SoiBiker

Just now, sanemax said:

 

 

  That is the second time that you have mentioned that and I havent even stated or even suggested that there are not wealthy Thais in Thailand .

   Anyway, we are talking about "typical" prices , you seem to be just trying to portray yourself as someone who is quite rich and goes to expensive places to eat.......................rice dishes :)

Not at all. Unless you think paying a couple of quid for a meal is expensive. 

I could, but I'm not going to. 

If you don't realise there are wealthy Thai people, you must have a pretty limited understanding of the country. 

Round here the Thais spend more on dinner than the farangs.

Not all Thai people are poor, you know. 

This is a guy that spent seven years in the kitchen without getting promoted past KP. Lets not automatically assume he'd find a degree an easy thing to attain. 

6 minutes ago, sanemax said:

 

   The typical price for Special fried rice is 40-60 Baht for Thai places

60-80 Baht in felang places and anything more than that and you will expect the waiters to be wearing suits

I know what a plate of fried rice costs in the cheapest places. But there are plenty of places that charge more - and not necessarily 'felang' places either. 

Incidentally - 'Special fried rice'? Isn't that the dish you get in 'chinese' takeaways in the UK where they throw in everything they can scrape out of the back of the fridge?

2 minutes ago, balo said:

 

A simple dish with fried rice is the cheapest you can buy at any restaurant . Maybe Hilton charge 150 baht. 

 

I can think of several places that charge more than 150 baht. I wouldn't even call that 'pricey'.

2 minutes ago, KevT said:

 

Maybe. It was a 3-year degree (diploma) though, with a school solely for college degrees, not just an exam (although maybe that's not what you meant of what A levels were).

 

Thanks a lot for the open university suggestion. Do you know if that that would be accepted to get a teacher's license in Thailand for sure?

So is it a degree or a diploma?

5 minutes ago, upside said:

 

I can see you have a long way to reach grand master troll. 

 

Keep working on it young padawan.

A troll isn't just someone you happen to disagree with. 

I don't troll. I just state my opinions. If you don't like them, feel free to disagree. 

Or, you know, just drag a thread way off-topic with pointless personal attacks. Which kind of is trolling, now that I come to think of it. 

15 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

...and physically they are the most beautiful asian females that I have met...

 

 

What, all of them?

Some of you guys talk about women like they're breeds of dogs or something. 

Are you sure what you have is a degree and not a diploma?

8 minutes ago, upside said:

 

Forum popularity is built on a real world loneliness. 

 

Don't confuse the two. 

Not at all. I have plenty of friends in real life. That's why I don't feel the need to try and make any here. Well, that and the fact that most posters here aren't exactly the kind of people I want to be friends with. 

I have a social life in the real world. I come here to point and laugh, mostly. 

1 minute ago, Bonobojt said:

so basically I have to win the lottery if I ever want to live in Thailand ..

No. Just get a degree, or find a job that doesn't require one. 

Just now, Bonobojt said:

I have 7 years experience working in a kitchen as a kitchen porter or kitchen assistant but that is a job the Thai's can do, maybe my English and the fact I was born and raised in England is the only advantage I have to live and work in Thailand.  

That's more of a disadvantage. 

I'm pretty popular, actually. Check out how many likes my posts get. 

That's Larry David in my avatar, incidentally. He's a comedian, and as far as I know, not a drug addict. 

Sure, you can get a visa if you get married. You'll probably still need to earn a living though, and you need a work permit for that. 

17 hours ago, KevT said:

Say for countries where the educational system isn't the same or the naming is different as the US, is there a way to contact the Ministry of Education or somewhere else in Thailand to have the degree be recognized as on par or the same as a university degree?

Why would they do that, when the qualification isn't a university degree equivalent?

21 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Well that's your whole deal here isn't it. You criticize everyone and offer no details about yourself.  

Nobody's under any obligation to spill their whole life story on a public forum.

Those who do should expect others to comment on it.

11 minutes ago, upside said:

 

And nor do I care. 

 

I'm here for the Thai forum,  not some guy that has an avatar that looks like a drug addict. 

Ok then.

Bit weird that you keep replying to my posts, though.

2 hours ago, upside said:

 

You mean not living like yourself? 

 

You don't know anything about how I live.

1 hour ago, balo said:

I don't think OP describes a Cheap Charlie, first of all he went to a 'pricey restaurant' so no wonder he brought his own water. How much is fried rice in a pricey restaurant ? I would guess 80 baht . A real Cheap Charlie would never pay for overpriced Thai food. I know I wouldn't. 40 baht would be a normal price in most Thai places.  I even pay for water if it's 10 baht and not 50......

You think 80 baht for a dish constitutes 'pricey'?

Sometimes I wonder if this place is just a well-constructed parody site. 

"It's the principle!" - the rallying cry of the tightwad.

The principle in question, of course, being to part with as little money as possible.

An 8 year old dual core laptop is 'super fast'?

It's heartwarming to see that so many of you are living the dream out here. 

I was never deluded enough to think Thailand was some kind of earthly paradise in the first place. 

Those who have a naive, unrealistic idea about the place tend to come down with a bump sooner or later.