ClutchClark

10 minutes ago, Briggsy said:

Pay up. Go home to farangland and get on the generous welfare system. It will reimburse your expenses. Seriously consider if Thailand is for you or your current job as a screenwriter is your real calling.

Huh? 

Generous Welfare System? 

Reimburse Expenses? 

Its pretty early to be drinking.

Wish I had some good advice for you.

I don't understand exactly. You say gun ranges are legal so is your trouble the posession of a bullet outside the confines of the range? If the round was a failure to fire then it should have a dimple in the primer to help support your story. Seem that the range would be the responsible party for fsiling to secure all rounds and shell casings. Maybe an attorney could help? Any chance you can leave out the part about your knowledge it was not an authorized range?

Posession of a single 9-mm round would have gotten you 10 years in a Mexico prison with zero chance of parole. 

I wish you good luck and try an ignore these idiots with their callous responses...their brains have been pickled by booze. 

"Egg Coffee"? 

Sounds intriguingly delicious. Two of my favorite foods.

Hope you will report back.

On September 1, 2016 at 2:45 AM, mania said:

The better shops in Thailand use the LaMarzoco RO system that then adds proper minerals back to the water in its three stage process.

I had no idea !

Interesting.

16 hours ago, sandgroper2 said:

Its been known for years that the soap is useless, if not harmful.

What I have read is that you can accomplish the same cleaning power by using non-microbial soaps (regular soaps) by leaving the soap on your skin for something like 30 seconds.

I think I read that in Consumer Reports ?

11 hours ago, balo said:

I only use herbal soap , locally produced, Why make it so complicated ? 

 

You hippie.

On October 28, 2016 at 8:25 AM, malt25 said:

Why not buy a bunch, or several bunches of fresh flowers. Once you've enjoyed the fresh flowers, let them dry out & you'll have dried flowers.

That's what I'd do.

Best method of drying flowers is to hang fresh flowers upside down on a line in an A/C ventilated room. 

Chatuchak Market in BKK has every type of flower and tree and gardening product ever created and is worth a trip. I think I have seen dried flowers there.

They open Tuesday afternoon but I prefer arriving Wednesday morning because its cooler temp outside and they still have all their products but by late Wednesday afternoon much is sold off. They pack up Thursday and return to their farms.

9 hours ago, ClutchClark said:

Blasting distorted music at eardrum piercing levels is one of the sure signs you are in a 3rd world country.

 

Along with the smell of burning plastic. 

 

Along with a large stray dog population. 

 

Along with garbage littering every bit of open space.

4 hours ago, Deepinthailand said:

Yes have spent time in Caribbean. 

This thread was about noise music which you described then went on about everything else you dislike about Thailand hence diffrent agenda. Can't you read your own posts. 

 

Now I understand, you read far more into my post than I had stated. I simply made a list of things and you applied your own skew and decided I must not like these things and that resulted in you getting your panties twisted. 

If you read my post you will not find any indication of my displeasure or pleasure of these things. The reason is because sometimes I enjoy being in the 3rd World and those items are reminders I am. 

I could have added eating small bananas and drinking fresh coconut. 

So take your old cantankerous and argumentative attitude and run along. Your trying to start arguments where none are warranted. 

And you must have spent all your Caribbean time on Bermuda 

2 minutes ago, Deepinthailand said:

Just in case you forgot the rest of your post

Thank you but why would I have forgotten what I posted only 6 hours ago ?

Perhaps it is YOU with a hidden agenda ? 

Lol.

9 minutes ago, Emster23 said:

Agree that the hearing damaging levels are awful, but almost as bad is most of the "music" content. Techno or trance or whatever.... drill my teeth without Novocaine please! I've had washing machines with more rhythmic complexity. Nursery rhymes up there with Cole Porter by comparison. Few years ago they kept playing "Hey Sexy Lady" at beach football tournament over and over. I went over to sound man and said "If you don't change that, I will come back and smash your equipment", then back to my seat. Amazingly, they did change their tune.

Nice description but do you think they might have also changed it if you had simply asked civilly ?

4 hours ago, Deepinthailand said:

Been to many so called 3rd world country never had a problem with loud music. 

The rest of your post has absolutely nothing to do with this thread. Another agenda maybe???

Interesting.

Maybe you have never spent any time in the Caribbean ? 

