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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

That must be some very good kool-aid. Delusion can be a powerful force. Trump is a master of delusion. 

2 hours ago, kimothai said:

I totally disagree with your statement.  Most everybody in Washington thinks the tariffs are a good idea whether or not they admit it.  It's been the left (as you are (I assume)) that have been complaining and calling Trump all kinds of names.  BUT WAIT!  The people that wanted tariffs long, long before Trump came on the scene was the Left and none other than Nancy Pelosi (also Chuck Schumer).  It just took 25 plus years for a great President (Trump) to come along that had the balls to do what no other President wanted or could do.  Thank God for POTUS Trump.  See links:

 

 

Scroll to the end where Schumer is mentioned

 " Most everybody in Washington thinks the tariffs are a good idea whether or not they admit it."

So you personally know "most everybody in Washington" ? If so, you really should choose friends that are prepared to stand by their beliefs!!!

35 minutes ago, rough diamond said:

I hear that TAT have sold some of their broken crystal balls to Trump!

Well if they're not broken already I am sure the "Ball Breaker in Chief" will see to it!

3 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

Seeing them standing like that, there is virtually no room left for the next award, which she has earned, it seems.

(X) sarcasm off.

"Them"?  "She"? Confused!!!

"The TAT remains hopeful but cautious,......"

TAT are ALWAYS "hopeful", "estimate that", "anticipate", "are looking forward to ...", "are confident that..." Thailand will get xxx million tourists next month etc. etc. etc.

Surprised they even acknowledge that tariffs may have some impact.

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Nice friends, watch him drink himself to death.

Maybe he was keeping up with his friends but had one of his drinks spiked? 

3 hours ago, baansgr said:

By gas, I mean gasoline/petrol. Still plenty bars at 50 baht all day and even one at 40 but I don't really drink. Never touch foreign food. When i first visited 1995 was 37 baht and then 1999 when moved here was Mid 50s..yes there was  a couple of years of 70 baht but not since 2008, so XE and your example is kinda irrelevant. Seriously inflation hardly exists. Bike tax and insurance same same.. everything almost 0% inflation 😁 still live very comfortably on 30k 👍 

Sorry for the mix up re gas, but I meant gas for cooking (Calor?) which has gone up substantially. NO bars here where I live selling beer at those prices - maybe 711/Tesco/Macro?

"Farang food" gone up substantially, and when it does go up it's not by a couple of baht! For example - Salad Cream jumped from 199 baht to 299 baht in one fell swoop recently. (I have already agreed that Thai "street food" hasn't increased to the same extent.)

The example I quoted is hardly irrelevant, as those rates did exist at that time, which is the time when I first started coming here. (Retired here 2004, but spent a few years before that as a "snowbird"!) 

Medical costs have gone up dramatically - Bangkok Hospital were going to charge someone here £19 for one stitch in a cut finger!

It would appear that if you "go the full hog" and live here like a Thai, then prices have not increased as dramatically as prices for "farangs", and my point is that if prices continue to escalate the discerning tourist will seek other cheaper Asian destinations for his vacation (Vietnam, Cambodia etc), and let's face it, most tourists like to "sample the delights" of street food from time to time, but for a proper dinner they prefer a proper restaurant with a glass of wine (which is also ridiculously expensive!)

7 hours ago, baansgr said:

I've lived here ny on 25 years and Thailand is same same...pay same, or less rent, pay the same for a beer, pay almost the same for gas, and apart from a half baht increase in electric, the same for utilities.. Of course the dumskis that are Tik tokers, you tubers, yoga and wellness "teachers" will always be overcharged and have no truck against paying more. Thailand is the land of no inflation with anything and everything you want to do at yesteryear prices. Floods, coups, tsunamis no matter..Thailand trundles.along regardless 👍 

Think you're suffering from amnesia, mate!

I've been here for 20 years and the price for all beer has gone up. In the resort where I live, a bottle of Tiger beer used to cost 60 - 65 baht in a bar - now it's pretty much a standard 80 baht in most bars. Same for "farang" food - a pack of pomelo used to cost 35 baht in my local supermarket - now it's well over 100 baht.

The price for Thai food has also increased - but not by as much, I will agree on that. The price for bottled gas has gone up from 300 baht to almost 500 baht, so I think your memory is playing tricks!

However, I agree with you regarding rental prices - they have remained pretty constant, but don't forget that 20 years ago we were getting 70+ baht to the British pound, so a 10k monthly rental cost you app £140. Nowadays, at today's rate of 44 baht to the British pound, it costs you £238!

On 4/4/2025 at 7:55 AM, Nigeone said:

Of course it is ! More figures dreamt up by the eternal optimists . Never believe there figures . It’s always bigger better etc which I always doubt for so many reasons .

So do I - especially whenever "TAT" is involved!

5 hours ago, Jim Blue said:

Oh for the good old days @ 40 + to the dollar !

And 70+ to the British pound instead of 40+ as it stands now!

7 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Oh NO, another one with insufficient health care and funds.

But hey, why not go for other people's money?

He came to Thailand for retirement? Could have saved 300£/month easily.

This would be now enough (40.000£ probably) to take a fly wherever he wants.

No need for any donation at all.

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1 hour ago, MalcolmB said:

That is funny, they chose the absolute dirtiest part of Pattaya Beach to make love.

That is where the sewerage overflow is released.

