hellohello123

4 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

In an ideal world it would be all down to the drivers to change their situation themselves, but in Bangkok's situation of largely migrant and homeless drivers who are so easily exploited it might take the passengers being proactive to see any change in the fares, and until then I think we who can easily afford to pay more should give tips to the honest drivers and go a little easy on those refusing the meter, don't take the ride, but also not abuse them, much of the time they are only doing what the police have pushed them into and the rest of the time they are only trying to a make a little much needed money.

I agree . In many significant  historical cases. Eg allowing black people ti catch the same bus as a white person.

It took a couple of brave people to break the law and make a stand.

History would have condemed them at the time but later theyre treated  like heros

However taxi drives are doing it for pure greed and personal benefit. No aspect of honour at all.

3 minutes ago, Cracker2000 said:

Its even worse when its raining, they know they have a desperate clientele

of course, but be prepared to cop abuse too

2 minutes ago, lamyai3 said:

You sound like you have no actual experience here at all. Try getting a meter cab outside Siam Paragon or lower Sukhumvit at busy times and see how many reject using the meter, one after the other. Meanwhile a few blocks up the road the cabs will flick on the meter automatically. 

Was there a few weeks ago, and yes I experienced what you are referring to,

simply went to the end of the soi, and found a metered taxi on the second go,

he was perfectly content to take me whereever I wanted to go on the meter,

tipped him well to and thanked him.

doubt the drivers 50meters down the road were too scared to turn the meter on,

they were simply too greedy or more opporuntunitsc

2 minutes ago, lamyai3 said:

You think these guys operate freely outside the big hotels etc? At the very least he'd be kicked off operating on that particular patch by his peers. 

so if a driver accepts a customer and says "no meter, meter broken , 300 baht" hes going to get a thumbs up from his fellow drivers or the local mafia boss

and if he says "yes meter is fine" hes going to get his knee caps broken..

geez, funniest thing ive read all day, thank you

45 minutes ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

It is very cheap, too cheap for the taxi drivers to live a life that does not often involve sleeping in their cab and working unsafe numbers of hours.  Before berating the minority of taxi drivers who do not follow the rules and use their meter, I would consider just what it is like for them to work with the metered rate and then perhaps you will arrive at the conclusion that your anger would be more positive if focused on the authorities who refuse to lift the rates to a level that both provides the drivers a living wage and also reduces the number of cars on the road by pushing more people into using mass public transport.

well, if the rates were unsustainable and that normal drivers couldnt make a living, theyd probably stop being a taxi driver, and the country would be have a massive shortage of taxi drivers, its then up to the governemnt or authroity to make changes ,

being lowly paid is not an excuse to break the rules/laws and behave like an idiot

1 hour ago, lamyai3 said:

This is true, and if caught in one of those times or places it's completely pointless to get angry about it. So many posts in this thread blame the individual taxi, but it's more likely that he had no choice if operating in that particular location. It's down to which particular mafia controls the turf in those lucrative tourist spots. 

wait a minute

so this driver is going to get in trouble by abiding by the rules/laws and turning his meter on, especially when asked???

give me a break........

3 hours ago, Happyman58 said:

Starting to wonder about Thais. Are they really that stupid and like doing stuff like this. The equation is simple He drives a cab that is his job  He has a meter installed in his cab why wont he use it god knows? If he dont like using the meter dont drive a cab Then again you can see why i guess it is not as simple as that The law states you must wear a helmet when riding a motor bike but many Thais dont  Any reason why  they wont wear a helmet? Would love to hear from Thais why they wont wear a helmet? Takes 5 seconds to put one on. Might save there life. Can see why Pm kisses and talks to frogs. They probably have more sense than some of his fellow countrymen

and as a result of behaviour like this, they have one of the most dangerous roads in teh world or the highest road toll

ignore the rules, people suffer the consequences,

28 minutes ago, Hi kwai fun said:

 

    G `day Mat 

 

      I think you might watch a bit too much Hollywood action flick . 

   Who do you base your philosophy on ? Clint Eastwood , Chuck Norris  or Steven Segall ? 

    

     Keep on picking fights and one day you will end up with a knife in your belly or an iron bar to the back of your head . 

  The notion that you can fight and defeat anyone who insults you is delusional . 

 

  It only takes a small amount of force to the jaw to render even the biggest toughest man unconscious .  Keep fighting . You will learn 1st hand . 

      

I think king leonidis said that.....

Or was it thor?? 

Or achilles?

Or jean claude van damme?

6 hours ago, soistalker said:

From Sukhumvit Soi 11, it is less than 200 baht (not including toll) to get to Suvarnbahumi Airport using the meter. Taxi drivers just don't want to do it for that. 

I rend to try not to tell Thai men to <deleted> off. I did, however, tell the bag boy at a hotel in Bangkok to <deleted> himself after he said he had a "connection" for  a taxi for me for 1000 baht.

Its more like 300 to 325 plus tolls

Let me simply ask a simple question  to those blaming the farang and saying the driver did no wrong....

"Do you think any of this would ever happen if the driver did what he is supposed to do by law, ethics and taxi rules bu simply  turning the meter on without being asked?"

1 minute ago, oldlakey said:

I am not keen on any of your options

EXACTLY!!!!!!!

Behave badly and one day it will catch up eith you.

Not a case of if. But when.

4 minutes ago, oldlakey said:

Your attitude is a perfect example of why many of  the muppets won't turn the meter on

Well in my mind. Regardless of which country i do it.