Another agenda ? 

For the love of god, what are you going on about now? 

What possible agenda could I have for pointing out noise pollution is common in 3rd World countries? Well...OK, you have exposed me and my sinister plot to secretly encourage Westerners to move back to the First World.  

Lol.

Why do they even install rheostats or volume knobs on stereos in the 3rd World devices? Save a few dollars and just install a Power On/Off switch because when its On then its maxed out.

Cheers 

Blasting distorted music at eardrum piercing levels is one of the sure signs you are in a 3rd world country.

Along with the smell of burning plastic. 

Along with a large stray dog population. 

Along with garbage littering every bit of open space.

1 minute ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

My reply was tongue in cheek...

 

Lighten up, it's nearly Friday :) 

Trying to knock others down to build yourself up is never a good approach. 

Any day of the week ;-)

Just now, cornishcarlos said:

 

How long have you been here ?? 

 

Antibiotics for everything, if they don't work we might have to investigate further 

Long enough that I know anti-biotics are given out like candy and assumed by Thai to be a magic pill...thus the reason for my post.

Farang need to be their own doctors in Thailand. Doing so would have saved the OP alot of discomfort and follow-up.

Why is it important for you to know how long I have been here?

2 minutes ago, autanic said:

 

All this talk about forcing Farangs to carry a Sim Card for starters.  Funny I don't see Spain or America or Australia even contemplating this.

One of us is understanding this SIm card thing wrong.

I do not recall reading that farangs will be forced to carry a SIM card...but simply that they will be issued a new type of SIM card that can provide location.

And locations can already be determined with long-standing existing technology. 

Can someone provide clarification ?

IF it had been a hornet then I believe the proper course of treatment would have been anti-histamines. 

NOT anti-biotics. 

Hope you continue improving.

Is the purpose of this thread simply to make fun of those silly Thai and their Cultural superstitions? 

Seems kind of poor manners to use a poor girls death for such entertainment.

12 minutes ago, JingerBen said:

Driving in Thailand is like participating in a Demolition Derby.

If you want to survive it you have to drive defensively and try to be aware of what's happening on all sides.

Impossible to do that all the time... just hope Lady Luck sticks with you.

Demolition Derbies also require a good offense  

4 minutes ago, balo said:

 

You know , you can experience that feeling in Bangkok too .   Social isolation can happen anywhere , if you do not have a network it can be hard to  get out of that kind of loneliness .   

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Very true...but I do wonder if living in a foreign land makes it worse?

18 minutes ago, Gary A said:

 

I lived in Pompano Beach for three years. I got tired of the wall to wall people.  I owned a condo and the maintenance was $175 a month. That was years ago. I had a 25 foot Wellcraft boat and also got tired of near traffic jams in the intercoastal waterway. Boats parked at the the waterfront bars were docked five and six deep. You had to be pretty sure footed to walk across all the boats. I did enjoy the offshore fishing and dipping shrimp out of the inlets. Unfortunately when the shrimp were running, there were hundreds of boats catching them. Florida would be nice if they could get rid of about 80 percent of the people.

 

Now that I think about it, I had dry storage for my boat. I would call them and tell them what time to put the boat in the water. When you got back, they would take the boat out of the water and spray it down to remove the salt and put it in the indoor rack. That was nice but if I remember correctly that was another $175 a month. I don't think anything has gotten cheaper.

 

ADDED - I forgot to mention that my best friend from Florida has a beautiful home in a gated community on an intercoastal access canal. Just his taxes and insurance cost more than it cost me to live in Thailand. I live and eat quite well .

Do you have a boat in Thailand? 

I would be curious the comparison.

I discussed cost-of-living with my friends down there and it is a, "You get what you pay for" equation.

My experience with Thailand was its a, "You really don't get what you pay for it". I personally think the Thailand experience is worth qbout 60%-70% of what it costs me.

If I was looking to move from my lifetime home in CO then I would choose FL over Thailand 10 out of 10 times...I like to fish.

We were on the water every day and never had the issue you describe with boat traffic. 

Cheers

7 minutes ago, OMGImInPattaya said:

The almost total lack of any significant wildlife in Thailand, except packs of feral dogs and cats, is quite depressing. As for the birds and fish, the locals consumed or sold most of them for pets long ago. Even in urban areas of the United States, there are significant wildlife populations.

