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5 minutes ago, The Old Bull said:
What happened to UBON JOE he would know the answer?
He died.
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2 hours ago, newnative said:
Racist much? Twice a week my spouse and I go to a very nice high-end resort in Wongamat to use the also very nice gym. And, yes, the resort does have Chinese, Indian, and Russian families. Also those from other countries, as well as lots of Thai families on weekends and holidays.
You need to get out more--there's a lot more to Pattaya than just Walking Street/Soi 6, etc. As I've said before, most of the big, new development is not near Walking Street. Actually, anywhere but. Instead, it's in north Pattaya with Terminal 21, Ozo, Mitt, Grand Centre Point, Centre Point Space, and Once condo. It's in Wong Amat with Arom, Riviera, and Wyndham Grand, to join all the other development that has gone in there, including a number of boutique hotels.
It's in Jomtien with Copacabana, Aeras, Riviera Monaco and Ocean Drive, among lots of others. It's on the Darkside with a big new amusement/water park going up, along with numerous new housing estates, and a large under-construction hospital connected with Thammasat University.
It's south of town with Icon Siam on the horizon, to go with extensive roadwork expanding the lanes and incorporating overpasses. It's lots of new non-bar businesses springing up everywhere--check out the huge, new Nitan coffee cafe on Sukhumvit sometime to get an idea of how Pattaya is changing. Or, perhaps the new Miss Pastry near Lake Mabprachan.
Nothing racist in my post whatsoever, it's you who has chosen to read it that way.
I left Pattaya after selling a business and doing well from it in 2006.
In my view, on my brief returns to the city, it has done nothing but continue downhill since. Sure, I am getting older, but I definitely much preferred Pattaya in the nineties and early 2000s to what it has become now.
I would choose Rayong, Koh Kood, Koh Chang, Krabi, over Pattaya any day, but it's a personal choice.
You are welcome to keep the traffic jams, violent crime, whorehouses, and filthy polluted beaches.
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1 hour ago, newnative said:
If you're talking about the bar scene--maybe. The rest of Pattaya has been changing tremendously, and still is, with new development going up all over the area. From the description, the OP was mostly in a very small part of Pattaya.
Ah right,
He was in the low-so part!
Not the part with all the high-so Chinese, Indians and Russians making Pattaya the five-star children friendly, family orientated resort?
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19 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:
Saw this earlier this year in Pattaya too; several old guys (15 to twenty years older than me) sitting alone every morning (after 8 or 9 a.m.) at the same beer bars, nursing one beer over an hour and longer, while staring at the empty Soi in front of them... But no, they weren't there since the night before, but arrived at the bar as soon as it opened to have a liquid 'breakfast'.
Maybe just lonely old guys, you could have gone and spoken with them and livened things up being 15–20 years younger than them.
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2 hours ago, Danderman123 said:
Coyotes.
Hyenas or Jackals might be more appropriate.
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1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:
I think the people to blame are those who leave their rubbish on the beach.
No kidding Sherlock!
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22 hours ago, advancebooking said:I just visited Pats and rented a condo short term near beach road. Observations:
- Walking street was really busy and a lot of fun. Great vibes there. Worth spending a night out on W.S for sure
- Hot Tuna bar has a fantastic rock band.
- I noticed about 15 officers with DOPA jackets on surrounding a shop that had the BB guns. I asked the officer what was going on. He said 'checking documents'. I thought that was quite odd for all of them to be there at 1030pm at night.
- I tried to get my washing done at a small laundry in the condo building at 9am. She said pick it up tomorrow. Noticed she had a balcony with empty rack (no clothes drying or anything from other customers). It was a hot morning with breeze. I thought it was ridiculous to suggest that it couldn't be done same day. Ended up buying small washing powder and putting it in machine myself elsewhere. Hung it up and was dry in 2 to 3 hours on balcony at condo.
- There was so much plastic and rubbish on the sand at the beach. Last year I saw a tractor with the scrapper blade driving up and down the beach. Why do they not use this every morning during peak season. Hopeless local government.
- I saw a lot of overweight old men lying in the sun for long time. Red lobster bodies and faces.
- Walked down soi 6 and noticed a lot of farang men sitting alone at tables. Bar girls standing at the front of the bar staring at people walking down the road- with their backs to these guys. Got to wonder what sort of business model this is. Why are they not socialising with the fine specimens in the bar?
- Walking along beach road at night I saw a lot of working girls from many nationalities. A few looked Indian ladies. A lot of large African ladies, lot of trans gender thais and normal thai girls.
- During morning exercise along the beach noticed some old farang at the bar having beer for breakfast.
Thats about all I observed.
You lead an exciting life.
Have you ever felt like expanding into a career in journalism or as an influencer on social media?
Maybe, you could do the pros and cons of high-end resorts for Condé Nast?
It must have been a right bummer for you about the laundry.
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Fantastic,
An honest employee. I hope he is rewarded by the owner in decent fashion.
That will bring the tourists flooding in.
Not really worthy of a news headline, though, one would have thought. I suppose it makes a change from being found in the back of a taxi.
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20 hours ago, webfact said:
Convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand to face legal consequences because he is a peacemaker who wants to see reconciliation in Thailand, Justice Minister Tawee Sodsong claimed in parliament during the debate on the government’s budget bill on Wednesday.
He defended the Corrections Department‘s issuance of a ministerial regulation to allow convicts to serve their terms outside prison, saying that a regulation on the same matter was issued three years ago, but the Corrections Department only acted on it last year.