If i lie to customers or rip them off or take advantahe of them. I expect one day to get my head punched in or stabbed or shot

And it would suck but id say to me "you deserved it"

1 minute ago, Eligius said:

Yes, this obsession with 'not losing face' is holding Thailand back in a million ways. And oddly enough - yet again - it is so very anti-Buddhist. The Buddha stressed that our ego is not who we truly are - we are something way beyond all that pettiness (this is the 'not-ego' doctrine). And yet Thailand is fixated on its ego - its very fragile, fake but bloated ego - to the detriment of all and everyone else.

I couldnt care less if it aligned or contradicted buddhas philsophy or not

However. Times when ive hrard the phrase being used. Its usually on stupid trivial things  or its theyre the actual one who caused the issue or has behaved the worst 

It seems people seem to think. Using the phrase "i lose face" is a justification  to behave very poorly. 

From someone who has grown up in western society, i see it as ridiculous and embarassing

8 hours ago, Matt96 said:

if I were this taxi driver and a cocky farang would say "<deleted> you" to me - i would beat the shit out of him regardless on any repercussion.

 

but he thought "thais are polite, they tend to forgive. so I can get away with this"

 

the moral obligation of any decent man is to prove him how wrong he is.

 

in my whole life i never ever let anyone who said "<deleted> you" to me run away without repercussions. and I never regretted for punishing them

Man you are so tough!

Im sure you love telling that story while on your bar stool?

Whats your number? Ill call you the next time im faced with a madman with a gun or knife

2 minutes ago, jenny2017 said:

 

 The guy was so lucky that he's still alive ! I was stupid enough to go for a fight on Chinese New Year, but the guy's friends then kicked me unconscious and only my arriving wife who brought a spare key, saved my life.

 

   Result: 3 broken ribs, a lot of wounds and blood. I've learned my lesson. 

Its becuse its dodgy and against the rules/laws.

It rips the taxi system off.

Its dishonest from the cab driver. 

Its a lose lose for everyone escept the greedy driver. 

I even offered one drvier less than what the meter would cost since he isnt paying the commission. He was either too stupid or greedy to understand 

9 hours ago, Essecola said:

It looks like somewhere on Sukhumvit. Actually it is normal many of them don't use the meter there. If the guy had waited for a moving taxi maybe this doesn't happen. Maybe not nice but in some areas in fact taxis insist on getting a set fare for a trip.

I simpy dont get it.

Sure they get paid more but its still a customers 

Or is that thai logic

Many years ago i asked my hotel concierge to call me a metered  cab at 5am and when it arrived. I asked meter ok?

He said yes. And loaded my luggage.

As i got in th excuses started.

I simpy said no meter no nothing.

He then started to unload my luggage whixh was fine by me.

I asked my self . Its 5am surely there arent many customers and a 400 baht trip to the airport is not a short trip.

Whats wrong with these people?

This happend many times on my most trip to bkk

Man you guys know how to choose em!

9 kids!

That means 4 with one 5 with the other. Or some other uneven combination.

Definitely one is going to get jealoua of the other

12 hours ago, ExistentialInquiry said:

Point taken hellohello. You are right though. Need to take things less seriously and come in with no real expectations and see what happens. Desperation is probably the incorrect word, depression might be a more accurate term.

 

Well call it fake, call it whatever, point is that I'm getting Thai women who are "interested" in me, whereas British women generally can't even be arsed to bother replying. Are they all just after me for my perceived money? Maybe. But in my experience a lot of so called "normal relationships" over here in UK are often effectively just a monetary transaction of sorts, just payment via alternative means, so maybe it isn't so different in any case...

 

Re: just choose porn at "my age". Lol.

 

You forget I was/am a PT. Meanwhile over last three years I've cycled more than 50,000km. 10 hours of physical training per week is normal for me. I may be chronologically 36 but believe me, I have no problem keeping up with a 20 year old, whether that be on a bike or at anything else.   Pretty certain if I was subjected to a series of biometric tests I'd probably come up with a biological age of 25. So not a total failure in life, though some people here seem to have concluded so.

I get that too in online dating (im not in the UK btw),

do you really want someone replying if they are bad quality,

sure its a numbers game,

go on one of those dating apps and change the lcoation to thailand, youre going to get heaps of replies, from hookers,

would you rather quality over quantity?

maybe im a minority, but I dont feel the need to settle down with someone, if someone good comes along thats great,

I dont have the bioloigcal urge that everyone talks about,

im never married, no defacto, had a few long term relationships, which were great

Seriously.... just take things light heartedly. You seem to have put so much expectations on everything 

Put your self on the other foot.

Ignoring who you are or which country  you are from or want to go to.

Do you think a guy who csnnot speak the language, who knows nothing about the culture, and who sux with women (im no casanova either)

Goes online, chats up a few people. Is going to simply go to a foregin country and find a normal wife???

Sure you might get lucky. But if you really  want success why not get a mail order bride from eastern europe or onlinr bridal agency from Philippines. 

From your post. It just stinks of desperation. As a man, in my experircne its no difference to going ti a club in your own country  and tryinf to pick up every girl inside.

Unless you look like brad pitt or hugh heffner how well do you think thats going  to work???

This just  popped up on my line timeline

And it just reminded me of this thread....

Op sounds very inexperieced in life...sorry to say

Just now, reargunnerph3 said:

Then she gets 50% of Sweet F*** All - make her a cash offer to get divorced, paid on completion of divorce.

Offer a cash offer !?!?!?!

Its true that men leave their brains at the airport