Tom59

On 1/15/2020 at 12:17 PM, Matzzon said:

What? How do you know that I took away that information, and left out to mention that? I got everything I wanted to have in my post. You shall not come here and tell me what should have been standing in my post. Write you own one and design it like you want it to be.

 

But ok, let´s go to work:

 

No 1: Don´t know. It can´t be the this people. They are everywhere, but it doesn´t look like this dump in other places. However, there are almost more foreigners in Pattaya than Thais, so I guess it´s the foreigner that created this mess. Time to clean it up!

 

No 2: Out of the info above you already know that. The foreign criminal elements that since decades grown into the core of the city like an terminal disease.

That looks awfully like Thai logic to me. Same Same as foreigner run down crossing the road by pickup with black smoke and loud exhaust doing 80ks an hour with driver chatting on mobile phone. Conclusion, "foreigner to blame. if foreigner not come him not get run over"!

On 1/15/2020 at 11:17 AM, Matzzon said:

Just the thought of that they actually let this be, grow and are doing this to inflict pain and suffering on the tourist industry is unfathomable.

 

However, I can sometimes understand the single Thai incidents and many individual Thai citizens actions. That based on the fact of Pattaya as a magnet for criminality and slime of the earth extremely rotten and unwanted foreigner the city seem to attract. If this comment was only based on them, then they could let Pattaya rot and build an unbreakable dome over the city.

 

Ok, as a good thing. I also personally know a bunch of good guys that have settled down in Pattaya, so that does not go for them or anybody else that knows how to behave. it´s just that the city unfortunately seems to attract to much of the wrong people.

In England we have a saying that says "you can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear".  Pattaya is what it is and at the moment it's biggest problem is that it doesn't really know what it wants to be. if it wants to be a modern holiday resort city that attracts 'good' tourists then it needs to improve its infrastructure and services. It needs to spend money on capital urban regeneration (and not just build more and more condo blocks to sit empty for years on end). It needs to clean up the beaches and bring water quality up to international standards and then it needs to end its pursuit of 'cheap charlie' tours from China, Russia and the like. OR, it can accept it's origins and go the 'pile it high, sell it cheap' route and continue to seek out the above mentioned 'new farang' but it can't have both!

20 hours ago, balo said:

There is a video who does not blur out his face if you search for it. 

The reality is that even where, as in this case, the act seems to be a blatant one, there does need to be a degree of presumption of innocence or you get mob justice.  There is a serious lack of competence in the forensic police practices in Thailand and the practice of parading alleged perpetrators in front of the TV cameras in order that they can publicly incriminate themselves will probably land Thailand in the international court at some time in the future.    

3 hours ago, VYCM said:

you haven't been to soi Buakow?

90% of the elderly guys wearing the same stuff.

 

It's that sort of place!

Being charitable, having watched the clip a few times, perhaps initially he thought it was his phone that he had placed there whilst he had his feet washed. That was until the point he noticed the other worker looking in his general direction and the owner of the phone coming back. At that point he kept his hand over the phone. That looks shady and rather like he knew what he was doing.  Having been charitable, I would now say that it is Soi Buakhaow and a singlet, cargo pants combo. Nuff said!

16 hours ago, melvinmelvin said:

 

funny that Chamberlain should have said that,

(same chap that secured peace for the foreseeable future?)

 

No! That was  

It did no such thing, in fact quite the opposite! 60% of those who voted, voted for parties that favored a confirmatory vote with remain being an option. The Tories got in with only 45% of the vote. That is not a working democracy. What Labour's loss highlighted was not a will "to get Brexit done" but the pointless in-fighting in the Labour party and a lack of clear direction on it's part. Jeremy Corbyn's policies were actually the best ones for the country as a whole. His mistake was to think that promoting them instead of meeting the Brexit challenge head on was going to win. He over-estimated the intelligence of the demographic he had to convince. Labour still haven't learned the lesson. They will get nowhere, whoever is the leader, until the party as a whole stops playing with itself and decides that it is going to be a serious party of opposition. It should ask the SNP to give it some lessons (or even the traitor Farage for that matter!).