Sloopydee

Some people are too stupid to see their own stupidity.

Oh well.

Next news report of biker ripped apart on Thai roads coming tomorrow.

Why people build houses in places they've only been for 5 minutes really mystifies me.

Such sites taking off over here, and Westerners living happily in them, horrifying for the Thai authorities. They'd be scrambling over themselves to find rules against it.

No job. Wife and kids. A power bill arrives stating that you owe them 100k, all your savings. You hand it over.

Claptrap.

Utter.

Rearrange as nesseccary.

People have problems all around the world, No food, no job, no house to live in, no opportunity to fine a job, lose their home, self respect and family. He did not plan for his future and set aside money for emergencies, his failure to plan resulted in being unable to deal with his problems.

While one can understand his feelings, his problem is not a public problem and the answer to his bad luck can only be dealt with in a few ways. He can go back to his home country, or have those in his family that can work legally in Thailand , to take their turn and support the family.

If he is looking for a helping hand, when he does find one, it will be attached to his own arm.

I wish him luck and patience!

Cheers

Painful as it was, if you had watched the full film, you would have learned that he did have savings set aside, but they were wiped out by having to do repairs from the Bangkok flooding 2 years ago.

Didn't he say that it was wiped out by a massive (and questionable) power bill that was for one whole year wiped out his 90k baht savings? Nothing to do with maintenance.

He must be going through a lot of power to hit over 8k baht a month.

I'm calling self serving <deleted>, on his woe is me nonsense.

If the Thais can't advantage because of it, you won't be able to do it.

As a Farang, how did you learn to speak, read and write Thai?

Practice.

There is a guy I know who was married to a Thai wife for some 16 years. During that time his work took him sometimes overseas for a couple of years and then maybe stationed back in Thailand for 4-5 years and so on.

His last job was in India and 2 years into that contact he discovered that his wife was being unfaithful.

Clearly he upset, but his attitude ultimately is "ok thats thats life. there are no guarantees"

Since than he has returned to Thailand and was working for a German company looking after the Asia Market, he finally got divorced and agreed a monthly alimony settlement contract with his ex wife, along with paying for private tuition for his 6 year old son and University for his step daughter (ex wives kid)

He lives a simple life now (his choice and enjoys it) and along with his financial commitments to his ex and kids he can also save for the future (as he lost everything in the divorce, house, car, the lot)

In Thailand?

I would propose that you are making it all up.

Why isn't he teaching for 30k a month. Get some privates in and make it 50k p/m. Surely a start to get back on his feet.

How much was his power bill? And he paid it!

A lot of thing in Thailand are from China. I went to an industry trade show at BITEC a few weeks back and the things actually "Made in Thailand' would fit in the janitor's closet! My wife is in the clothing business and 70% of what she sells is Made In China. Crazy, huh!

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/606963-quality-of-bikes-made-in-china/?p=7163812

Just took a look and it has been slashed a number of times in my country since 2007. Now it stands at 144 euro a week, or about 25k baht a month.

Still probably mindblowing to a Thai.

Sit around at home all day and do nothing, recieve 25k baht a month.

I flabbergasted my colleagues a few years ago when it came up that I could return to my own country, sign on the dole which the most basic one equated to around 40,000b a month, for doing nothing.

Where do you get your 40,000Bt a month from? Current JSA is £71.70 a week.

I'm not from the UK, this was in around 2007 and the basic weekly dole at the time equated to 10,000b. iirc it was something like 220 euros a week.

I have no idea if it has been cut since then, but would presume that it has in annual budgets.

The JSA in the UK has never been cut. It rises each year by the same amount as inflation so there is no way that it was 10,000Bt in 2007 as it's only around 3500Bt a week now.

Some people just can't read, can they.

and how much you pay for kawa service for 100 k km?

For a Ninja 650 I would be surprised if it was more than 29,000b. (10% of cost).

I flabbergasted my colleagues a few years ago when it came up that I could return to my own country, sign on the dole which the most basic one equated to around 40,000b a month, for doing nothing.

Where do you get your 40,000Bt a month from? Current JSA is £71.70 a week.

I'm not from the UK, this was in around 2007 and the basic weekly dole at the time equated to 10,000b. iirc it was something like 220 euros a week. For a single person in their 20's not paying rent (My brother, for a few months).

I have no idea if it has been cut since then, but would presume that it has in annual budgets.

*yawn*

Welcome to Thailand and Thais, OP.

Thailand doesn't have anything approaching a UK-style welfare state because hardly anyone pays any tax. It's as simple as that.

Incorrect.

If you wish I could explain the real reason.

Nice.

It's a pity they didn't rev up the Moriwaki and Mugen ones. Presuming they have their own pipes on them.

I flabbergasted my colleagues a few years ago when it came up that I could return to my own country, sign on the dole which the most basic one equated to around 40,000b a month, for doing nothing.

The idea of being paid 40k baht a month to do absolutely nothing but lay around all day completely did their nut in.

Imagine similar here. Even if it was just enough 3 plates of food (100b), 50b for rent, an extra 50b for misc, so 200b a day/6,000b a month the nation would be at a standstill and the only people working would be those in the social security office.

Re: The CBR500 service price, 10% of the price in service fees for the first 100,000km seems excessive for a little parrallel-twin with Chinese made parts and cheap Thai labor.

Better get a Honda Wave then

Or a Benelli or Kawa, or other manufactures who don't aim to rip off their customers.

Only newbies would be anyway surprised by any of this.

To be fully expected in Thai society and life.

Phanom Rung, then Muang Tam (10km down the road).