his watches in public. 

He's like the guy who goes into a dance club and exposes himself to people, but it's a gay dance club so no one notices.

When old age hit Chick Norris, he hit back. 

Two things:

1. THey have you by the balls; if you are hungry or thirsty, you'll have to pay top dollar. You have no choice.

2. They don't care if their overpriced food is shit. They think you'll never be back. It's supposed to be shit. It's not like a regular restaurant that wants to cultivate a clientele.

I lived in South Korea for many years. Koreans pedestrians will cross the road and specifically not make eye contact with drivers. They think this will make drivers stop for them. It's actually insanity as Korean drivers are only slightly less deadly then Thais.

3 minutes ago, peperobi said:

Why is the police not able to check all those illegal motorbikes and cars rental that operates without any insurance? In case you ask those illegal rentals the confirm to have a proper insurance, for the tourist is not possible to check it out.

Police don't really work in Thailand. There's no baht in it.

Of course the motorcycle rental  company doesn't have third party insurance. They don't think They need it. They would just hold the passport and charge the foreigner exorbitant fees if the bike were damaged or even scratched. Rarely would this type of accident happen to them. But if anyone wants to sue them, good

 luck. This is Thailand. You can't get a baht from a Thai in court.

Dongtan Beach is in Jomtien, not Pattaya.

I'm sure the Korean walked in front of the bike erroneously thinking the Russian could stop in time from 140+kph.

On 1/6/2018 at 1:48 PM, pegman said:

If you don't drive keep close to a baht bus route. You can get to food stores by using them. The Jomtien Beach area is my preference.

Depends on what you mean by "food stores." I, too, live in this area. There is foodland , but it is expensive, the staff are sometimes rude, and everything is 20% more expensive than Big C or Tesco Lotus. Beer is even more expensive than familymart or 7/11, which makes no sense whatsoever. 

You can take a baht bus down Theppresset Road to Tesco Lotus, but be prepared to sit in it and wait about 15~30 minutes until there are 8 to 10 other souls on board. Coming back, you'll wait a similar amount of time.

i do it regularly, but don't fancy the wait.

Fall from condo:

-Farang = suicide

-Thai bargirl = murder 

At 26 years old, maybe she just felt jumping was a better move than the possibly 8 years she'd been working Soi 6.

"Oh, yes darling...tell me all about how you lose everything in divorce...don't leave out any details."

10" c@ck.

They probably padded the bill.

And classy people don't hang around watching this kind of drama. Does it always have to be about violence for the Thais? She deserves a good Thai style 10-on-1 beating? It is none of their business. 

44 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Why do posters seem to believe that that universal behaviour is confined to Thailand? Happens everywhere.

This kind of person uses the lame:

Problem ______happens in country _____ as well. 

It is a fallacy of logic, and the Thai apologists' greatest tool.

Yes, people in other countries tailgate, but not every several minutes on the highway will you get someone 2 meters from your bumper at 100kph.

Yes, people drive like sh!t in other countries, but I have lived extensively in five Asian countries, and in my own civilized homeland, and I, and every other poster here by you have never seen such sh!tty driving as in Thailand.

13 minutes ago, ThaiFelix said:

The problem with following at a safe distance in this country is that very often, in my experience, some nutter will make the situation much more dangerous by jumping into that space due to impatience.

This comment is spot on.

And if you leave a space between you and the driver in the next lane to keep out of his blind spot,  some one will invariably thread the needle.

28 minutes ago, impulse said:

  I've found that Thai's have to be good at assessing and reacting to dangerous conditions, because they encounter so many more than we do back home.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And if Thais are so " good at assessing and reacting to dangerous conditions" then why are there so many accidents where the drivers do not break before a collision?! The truck driver clearly never reacted to the crash. I have seen hundreds of YouTube videos of crashes in Thailand where  the drivers do not break before collision.

It's rather absurd.

9 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Nice deflection. 

 

You recommended a vehicular manslaughter charge.  There were no deaths.  Then you claimed that Thai drivers' brains cannot quickly assess a situation.  Which is a pretty blatant Thai bash.  I've found that Thai's have to be good at assessing and reacting to dangerous conditions, because they encounter so many more than we do back home.  Which is not an endorsement of traffic safety in Thailand.

 

On the CPR thing (which, BTW wasn't even mentioned until you needed a deflection), I think you'll find that worldwide, CPR has a minuscule success rate.   Whether the EMT is Thai or another nationality doesn't really play into that.  Unless you're just bashing Thais again.  

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/10/health/cpr-lifesaving-stats/index.html

 

http://www.jems.com/articles/2011/02/cpr-exercise-futility.html

 

Not a deflection; you proved my point that that poor girl will probably die with your comment about the very low success rate of CPR, and the much lower rate of success on a Thai highway.

Youre not winning the argument; you're just being combative.

20 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Doesn't there have to be a fatality for a manslaughter charge?

 

Or are you just taking a swat at the locals with that remark about Thai brains?

 

You didn't see the EMT repeatedly doing CPR on that girl?  You think a Thai EMT can resuscitate a person with CPR? 

The truck driver who hit the pickup should be charged with vehicular manslaughter. He swerved into them, and at no time applied the brakes. A mild braking would have averted this accident. But thai drivers brains cannot quickly assess such a situation.