BritManToo

Can't answer, gate security always wave white folk through, we're all too rich to rob..

1 hour ago, Thainesss said:

Basically dont worry about the electronics and just lay it down between the ceiling supports in such a way there there is no gaps. Its not scientific at this point, you just want coverage. 

Not in a modern house, we all have hung aluminium frame ceilings, supported by tensioned wires from the roof.

No way you're gonna crawl on that.

14 minutes ago, Uptooyoo said:

How many expat-teachers are contributing to their nation's retirement system? Even if I had earned $5000/month as a teacher, I'm glad I did not move here at a young age. If I had, I wouldn't be looking forward to a monthly social-security check, a company pension, and a company sponsored 401K savings plan. When you're young, such matters seem distant and far into the future; so it's easy to push thoughts of retirement to the back of the mind, until one day, you wake up, look into the mirror, and see a 50 year old man wondering how the years slipped by so quickly. Cold sweat and heart palpitations kick-in when you realize it's too late now, that you're destined to a life of slogging through endless teaching sessions, while others your age are off to a daily round of golf and spa treatments...without the anxiety of needing to earn money. Their only worry?  Where to have dinner after the evening swim.  

Doesn't matter any more, in the Uk the young guys aren't getting company pensions, and little hope of government pensions. The entitlements you expected in the boomer years are all gone now.

1 minute ago, crazykopite said:

I feel for you that in one hell of a long list . Everyone goes on about agents but it’s illegal as far as I am aware , a friend of mine is using an agent it’s costing him 15,000 baht a years extension costs 1,900 baht so someone is making a lot of money I wonder who ! 

I use a 25k agent, she gets 5k, immigration get 20k.

But it's not 1 CM immigration officer getting the money, it's spread right up to head office in Bangkok.

BJ would have been getting his cut.

1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I've always made the best of what I have, and that hasn't changed. What has changed is that I no longer have a future that could be different from what I have now. Before there was always hope that next day would be better, more adventures to come. Now it's just hope that next day won't be worse, and adventures are no more.

Don't get me wrong; I relish the glories of sunsets, appreciate being warm, enjoy movies, love chatting with friends, relish gardening and making things that will outlive me. It's just that it's obviously only filling in time. 

Which brings me back to my original comment that a family is what makes it worth while when the adventures and world travel is in the past.

Couple of days ago a good friend some years younger than I had a stroke in front of me. That certainly made me think about what my own future holds for me.

Totally agree, once you're past 60 very little ahead, except chronic illness and death.

If I was 50, I'd probably buy a rural home in France, no point now, not long enough left.

5 years back my best pal died of cancer, aged 50, last month my best pal died of AIDs, aged 59, not even worth making new friends, they don't last long enough for the effort.

1 hour ago, Crossy said:

I would use "raze" but is seems "rase" would also be acceptable.

 

When I was small I always though that saying something was "raised to the ground" was plain weird, that was before I discovered razors (or is it rasors). 

You need to move with the time.

In this age of solar power it's obviously 'rays'.

On 7/10/2019 at 11:44 PM, fhickson said:

why are the bars empty if there are more people around?

Beer too expensive, women too old or too expensive.

10 years back I had a Brit income of 50k, now I have the same Brit income worth 38k.

Got a woman in my house now, I can drink and bang at home, no need to spend 2-3k/night.

Thinking most of the other pensioners are the same.

28 minutes ago, lkv said:

Vietnam is now saying for instance, that their spending of only 90 something dollars per tourist per day, is because of lack of infrastructure and development. Basically, they are saying that if they had Thailand's shopping malls, spending per tourist would increase. And it would.

I spend around $30/day on holiday in Vietnam, I meet many backpackers spending less than $20/day.

I'm not sure why you think foreign tourists would visit shopping malls.

Although I did stand in a shopping mall while waiting for a bus in Da Nang last month.

57 minutes ago, lkv said:

Well you can input any data you wish in the mathematical model, including the cost of a prostitute, which we know, and how many of Thailand's tourists were sex tourists, which, if I am not mistaken, was estimated at about 30% a few years ago.

So the stats are clearly wrong right from the start, 90% of foreign men visiting Thailand end up having sex with locals.

What label you stick on them is irrelevant.

Still raining this morning at San Sai.

25 minutes ago, theoldgit said:

Yes, but as I say they date was put back since the German Consulate started handing these notes to applicants.

Project fear in action unilaterally by the Germans, not that any Brits wants to holiday in Germany.

I'm betting Spain, France and Italy wouldn't go along with unilaterally cancelling EEA agreements, no matter how much the Germans threatened them.

Can you imagine all the Med. holiday resorts losing their Brit customers for a summer while everything was sorted out? Not to mention all the airlines going broke.

It's never gonna happen.

5 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I hear from friends there, that the bar scene is pretty much over? Apparently the bar fines have skyrocketed?

They were still the same price when I was there last year.

There were plenty of ladies prepared to move into your room for food and board, and a few empty promises.

28 minutes ago, bristolboy said:

Nothing in science is absolutely certain.

In the 1930s it was warming, 1970s it was a new ice age, now warming again.

First alarmist predictions were published in the 1870s and they've (quite often the same scientists) been changing their minds back and forth ever since.

I always enjoy watching this video ........

25 minutes ago, rosst said:

I am not denying that some 16 year olds are physically ready for sexual experience but are not mentally ready. 

Nobody really cares what you think, each country has it's own law, obey of face punishment.

Age of consent in Cambodia appears to be 15, so I'm not sure what's happening here.

7 minutes ago, theoldgit said:

If and when the UK leaves the EU, spouses of UK nationals will no longer be entitled to free movement and will have to jump through the same hoops as other third country nationals.

Freedom of movement for spouse/family is an EEA agreement, Brexit probably won't effect it.

There are countries outside the EU that are also part of this agreement.

Not that Brexit is ever likely to be allowed to happen.

It's already past March 29 2019, nobodies VISA was cancelled.

8 minutes ago, Jane Dough said:

Beer never was cheap in Thailand. 

Rooster

That's true Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines beer is 50c to $1 a glass/bottle.

Thailand isn't the country for alcoholics, unless you can drink rice whiskey.

34 minutes ago, OneZero said:

Massive massive influx of condos / people & their impact upon traffic & pollution in the past 10 years has probably had a negative impact upon Thai CM natives attitudes.  Then also with respect to the farang, if a fair percentage may be more interested in sex than marriage with their daughters, that may also have a somewhat more negative impact toward the farang contingent.

Don't care what the locals think of me.

Do care about the four months of unbreathable air this year the natives caused by burning the fields and jungle.

25 minutes ago, Henryford said:

Thailand won't have 5G coverage for years. By then you will be upgrading to another phone. Personally i would avoid Huawei for the moment.

Just bought the Huawei Y9 2019 for me and my gf @ just over 5k each.

Great phones, we're both happy with them.

2 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Not dumb at all. I've met some of these girls while he was with them and most were very good looking and nice. Personally I don't lie on my profile as I don't feel it's necessary, but there's no arguing that he gets significantly better results than me online - both in quantity and quality of girls. Integrity is nice to have, but won't necessarily get you laid...

It's more important to project 'wealth' that it is to project 'good looks' IMHO.

Many women would bang any guy that drove up in a Porche.

5 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

I'm in Angeles right now. Second time here and so far never had a bad experience with a girl. On the contrary - some of the girls I met here were so sweet I've taken them multiple times (though I get my girls from clubs - not bar fines - so I don't pay upfront)

Get the bus to Barretto for a few nights, many clubs, nice beaches.