He insisted that the regulation was not designed to benefit Thaksin specifically, but all qualified convicts, adding that prison is not a place in which to kill or torture convicts and any inmate who is sick is entitled to be treated in hospitals outside the prison.
Regarding the question over whether Thaksin is actually ill, Tawee said that, although he has not visited Thaksin at the Police General Hospital, doctors there have confirmed that the former prime minister is suffering from numerous illnesses.
Full story: Thai PBS 2024-01-04
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He's been practicing in the mirror to say this without laughing or getting a red face!
Well done, you pulled it off shamelessly.
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1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:
. So we'll see Thaksin's willingness to bring this country forward next. You mentioned other opponents: they are NO kingdoms. And on this point Ill stop.🙏
Speak English and clarify.
It's gobbledygook
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1 hour ago, Zack61 said:
How many of the average Joes have been afforded this privilege of passage out of the penal system and into medical care with such lavish trimmings?
Easy this one.
NONE!
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So it's taken 15 years to decide Thaksin is a peacemaker.
They were all howling for his blood two years ago, asking why he couldn't be deported to serve his sentence.
Spineless sycophants.
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48 minutes ago, mikebell said:
No one has noticed the vacancies.
Because they are already filled awaiting Thaksin's release.
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An airhead now apparently leading the Pheu Thai party even though she has no experience whatsoever.
She'll be popping along to see sick daddy to ask him what to do and where to vote.
Any land up for grabs going cheap?
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Good job it wasn't a high rise, maybe time to look for a bungalow, it's not so far to fall when you are in bed.
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2 hours ago, hotchilli said:
I guess they thought they'd never be found out?
Jeerawan confessed to her crime, saying that she and Sarinthip spent all their money on online gambling. The only asset she had left was her house worth 4 million baht.
Idiots
I don't know who is more stupid, the pawn shop for allowing a nearly 4 million GBP deficiency to occur and go unnoticed, or the staff who then managed to gamble it all away online and be left with less than 100K GBP?
Gambling online, they'd already hit the jackpot, What were they trying to win?
They could have played it smart and salted it away over two years, then when caught between one and five years jail cut in half for admitting it.
A nice two years work.
They only reason they should have been doing anything online was booking flights out of Thailand.
Now the only place they are going is jail.
Ah well, easy come, easy go.
Morons.
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So, is it Heroin or Cocaine?
Or flour or sugar?
Or just good old-fashioned washing powder?
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Give people an inch, and..............
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2 hours ago, thefarangteacher said:Thank you for the comment. Bullying is a good word to describe what they’re doing to my wife. Nobody else in the family is subjected to this bull<deleted>. One particular aunt, the ringleader of the bullying faction, has always had it out for my wife, and will seize on whatever she can to impugn my wife in the eyes of the family and the village. Now it’s sinsod, last year it was not paying grandma, the year before it was “the farang will leave you any day now and you’ll be poor,” the year before that it was “why are you visiting the village, you chose the farang,” etc. If I paid the sinsod (which I’m not going to do), it’ll be something else before too long. You can never make toxic people happy. I’ve tried to make this clear in other comments that this is not about “Thai culture” or “assimilating” or my “refusing to accept Thai cultural practices”; all of those are just excuses used as a weapon to make my wife miserable.
Yes,
It's bullying and wearing down tactics.
My other half of 27 years had the same threat, “the farang will leave you any day now” with the addition of, “then don't think we will be there for you”.
Newsflash, they Are NEVER there for you up here in this village, they simply move on to the next piece of mischief.
I am regularly in Cambodia and Vietnam, as well as the rest of Thailand. I never see the level of idleness in these other countries and areas of Thailand, like I see up here.
Isaarn seems to be a rule unto itself in terms of bone idleness by many culprits.
I see the same suspects motorbikes outside different peoples houses daily, and they don't work, they just flit house to house spreading rumours and gossip.
They also always have a story that can't be proven about Jane Doe getting 20 million or 50 million from this or that Farang.
I have said before on this site, when they see a car, a motorbike, or a new phone, the question is never' That's beautiful, where did you get it' it is ALWAYS' How much did it cost '
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1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:
Using Stanley razor blades to slash them ?
What a lovely bunch of people Scousers are
Yawn.....
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3 minutes ago, BritManToo said:
I don't respect people with primitive beliefs from any culture.
Well said that man.
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5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:
I do think that's just the case in your small circle of friends and I would have thought that that would be your comfortable setting , being from Liverpool
My circle of friends is probably far bigger than yours.
I'll ignore the silly comments and generalizations about the great city of Liverpool.
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Just now, Neeranam said:
Do you respect Muslim immigrants in Australia not assimilating to Ozzy culture?
You are talking about grovelling to the backward whims of people, with usually lower education than most here on the board, you are not talking about assimilating, you are talking capitulating.
And No, I don't respect Muslims attempting to force their ways in Australia nor the UK under the veiled threat of violence.
I also don't accept that they follow Shariah law and not the laws of the State that they are lucky enough to have been accepted into.
We can't do it in Muslim states, not that many of us want to reside in one. Even the Muslims don't.
Your argument, is Apples and Oranges.
Nothing to do with Thai sin sod, you silly sod.
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17 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
Are you talking about all Thais here or just your woman's family?
I am talking in general terms of Thai Isaarn villages.
My observations for a recent trip to Pattaya.
in Pattaya
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Your posts are weird.