You are spot on.

The concept of conservstion is not very popular in Asia...in fact, its downright foreign.

The abundance of marine life and shorebirds on the FL Gulf beaches came as quite a shock to me. 

I am an early riser so I go for beachwalks and in Thailand I can fill a 55-gallon garbage bag full (although I carry smaller ones since they are easier to carry and drop on the steps of a hotel to throw away). I can fill this each day.

In FL, I picked up 3 beer cans, a water bottle and a broken snorkel total in one week.

Well I just returned home after a trip visiting the Gulf side of Florida and I will say it is 10x better than any Thai beach I have visited.

There was no garbage.

There were lifeguard stations.

There were fish everywhere and birds.

Two "wild" spotted dolphins swam right up to me while I was in waist deep water.

No jetskis blocking the walk along the tideline. 

Oh yeah...and the hotels and buildings were all atleast 200 meters off the high tide mark. 

I will choose FL over Thailand any day for beaches. 

3 minutes ago, JAFO said:

To summarize, The OP is out of work. He landed out in the middle of Isaan and is slowly losing his mind because he had no plan. He comes on a Thai forum and vents from his own internal frustration.  He scoffs that Thais are racist because they have a word for us foreigners. Hmm. Shall we go through the names the Americans have for every other person on the planet. Berkshire is right, Americans are experts at racism. Thai's...not so much

 

In the end I get it. The OP is bored. I encourage him to move back. He will find it may not be as easy to do but again at 32 its a safe bet. My wife and I moved back to the US 4 years ago, we got her citizenship and moved back. She found gainful employment during our time there but wasn't happy about the income tax and cringed every time she saw my check stub. My wife did not care for the US at all and we lived in the SF bay area. Life is just easier and way better for us here in Thailand. But then again I have a nice job, nice house and have tons of hobbies. I go wheelin with my Thai friends, ride my moto up in the mountains, I shoot pool on Fridays, we have people over to our house for a BBQ etc. Honestly we just live life. America is a great place to visit, but I would not want to live there again but then again my circumstances are way different and that's what usually rubs some wrong and they go on a bender about Thailand and how bad it is. Change your circumstances. Things will get better.

 

Good luck

You lead a very good life in Thailand. Wheelin, bikin' etc.

Its good for you to put such things that influence your opinion in perspective. Its possible to live that life in many parts of the US...but you have to move away from the Blue Cities like SF. 

But lets be honest, how many ex-pats can find a niche like you have carved for yourself in Thailand? 

Honestly curious...not intending any TVF argument.

Also, its true that there are taxes in the US (and SF probably has even more) but we also have an infrastructure in the US that actually "works" and it is from those taxes. 

8 minutes ago, amykat said:

Yes, I am white ...okay, I admit it!  However, I don't think it will affect most people in large cities, esp like Florida.  How would this affect a white man with an Asian woman? That is hardly a taboo area is it?  Are you going to cry because people look at you?  After living in Thailand and being stared at like a freak for over a decade (well for me.)  No.  I am very white and blonde.  My daughter is half Thai and the other day while getting a coffee, we had people talking photos of us like we were movie stars for 10 solid minutes. Do you think walking around in Tampa would be worse than that?? 

I don't really think anyone would care in FL.

Its a bit of an "end of the road" place.

4 minutes ago, Berkshire said:

 

It's clear that you're not a racist.  I get that.  I wish there were more people like you.  But unfortunately, racism is still alive and well in America.  Look, this whole racial stuff is not the reason I left America.  But when people compare the USA to Thailand...man, it's not even close.  To put it simply, Thais don't even know what racism means because they don't practice it....not the way we do.  But Americans, we're experts. 

What in the heck are you talking about?

This entire forum is full of daily examples of systemic racism in Thailand.

What racism did you find in FL? Sure the old southerners, born and raised Floridians have some racist sentiment (and that is a two-way street) but seldom will those locals be the ones a new FL transplant will be in daily contact with.

FL is full of people from somewhere else. 

51 minutes ago, Missing Troll said:

I have friends that have wife's from both Philippine and Thailand that work offshore, when they are gone the wife's sit home alone get bored and divorce is soon there. Have seen 4 friends gone this way. They all say it would have been better to stay in Asia first cheaper second the social aspect for the wife's.

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