 

A lot of raw sewerage also flows out at that very spot. Most of the 300 short time rooms in that immediate vicinity have dodgy plumbing that gets released right there.

All the sperm that gets flushed down the toilets and washed down the showers there makes its way to that outlet.

 

Old farang, Indian, Arab sperm all gets mixed up together.

If she is pregnant after this it will be interesting to see what breed the child is.

 

 

"High -  Brid"?

"The unabashed conduct of the couple has raised concerns about Pattaya's image as a tourist destination."

Is that being said "tongue in cheek" and if so - whose cheek? 🙂

9 hours ago, Jingthing said:

At this rate no republican legislator will be having a town hall ever again. 

Yes, Trump won, but almost nobody voted for what he is actually doing.

Bait and switch. It's time for Americans to take to the streets. 

"but almost nobody voted for what he is actually doing."

As happened in the UK with SIR Keith "All - ALL pensioners will be better off under Labour" Starmer - all lies and deceit!

14 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Ok. And you wrote:

"You really don't have to copy and paste the full post and phtographs to reply to it, you know"

 

And now you're doing same???

I think you should stop this kindergarten manners.

Please don't reply.

You were confused as to what I meant so I had to show you what you had posted in its entirity, but don't worry you are on my "Ignored" list, so I don't have to see your duplicate posts of the OP any more! (P.S. You were the one who said "Try again"! )

1 minute ago, sambum said:

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On 3/31/2025 at 6:26 PM, newbee2022 said:

Huh, what are you talking of? Wrong thread? Wrong post? Wrong comment???  Try again😳

Your post:- Photo and all of the text of the post to say:- "Bad luck, but that is the risk in that game"

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On 3/31/2025 at 6:26 PM, newbee2022 said:

Huh, what are you talking of? Wrong thread? Wrong post? Wrong comment???  Try again😳

Think and look at your post again!

10 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Bad luck, but that is the risk in that game

You really don't have to copy and paste the full post and phtographs to reply to it, you know!

On 3/29/2025 at 4:35 PM, richard_smith237 said:

 

Then as I pointed out earlier - in that case 'its ok for the seller to sell T-shirt of a deceased loved one with a profanity'....    its within the Thai Law, but clearly that would be morally reprehensible. 

 

The subjected is far more nuanced that simplifying it to... Its within the law, its just a T-shirt etc... 

 

I think there is a line in the sand that shifts within a grey area, over time, from region to region... clearly there are extremes, and I'm sure someone 'responsible and considerate' would like to remain on the respectable side of this line. 

 

This shop seller is either naively and perhaps even innocently ignorant, or just doesn't care - as others have pointed out, thats entirely their prerogative - but its also understandable that in such situations others may become insulted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"This shop seller is either naively and perhaps even innocently ignorant, or just doesn't care - as others have pointed out, thats entirely their prerogative - but its also understandable that in such situations others may become insulted."

Exactly as the text of the post says - she is within her right to sell whatever shirts she wants, whether they feature Hitler or Osama Bin Laden, so she doesn't care about other people's feelings - just about the money she makes from selling them.

As another poster pointed out, I wonder how she would feel if she had lost a loved one in for instance, a car accident, and somebody printed a tee shirt of the disaster scene accompanied by some crass comment, and put it on sale to the public?

2 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

That's fine, but it's your job to control your feelings. Not to accost Thai ladies who are scraping a living selling T-shirts.

I looked like he was the one being accosted - with a smile on his face too.

And not all of these shop owners are "scraping a living"!

21 hours ago, KireB said:

Careful, lot of posters here adore the sleazeball.

Convicted criminal President of the USA - never thought I'd see the day! Shows the mentality and moral standards of some people.

23 hours ago, chuang said:

Who the fork are these people to order others what to sell...if they don't like they can buy off the products and throw them away..

These people are making a living in their own country if you don't like go back to your country...

"...........if you don't like go back to your country..."

There's always one!

"............if they don't like they can buy off the products and throw them away.."

Rather defeats the object of making a protest really - the shop owner would be quite happy. She would probably label the next batch "Best Sellers"! 🙂 

I have no strong feelings either way about these shirts, but I might feel differently if for instance, my family had been murdered by the Nazis, or I had been bombed out of my house in Ukraine.

"Despite a fall in drug convictions over the past three years, 73% of inmates remain imprisoned for drug-related offences..............."

That figure says it all!

18 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

As long as the non fail policy is used, the education system creates lazy students, and stimulate not to learn or do any effort to reach something in their lives.. People are not different from other countries, but the Government keeps them stupid to stay in power. Suppose that the students are being well educated and see what is going on, they would loose their power and status quickly. And many Thai teachers in any subject have the same problem. Too many students in a classroom, nobody can fail, and some schools even oblige teachers to give no lower grades than 2,5.

"People are not different from other countries, but the Government keeps them stupid to stay in power."

Exactly - that is why they keep disbanding/barring anybody from the political opposition with any education for the flimsiest of reasons - e.g. Move Forward Party/Future Forward Party. Shameful!

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

The creep seems hellbent on destroying what is left of America, and diminishing it's remaining stature around the world. I wonder if his supporters saw this destruction coming? 

 

Didn't he say something about actually improving the nation? That seems like an eternity ago. I knew he was senile but talk about forgetting all your promises. Yikes. 

Not wanting to sound off topic, but broken promises also apply to his counterpart in the UK - Starmer :- "Every pensioner - EVERY pensioner will be better off under Labour" Bullpoo!