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8 hours ago, ukrules said:

LOL, you can smoke in regular bars and restaurants all over. These tend to be the places which have customers.

This is actually more true than you know. 

The Philippine government imposed this ban and an area by my condo, which was a thriving mecca for outside dining and patio drinking died to the point where businesses actually had to ignore the law or close doors. 

The venues that remain in business, about 60 percent, are smoker freindly, but only outside on the patio. 

17 hours ago, androokery said:

Yes I would.

A man on the street in Bangkok stopped me and asked for a light for his cigarette. I couldn't offer a light, but I did ask why he felt the need to smoke in Bangkok. Wouldn't it suffice to just stand on the street corner and inhale the wonderful city air?

I would have told you where to put it. Non smokers are almost worse than vegans. 

4 hours ago, Katipo said:

Vowed to track it down? Have they tried calling the phone number clearly visible on the mud-flaps? ????

Ironically, you are the first of even the Thai visa sleuth squad to suggest it. 

That's over twice what I weigh. 

4 minutes ago, lucjoker said:

when a caravan of thousands of strangers is walking to invade your 

home ........there is no time for moderation .

It is moderation that causes such dramas .

The caravan of unhappy people must march against their oppressors ,but instead they chose the easy coward way , flee and let others take care of them .

So ,kick out your dictators , and the good news : "Trump" will gladly help you do that, but you will have to do it yourself ( not US soldiers ) 

While I fail to see what that has to do with anything, I have realized I consider people like you a waste of skin and refuse to engage you any further. 

21 minutes ago, bendejo said:

 

Wondering if one of the girls slipped him a roofie but he got away before it kicked in.  Definitely blotto, though.  The place is full of cops and he doesn't notice it.  When he comes to in the morning this could all be news to him.

 

Always something entertaining going down on Beach Rd.  Cops should have thrown a net over him instead of the tackle, would been more amusing.

 

 

This actually occurred to me. 

The other thought was ketamine, but that's usually taken voluntarily. 

5 hours ago, phycokiller said:

$30 seems a lot for a lunch

Sofitel ain't cheap. 

Besides, if you plan on doing a runner, why not have champagne and lobster?

And cheap Is certainly relative, I don't think the equivalent of sub 1000 baht particularly expensive for lunch in a hotel. 

13 minutes ago, zig said:

There are only 21 countries that can get visa on arrival in Thailand so it sounds like all of them are considered for the waiver.

Fair enough, but don't you think that would bear mentioning? 

Personally, given the nature of the sanctions against them, I don't see how there could be any other response. 

21 hours ago, lucjoker said:

is it so difficult to ignore those countries ?

Just dont have any contact with them .

Dont deal with them.( dont buy cheap oil from them)

Dont let any of them in your country.

BUT: watch them carefully,keep enough ballistic rockets aimed at them .

If they make a move ( or you think they make a move ) obliterate them completely.Make sure you let them know . Kick all of their believers out of your countries . Make those who praise islam ,live in their islam countries.Those who want to stay in our western countries will have to be publicly baptized.( or denounce openly islam)

problem is that our governments make a lot of money out of these countries ,and like to do nothing . 

 

At last the voice of moderation. 

11 hours ago, waders123 said:

Interesting discussion on Thai Language.

Where? 

16 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

It is not nonsense. My wife can understand and speak most of the dialects but the rest of her family cannot.

And how old are they and when if at all were they educated? 

Rather amusing, and these people were made to smoke a Huge amount of high grade bud. 

A gram of this stuff would make it difficult to get off the sofa, and all tested they knew they were too high and would rather not be behind the wheel. 

54 minutes ago, lust said:

I HIGHLY doubt it’s from weed. Maybe a combination of drinking and weed or other drugs.

 

I'm from Canada. Weed is 100% legal there and there haven’t been any reports of weed causing an accident.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/4256586/marijuana-impaired-driving/

It's been a week. 

Meanwhile taxi and tuk tuk drivers piss against my garden wall daily on Soi 11 with impunity. 

It amazes me the lengths they are willing to go to to arrest and fine these minor transgressions while ignoring the bigger picture completely. 

But more to the point, why not just sign up for a premium Spotify account, the choices are endless, and you can save music to any device and play back even when not online. 

Is there another new beer bar on the near horizon? 

2 hours ago, bandito said:

I'm one of them.

Can't speak a word of Thai after 40 years here, tonedeaf.

Tried AUA and others over the years but nothing so I gave up.

Even Bernard Trink the Nightowl columnist of the Bangkok Post could'nt speak one word of Thai

and this guy lived here from 1962.

There are more like the then bookrecensent of the Bangkok Post.

Indeed, trink is an excellent example of a current day expat. 

2 hours ago, ParadiseLost said:

There is English, and then there is English.

 

I disagree. This is why most foreign (EU) people who think they can speak English are actually terrible at all the finer points.

 

English is an incredibly diverse language, full of nuance and best of all, the ability to say something without actually saying it: sarcasm (especially) confounds (and frustrates) every foreign speaker I have met - no matter their status in life.

 

Don't want to even start talking about comedy, or sense of humor...

Why would you think that sarcasm doesn't exist in Thai, or irony for that matter? 

3 hours ago, amse said:

I would love to speak Thai better, I even went to a language school, BUT I have always had a poor short & long term memory which has plagued me all my life. Compared to English it's like the Thai language is backwards like: instead of saying "Go Here", they say "Here Go", which is quite confusing for me.???? 

Actually, they don't. They say go then give the direction. Bai Robinson's, Bai pak soi.