Scouse123

Slightly off-topic, They are forcing us into this cashless society on the pretence that customer habits and preferences are changing. My Barclays bank branch in the UK, in a busy town centre high street, introduced a number of cash paying-in and withdrawal machines in the foyer. As customers entered, they were directed to these machines rather than counter service. They even had a designated staff member assisting them in their use. Three months later, they closed the branch and said people's choices and preferences had changed, and customers were now more focused on doing their banking online. The nearest branch now is in another town and is eight miles away.

They never could stand them.

Spot on. The sparkle went off Pattaya a long time ago. You can call it nostalgia, but the Pattaya of today is a dump of poor-quality tourists compared to the Pattaya of the 1990s.

Sounds like an adventure, can I package a deal up to include Venezuela and Afghanistan?

You would think they would find something else to moan about; it should be clearly obvious that this is going nowhere. Find another cause, this one is lost.

Buy Vietnamese coffee. Nestle and the other big coffee movers and shakers have tried forever to enter that market but have struggled.

Trump has an oversimplified way of looking at tariffs, the experts, NOT ME, say he hasn't taken so many things into account, and the trade deficits are nowhere near what his charts are showing. I also think it's a load of bluster to intimidate the Chinese, and that will not work.

A military that spends loads of money on serious hardware with no regional threats. AN ARMY USED FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF CONTROLLING THE POPULATION. Then they moan they are struggling with their budgets, which I don't think they are.

What about when they refer to black people as ' negro', is that considered a cultural non malicious, non offensive norm in Thailand as well, in 2025?

Nowhere near Grandpa status, old fella. I jog at the local lake for an hour every night and go to the Gym five days a week. No alcohol for the last three months. I certainly look better than I did. I prefer Danang, Siem Reap, Vientiane, Nakhon Phanom, etc. I also like where I live, with a slower pace, and don't feel the need to be ogling women or listening to the SAS exploits of pot-bellied foreigners in the bars of Bangkok.

Thank you for that. That's Bali. Well, it's genuinely off my list. I'm not a fan of massive crowds and traffic jams these days. I can cope with Phnom Penh or Bangkok, even Hanoi, for a maximum of three days. I have always believed Bali was an exotic beach destination, without seriously googling the place.

Yep, Plenty to agree with in this paragraph. Many of them set off from home with the intention of sending money back to take care of the kids they have left with their parents, etc. However, they become enamoured with the bright lights, restaurants, easy money, and fast living. Family then takes a back seat, and sex, drugs and rock n' roll take over.

It's just a boring, repetitive video blowing his trumpet and calling everyone who drinks in beer bars on the beach losers. No content, just repetition and loves the sound of his voice. If that's his best effort, he needs to quit YouTube. He has nothing interesting to say and no originality. I think later on in the video, he strikes me as ' under the influence '

Yes, I can see, You are all heart with a post like that.

She may not be stupid, she may have been simply desperate.