SoiBiker

51 minutes ago, Gweiloman said:

What on earth are you talking about? 

Remind us again, what is your thread about?

It's about 12 pages too long...

1 minute ago, johnnygimbo said:

Can you expand on hat?

Vests, cargo shorts, cheap ill-fitting t-shirts on people who should have stopped wearing them years ago, flip flops as evening wear, elephant trousers, those weird tops backpacker girls wear that show off the side of a manky bra, socks and sandals, baggy speedos, exposed armpit hair in the vicinity of people's food, etc etc

Dress terribly. 

Hell, if I was faced with the prospect of lugging my bag to the MRT, having to open it for them, then up and down two sets of escalators, across the bridge to the airport link, and all the way up from the airport basement, I think I'd just get a taxi.

Despite it being patiently explained why the change was necessary in this very thread, some people still don't get it. 

Shame we can't upgrade the membership, too.

10 minutes ago, ardokano said:

I do not say NOTHING..

and at first post a say about quality life and quality service. If you show me local it's fine. So??any example?

What's the point? You'll just reply incoherently about how it's no good. 

You can also use the 'Unread Content' button, then the 'Ownership' dropdown. 

Don't really see the point in this. If I want to talk to my friends, I'll talk to my friends. I don't really care what the people at the other tables are doing. 

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

So have you figured out yet how to see if there have been responses in a thread that you've posted in?

The prior version gave you a link and profile ID for the most recent/last poster in a thread you've posted in.

When I go to the new version of My Posts or My Threads, that functionality appears to be gone.

 

You'll get a notification. Or you can go to 'Content I posted in' under the 'Activity' dropdown.

OP says nothing is cheap here. People point out that many things are. OP counters that everything local is poor quality.

This just feels like pointless Thai-bashing.

They'll let you in. You might have to open it and let them have a look.

The MRT doesn't go to the airport, though. 

It's still a forum. No big deal really.

But then, old people tend to hate change, so given the main audience here it probably won't go down that well.

Ask your neighbours.

I wouldn't pay six pounds for a pint of decent ale in the UK. But then I wouldn't pay a fiver for a pad Thai in Thailand either. But some items tend to vary in value depending on where you buy them - surely you're aware of this phenomenon?

When a Thai curry costs £13 and the steamed rice another £5.95 I have to laugh when friends in the UK invite me out for Thai food.

Agreed. But Thai food is expensive mostly all over Europe. Beer is not expensive all over Asia. Just ridiculously expensive here due to various laws.

There's beer and there's beer. I wouldn't call 55 baht for a big bottle of local beer ridiculously expensive. But obviously if you want the imported stuff it gets a lot pricier. The same logic applies pretty much everywhere.

Yep. But when cheese costs what it does here, I have to laugh when some people insist on only eating farang food.

Anyone remember the petrol station round the corner from Khao San Road that turned into a bar at night, with tables set up around the pumps?

Leveraging desperation to get your end away cheaper?

Classy.

I wouldn't pay six pounds for a pint of decent ale in the UK. But then I wouldn't pay a fiver for a pad Thai in Thailand either. But some items tend to vary in value depending on where you buy them - surely you're aware of this phenomenon?

I don't really get this idea that the Chinese don't spend any money. Surely, they eat, they drink, they buy souvenirs, they stay in hotels? Am I missing something?

She was talking about sex tourism not locals, if they have double pricing they can have different rules for visitors. You don't have to be a bank robber to know about banks or how they get robbed do you?

You don't seem to understand that it would not be possible to discern which tourists are here just to have sex and which are here to see the temples. No monger would admit on arrival they came to have sex.

Why not? Is it something to be ashamed of? Plenty of people here seem happy to be honest about their intentions.

I don't fear - because fear is exactly what they're trying to make us do, and I don't intend to let them win.

At 13.49 you said she was 35, Now you are telling us she is 30. Are you 20, 30,40,50 or 60 ? I do love a story whereby the ages change on every page.

It's called a typo, she is 30

Or at least she says she is.

If you still have your desktop computer set up, just use that to access the router's web interface using the IP and log in details they gave you, and set up the wifi network that way.

That's it then. Expect a 90% drop in tourists in Bangers and Pattaya.

Well thought out, K. Khobkarn.

NO ! The good minster will have figures to prove otherwise, as ever.

Yes and the figures she would come up with would most likely be 100% accurate.

The number of people that visit Thailand just for the sex industry is tiny, a drop in the ocean.

It would have zero or close to zero effect on Bangkok, the drop would probably be a hell of a lot closer to a few percent than to 90%, wonder how people can possibly think otherwise.

The fun thing about the visible sex industry (to tourists) is that it again is a drop in the ocean as compared to the sex industry catering to the locals.

I wonder if these are under fire as well, I suppose not.

It's an interesting phenomenon - those who come to Thailand for sex often seem to have difficulty comprehending that not everyone else is like them. They often seem to have spent all their time in Thailand in the bar scene bubble, and to be quite unaware of what goes on outside that small world. As we see on this forum, they're also often dismissive and derisive towards anyone who expresses opinions and motivations that differ from theirs.

If one were to indulge in pop psychology, we could speculate that perhaps those with little capability for empathy and understanding of others are the most likely to end up paying for sex in the first place?

I wouldn't take advice on torrents from someone who doesn't know what a magnet link is, either.